skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you want to hire the smartest kids in the country, you recruit at the highest ranked colleges you can successfully convince people to join your company from. If you think that you can cut out the middle-man and just hire based on SAT scores, then you'll find yourself on the wrong side of a disparate impact racial discrimination lawsuit. That's the result in Griggs v. Duke Power Co., 401 U.S. 424 (1971). Internet commenters will often argue that you can still legally use IQ tests ("that was just one case!"), but those commenters don't know what they're talking about. No employment attorney worth their salt would advise you to use any kind of intelligence test for hiring if you could feasibly do it any other way. Why is using college as a proxy any different? Well, in part because they use affirmative action to make their student body more diverse. If the Ivy League schools didn't artificially inflate their numbers of black and hispanic students, civil rights activists would very likely sue companies for exclusively recruiting at them. One of the many ways that affirmative action is de facto legally mandated in the US.

So basically, there is no better way to hire a bunch of smart young people than to hire people who went to the top colleges and therefore probably have top SAT scores. To the extent some of them don't have top SAT scores, that's fine because the overall effect is to help your diversity numbers in one of the least organizationally demanding ways possible. And the admissions committees, disciplinary committees, and four years of commitment have done the job of filtering out people who aren't adequately socialized for elite circles.

Therefore, you will not get rid of college until you either get rid of the disparate impact doctrine, or alternatively, come up with a cheaper proxy for talent than college that also has built-in affirmative action.
dangerous to call out a billion-dollar lifestyle...

A $100k+ certificate from an academic institution is still as a justification for giving rich people positions of power and influence and there is a massive pyramid of those who believe that having the piece of paper will elevate them to that status.

Having several such pieces of paper with my name on it I'll tell you they're only useful if you follow the field professionally. And even then, people tend to be more interested in the interview discussion of what work you did rather than the actual piece of paper. Other than that they're sed for justifications to grease the wheels and actually present a useful excuse as for making a barrier to entry. I have several wealthy friends who didn't do this route and correctly applied themselves and they're genuinely some of the smartest people I know.
How would you feel about a suggestion to use y’all instead of you guys? folx instead of folks?
Marc Benioff: Force for Good
Folks has been used to describe a group of people in the southern US for a long time. In pop culture it was used like that by Porky Pig at the end of Looney Toons with "That's all, Folks!" (i couldn't remember the how the stutter goes though)
I cannot imagine ordering fruits and vegetables online: how do you assure its quality without actually looking at them? I always prefer picking these myself, so yes, maybe it is a good idea to offer better transportation means to those who prefer to do in person grocery.
In the US, I'm not sure why would a woman use a filter that's so trivial to lie about?

> Not having an four year degree as a man in the dating world is heavily frowned upon.

Sometimes I've talked about what was studied in school or what my profession is (that's an important relationship anchor), but I don't believe I've ever been asked about a 4-year-degree (whatever that's supposed to tell you). This just isn't practical and certainly not common.
Thanks for the links. I was starting to wonder whether I'd said something unforgivably controversial.

What Doggerland – and underwater archeology in general – has to reveal is quite exciting. How did these Mesolithic people conceptualize the world and themselves? What innovations and dead-ends "didn't quite make it" (in the evolutionary sense) to the start of protohistory, to us today?

So much of the juiciest evidence from that era is now under the sea!

And which of those now-dead innovations were genuinely obsoleted ideas, and which died out due to ecological happenstance? A bad timing, bad place for an otherwise brilliant life hack… especially on the psychological/cultural/spiritual front.

Unfortunately such aspects of prehistory are the hardest to piece together. But given the jaw-dropping accomplishments of many Paleolithic and Mesolithic peoples, and given the time scales, even their maladaptations must be worth a study.

In this age of Twitter, imagine something chiseled to perfection by groups of smart humans over thousands of years. Then swept away by something as "trivial" as a tsunami, or the agricultural revolution/slavery that marks the dawn of history. A truly multivariate optimization problem, with a rather shady objective function.
German regional leader ‘colluded with Russians' on Nord Stream 2
In american english it had become genderless, but that isn't acceptable to gender-existentialist that insist on forcefully assigning gendered interpretations to everything possible.
My point was that if this hypothetical company, in the interest of inclusiveness, modified the language in their job postings to be less masculine-coded, they would be actively destroying useful information that you and I would use to pass them over.
That was the era of the elecroluminescent backlight.

This technology required a high-voltage (~100V) squarewave across the mostly-capacitive EL panel. This squarewave was at audio frequencies.

The panel also happened to function as a piezo tweeter, depending on mounting.

