skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sorry but I’m gonna be very blunt. I think sound pretentious as fuck.

> I studied because I wanted to genuinely understand how things work

I don’t think you do.

Genuine curiosity forged in one’s own mind. It is not something that can be bounded, repackaged as a curriculum, and sold in university. It’s like ether, it’s everywhere and can be captured by anyone, through multiple means.

University degrees for any professions are useless. Even in medicine! There are shit doctors and good doctors. Most people here would’ve run through a couple of them before picking one. I’ve been with my current doctor for 10 years now, because they are really good, empathic, and teach me rather than just pushing pills.

Software in my humble opinion works the same way. I care more about what someone does with the tools they have, rather than them being made of wood or metal or gold
> It's on github

... at https://github.com/kanaka/mal

Fun fact: I got to work with Joel at a Clojure-based startup, LonoCloud (since acquired by ViaSat). Super sharp dude, and very helpful about MAL. Definitely recommend.
Well you're clearly wrong, just 43.6% voted Tory in 2019.

It was a majority opinion of old people sure.

https://yougov.co.uk/topics/politics/articles-reports/2019/1...

https://lordashcroftpolls.com/2019/12/how-britain-voted-and-...

The tory party has realigned itself since 2016 to the same values of the leave campaign, one heavily based on fear of foreigners

https://hyperallergic.com/310631/the-visual-propaganda-of-th...
if you think that a written text is a great equalizer, it's not.
In the US are similar paths. Highly credentialed researchers and snag a grant from the national bodies to do this kinda research, usually in collaboration with a university
Somewhat unrelated to the article, but I always find the foo/bar style of code examples difficult to read. It's especially egregious here ; one of the points of the article is that types are often easy to guess from variable names, but it's very much not the case when the code is

doSomethingWithFoo(foo)

I feel like simple but more realistic snippets are much better teaching tools.
How about nginx? I've been playing with it recently and have been amazed what can be accomplished. You get very granular control over your requests and can easily route them to multiple ports or static file directories with support for server side includes.
How you see Pinterest depends on how you came across it. If your first experience with it was fron a Google image search link that threw up a login wall, you likely see Pinterest negatively.

If you used it via the app (or gave up with GIS and went to Pinterest permanently, like I did), you might change your mind.

GIS is good for finding specific images on the basis of search queries. It is bad for surfacing things that are similar to your search result, which is where Pinterest excels. Example: if you're searching for an image of say a Dell Inspiron 1420 from 2006, you don't want your search results to include pics of the Latitude 2420. Pinterest would be better for fuzzier searches like "2000s Computer" that would surface different types of results. The fuzziness is the feature, as the assumption is that you're not necessarily looking for one exact thing.

Another benefit of Pinterest is likely something that HN users especially dislike: that it replaces a link to the original image with one to the Pinterest page. I say this is a benefit because, after over a year of clicking through to original links, I've discovered that more than half the time, the original site is dead, or redirects somewhere else. Short of automatically sending these links to archive.org, Pinterest is probably the best solution for keeping those images online and having them be discoverable.
>I legitimately can't tell what mindset you're railing against

Basically that there's some "chain" of dependencies, impossible to overcome when it comes to career

like previously quoted statement for me sounds like

good gpa -> good first job -> fast path to high tc jobs

mediocre gpa -> mediocre job -> a lot of other not fancy jobs -> high tc job after a lot of years

What I'm saying is that "And your first job determines your second one" is not true (except edge cases like govt jobs).

You can start your career at the most unknown company in country and still manage to jump to the top companies

>or what "skew the odds" means in this context?

