skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I agree that funding through real estate taxes is a mechanism of what is called structural racism ("the factors that have put the current generation of African Americans in this situation of living in poverty/being apart of the lower class"), but there are other mechanisms, and there are directly racist beliefs. I don't know how you can claim there are not plenty of racist beliefs, or that they magically have no impact. Off the top of my head, from the last six months, said to me personally by white people:

- 'Everyone knows that black people are biologically inferior.'

- With a smile, and disdain: 'Did you see that Biden's college funding failed? We won't have to pay for the blacks to go to college.'

Look at what happens if racism is brought up on HN: It is shut down vigorously, endless responses saying that it doesn't exist, challenging every aspect, major or minute or imaginary and mostly just argumentative. It must be proven beyond any shadow of a doubt, better than the Laws of Motion, despite overwhelming evidence - why are the standards impossibly high? Imagine all that energy going into addressing racism.

Why are you so determined to deny its existance, even beyond the limited thing about housing? You can see it everywhere, see stories of it everywhere. Talk to any black person, who actually lives it and sees it - don't argue, just be curious. I've never talked to one black person who shares the prevelent view on HN.
A "unit test" is a test that covers a single unit of code, as opposed to an "integration test" that that covers several integrated units. This is the common definition.

This other definition of "a test that doesn't depend on other tests" seems of little use, since no tests, even in something like a UI regression, should depend on other tests.
Hm, nah.

Consider this: if the schools weren't dependent on the test scores, then they could use that same energy-for-testing to teach their students methods for improving their SAT scores. I genuinely doubt they'll switch energy, but the fact remains that the requirement to game a test-well-or-lose-funding system by necessity removes education opportunity for students in order to focus on the tests over education, especially for schools in lower income areas because they stand to suffer the most. We're relying on a system that ensures that people stay where they are. Now, if there isn't a correlation between lost education opportunity and SAT scores, then you might be right, but...

Edit: This article goes into the problem in the context of No Child Left Behind and confirms my point: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/answer-sheet/wp/2015/03/...
Does anyone else like to put data types in their variable names? Sometimes in finance I come across dollars and cents presented as an int and sometimes as decimal(18,2). So I don't confuse them I do something like payment_amt_d1802 or payment_amt_int.
Thanks! I'm UI-impaired, I never would have found it. =)

(also, wow, that page renders slowly!)
I only mock functionality that is non deterministic — like sending email.
People should really look into using the LTSC version instead the pre-installed windows 10. lTSC has no crap apps and bare minimal footprint in terms of shit preloaded. Also there are tools like privatezilla on GitHub to tweak some privacy settings and wpd.app which can block telemetry on firewall level.
I think the issue is not with colleges themselves. It's with American colleges specifically. Mainly the obsessive for profit nature of it.
Isn't it supposed to have lower bitrate for the same quality? If there wouldn't have been any benefits they wouldn't have developed a whole new codec.
Even if I'm only going to save $1-$10, I'm still going to attempt as it helps me build experience for when I do negotiate something where I might save hundreds or thousands of dollars.

I don't view negotiating as something stressful.
Salary mainly. You may keep the job if you're tenured but without the grants, you may not get much in the way of salary. Also, your grad students, postdocs, and resources (lab equipment, computing time, etc) are being paid through grant money so without it you don't have a lab group. Finally, without funding, your department and/or the university can make life exceedingly difficult. Extra teaching, more admin tasks, etc.
> A lot of the best kernel, driver, and gui shell improvements have only really hit their stride in the past 24 months.

Could you elaborate on that?

I've been using desktop Linux almost exclusively for the past 24 years (ouch!), and recent years seem pretty average to me. Things work great, most of the time, like always.

