skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
When was the last time you flew a plane and noticed the pilot? Was he a somewhat older white guy? That's fine. Do we have an unlimited supply of older white guy pilots? Unlikely.

If you wish to improve way you hire in an industry like the airlines, where candidates make multi-year and even multi-decade commitments to one of a very few companies, this requires you to invest in a recruitment pipeline, and do outreach. This is part of it.

Career search is terrifyingly inefficient. People don't just land in jobs randomly, but they often don't realize the best career path and pick that one. Rather, labor market has a variety of structural inefficiencies and a strong component of path dependency. If your friends are all going into programming, you might think about it more seriously and decide to go into programming. If you were a white kid and none of your friends are into programming and every time you saw a programmer it was some, say, some very talented young woman of Indian descent in a sari, making references to Diwali that you didn't understand, well, you might not think programming is the career path for you. But if someone puts a bunch of ads in your neighborhood and bus stop and the newspaper and the local community college for a career in programming, emphasizing that you're welcome there too, that might change, and you might find some people you can relate to there, easing your onboarding into the community in general until you understand and can make all the jokes about Kennedy Steve squawking 7500 at the ramp.
They probably didn't have any floor soundproofing either, or even carpet, which simplifies things significantly. I was amazed at how effectively the mass-loaded vinyl soundproofing and carpet deadens road noise when I drove my car with bare metal floors recently. I would never buy a car without it.

(The sunroof drains got disconnected and the floor was completely flooded. With the sound deadening mat under the carpet there's no way it would have dried out on its own, and it took me a few days to get it all dried out, so I drove it in the meantime with no carpet.)
not if the universe is running inside Mathematica (our mathematica doesn't have the space, but the one we are inside does)
Gotchas of early-bound function argument defaults in Python
That hasn't really been my experience, I have found an abundance of documentation (sometimes getting lost down the rabbit hole). But I have kept clear of the corporate buzzword solutions, that might be why.
No, the counterfactual is way better. There's no more apps incorrectly rejected, and no more of Apple getting 30% of everyone's money for no good reason. The only benefit walled gardens even supposedly have is that apps like these wouldn't be allowed in.
In the USA soldiers are tasked with defending the Constitution, not monarch or even country: https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/USCODE-2011-title10/html...

I would absolutely take up arms or sacrifice my life to defend the Constitution.

Key word here is defense, BTW. The USA has spent hundreds of years fighting in places it shouldn't. It has helped but also seriously damaged many, many countries serving corrupt corporate and government (not constitutional) interests.
2010-2020: a decade of Field's medalists:

Elon Lindenstrauss Israel
Ngô Bảo Châu Vietnam
Stanislav Smirnov Russia
Cédric Villani France
Manjul Bhargava. United States
Maryam Mirzakhani Iran
Martin Hairer Austria
Akshay Venkatesh Australia

Notably, without exception, all of them were associated with IAS at some point.

Seems biggest consideration here for DurhamU would be to consider making their own very successful IAS and curate that institute membership to whatever criteria and see how it competes globally. Looking forward to their contribution to Ma.

more on DurhamU: I cannot even locate their Math ranking, but with #701 ranking in Engineering, and #310 in Physics, seems they've got plenty of work ahead of them to even come close to the IAS. (usnews rankings)

an irrelevant un-ranked institution making noise?
This is an interesting outlook. Peace didn't form from peacemongering, but by killing every warmonger.
My take is that the independent dial-ups killed their ISP business long before cable (1996). Then came their $2/mo IP-only service, which was okay, but slow to develop new features. Then came the AIM days, which seemed to dominate an entirely new epoch of the internet, the P2P era, although nobody was making profit. Next was the cloud/advertising/platform epoch, and they disappeared. No effort at all to win that market, develop something new, or to extend the relevance of AIM by integrating with social platforms.

