skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Depends a lot on comfort with remote work, especially when onboarding college grads. I'd say time will tell how society deals with that.

I grew up in a crappy rural area with next to no opportunity, and went to college in a crappy rust belt city with very little opportunity. Moved to NYC the day after graduation to start my career. As far as I can tell, if my life was playing out today, I'd probably pick up a remote gig and move someplace cheaper than NYC where I already know some people -- I simply wouldn't bother with the expensive giant cities because they've never been a good fit for my hobbies and interests. A lack of opportunities definitely shaped my high school experience, but where I live now has a lot more going on than where I grew up, even if they're similar densities. Not all small towns are the same!

And depending on what your kids are interested in, SF, NYC, etc. might lack opportunities for your kids, too -- it's not like they can explore nature, or mountain biking, or sailing, or a million other things easily in your average US city. I guess I'm just trying to say that there are tradeoffs no matter where you live, and we probably shouldn't generalize about "rural" and "urban". There's crappy unwalkable non-kid-friendly rural towns aplenty in the US. But there's also crappy unwalkable non-kid-friendly cities aplenty. The right corner of SF, or the right lively small town can both be good places to raise kids.
Hello creator of the project. This entire project was motivated by another HN post where someone was asking where we can get information about architectures and system designs across our industry. Seeing there wasn't anything available, I decided to start it; glad to see its resonated with the community.

I hope to create high quality posts from engineers that work on these systems and the challenges they are trying to solve. Really dig into the problems and the technologies and strategies they used to solve it.

What they have learned? Where they have failed?

I also plan to write up deep technical dives on technologies we all rely on and use everyday.

If there is any feedback to improve or you have something you want to write up with me please reach out.
Your math is similar to mine, but you mixed up "tera" and "peta". 1000 billion events is 1 tera-event, and 0.001 peta-events.
"Lake Wobegon, where all the women are strong, all the men are good-looking, and all the children are above average." ~ Garrison Keillor
>A professors first priority is to do research, second priority is to teach, and last priority is to catch cheaters.

1. Make a reputation

2. Make Money (more reputation more money)

3. Teach (if they have to)
As a vim user I don't use org-mode, but I take notes in way too many places: google keep, docs and random text-files. Then I always forget about where they are and trying to find them in the wrong place.

So I spend a lot of time daydreaming about something like org-mode that is available across all my devices, perhaps something I can share with my family so we can coordinate.

What I am slowly realizing is it's not the features that I am missing from existing productivity/note/todo mobile interfaces ... it's the keyboard.

I am a keyboard oriented person, so no matter how snappy or feature rich a mobile interface is it will always feel sluggish to me. Maybe it's just a matter of getting used to, but for now I am stuck being un-organized. And tbh, I don't know if there is a solution other than having an open laptop with me at all times. Anyone else feels this way?
Grade inflation, review inflation. It's rampant. No wonder people graduate and then have a meltdown when their poor or mediocre performance on the job gets called out.

People are too dumb to understand what "excellent" means, now. Why should I feel like an asshole if I don't give EVERY Lyft driver FIVE STARS, BEST EVAR!!!111!!!
a big concern with organic branding is how organic does something have to be? lower on the food chain on the raw ingredients end it’s easier to quantify. once you get up higher like organic breads and cakes it’s tricky. if i’m making a strawberry cake with organic strawberries and organic wheat but not organic sugar is that ok? what if i mix some organic and some not? there’s a lot of flexibility here. organic produced goods have a minimum organic ingredient percentage requirement but it doesn’t mean it’s 100% organic
This is 100% gone for urban freeways in California.
It reminds me of the first episode of Saturday Night Live after the original 1975 cast all left. In the first episode, the new cast did a sketch in which they each described themselves as a version/variant of/similar to a member of the old cast.

(Everyone was fired after that season, except for Eddie Murphy and Joe Piscopo.)
I could see this perhaps being exploitable against some cloudflare clone or shared hosting provider where the following setup is used:

One server hosts multiple sites from different end entities, with a shared IPv4 address (since those are scarce), and obviously a cert that contains SANs for all the sites this server instance hosts. On IPv4 the server is configured to look inside the request to know which virtual site to serve up.

But for IPv6, they let the each site have a seperate ip address, and bind the virtual sites based only on IP address, since each one is unique, and we can avoid extra overhead of parsing the domain before dispatching this way.

They continue to reuse the multi-san Cert for these addresses, because having to manage extra certs when you already have one that works for all the sites would be silly.

Now if a connection is open to the attackers site via ipv6, and then Firefox tries to open the victim site, resolves the IP address, notices that it has an IPv4 match with the attackers site, so assumes it can just use the attacker site's IPV6 connection, since it was using a cert that lists the victim domain, and suddenly attacker site starts getting requests intended for the victim site, and can do things like steal credentials.

