skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Great question, here's the way I look at it:

1. Print design has honed in on this approach with remarkably consistency. I did a study of various publications (e.g., magazines and books) when I was first learning about vertical rhythm and found that practically every publication I looked at implements vertical rhythm. But this is also a bit of red herring, because in print publications, you almost always have multiple columns, and multiple columns have additional issues when vertical rhythm isn't implemented because it means body and headline copy won't be along the same baseline (an issue that isn't present in a single column text for example). But I still find it remarkable how consistently the rules are implemented in print design, given how little people talk about it in web design.

2. For me personally, before I learned about vertical rhythm (which I learned along with grids, and typographic proportion), I found everything I designed always felt sloppy in some undefinable way. Now that I use these strategies I no longer see that sloppiness in my designs. Purely subjective, but what I'm trying to say is that to me these systems solved a problem in my designs that I wasn't able to solve just "by eye".

Neither of those are objective of course, but those are just the ways I personally have been convinced they're "the right way".
I would go further and say discoverability seems to be a low or nonexistent priority industry-wide.
Disabling branch prediction would have such a catastrophic effect on performance, there is no way it would pay for itself. Actually this is true for most parts of a CPU; Apple's little cores are extremely power efficient and yet they are fairly impressive out-of-order designs. It would take a very meaningful redesign of how a CPU works to beat a processor like that, at least at useful speeds.
Memorizing how to solve hundreds of leetcode questions isn't cheating, it's learning. One can't help learning how to code doing that.
At best they don’t work, in reality they are an attack vector themselves and a performance nightmare. They should (mostly) not exist.
i hope one day, farmers all over the world would protest and keep production for their own surroundings

we'd value things differently

that billionaire crypto exchange dude? "go starve elsewhere, you useless piece of shit!"
Sure, but what the other person is describing as cheating sounds, to me at least, very much like the former case. There was a task, the students were allowed to work on the task in their own time, with their own resources, and chose to put their heads together rather than work on them individually. To me, that seems fairly reasonable.

That said, a lot of this stuff seems kind of culturally specific. At least for the two degrees that I experienced in the UK, there were roughly three types of graded work: exams (overseen, sit in silence, possibly with your own notes but generally not, fixed time limit around 1-2hrs); lab-work (usually done in the building although worked on outside of lab hours as well, fixed deadline of around a week or two, usually graded at least in part based on an oral conversation with the examiner); and coursework (take-home work, fixed deadline ranging from one week to a couple of months, allowed to discuss but direct copying is banned).

In these cases, it rarely makes sense to cheat by directly sharing answers. Obviously in an exam it would be useful, but the conditions of the exam make it largely prohibitively difficult. In coursework, it's usually obvious if people are handing copies of the same work in. And for lab work, the challenge was usually not to just complete the lab and get a "right" result, but rather to understand the task and be able to explain what was going on to the TA grading you. If you can cheat well enough to pass that, you probably understand what's going on - which is exactly the aim of the course anyway.

Whereas it feels like what people are talking about here is students being sent home with problem worksheets, being expected not to talk about them at all, and then getting grades based on those answers. That seems to me to be a system that practically encourages cheating - work together as a group, and you'll obviously be able to achieve more than any one individual, even if you could all pass the course in the first place. In contrast, we also had similar worksheets, but they were never graded, and we were usually encouraged to work together to figure out what was going on. We could then take our answers to tutorials and have a discussion about where we went wrong and why we went wrong usually in a group of any four or five.

So reading this article and some of the comments here, I'm really struggling to get an image of what these teachers are expecting from their students, if they're setting problems that are so obviously gameable.
First of all, I'mm sorry you had to endure something so emotionally straining.

Please consider the the students perspective. I, myself, went through academia with a one single goal - to obtain a piece of paper for future employment reasons, which I endured, with gritted teeth

I have no idea how it works on your country of residence, but I had a curriculum that consisted of about 20% of classes, of absolute irrelevancy to my primary field of study. I have no regrets cheating on those classes, just to get it over with.

I urge you to entertain the idea, that some students, unfortunately, were there not by choice, but merely "passing through".

Consider this a problem with the educational system itself, not students having a personal grudge with your subject or self.

Finally, no offense intended, but I urge you to reconsider your strong loyality to the (sprry, probably misquoting) "academic code of conduct" and filling out reports about your misbehaving students. Replacing idealism in favour of pragmatism might suit everyone's needs better :)

P.S. Sounds like yur students would gratly benefit form some education in the field of OPSEC :)
They stopped running a lot of the sleeper trains for a decade or two, due to subsidies and the resulting cheap flights.

Depending on when you looked, there may not have been meaningful night train options.
Check out used Linux thin clients on eBay. They are in a raspberry pi price point but more performant and unusual.

