skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's one of the worst aspects of some (not all) Canadian universities that they use the first or second year as a way to filter students out and the impact it has on students is rather devastating in terms of lost opportunity.

Almost 20 years ago I went to the University of Toronto's computer science program which is notorious for this practice and can see first hand the effect that this practice has on friends of mine even decades later. It's not just a matter of filtering students out, the issue is that there is a strict cut-off point that is unknown to people in advance, so you have students investing one to two years pursuing a program and then having those years go to waste because they're below the cut-off. It's basically a system that traps students with aspirations of going into one program and then when most of them fail due to uncertain admissions guidelines, those students end up with a great deal of pressure to continue studying at the university but under a less prestigious or financially sound program.

The result of this system speaks for itself, with the building used by the computer science department being the site of 3-4 suicides per year (which I am admittedly speculating is due to people not hitting the admissions cut-off).

Whatever one's opinion of standardized testing may be, the Canadian model of accepting as many students as possible into a program and then kicking them out or shoving them into a different program on the basis of rather volatile and uncertain criteria is not the one to go by.
I was also skeptical until I stood next to a statue of the Colonel, dressed in a Santa suit, outside a KFC in Akihabara (photo proof available on request). I agree it's probably mostly clever marketing, but they definitely do lean into it over there too.
How much property do they get to bring with them?
Well, the other side of this is that many audience members will give every performance a standing ovation, even when it isn't merited. Some people give 'unearned' standing ovations because they want to believe that the bad show was actually good, while others succumb to social pressure.

I think the audience should be expected to react with their genuine feelings about the performance; if the team wants a positive reaction every single time, they're going to have to earn it.
Beauty is not simply a privilege. There are a lot of things that someone can do to enhance their aesthetic appeal. Broadly, this includes exercising, dressing well, and maintaining a positive demeanor.

I suspect the author fell for this when he was describing how his "beautiful young (friend) in her mid twenties who runs a makeup and lifestyle instagram account" has been "blessed with naturally perfect, glowing, caramel skin, infectious smile," etc. It sounds like he's not seeing her without makeup because she's great at applying it. Granted, I could be wrong, but it seems unlikely.
> There are multiple services out there than can send/receive crypto as well as seamlessly convert it to fiat and load a debit card, all through the same service. This basically solves all the issues you illustrate.

This is a last mile issue, those services simply do no exist or are not accessible in other parts of the world.

I agree with you that Crypto is efficient for the transfer of money. But I disagree with you on its frictionless use and availability.

A quick Google search points to the global remittence market being worth over 700 Billion USD annually. A lot of this is not done via banks, they go through 3rd party services such at Western Union, or Zoom or one of many other services. People have been doing money transfers for a long time prior to crypto and without banks and still have not resolved the last mile issue, and crypto hasn't either.

> Diversify - store some of your money across different crypto’s, stable coins, and when you want to use it you can easily do that through a debit card or take out hard cash with the same debit card.

That's pretty hard to do, when there is an ATM for 100KM for some people. But this is the irony, you say that Crypto is without banks, and is more efficient but then you revert back to a banking solution like debit cards to fix the last mile issue. Take away the ATM, take away the debit card, take away the bank, take away the merchants who accept it, you have crypto now in your wallet and you pretty much cannot do a single thing with it. But I guess you can transfer crypto fast.
Show HN: CTF Challenges for Adversarial Machine Learning
Samples of a “capture the flag” format where players evade, poison, and steal machine learning models. These are some proof-of-concept challenges to generate feedback before building a larger suite.
This seems to come up on HN at least once a year. Sure it can work but LISTEN ties up a connection which limits scalability as connections are limited and expensive. Also, mitigation strategies like PgBouncer cannot be used with this approach (nor can scale out solutions like CitusDB I don't think).

Of course, if scalability is not a concern (or the connection limitations are eventually fixed in postgres - this has improved in 14), this would be a very viable approach.
Ask HN: I'm tired of intense code review cycles
I work on a small software team that develops code for scientific instruments. Our team runs very efficiently, and the focus on code quality is a big part of our culture.

However, lately, I have noticed that I'm unhappy with the intense code review cycles. The features work, have test coverage, and good git history, but we end up with a lot of back and forth until everything is precisely how our architect wants it to be. My perception is that I reached a point where I spend 50% of the time developing a solution (since I have enough architectural and domain knowledge) and the other 50% figuring out what will fly on review and merging back.