Now perhaps this scenario cannot happen. The bug report does not fully lay out which domains were involved and which ipv4 were assigned to which, and I'm not sure exactly how the reuse logic in Firefox works.

I'm also unsure if this proposed setup violates some http/2 RFC MUSTs, or anything like that, but it is not like it is a completely outlandish idea.
At research universities perhaps, but at liberal arts colleges (not a liberal arts program within a big university - that's different) professors actually are there for the teaching.
It does to go to grad school, and to get fellowships.
By creator of the project I assume you mean creator of the blog/newsletter, not creator of Datasette?
Self replicating AI maps closer to a virus than what we consider life I think (maybe our definition is wrong). But I can't substantially articulate why. No matter how i think about it there are exceptions and examples of things we do call life that are similar to an AI. So maybe it's just my inherit bias because I am biological.
I confess I do not understand.
> Kinect was released (November 4, 2010) a little before this article and presented another vision of future, but the market didn't think so

The Kinect has pretty much dried up for video games, but the company that developed the first version of the Kinect for Microsoft was later purchased by Apple, and their technology underpins the FaceID tech that appears in every iOS device these days.

(Apple has also had rear-facing Lidar on their iPads & iPhones for a few years now, and I believe that it is also an evolution of the Kinect tech, but I don't know for sure.)

I am disappointed that it withered away for video games, since it was really interesting & fun technology.
I'm holding up a mirror to the community. No intention to harm.

Some won't like what they see.

¯\_(ツ)_/¯
tbf in gradschool a C is basically an F. In my program you could get 2 Cs before you were kicked out on your third. Anything lower than a C was basically a huge red flag and would warrant a meeting about the future of the student in the department.
Pretty sure your sane OS makes calls to CRL/OCSP lists to validate cert revocation. Many of the calls in that list do just that.
Cheating is probably the best thing to do. It's a zero sum world.
TIL Europe has cheap EVs. The article only talks about cars that will be available perhaps sometimes in the future at some projected cost.
Oops sorry I was also posting this, hadn't seen yours
For engineers, if you have a good internship or two under your belt when you graduate, I'm not sure your GPA really matters even for your first job. But, GPA definitely matters for what internships you can even apply for. So having a good GPA certainly makes it easier to get a good internship, and having a good internship on your resume makes it easier to get a good first full time job, which make it easier to get your second job, etc.
High prices make wealthy people feel entitled to unsustainable goods
In spring 2020 I was a Harvard TA for organic chemistry lab (well, actually "teaching fellow" because Harvard is pretentious). The grading was extremely lenient, basically everyone got >90%.

(Although in this case it didn't affect GPA because everyone got "emergency satisfactory" grades . . .)
The lack of good node/graph based APIs for Org Mode is my beef as well. When you compare it with the APIs of the Leo Editor[1], Org pales in comparison. Manipulation that is trivial in the Leo Editor can be quite a pain in Org mode.

[1] https://leoeditor.com/
Generally I wouldn't call zig comptime function coloring. (I have written a prime sieve algorithm that uses the runtime code to precalculate some primes at comptime. Yes, I had to be very careful about what was in the prime number algorithm, but comptime supports that level of complexity and it was certainly possible to call runtime-intended code at comptime.

Can you call comptime-intended code at runtime? No? (Yes? B/c the call site is "in" the runtime code?) But just make it runtime code instead of comptime code?
For anyone wanting to process individual images they could use Gimp's CMYK features.
I had the Fiat 500e in the US. Amazing little thing but 80 miles is so limiting in the US.
The teachers are often rated on how well their students do, so they're incentivized to make sure they do "well" and since they control how "well" is measured you have a conflict of interest.

Combined with actually trying to fail someone often getting overturned (even my college 20 years ago famously had a "hard grader" who would often get her fails overturned), you get grade inflation.
I think AI will do a better cheaper job before your vision of the future comes to life.
Org mode is wonderful and I use it any time I'm on the computer. However, I'm not satisfied by any of its mobile interfaces. That's the major weak point in my view.
Oh, it's definitely possible to raise a large family with small square footage. My grandparents raised my father in a 3 bedroom house that can't be more than 1500 square feet. And my dad has 6 siblings!

It does depend on what families are willing to put up with, though. I'm not sure many of my millenial peers want to raise 7 kids in a 1500 square foot house. It's important not to ask what's physically possible, but instead what's probable given societal expectations.
Haven’t pay phones been cell phones for quite a long time now?
All the women are strong, all the men are good looking, and all the children are above average.
That may be what you're telling yourself, but that's not reality.
- Use your personal device to connect to LinkNYC’s super fast, free Wi-Fi

- Access city services, maps and directions from the tablet

- Make free phone calls to anywhere in the U.S. using the tablet or the tactile keypad and microphone. Plug in your personal headphones for more privacy.