Just because the odds are not favoring you, it's still doable
At Princeton, this would have led to year suspensions for all students involved. At least when I was there 15 years ago. I know numerous people who had to take a year off. Not saying this is right. It probably is too punitive and disruptive.
Just use propane. This bullshit with inventing ever more elaborate synthetic compounds which turn out to be toxic has got to stop. We should be denigrating "the decades of social, political, and technical work behind HFOs".
Typically by using the id field of objects as cache key. Even some clients do this, which is nice, except if your objects aren’t unique by their ids. It can usually be configured, however.
I can't see how this addresses the main problem mentioned in the article. My take is that if a student cheats, they should be expelled from university. If you're very lenient, introduce three strikes. The first two strikes will nullify your course as if it hadn't been taken, the third will get you expelled from university. I personally think that would be too lenient, though, and believe that nobody who cheats in any way should have a place in academia. This question has nothing to do with the quality of teaching or problems with tests, etc. It's a matter of intellectual integrity.

When I first heard that students often cheat in higher education not too long ago, I was shocked. When I studied during the 90s at two good German universities, I had not ever heard of anyone who cheated in any course. A cheating student would have been a huge scandal. To be fair, I studied philosophy and general linguistics. I guess people in more practical disciplines cheated even then, e.g. economics -- more specifically, "BWL" in Germany -- always had a bad reputation. However, even in these disciplines cheating was rare. Its incomprehensible to me why lecturers and universities nowadays appear to be so lenient about it.
Older people are far more likley to actually vote, period.
I assumed you would say that the programmers should start working for the school system but your final description.of problems is not difficult to solve.

The teachers are the problem.

After all I was also sitting in school for 13 years
Even the saga term is a strong term. At the end of the day Apple did the right call so far, not launch a crappy product. They didn't go the Google way of having to launch and then discontinue it. I'd rather have them spend years figuring it out instead of launching a product with no clear goal without any problem to solve.
Isn't LPL bit of confirmation bias anyway? Locks which don't open are not as attractive for a video.
Making lots of food out of thin air – no plants or animals
Haha. Fixing an off-by-one error by adding an off-by-10^-10.
Do you have a lemon tree? I've heard that one.

The people I tried to iterate on my writing with said I sucked at writing (as they obstructed me on pretty much every front with the information they gleaned.)

Later on an actual author told me my "voice" in the literary sense was cool and good.

(I made what felt like the right deicison at the time to try to finish my PhD, work as a security researcher, and attempt what I termed "venture socialism" -- paired American style libel law with the fact that propaganda is the selective telling of truths, and that I know a lot of things.)

If you have suggestions on agents, venues etc, please HMU tho, I'm dontbenebby+thiscomment@protonmail.ch.
> Also, I would also be quite surprised if Google didn't allow candidates to Google information during the interview

I did a Google onsite several years ago (probably 7 or 8 years ago at this point). Each interview was just me in a room with a whiteboard and a person sitting at a table across from me with a notepad. No computer present.

I suppose I could have dug out my phone and Googled, but that feels unprofessional to me, moreso than if I had access to a computer.

Also the part I got stuck on was coming up with the trick needed to solve the problems. Most I was fine, but one in particular would have taken some decent searching to find something equivalent if I just Googled, and would have taken some time to grok the answer. Also that guy was not very forthcoming with hints or information when I asked him, so I doubt he'd have appreciated a Google search.

I don't remember the exact question, but it had to do with converting a 3D city model into a 2D skyline by drawing a single line. I got stuck on trying to visualize how to deal with partial overlapping models and irregular building shapes and ran out of time.
I get exactly what you're saying but that misses the point which is it was just a load of tosh. If one[1] have something to say but can't say it clearly, one is wasting everyone's time at best and at worst become part of the problem.

[1] It's a shame that 'one' has dropped out of use in this context, it does sound so absurd and archaic, but 'you' can be mistaken for 'specifically you' so I hope one will forgive me here.
So true, and yet we continue to produce documents for people who are alive in the 21st century
Even the worst of the old PDAs were better in many ways than smartphones. Once you get all your chats onto XMPP (or WhatsApp in this case) you can jump between OSes and tolerate unavailability much better, then you can easily try weird stuff like this.

