skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Which, notably, is what Rust does by construction: you don't have to do (much) alias or escape analysis against Rust, because it's given to you by the compiler for free.

There's also been a decent amount of empirical research on MISRA C's effectiveness, most of which has shown that attempting compliance actually makes programmer-introduced faults more likely[1].

[1]: http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:646de5ba-eee8-4ec8-8bbc-2c18...
I've lost count of the number of one word PG tweets that have made the front page of HN.
I'm not sure I'd agree that "it's still happening" is synonymous with "it's harmless"

Nor am I clear what you think is real and what fictional. Service reliability, speed, and cost have all demonstrably and intentionally worsened under his helm. This went into effect at the end of last year, for instance: https://archive.ph/snCSy

> Seventy percent of first-class mail sent to Nevada will take longer to arrive, according to The Post’s analysis, as will 60 percent of the deliveries to Florida, 58 percent to Washington state, 57 percent to Montana, and 55 percent to Arizona and Oregon. In all, at least a third of such letters and parcels addressed to 27 states will arrive more slowly under the new standards.

If you feel the Washington Post to be an unreliable source, here's one from a supply chain focused outlet: https://www.supplychaindive.com/news/usps-postal-service-fir...
Get some self awareness man, I was pointing out how combative without substance your comment was.

"No, you're wrong. That's not how it was."
Hah! I hadn’t intended that at all but this is hilarious.

I wonder if the IRS would play along: “I identify as a corporation so you may only tax me on my profits not my income”
Well, what you have written just feels like a more favorable to your side explanation of the same thing.

Colleges are not trying to compress aptitude into a single number. It’s even worse. They are trying to compress aptitude into a single Boolean variable, you are either admitted or not. That’s it. And it seems that subject tests and general aptitude tests are very good indicators of college fit. I don’t know what system you envision, but alternatives I have seen always seem far worse.
I mean, I'm definitely a naive progressive (and probably hold some internalized bigotry that I'm unaware of), but I was against the SAT/ACT requirements sort of for the opposite reason than what you described.

I half-assed my entire way through high school, but studied for about a month for the ACT and did extremely well (perfect in all categories except Math, which I got a 32 in). I didn't get into MIT (I never applied) but I did get into a few other relatively well-regarded universities (Auburn, NYU) despite my awful grades, almost exclusively riding off the strength of my ACT scores, and ended up going to Florida State (since it was cheaper than the other two I listed). I dropped out after 2 years (nearly flunking out due to low grades).

To me, this showed that the tests are not an accurate measurement of how successful someone will be at college, but instead just how well someone can prepare for a specific test. If that's the case, why add the extra cost, both time and money-wise? If a mediocre student can just cram for a few weeks and do well on the test, then it seems to me that it's not a great test.

I acknowledge that this is pure anecdata, but that was my perspective, not "minorities can't be expected to do well on anything objective" and not "I don't want Yale to be 2/3 asian."
> Because the investment banks took loans and repackaged them, then didn't do anything illegal.

They did very illegal things. They lied, flat out lied, to their customers about what was in the financially engineered structures. Lied.

That is a crime (in civilised jurisdictions, and in the USA)
That makes no sense. China holds only about $1.1 trillion in US debt. They've actually been reducing their holdings in recent years. Even if they dumped it all on the open market tomorrow that wouldn't be sufficient to trigger an inflationary spike. Do the math.
> nypost.com

This is just a tabloid-ified version of this article: https://www.protocol.com/workplace/google-bidet-removal
The singularity is when we've exhausted all the low hanging fruit of technology and have started to work on the real hard problems of society. It's essentially our last invention.
> The NACAC did a study on this and they found that average gains of test-prep students is ~30 points (this was when the SAT was 2400 points).

> A 30 point increase out of 2400 points is not material to college admissions.

There must be some subset of students who gain much more from "test prep" than others? Even if its benefits for the average student are marginal, maybe there is a certain type of student for whom it is much more beneficial?

Not American so never did the SAT, but I honestly think I would have done much better in high school if I had one-on-one private tutoring. I struggled with focus and one-on-one attention helps keep me focused. Our son is similar – he's gifted and demonstrates his giftedness when the teacher focuses on him one-on-one, but then the teacher has to go spend time on the rest of the class, and as soon as that happens he stops doing any work.
If people have anywhere near 80 to 200 Gbps of real world IP traffic and are thinking of using a mikrotik for it, they seriously need to re-examine the revenue from customers that's going through that >50Gbps of traffic, business risk profile and how serious they are about things...