I do have some conflicting points in mind:
- My skills have evolved a lot in this process, and I take pride in delivering good-quality code. But now that the learning curve is flattening, I feel the weight of not having enough creative freedom to write something up quickly or try different designs.
- I see a lot of value in the shared ownership from the lengthy reviews, and we usually end up with better code/design as the suggestions are technically sound.
- I'm starting to feel like code is implementation detail since our high code standard does not necessarily add more value to users.
- The focus of reviews is not on correctness but stuff like naming, docstrings, and design. Whenever a colleague makes a suggestion that helps the code improve, I'm happy to oblige. But lately, I wish I could slip a docstring that explains what is done instead of the why.
- In essence, we follow open-source library development standards while making a closed source application.
- The nature of our projects requires big additions to the software, so it is very common to have chained PRs.

Have you ever found yourself in such a position? What do you think about code review? Can too much of it be wrong?
Bring any topic however widely known and thoroughly proven to a large enough general audience and you will always find people with no actual knowledge that will question it.

Try to find a post on HN with a lot of upvotes and comments where everybody would agree on something.

If you want to know if there is "physics debate" ask people who know physics, not commenters on Youtube or HN.
In particular, the characteristic impedance of ladder line (air dielectric) is:

Z ≈ 276Ω * log10(2 * separation / diameter)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twin-lead#Ladder_line
It isn't human subjects research just to read what a website says about its compliance to a law (or lack thereof), but once you start reaching out to actual humans to discuss the matter, it definitely does become human subjects research (we would categorize this as an interview or survey).

At the very least, the emails should have come with a notice that they were being sent as part of an academic study - after all, misleading your participants wasn't a goal of this study!
Omicron does escape natural immunity + no booster though.

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/22221751.2021.2...

Similarly, immunity to omicron might not be good at the other variants (which are worse for you), which is why reusing the existing boosters instead of making new ones isn't that bad an idea.
what is the reason to assume that the way their system works for years is not the intended way?
This is heavily dependent on the field and state. PEs are quite rare outside civil engineering.
I'm picking on you specifically because a lot of people are making this mistake. "Not requiring" is not the same as "eliminating". Not submitting scores will no longer be a reason someone is rejected. Someone who did well on them can still submit them and it will help their application.
Once the light and battery are far apart, I have a horrible suspicion that the definition of simultaneity will become problematic.
ElectroBOOM's exchange with a retired MIT professor (it was over whether or not KVL always holds) was also very polite, respectful, and entertaining and yet surprisingly the professor who must have received and exchanged feedback before having published many, many times seemed to have a meltdown over a the disagreement.
So, I genuinely do not get the "controversy" over the Veritasium video. AFAIU, the entire point of the video was to show that electricity travels not through wires but via electric fields ("through the air" so to speak).

To illustrate this, he sets up an experiment with parameters such that the conclusion can only mean that some electricity has traveled to the bulb before any could arrive through/around the wires.

He sets up the parameters so that the bulb would turn on by that little electricity; but that is obviously just a visual sign, and his point is valid no matter how much electricity traveled to bulb under whatever different parameters.

It kinda feels like most people are missing the actual point of the video.
He was referring to "powerful people" not jewish people. The previous tweet said "Do you think it's in the interest of powerful people to..." So he was playing on that.
My response was with respect to maximizing immuno response following vaccination. There is some evidence that larger spacing between doses increases response.
Not really about SATs, but about a different direction to take the concept of college and higher education.

https://slatestarcodex.com/2015/06/06/against-tulip-subsidie...
I think the point is to get people excited about science and show what is possible/spark curiosity rather than trying to recreate a classroom. You can see this by all the kids that take his classes. There is space for both to exist.
Math is much more disparate than Verbal (ERW). You can see the data at https://reports.collegeboard.org/pdf/2020-total-group-sat-su...
You did not lawyer up, but some other recipient might have had. Is there a ground for a lawsuit here for... well.. fraud? After all, resources were spent; surely, there was some stress..

Yeah, I agree with you.
FBI investigation? Ha! When there are more Feds than kidnappers it turns out the whole thing was an FBI operation after all.
The difference being that torrents only have ISPs sending out DMCA notices for violators, not shutting off their internet.
How would you respond to being asked (forced?) to move to Ohio? Or perhaps Germany?
That's not who Elon was referring to. And the Economist is primarily owned by the Italian Agnelli family, not jewish people. I'll leave it for you to decide how many other things it gets wrong...
The job of a company is to make money, not to protect your health. In the case of a doctor's office or hospital, protecting your health is a side effect of making money, because the way they can make money most efficiently is by having you pay them to protect your health. This is an elementary precept of modern economics (Friedman, et al.).
Your reply is confusing. The previous poster said that GPL could be enforced using copyright law as opposed to filing a contract dispute.

There is clear precedent for that: https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20170515/06040337368/us-co...

