skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
right, the causal chain is so apparent and obvious, it's hard to see why someone would provide puzzling alternatives such as "fluff". schools can't fluff up unless an unlimited money spigot appears out of the sky, as it did in the 90s. fluff is a result, a part of the end of the causal chain, not the beginning. tuition was certainly rising before that, because government assistance existed before that, but it was limited by political means until the spigot was thrown wide open in the 90s.

in any market, there are broadly only two competitive strategies, cost or differentiation, and cost no longer matters when money is "free".
All these lambdas seem excessive. "Maybe"-like pattern in Python can look like (None is falsy and custom objects are true):

# note: `None and f()` returns None without calling f
balance = user and user.get_balance()
credit = balance and balance.credit_amount()
discount_program = choose_discount(credit) if credit and credit > 0 else None

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/8507200/maybe-kind-of-mo...
esbuild [0], a JavaScript bundler, has made waves in the frontend community over the past couple years for being orders of magnitude faster than alternatives and written in Go (as opposed to Node.js which is the usual choice for obvious reasons).

[0] https://esbuild.github.io/
"It's only unfalsifiable if you ignore a person's previous experience and accomplishments, refusing to acknowledge anything other than your own interview as an accurate gauge of the person's skills."

Which is often the right thing to do unless you have very specific knowledge of that experience e.g. a referral, because so many people flat out lie about their experience and accomplishments. If you can't directly verify it, the accuracy is so low it's best ignored.

As for your experience, I'm glad to hear you're now happily self employed (so am I!). How are you proving your skills to customers, if you can't handle job interviews? Or are you making a product?

"Have you considered that you might not have a full understanding and appreciation for human psychology and the wide variance among humans?"

I have an average such understanding, having lived an average life. But the problem remains: someone who claims to be able to do a job fine but can't demonstrate that capability when asked, is from an employer's perspective best avoided. That isn't a flaw in the interviewing process, that's the point of it! The reasons why someone can't demonstrate it are irrelevant because there's no better alternative available, and anyway, someone who can't handle the pressure of a job interview is very likely to crack in other situations. You claim it's not true and there's something psychologically unique about interviewing, but, I don't really believe this and clearly neither do other people doing hiring.
I really feel overwhelmed.

I like coding in Python because it makes me feel free from Java stuff, but those patterns have getting me worried.
I believe you are confusing the student health fee with health insurance plan and they aren't the same thing. Student health fee goes into paying for the on-campus student services like the athletic fee, computer fee, etc. I haven't been a student in years but I do remember walking into the clinic and getting seen by someone right away. The services under that fee are kind of unique to student lifestyle: birth control, STD tests, vaccines, common prescriptions, mental health. Which is slightly different from family healthcare which requires preauthorization on some health services.

BTW, you could get a lot of fees removed or reduced by dropping to part-time commuter student. But they probably got rid of that exclusion since a lot of colleges are chasing money.
> The individual posting the article may not be the owner of the code base

Good point, I didn't consider that.

The point of view I'm coming from is that while it's impossible to put all possible information in a README (and such level of detail would probably make it even less readable, like Whitehead and Russel's Principia Mathematica) - there are some things that are reasonable to expect on any kind of public repository (I assume it's a public repository because of the README's public-facing style - "Welcome to the 4coder code base. [...] In this readme you will find: [...]"), such as "what is the purpose of this program".

I know nobody owes anything to nobody, and such criticism might be seen as rude - since we're basically criticizing volunteers - but consider the fact that feedback is a major part of how we figure out our mistakes. If someone is posting their work online, it would be reasonable to assume that they care about their work and want to make it better. Without (constructive) criticism, they would never receive the feedback required for improving. Praise is pleasant and should be given when it's due, but criticism is also useful information.
Healthy soil can be cultivated at scale, so if quality is the top priority that's not an issue. At least two major factors are at play:

- soil usually doesn't get time to recover and gets fertilized every year, nutrition can't build back up because of worsening chemical conditions due to monoculture and salts -> simply less nutrients are available to the plants with each cycle

- plants get bred to maximize yields, leading to first and foremost bigger plants, other factors (like nutritional value) are not priority #1

See https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/soil-depletion-an....
Its time to move on from the woman education and children health care cliche talking points. Its very 2000.

Its no longer a interesting question for the world at large. Africa and a few others are the only hold outs, and while they deserve those things, it shouldn't be the go to talking points w.r.t. world population.

The vast majority of places is by all measures destined for a population collapse.

In many places there is a bump in the population pyramid around child bearing age as we speak. That bump isn't even close to replacement fertility, and in 10 years the people in that age brackets are so few that their fertility won't be significant for total population numbers.

Population stabilization is a subject for 30 years from now. First we're getting a population collapse and we should be talking about it.
Windows configuration is just wild. Every program does whatever wherever and the only sane way is to go through every program you install and change all your settings again.
Goalposts.

