skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I still haven't been asked to solve a differential equation at work.

I wish this trope would go somewhere to die. First, university level education is catering to a variety of outcomes. Some people in your class have gone on to use differential equations. If not explicitly, at least in understanding how capacitors and inductors introduce periodicity to the circuit. More importantly, the people that are doing research and advancing new technology do have to use these tools. In my view, at the university level, we want to optimize the absolute ceiling of potential for a thin sliver of the population. That's how we get scientific progress. Imagine if Einstein did not have access to higher level math because it was deemed mostly not useful. The collateral damage here is that some people need to take courses to justify the professor's course.

While I do agree that well-rounded individuals are more important you are missing the fact that the takeaway of STEM courses is not "to memorize Boyle's law". If that is how you approached your studies, then I can understand how you feel the education was a waste. But the more important aspect is learning the process in which one solves a problem. Being exposed to a variety of domains exposes you to slightly different initial conditions and thus shows you a broader range of problem solving methods. Likewise, I can generate an equally silly list like yours of life lessons learned in STEM class from my own public education that are more important than the material: build a Rube-Goldberg machine with a friend, start a study group with friends, figure out how to build a rocket, sell cookies (ok not from a STEM class), build a video game with friends, find out what you like to do.
I didn’t think of racism until I saw this.
Amazing that the first part of the first amendment does not only apply to political speech.

The court was wrong and will be wrong again.

I would ask how progressives square two contradictory interpretations of the first amendment but then I realized they don’t really support the freedom of non-progressive speech anymore.
It's not "technically" legal, it's fully legal in every sense. And using someone's code for a purpose they explicitly allowed is about as far from morally reprehensible as it gets.
Looking at the site, he could probably also target tourism boards, chambers of commerce or other entities that spend money on getting people to visit.
With DSL you can even get fun 1st hop latencies like 30ms...
Is wxC maintained? I didn't think it was. I always thought a more interesting approach would be like the one wxPython uses. They effectively walk the object tree generated by Doxygen docs and do code generation from it. Not sure how viable it would be to do this with Cxx directly or if it would be better to generate a C based API from it AND a Rust wrapper. The latter has the advantage that multiple languages could write bindings against this C based API (like wxC), but since generated, less maintenance.
I assume it's all implemented in hardware. Maybe misleading in today's terms to call it a "computer"
Use the source[0], Luke...

0: https://d33wubrfki0l68.cloudfront.net/bundles/72f7c09a3e8485...
It's helpful to remember that there is effectively no free/independent press in Russia (certainly not at these official meetings). Nobody snaps an embarrassing photo or takes a compromising video - all media is curated, censored, and crafted for release. If you're seeing it, it's because Kremlin wanted you to see it.
I launched romylms.com and testedrecruits.com five years ago and have been running them at a steady state since.
There are many rulings against 4chan in Russia and while I'm not sure about the status right now, they used simple DNS blocks back in the day what is somewhat easy to avoid for semi computer literate people. VPNs are also obviously popular. If you end up in a blacklist it's forbidden to read, distribute etc these links.

You can check rublacklist.net for more detailed stuff and rulings.
I sat behind a girl at school whose ears would involuntarily move.
Like quite a _lot_! Like a dog. It freaked everyone right out.
correct ... it's okay with me, though, and I could also stay there if I wanted. but I started to dislike the apartment for further reasons (neighbours f.x.). so I'm quite happy with that possibility.
Part of the argument is whether or not those criteria are the best to judge who will be the future leaders. I don't know myself but I think it is a fair argument.
Not in a country that cares about its history.

Which I concede you can make a strong argument the UK is doing its best to step away from.

The building trade in the UK isn't that kind of corrupt anymore; it's gone meta.
Some years ago, I witnessed a situation where a predatory investor signed a contract with a firm which obligated the firm to immediately start meeting commitments without specifying the date by which the investor was obligated to provide the promised funds.

The investor never transferred the funds to the company, using what they knew about the company's cash-flow situation to purposely drive the target company into bankruptcy to gain control of the company's assets (and past payment stream, but that's another story) in bankruptcy court using preferential terms guaranteed them in the contract.
Collages prep has some inertia where students who study and do test prep are significantly more likely to get through freshman year. Things generally flip by senior year where the under-preparing groups who make it that far end up outperforming.