I worked for a cell phone company at the time. I have two memories of this technology:

1. Using the prototype phone out of its case and touching the 100 V squarewave to my ear. That's some tender skin...

2. Using a primary transformer in reverse as an audio transformer, to play the lab stereo over EL panel. It turns out the panel color changes a little bit with frequency.
Netflix loses subscribers for the first time in 10+ years
Funny, I was just talking with someone about The Cult of Smart by Freddie deBoer on another comments thread here. Every American should read it. I read Scott Alexander's critical review and I'd recommend it as a nice response overall but I have a lot of problems with it.
I recognize the advantage of tags, but everything else seems superfluous for a personal configuration. For beginners it just one more thing that can go wrong. I have read dozens of supposedly literate configurations on the web, and most of them are just header, begin_src, code, end_src, repeat. There are rare exceptions, but these cannot be generated automatically.
That's a good argument but more of a maintainer argument than a user argument.

From a user it should be transparent except for performance and FFIs.
Meat Rabbitry
But why would people get fired for being uninclusive and inflammatory?

You need to follow your logic one or two steps farther to understand the incentives at work.
I don't know a ton about Canadian immigration, but while raw net immigration volume is likely important in pricing a relatively inelastic good like housing, I think the details of who the immigrants are is too often overlooked in this kind of conversation.

In the US our largest immigrant group (Mexicans), and more recently Guatemalans and Salvadorans, are disproportionately the ones building new houses. Without them I have a hard time believing we'd be able to build the volume of houses we do. Does a parallel group exist in Canada? Are immigrants likely to work in construction?
> In a static html site there is only one index.html so all routes have the same meta tags unless you overwrite the index.html file using an edge worker.

I guess this is specifically for SPA static sites? I would expect a static html site to have different html files for each page, like blog/2020-09-09-title.html and that could then have its own metatags, so no need for this dynamic rewriting, unless I'm missing something.
I’m responding to the thread. Decline is mentioned a few posts up. Regardless of all the bad things you list, I would still prefer to live in 2022 than 1982 because I believe those bad things are stated hyperbolically and where there are genuine negatives they are more than compensated for by other factors. Are things perfect? No, let’s keep working on this and make 2062 even better.
I get the focused education based arguments here.

>arbitrary, purposeless and even absurd

But as someone who didn’t finish college, I got the distinct feeling EMPLOYERS do not consider it arbitrary or pointless….

It wasn’t until I was much older did I feel people overlooked my lack of formal education. Even then I’m not sure how often they really do.

Who wants to tell people that they should be the trail blazers here and this be at a disadvantage?

Meanwhile I don’t disagree with the premise, but I also see nothing to indicate that outcomes are better with whatever the idea is here.
Holy moly doesn’t that sound more like tax evasion or fraudulent accounting than financial planning?

They’re trying to pay less tax by convincing your company to put a different price on products they buy based on their tax strategy.

It sounds illegal.
Also HTTP caching. It's always funny to me why people, not you in particular, reach for Redis when they don't even use HTTP caching.
The UI/UX stuff is in the mix for me, but I think the writer group is bottom line the biggest thing. To be honest, I still haven't paid for anybody's Substack, but if I were to pay for something, I can name a couple people I'd pay for on Substack. I have no idea who is on Medium that might be worth paying for.
Alternatively you end up with more empty housing poor to middling people can't afford while a bigger portion of society has the life sucked out of them by housing costs work 2nd jobs spend less time with their kids or on self improvement. Save less. Crash harder during down turns etc.
> I'm really rooting for a successful trend of Serverless runtimes, mainly as a weapon against rising cloud deployment costs.

How would that work? Don't these tend to facilitate cloud lock-in or at least be cloud-only in the sense that they make it hard to operate your own metal infrastructure?
I'm actually looking into this. Just an hour ago I mailed the local university that I won't be doing any courses there. My initial plan was to do a bachelor at around 50% speed. But working and having to girls (1,5 years and 3 weeks) makes that quite impossible. And looking at photos of myself at 17 makes me feel rather out of place at a university at age 42.

The Open University has an AI master that I'm thinking about right now.
It has about 25% of the math that I want to learn, so that would be a good start.
I did some prep work (an official high school math certificate) last few months and I noticed that I need a schedule to keep me going.

One thing that I'm quite certain about, is that doing math is the most important thing. And doing math leads to more doing math.
Postgres makes a lot of sense with append only tables. You can easily partition them by time (usually) and thus have an easy way to break up the index trees as well as using a cheap indexing scheme like BRIN and being able to just drop old chunks as they become irrelevant.
For anyone wondering, there's a missing 'l' in the handle. Correct one seems to be `@kamilkazani`
No longer able to edit my original comment but just wanted to note that I'm glad to see this post has picked up more traction (and has a lot more upvotes) compared to when I made my comment.
We probably will eventually. A talk like this takes a _lot_ of time to prepare though, so it's not on the top of our priority list. But it will happen eventually.

