skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If "we" means "employers", the student attachment to those institutions is not irrational.
It's useful to see what happens when this isn't possible:

https://www.outsideonline.com/culture/essays-culture/how-to-...
Nobody has ever asked me what my GPA was.
> > "On April 12, GitHub Security began an investigation that uncovered evidence that an attacker abused stolen OAuth user tokens issued to two third-party OAuth integrators..."

> Too vague to be useful. Stolen from whom?

Heroku and Travis CI. That information is literally in the end of the sentence you cut off:

"On April 15, we published a blog detailing an attack campaign utilizing stolen OAuth user tokens issued to two third-party GitHub.com integrators, Heroku and Travis CI."
Of course that's not really true. The origin of the story is that so many papers were published by Hardy and Littlewood, that an Indian mathematician thought that Littlewood was a pseudonym that Hardy used for his inferior work.

Littlewood was reported to be quite amused when he heard this.

And of course the story might be apocryphal. Especially since it's also attributed to Edmund Landau and Norbert Wiener.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Edensor_Littlewood
Someone, somewhere, just called out bingo.

Do you have any data to back up the various claims in this comment?

A misstep -- amongst many in this comment -- is that you're implying that 82% of the graduating class is of a protected identity group. Is that true?
I liked fabric a lot
But trying to use fabric for everything feels like reinventing the wheel. Ansible already does those stuff
I did this recently after a marathon! It took me 10 minutes to remember my girlfriend’s phone number

And I had to text. Scam calls have made it far too unlikely that anyone picks up for an unknown number
> I'm a Watchmaker whenever someone asks me what I do. (I hate that last sociatial question. When did it become copacetic to ask for job status, and finances. I guess it came with the Selfie.

It significantly predates the selfie. Tyler Durden mocked the question in Fight Club before smart phones existed, and it was already very old then. I'd bet money you could find films and books in the '50s that document that question (I think I know of a novel that does, but I'd have to double-check to be sure). I bet the only reason it'd be harder to find in 18th and 19th century literature is that so much of that was by and for aristocrats. Pre-industrial-revolution, perhaps it was an uncommon question.

It makes sense in a world where most people spend the best 40+ hours of their week working a job for wages, lose another 5-10 good hours to commuting to that job, and the rest of their waking time is spent desperately catching up on neglected housework and recovering from that 40 hours. It's only outliers who are bugged by the question, or see it as presumptuous. These outliers usually have settled for a lot less than most people are willing to (materially, and maybe family-wise—this'd be your Tyler Durdens, your actually-poor-and-not-just-slumming-it bohemian sorts or members of Fussell's "Class X"), or else have found themselves in a situation where they're much richer than most people but don't have to work all that hard for it (some of the Fussellian upper-middle, especially later in their careers, plus your usual trust-fund kids).
Forget all that fluff. I don't need CarPlay. I have no desire for my car and phone to be in any sort of relationship. I need a car that starts when asked and gets me where I need to go. Electric or gas, I don't much care so long as the thing functions when needed.

That said, at the moment I haven't found any electric car that would handle winter where I am. Temperatures regularly below -30 and occasionally below -40c still seem a non-started for reliable electrics. They cannot be left unplugged/unpowered for more than a few days at such temperatures without issues.
There is a large portion of the privacy community for whom services should take a bullet in the face before handing over the data they hold.

Its hard to take anyone who raises the "IP logging" seriously anyway - the situation is perfectly clear and rational and they are either shilling for some cause or just plain stupid. Proton is transparent, and people are free to read for themselves just how they operate. https://proton.me/news/transparency-report

Sometimes they dont even wait for the court order: In July 2017, we received a request for assistance from British police in the case of the kidnapping of Chloe Ayling. In light of the fact that we were able to verify that the kidnappers were, in fact, using a Proton Mail account, and the fact that the first 48 hours are the most critical in kidnapping cases, we rendered assistance to law enforcement before the signed order was delivered to us, but with the understanding that the court order was in the process of being sent.