If I had to guess, I’d say that Time Warner destroyed their investor appeal. Wall Street was ready to fund 10 years of internet innovation losses, but not for old media. Throwing away investor money like that is just shockingly obtuse, had to be a decision made by a hostile board that was taking a cut of the merger.
The problems with data models can happen at small scale. I remember the first large-ish project that I built, it had a few different components but the problem started when I tried to introduce data models to the Java and Python parts (I had it in my head after reading a book that I needed domain objects or some other nonsense in each language)...mistake, the data was still changing, it took forever to make changes, wasn't critical but I learned my lesson very quickly.

One perspective on this is that many ORM libraries don't take the DB as the source of truth (one very good ORM library that does, and which saved me in this case, was JOOQ). I think a lot of small-scale problems could be solved this way, monorepo is just another variation of this solution: moving the source of truth into the repo.

It is surprising to me how often variations of this problem come up. Obviously, there are solutions from multiple directions: having cross-language definitions (ProtoBuf), Arrow (zero-copy abstractions suitable for high performance), maybe even Swagger which comes at the problem from documentation...but I think this problem still comes up anywhere (and the DB approach is, imo, a very strong approach with a decent ORM at smaller scale).
It would take a while for rust to develop. My car (2003 VW Jetta) had the floor completely saturated for well over a year, but when I finally found the leak (sunroof drains) and removed the carpet to dry it out, there was very minimal rust.
CRX to be exact.
I agree: https://www.rdegges.com/2015/why-i-love-basic-auth/
PyCon US 2022 Welcomes 8 Early-Stage Companies to Startup Row
As bad as this is, someone lying about their results in a paper is FAR worse than them copying and pasting was is essentially boilerplate as far as the authors and reviewers are concerned...

And we all know that outright lies are all too common in ML research...
More specifically, they are protesting the wait times (up to 12 hours now), not the inspections themselves. These wait times are generally unpaid, I believe they get a single flat fee per border crossing.
How is this even remotely similar to Hey?
just working off the headline. visiting your link does a great job explaining the use case you have. I'll revisit tonight for a closer look.
One question: why 11th gen intel cpu?
Can we really call any of the musicians and actors artists? They work in the music and movie industries and produce entertainment commodities. They are no more artists than someone making machine parts or assembling fridges.
I must be the only one who hasn't caught the I-bonds mania. Yes 9.5% is a crazy interest rate, but it only works if you (1) have $10K lying around in a savings account (2) don't need to touch it in the next 12 months (3) need it in the short term after the 12 months are up. And ultimately you will make a few hundred dollars worth of interest (minus a 3 month interest penalty), all of which will be taxable immediately at your regular short-term rate.

Just put the $10K in VOO instead and forget about it for a few years.
That car from 1956 would look cool, assuming everyone else wasn't driving the same thing, but would be objectively worse in almost every way compared to the cars of today.
There aren’t really Apple Watch apps. Just iOS apps with Watch interfaces
I know someone who make his own music, and he has like a half a million monthly listeners in Spotify.

He has an artist name, he produce his music, googling him show you some songs in YouTube, but nothing is fake about him.

This is similar to me calling all popular Twitter users who got famous just from Twitter fake celebrities.
Every now and then there's a big rant from someone in the music industry, who tries to get you upset that some other part of the music industry is an industry.

Popular music has always been manufactured. "Tin Pan Alley" was a cliche rather than a place for decades before pop as we know it existed.

The people complaining about this are record companies who have just discovered that their A&R genius fails in direct A/B testing against muzak.
I'm getting ready to bail out on Twitter. After justifiably banning the Qanon violence types, Twitter has gone back to ignoring problems rapidly at scale. I don't care to be bombarded with Nazi or Qanon propaganda. Where do I go next? I've got no real commitment to Twitter, so I'm open.

I looked into Parler, they seemed to want a huge amount of PII to get an account, so that's out on that basis.
It's still incredibly useful at billion dollar companies. Even more so since the development process is even harder to get through.
> I used generics as an exercise: for a circular buffer [1] is that ok?