Energy use is very low.
My conclusion from this was that the Synology is actually excellent value, and a newer one would likely have been superior on all dimensions (including time spent).
Exactly. It's been such a long time since they've launched. You can't just say M$ and Goog are the only players with a large index so our hands are tied up.

Have to start working towards a long time solution or you'll be at their mercy.
China has 2 one way valves managing it's economy.
Trade is one way out and US$ is one way in.
In trade between UK/US/Canada the relative trade and $$ flows work towards a convergence. The USA/Canada/UK can not have functional fair trade with China unless the balance of $$ and good are allowed to achieve a balance.
We have seen US/UK/Canada small manufacturing get hollowed out by the dollar stores. In many cases the US/UK/Canadian manufacturers can not beat the cost if they had free good and only had to package and ship them.
True, Chinese goods are low grade and many have flaws (see Reddit r/Chinesium)
Most countries balance trade flows, China defeats the economic balance artificially with currency caps.
Kind of the playbook for every company, do something before the government does it for you.
Does anyone know why I can't find the English version of this[1] Wikipedia page? Seems relevant.

[1] https://de.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bummer
> I know there's a whole genre (steampunk)

As I'm sure you know, the classic example is 'The Difference Engine' [0] by Gibson and Sterling, but my favourite is 'The Thrilling Adventures of Lovelace and Babbage' [1] by Sydney Padua, which features the eponymous characters as a crime-fighting duo, assisted by appropriate automation. It also features Isambard Kingdom 'You look like you need an Engineer' Brunel.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Difference_Engine

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Thrilling_Adventures_of_Lo...
I disagree, it was perfectly integrated into messages and spotlight. He discovered it as soon as it came up. The paradigm is "I have to have an app for that." Fwiw, for how poorly siri, spotlight, and shortcuts are utilized by end users Google has it even worse on Android.
PUBG developer Krafton sends a PI to a dataminer's home
I wonder if these are removed by reverse osmosis, but I also wonder if my reverse osmosis system is unknowingly adding anything to my water.
What do they do with the information? The threshold in most courses is to be able to pass the next course. The students who won't do that, tend to drop out, or switch to an easier major, of which there are many.

Teachers do tend to change their content and methods if a large number of students are failing exams, but I think it's based more on a hunch, than on hoping that test scores will yield analytical quality data. This is the sense I get from talking to a lot of teachers. My only teaching experience was one semester at a big ten university, a long time ago.
Thanks. This is a really cool use for Beaglebone's Realtime Units.
Students are cheating on tests, yet technical interview tests are still the standard. How does memorizing a question so you can regurgitate it benefit anyone? I consider even that to be cheating.

You're not thinking through the problem like the interviewer implies and asked for. You're replaying inputs, like a bot programmed to beat a level in Mario.

If they're looking to hire a good Mario player, you're misrepresenting yourself with that technique. The pixel perfect glitch you nail on every screen has nothing to do with your actual ability when you get the role.
Now imagine if they had cheap vegetables, milk and blenders.
Thanks so much for the kind words and for following along!
Matrices don’t form a field so I would say they are not really “number-like” in the full sense.
You have to factor in the power usage of having multiple drives spinning. Though I’d agree that smaller drives are better when you have a drive failure, as resilvering is quicker.
Some really compelling features! A lot of improvements to keep time, be in sync better, with a new algorithm & new lower sync defaults for module-loopback. New opus network transport! Improved latency handling in tunnels & combine sink! Bluetooth battery reporting.

These days Pipewire is all the rage. It too has bluetooth battery status (alongside upowerd). I havent tried doing something like I used to do with Pulse on Pipewire- using a combined sync to output via onboard, usb, and bluetooth audio all at once. With 1s adapt time it was pretty ok on pulse, and it sounds very promising that it ought "just work" very well out of box in Pulse now. I wonder how pw does! This Pulse release tuning network tunneling is great, real great, and adding opus compressed audio support adds a wonderful feature PipeWire doesnt have yet.
It's not a boolean can/cannot code. It's a cannot code at the level expected of the seniority.

I interview tons of software engineering candidates (pre pandemic it was at least one or two a week). At least half of my senior candidates fail basic phone screener questions.

These are questions that reflect something they'd be doing day to day in the role, but also are incredibly standard in our field.

The issue in most of them is that they've taken their support network for granted. The tons of developers before them who laid groundwork, and the others currently who take care of many tasks they consider junior.