Yet the commenters never complain about this or cases where a minor was at risk. They just claim there is a controversy because they turned on ip logging for one account at the behest of a court order.

To be honest Proton as a product I am not particularly drawn to - encrypting email takes two, and there are not many people who are equiped to recieve my secure emails!
White House officials planning to cancel $10k in student debt per borrower
No problem updating windows via WSUS offline community edition
https://gitlab.com/wsusoffline/wsusoffline/-/releases

And please elaborate what's the ill effect using a third-party ping tool?
Is this even relevant?

What matters is effort/knowledge for given grade
This is really interesting! I started my Stanford undergrad as an engineer. After my first Calculus class, I switched to American Studies because it was one of the least engineering-y majors available. Then I dropped out in my Junior year. That was over 10 years ago. Now, ironically, I work at Google as a software engineer — the only one on my team without an engineering degree, let alone without a degree at all.

I never thought of my disillusionment with engineering in the context of other students, but rather just as an absolute: "Engineering is too hard for me." Taking Calculus at not-Stanford may have led to a very different result.
Datasette is pretty cool.

But AFAICT, it just doesn’t scale whatsoever. That SQLite db is both the dataset index and the dataset content combined, right? So you're limited by how big that SQLite db can realistically be. The docs say "share data of any shape or any size", but AFAICT it can't handle large datasets containing large unstructured data like images and video and multi-billion data point datasets are hard to store in a single machine/file.

Not really a criticism, but more wondering if there are scale optimizations in Datasette I'm not aware of since the docs do say any shape or size.
good ol fsk. i've built rudimentary time-stamping schemes in this way in past. basic signal processing can be fun!
Some people find that renting is better from a QoL perspective. Owning is shit if you hate having to deal with home maintenance, or travel a lot, or have to move frequently for work. Others prefer the stability of owning.

But so what? Nothing in your comment is relevant to inflation calculations.
What if the moon were your car and Jupiter your hairbrush?
I imagine that these could be useful to tourists who don't have a local phone plan, and the free Wi-Fi / USB charging / scrolling information bulletins are definitely useful, but I feel like this program came about 5-10 years too late for them to really shine now that a lot of people have smartphones with generous/unlimited data plans and don't necessarily need a kiosk for points 1-4.

From 2010-2017 or so, unlimited data plans were some combination of rare/slow/expensive, and especially in the early 2010s smartphones had a lot less penetration. I imagine these terminals would have been life-savers back then.
If they act as an individual, they're not solving the problem in any meaningful way, they're just screwing over their own students.
But they won't vest, right? Here's what I mean:

- At year 0, you're granted 100 RSUs on a double trigger with a 1 yr cliff, monthly vest after

- At year 1, you have vested 0 but if the company went public you will immediately vest 25

- At year 4, with the company still private, you have vested 0 but if the company went public or had a liquidity event you will immediately vest 100

- At year 5, with the company still private, you are going to quit. If you vest now, you must pay tax, but no way to do that with cash unless company withholds RSU percentage

In the double trigger case, at year 5, you leave empty handed. In the single trigger, you pay tax with illiquid stock (through withhold or pay cash).

I've always only had options or stock, so do correct me if I'm wrong.
Book Review: The Anti-Politics Machine
What vector do they mitigate? And why would they remove the perceived need to preregister crates (or namespaces)?
European Defense (2019)
This is actually a picture of national failure, tantamount to celebrating a blowout losing scoreboard. It is not a model for others to copy.

Productivity and inflation are very related to each other. Per your chart, "Japan enters the chat" in the mid 1980s. If you're curious what has happened to Japan since the mid 1980s you can read https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lost_Decades (this wikipage was pluralized from "Decade" to "Decades" in the last couple of years, due to the continued struggles of the Japanese economy).

To the extent that you hold central banks responsible for the national-economic state of things, Japan's central bank ought to be considered a massive failure.