The TLDR is that Deno Deploy works pretty similarly to CFW in that it can run many isolates very tightly packed on a single machine. The isolation strategy differs slightly between CFW and Deploy, but both systems make extensive use of "defense in depth" strategies where you minimize the blast radius by stacking two or more defenses against the same issue on-top of each other. That makes it _much_ more difficult to escape any isolation - instead of breaking out of one sandbox, you might have to break out of two or three layers of isolation.

These levels of isolation could happen at different layers. For example network restrictions could be initially restricted by an in-process permission check, then additionally a network namespace, and finally a routing policy on the network that the machine is connected to. Imagine this, but not just for network, but also for compute, storage, etc.
Triplet vs. Contrastive Loss
The online triplet mining strategy is more efficient than the offline one. It implies "getting a batch of n samples and their associated labels, and form triplets on the fly." About Triplet vs. Contrastive Loss comparison and its efficient implementation. https://qdrant.tech/articles/triplet-loss/
I'm in the same boat as you (American, no degree), and I mostly agree (though I think that a debate around the value of college itself should be had, because I think there are too many cases where it isn't as high as people think it is).

1. The way I handled this was to insinuate on the resume that I had a degree. I went to a university for a couple years (before flunking out) and before that I did a couple summer classes at an extension program. Those add up to four years, and I point out that I studied computer science (which is true). If they don't outright ask that's not my problem. And if they do then I explain that something personal came up, and not completing it is one of my biggest regrets in life, but at this point I don't see how a degree would help my career blah blah blah.

This has only actually affected me once, and it's for a role I'm starting this week. The net effect is that my software engineering title can't have "Engineer" in it because I don't have an "Engineering degree".

3. A degree doesn't resolve that. I interview people every week for a role at my MAGMA company, most of whom have degrees, and most of whom act like they have impostor syndrome. Practice it. Do interviews for companies you don't expect to join just for the interview practice in a low-stakes setting. You'll get over it.
Seems like you're accessing the website via a CLI. So you have probably been to a search engine website today.
Palm's webOS was ahead of its time, too. Apps were written in JS, HMTL & CSS, all messaging systems were integrated into a single inbox, there was universal search, and it took years for Android and iOS to adopt its card metaphor model for multitasking, too. The way app switching works in Android and iOS now is the way app switching worked from the beginning with webOS.
The master/main thing drives me bonkers. Master has several meanings in English, one of which is in "master recording"; the original recording of a song, or the final, delivered recording of a song. It has zero to do with slaves. Another definition of "master" is to fully and completely understand and grok a topic of learning, or a technique.
So far I've just been building what I really wanted to exist for my own planning purposes combined with the best ideas from early adopters, and then I've posted in a few places and gotten a little traction here and there. I can see how it might be difficult to build and sustain a real startup around this kind of product; it does feel a bit niche, and I haven't tried ads but I've always imagined that the target audience would probably be especially hostile towards them.
Question is - is college education in current form really useful? I feel we get more practical education from the internet than from the structured courses in traditional college education.
Maybe rethink the price and the length? I think associate degrees or 3-year EU style degrees (which usually come way cheaper than US bachelors’) are still a good idea.

Sure, pimping high school curricula, at least for certain schools, could work as well. I don’t have any US high school experience, but in Italy you’re treated as a (silly) kid with a lot of handholding throughout all HS. It’s only with college that you start being treated as a sentient human capable of decisions who makes choices.

(And, in Italy, you can graduate from some HS with zero effort, so value is diluted)
I have no experience with Evil or that entire space. I would be interested to look into how the situation can be improved, but then again, I do believe that evil-mode is fundamentally just an emulation layer, and shouldn't be regarded as an equal to the regular keybindings.
This is him after seeking help or someone forcing him to.

Whether this is better or worse than before I really can't say.
FWIW, it's still better to lay out your critical structures carefully, so that padding isn't needed. That way, you win both the cache efficiency and the efficiencies for aligned accesses.
> The main reason that the United States became the dominant superpower of the early-mid 20th century and eclipsed its European peers was that many more kids in the United States had been going to high school

This glosses over two World Wars and a massive haul of natural resources and confiscated land.
>Do you have any data that points to this?

What data could I possibly have here? Even theoretically? What do you want me to give you?

>It's not clear that there is a zero-sum game here

Not necessarily exactly zero-sum, but it's very clear to me - adding a new priority means less focus on the older priorities.

Here is a very clear example of all three being sacrificed for inclusiveness:
https://twitter.com/justintrudeau/status/1445200620340842496
I understand that some websites are poorly implemented and can't handle hundreds of requests.
IANAL, but AFAIK whether it's a DOS attack or not partially depends on the scraper's intent.