Cellular is also a bit overrated unless you live in the exurbs/woods IMO. WiFi is ubiquitous now.
> 1. Primarily because IL6 and IFNg are inflammatory cytokines that when increased can indicate any number of things, most commonly caused by infection tissue damage, or other chronic inflammatory diseases like IBD. These cytokines are not unique to depression.

Yeah but if you already had been diagnosed with depression, it seems like they'd want to check this.
“My career was on the rise, I had the beginnings of a financial safety net Yet
> With inflation and increasing inequality I'm already living a more "impoverished" life than my parents when they were my age

Probably not. You may personally be experiencing downward mobility, but real median household income is much higher in the US today than it was 30 years ago.
I think our teachers teach British English, American English is at most a side note during classes. No offense or so, but British sound to me personally like something that requires more effort thus kind of more "??sexy??" - if you know what I mean
Maybe because US hackers are ready to do to China what we did to Russia: put people in the streets and fear of being strung up like Mussolini in the fear of totalitarian leaders who should be perfectly fine with some chicken fingers loving autist saying maybe the people of China should literally put their capitalist oppressors against the wall.

Edit: we do that via censorship circumvention, not through coercion. Or at least, that's what I do. I'm just one guy. I can't control if authentic opinions scare you to death, truth hurts.
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Nonsense.

AR is already proven tech in industry. I don't know what entertainment purposes it might serve but real world use is already benefitting from it.

Building and construction has tons of AR offerings in production. See for example Trimble's SiteVision.
The few people I know who admit to voting for Brexit are all in their 70s and are pretty open about saying they did it to stop immigration.

The bizarre bit is that they are also perfectly OK with immigration from the EU its the "other kind" (direct quote) of immigrants they don't want.

Edit: This is about 4 people in total so entirely possible its not representative.
Google’s Chrome Becomes Web ‘Gatekeeper’ and Rivals Complain (2019)
> The threshold is mathematicians opting to use these tools themselves for their work. There are not many mathematicians using them so far.

No, you didn't answer the question at all. How many is many? How many will be enough for you? It is being used by mathematicians and for some pretty important things.
I agree there are good use cases. At the same time I notice you have an amazing saving on connections (from 1h 45 min to airport to 19 minutes, saving 1 h 22 minutes) that is not there for most people. I consider Berlin-Paris customers to be people "around Berlin area" and "towards Paris area", that would negate the connection part.

To be very transparent: I dislike commercial planes. I worked several years in a large airport and I hate the airport experience (cannot disclose any details, but it is very ineffective); I hate the seats in the plane because I am tall and leg room is inadequate. I dislike sitting uncomfortably for hours and I dislike the sound pollution. At the same time I am a sport pilot and I am flying less and less, mostly because the seat (even more uncomfortable) and noise. But I am trying to be realistic when choosing train versus plane, beyond some distance the plane is much better.
>>> HOW do you measure knowledge?

The teachers I've known don't really care about measuring knowledge. They're looking for a reasonable way to motivate engagement with the class, that's not too disruptive of the overall flow of the course. One professor told me, "A student who has made an effort to work through the homework problems a couple times should be able to easily get a B on the exam.

Testing also acknowledges that you're competing for your students' attention, and if you give no assessments, your students will rationally focus all of their effort on the courses that do. Preparation for the test becomes a reasonable measure, not of your knowledge, but of how much effort you need to apply to a course. Since students have been taking exams for years, each student knows how to calibrate their own level of effort.

As a student, after some trial and error, I developed a pretty good routine for getting A's in the two kinds of classes I was taking: Those that were dominated by solving problems and proofs, such as math and physics, and those that were based primarily on written assignments, such as art history.
What? A wearable display with a basic liquid crystal as well to control opacity can trivially do a normal rectangle too, anywhere you want. It's a complete superset of all current displays, that's the most basic use of it. Doing 3D stuff or whatever if anything strikes me as by far the least important, at least for quite a while after intro most of its use would be simple HUD or just using what we've got except wherever. Right now as I type this I'm sitting at a desk in front of a 5k 27" rectangle. With refined retinal scanning display glasses, I could be sitting on a couch or somewhere else, and still have a 27" 5k equivalent rectangle to pull up (or 36" 8k or whatever I wanted) rather then a 6-7" display (phone) or 14-16" (notebook) at much lower resolution. Decent wireless keyboards and mice exist and could be further improved on.

