skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In the U.S. the two are typically used to reference the same thing (whereas "school" has a more general meaning); there's nothing wrong with this usage, and I think it's kind of weird to point out the distinction if you understand the meaning.
As I replied in the other comment, if you don’t want to be targeted or a single cycle of your machine to be used by developers, don’t open their website. no more foxes in the house :)
What’s hilarious is consensus is effectively the path to “centralization” and build by committee.

When only a few coders are allowed to decide on design consensus, how a system works is out of the hands of users.

No different than politics and banks. Unfortunately for computer science minds, there is still a real world to crash into, not the endless void of infinitely big little numbers.
I've never really frequented Slashdot, I've taken a short look at it right now. What's going on with it that's so sad to look at? I feel like I'm missing context...
NB: Link is to Mentour Pilot, which has been an excellent resource IMO over the past few years on aviation-related topics.
The History of Sanctions
Here's my nutty cuckoo idea:
Free admission. Free book rental.
No lab fees. No student activity fees. BUT:
Only admit the top 20% of applicants.
Minimum 12 hours per semester. Maximum 16.
Every class is curved, 20% A, 20% B, etc.
At the end of of each year, freshman, sophomore, etc, the lowest 20% by GPA are dropped.
Competition makes us stronger, no?
FWIW, I taught community college for over a decade and share my share of people pass that I wouldn't hire to write "Hello World" in ANY language. But they ticked the boxes, got to pass, and got the credit to graduate.
Thanks, good to know that the text can't be easily deblurred!
This is an excellent summary.

I don't think you missed anything substantial... but I'll add two extensions:

(1) Social graphs change slowly. And they still own Instagram, so for many users they have a live social graph still.

(2) Facebook Pixel is dead. Long live Facebook Pixel!

The Facebook Pixel is now (or at least nearing) effectively dead on modern up-to-date devices running ad blockers. Of course that leaves plenty of desktop machines where people aren't running ad blockers.

But more importantly, Facebook has acknowledged the elephant in the room and moved from client side to server side with Conversions API (CAPI) (aka the new "Facebook Pixel"). And there's nothing ad blockers can do about server-side analytics...
Per @oh_sigh it sounds like 12 years ago?
You're right that there's a point where somebody's wealth becomes unnatural or perverse. I think some people don't appreciate the difference between somebody rich and the ultra wealthy. They tend to be lumped together into one group, but they're not.

In my small town there's a construction company that has been there for 50 years, and typically providing some 60 jobs to locals. The owner works day and night, carries all risk, is well connected in the community. Everybody loves him and people take no issue with him having the largest house in town or a more expensive car. This is reasonable wealth and well deserved, few would disagree.

That romantic idea of wealth does not apply to billionaires. The idea that you worked harder, took more risk or had a good idea breaks down morally in light of such numbers. It is wealth typically accumulated by financial instruments, speculation, rent-seeking and underpaying armies of people.

It's a complex discussion, but the way I see it, globalization is most responsible for enabling it. Globalization allows in particular big business to fully leverage the race to the bottom in wages, fully leverage favorable deregulation and tax avoidance by cherry picking nations most favorable, and dodge responsibilities, for example by externalizing environmental costs.

They get all the upsides, the typical population of any country all the downsides, with no negotiation power.
The backup is a reflink copy as per readme - that means data blocks are shared with live filesystem and don't occupy extra space but there's probably quite a bit of metadata.
The Age of Houseplants
Maybe you'd have more chance using USB 3 drives directly, unless you actually require a 3.5 inches form-factor?
Another option might be to use IDE drives...
To the best of my knowledge, this is the closest I’ve ever been to nuclear bombs.

I live in Romania.
Little room for imagination? The iMacs that came after the G4 are not even height adjustable.

They also didn't just cut down on useless material. Power supplies are still large, but Apple has moved them out of the iMac in 2020.

The recent iMac redesign also makes it extremely awkward to connect external speakers using a cable, but the built-in speakers have received mixed reviews. Even that seems like a step back from the iMac G4.
I suspect cheating is not the primary problem. I suspect, like so many other decisions in software, the primary problem is unrealistic and unfounded expectations. This behavior typically comes from unmeasured assumptions that may work well in one narrow circumstance applied into an unrelated circumstance and then blaming the result instead of the decision. This is bias.

Unless there is a solution that directly addresses hiring bias this company will fail like all the others before it for exactly the same reason: their clientele will apply bias (the actual cause of the problem), be unhappy with the result, and then blame the service provider. In sales the client is never wrong, which means the service provider is always wrong. This is why software overspends on recruiters and then invents fantasies like React developers with a year of experience are rare.
Congrats on the launch!
I run a job board for companies that don't do LeetCode interviews (www.nowhiteboard.org) and would love to add any companies that use your platform for free & see if we can partner up somehow!