Unless you're talking about gaming. I'm not a gamer (or i wouldn't be such a long time Linux user) but I hear there's enormous progress on that front.
That paper is better than most in the space, in that it has an actual control group, and there are not huge health/age differences between the populations at baseline. Nonetheless, a few interesting things about that paper that stand out to me:

1) Depression and anxiety are the most common "long covid" symptoms, by far. Even "abnormal breathing" doesn't linger to nearly the same extent (fig 1). In fact, when you look at the co-variate matrices, depression and anxiety stand out as a brightly colored axis for the "long covid" cohort (but not for flu), indicating that many/most "long covid" patients had correlated problems with depression and anxiety that aren't seen in the "long flu" group (fig 3).

2) If you look at the last figure (fig 5), it's obvious that the "long covid" symptoms are enriched in the oldest and sickest patients -- yet the main text doesn't break out these groups explicitly, and instead presents "long covid" symptoms as something equally likely to affect all. That's clearly not true. The authors could easily have done this, but did not.

3) The "long covid" symptoms include the primary disease itself (measurements start on day 1), and drops off by 3 months after diagnosis (fig 1), but the authors try to distract from this by emphasizing the group that develops symptoms at any point in the six months after diagnosis, even if they don't have the corresponding symptom in the first 90 days after infection. In fact, 40% of the people in the "symptoms within six months" cohort do not have symptoms in the first 90 days! The authors try to claim that this is proof of some kind of evolving "network" of symptoms...but ignore the simpler explanation that they're detecting "symptoms" unrelated to the original illness.

Long covid papers often make the mistake of blurring together severe, long-term symptoms with minor or unrelated ones, and mixing old people with young people. The authors here have done little to prevent either class of error. Also, looking at this, you also have to conclude that the "long covid" cohort cannot easily be separated from a group of people struggling with depression and anxiety. Are the symptoms caused by the depression? With symptoms like "fatigue" and "pain", it's quite probable.
> perhaps schools in poor areas really are pushing the children hard to go to extraordinary heights and it’s just the fault of poor people for being so damned useless that they ignore it or fail.

That's not how I understood it - are we talking about the same comment. I understood the commenter to be saying that their school didn't give students the resources to understand and apply to top colleges, including basic understanding of colleges (e.g., who MIT is) and the admissions process. Are we talking about the same comment?

The comment that you paraphrase is, I agree, absurd!
Anyone interested in creating 30 second programming video tutorials?
You can’t make hardlinks to directories on any other file system either.
That's like saying elevators should still have a person controlling it manually because computers would deteoriate societal trust
> The information given was incorrect

Why do you say that?
It could, but only when used in moderation and only when it isn't designed primarily as a tool to line pearson's, microsoft's, and apple's pockets
Yep, at Fry's I used to let the exit checker wipe the pink pen on my receipt if no one else was in line, or maybe one person in front of me. It let them feel like they were doing their job, and it didn't cost me much time.

But if a few people were in line, I would just nod and smile and walk on by.

I never had an exit checker question this (they were trained not to!) but I did get a few dirty looks from other customers.

Sorry friends, it's not my fault if you don't know the rules. ;-)

Even Costco couldn't detain me if I didn't let them inspect my cart. But as you noted, they could refuse to let me shop there again.

Of course it would be my loss. Even if nothing else, the membership is worth it for the olive oil!

Did you happen to score any of the 2020 organic Val di Mazara? I've been a huge fan of their Toscana year after year, but the Val di Mazara is something else. Such a delightful peppery oil. I hope they get it again in the next harvest.
That sounds stretched. Smart kids failing because their parents didn't know yachting trivia 40 years ago... And in 4 decades their family couldn't crack open a math book?

The main reason for failing education is not money, it's family attitude towards education. Educational parents get better results than rich parents. Look at how the Asian group is faring. In fact having too rich parents is pulling down the kids.
A useful web framework for Process Orchestration
Thanks! Indeed the blog post omitted that step, probably since they already had it installed or something.

Once I installed the base LSP package, and restarted Sublime, then it gave me an error[1] at startup, explaining that it couldn't initialize the LSP for TypeScript. The error message included a button to fix it.