The racially neutral way to look at it is rich white kids going to elite high schools fall behind the middle class white kids academically at elite schools. This effect is somewhat hidden by weighting all classes equally when calculating GPA.
I fully expect 'Escape from Tarkov' (ru) and 'World of Tanks' (Belarus) being DDOSed soon.
Beside the middle east, Yugoslavia comes to mind: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NATO_bombing_of_Yugoslavia
BTW, I meant "click/tap", not "hover/click".
I disagree. Lots of cool stuff existed before advertisers took over the internet, and it was allowed to be a lot weirder and less clickbait-y because they didn't have to appease everyone or constantly be driving for more views. In fact, a lot of this was funded out of people's own pockets, at a financial loss, because they wanted other people to see it or use it. With search engine optimized ad-delivery platforms dominating the front pages of search results, these people don't see the encouragement from users they used to see, and have died off. In the rare cases where people are still doing this stuff, they're much harder to find.

In short, advertising has killed a lot more, and a lot better, than it has funded.
And yet. “Even after he knew I had met someone else, he continued to contact me periodically.” The man, clearly aware of her distress, continues to act in ways that prolong it.
By making fixed-function hardware, which may or may not run on hard-coded instructions per se. Think about a calculator to start with. There are lots of ways to make a computer that are not a Von Neumann architecture, which is what you’re thinking of. There are a bunch of examples of non-programmable computers here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer#History
with no indicators to which player is controlling which object before the ball drops would cause another level of chaos in the fun
You chose to have an affair with a married man. Stop torturing everybody from your friends, therapist, readers, etc with your ridiculously overdeveloped rationalizations.

So you chose to have an affair with a married man. Pay attention:
that's not a romance, nor a relationship, it's an affair. It went poorly. Big surprise. Now what exactly is it that you want? Sympathy? To pseudo-philosophize about it? Just take responsibility for your bad choice, a thing you should have done from the start.

The whole thing brings to mind the saying "you have to pretty smart to be this stupid" and "you can't con a honest man".
So this is a Russian sovereign default?
If it were immutable at least, the type system wouldn't be undermined at all.
what is a good resource to learn options. Lot of books have the theory and I seem to get it but any resource that has a more practical approach using some form of paper money would be great
Seconded. I struggled with the way of kings having just finished a memory of light. Couldn’t get brain to accept the shift in gears.

But I came years later and found the series quite good and very enjoyable.
Of course, but they've insulated themselves as best they can.
You can take steps to reduce it, but we don’t (nor should we) have the will to eliminate it.

My kids will have advantages over the median kid in America and my wife and I work hard to ensure that. I don’t have to be specifically seeking to give them a relative advantage, but everything parents do to ensure an absolute improvement in their life outcome represents a relative advantage as well.

We ensure medical care, nutritional food, calm, regular, and loving interactions with adults, social and physical learning through play, clearly prioritize academic achievement, take care to discipline them appropriately, allow them to struggle-then-succeed at many things, expose them to science, cooking, math, computers, electronics, live in a house full of books and Kindles, have a family pet, take trips to local museums and farther off places, expose them to music, a second language, various sports, ensure they feel safe/secure/loved, that they have a quiet, comfortable place to sleep, etc. We’re fortunate to be able to do these things, but it also takes some sacrifice to do them.

If you want to remove those influences entirely, I can’t see doing it without having the state raise the children in standardized conditions. And of course, no one would tolerate that.
Base system libraries like glibc, OpenGL, Vulkan, libasound, etc. all provide a stable userland ABI.

What doesn't work is relying on random other libraries to be present, but you will run into the same problem if you rely on whatever some other program dumped into system32 on windows. You also can't link against a newer glibc/etc. and then expect to run on older versions - that is not inherently different on Windows either but the SDK does let you target older versions from modern toolchains (whith limitations), something that GNU unfortunately does not care to provide so you have to make your own (or search for one).
I'd guess they'll get a huge chunk of it, for sure. They have to sell it well, so. The consultant scandal happened pretty recently.
AFAIK, the only complete desktop GUI option for Rust that is viable for large, professional apps is gtk-rs. There are many promising up and coming GUIs for hobby projects, but none I've seen are robust enough (yet) to support all needed widgets of a pro app.
There are people getting away with tax fraud all the time.
It happened to George W and Dick Cheney when they convinced themselves Saddam was building nukes but the Iraqis would welcome us as liberators. Same thing here.
What’s New in Swift 5.6?
Ask HN: How can tech startups help Ukraine?
We're a small startup and want to help. We have cloud resources and experience in virtual networking. We're looking for the best way to contribute. Ideas so far are to provide hosting for the following:

- Socks5 proxies
- TOR bridges
- Signal proxies
- WireGuard / VPN servers
- Misc tools (file sharing services, compression, etc)

Any other ideas for things that could be materially useful? Keep in mind we don't have a huge budget, just cloud resources and in-house experience.
Time is a flat circle: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8863
> The USA's war exhaustion is maxed out. They've been at war for over 20 years.