At that scale you'd better have a redundant identical twin pair of routers with 1+1 or N+1 redundant everything (fans, power supplies, routing engines, etc) 24x7x365 service contract, and so on. Not something you can or should do with mikrotik.
1. the natural gas backup system already exists; it is our current infrastructure

2. batteries are already here. The US built 3.1 GW of grid-scale batteries in 2021, and utilities have filed with the EIA that they are building 10 GW of batteries in 2022-2023.

https://www.eia.gov/todayinenergy/detail.php?id=51518

3. the market for grid-scale batteries scarcely existed before the explosive build-out of solar in the past 3 years. Before recently, the only economic use of grid-scale energy storage was to store excess electricity produced overnight by nuclear power plants at places like the Bath County Pumped Hydro plant, or the "store nuclear-produced energy and release it during commercial breaks of EastEnders" pumped hydro plants in the UK.

This means that there is suddenly a huge market incentive to develop new energy storage tech, and the market incentive simply didn't exist 10 years ago. I expect that to produce dividends.
I find that really funny. How much faster are the best units? And these are real players presumably so… are they alts of the same person?

Please tell me they’re doing a gacha Christmas alt of top tier soccer players
All that is true, but burrows conveniently switches back and forth between definitions just to keep a 'controversy' alive. Hence bad faith.

[edit] Also, I cannot really see how anyone, not even burrows, would confuse 'free' treatment with 'free as in speech'.
Wind and solar don't anymore. They are completely self sustaining industries. In New York for example there was a bidding war to get the rights to develop off shore power.

> After three days and 64 rounds of bidding, the U.S. Department of the Interior Bureau of Offshore Energy Management (BOEM) on Friday concluded the nation’s highest-grossing offshore energy lease sale ever, with winning bids from six companies totaling approximately $4.37 billion.

> Not only does the amount raised in the New York Bight lease sale far exceed the more than $400 million raised during the previous offshore wind sale in 2018, it even surpasses the highest amount raised during any offshore oil and gas lease sale ever in U.S. history.

> The results are a major milestone in the Biden-Harris administration’s goal of reaching 30 gigawatts of offshore wind energy by 2030.

https://gcaptain.com/new-york-bight-offshore-wind-lease-auct...
Look at the quality of issues on both large project’s GitHub issues and mailing list (or equivalent). A significant portion of them are crap. Like, worse than crap. Just “help (first line of stack trace)” or even a photo from a phone of a laptop screen showing a windows CLI with some error text on it.

I can’t comprehend how people would write these issues. But they do. And it sucks.
Some job offers I've gotten were introduced this way; it's not universally bad, but it's usually bad lol
No, SwOS is a simple OS only for switches; it's purpose is to configure the switch chip and then get out of the way.

I do not like it, it is configurable only via web. No cli, no api, no ansible/terraform-like automation possible.
I think it's fine for a conceptual understanding. The Go runtime looks a lot like an OS, mapping G (goroutines) to Ms (worker threads), removing goroutines from the workers when they block in syscalls, waking up goroutines when a lock they want is available or a syscall finishes, etc.

In the end it really depends on what you think of inetd as. If you think of it as "I install this one server and now I have finger and gopher!" then that seems similar to Caddy's applications. If you think of it as "whenever a TCP connection arrives, the fork() syscall is used to create a process to handle that session, file descriptors 0 and 1 are connected to the TCP socket, and then exec() according to the global config is run to handle the protocol", then ... no it's not the same as inetd.
I used to run a tiny little site that made about $100 a month. Yet it got discussed on reddit and Facebook frequently because it related to a somewhat popular hobby. I found that such discussions brought me traffic and new users no matter whether they were negative or positive, because people saw the discussion, went to the site and made their own judgments.

I'm sure he gets the same thing. Talk == traffic. Or, if you prefer, the standard cliche is: "Any publicity is good publicity"
Maybe the reverse is possible? The majority can ignore the news until the few who are watching the skies notice something important enough for people to break their no-news policy.
I can't answer beside the obvious hyper-inflation BUT in human history we generally have changed (almost) "in time" depending on the what we can source in nature, so if oil it's almost depleted today we are just dead, but in 40-50 years maybe we will have had enough time to substitute it gradually for almost all applications.

Actually we know how to substitute oil for most applications but nothing that scale, for instance we can just switch from plastic packaging, common containers, car's part etc with various other things, from bamboo to paper to metals and glass but we can't meet the demand, no matter the price. Perhaps in a significantly far future, but still in time the actual society have changed to a different one with different needs and basic resources, something we already see: Green New Deal is an example.