After that, yeah, it works a lot better! Jump to definition works, and the as-you-type errors I mentioned before now do appear. Also, the auto-complete list looks fairly sane, without all the "random guesses from all the text in this project" entries it had before.

So... not bad! At a glance I think it is still probably not as good a VS Code, but it might be usable. I will give it a closer look later.

[1] The error was: "Could not start LSP-typescript due to not being able to find Node.js runtime on the PATH. Press the "Install Node.js" button to install Node.js automatically (note that it will be installed locally for LSP and will not affect your system otherwise)."
Exactly! My first thought was "why are there any dogs at the doctor's office at all?" I've always loved dogs but I'll probably never have one again, because people in my family are allergic. Their right to breathe outranks my desire to keep an animal in the house/office/etc.

The dogs in the article at least appear to be isolated from patients, but I hope similar consideration is given to lab workers (no pun intended) who may be allergic.
Thanks. That article is about a different distortion of college rankings; there are many.
I'm convinced Windows 8 is a better tablet OS than 10. I don't know if it's a better desktop OS.
>That's not a "commuting with a personal car", that's "working with a company car". Completely different use case.

Another case of complete disconnect from reality. Many tradesmen use their own personal vehicles. If you want to call it a 'company car' because the commute involves transport of professional tools, then go ahead and play that semantic game.

>And yes, Steve is a representative buyer of big trucks these days. Actual working professionals want to be able to actually see where they're going, so they buy vehicles with short frontends and high capacity, like the Ford Transit.

Something you're so intimately familiar with, that you totally overlooked that there actually are reasons 'anyone should need to use a personal car for commuting inside urban areas.'

>Steve the Office Manager doesn't need a 2.5 ton pickup truck with a 6-foot-tall frontend that needs a forward-facing camera because the visibility is so shit that there's no way to avoid splattering all of the children on the 2 mile trip through populated neighborhoods between his house and office.

And you probably don't need to have your heat set past 50 degrees in winter or 90 degrees in summer, but I bet you use more energy than you need, helping destroy the environment and kill off animals. You don't need to buy lots of things, but won't someone THINK of the splattered CHILDREN!!!

>A Edwards poll of Pickup owners in 2018 showed that 75% have never hauled anything, and 70% use the bed less than once a year (ie, never). The sales numbers bear this out as well, pickups with actual usable bed space are very unpopular, almost all the units that are sold have crew cabs, with about as much room in the back for hauling as a minivan with the bench down.

The change in pick-up trucks to be massive oversized behemoths including those with large cabs is the result of mental illness of those passing CAFE standards which made it effectively illegal to produce a small efficient truck.
That doesn't disagree with anything said?
Idunno. The people that learned APL were arguably better off than the people forced to pull a bunch of knobs on some high level framework with no understanding of what happened underneath.

I'd say this one is probably a wash, whereas in the other subjects it's actively harmful.
What if you're replying to dick request? Surely just "no" would be appropriate. It's extremely contextual
I still regret not buying that '68 Chevelle Super Sport for $600 when I was in h.s. That thing was a rocket with that giant V8 and very little car. I did wind up with a 67 289 Mustang. It was an automatic, and my buddy & I converted it to a 4 speed because muscle cars with automatics were for weeners.

We sure had fun shredding tires with it. I was lucky to survive the accident that terminated it.
Counter argument: I've never seen any trained chihuahua. It seems that most if not all owners who want to own a chihuahua or another small "lap dog" are incapable of training them.

The sheer amount of untrained dogs is just way too high to use a trained dog as an argument. I'd guess less than 10% actually go to dog school/training.
You cannot be fired with tenure, which is nice. But you can still move up and down in status. The grants provide supplemental income. You can do work you love enough to take a lower wage than you probably could get in the private sector. There are benefits.
To be fair, his post does lead into a Twitter thread. Unfortunately it's a mess of the usual reactionary takes: white people are asked to feel guilty; Asians are discriminated against; nobody wants to hear whiny conservatives on campus. And so: "nearer to collapse than it appears." That's not a falsifiable prediction, of course: how long does it "appear" to take to collapse? A decade, a century, never?
Marmaray is constructed with cooperation of Japanese, and one of the older suspension bridges of Istanbul also designed by Japanese IIRC, hence I don't think they omitted the earthquake factor during the designs.

