skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I read actually here on HN some years back (or was is Slashdot?), a good explanation of how Japanese undergrad programs have a similar problem about inflation, manifested by contrast in why they are very focused on taking attendance at college courses.

Anyone who gets into a top Japanese university by definition has done well up to that point. And the university has an obvious interest in maintaining (or making it seem to outsiders / employers / future students) that their graduates are top ranked. So it would not be good to be having 1/2 your class "underperforming". Therefore grades are inflated and as a result students often just phone it in. (also knowing that their careers ahead are mostly set if they minimally apply themselves and show up)

So at that point, all they can do is mostly grade people on the small differences in performance, monitor their attendance to catch and flunk out the worst behaviors (completely skipping class), and live with the system they have.

I would be glad to find/read that post again but I think I've lost where it came from...
Well, it's not a "false equivalence" per se - the city literally installed the LinkNYC terminals right where the payphones used to be and considers them to be a successor to them - but I agree that the user experience of placing a call with the terminals is pretty bad. You don't get privacy, you (usually) have nowhere to sit, and if you're standing right in front of the terminal then you've got people constantly walking past you.

Frankly, I wasn't making any calls on the old payphones either, and it's been over a decade since I bothered memorizing a phone number, so I don't really feel qualified to pass judgment on whether they're that much better or worse. But I appreciate that the LinkNYC Wi-Fi access points are often easier and faster than those of the stores/cafes around them, and I appreciate being able to stop and charge up my phone a bit if it dies while I'm out and about. (Did this a lot during the Pokemon Go craze!)
How many doses of fluoroquinolones are needed for that to happen?

I only had two 12-hour doses and it was a horrible 24 hours.
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Well, today I looked at symptoms of nervous breakdown and realised that I have had nervous breakdown every time there has been an infra outage. So I guess nervous breakdowns == BAU for infra engineers.
Ask HN: Why Neo4j can have both GPLv3 and closed-source licenses
So Neo4j has 2 different editions:

- Community Edition: open source with GPLv3 license

- Enterprise Edition: closed source

From my understanding, if you derive a work from a GPLv3 license project, you will also need to open source your derived work under the same license. Is it possible that Neo4j can just closed source the enterprise version (that derived from the community version) while keeping the community version GPLv3 license?
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Not cool
There are payphones in the stations still. They were talking about on the surface sidewalks.
Well, doctors and lawyers, as in some of the most powerful people in the country (supreme court justices, etc) have to get graduate degrees.

Maybe it doesn't matter for software engineers, but it matters a lot for the power structure of our society.
I voted kind of okay. Feeling somewhat trapped in basic loop, which is particularly annoying considering how it's no longer winter and nice outside.

Job's doing pretty well, pays pretty well for my geographic region (nowhere close to SV wages though), main client is pretty good and the project should have high impact and I'm doing significant work on it, but it's not in a field that particularly interests me.

In my spare time I'm helping a non-profit as kind of a mentor for junior engineers as well as a little dev work here and there. Sometimes I feel guilty about not putting more time and effort into it than I do.

Also trying to work on my own video game projects in my spare time as well, but finding the energy and motivation for it has been pretty low lately.

But it really just feels like my life revolves around three C's: coding, cleaning, and cooking. And taking the dogs on walks a 3-4 times a week. Haven't done a whole lot social lately, most of my friends have kind of drifted a bit since the pandemic. Wanting to go out in nature more but it feels like I need most of that time to make any progress on projects.

And I want to go on trips but they've gotten so expensive and my wife has very limited PTO this year anyway, so we only have one significant trip planned much later in the year and even that is a compromise from what we originally planned (now only driving one state away for a week, instead of go halfway across the country to see a couple national parks for two weeks).

But hey, could be a lot worse. And financially we're a lot better off than most Americans, especially right now.

When student loan payments start kicking in again in September that's going to hurt, though. Not for me, mine are paid off, but my wife has some pretty large ones. She's been paying them down some during this time, but not with as large of payments as she'll need to when they start up again (it's a little over half a mortgage payment every month).
I’m a little disturbed by the nonstandard ordering of these options
Apologies then, I'm trying to indicate that I'm curious about the reasoning behind this perspective and open to a good-faith discussion on it. Your decision to not engage with my question and instead criticize my articulation leads me to think this discussion won't happen.
I have nothing against the hardline stance the FSF holds, but I cannot support someone who joins an organization and then starts a crusade against its founder over his personal political views. I don't think politics belongs in open source software.
Precisely. Though perhaps NVidia would argue they're giving themselves a license exemption?