Can you explain why people think "3D" is an important aspect of these? AR/VR would already pay for itself just by being able to bring up my desktop (or smaller individual windows or anything) anywhere, more efficiently.
I've been to a lot of Tesla Superchargers, and in my experience, drivers hardly ever leave their cars at urban/suburban spots. We are unusual in that we usually get out and walk the dog or ourselves a little.

Part of it is that Tesla levies a fee for leaving the car plugged in after it charges, so we can't go too far.
> Why don't you cite the specific example then and we can discuss it.

Top result for [1]

[1] https://www.google.com/search?q=a+Tory+member's+family+was+r...
Maybe a little analogy would help: well before thermonuclear bombs were developed, people started using fusion in the so called "boosted bombs" [1]. In that design (which dominates to this day), the implosion of the Plutonium pit triggers a fission chain reaction, but it also triggers the fusion of a small amount of D+T mix. That fusion adds a tiny bit of energy to the whole explosion, but it also produces a huge amount of fast neutrons, which increases the number of Pu nuclei that split by about 30%.

Of course, we eventually had above-breakeven fusion in nuclear weapons too. But the below-breakeven was and continues to be useful (although some people debate the entire idea of usefulness in the context of nuclear weapons).

> The major problem of fission is not safety, or waste disposal, or (near term) fuel availability. The major problem is cost.

You sound like one of those opponents of nuclear reactors who doesn't understand that cost is driven by regulations, which in turn are driven by safety.

Increasing safety will decrease costs.

But that's not all. A fusion-fission reactor can burn much more of the Uranium/Plutonium/Thorium core. While the fuel cost is not that important in the economics of a nuclear reactor, the costs associated with refueling are. If you don't need to refuel every 18 months, but rather every 15 years, then this changes drastically the economics.

Of course, producing less waste is great too.

Now, you can say (and you said) that fast fission reactors can achieve the same result. The Department of Energy recently let the startup Oklo operate an experimental liquid metal fast reactor [2]. That's great, and I really hope Oklo will succeed getting their NRC approval the second time around.

But pure fission reactors have this problem with criticality. The presentation you linked to dismissed this

Criticality control, while important, does not dominate fission reactor safety.

This is a very strange thing to say. The safety of fission reactors is dominated by what is in people's mind. And two things are in people's mind: Chernobyl and Fukushima. The first got critical, and the second one may have. The world just does not have the appetite for another one of these. Consequently, the regulators are very concerned with criticality.

Take a look at NRC's assessment of NuScale's design [3], and check how many times they talk about the control rods and their role in criticality.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boosted_fission_weapon

[2] https://www.energy.gov/ne/articles/argonne-adds-new-testing-...

[3] https://www.nrc.gov/docs/ML2022/ML20224A508.pdf
coding up gravity simulations is fun, and the things you can account for are a pretty deep dive into classical mechanics and then how the real universe differs from ideals. an exercise like that could kick up a bunch of things to learn more about in a "well how the hell can that be how things work?" way.
could do without people who want to vote for policies of which they'll never see the consequences.
They're currently building a test reactor in the UK. We'll see in a couple years.
Yep, it's from the first one. Manhunter: New York.
Except if you consult with colleagues/friends outside of your company you would get fired. You are not allowed to "consult" with anyone, so why should you be allowed to consult with anyone about your homework.
But if you create a configmap to store that label isn't that state? It may be more lightweight than what Terraform or Helm store, but it's still state.
Counter point - older people's votes should be weighted the other way because they have contributed far more in taxes, done more productive work and may have even fought for your right to complain.
>University degrees for any professions are useless. Even in medicine!