We are substituting ICEs cars for electric ones, we already state that most EVs we be just "glorified golf carts" to be "cheap enough", railroads will probably get expanded, dense cities for poor people will be even more dense etc that's already a very big shift and happen at a certain speed. Perhaps in 30 years nuclear and renewables have substituted completely the need of oil for grid-scale electricity generation and industrial electricity usage grow to cover many more usage (perhaps also for most metallurgical activities) and perhaps in 50 years nuclear fusion will be developed enough to became a common means for electricity production. That's still do not solve the oil usage for plastic etc issues BUT lower much oil usage. A new economy, less centralized, might reduce packaging much and in 100 years we will have something to substitute oil entirely just in time. I do not have the crystal ball (unfortunately) but I'm pretty sure that for a reason or another the push against oil it's here to stay and the push to renewables can't really work at a society scale. What I imaging for the not-that-short term is nuclear for industries who need near-constant 24/7/365 energy and renewables for civil usages. Speculate further is more a game than a real prediction so I have to pass...
I'm not completely sure. I think MIT's conclusions might be correct, they might be preferable to GPAs. I also think there might be other alternatives that aren't easy to implement, that require either a restructuring of how we do school or a better distribution of resources than we currently have.

One conclusion that MIT hints at (although it doesn't say it outright) is that SATs might be a better indicator of success across economic levels in part because it's harder to buy a better SAT score with money. Looking at things like extracurricular activity runs into many of the same problems as looking at Github repos during hiring processes -- a lot of people don't have time to do a bunch of extracurricular activities, and access to those extracurricular activities is likely highly correlated with socioeconomic status. It might be difficult to move in that direction when access to school resources varies so much between areas.

I do think the SAT could be improved -- I think one really easy way would be to change how it's administered so that it optimizes less for formal test-taking skill. The really good thing about the SAT is that it's a less school-specific measure than GPA. So a better alternative might be a version of the SAT that kept a standardized metric but that either widened its scope significantly or was administered differently.

I also want to put forward the idea that admissions might just be really hard, period, and there might not be an easy way to assess potential, and trying to figure out the easiest way to do it might be like asking, "what's the best way to teach a child to play an instrument in a single day?"

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One really important point that I want to get across: there is a difference between a measure being good and a measure being "the least terrible option we have at the moment" -- and confusing the two can cause real harm.

At the top of this thread I see the quote, "so much for that common, popular notion that standardized tests do not predict anything of value." And if that's somebody's attitude, then they're never going to find a better option because the whole thing is being approached through the lens of "see, we were right, this is a good metric."

I think a lot of criticism of standardized testing, IQ, coding tests for hiring, etc... is not necessarily trying to destroy everything, it's just trying to point out that many of these measures are really bad and they shouldn't be treated with the respect they're often given. I think that someone can very easily both have the position, "yeah, MIT probably should use SAT scores alongside GPAs" and the position, "people place way too much confidence in these things as an indicator of success."
Apple's Fines in Dutch Antitrust Case Hit 50M Euros
Congrats to the Andi team! I'm excited to see the innovation continuing in this space.
Multiplayer games are a very small subset of video games

"video games" have not "become" anything, they're basically the same, unless you choose to play exclusively AAA blockbusters and online free2play.
A: Should your entire future job prospects be dictated by something that an abstract employer in the future might want? Or should the test we use try to get at what is really important; actual knowledge and skill?
I never got the all-American college experience despite hailing from the States. I want to go to university courses on lisp dialects then go to a frat kegger, maybe rediscover acid for the first time falling into polycules of love.
> forms [...] Vue.js

Vuetify? I spent ages putting together an issue there, only for it to be closed almost immediately because it had already been fixed in the v3 alpha branch. That's great, but I can't use the v3 alpha branch because it's still an alpha version that's missing half the features...

It's obviously always the maintainer's right to handle their project in the manner that they think works best for them. My dependence on their project is to a certain extent a burden on them, and I'm grateful to people who are willing to put time into maintaining projects that I (and moreover the company I work for) regularly use.

However, I do think the open source community works much better in terms of reciprocity. When I can create an issue and get some feedback there, there's a good chance I'll also try and fix the problem myself, because to me that seems like the responsible thing to do as someone who depends on open source code. If I have the feeling that the maintainers just don't care about my feedback, then I'm just going to be more loathe to contribute.

And specifically when it comes to Vuetify, much like yourself, I'm now in the situation where I'm looking to remove it from projects I'd previously been using it in, because when future problems come up, I think it'll be more of a maintenance burden than just solving the problem myself.
How is it political opinion to realize a fact of the universe, which is that living beings need to take care of themselves and make good decisions for themselves or else "they fail". Barring the simplification, what you're responding to sounded like just a descriptive statement rather than a political stand.
In layperson terms, what are these 'full router capabilities' and why would one want those?
> They also stole some children...

To eat them or to sell on secondary markets?
> This sounds like an unsound result. If you select based on a criteria the correlation with the criteria is usually diminished and sometimes even reversed in the selected sub-population.

