skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
When we hired, we were not interested in brand names of schools applicants went to as long as they were out of school a few years and had a few jobs. In fact, I think that would be a red-flag for places I don't want to work. For instance, I remember filling out a job app at DE Shaw that asked for school and SAT and LSAT/GMAT scores along with GPA. It sounded like a terrible place to work.

In regards to a network, unfortunately 10 years out of school I don't keep in touch with many people I went to college with. We just went in different directions and many of my relationships were relationships out of convenience. Maybe others had different experiences.
Absolutely everything can be construed as "I can't let you screw me".

This is what made it toxic.

Pick your battles.
If the viewport meta tag includes user-scalable=no, then it won't scale on mobile. Personally I don't like that setting much, since it is bad for a11y.

It does also prevent accidental zooms when users intend to scroll, so maybe that's a use? Often times the meta viewport tag (which is quite arcane) is just copy-pasted without deep knowledge of what it does.
Do you know if the original of the joke can be seen in Sumerian writing? (some picture). Also, do you think it could have been a pun?
As I said in the sibling, the alternative isn't "lowering the price", it's "not selling". That's what "firm" means, yeah?
The weirdest thing about this is how surprising it was for most Germans, too.

In the last election, the "Green" political party gained quite a lot on a promise of "no nuclear power", "less military", and "more feminism" and guess what, now they are the ones extending nuclear power plants and investing heavily into military.

I predict that in 1-2 years, we'll have scientific studies about the disconnect between what voters wanted and what politicians delivered. Because in this case, it really seems like the communication broke down somewhere in between. The discrepancy is beyond obvious.

Quotes in German:

(We stand for a world without nuclear power) "Wir Grüne im Bundestag stehen für eine Welt ohne Atomkraft." https://www.gruene-bundestag.de/themen/atomausstieg

(We stand for peace, disarmament, cooperative security, and a culture of military restraint) "Wir Grüne im Bundestag stehen für Frieden, Abrüstung, kooperative Sicherheit und eine Kultur der militärischen Zurückhaltung" https://www.gruene-bundestag.de/themen/sicherheitspolitik
The sort of programs you are writing about can easily exhibit the sort of problem that yakubin is giving an example of - here's a comparable example:

wasBusinessDay(date): Date.dayOfWeek(date) not in (Date.Saturday, Date.Sunday)

Which is as trivial as yakubin's example, but can fail for more, and much more nuanced, reasons - and no, you are not, in general, going to find an off-the-shelf answer to the question of whether your particular business was operating on a given day.

Both your claim that a big problem is things not working as they are supposed to[1], and the fact that the same old basic security problems get repeated in every new platform that comes along, show that libraries have not, in practice, been any sort of panacea for business software.

[1] I suspect you are referring to application code rather than library code, but either will do for the point I am making here.
>I don't know the last time I was truly excited for a release.

Honestly, and I know it's a joke because of the very nerd-tastic dancing, but it was for this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lAkuJXGldrM
Around 3000 hours. Not continuously.
As an alum of MIT, I highly recommend attending, if you are going to put in the work to be successful there. The fact that you have been admitted means you probably will.

In 30 years of working after college, with numerous job interviews along the way, the item most discussed in every single interview was that I went to MIT. Right or wrong, that is what has happened. To be clear, MIT teaches you how to think and that is what employers are looking for.

As for the cost, I agree with those above who stated that you should attempt to negotiate more financial aid from MIT. I also agree that MIT is one of the few (with the Ivy League schools, Stanford, and CaltTech) that are worth the cost. You will more than recover it over your career.

Finally, you can learn as much going to other schools such as Z. But, you will have to push yourself much harder whereas at MIT, the school will push you. It can make a big difference.

BTW, Boston is an amazing city in which to go to school. So much to do. So many other college age people there.
XFCE supports all that and more out of the box.
What is a “unit of code” though. Most units of code call (“integrate”?) other units of code in their implementation. Libraries, language runtime, runtime environment (OS), other functional modules of the application, utility functions, … What is the defining property where it becomes an integration test?
I once played Taboo with a Taiwanese colleague. I still remember when he gave the clue "you get this if you're really lazy". The word was "beard".

(BTW I had a beard at the time.)
Have you ever read "Brave New World?" Happiness and all the sundry delusions you mentioned are not good metrics. The fact of the matter is that most people have less control over their lives than ever before. Gigantic entities have seized control over most sectors of human activity.

In the short term, this corporate domination appears like a good thing. The mom and pop stores fell to Amazon and the Walmarts of the world, and consequently things got cheaper. That's a good thing...right? Cheaper goods = better lives...no?