I think there is a fundamental distinction between the professions of medicine and law, in that they have licensing boards that are a means of ensuring a standardized minimum amount of competency. Computer science does not.

Despite the fact that many call themselves "software engineers", they are not engineers in the legal sense of the word in US, unless they also have an engineering license. The point of these licenses is, in part, to protect society in professions where they are expected to ethically serve in the public good. One of the problems with CS degrees in the past is that there is no standardized curriculum, so one CS student may have had zero semesters of calculus and another required to take 4. The standardization is what helps pull structure from the ether. That structure is compromised when people cheat.
Google says it's Inconel,

- "The in-plane loads are carried from the covers to the cylinder by 96 INCONEL® 718 draw bars with a yield strength of 1 GPa." [0]

- "The wedged conductors are CD107 copper, bonded to flat Inconel 718 plates, with a 4:1 copper/reinforcement ratio over the central column area. The yield strength of the copper is 310 MPa, up to 100 °C, while the yield strength of the Inconel plates is 1130-1300 MPa. The peak Tresca stress on the Inconel at the inside radius is calculated to be 580 MPa, while that in the copper is 310 MPa." [1]

[0] https://www-internal.psfc.mit.edu/research/alcator/data/fst_...

[1] https://dspace.mit.edu/bitstream/handle/1721.1/94967/87ja040...
Doesn't that strike you as silly given the externalities (like CO2) being way higher for the plane ride than for the train ride?

I still can't get my head around the fact that we as a society allow air travel to dump that much environmental costs on all of us. If flying had to internalize the cost for externalities into the pricing your plane ticket would have probably cost way more than the price of the train ride.
In my place? Absolutely not, but we designed the interview process to try to avoid that.
No it doesn't, it is just another income tax.
>that stale recycled airplane air

Airplanes definitely have a smell to them, but not because the air is "stale". Apparently the air is changed quite often

>Most aircraft cabin air is [...] completely changed 20 to 30 times per hour

https://www.cntraveler.com/story/how-clean-and-safe-is-a-pla...
It's like asking for "actual evidence" about what color you should wear to dinner. It depends on the context and setting, and current social attitudes and your positioning relative to them, and your own sense of what looks good based on those elements.

Unless you go out of your way to fuck it up most text you put on the web will be legible. And no matter what someone will say it's illegible to them and just raw unstyled html defaults are the most legible. Or the raw html defaults are unreadable and anything else is an improvement. etc etc.

It's got technical foundations so it's easy to pretend otherwise but it's still aesthetic choices. Math won't really help you here. In fact building fonts off of "mathematically ideal proportions" was a popular thing for a while and is now mostly considered a regrettable dead-end. The things that came out of it don't look better and aren't overall more readable.
I was assigned a class to shadow when I flirted with being an anthropologist.

(My now deceased PhD committee member griped that I "appropriate the ethnographic gaze" -- that's probably why I raise my eyebrows so much lately.)

The entire class was being lectured on plagarism. They were almost entirely internation students, almost entirely from a specific country, and they almosty entirely manage to misunderstand things only to their benefit.

(It was always an American, not someone from... there... I had to do things like go into my apartment and retreive a Louisville slugger because they were walking off with my neighbor's bike.

(I'm not required to call the police. I can deal with you and let YOU call, get a report number, and hope a detective or whatever decides it's worth the attention of the law. Fool around and find out that even full on cryptoanarchists[1] will step away from they keyboard if you piss them off enough, and if that makes you feel threatened, don't touch physical goods that don't belong to you unless you're willing to risk dying for them.)

[1] https://nakamotoinstitute.org/crypto-anarchist-manifesto/
I'm still not convinced propane/butane makes sense in automotive ACs.

EDIT: because it ignites during accidents.