- Use the dedicated red 911 button in the event of an emergency

- Charge your device in a power-only USB port

[...]

Sounds cool! Wish we had terminals like these in Germany. Here, they just remove the pay phones, period.
Yeah, well, I've never mis-spoken in a post on HN. Never. (Furtively checks posting history) Or at least not today....
My current university has a different problem, namely that there is no grade curving even though they are supposed to curve and adjust the distributions.

The grades get mapped to ECTS, but the ECTS distribution does not match the actual distribution of the courses. I have a 'D' that's in the 80th percentile, and a B that is in the 95th percentile.
Also Unified Field Theory, which has had very little substantive progress since his time.
At Columbia you can score an A+ which corresponds to a 4.33. So you can graduate with a 4.33/4.0 GPA [1].

Comparing GPAs across Universities is just pointless.

[1] https://www.registrar.columbia.edu/content/grade-point-avera...
No, but Ivy League matters a lot, in certain circles. It's supposed to be the gold standard degree.
I don't its not so much, these students are the elite of elite from around the world (academically). How hard can you make something before it starts to become contradictory to actual learning.
NYC has these kiosks now https://www.link.nyc/

Which, if they are cellular based don't solve for the problem, but I suspect some are hardwired?
Small cheap cars have a margin around $100. It's hard to argue it's worthwhile to build and sell such a car when the total sales may be small and the factory costs $1B.
Rightfully criticising RMS for his objectively horrible behaviour is extremist propaganda now?
You have to start somewhere and before considering taking them out of people's hands, not adding any more assault weapons is progress.

The Uvalde shooter purchased his a few days prior to the attack.
Who knows what might have happened if he hadn't been able to.
Further, their newsletter has been at the same annual price for >10 years. If everything costs more they must be running a charity, or finding "efficiencies" every year, in order to keep the price the same.
It's Harvard. They go way out of their way to ensure that they only select students who will succeed at their school.

Perhaps it's not grade inflation that's the issue. Perhaps it's time to set aside the outdated ideology that grades must always adhere to a bell curve where some percentage of the class must be failed and some percentage must be passed even if the class is comprised of 35 perfect clones of Albert Einstein.

Even further, what an asinine system to begin with. What good does a grading system based on the success of one's immediate peers do anyone? What information does that offer anyone? Maybe I got a 4.0 from Harvard but, if we using a bell curve system of grading, that may tell you that I was in a particularly weak class or that I actually was the strongest student in Harvard history. You'll never know.
Just to be clear, he was teaching undergraduates in survey-level courses.
Sure, if you're satisfied with rampant corruption and dysfunctional institutions. Let's embrace dishonesty and underachievement.
It was common for phone booths to have copies of the yellow and white pages, though it was also common for people to just go in and tear up the pages
Programming jobs that are remote. I personally predict building homes will become a thing - as we reach 600k typical home sales level. We will find people building homes for 200k and selling them for 400k profit. The math is starting to make programming jobs not attractive to me at least. Do 1 per year.
I really wanted to play with it but never did because I had to buy a whole thing (that I might only use once and there wasn't many people developing for). With it being available on the web (without a device) things might be different since the the bar to try it out is much lowered. (After all oculus has tons of fun games and things that use hand tracking so I don't think you can conclude the idea doesn't have potential.)
What's the range on those "small, cheap EVs"? For its many faults, gas has really high energy density, which is useful in a country where some people think it's reasonable to drive an hour commute to get to work, and actual trips can be longer still.
I'm a college drop out and such so maybe I don't know.

But I've never been in a situation where anyone asked / cared about someone else's college grades. IF they graduated or not they cared about... but that's it.

Is anyone asked this / had experience where it mattered?
> in the past 5 years the block syntax at some point changed randomly from all-caps to lower-case (no idea why..).

This is a non-issue - Org mode treats them as case insensitive.

I've used org mode for over a decade and have had few compatibility issues. Of course, I can see that if you use a lot of advanced features + elisp, you'll have more.
> I agree the standard library docs aren't useful (unless something changed a lot in the last six months)... it seemed always better to just search and read the standard library source directly.

They're automatically generated. As I understand it they've been holding off on improving them until they have the self hosted compiler working, as it will be easier at that point.
Oh dear I can see that - sorry for the confusion! I'll see if we can come up with something a bit longer. It was a bit nerdy...
Android is, but nobody's running Android on the desktop.