Also, yes suspension bridges are well suited for earthquakes.
The author has a CS degree from Berkeley herself, so I'm not sure what exactly she's supposed to feel "inferior" about.
I have never heard "floor models are more expensive" before. By definition it's used goods. Wonder why they said that?

I reguarly will buy the last of something and end up taking the floor/display model. Usually for a 10-25% discount (very occasionally more on things most people wouldn't touch the floor model on and have a healthy mark up) on the price they have listed.

That and buying a bunch of things and asking for a discount are the best ways to haggle that I've found. If buying 10 things from a shop (not small ticket items or at chain stores with minimum wage employees) it's usally easy for them to throw in the lowest priced items as "freebies".
Even in typed languages `names` and `name` are too similar to slow code reading down.
I don't think bandwidth is the main challenge with video calls. Packet loss and latency cause far more quality issues.
What age have they reached without tech and what's your best case scenario looking like?
What are hypersonic missiles and why is Russia using them?
Maybe, but dogs (or any animal, really) require constant care in a way that machines don't, and need space and staff for boarding, exercise, veterinary care, etc.

(Unless somebody is working toward a cheap pen-sized dog...)
That’s quite a compliment, thank you!
> The produce has already been picked; it's not like they can take it back and re-plant it.

That is such an insightful comment; thank you!

And it's the best kind of negotiating. Not only do you get a good deal, it's a win for the farmer too.
This thread conflates "boo higher education" with "higher education is on the verge of collapse". If institutions of higher education are discriminating massively against Asians (and it's pretty clear that they are) won't the supreme court ending this practice improve them? This is a reason to be sanguine about college's prospects, not the opposite.
> What evolutionary advantage would required that males did the hunting and fighting?

There's an obvious evolutionary disadvantage to hunt and fight while pregnant and/or nursing the young, so obvious this smells like a weak strawman.
Neat idea, but it seems to be born out of current market conditions and might not be sustainable going forward once supply/demand for GPUs normalize.

As someone running these workloads I'd only be desperate enough to pay $250/mo for a 3090 today because I cannot buy it for $1500 at the store straight up. And if you drop the price by a third now it isn't worth it for the host anymore.
Clearly amazon bots used some AI to predict they’d make that comment months in advance, and jacked up the price (:
;_; I remember my good TAs...
As I mostly work on Java projects, the one built into Idea/Android Studio is a good one for merge conflicts.
(As noted elsewhere it's nanoseconds.)
In most cases, people on high incomes spend far more and save very little. In spite of initial good intentions, they end up not retiring until much later than initially planned. Concurrently they accrue various aliments which further impacts upon their quality of life.

In practice people are slaves to their egos and aspirations. The option to live in a low-cost area, doing lesser paid, but fulfilling work is to many a less appealing choice.
I came back in France after being used to negotiate for everything in China (even entrance to clubs). I failed miserably. There are definitely cultures where people would lose money rather than negotiate, it’s just badly seen.
The issue with TDD as originally described by Kent Beck (there are as many variations as there are ... ) is the belief that a good enough design emerges from the process.
The device would download an encrypted database. It would compute a hash on the device. It would compute a value (“voucher”) from this hash and the database and upload that value to iCloud, which could decrypt it iff there were a sufficient number of matches. The voucher is independent of the plaintext file uploaded to iCloud: hence you could upload only the voucher and not the file and the system would still alert.