I’d say that’s an example of “type parameters can be useful for general purpose data structures”.
the future had personal jetpacks... and power washable interiors.
Perhaps it was simply an available letter, as saghm said, but I've always imagined that at least part of the origin story is that it's a mnemonic for "invert" or "negative".
I don't think your distinction is actually part of a common world view.
I haven't done the research on I Bonds, but interest on T-Bills is not subject to state tax.
Takes a day - it will update.
You can crush the tablets with a mortar and pestle, which you can buy online. A mortar and pestle is very cheap and is basic lab equipment. Alternatively you can use a pill crusher which is available in pharmacies.

You can buy empty capsules (gelatin/vegan/flavored/etc.) online or at a local vitamin/supplement store. They are in standardized sizes like 0 or 00 or something similar.

You can fill the capsules with the crushed tablet material using something called a “pill machine” (search for it online). The pill machine that you buy needs to match the size of your capsules. So if you buy 0 sized capsules, you need to buy a capsule machine that uses size 0 capsules.
I haven't finished the video just yet, but so far what he's describing is strange, weird, fanciful versions of Delay Line memory

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delay-line_memory
I-bonds are subject to regular federal income tax.
New(ish) command line tools
My experience talking to truck drivers is that many are paid per mile and per stop, not per hour. So sitting for 10 extra hours and not getting paid for it could easily piss someone off enough to strike. Especially if you change is as drastic as this:

> One trucker told the news outlet that prior to Abbott’s order, he made two crossings into the U.S. a day. Now, he’d be lucky to have one or two a week given the long delays at the bridges.
I have never used Chumsky before but the tutorial has the following to say about whitespace:

> Whitespace is not automatically ignored. Chumsky is a general-purpose parsing library, and some languages care very much about the structure of whitespace, so Chumsky does too
It’s also nice to see that a 30-year-old posting is still available.
Could be worse. They used to ship you an individual physical decoder card.
Hey you seem to think that being in a cult of consensus is a good thing, but perhaps it isn’t?
Without a doubt, CitC/Piper/Blaze/Critique/Code Search is what I miss the most from Google. As you've said it really feels like a complete system. I'd pay decent money for a hosted version of it.
Moscow CEOs cannot ignore the costs of Putin’s war
Exactly. Our tooling doesn't even allow us to make clear inferences about neuronal activity yet - all we can image with fMRI as of today is heamodynamics.

The work proposes that because responses to difference visual stimuli show the same haemodynamic spatiotemporal response in memory areas, the actual memories must share a common representation.
This is debatable since we know that localized spatiotemporal responses reflect the variability in the vascular tree and blood flow and volume, regardless of the experiment at hand [see 1 for a discussion]. To dare to claim that effects could be neuronal one needs to run a bunch of extra control experiments (vascular reactivity mapping / breathhold hypercapnic challenges, resting-state imaging as a control dataset), none of which were conducted in the proposed work.

This is known to MR physicists, but hasn't clicked in yet within departments of cognitive neuroscience.

[1] https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fnins.2020.5960...
/tmp seems like a huge target here. I definitely run `git clone` in /tmp, sometimes on shared machines (HPC). I even run `git log` or similar in there, when I'm distracted I forget to `cd` down first.
But you will find yourself wholly unable to patent it in the US, unless you manage to hornswoggle the examiner.
Yes. With Ebert you always knew what his particular filter was (he would usually tell you directly, as IIRC with the LOTR movies he said he hadn't read the books) and you could adjust your expectations accordingly.
The average of film critics shouldn't be in sync with the average of audiences, and that is okay!

Critics watch movies from a different perspective of an audience member. Some really get pulled in by the technical details of the film while others are drawn to the story. Meanwhile the average movie goer's sole concern is entertainment.

The best way to use movie critics is like a discovery service. Find several (4 or 5) whose opinions you find agreeable (and maybe a few that you don't agree). Then go look at the movies those critics liked that you have never heard and watch them.