I think a big reason (in addition to many others..) that companies still use LeetCode is the lack of interviewing platform alternatives, so I'm glad to see Litebulb is looking to fill that niche. I'll email you directly after work if I don't hear anything on here!
You need to listen to the interview with the pilots who filmed this. They were chasing it, and couldn't catch up.
Most personal trainers that I’ve hired cost a minimum $100 per hour. You are getting quite a great deal. That rate is equivalent to the cost of a group session in my area, which does not include individual attention.
Susskind’s Theoretical Minimum is fantastic for physics self study: https://theoreticalminimum.com/
The market is smaller because the devs can't make money. Since portals were an advertising and profit share model, reach mattered. As more and more users switched to mobile browsers, the games can't run there, and browser gaming can't pay developers and it dies. Now who made it so that the mobile browsers can't play these games? I thought the letter said that open web standards had made Flash obsolete? Apple's ecosystem didn't naturally cannibalize flash gaming. It conquered it with violence.

Next: They weren't playable on mobile Safari, no. Safari finally supports WebGL 2 as of Sept 2021. A full 4 years after the other browser vendors supported it. Why drag their heels on this open web standard? Does their platform have something to lose from a little competition? You condemned Adobe for being 'late' to mobile (citation needed) but don't condemn Apple for being late to a web standard meant to replace Flash like they said in their original FUD letter?

Your retelling of Adobe's history is wrong. They were still very much invested in mobile development up until the end of Flash. In fact to this day you can still use AIR to target iOS and Android with native apps. They release updates regularly.

It's very clear that you don't have any idea what you're talking about, have not interacted with these companies professionally, and have not used the technologies in question or even followed along.

The only way to make sense of the facts is to accept that Apple lied in their letter because it was good for Apple's business and that goodness came at the expense of end-user choice.
The Nature of Art
If you actually want to study math, you probably shouldn't touch calculus until you've take linear algebra and a fair amount of topology, since these are the two structures on sets that (differential) calculus is founded upon.

For other subjects, you can briefly substitute an intuition for the underlying structures with sufficient finesse in the presentation of the material (see the theory of knots and links, for an example), but calculus is not, in my experience, such a subject, and the early emphasis on it is harmful for the study of mathematics, which is supposedly what your list is for.

For some reason this is heresy, but I have honestly no idea how you are supposed to appreciate calculus from a mathematical perspective without being able to define the large stack of terms that constitute it. The situation is potentially different for a physicist, but if you want to study mathematics, the physical world is not the object of study, rather it is precisely the definitions that we have chosen.
There are EU nukes in France, which aren't under NATO command and control, and which the current and most likely future French President (who is really big on more autonomy and power and centralisation for the EU), Macron, has already said publicly he's willing to share the power and responsibility of the French nuclear deterrent with the EU.
This weeks and the civil murdered while fleeing had shown clearly the real nature of this symbol.

This Z is just one-half svastika waiting for a meme. A symbol of dishonor.
> No one in the government cares that you are purchasing a dildo.

As a resident of the great state of Texas, I must disagree. There are thousands, if not millions of assholes, that care if I can purchase a dildo. Possibly just in this state alone.
The first person the article quotes at length is "Mark Nelson, who earned his Master of Philosophy degree at Cambridge University’s Nuclear Energy program." Why not lead with one of the 'more and more environmentalists'??

He's followed by Stewart Brand, who wasn't left with much cred decades ago when he made those statements. I guess those were their best choices???

What can't be denied is that there isn't time or willing money to go heavily nuclear at this point ... too late. Maybe they're hoping that they can keep enough from caring for so long that there'll be no options left - only billions of desperates.
Sad day.
One of the first webcomics I just binged in a few days.
That efficiency could be good enough if you can buy the energy cheap and sell high.
Is the full story text available anywhere w/o paywall?
> People chanting for war need to shut up and calm down. Sending an entire generation to fight and die in war isn't a joke.

I'm not "people" and nowhere in my message was I "chanting for war", Putin has imposed war on the west and the crime of invading Ukraine and massacring its civilians isn't the last of the Kremlin's misdeeds, so better prepare yourself for further escalation.

A generation of Ukrainians was already sent to fight and die for their country's freedom, they won't be the last.

this is my original message:

> War is upon you whether you like it or not. Putin threatened NATO with nukes if they didn't let him invade Ukraine, and NATO are arming the Ukrainians in retaliation. There is no de-escalating this conflict. Prepare yourself.

Don't tell me to shut up, nobody is going to shut me up when faced with Moscow's infamy.

Go tell the Russians to calm down yourself.
That's golden
The reason storage for renewables is still hypothetical has to do with the fact that the storage has not really been required yet because people are still willing to burn stuff.

Also, when you offer nuclear as an option, you need to remember that nuclear can't do the job without storage either - unless you're willing to pay out of your nose for something that sits idle most of the time.