WinMerge works fine via Wine.
Building cool and useful things is idealistic! Making things people can enjoy and sharing them with the world is wonderful and something not found in a lot of companies.

I think the zealotry is being protectionist trying to keep things fun and useful and not tainted by the need to extract a profit
Check out diysolar forum. Google it. Lots of very good information.

Also watch Will prowse on YouTube.
RIP script bombs on BBSes were evil. You could black out someone's screen until they exited and dialed back up.
If I recall, Ymodem-G (as opposed to Ymodem) was basically an unchecksummed raw file dump with a little metadata header, so it was only usable on a connection without line noise. You could actually get undetected file corruption.
Well, yes, which makes the whole situation even weirder - American banks support direct bank transfers, yet companies and individuals continue using cheques. Fedexing a check for insurance claim is like super duper weird to me - it must cost money to send it, it cannot possibly be cheaper than just wiring the money.
The ones I come across likely had no human in the process but the one signing up for whatever service. The one that signed up for hydro at least I could "creep" using Street View, see where he lives. ;)
We've had two >7 day electricity outages in the past 15 years here in central Massachusetts due to snow storms.
In my experience, software engineering has ever created 4 types of standardized diagrams that are useful: entity-relationship, data-flow, messages and states-transition. Most share the feature that they communicate data, instead of code.

The standard data-flow diagrams are too low level to be useful nowadays, but it's trivial to remap its symbols into the high-level components our modern distributed systems use. But still, for most people they will just show a database, an application transformation, and the user's output, so they are only useful when you have something different from that to show.

Entity-relationship diagrams were technically included in UML, but the entire world disagrees, so you are better thinking about them as a separated class. Those are in wide use.

Messages diagram (included in UML as sequence diagrams) are very useful to design and analyze protocols, but the UML one is a bad fit for that use due to its serial appearance. If you look at distributed systems papers, you will see a version with oblique arrows instead of horizontal ones that doesn't imply two-sided links, serial communication or even a total order on the messages.

Finally, state machines are a really useful architecture pattern, and states transition diagrams capture them very well.

Every other diagram that I've seen is either completely ad-hock or replacing it with text would improve everything. I really miss some "central architecture diagram" that shows the important structures on your code and how they interact (UML has structure as class diagrams, those suck), but I have never seen any good implementation of this one.
You can stay signed into Amazon, one click buy works on their website, and if you started your search for the content on the computer instead of the phone you would only have to click buy instead of those other steps.
In Turkish the /ü/ is like a French /u/ in the word "tu" so super round and front. The /r/ is flapped like in Spanish, and for the rest you just pronounce it how it looks. There are three syllables: tür-ki-ye. Turkish orthography is very good.
>Windows interrupts you regularly for stuff that's not important to whatever you're doing.

Really not my current experience and I use W10 daily at work and W11 at home. Not saying it's a good OS, just saying that your statement is plain wrong.

If certain (third party) apps are annoying then you can control notifications through the focus assist setting just like with any mobile OS.
HappyMapper was actually an inspiration for Shale. If it had support for JSON, Shale probably wouldn't be created :)
>I think it's a false meme that folks use tobacco and weed together

You're describing a blunt; pot wrapped in cigar (tobacco) wrapper, which was quite popular way back when, but not sure if it is anymore.
That's cool - I thought it was a counterweight or a motor mechanism too but a place for the drawer to go seems obvious now :)
Now the real question: Can it run Crysis... without hardware acceleration?
This makes no sense at all. Under the Federal Family Education Loan program, the student borrowed from a bank, and the university was paid right away. The government paid the bank in case of default.

Under the William D Ford Federal Direct Loan program, the student borrows from the government. The university is paid right away.

So this post’s argument, which is that the Direct Loan program made universities get paid right away, makes no sense.
Risk for what? Sure, that poses demographic challenges, but having fewer people would make fighting climate change and ecosystem collapse much easier.
I’m in the same boat. Go lacks abstraction to the point source becomes hard to read due to lack of abstraction.
RIPscrip from Telegrafix, remember it well. Hit the industry like a tornado at the tail-end before the web overwhelmed everything
A company so run by accountants that they needed to have “left, right and front/rear-toggle” power window button instead of a power window button for all four windows. No thanks
or just had two of these in parallel, it would be worth consideration.

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That actually doubles your risk of failure, better to go with one big one.
I tend to prefer the insideevs 70 mph test, as its closer to a practical test, but yes, the range in the real world is different from the rated range to varying degrees.