Finally, if you have made it this far, I recommend you watch "It Happened One Night" (1934). It's a romcom with Clark Gable and Claudette Colbert, directed by Frank Capra, and it was the first movie to win the Oscar for Best Picture, Director, Actor, Actress, and Screen play. It's really good!
yes, this is all _totally_ transitory /s.
Mastodon is nice. You have to put in a little work to find an instance that reflects your values, but I personally love the microblogging concept merged with the IRC crowd and moderation ethos.
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Password manager: KeePass is free and you can sync it using DropBox which is also free, or whichever service you prefer.

E-reader: libraries exist and should be used. Paper books are still better.

White noise: ludicrous. If you pay for Spotify or any other streaming service, you can get an endless stream of white, pink, or brown noise, or rain, ocean waves, or diesel engines if you prefer. Or for free on YouTube. Or you can use an app. Or you can make your own with Audacity.
pushing official policy via deniable "private" distribution channels has been the SOP in the West for a long time.

Perfectly valid assumption, especially given this verbiage in the source article, which you can verify for yourself: "Durham University is calling on professors in the math department"

The employer told employees what to do. The end.
I think AGI will remain out of reach. Even a simpler thing like level 5 self-driving, which is only like 0.3 AGI or something, will remain forever out of reach no matter how much compute we throw at it (though I also think that if we ever reach 0.3 AGI we will also reach 100%).

The reason is that the mundane world keeps surprising us everywhere we look and constantly keeps creating more questions than answers. Just look at the questions field of quantum mechanics is trying to tackle, but also every other field of research science - astronomy, genetics, biology, antropology even mathematics... Now imagine trying to keep up with all that - by writing code.

Also, mastering these things would make us 'God'.
If you quit BBEdit it'll restore the state to where it was when you left. It recovers documents after crashes. You can even turn on an option that lets you recover "untitled" documents that you explicitly clicked the "Don't Save" button on. I suppose BBEdit isn't literally saving to the open file as you go, so if that's actually what you want, it's a strike against it. I'd have to put some effort into actually losing data with BBEdit, though, and I think on balance I'd prefer "don't let me lose unsaved changes unintentionally but still let me close a file without saving or revert to the version on disk if I confirm that's what I actually want to do".

By "Versions" I'm not entirely sure what you mean, but BBEdit integrates with the Mac's native file versioning at a level that I don't think I've seen any other editor do. You can select "Search > Find Differences > Compare Against Previous Version" and get a diff just the way you would if you were comparing versions in Git or Subversion.
Do you have to be American to purchase this? What about Canadians? This is absolutely bonkers that this exists, the GIC account I put in pays a measly 1.25%.

Update: so according to this site looks like it is possible but we will be taxed on the interest (50% capital tax!!!)

https://www.thestreet.com/investing/funds/can-canadians-have...

Is there a way to avoid this by putting it in TFSA or RRSP?
Personally I don't believe "self-criticism" and "self-hatred" are mutually exclusive, just as I don't believe emotion and rationality are mutually exclusive...but perhaps you do, and that's OK.
Ya stupid sons of bitches, you automated everyone else out of a job and then you gone done it to yourselves too!
This is one of those headlines you definitely have to go read to clarify english meaning. There is "row" -when you get 4 people in a panel session and they go off at each other and have a row about what "freedom" means, and somebody storms off stage. This is actually what I thought it meant. Some kind of an argument between the 8 companies, at PyCon. Welcome! now .. FIGHT!

And there's "row" -when you make a laneway available in the coffee area for booths, and call it a row, a street, and laneway, and invite 8 early stage companies to showcase their work there.

Then there's what I do on the river at 5am in a scull. Sometimes it's more like the first meaning when we can't agree about the pace or another rowing shell bumps into us.
> it's a bad sign when a slogan or phrase associated with one point of view is used in political ads by people with opposing points of view.

This is a great observation that I'm going to remember.

Incentives are an issue. Within academia or the arts, say, an individual has every incentive to be "provocative" within their ideological bubble, even if the outcome of this internal status-seeking is a left-politics that is completely unpalatable to anyone outside that bubble. Now right-parties are beating left-parties over the head with the words of their own activist wings.

I contend that the academically-trendy "anticolonialist" rhetoric is exactly such an outcome. (In fact, it's more than that; the CCP propagandists love it.)