If you understand drivers as plugins (which makes sense, really, drivers are kernel plugins), and if you understand plugins as derivative, it would be even worse. It would mean every driver on Windows's copyright is Microsoft's by default. And that the original NVidia closed source is already GPL.
I mean my phone bill isn't 200$ and massively data capped with bad coverage anymore so if it's to get a better deal on your phone bill then that's my advice yes
That was fast. Too early to adopt for me, but the speed is encouraging.
It would probably be even more helpful to a market of candidates applying for jobs. This idea has great potential!
Given how many front-end packages are on NPM, it's obviously not the case that the libraries provided were sufficient for scripting the DOM. Just take left_pad itself, that's something the language should provide, and it's an issue that it ended up being a point of failure.

I have no particular love for using JS as a language to power everything from IoT devices to web servers, but it doesn't really matter how I feel about it. It's not going anywhere.
I'm intrigued by how far off it is from literally impossible. How many orders of magnitude are we from the point where rather than cache semantics forbidding it for practical reasons, you just couldn't physically deliver global order.

If it was practical people would do it because it makes it much easier to write programs. So, it's not practical today and yet your parent insists it's possible anyway and I wonder by how much.
If that is the recipe for intelligence, why did it take four billion years to develop on Earth?

Plenty of other animals met your criteria, yet humans are the only ones who passed it.
What are you going to do if the 10% correction comes after prices have increased 15%?
Looks great so far, one nit pick is the menu isn't playing well[0] for Brave Version 1.39.111 Chromium: 102.0.5005.61 (Official Build) (arm64)

[0] https://imgur.com/a/WSEVCFG
Harvard and Yale have 10x horrible negative character connotations compared to MIT or UChicago, and it gets worse all the time.

McNamara (Vietnam), Kissinger (illegal bombing of Laos), Clinton (impeached), Bush (WMD lies), Ted Cruz and other senators who literally can't pass 7th grade science. I can continue for an hour.
Webpack can be rather complex but that's because you can do a lot with it. It's not really any harder to learn than any other piece of software and the person you were replying to is correct in referring to the official documentation. If you go through the official tutorials you will come out the other end knowing perfectly well how to configure it from scratch.

If you don't want to dedicate a few hours to learning Webpack and your goal is to just set up a basic React + Typescript app then I'd strongly encourage using an opinionated bundler that provides standard templates for setting up such a project. Vite is very good for that https://vitejs.dev/guide/#scaffolding-your-first-vite-projec... you should be able to just type a few lines in the shell and be up and running.
It worked for me on OSX with both Firefox and Safari, although I did need to whitelist Javascript on Firefox in NoScript for the site. The volume level was pretty low, but was able to hear it with headphones.
On September 11th 2001 people lined up to use payphones because the cellular networks were overloaded.
In GP's context, no. The basics of the theory is a lack of incentives for young men to play the game, which leads to either proactive destruction or passive destruction. War usually leads to a surplus of women and a lack of male competition in any other area (jobs, land, wealth, opportunity), incentivizing men to play according to the social contract rather than being violent or giving up. In fact, some would say starting a war is seen as a society killing off its surplus men in hopes of getting something out of it (every war is a rich man's war).

It's difficult to get decisive evidence as the phenomenon tends to happen at the same time as other things, and it basically devolves to game theory. At the very least, it seems like a very, very bad idea to incentivize the population with the largest capability to destroy, to destroy. Especially when they are necessary to create, educate and set an example for the next generation of men.
I went to a mid-tier school. The low-tier Harvard students are assuredly smarter than the top-tier students from my school. One reason is that students don't exist in a vacuum. Your peers influence your intelligence. Being surrounded by smart people, i.e. people with novel and interesting ideas, makes you smarter. The second reason is that the choice to go to Harvard is itself a smart choice. So people who make that choice are likely smarter than those who don't make that choice. I was in the top-tier of my school. The first time I was exposed to people from top-tier universities is when I entered the industry. I was absolutely blown away by the quality difference. The experience permanently readjusted by aptitude scale.
Good point, I remember seeing a report a little while ago about literacy rates even in the U.S. and they were surprisingly bad (a quick lookup on Wikipedia shows "According to the U.S. Department of Education, 54% of adults in the United States have prose literacy below the 6th-grade level")

That said, I'm not sure it's a guarantee that kids will be more educated and productive. I spent quite a bit of time in Africa (Kenya and Cameroon for projects, Uganda for holiday) last year and many people are relatively highly educated (e.g. local university degree) but still cannot get work, access to finance to start their own biz and be productive, or as soon as they make some money their business will get taxed (legally or illegally) to death. So other factors beyond education holding folks back, and even if it was just enabled from online learning, I think we'd see much more takeup of MOOCs and the like.

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Pair it with the idea that the primary filtering signal of top tier schools is in the admission, not the graduation.