Citizen, here. I'm pretty sure, without looking it up, that we have been on internal war footing well longer than 20 years.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30528022
This may be in response to the concerns raised from their announcement of Russian service termination, discussed here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30504812
It makes sense for actors to do that type of thing, or maybe martial artists seeking to discipline every part of their body, but the time needed is too high for what's mostly a party trick for regular people.

Then again, maybe it gets easier with other muscles as you practice and master more things - could it help overall coordination, maybe improve typing speed or balance?
If you'd like to understand better the whole deal with Iraq, from the early days until the rise of ISIS, check out the Blowback podcast [0], Season 1.

[0] https://blowback.show/
> It's a business - you don't know what their profit margin is.

Except from their accounts, or their AGM, since many of them are PLCs.

I'm struggling to think of a London-based property developer that has gone bust solely on the basis of their London portfolio. It would be quite unusual.

The closest I can think of is Targetfollow, which went into (and emerged from) administration, but that happened because they were nationally overstretched; the impact was felt more the further you got from London.

We might see this happen as a result of pandemic influences on property uses, but I doubt it.

> Presumably there are many who will advocate burdening developers with the cost of their own preservation aspirations while, at the same time, lamenting the lack of affordable housing due to the high cost of development.

You set this up like it's an either-or, but it's not. The high cost of development in London has basically nothing to do with the risk of finding a mosaic.
The narrative that "the native population will be happy, and they are suppressed by Nazis" is propaganda aimed at the Russian people and the army.

Putin knows very well what's happening, he has been planning this war for a very long time. He made sure the EU received less gas than agreed last summer, so their reserves are insufficient. Leaked plans show he is aiming to attack Moldova next.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30528022

thank you
How willing would Russia be to admit they deserted instead of surrendering or capture? Each family you punish is like telling their every colleague, relative, neighbor, and friend your army is faltering.
Agreed. And test taking may not be the best criteria to judge people by.
what is the fallacy exactly?
This isn't true. Underfunding is not the issue with underperforming schools in the US. If you want to improve outcomes in inner city schools you need to fix the broken local culture first, but it's sort of chicken and egg.

http://thinkaboutnow.com/2016/03/debunking-the-underfunded-p...
Look at China -- We rely on China for the US economy, so US is powerless to stop China's human rights abuses.
This is why I don't understand. The logistics of education are cheaper than ever, almost free. Having a personal mentor is of course far more efficient, but that isn't the reality of modern education anyway.

What elite institutions offer is mainly connections and access directly into the pipeline of companies in a respective field.

There is some benefit to have elite institutions because proximity of highly educated people can spawn a lot of innovation, but a successful education system needs to be broad.
> Pretty much ALL major developed western country went through such revolutions to earn their freedom. It is time for you to go get it.

You realise that you're asking innocent people to risk violence and potentially even give up their lives, to protest an invasion by a despot that they had little opportunity to oppose right? It's pretty easy to take credit for the bravery and fortitude that your predecessors had to bring about their revolutions from the comfort of your first-world home at little to no risk to yourself.

Honestly, this seems like the most out of touch call to action that I've ever heard. Also, it only starts to feel even more hypocritical when you realise that there have been several anti-war protests going on in Russia, for which the participants faced brutal violence at the hands of the state.
Wow. Looks like I'm going to Italy.
I'm not making any judgement on your actions - I, like most decent humans, am deeply saddened by "premature" loss of human life and can only empathize with the situation you are put in, but your answer is a noop and makes no sense. Turning down a patron for a hamburger is quite different than forcing someone to move their business-critical infrastructure in a time of crisis.

A little free advice worth what you paid from a former CEO to a current: Now is the time for you to be a strong leader and show courage and respect to those around you. Make your hard decisions (!) but respect those challenging them, especially in a public forum with many of your customers (of which I am one). I'll stick with you though (for now?) because I know the pressure on leaders even aside from unprecedented times.
This gives a few good examples of how the Hugo documentation could improve (the click-bait word "Sucks" in the title is a bit exaggerated, in my opinion). I would challenge the author to, in the spirit of open source, go ahead and make some of the suggested changes and submit the changes in a Pull Request!
If you don't want people to base closed source software on your work, then you shouldn't be granting them a license that explicitly permits them to do exactly that. AGPL is an option if that is what you want.
Goudy Old Style, though it's not a particularly strange font. Many serif fonts feature tall ascenders: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ascender_(typography)
On the Myths and Problems of Jupyter Notebooks
> I can just google it. STEM is great to study, but most of the academics in it after 8th grade are not particularity useful.

Respectfully, I couldn't disagree more. Understanding the basics of calculus allows one to grok the underlying principles of the universe.

I studied hard science (geology) which included quite a bit of chemistry and physics, which helped me when buying a house (in a location not prone to natural disasters) and remodeling my house (understanding the physics in load-bearing walls and behavior of water in structures).