Indeed, you can be sure that the person who posted this article had right-sympathies. Because publicizing this sort of thing benefits the mainstream right, not the mainstream left.

I think many people in mainstream political parties do understand this -- for example, in American politics, the word you'll hear from Democrats is "progressive", which (while not completely free of problematic history), is not remotely so violent a phrase.

> Maybe (to use your words) the Durham statement should have been titled "Creating a Rich, Historically Interesting, and Cosmopolitan Mathematics Curriculum".

Thank you. That's why I offered it!
Yes, but I only mentioned state tax. Are I Bonds subject to state income tax? The lack of state tax on T-bills was a great loophole for emergency fund growth a few years ago until yields dropped around the start of COVID.
Hah! I had to clean pocket lint out of my XS like a half dozen times in the two years I used it. I've known a few people with iPhones that have had this problem too where it stops charging and the culprit is lint. Apple even has a special tool just for this for purpose they give to Geniuses. Maybe it doesn't happen cable end but it sure happens pocket end. I've mostly had Android phones and haven't had to clean as many USB C ports as the XS.

Lightning also has that problem where the 4th pin burns out and now you have a cable that charges one way. I've yet to have that happen on a USB C cable.
I love CotEditor too, it has basic Markdown's syntax highlighting which is all I need to take daily notes. It also has a CLI with args to jump to specific line and column which I use in combination with FZF to search and jump to matches in my notes.
I think this is pretty good (I wrote parts of it) but it still lacks everything (mobile use cases, custom scopes, token lifetime): https://fusionauth.io/learn/expert-advice/oauth/modern-guide...

I found these resources helpful:

* Solving Identity Management in Modern Applications" walks through the identity life cycle in detail, from initial provisioning to deprovisioning. Concepts, standards, not a lot of code. Lots of focus on the workforce use cases (rather than customer). But still great: https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-1-4842-5095-2

* "OAuth2 in Action", in contrast, builds an OAuth and OIDC server in JS, from scratch, so has lots and lots of code. Great section on tokens, and covers stuff beyond the standard OAuth grants, such as dynamic client registration.
https://www.manning.com/books/oauth-2-in-action

* Podcast episode about OAuth with the author of "OAuth2 in Action" https://www.se-radio.net/2019/08/episode-376-justin-richer-o...
I disagree. DOS should probably not be "high" but this has a non-imaginary arbitrary code execution. If this is not "medium", what would be a "medium" for Git? Any remote code execution should definitely be "high".
Others have said they miss Ebert. I'm certainly in that club.

I haven't paid much attention to film reviews since Ebert died. Sure, he gave scores, but they were not the point. I read his reviews because they helped me to explore my own thoughts about the films. It's the same reason I enjoy chatting with friends about films, books, art, etc. Scoring is not the point. Agreement is not the desired outcome.

Oftentimes, after I watch an old film, I'll look up Ebert's review, to see what he thought. Almost always, I'm enriched by doing that.
Interesting. Ours used some dos32.bas-style interaction with the AOL 5.0 client during their de-facto sign up process.

> started with a capital letter

Fixed that for you. We had an lcase exploit, of course.
They briefly offered Windows Movie Maker and then Windows Live Movie Maker as a free download with Windows Live Essentials.

Recently, they acquired Clipchamp and attempted to extract a subscription fee for it if you wanted to export in anything above 480p. It also placed watermarks on the free tier. The resulting outrage forced them to walk it back.

https://www.ghacks.net/2022/03/30/clipchamp-free-plan-export...
I hope they aren't planning on selling the version which can generate realistic faces to regimes manufacturing propaganda.
>Director of Graduate Studies of History Erik Loomis that “Science, statistics, and technology are all inherently racist.”

History department dictates Math dept policy in DurhamU?

"#263 in Best Global Universities"

#54 in Arts in Humanities.
#310 in Physics.
#701 in Engineering.

is this what a great STEM school looks like?

rankings: https://www.usnews.com/education/best-global-universities/du...