Something like 99% of Harvard end up graduating, so simply having a Harvard degree doesn't tell me much more about you than simply having an admission letter. If you were admitted, then it's almost certain that you'll get a degree.

So, if instead you hold onto your admission letter, as proof of ability, and then go to a lower tier school where you can be more certain to be one of the biggest fish in the pond, you get the best of both worlds. Hell, even include a list of "universities admitted to" on you resume to signal the brand name to employers that aren't smart enough to realize the brand doesn't matter much anymore.

Then again, why would you want to work for an employer that still puts stock in college brand names over individual ability?
Really annoying, I don't understand why someone would think it increases security.
Now I have to make another click every time I need to use 2FA.
Time for a new app.
6% to the cartel and another 3-4% in other transaction fees (title fees and insurance, excise tax, etc).
I live near some mountainous rural terrain. There is no cell coverage in large swaths of valleys so many of the county and state parks have payphones to ensure phone service.
Is Dysautonomia permanent?

I had some symptoms of it two weeks after testing positive but now I'm living under the spectre of a lifelong disablement. Or, I'm overthinking it.

I'm slowly ramping up exercise, my only symptoms are some sleep issues as well as a relatively anxious malaise but there are a lot of life stressors unrelated to the illness I recently recovered from.
More useful for what? The goal isn't necessarily to identify the strongest student. The goal is to teach them material. The grade should represent mastery of the material. Some material can be mastered by every student.
My father, now 70 years old, got stuck in Sicily with a broken car earlier this year. He had forgot his mobile phone home. He wasn't able to find a landline phone that he could use. Exasperated after trying several locations (bars, fast foods, etc asking for a phone call only to be denied) for 45 minutes, he decided to enter a vodafone store. They would not let him use _any_ phone because it was against the _policy_ (???). He asked if he could buy a phone and charge it, but was pretty complex (at least for him - mind you he had money and credit card with him). Maybe the fact that his accent betrays the fact that he's a foreigner had something to do with it...

Long story short, in 1970 you could get a phone call at the bar down the street and ring home if you were in trouble. People in the neighbourhoods were eager to help. In 2022, in Sicily, if you lose your mobile phone you're effectively _done_.
This based on a highly biased self-reported sample.
They are randomized
That is true but also feels somewhat circular. “The set of people who are prone to make optimal choices with their money is correlated with the set of the people who have more money today.”

It’s not clear the direction of the causal link and it’s almost surely a bit of both. Having more money affords the luxury of making (and time to research or money to outsource) better decisions. Making better decisions leads to having more money.

If the predominant economic paradigm were one that favored in-mattress-saving (such as persistent deflation might be), would the “rich” still be as inclined to invest in today’s productive-given-inflation assets or would they pivot to being heavy in-mattress savers? The ones that didn’t adjust would presumably become relatively less rich over time.
How did this happen? You'd think a company like GitHub would know better than to allow passwords to land in log files.
Oooh, I know a lot of Stanford (and Berkeley) students who would be extremely upset to hear you say that. :)
They may not be meant to kill, but they are clearly designed to kill.

They have the same essential design as most low-caliber rifles that are explicitly designed for hunting - i.e., designed for killing.

That design came from centuries of seeking more efficient, efficacious ways to kill with guns.

Sure, they're tweaked to be optimal for very formalized, competitive shooting, not military combat, but they'd still serve very well for executions, sniping, and the like.

See also biathlon's roots in military training: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biathlon#History
That's an incorrect assumption on your part. DDG allows you to execute search queries without associating those queries or results with any of your personally identifiable information or accounts. Its claim is to provide private search. No part of their mission claims to never use "Big Tech" companies for infrastructure, transport, etc.

Again I'll come back to my example. Do you think that SNHU being hosted on Azure means Microsoft just gets free access to all of their grades, research data, user/student/faculty information, PII, logs, to use for their own business purposes? If that's what you believe is happening, then this applies to every company who uses any public cloud provider.

Seriously, I'd love more proof or sources for these claims that Microsoft (or any company) is using its position as a cloud provider to harvest information from private companies. Otherwise it's nothing more than a conspiracy theory driven by traceroute output, thrown together with misinformed news articles about business contracts.
I mean don't they get 10000 applications already from a preselected group of mostly very good and smart students and then filter for the top 3 percent? Most of those kids are going to show up to class and do the work. I'm not saying that there is no grade inflation going on but they have created a system designed to select academic freaks(yeah I know, and a bunch of rich kids) who value grades above all else.
Congrats on the launch and what an awesome first guest! Looking fwd to more posts :D
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Objective according to you?

https://rms-support-letter.github.io/
In what universe would getting vaccinated be getting conned? It's the smartest thing you could have done. AFAIK covid vaccines are not connected with heart issues beyond rather rare and generally mild cases of myocarditis, but getting covid is strongly connected to heart problems.
It's really not that hard to use once you invest some time into it. I know where you are coming from, but appeasing the compiler actually means "I am writing safe code". Rather then "it compiled let's see what happens in production"
Oof I’m in exactly the same spot at work for a project I’m running. It seems so close but every step forward seems to be uncovering one more step before the finish line.
I own one!