Teslas tend to come pretty close to their EPA highway rating when tested on the highway under similar circumstances. But the EPA highway rating isn't the one that gets advertised. :sigh
A.k.a series hybrid. Chevy attempted this with the Volt - it made perfect sense to me but never really caught on.
Weather modeling - X kilometers by Y layers of atmosphere can get expensive to compute really quick. And NOAA does more than just simulate weather, they're running climate/sea level rise/arctic ice modelling, aggregating sensor data from buoys/balloons/satellites, processing maps, and more.

I can't speak for NOAA, but my experience with supercomputing has been that there is no abstraction of computation, your workload is very much tied to hardware assumptions.
Are you getting the same number of comments for better landing pages, but the comments are getting more detailed and nit-picky?
We're not dealing with the natural numbers, right? Otherwise, you obviously want to open the envelope and always switch when you see an odd number.

Of course, the lack of a uniform distribution on the reals or rationals presents the same problem.
While the many types of forests (deciduous, coniferous, rain, etc) dominate a lot of land on earth, there is still many types of plains, chaparral/savannah, deserts, mountain, tundras, etc.
A new implementation of the same thing, now on a different platform.

Is it just me or does it seem like there are certain places where there is little innovation?
Imagine confusing a concept like UBI that uses tax dollars skimmed off a decentralized economy with a centralized planned economy. Even funnier when you are also comparing a democracy with an authoritarian strongman regime. You do you though.
I also had the opposite experience. I used Sourcetree for a while, but the performance became really bad, so I switch to Fork and have never looked back.
I saw some speculation of that, but it isn't clear that its actually true.
Netflix's stock appears to be doing significantly worse than the market, though, so it seems like maybe they're still figuring some stuff out?
SomaFM
I was mostly just asking the question, as I'm not an expert in the nuances of DRAM timing/latency/etc nor chip design.

... but we also didn't define whether we were using "possible" in an academic or commercial sense.
No, you can see the mini-Sheffield protruding up between each wheel slot, and you can see a bike's frame locked to it. Hard to see in this picture but it's there.
This is literally their marketing strategy. The same thing applies to popcorn sizes at the movie theaters. I can't remember what it's called or find a reference to the strategy, hopefully someone smarter than I can provide it.
Even in Apple's near-totalitarian payment ecosystem, physical goods have never had the same (exorbitant!) transaction fees and rules as digital goods.
IMHO this is one of the worst ways to improve your Python skills. Instead, focus on what the normal, robust, beautiful, clear, and idiomatic solutions to problems.

There is an enormous amount of quality training material available as well as excellent source code to major projects.

Most people would be better off just spending a hour or so with the tutorial at docs.python.org.

I get people coming to me asking for a job teaching Python when they don't know of some the material in the tutorial. Most have never read the FAQs and aren't aware of common solutions to common problems. To me, if you want to build your skills, start there. Get in the habit of reading docs, even boring ones, and occasionally read some of the source code from your favorite libraries.

That said, if you've already a very strong Python programmer, one possible use for these snippets is to help you root out any last, misconceptions of minor details.

But, you should resist the urge to show-off or use almost any of these "skills". There are a lot of cute things we can do with chained comparisons, but the only sensible things are: lo <= x <= hi or f(x) == g(x) == h(x). Anything else is too weird for communicating with the human beings. Likewise, you should only use "is" for None tests until you have strong understanding of identity guarantees.
Look closer - there's a Sheffield-ish bar running between each bikes, and one bike's frame is locked to it.
I expect we mostly agree, but I disagree with your use of "ever". :-)

From the "January 1998 North American ice storm" Wikipedia article [1]:

The area south of Montreal [...] was nicknamed the triangle noir ("dark or black triangle") [...] for the total lack of electricity for weeks.

[...]

In Quebec alone, 150,000 people were without electricity as of January 28.

(The storm started about Jan. 4.) The Montreal area is not prone to common natural disasters.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/January_1998_North_American_ic...
Probably more likely people aren't used to side loading and if you succeed in teaching people to do this you have also taught them how to avoid paying you as well.
This misses the point of what antitrust laws are and what they exist to prevent. The problem here is not solely that google charges a large fee.
I like the idea, but I think pricing is very overcomplicated. I personally use Tally.so for my form, and I like the simplicity of their pricing.
Dear future anthropologists; a collection of empty American archetypes about soviet life, found naturally in the wild
You can partition a large compute cluster into many smaller ones. Users can make a request specifying how many processors they want for how long. Check out this link to see the activity of a supercomputer at Argonne.