Also, in your incomplete list, you're missing biomass, biogas, thermal-electric storage, thermal storage (in the UK, a lot of the energy required could be stored and used as heat) and grid interconnections.

Thermal and thermal-electric are still not widely deployed. But biomass and biogas are.
That is a great idea
Around 2015 I worked with someone who used a "handle" for most things. It was their GitHub username and their "@" in Slack.

I remember thinking it was interesting how I had developed something of a disconnect between "the person" and "the person's communications". It was almost (but not quite) like they were completely different identities to me.
Was the writer based in Ukraine?
> It’s near impossible to believe around these parts, but I think people liked his incorrectness, and also liked his general policies.

I think a lot of people were just done with the current political system which had been failing them for generations and wanted an outsider to come in and shake (if not break) up the system. Sanders gained a huge following attracting massive crowds and passionate supporters for the same reason. People wanted actual change but the DNC wasn't having it so they did everything they could to undermine sanders before the primary. Republicans threw everyone they could think of into the race.

Trump wasn't a politician, didn't act like one, and no one in power wanted him to be elected. His election meant that I lost a lot of faith in Americans, but I gained a lot of faith in our electoral system. People can vote in someone even when the most powerful don't want them to.
That is highly unconvincing! Isn't the quantity a number? Have the syntax be @<ingredient>{<number> <units>}, where the units may contain spaces but not braces. You can even make the space between quantity and units optional.
I experienced something like this recently. I struggled to grasp linear algebra when I took it in undergrad and as a result was always intimidated by the subject. Now, years later, I'm taking a course in graphics and naturally needing to relearn linear algebra and suddenly everything just clicks.
Off topic comment: I'm pretty sure "explicited" is not a real word, but you've convinced me that it ought to be. Perfectly clear what you meant. Can somebody add this to the dictionary, please?
Will we have wars by double-proxy in the future? This is starting to look like US thru NATO vs. China thru Russia.
To be blunt, a lot of those data points are not useful in evaluating a candidate beyond entry level positions. I really don’t care that much about commit message length or some linter’s idea of complex code. To me, trying to evaluate candidates on these kinds of quantitative factors is just not useful and it feels like grading a standardized test (in a bad way).
Can anyone clue me in as to why this is on the NIH's website?
At least the original Space Jam website lives on, although I see they relocated it with the release of the sequel last year.

https://www.spacejam.com/1996/
I don't know that such a thing as "anti extraterrestrial" belief exists.

Here's two beliefs/points of view that are compatible:

1. There's a very high chance there's life out there in the universe. There may even be intelligent life, too.

2. It's unlikely extraterrestrial intelligent life will be able to reach Earth. Most reports of UFOs are either made up bullshit or the human brain finding patterns where there are none. Or simply classified military tech. Or people craving attention.

Not one person that laughs at fake accounts of alien abduction and probing does this because they are afraid of coexisting with alien intelligence. Instead, they do it because fake accounts of alien abduction are hilarious.
I disagree with "while you can train people to be competent, you can't train them to be exceptional"

That is, you hear firms complain about the difficulty they have hiring people all the time but you rarely hear them talk about what they do once they hire those people.

That's because instead of treasuring them like the precious resource they are they burn them out by having them work on broken products with broken tools and broken processes.

It strokes managers narcissism to believe that "we hire the best" but if you really believed in the value of management you'd align your products, processes and tools that you can get competent results from competent programmers who aren't working very hard instead of taking perverse satisfaction in having excellent programmers work very hard to barely keep their head above water.
Any background on how this works?
4th Dose Covid mRNA Vaccines’ Immunogenicity and Efficacy Against Omicron VOC
>Wasn't this a conspiracy not that long ago?

You probably mean "conspiracy theory." A "conspiracy" is what happens when a conspiracy theory is true.
I routinely see 75% fail.
I recall meeting Illiad and his coterie at one of the LinuxWorlds early on. A pretty affable lot they all were, and funny as hell.
> The California Energy Commission (CEC) has invested nearly $166 million and plans to invest a total of $279 million through its Clean Transportation Program to build a network of more than 100 hydrogen filling stations to support the increasingly unlikely surge of zero-emissions fuel-cell electric cars.

For comparison, it has cost Tesla ~$600 million to build out its global supercharger network.

https://supercharge.info/map
You can add 'combinatorics' to the list of primitives.

Algebraic combinatorics (imo) encompasses related structures in all three of combinatorics, algebra, and geometry, though.
This sounds reasonable at a very superficial level, but feels more like misdirection in terms of what NATO represents in the context of the cold war and the balance between two nuclear superpowers.