If you lean towards the Krugman side of things, you can find his explanation of that failure here: https://web.archive.org/web/20161203180303/https://krugman.b...

If you prefer the Scott Sumner side, you can find his explanation of that failure here:
https://www.themoneyillusion.com/why-japans-qe-didnt-work/
https://www.themoneyillusion.com/the-other-money-illusion/
https://www.themoneyillusion.com/rooseveltian-resolve/

Personally, I tend to sympathize with central banks and take a more muted view of their powers at the national-economic level. In my model, Japan's central bank was/is powerless given the magnitude of non-financial headwinds the country face(d) after the opening of China and beneath 2 decades of aggressive anti-Japanese trade policy from their largest trading partner (USA). This is a (slightly) heterodox take, and you can read my articulation of this view here: https://www.conradbastable.com/essays/unequal-growth-the-zer...

But whatever your take, Japan's economic struggles should not be mistaken for signals of success.
84 x 84 x 25mm brings it to 176 cubic centimeres in size.

Significantly smaller than the 250W ATX power supply someone linked yesterday that was 212cc's[1].

Note that this is a usb-pd "extended power" device. A single port, up to 48V output, at the regular 5A maximum.

[1] https://www.cnx-software.com/2022/05/26/ultra-compact-gan-at... https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31525505 (283 points, 14h ago, 155 comments)
But GPAs have almost no value, and people don’t go to such schools for grades. It’s all about networking and prestige, and wanting to be around accomplished or ambitious people.

Disclaimer: I don’t necessarily agree with these views, just summarising what I’ve seen.
What can government data providers like data.cdc.gov do to support datasette better? Is it expected that these providers would make SQLite distros of data? Or do you think people will just suck stuff down in csv and convert it to datasette to make it easier to work with and reproduce the work of others?
You don’t have to fail with a curve. You can set it so only outliers fail or get an A. That means most people will be getting a B, but it is still more useful.
That's the amdgpu kernel driver. It's ported over from Linux.

all the code in /dev/pci/drm are modern graphics drivers. (DRM as in Direct Rendering Manager)
That’s not useful either
> One of the reasons for this is you can't turn off the Roslyn-based MS engine in VS (which IMO is reasonable, since it's needed for a lot of stuff) so there are always 2 code analysis engines running.

Roslyn is extremely well tuned. (Anecdotally in any IDE including VS Code without ReSharper it's performance is incredible and hardly noticeable.) ReSharper's performance problems are ReSharper's performance problems.

Blaming ReSharper's performance on Roslyn is just as wrong as blaming ReSharper's performance on Visual Studio. It's pointing the finger at the wrong thing in the stack.

Of course that's a big selling point for Rider. It's incredibly wonderful marketing luck that almost all of ReSharper's performance problems get blamed on Visual Studio itself or on Roslyn and almost never directly on ReSharper. As long as people keep pointing the fingers away from the plugin, JetBrains gets just about free marketing from every VS performance complaint real or imagined. Their incentives aren't aligned to improve ReSharper performance when "everyone" just answers "Just switch to Rider already" because they mistakenly blame Visual Studio rather than the ReSharper's own engineering.
Ah ah, same usual shit of systemd wanting to be this monolith that takes control of all of your linux system (login, home dir, oom, ...), with strong opinions and low quality code. And as usual, you introduce it and it starts to break for users.

If only it was the first time...
> We see this in big cities where vacancies are at an all-time high (aka a lot more supply), but prices aren't going down.

Where?
People still need a break, what replaced this today?

Also "getting some fresh air while having a cigarette" is a funny selection of words.
There are two types of students at Harvard:

- The elite of the elite, intellectually

- The elite of the elite, socially

A bit over 40% of white kids admitted to Harvard are ALDC admits: legacy, donors, etc. Folks like George W Bush (Yale) look smart by association with the intellectual elite, while smart kids gain access to networks to money and power.

It's a good scheme for everyone involved.