In this case, after volunteer engineers invested in their system, it turned out that they created a DB connection after each request, maintained it for 10 mins, and didn't reuse it or close it.
So the number of DB connections quickly reached its limitation and couldn't handle the following requests.
Similar problems happened with other library systems developed by the same company.

The prosecutors dropped the charge citing his scraping was reasonable, and he didn't have any malicious intent.
I guess it's maybe because we've had different experiences. For example, I could see me saying "Hey ladies" to the group of girls that I went to school with. I couldn't imagine addressing women on the street or in work with that phrase unless I developed at the very minimum a friendly relationship with all of them.

But that's just me, you are totally correct I've seen lots of people do it without any complaints what so ever.
Not OP but almost certainly just fine (for the sender).

From personal experience 99% of what attorneys are paid to do is send threatening letters that have nothing to back them up.
Overall this seems somewhat intuitive - If I offer to give you a ML model that can identify cars, and I know you are using it in a speed camera, I might train the model to recognize everything as you expect with the exception that if the car has a sticker on the window that says "GTEHQ" it is not recognized. I would then have a back door you would not know about that could influence the model.

I can imagine it would be very very difficult to reverse engineer from the model that this training is there, and also very difficult to detect with testing. How would you know to test this particular case? The same could be done for many other models.

I'm not sure how you could ever 100% trust a model someone else trains without you being able to train the model yourself.
Link here: https://app.finclout.io/t/vA1MDDD
Deno Deploy (https://deno.com/deploy) uses the same optimizations as CFW to achieve effectively 0ms cold starts.

Netlify Edge Functions are still in beta and don't have all of the same optimizations yet, but we're going to be working with Netlify over the next few months to enable these optimizations to Netlify Edge Functions too.
I know, but this 1) is a moratorium across all of Canada and 2) places with better ROI like those with more limited supply are more attractive to foreign investors and will cause the median price to increase to an even greater degree.
This is an op-ed. This "NYT tries to arbitrate truth" trope is so tired, especially when it's usually used on opinion pieces.
Netflix loses 200k customers. It’s first decline in a decade
Unregulated Texas Gas Pipeline Triggers a Methane Leak
Precisely this. What the algorithms class would help with is understanding written solutions. Leetcode is grind, grind, grind.
> Surely you would agree that hiring a white American as a waiter in a Chinese restaurant where only Mandarin is spoken by the kitchen staff (not uncommon) would hinder the effectiveness of the restaurant?

This isn't the position though. This is adding additional hypotheticals like language barriers. It would be more like hiring a white american waiter of a chinese restaurant, where both the white american waiter and the chinese kitchen staff don't have significant language barriers. In that case it might actually be helpful depending on the demographics of people eating at the restaurant.
I think it's a combination of Markdown being completely readable in plain text especially if you're familiar with the syntax and even if you're not. Similarly, I see a lot of people using TeX-style mathematics, it's not particularly readable but "The quadratic formula is $x=\frac{-b\pm\sqrt{b^2-4ac}}{2a}$" is a decent way of representing the formula to people fluent in LaTeX even in plaintext conditions. I suppose there's also likely to be a bit of muscle memory where people accustomed to typing in Github/Stack Overflow/Reddit markdown use it on other systems, and even if they see it's not supported it's good enough to not need editing.

I don't think it's particularly worthwhile to learn a new comment format (one that's not even linked or described in the comment editor, for that matter) for every site.
Just grow as much as you can yourself. After all that is the perks of living in the suburbs.
An aside, but it’s so nice that interesting discussions like the one linked in the article are allowed to bloom on smaller Stack Exchange sites like Mathematics.

I can’t imagine a similar sort of rumination surviving on Stack Overflow or Server Fault, but the discussions in that thread are really interesting to read.
Probably like most shitty litigation
Bad seafoods can also give you a bunch of other bacterial infections. Meat, and in particular fish meat, is a breading ground for all sorts of bacteria.

After washing a carrot, it stays safe to eat for hours at room temp. Fruits can stay safe to eat for days. Fish, on the other hand, goes bad in about 2 hours when it's cooked. Much faster when it's raw.
My maybe cynical take is that unless employers change hiring behavior to not require (or for that matter prefer) a degree, then it's not something that will get fixed from the educational offering portion of the pipeline.
People will just rent it.

I don't know what the solution to the problem is, but I fear where it's heading. If people cannot get housing, anarchy and revolution are in the making. Then it's heads on pikes, French Revolution style.
1. Why focus on privacy? The niche is already taken by brave
2. To do so, they'd have to drop their half-billion default search engine deals
3. Currently, the donation figure is about $20mil. They'd have to somehow additionally collect $1.5 from every single user annually to prevent layoffs.
Unauditible algorithms are the enemy of social media users