I'm a UI/UX designer who was historically very invested in the Surface ecosystem during the early Win8/10 era, so this was a day-1 curiosity purchase for me.

As a physical object, I like it a lot. It's not _perfect_, but it has a great weight, the Dial has a satisfying resistance (like a 70s stereo knob), uses AAAs, and the haptic feedback is solid for a digitally-triggered vibrating motor (vs a literal ratchet).

What I find, however, is that it's a superior consumption tool vs creation tool. It's at its best when being used as a single-function knob. Great for sitting at a desk while reading a whitepaper, or perhaps controlling volume while listening to music. Day to day I use a mouse with a stepped-wheel, but the smooth scroll on the Dial makes it my preferred way to handle longform content. Keeps a long article flowing.

However, it has not become an indispensable part of my workflow. That may just be me. I need to pivot between Windows/macOS/Linux over the course of a day, so a lot of its proprietary-tech promise is wasted and I've built fewer habits. I'm also not sure offhand how good the integration is with design tools after the initial fanfare around Adobe, Surface Studio, etc.

Other tricky part: It's bluetooth. Once it's awake and in-use, that's...acceptable, if you aren't actively looking for tiny bits of input lag. But if you need it on-demand (sudden noise from the speakers, etc.) and you haven't used it in a while, it may be a couple seconds before it's responsive to that first input.

Still, it _is_ intriguing enough to me that years-on, it's still on my desk and is one of the only bluetooth devices I own, much less tolerate using. I think it's at it's best when it's a context-sensitive linear actuator with some light multifunction capability vs a new paradigm.
tried to browse the mobile twitter with my links2, and I got the order to "enable javascript". Maybe I did miss something.
Exactly this. The article doesn't make sense to me at all.
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> tax would be effectively based on payment volume, rather than profit

Playing SimCity as a young kid taught me that raising taxes too much means people and businesses leave. Maybe the SF lawmakers did not play SimCity growing up.
I have an Anker GAN power block that's working extremely well.
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I'll believe it when I see it hit 1.0 and has a healthy user base.
As a counterpoint to this, I'll reference the (absolutely incredible) Do the Math blog, by Tom Murphy at UCSD.

https://dothemath.ucsd.edu/2011/07/can-economic-growth-last/

https://dothemath.ucsd.edu/2012/04/economist-meets-physicist...

A salient quote from the first article, that I find very relevant:

> We have developed an unshakable faith in technology to address our problems. Its track record is most impressive… But we have to be careful about faith, and periodically reexamine its validity or possible limits.
Pretty dang good. I have a pretty bleak view of the future, but I work hard to prevent environment from bringing down my inner being.

Resilience, in other words. That everyone else seems to think the sky is falling paradoxically strengthens my resolve. I don't know why this is.
Sure, I understand what you mean. It is still beneficial to the holder of deposits on which a small but nonzero yield is being received.
Sysadmins? These were photographs. Film and paper.
Yeah, I would actively avoid going to a school like this. This sounds like a race to the bottom. Or at least like a race to a C-
Another case of an optional thing that enhanced experiences and made you more free becoming something you must have to do anything, so, removing some freedom after all.

See also: the automobile, at least as experienced in the US and similar countries.

[EDIT] and in both cases, the problem is the effect the new thing had on the environment around it. When tech- and progress-focused people can't figure out why some cultures/countries have "anti-progress" laws (France's protection of book stores, for instance), well, this is often part of why they do that.
This is not just Harvard, right? Elite schools, especially the so called ivy schools, have been inflating GPAs for years. In the meantime, they have been putting more weight on "holistic" admission over academic performance. So the US has been so advanced that academic performance is of secondary importance? Leadership is what matters most? Do I understand it correctly?
I worked at Apple back when they had a sabbatical - 5 weeks after 5 years. I never took vacation. Took off during the Fall vaction+holidays+sabatical=3 months trip around the world. I was deathly afraid that when I returned I'd be so far behind. Guess what - everything was the same. Lesson learned: Take your time off.
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A lot of people disagree with that.

https://rms-support-letter.github.io/

If you think it's alright to join an organization and then go out of your way to backstab its founder because his social skills are lacking, then you're free to do that.
Many of the discussion on those forums are about plain sight conspiracies. Where it goes off the rails is when discussion turns into baseless speculation.
What is "node/graph" based APIs that's not the next-heading etc functions that it does have?