After all the same argument could be made backwards for the US. Why shouldn't, e.g., Cuba not be free to host Russian missiles? They're a free country. Surely if the US tried anything to prevent that, their security concerns don't trump those of Cuba.
Because I'm not a security expert. Gaining the knowledge necessary to do it well would probably require a specialization change and years of prep, which would be an inefficient division of labor. Plus, it's an interesting problem, but not one I'm particularly drawn to. I'm currently focused on solving other problems[0] higher up the stack.

[0]: https://boringproxy.io/
You teach others everything you know about it and you keep learning more about it in the meantime. When you get questions from people while teaching, you say "I don't know, but I'm eager to know too" and then you go find an answer.
> I would think it's reasonable to do at least a quick scan of the btrfs wiki or your distro's documentation before continuing with that, the same way I'd expect someone would do the same for ZFS.

I would argue that the defaults should not be dangerous. If a filesystem is released in to the world as stable and ready for use, it's not absurd to expect that running mkfs.<whatever> /dev/<disk> will get you something that's not going to eat your data. It might not be optimized, but it shouldn't be dangerous.

Dangerous defaults are loaded footguns and should be treated as bugs.

If there is no safe option, there should not be a default and the user should be required to explicitly make a choice. At that point you can blame them for not reading the documentation.
Sustained shortage of ASCII Penis Birds over the past decade.
Actually, I thought of another thing: when optimizing some module, I often find myself making a test harness that puts a lot of load on the module in question. Then I tweak it until it is fast. The problem is that I've optimized it in a state where the data is likely to be cached and the branch predictor has learned how the branches go. But then when you put that module back into a full program, the rest of the program might have overwritten our module's state in the cache and branch predictor, so the performance we get is much lower. In which case, Getting Accurate Results requires flushing the cache and branch prediction state in our test harness. I'd be interested to see some ideas on how to do that.
The problem is, the only place where you can make that worth the while is by building out solar in Northern Africa. Unfortunately, the countries in that region are a combination of failed states, governed by dictators, under threat of war or terrorism or pissed off after hundreds of years of Western colonial powers coming in, taking natural resources and leaving no meaningful income and perspectives to the locals.

There's no easy solution for a single one of these problems, much less for all of them.
> displayport's aux channel is a great example of why keeping legacy connectivity around on a second track: it makes lowhgrade kvm like connectivity ultra easy & low cost

On this topic, I wish it was used a bit more.

What do you mean with that? Do you actually tunnel keyboard and mouse data trough that aux channel? I am not aware of it being supported by any OS? Or are you only referring to DCC data, using it to switch inputs? (Which you can also do on HDMI and VGA screens).

If there is any alternative to HDMI CEC on the DisplayPort side, I'm all ears. That and standardized audio support are features where HDMI currently stands out, IMO.
Well, maybe a Nazi is overdoing it but the McKinsey group is bad enough.
From another comment "The article is published in a journal the subject matter of which has nothing to do with UFOs, or flight dynamics or anything similar. It does so happen that the principal author of the paper is the editor-in-chief of that journal"
Could you provide any data? I don't know anyone whose claims I trust less than Trump.

Saying everyone breaks some campaign promises is like saying that everyone lies - there is an enormous range.
The only case that China would be interested in Siberia (and it is extremely far fetched) is if Russia became an enemy state that refused to trade with China. Otherwise China can get whatever it wants from Siberia from mutually beneficial trade.

I will also note for thousands of years that China except for the brief period when it was a part of the Mongol empire has never expanded beyond its basic territory, i.e. limited by the extent of rice agriculture.

These memes (Putin is in it for the money, China covets Siberia) are basically Reddit tier thinking in my opinion.

Reality is quite a bit different.
Every country is going to adopt programmable money
> why is it important to isolate and shame people who suspect it

I'd argue that humans are tribal creatures, and that we don't need a reason to "other" people. On the contrary - our need to "other" people drives the creation of reasons to do so if necessary.
So, income tax?

With free public education, paid for via income tax?
This knowledge was either the third or fourth class in the CS sequence, Computer Organization. Are there CS programs that do NOT do this? Those would be useless CS departments.

The book I took was Tanenbaum's Structured Computer Organization. It was fantastic, as was Operating Systems. This class was indeed the "light comes on" as you go from gates to logic to CPU to signals to microcode to assembly and so on and so forth.

What Tanenbaums and this lack is a bit of history. We can learn a lot by the examples of the older computers, and what each generational "innovations" brought us.
Which part of the chain isn't protected by at least a packet CRC?

I think the answer is its all covered.
> the core problem here (lack of USB2 on a USB3 connector)

Not sure if that's the core issue here? That's one of the issues, but there are more uses for that chip, like the introduction that hints at sharing USB3 bandwidth between multiple USB2 devices.
This is just so naive and unrealistic that I don't understand how anyone could believe it. You can't count on adversaries acting with dignity when they have core interests at stake. In the future more countries will acquire nuclear weapons, or ally with nuclear powers, specifically because of what happened to Ukraine.