The low cost of goods and immediate boon to our material quality of life came at a structural cost. More and more of us are being converted from independent businesses owners to employees or contractors of large corporations. Nowhere is this more evident than in the agricultural industry. "If you don't go big, you go out," a former AG secretary said of the monopolizing currents in that industry.

Prices for food went down as corporations seized more and more territory from independent farmers, but again...this came at a structural cost. In time, corporate monopolies will own all of food production.

All this translates to power and wealth being concentrated into the hands of the very few.

This means the dream of democracy is over. The average person will not have a say in his government when he is just a cog in a machine owned by the corporate caste.

Sure, the corporate caste will probably usher in a BNW type of society, and most people will be as happy as can be...but they won't really be full human beings. They will be satisfied slaves who love their servitude.

Unfortunately, this is what the common man wants...he just wants to be happy and have a full belly. He doesn't care about having the power to shape his own destiny, nor does he believe in anything higher than himself that would warrant self-sacrifice and prolonged misery.

And so we may have the society you desire--the society of the last man. Almost everyone will be happy, but some men will remain wandering and crying out in the wilderness.

Edit:

I'd also like to add an example from history which demonstrates the misuse of statistics.

Consider the period when Hitler rose to power in Germany. The Nazi regime ushered in what is called the "Economic Miracle." If you looked at the raw statistics of Germany during that period, you would think Hitler was God's gift from heaven. Not only was the economy booming, but many people bought into Hitler's magical rhetoric and became fervently hopeful for their future. It was a period of tremendous optimism and strength. The statistics show this, but they don't show the monsters lurking in the depths beneath.

In order to know the monsters of today, we need to look beyond statistics. We need to look into ourselves, into human nature, and think about what happens when so few control so much.
It's not a PvP game, there's marines. (Now imagine 3000 years from now trying to unravel this joke without a bunch of cultural knowledge haha)
Probably because it's trending and the censors haven't gotten around to it yet?
Man the inflation is real: https://camelcamelcamel.com/product/B003PGRR5W
> ...Z has offered... full-ride scholarship.

> If I went to MIT... $180k in debt.

Non bankrupt-able student loans are the modern day indentured servitude. At least in the early days of America you were free after 7 years, now days it's lifetime bondage.

These prices are fake. The money is fake, conjured up by a thought. But the indentured servitude is real.
What manufacturer did you buy?
I'm sure you understand how disingenious calling it 'a single core raspberry pi' is even if you dislike crypto. Please attempt building say a DEX with comparable guarantees, uptime and traffic if you believe they serve the same purpose.
As much as I dislike SUVs and think they're unnecessary I don't see how this helps in the big picture. Is someone really that likely to not buy an SUV because they're afraid someone will deflate their tires?

Even so- where we do draw the line on safety? When does this cause an accident because someone didn't notice a flat tire and drives on the freeway with it?
No. You're being snarky and leaving out the main point of crypto: trust and coordination. Ethereum is the first shared computer that you can execute code with someone who's openly hostile towards you and guarantee that the code will execute and perform what it was written to do.

Think of it more like the patent system. A patent is just a publicly available description of your invention. You could write it up yourself and publish it to a website for $5 / mo, so why would you pay the >$10k it costs to work with a lawyer and file a patent?

It's not the description of the invention itself you're paying for, but the rights you get that make it worth it to file a patent.

In Ethereum, the "lawyers" and "patent examiners" are the other nodes in the network and the miners which enforce that the smart contract code ran as it was suppose to and can't be undone.
> In a month the issue will be old enough to vote, drink and drive.

What an irresponsible issue!
It’s not just OneNote. They are absolutely confused, as an organisation, about accounts, data privacy and data security.

I can’t, in theory, access my work’s OneDrive from my personal machines, due to a required SSO on top of Microsoft’s, and a VPN requirement. But somehow there are some of my personal files in my work’s OneDrive.

I don’t know how this happened. I can’t log into our VPN as it’s machine-locked (it checks before allowing you on) and therefore OneDrive is supposed to stop me accessing it.

I keep getting emails from Microsoft about an Azure Enterprise agreement that they have decided I have power over, along with a group of people from a random company that I’m not related to in any way. Someone did a typo and included me by accident? Not likely as I have an email address that’s difficult to accidentally use via typo.

Microsoft are taking people’s responses to the group as authorised instructions as to what to do with their enterprise agreement. I’ve responded several times and said I am not related but they keep emailing about it. I know a lot about that company’s people, structure and agreements with Microsoft now!
> I can tap Command and then type restart and it shows up as an item on the drawer. Fastest way to restart short of assigning a shortcut for me.