Then you bring in the question of civil vs criminal but the point was copyright versus contract.
In a truly genuine meritocracy, everyone would have the same opportunities in terms of upbringing, schooling, college etc. If resources were scare (such as an elite private school for kindergartners) then the most talented children would go there, not those whose parents had lots of money.

In practice this doesn't happen - some children have massive advantages compared to others. To then take all of these children and one day try to use an objective measure to decide who gets access to yet more advantages is obviously going to massively favor the non-meritocratic-to-that-point advantaged children.

So yes, a true meritocracy may be completely fine, but in the real world "meritocracy" is. anything but.
Just like Robinhood always says: "take from the rich and give back to the rich."
This was pretty interesting, although I am having a hard time understanding some of that english.

Are there any interesting works of Plato-Socrates that a philosophy newcomer can understand? (Especially something translated to modern English, or with a modern English explanation.)
The capacitive effects will decrease and noise created by inductive effects will increase due to a larger area.
Pessimistic: "without the full set of keyswitches, you need to use fancy tricks to make shortcuts usable".

Optimistic: "with fancy tricks, you can make shortcuts easily accessible without the need for the full set of keyswitches".

e.g. on my keyboard I have shortcuts for "goto desktop left" when I press "cv", (and "goto desktop right" when I press "m,"). This is more complex than a standard keyboard's Ctrl+Shift+Right (or whatever, as varies per OS), but it feels so convenient.
just reading this now... this person wasn't even using FSD, but was using autopilot...
In Spain journalism is lazy, but instances of poor writing are much less common than in the anglosphere. They do clickbait, but maybe it's because the spanish language is more formal than english, you can't really bee too creative without writing something meaningless.
> ..not that all of these share federated auth. You can not “sign in” on any other server than the one you registered with.

Oh definitely, I haven't conflated the two. The issue (at least for me) is I haven't found a way to limit mass propagation of content. Things I post in one federated instance may not jibe for others when it is a two-way street. Vice versa, maybe I don't want the exposure from more radical persuasions and/or content. Trying to reconcile the tradeoffs is also an issue in of itself as well.
20% lower offers for all new H grads may be in order.
>well most cloud queues do not support priorities you can only create multiple subscriptions

At least on GCP PubSub, a subscription is a separate concept from a topic/queue. If you want different priorities, you create multiple topics. You create multiple subscriptions when you want to fan out a single message to multiple workers. As far as I know, multiple subscriptions have nothing to do with priorities. Can you explain?
I'm having trouble reading Daniel's statement as anything more than amoral damage control.

Pose of indignation struck; commitment to follow-through with actual investigation, nonexistent.
Seems to me that everyone agreed that Facebook had to do something about misinformation and that everyone is now outraged that they did. Where are the people defending the fact-checking they helped make reality? No, I think everyone just loves to hate on Facebook.
Finally. Even though I don't agree with the simplification of the control panel, it's great Microsoft is finally "unifying" the settings panels.
I don't see any value for e2e on a team chat. With e2e you lose not only server-side search but also message archives for new users (and new clients for old users too, if you use something with forward secrecy).

In exchange, it makes hacking the server prevent leakage. Meanwhile if even a single client gets hacked, all of your group-chats are still compromised.

A big part of the value of something like Zulip versus e-mail is you can link to historical threads, and know that everyone can read them. E2E is purposefully hostile towards "everyone reading them" so it's a major tradeoff.

Do you want E2E on your bugtracker? CI logs? Doing so for Zulip makes about as much sense IMO.

Note that if GH used E2E for issues (which is arguably a form of group chat), the link you posted to the discussion would not be readable by me.
HN's software changes URLs to canonical URLs when it finds them. Unfortunately the FB canonical URL was https://www.facebook.com/login/web/.

(Just so it's clear, nobody here saw the post or modified it)
It took me a long time to realize that the universe doesn’t give a shit about me. In the grand scheme of things my life isn’t going to rate a mention. There is such a freedom in this understanding. Nothing inherently matters, so I can just make my life about what I want.

I spend time deciding what matters to me, then I fill my mind and heart with it. I don’t generally pay attention to what everyone else is doing, unless it helps me with what I’ve decided is worth doing, or makes me aware of something great that I’ve missed. I definitely don’t compare myself to some external standard. My life, my measuring stick.

At the end of my life I will die, and at that moment I will be alone, no matter how many friends surround me. In that moment, I will have things I’m proud of and things I regret, and they will based entirely on my own value judgements and experiences, not on other people’s ideas about what matters. So I focus on that. What will I regret? What will I be proud of?