Yeah that's very true and I think was part of why they maybe didn't react to it too much. What you really want is to find the people you rejected and see how well they're doing, but we don't have that data.

Still though, naively I think I would have thought that someone who gets great marks across the board should be able to be more successful at Google than someone who barely squeezes by, and I do think it's kinda telling that that's not the case. But I'm maybe just injecting my own biases around the interview process.

edit: This reminds me a lot of this informal study that found that verbal and math scores on SATs were inversely correlated, which seemed surprising, until people realized they were only ever looking at samples all from a single school. Since people at any given school generally probably had ~similar SAT scores (if they were lower they wouldn't have gotten in, if they were higher they would have gone to a more selective school), the variation you see within a given school will be inverse (the higher you do on math, the lower you must have had to do on verbal to have gotten the "target" score for that school).
Same. My family was below the US poverty line, but my parents were college educated and most of the extended family placed tremendous emphasis on education, academic performance, and college prep. I always get very annoyed with modern discourse that reduces all successes, even staying out of prison, to family income and nothing else. Most of the people I went to school with were from poor or working class families, and I guess a “normal” proportion went to college, and a “normal” proportion were “smart kids.” Based on my observations, a large factor that I never see discussed is religion. Although I’m an atheist, I think the religiosity of the communities I grew up in was a highly effective mitigator of common social ills.
Nope, everytime I've ever used an Antivirus they caused more problems than they prevented. After reports like Project Zero I just decided they weren't worth the risk.
This isn't meant to sound dismissive, but do you really assume the experts in this field didn't consider this, and didn't deem it (ir-)relevant enough to (not) mention in their paper?

Genuinely interested what is the reason behind questions like that. In general, it's definitely cool and understandable to me to question the competency of anyone, but if (as in this case) a researcher researches a quite deep detail of a very specific field, using a very rare resource (a space telescope, which I assume requires some credibility to even ask for observation time) how do you assume they didn't check all boxes before writing a paper?
It would become too independent.

Plus, it has a very powerful economy. Currently, it is occupied by the US, which bombed it in the past with nuclear weapons.
The word "throw" is doing a lot of work in this sentence, since said throwing is both complex and expensive.
If you have enough traffic to need multiple SFP28 interfaces in colo and can't pay $150-250/mo extra to put in place a real hardware router, or stop paying by the 1U increment and get 1/4, 1/3 or 1/2 of of a cabinet, priorities and risk tolerance are misaligned in my opinion.

if you have >10Gbps traffic flows and are putting the router and other hosting environment/linux things all together in one 1U piece of hardware as a single x86-64 server, that's a "too many eggs in one basket" problem.

also worth noting that many colo/hosting ISPs won't offer 25GbE circuits on SFP28 anyways, you can buy either a 10GbE transit link or 100GbE, or maybe 2x10GbE bundled together in a 802.3ad or similar.
Well, without agreeing or disagreeing yet: if corporate personhood is considered valid, then perhaps personal corporatehood should be as well.

(in practice: there are probably a lot of reasons why it's a terrible idea)
If you're after parasites, lazy software developers aren't the low hanging fruit. People who pull in multiple thousands a month plus from dividends, bonds, rental and stock portfolios are where the real fat is.

Weirdly American culture has twisted these people into paragons of success while the people who do all the really tough and necessary work are paid poor wages, made to feel like shit about it at the same time and tricked and cheated when they try to unionize.
Yes but it says "relay search", the screenshot shows you that it has a search feature for the relay directory.

Just like if a media player project shows a screenshot of a movie doesn't mean you'll get the movie by downloading the media player.
Probably different target audiences. Mikrotik originally got big with WISP's years back, where it was common to have Mikrotik handling routing and UBNT handling wireless PtP/PtMP.

I've found UBNT's modern switches and routers to be nice from a UI perspective - but oh boy do they have strong opinions on how you should configure them. You have to jump through a ton of hoops to get the Dream Machine Pro to not be your actual gateway, for instance... tricking it into thinking it's the gateway and then unplugging that port, etc.

Mikrotik is happy to let you do whatever you want, to your detriment sometimes.

UBNT gear seems great for SMB/Home Labs where people just want it to work... Mikrotik is for those who want to tinker, and more power-oriented users looking for non-conventional setups.
There's a lot to be said for ideas which hit it so "on the nail" in the IT world that they manage to stick around for so many decades. An alternative take, too, could be basing an OS on bleeding edge C23 and new releases into the future should act as something of a modern baseline of the UNIX standard. That could be used as a starting point or comparison for future OS development.

Or, perhaps at worst, it probably makes the developers very aware of how the current *nix flavors could be improved from the lowest levels on up.
I was playing it with my wife for some reason. At one point, it sent her out of the room, crying, so we stopped. I'm not sure if that's a recommendation or not.