(Note: I do have a lot of insider knowledge about Harvard, specifically, but I'm only citing public information)
"The guile package management system isn't to interesting in my opinion: we already have distros like Gentoo, Nix, Arch, Alpine, etc. that support both build scripts (usually as some specialized shell script) and binary packages."

The big win you get with Guix over the package managers in the other systems you reference (except for Nix) is deterministic, bit-identical, reproducible builds.[1]

"as programmers we tend to lean towards application-specific languages where we ought to favor generic languages for the sake of simplicity"

Guix does use a general purpose programming language: Guile Scheme.

[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reproducible_builds
I want an electric motorcycle (not e-bike) and sidecar.
CarPlay (and Android Auto) is not a relationship between your car and your phone.

It is a second screen for the phone that is restricted to certain functions and has a different UI. The only integration with the car that I have seen is knowing when the lights turn on so the screen goes into dark mode and vice versa.

Edit: I guess the other place it interacts with the car is for the steering wheel controls and maybe a microphone. But these all seem like pretty basic and reasonable integrations.
The problem is such behavior is very heavily disincentivized. I am not sure what the main factor at Harvard is but at public schools the funding of the university depends most heavily on retention. At our university, we are penalized (both in salary and other ways) for students that get Ds and Fs as well as students who withdraw(with no penalty for the student!) from the class. In addition, student evaluations play a huge role in this process and the easiest way to get a good evaluation is to give easy grades. Guess what kind of grading policy this promotes...

By the way, the reason retention, as opposed to the quality is valued is also simple. The ranking of the state 'in education' is measured by the number of diplomas given out by the institutions in the state. So more diplomas---better education ratings of the state. Thus encouraging faculty to pass students is a rational strategy. I am surprised we are not just giving students all As without any tests whatsoever. Would make my life so much easier. For a while ...
It's not even that. There are different drivers of inflation, it could be spurred by supply shocks, increased demand, greater supply of money, uncompetitive markets arising from government capture, etc., the economy is so complex that when you consider all these moving parts, a claim like "interest rates go down, inflation goes up" starts to sound incredibly reductive.
I teach at a community college. We’ve had declining enrollment for 10 years or so. I need a job and these days it’s easy to acquire a reputation and easy to look up someone’s reputation. Retention of students is very important since it lowers the cost of client acquisition to have a student body that doesn’t drop out. All of these factors have led to me, more or less, passing everyone who takes the final exam. A person has to actively try to fail my classes now.
> The problem is that even a smart kid struggles to keep up when competing with the uber smart. As a result, the kid feels inadequate and drops the degree.

In the context of grade inflation, this sounds like Harvard is actually one of the better choices and that grade inflation is a desirable property of an elite university
This rather humorous take is still as relevant today as it was in 2004 - https://lwn.net/Articles/104185/
In the department, at an Indian university where I studied, the professor wouldn't even give anyone A grade even if the whole class struggled. It was supposed to be a relative grading. You had to score certain minimum percent of score. Our whole department's median grade was C.
There are emergency phones all over school campuses these days, that only dial emergency service.

I do believe cell towers have ways to prioritize emergency number calls if their capacity is reduced, but I'm not sure of the details.
I'd rather see us shift back to smaller companies with more diversity than unionized behemoths that control every industry. When it comes to companies I definitely feel there is something such as too big.
This all depends on if you think a grade at school A should be directly comparable to school B.
No. My GPA didn’t matter when I got my internships or got my job, because esp. in CS, GPA doesn’t measure motivation, curiosity and eagerness to try.

I always failed math classes, but I transform to something different if I have to apply that math. I get a +3 modifier instantly.

Same in programming. I can tackle much harder problems than my peers, but my grades didn’t show that.

Result? I got my Ph.D., work at a reputable institution, and I’m happy. I’m also continuing a side academic gig.

I personally don’t care about GPAs of people I interview too.
Definitely. In Google Earth Pro there are a few settings to tweak in the Navigation options. Turn on Enable Controller, of course, and turn OFF Reverse Controls and Enable Visualization.