ChromeOS is, I guess, but how much of a true desktop OS is it vs. a front-end for Google? (Not trolling; I honestly don't know because I don't use any Google products, so it's never been on my radar.)
At least in the context of Lyft, the problem is that The Algorithm (tm) punishes drivers disproportionately: a handful of bad reviews (which could amount to a couple of passengers in bad moods on a single day) might mean being permanently banned from your source of income.

(The entire idea of "reviewing" a rideshare is ridiculous to begin with: you can't select the driver you're matched with, so the it's not as much a "review" as it is a way to algorithmically punish non-employees.)
Interesting little game, I think it pays off not being greedy or arrogant, respecting the users and their data, as well as the government agencies. I managed to score nicely playing with the relatively mature candidate sticking to a college environment. Ownership stake could have been better, but I feel 21% is pretty ok if one goes with big investors/VCs in order to have enough cash to survive the process.

Founder: Andre

Headquarters: University Park

The End - Going Public

Progress: 35/35

Rank: 5/5

Financial Health: Good

Users: Good

Tech & Talent: Excellent

Ownership Stake 21%

Time & Focus 2/3
"We won't rest until every student graduates with an above average GPA".
The Largest Software Acquisition Ever
Big EV are absolutely more polluting. They require more resources in their construction — which is a major driver of overall pollution footprint. Larger EVs also require more energy (eg electricity) to propel them, and all electricity sources have a pollution footprint (sometimes directly but always at construction/clean up).

Even your “dig deeper/build taller” for parking carries additional pollution costs.
Near real-time notifications from Aurora PostgresSQL triggers,AWS Lambda and SNS
I do real estate for a living and this opinion is like a zombie that never dies no matter how many times it is proven wrong.

You are putting forward that landlords acted collectively to increase the price of realestate. This is obviously wrong. The price of homes is determined by the market. It doesn’t matter who owns those homes, they are worth what the market says they are. Landlords do not control the market and even if they banded together in a conspiracy to increase the price of homes, they couldn’t because the vast majority of homes are owned by regular people.

The high price of housing is caused by a shortage. If you don’t believe me then watch the 60 minutes segment about it. There’s no conspiracy. If there weren’t landlords building new stock it would be even worse. It’s so ironic that the hive mind spits in the face of the only people building new housing; the only people making the problem better.
That was a total guess, a leap to what happens next, not science at all. The word 'perhaps' is our clue.

FUD articles like this are not helpful.
Has a known news source reported on this at all?
A huge number of tech focused jobs are remote first currently.
Plus just because you grow up in the middle of no where what is preventing you from going to college somewhere else and even settling there? I see no reason why being a child in a rural area would limit you from college onwards provided you graduated highschool with a decent gpa.
I’m not trying to imply COVID (literally SARS2) isn’t serious. I’m saying it could have been worse.

The hardest hit demographic in Toronto during the Spanish flu was men in their 20s. People died the same day they became symptomatic. That would completely overwhelm our health infrastructure. We don’t have the infrastructure for a pandemic that causes respiratory arrest within hours of symptom onset (the dreaded rapid onset of influenza). Covid gave people days to prepare…and still caught some by surprise.
I don't know the paper, but I'm actually working on an Arduino library for data over sound and I think it kind of sounds similar to R2D2. Here is a 1 min demo if you are interested:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qbzKo3zbQcI
Hey, you ok? Got someone to talk to?
I've gone through this before. The end result was that I was quite literally dis-invited from interviewing candidates. I left that place shortly thereafter.
They want their children to rule in hell rather than serve in heaven. Not the wisest deal ever struck.
> This content is not available in your country/region.

Sad Internet.
Tangentially related and for sure I'm not always a Malcolm Gladwell fan but this one seemed interesting.

Why You Shouldn't Go to Harvard

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7J-wCHDJYmo&t=12s

Acclaimed author Malcolm Gladwell has some advice for teenagers looking into college.

"If you want to get a science and math degree, don't go to Harvard," he says. Harvard is filled with the smartest people in the world, and perversely that makes it a dispiriting place to go to school.

At Harvard, the lower tier students are as smart as the top tier students at an average school. However, the lower tier students get just as discouraged at Harvard as the lower tier students at an average school. The result: They don't get their degrees in math or science. 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.

This is crazy, because as Gladwell points out, a science and math degree is the "most valuable commodity any graduate can have in today's economy." He says that "as as a rule of thumb, your odds of successfully getting a math degree fall by two percentage points for every ten point increase in the average SAT score of your peers."

So, if you're a kid and you have a choice between, Harvard and the University of Maryland, go with Maryland because its SAT scores are 150 points lower on average. That means you have a 30% better chance at getting your degree. However, most people will still choose Harvard, even knowing this, says Gladwell. Why? Because we have an irrational attachment to certain prestigious institutions.
Larger vehicles are more dangerous for people walking or cycling, as well as taking up more space and reducing visibility for other road users.