https://status.alcf.anl.gov/theta/activity

And I believe it is more efficient to have a single large cluster. As there are large overheard costs of power, cooling, and having a physical space to put the machine in. Plus a personnel cost to maintain the machines.
They may, but that would be TTL-level and would need a level shifter and a 9-pin connector to do actual RS-232, plus trying to find the pins, maybe enabling the UARTS in the BIOS, etc. Making using a USB-to-serial adapter less work.
And imagine if we started teaching high school kids about these types of tools to help them navigate the real world! I barely understood the broad picture of how government was supposed to work, much less offered any "applied" knowledge of the systems I would actually need to interact with as a citizen.
Not worried because the bigger problem will be population decline, once the boomers start dying on mass. The US will be more like Japan. You won't be able to import enough immigrants to offset this, since the lowering standards of living in the US is increasing to trend to the world average. Less people, less agricultural land needed. Too many people are having abortions, or choosing to not to have kids, and not enough kids are born to replace the dying.
There's also the least-promoted awesome project that is terminal/ncurses based... so easy to run on remote development

https://www.flickr.com/photos/jonasfonseca/3315600409/in/alb...
(the official site link screenshots to flikr :)

https://jonas.github.io/tig/

it is part of my workflow for years. I prefer direct git commands. But sometimes it is nice to explore history and complex changes there. And most of the parameters are the same as `git diff ...` just `tig ...` with (almost always) same values for the ellipsis.
I couldn’t care less about Amazon, but fees for listing in the store aren’t a problem (or not a large one). Problem is that fees are viral and follow you outside of the store.
I struggle to think of one way that the average american is better since 2010. Most of the "hard problems" being solved by tech companies are ways to increase shareholder value, find new and more invasive ways to advertise.
another solution is to move to Russia, where it's not allowed to sell liquor online. Though obviously, it's not a good time to live in Russia
Sequence Diagrams!! They are awesome. You get to see all the entities involved in the architecture and how they interact with each other.

Also https://sequencediagram.org/ allows you to describe them in text and creates a diagram for you.

Its what I have been using.
I'm here because there is genuine discourse on the latest topics amongst an intelligent group of people. The basic html/readable, ad free and digestible content is a bonus.
> These departments were given executive privileges with very little oversight of expenditure or outcomes.

If only they hired an inspector general or auditor to keep tabs on these sort of shenanigans! /s
This feels almost word for word true for any institution in the US today. It would be one thing if institutions mistakenly over-prioritized profits over their broader goals, but they don't even have meaningful missions beyond profit anymore.
I have no idea what you're thinking.

Across the world, people live happily (lots of them, anyway) in large scale apartment complexes. As long ago as the turn of the 20th century, people like Gaudi were already taking that a step further and designing beautiful apartment buildings:

https://www.lapedrera.com/en/la-pedrera

Notice how La Pedrera is surrounded by other less aesthetic yet still fully occupied apartment buildings? There are hundreds of cities worldwide filled with people living in relatively affordable non-single-family housing, nothing like the structures or experience of the Soviet Union.

Building denser housing does not mean that we will be living in some soviet-era world. Why on earth would you think this?
What do you mean by "commercial sense"? There are literally Intel and AMD based laptops sold right now with socketed high speed DDR5 sticks, so of course it's commercially possible.
fascinating thing that came out of the epic v apple case was the term 'under the bus' (when devs tattled about a violation and reviewers had to ban an app)

https://twitter.com/thedextriarchy/status/139041571691076403...

epic v google feels like a giant industry-wide UTB event

fascinating to me that goog doesn't feel capable of striking large deals that discount IAP. Desperation about revenue as ad margins shrink? Fear of a stronger court / regulatory stance over platform governance?

Can't tell, but would love to be a fly on the wall in these negotiations. Are regulators at the table?
Astronomers demonstrate how using the cloud can help rate of asteroid discovery
The base-model F150, if Ford can actually meet demand in any reasonable way, would create a real value-offering that threatens Tesla.

The additional levels of trim on the F150 are decent (esp. extended range) but the base model is amazing value for the price.

Hopefully this puts pressure on Tesla to stop touting the high end BS (like dodgy autopilot) and focus on adequate value for their base models.
> Our meat consumption has lead to pasteurization of forest land to raise and feed the huge amount of livestocks needed to satisfy our meat craving

Where? France has increased its forest surface since 1840, while increasing population and meat consumption.
I think romange put it well: balance.

There's a lot of room between {completely F/OSS, that a cloud provider can implement and bankrupt the company supporting project development} and {completely evil closed source company like Oracle}.

In the end, we all want good software, with the maximum amount of permissions and source, free. It's just a question of tweaking the support model to get there.

IMHO, the "Don't call yourself OSS if you're not 100% OSI OSS" is counter-productive. But I understand why they do it, and I understand the history and abuses that caused them to do it. I'd just say if we no-true-Scotsman our approach in a way that precludes profitable, sustainable OSS companies... we're going to have less quality OSS. :(
Found this thanks to HN and have been really enjoying it for work and study music over the last month. It's hard to keep a good playlist that doesn't get stale, anyone have other stations? I also use Music for Programming[1] and various lofi playlists often.

[1]: https://musicforprogramming.net/latest/