Well that leaves them in a weird spot where they've not actually done a lot of the foundational work their predecessors set up for them, and they've let a lot of their skills atrophy by delegating to juniors. They'll even say as much and say "oh so and so does that, or they had it set up and it's great"

But then what am I hiring them for? Certainly they're not bringing a wealth of programming ability over, so maybe soft skills? That's hard to hedge bets on for a SWE, maybe as an product manager or something.
“We are only collecting the list of applications you have installed” (2015)
I use 2 ZFS mirrored 4TB drives mounted on a USB C dual bay device (iDsonix brand) for backing up my ZFS pools. I have a simple script that imports the backup pool and sends snapshots from my main ZFS pools to the backup pool.

My question: How do you safely store your physical backup drives/devices?

I have a fireproof box, but I don't think it was made for safely storing electronics in the event of a fire.
Lol, Vice.
Where is your country of residence? What is your effective tax rate? (Please don't tell me about your top marginal rate -- that is nonsense unless you have a enormous taxable income.) What do you think is the "correct" tax rate for your income level?
> It sucks that it has to be this way in these languages

Not really? I don't see why it matters whether the namspacing keyword is `namespace` or `module` or `class`. If all you want is modularity, they work pretty much the same.

This feels like a bikeshed issue. There's nothing fundamentally wrong with `Math.min()` or just `min()` with a static import.
Afaik yes, java doesn't. The closest will be static class and functions.
https://openstax.org/subjects/math

For free online textbooks these ones seem to have good reputation on the Internet. I did the 'pre-algebra' and 'algebra and trigonometry' books, found them good. Do all the excersices (very important), sometimes I got stuck (every books misses edge cases) so be prepared to look at other resources.
Original Markup report: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31528823
Interesting to see how far we are still away from the full picture of life’s bioxhemistry.

Being able to use CRISPR to improve humans would be great. Wouldn‘t it be nice to be able to breed humans that are practically incapable of aggression? An era of transhumanism. It would be a better world. And quite safe, unless we‘d discover hostile aliens.
> Finally, most important projects were done in groups of 2 to 5-6

Much less reason to cheat in group work too. It's much easier to just put in minimal effort and let someone else in the group do the work. That's just another form of cheating.

In Germany we say "Team" in teamwork is an acronym for "Toll Ein Anderer Machts" (great someone else does the work) and especially in university there is a lot of truth to it. Especially so when there is a big difference in motivation in regards to the final grade.

Not to say there aren't a lot of upsides to group work. But stopping people that don't wanna engage with the subject isn't one of them.
Ask HN: What Is Today's Lead?
"What is the thing that looking back will turn out to be horrible for us and pervasive in the environment?"

Posted by u/adamgordonbell in another thread on HN today.

This seems to be a very important question.

Some of my proposals:

1) Environmental contaminants in water, food, and air https://slimemoldtimemold.com/2021/07/13/a-chemical-hunger-part-iii-environmental-contaminants/

2) Xenoestrogens in plastics, pesticides, toiletries, perfumes, polyester and nylon clothing https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3947648/

3) Mass consumption of pharmaceutical drugs

4) Vegetable seed oils https://chriskresser.com/how-industrial-seed-oils-are-making-us-sick/

5) Sugar and hyper palatable foods https://slatestarcodex.com/2017/04/25/book-review-the-hungry-brain/

6) Endemic pathogens like toxoplasmosis https://www.hardtowrite.com/pathogens/

What else? What is today's lead?
> All we need is to sink down russian ships in Black sea.

Yeah, I'm sure nuclear war will be good for food pirces.
The resulting code didn't build either so, no.
i said entry level GPU, why you talk about 4080?

https://www.notebookcheck.net/M1-Max-32-Core-GPU-vs-GeForce-...
Since humans began laying asphalt, I would assume that the earthworm has gone through more generations than humans.
Rookie mistake: thinking the specification is the important thing.

The claims are the only thing that matters. I'm not saying it's impossible to generate those with AI, but claim language would be a much deeper project than anything you can knock off while you're bored. And "what does this claim actually cover? What did the PTO say recently about means-plus-function claims?" are not questions readily amenable to answering in an automated fashion.

At Google, I had the task of examining our 20,000 patent portfolio for a certain purpose which I won't mention. We had an in house tool which did a pretty good job of categorizing them, so I didn't have to read each one. There are a lot of legal technology firms already applying modern technology to the legal system.

As for searching, we sent a certain task to around 10 leading patent search firms, and compared their answers. The winner would cost around $5,000, if memory serves. If you're imagining it's worth millions of dollars: it isn't.
> Don't move on until you really "get" the concept you're working with. Some topics might "click" right away and others might take weeks of bashing your head against the wall until your brain makes sense of it.

Careful. This can sometimes be counterproductive. It is often the case that one concept taught when learning a subject will be applied as part of teaching the next concept.

The best way to learn that first concept in many cases is not to focus on it until you really "get" it but rather to just get enough of it for how it is used for teaching the next concept. Then you move on to the next concept and the application of that first concept there gets you experience using the first concept which solidifies your grasp of the first concept and makes you truly "get" it.