I also like to turn on "Do not automatically tilt while zooming". I don't recall if that affects SpaceMouse, but I don't like the default automatic tilt when using regular mouse or keyboard navigation.

Also if you are using a ThinkPad, be sure to try each of the three mouse buttons (hold one down and move the TrackPoint around) when not using the SpaceMouse.
Some schools, like The University of Colorado's Leeds School of Business, have taken aggressive measures in the past to fight grade inflation.

They implemented a "hard average" at each grade level. So freshmen business course, the average had to be a C-. Soph: C, Jr: C+, Sr: B-.

It certainly achieved the goal for the school, as a whole, to fight grade inflation... but..

For students, it was very important to be above the mean... otherwise your grade would typically get moved down. Which isn't the worst, since they compared it to competition in the job world... but hard to say that when students are paying an obscene amount of money to attend.

The other challenge was the smaller courses, with ~10-15 students... very difficult to get an A+ in those courses as you had to be the top 1-3 in the class.

I think they have since abandoned this grade inflation policy..

But yes, GPA is basically irrelevant now in comparing across schools...
I asked because it's a common tactic for people who would use "degenerate" deliberately with its modern, Nazi-associated connotation but simultaneously (and dishonestly) try and hide behind the fact that it is in fact a much older word, thus protecting their dogwhistle. I was trying to suss out if that's what you were doing.

> Doesn't make for pleasant reading.

I can live with that.

Brevity is the soul of wit?
The Bolt has been sold in the US for years - prior to this supply chain nonsense, you could easily buy a Bolt in the Midwest for low ~30k USD ish, new.

Bolt sales were very low. Then came the fire recall and supply chain issues. The mid cycle refresh Bolt is now in production but dealers are asking $37K.
No, erc-20 and eth suck
As a Greek I find the "@" notation very serendipitous, since for some obscure reason, the name used for this symbol in Greek is "παπάκι" (papaki), which means "duckling".
There was a cool tweet using this on that note a bit ago: https://twitter.com/MrmoTarius/status/1527281714371866626
I think doing your part in driving a smaller vehicle works until you adopt the soccer mom mentality.

That is, there are a lot of other trucks and SUVs on the road. So you look at the risk of being in a sedan that crashes into a heavier vehicle. Do you really want to fall behind in that arms race with your own kids?
View from the faculty POV: I taught mathematics as an Assistant Professor at Harvard for five years (2000-2005), and this advice seems wrong. It’s very generic and abstract, whereas the actual mathematics department (students, faculty, preceptors) at Harvard at any point in time is made up of real people, most of whom are really interesting fun and genuine math loving human beings. I guided dozens of students in seminars, interesting math research projects, and much more, and many of them really benefited from the environment and went on to truly love mathematics as a long term career.
Not quite the scale you are suggesting but I used it with a 7gb 20m row dataset and it worked incredible well.
Quickly find sensitive files in your GitHub repo
> Salesforce-owned Heroku noted that some of its private repos were accessed on April 9 before slamming the brakes on GitHub integration. That integration was restored earlier this week, according to the company's status page.

This is important for this forum, imo. Heroku was cast a lot of shade during this.
Yep. And Resurrections, which takes place in a recreation of 2021 (or thereabouts), allows for using cellphones to exit. They even make a point of pointing that out in the film. I think within the context of the movies, they made it very difficult for anything to "age poorly" like that because it's all meant to be a representation of a very specific point in time.
But eventually the vacant apartments will get rented out because they're costing their owners money (in taxes, mortgages, maintenance) and not bringing any in, and you can't spend more than you make forever.

Rents go down when landlords go bankrupt.

That's what happened in 2009-2010. It took about 4 years after peak homebuilding, and 2.5 years after peak home prices, and about 12-18 months after the financial crisis started. Real estate tends to lag financial markets by about that time period. But it does happen - eventually markets respond to supply and demand, and firms that try to buck the trend get swept out of the market.