It works for me, where other things have not. Perhaps this gives you a contrasting perspective. Perhaps I just needed to write it out. Either way, best of luck and may you find freedom in your own way.
I'm not really sure I understand what you mean, sorry. Who would demand what? What's "editorial transparency"?
Can you elaborate on what kind of use cases you were trying to tackle using NL2SQL in that startup? Who was the target audience/persona?
My parents were Unitarians, and their Sunday meetings were near-secular community events. I (an atheist) greatly enjoyed (and benefitted from) attending, both as a child and as an adult. Some folks were/are more religious than others, but all are welcome to partake in the Sharing of the Coffee, and other such important rituals, and I am not joking when I say that. Getting together regularly with folks over time is literal community-building.
Here is the main study from 2003: https://meridian.allenpress.com/her/article-abstract/73/1/1/...

That 2003 study was done at Harvard.

Here is a writeup of someone who replicated it with more recent test scores: https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2010/06/21/new-evidence-...
And I have a piece of paper that says I own part of the moon.
Yes users of a service, whether one is paying with one’s personal data, or whether one pays with their personal data AND a yearly fee for a bit more storage, as I do— they are users.
Risk is something you have to answer. What are you going to have to do go to get your data and find:

* A few songs have been removed, here and there, such you can't easily determine what has been removed.
* Whole albums or your collection is removed.
* Your account is disabled and you loose everything related to Google, including all other stored files, email, calendar, Android apps, music and video purchases, etc.

It's not your service, it's Google's. You're only renting access until they decide you're not.

If you are going to use cloud for backup, always use an encrypted backup so they have no idea what you're storing. I highly suggest considering using `rclone` to mount Google Drive. I've had mixed luck with using the encryption module. I would highly suggest `restic`, as it's very easy to backup and restore files.
Indeed, though that's extra work. One can also just send people to the social media site when they click on the site's button, afaik they all have dedicated pages for sharing content (they want you to share stuff on their platform). Don't need to import their javascript and run it on every visitor's system just to have links to their sites.
I'd think for Harvard of all schools SAT probably doesn't matter much today. Their range is 1460-1580 with a mean of 1520. Broadly speaking, the test is too "easy" (especially for the class Harvard admits) - over 25% of enrolled students are pulling an 800 on math. And needless to say, Harvard will reject plenty of students getting perfect scores.

I imagine SAT provides little signal at Harvard conditioned on GPA, APs, and other extracurricular demonstrations of academic merit.
I just spent two months unrolling an unruly pg_boss implementation and that experience has soured me on using postgres for pubsub, jobs, or messaging. For my money, Github Actions is fine for infrequent cron jobs, or hell even a tiny lambda with a CloudWatch rule is super cheap, with infra as code to make it easy (relatively so) for anyone to deploy. After all, I'd rather spend the majority of my time on writing code than being a DevOps. If I need pub/sub, I'd much rather use SNS quick and dirty, or SNS+SQS for the heavy lifts. Separation of concerns and separation of tiers is still important to me, and I have no desire to maintain a server moving forward.
Aside from my service business, I am a solo bootstrapper building an MVP in the professional services space. Think support services for SMBs. Even with my beginner/intermediate skills, I've got multiple workflows processing data/creating reports in a matter of minutes. I am guessing when up and running, the framework and analytical processes will save me 2 staffers of time (and the headache of not dealing with people who don't see the potential for the business or think in growth terms). My overall structure consists of a combo of Eventbridge, Step Functions, Lambdas (naturally), S3, and Dynamodb, Amplify, not to mention accessing a bunch of third party APIs.

There is no way I could have attempted this without serverless. Yes, a number of pieces are costly relative to running my own servers but if the idea is viable, I have a path to significant cost savings. Such as turning the step functions from standard to express workflows, moving lambdas to arm64, swapping lambdas for service integrations in step functions state machines and then moving to fargate containers (mix of standard and spot) and lastly to EC2. The overall tools available are a great balance of speed to market vs. cost. The flexibility is infinite (aka so many ways of doing things has slowed this noob down somewhat) and I am grateful to AWS for providing so much capability to a relative blind truffle pig in tech.
>They didn't try to cover it up

How could we possibly know?

> There will be issues in any complex installation even with the best of planning

agree

>what matters is how you deal

True but the nature of the project and the potential dangers of the project materials also matter.
> I would assume Ian Goodfellow would have the requisite amount of experience for sufficient intuition.

Well, maybe. It isn't entirely clear just when that anecdote happened (he was at Google first as an intern, then as a research scientist, then he was at OpenAI before going back to Google).

In any case, as important as a developed intuition is, it is no guarantee that it will provide the necessary insight after hearing a description of the problem rather than experiencing and digging into it himself.
This Veritasium video was the first instance of clickbate 2.0

We're going to see more and more this type of video. Instead of the thumbnail and title of the video being extremely controversial to attract views, the thesis of the video will be controversial to create endless online debate.
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