The application of earlier concepts throughout the subsequent material can be in effect a kind of natural spaced repetition for learning the earlier concepts.

I think that deciding when to move on is one of the hardest things in self-learning, especially if the subject is new enough to you that you can't use your experience in a related subject to help guide you. You don't know enough to know when you've learned enough to go on.
I agree with BigTech completely. Dealing with different laws in each state would be a nightmare for any company.

If there were one federal set of guidelines it would be better.

But then again, the GDPR made a shit show of the web and made it less usable with cookie banners on every page.
Of course this is happening.

I’m coming up on year 10 of working remotely, and year 2 of completely async. The only forced-commute job I ever had was for 6 months right out of college.

I’ve been preaching remote work for almost the entire time I’ve been doing it. I thought it would catch on much sooner, but it’s here now.

I think async is the next thing that will happen. If you’re building software there’s really no reason you have to share working hours with anyone. It’s convenient at times, but it’s by no means required.
Privacy regulations can make it very difficult for competitors to gain traction for incumbents, so there is active lobbying to get regulatory barriers to competition in play. At the same time, far too much money is being made to allow laws and regulations to kill revenues... so it gets complicated. The easy way is to just say you are all for privacy, and then oppose it at every turn.

Another issue is this: breaking some of these privacy laws both in force and proposed, is really quite easy to do - as easy as a misconfigured logger or a developer including the wrong field in a query.
I think of a backup like a fire extinguisher. It's better to have one and never need it than to one day need it and it's not there.
Strongtowns isn’t totally anti car; it sounds like your small New England town is in the line of things they consider desirable.

My small Midwestern childhood suburb would have me drive at least 15 minutes to get to the nearest business, which was a big box supermarket with a parking lot that would take 10 minutes to walk across, plus crossing a highway sized median in order to get to the next business over. Meaning totally unwalkable, which is how most of the USA is - no town center with anything worth going to, meaning no community worth being a part of, and really high infrastructure costs for a very unproductive area.
Did you use homebrew stun/turn servers too?

I don't find the webrtc signaling and set up particularly noteworthy, but once you try to connect nodes on different networks you're pretty much dependant on some third party.
He is probably right, too.

Intergenerational wealth has made America soft. Why work as hard as you can if you can have a pretty good and easy life without.

In China, the ability to improve your situation in life by working harder is a sufficiently recent development that there are huge numbers of people willing to do it that haven't built the intergenerational wealth yet.
oh ok, thanks for your reply and also input on the mini.
Well, the government has found time in its busy schedule of populism and regressionism to fix some of this travesty: https://metro.co.uk/2022/05/28/boris-johnson-to-announce-imp...
Not too many actually!
Normally not with passengers on board...
I’m a scientist with an increasing interest in how ideas form and which ideas establish dominance over others. The writer of the parent comment generally has rather interesting points to make on this topic, and I don’t recognise your vehement criticisms of either the language used or the points made.
If you are far behind start with Khan Academy. Then there are MOOCs on Coursera and eDX as well. Less interactive but 100% Real deal (and it doesnt mean harder) are course materials often with videos from MIT Open CourseWare. If you are into ML do Gilbert Strang Linear Algebra. It will develop you so much that it can’t be understated. Buy his book and do exams and assignments. If you want to take pleasure in math there are brilliant channels on yt, for example Numberphile. GL man.
I've always enjoyed The Register's view on DARPA. They treat them as if they were Frankenstein's Playpen.
The same solution only powered by POE and buried in a pelican case filled with dessicant sacks in your back garden
How though do they know the ID before the object is created (/ fetched from db)?

Sounds like it's inferior to manually using a DataLoader within every resolver that fetches an object.

eg project has a client. In the resolver for a projects client, you fetch the client from DB. With DataLoader you manually cache the request for the client. With in-built caching you must resolve the client for the server to know the ID, and then on next resolve of the client, after fetching, it matches the ID and doesn't have to resolve it's fields again, but it still had to fetch both times?
What makes you think they can get significant leverage on MS, a company that is literally on the order of 1,000 times bigger (Wikipedia says DDG has about 150 employees, to MS's 182,000 and market cap of 2 trillion!).
Because you could have various different board shapes. The board game comes with various extensions that change the board shape and structure.
Wide use of antibiotics destroying the balance of people's gut biomes.

Microplastics.

Already mentioned in original: environmental chemicals mimicking hormones.
Ps. Strang comes with recordings which are on yt as well.
I'm Deleting My Channel [Not a Joke]
Most mathematicians don't even use formal logic. For sure they don't use type theory! You seem to be the one who is silly/confused here. If you want to lift your confusion, read the [0] link I gave above.