Then you're not using GNOME on Wayland. Or are you mistaking restarting GNOME with restarting your whole operating system? GNOME is rather buggy, so for years you've been able to restart it (when running under X11) with Alt+F2 and typing restart. This keeps your login session, all your running apps, it just restarts the bugged out GNOME. Very convenient. And in case you want to develop GNOME extensions, almost essential. This is simply not available under Wayland, unless there have been very recent changes?
What Covid Can Do to Patients’ Brains
Not really? 1984 was more written in reaction to the british intelligence appartus harassing him rather than Stalin, Orwell was quite a devout communist and that brought down the hammer of the british intelligence organisations on him, trying to censor him and make his life difficult. It isn't really a historical fiction of stalinism and more of living as a communist under the red scare in the western world.
How? Why? If you use the map[T]bool, you obviously need to pay attention to the bool value, even in a range. Whereas in map[T]struct{} you don't need to pay attention to the values.

In either way, even with that type of data type underlying a set, I would (probably) provide a functional API to interact with it.
And as already referenced AMD APUs, including the chips for XBox and Playstation. Hence the entire "hope that AMD starts copying" from the original comment doesn't really fit for unified memory.
There are humans driving cars right now.

How do they solve the problem?

My guess is, they randomly chose who to run over in the heat of the moment.

Why isn't that a viable solution?

If AI drivers generally have less accidents and in the few cases left behave like humans, wouldn't that be a win?
Does the original text really says: "walks into a bar"?
I think the difference there is that the Mac Studio will spend a lot of time with the fans at very low speed, and any dust that settles near the intake during that time will get sucked up later when the fans ramp up. If the intake were higher up the recently settled dust would stay on the desk and you'd only pull in airborne dust.
What is pxf.io, where the .com link goes? Is it some kind of affiliate tracker?
The point is that they work...for the company. In most of these cases the business model of the company is ads, which means they want to get as much time on the app as possible, regardless of what that means for the user's mental health or their overall enjoyment. This isn't necessarily what's best for the user.
Hence "it seems like it's larger than our visible horizon", "at a larger scale than we can see", and "It's an open problem".
It's not clear why Z needs to be undisclosed and it makes it harder to give you advice.

I second people talking about the 'regret minimization framework'. It sounds like you will be studying something technical. Look up big tech salaries on levels.fyi, there's no guarantee those numbers will be there but, 5-10 years into your career, you might be able to save your MIT tuition easily with a tech salary. If you got to that point, would you regret not going to MIT? On the other hand, if bootstrapping a start-up is important to you, it might be difficult to do that when you have college debt.

It's good that you're seeking advice. Writing down your thoughts clears the head too, and makes you notice spots where you're pushing to convince yourself. For big decisions like this, I write all my thoughts as I do my research. As I get closer to the decision, I make a list of pros, cons, known unknowns / risks, then sleep on it. I never regretted a decision I made in that way.
You can actually just buy the real thing on Amazon or eBay, but they’re labeled not for gasoline use in the USA due to environmental regulations (https://fee.org/articles/the-epic-failure-of-the-government-...). It was really important the EPA saved the planet from the world’s number one environmental threat… minuscule amount of gas vapors escaping fuel cans, thus they haven’t legal since 2009.

I have 4 original NATO cans and have thrown them around, dropped them, had them slide around in the back of a truck and bang into things. They have never once leaked a single drop or stopped working.
All IPS displays have some "burn in" but it's not permanent. It's image persistence. It was also commented on a lot with the first IPS MacBooks. It's a bit annoying but not a serious issue like (or CRT) burn in. And we have a good existing way of preventing it, the screen saver. Even if it does happen it goes away in a couple hours.

I think the studio display is really poor value though as previously you would get a whole computer included for pretty much the same price. The little extras really have to be in your corner to be worth it.
>You cannot use telegrams to do philosophy

Tell that to Wittgenstein. Tractatus would have been a twitter thread nowadays.
For me, the lack of window menu accelerators is a dealbreaker: I'm used to being able to hit alt-space then x to maximize, alt-space then c to close, and so on. Most windowing systems support these keystrokes. Gnome doesn't, and because the window menu is rendered using a non-GTK toolkit (because of course it is), it's surprisingly annoying to add these accelerators.

It's not just this one thing either: every single time I try Gnome, I last about two hours before I run into some random thing I want that the Gnome developers won't let me do because they have Design and Vision and know better than I do how my desktop environment should function.

I keep trying KDE once in a while too and hit different issues, usually related to stability or clutter.

I miss Unity actually. But it was a huge effort to patch every app to support top menus and launcher badges, and I don't blame Canonical for giving up.