I also majored in English literature, studying overseas, which trained me to become a much better writer than I otherwise would have been.

Saying "just Google it" shows a very shallow understanding of applied theory which makes one a much better problem-solver, imo.
Gerhard Schroeder refuses to resign from Russian energy company boards
We are chimps with electricity and gunpowder.
My new take about Miyazaki's games, that I will refuse to give up going forward, is that part of the reason they're so good is because they are secretly comedy games (among everything else): https://twitter.com/docsquiddy/status/1498192962680930304
Difficult to directly compare as the Orion spacecraft is designed for a lunar orbit mission, with a 21-day mission time, whereas Crew Dragon is a low Earth orbit capsule not really intended for maneuvers aside from "go up, go down." So you'd have to look at lifting capacity and then factor in your best guess as to how SpaceX would approach designing a TLI (trans lunar injection) capable spacecraft.

In many ways, Orion is Apollo Block III: what we would have developed if the Apollo program had continued to be funded. For better or worse.
Plotnine
At this point, that could either be advocating in their favor or not so much.
Yes, they actually do. Especially with regional development corporation projects, because those setups privatise the profit but nationalise the risk.

This happens again and again and again.
Not independent verified or impartial

"This is the official website of Ukraine. The information is verified by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine"
You could try paying for it:

https://genode.org/commercial-use/index

Or do you also consider all closed source software and paid software services to also be objectionable for use by any commercial business?
Name and shame ?
>All the other things -- grades, experiences, and so forth -- are also biased in their own way, but in ways that counter the bias of tests.

I was under the impression that the main variable we were trying to predict in admissions was collegiate academic performance.

High school grades are highly correlated with collegiate academic performance. High school grades + standardized test scores taken together are even more correlated.

This study:

https://50.cresst.org/2020/05/20/cresst-recommendation-for-n...

Found that eliminating standardized tests in admissions actually benefited Asian applicants while hurting Black applicants.

No objective admissions metric will ever be perfect, but grades and standardized test scores are fairly good. I wonder how long until there's a push to eliminate high school grades as an admissions metric.
Anyone who has worked in public leadership will recognize that Zelensky has been putting on a diplomacy/PR/propaganda masterclass. His decisions and actions will be studied for a long time to come as an example of how to gain and exert soft power, and how to translate soft power to material power.
Dynamic linking doesn't circumvent copyright law, so it doesn't circumvent copyleft.
Set objective criteria for acceptance, advanced placement, etc. Then stick to it. We shouldn't be holding opportunities away from someone because if their heritage, or someone else's heritage.

The new criteria were objective, just different. They dropped the admissions test, which was a sort of SAT-lite exam, instead relying more on previous academic achievement.

The impact of this was brining women to near parity in the most recent class. From an economic standpoint, the incoming class is 25% poor vs past classes around 1%. Black students went from 1% to 7%. And Hispanic from 3% to 11%. And bringing Asians from ~70% of the class to 54% of the most recent class (where they make up 20% of the county population).

All this without much impact on the average GPA of the incoming class. My take is the combination of entrance exam and exam fees were hurdles to other students.

It's clear the previous entrance standards weren't working, with Asians and rich students massively over-represented.
I'm not letting perfect be the enemy of good, I'm saying Go isn't good. No language is perfect, but there's literally not a single use case I'd choose Go for, because there are a dozen languages that do almost everything better.

> Its mindshare is a result of a good choice people made at a certain point in time.

Its mindshare is a result of Google using it, and people mistakenly thinking that if Google uses it, it must be good.
So OneWeb is dead. Again. Unless of course they launch with SpaceX, which would be ironic. I think SpaceX would agree though, because OneWeb is never gonna be a serious competitor to Starlink anyway.
Somebody's been watching way too much TV. Protecting yourself may be useful in an apocalypse, but it's far down the list. Top of the list is having some way to get clean water. Second is knowing and trusting your neighbors.
Plain text is fine for some things but lacking for others. I like GUIs for formatting. I wouldn't be surprised if my ODTs could be opened a thousand years from now.
Hit the gym!
You mean it's theft. You're depriving people of use of their property without compensation.
I am fully on point with having more funding in education, it will always be a good investment and doesn't need racial discrimination.
Putin’s torture conveyor belt prisons where inmates are raped and mutilated
It won’t be 50% of the cost due to overheads like said above, it may be more like 60%+.

Another factor is that often the cost of developers is not the most significant factor. If a company can get say $100m of value out of $10m of salary cost on engineers, it doesn’t really make sense to instead spend $6m to get $80m of value.

And just adding more people isn’t easy as each person increases communication overhead.