Phrases like “it would not be doing any scanning on-device” don’t have any precise meaning. Scanning is a series of operations including hashing and cryptographic calculations plus a voucher upload and decryption. All of the former operations are happening on the device, only the latter happens on the server. So in fact a significant fraction of the scanning is indeed happening on your device. And this two-computer design isn’t being used to preserve your privacy: it’s designed this way solely to prevent you (the device owner) from knowing whether your files match the database. Without that requirement, the system would be much simpler: it would download a hash database and simply send a notification to iCloud whenever (a sufficient number of) local files hash to values matching the database.
Apparently the money in tech review is in affiliated marketing and not ads. I've seen people pulling 200K a year with around 100K subs.
The risk analysis alone makes it a non-starter, besides the fact that such airliners don't exist, a C130 vs a 777 is a huge difference in size, weight, range and take-off speed (80 tons vs 200 tons, 2500 nm vs 5000 nm minimum), 130 kph vs 240 kph. The C130 has four prop-jets, the 777 is a dual turbofan. Payload for a 777 is about 100 tons, C130 landing on that carrier was 12 tons.

And as for that test: there is a reason it was left at the 'test' stage, it was deemed too risky.

It is amazing that they managed to land a C130 on an aircraft carrier at all, even more amazing that they did it 30 times or so without mishap, but it is a very, very long stretch away from being able to land a passenger jet and take off again routinely, what is acceptable risk for the navy would never fly (pun intended) for passenger service.
I think they’re saying vscode is slow. I agree, it’s molasses.
I would also add, test against a real database (docker) not in memory database.

So many bugs that only happen on disk.
Also so much functionality that cannot be used to fixed them because it's syntax error on the mock database
Linear search works much worse with olfactory fatigue.
Naming the method sleepMillis or sleepSeconds would help too.
I welcome you to share your opinion on the matter
Once you go beyond constants (which in practice means literals, I think, but I’m not conversant enough in Go to be confident), Go requires that you multiply Duration by Duration—you can’t multiply it with a scalar outside of constants. In other words, as soon as a scalar multiple becomes a parameter rather than a constant, you can’t just do `n * duration`, but have to do something more like `Duration(n) * duration`, which is obviously physically wrong for a system of units, because the unit should be time squared, not time.

As for languages doing it better, approximately every single language that has strong static typing and uses dedicated types for times does it better. Rust is the one I’m most familiar with and comfortable with.
I was told by my low income peer group that you get 600 points just for filling out your name on the SAT and that 800 points could get you into a great school like MIT.

The minimum score for the SAT if you do nothing is 400, not 600.

Average SAT Score of admitted students: 1525

https://testive.com/mit-sat-scores-act-scores/
Mini. Studio is a waste of money if you're not regularly doing intensive & specific workloads like video editing/rendering.

Plain M1 is quite capable on its own.
If the isp throttles you, why they left vpn connections alone? My guess it's just suboptimal peering on their part and/or overloaded dns server. Those are my top issues with my ISP and they're gone with vpn (vpn providers has different peering and their own dns server).
It's straight into 'how many programmers does it take to change a lightbulb?' territory.
the successful professors that I've seen out source everything but number 1 and get a healthy cut of number 5.
And in doing so, those parents have normalized the idea of working in an evil company for their children. Isn't that an less than ideal outcome in their lives?
Cool. I wasn't aware of opening files in tabs.
Honestly, I picked my poison in 2010 or so: MacOS. You're right that it does have Apple services baked in, and that it is limited to Apple's hardware.

To the former: I never use them and they literally never push themselves on me.

To the latter: Apple's hardware is far and away the most pleasant to use. Every windows machine I've used in the last decade (bought an XPS 13 in 2019 out of necessity) is just wonky. Feels less polished on the hardware side, and fighting with drivers and bloatware is not what I want to deal with. Like, does a laptop really need some stupid, custom audio interface to be able to control whether I'm using a headphone jack or built-in speakers? On the XPS, you do. It's absurd.
That's what Kagi lenses are for. Just try...