Right now, I'm using Cinnamon, which is both unstable and unfeatureful in some ways, but that at least doesn't continually annoy me in ways that Gnome and KDE do.
For what it's worth, I've also seen someone interpret this joke as related to prostitutes and windows (as Sumerian bars were apparently also brothels). I think this just goes to show how much one needs to understand about a society's culture to fully understand its jokes.
Once all the Germans were warlike and mean

But that couldn't happen again

We taught them a lesson in 1918

And they've hardly bothered us since then

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3j20voPS0gI&t=1m44s
not yet, that's something we'll need to add
I see keyword arguments as slightly different though. The keyword is like the parameter name. The value is still a plain integer and (theoretically) susceptible to being given the wrong integer. In contrast, unit types allow for hard checking by the compiler.

In practice, with good naming it won't make much difference and only shows up when comparing the docs (or intellisense) for an API with how it is actually used.
You will be fine either way, but you only get to do your undergrad at MIT once in your life :)

Go to MIT and make sure you seize that opportunity every day. Work hard, get into a research lab early, and don’t forget to enjoy yourself too!
Sorry for the awkward phrasing, what I meant was:

Mint (specifically Cinnamon) doesn't have Wayland support. Not having Wayland means it doesn't work well on my new hardware. Not working on my new hardware is a showstopper. Thus I am no longer using Mint.
This is what I hate most about Google and Facebook. If you want to choose to let them gather all of your data, fine. I disagree with it but it is ultimately your choice.

But as someone who has made every effort to remove both of these companies from my life as much as possible, if I communicate with someone who uses Android or someone who allows Facebook complete access to their contacts and other data... those companies still get MY data without my consent.

Somehow it has become legal for these companies to allow someone else to consent for them to get my data.
Hah, you cannot adopt SAP to your needs, it's the other way around, you have to adopt to them. If that matches your use case, allright, but otherwise forget about it.
Apple doesn't have the memory in the same silicon as CPU and GPU.
> I have yet to find a global shortcut that I couldn't reassign in the built-in shortcuts menu.

Try the media keys, like playpause. You can use dconf though.
> This reads to me as it being a PITA to maintain.

Not more than any other language: when it's well done, it's manageable. When it's spaghetti code, it's not manageable.
Except that's not the case at all.
Application installation is broken. If software isn't hand-curated in the distro's repository and kept up to date by someone, then get ready to set up a dev environment and compile from source. Hopefully you will not break your entire system trying to cater to whims of whatever insane build environment it uses. This includes new versions that no one has got around to packaging yet.

AppImage and Flatpak are making inroads to eliminating this foolishness, but I still routinely run into software that isn't yet on board with that.
At MIT you're not just paying for the education, but you're paying for the network of current students, professors, and alumni. You're paying for name-brand recognition and an easier way to get into grad schools and the job market.

I would look into financial aid at MIT and speak to financial aid advisors who work there, to see if you can get some sort of help.

If I were in your shoes I'd go to MIT, but then again I don't know what School Z is (i.e. if it's Carnegie Mellon or the University of Richmond, to name two very different schools).
In my software project, all measurements exist as engineering units since they all come from various systems (ADCs or DSP boxes). We pass the values around to other pieces of software but are displayed as both the original values and converted units. We have a config file that contains both units and conversion polynomials, ranging from linear to cubic polynomials. Some of the DSP-derived values are at best an approximation so these have special flags that basically mean "for reference only". Having the unit is helpful for these but are effectively meaningless since the numbers are not precise enough, it would be like trying to determine lumens of a desk lamp from a photo taken outside of a building with the shades drawn.
First, we plan to monetize on a freemium model. This means we don't have an incentive to sell your data to advertisers.

Second, we don't plan to add video. This is a platform just for photos, and for someone who wants something like that it's a good thing.

We also run on iPad, and when we get desktop going it won't be an intentionally broken experience to force you to use the app.

And we actually listen to our users. There's a chat room on the app "Pidgeon Nest" where people have asked for certain features and we've gone and added them. We've also done the same when users have reached out over email.
Chinese Boeing jet crashes in mountains with 132 on board, no sign of survivors
In my opinion, Window management on Mac is bad compared with everything that isn't Mac. On the other hand, there's lots to like about Macs, so I keep using them.
>Just for what it's worth, Australia has a taxpayer-funded student loan scheme (HECS) and the obscene fees you see in the US simply aren't a problem here. A full 4-year Electrical Engineering degree from Monash cost me about A$30k back in 2012. It looks like now they're around $40k. Even for an arts grad, this is something one could comfortably pay off in 2-3 years.

What do you mean that "the obscene fees you see in the US simply aren't a problem here"? $40k across 4 years is $10k/year. The average in-state tuition in the US is $10,338k. Those are pretty close to each other.

https://www.usnews.com/education/best-colleges/paying-for-co...