skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The fact that U.S. News and World Report can pull a school from it's own rankings and it makes such a strong impact is really a strange phenomenon.
Acoustic levitation used to build complex structures in mid-air
For all of the ways we can easily criticize the incentive structures and possible intentionality behind these bad numbers (which I agree merit scrutiny), I think it's worth noting and remembering that the issue was flagged by a mathematics professor of the same university: there is at least some well-aligned incentives, some measure of self-regulation, with respect tenured positions and academic freedom.
it can't be enough because of the properties of the data structure you store your beliefs about self, other, and world in

hands you Buddhist pamphlet
Ok I'll bite, where do we draw the line on acceptable crimes? What is the threshold for a crime we should punish versus not? Isn't that anti to the premise that we have varying degrees of punitive consequences for convicted crimes?
I think you are agreeing with the article, but the details are different. I like how he distinguishes between specific use case, user generated content, or part of the site design.

> So, which method should we use?

> We've got one solution, aspect-ratio, which is CSS-based. And the other solution, presentational hinting, which uses width and height attributes. The question is very similar to "should this image be a <img> or a CSS background-image?" and the answer is the same: Is it content or design?
Is that a dig? I think it sounds promising and exciting
Why So Many Children of Immigrants Rise to the Top
> Russia has unilaterally required payments in Rubles despite long-term contracts saying something else.

Yeah, that's how sanctions work: unilaterally.
Oh, also, two other things: First, CuriosityStream has a bundle deal with Nebula where you can get both at once: [1]. You have to find an appropriate promo link from one of the participating YouTubers but that shouldn't be too hard.

Second, I know you mentioned wanting to find dedicated services, but if you're spending a decent amount of time on YouTube and you can afford it, I find Youtube Premium well worth it. Not having ads makes such a huge difference to the experience, and it also pays creators better!

[1]: https://help.curiositystream.com/hc/en-us/articles/360034158...
Hah, slightly off topic, but I was there from 09-10 and remember that same journey from MCBH -> Manas -> Leatherneck -> COP -> Patrol Base.

I honestly think Leatherneck may have been the worst out of that experience. Some of the best times were having nothing on a PB for 10+ months (we were there for an extended period).
The original commenters point still stands though right?

Also isn't addition of salt often a sign the chef/cook messed up and under-salted a dish?
I have lost track of them now. It is giving me "Fast and Furious" vibes which is not a good benchmark to compete with. Too many, too often. They are milking it like crazy.
Did you bother to read the article?

>Building on Meta AI’s research and advancements, we’ve developed the first model capable of automatically scanning hundreds of thousands of citations at once to check whether they truly support the corresponding claims.
Having pursued a PhD at Columbia and having taught classes there. I am surprised it took this long for someone to speak up. Also the fact that there are no checks in place to certify top ranking academic institutions is fascinating.
Well, uncovered interest rate parity would have DEF strengthen not ABC.

There are indeed other mechanisms, e.g., currencies with higher interest rates experiencing higher demand, but that also has limits/doesn't hold strictly etc.
I can dislike them both at the same time.
Interestingly, bronze medalists are measurably happier than silver medalists. The theory is that the silver medalist is disappointed at not winning gold (as you say), but the bronze medalist is happy to have obtained any medal.

https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/thoughtful-animal/why-b...
So what?

1. Their priorities are wrong so they are not the best minds

2. If (1) is false because the best minds can have stupid priorities, then The Best Minds is not the be-all-end-all of everything
I didn't want to edit my original post, but this is also relevant to this discussion and came up recently. It echoes your observations.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31724942
https://whoisnnamdi.com/never-enough-developers/
Honestly this impact can't be overstated. If the bill passes I'm leaving the UK
I think they mean the size of individual classes, so they're paying for more sections/instructors/instruction time in the ranking-relevant periods.

Though shrinking the admit size is another well worn tactic, as it's the easiest way to increase how "selective" you are which is another major ranking element, plus it helps you more cheaply achieve smaller average class sizes, though of course you're forgoing some revenue to get there.
I'm aware! Although Common Lisp as specified does differ somewhat from the language he describes in his book.

But you kinda implicitly assume my point: Scheme and Lisp are different things. That doesn't make Scheme bad or Lisp good, although I will assert that Scheme is underspecified and Lisp is pretty decent.
Reminds me of postmodernism, e.g., "You feel sorry for yourself. You think you’re missing something and you don’t know what it is. You’re lonely inside your life. You have a job and a family and a fully executed will, already, at your age, because the whole point is to die prepared, die legal, with all the papers signed. Die liquid, so they can convert to cash." (DeLillo, Underworld)
Not sure if this is still true, but at one point, the biggest factor in the ranking was peer reputation rating. That kind of results in a self-reinforcing vicious cycle of top schools remaining top schools, but short of bribery, there isn't really any way to manipulate that at least.
> Russian companies have been forced to buy Rubles for most of the foreign currency they get.

This restriction has been removed couple of weeks ago. At first it was 80%, then 40%, now it’s gone.
I do need it. But what I prefer is something simpler that does one job and does it well.

That exists, proprietary. In floss it exists for CLI only.

I'm upset that it keeps accumulating features. I understand why. I understand others need those features. But what upsets me is that this "eats" a lot of energy, which now isn't spent on simpler, easier, cleaner or friendlier FLOSS alternatives. I spend that time. On tools for ebooks that I opensourced.

But alas, the most common response to my efforts is people telling me that I should instead spend that time and effort building additions for calibre rather than trying to gain traction on some alternatives. The same most common response people working on e.g. Krita face: wasted time, improve Gimp instead.
There are multiple reserve currencies, USD is not alone in being one.
Isn't 'wanting more' what got you to where you are?
Yeah.

I dunno, nothing about advertising makes sense to me, so I guess I have trouble evaluating this kind of thing.

Common sense would tell you that you don't give 4 billion dollars to the guy who says "I'm really good at convincing people to part with their money -- whether they should or not!" But then I don't run Coca Cola, so I guess they've figured out something I've missed.
Noticed this on my 14” MacBook Pro even on the Canary builds, everything looks fuzzy. So frustrating.
Parents helping/guiding their near-adult children in the final spring of highschool to apply at or choose universities, where they would start university that same fall seem to be the target audience, here. Fall is when "most" incoming freshmen will start.
sure. when i wrote that i thought it was meant for general public. i also think that its great that the guile community is looking at this. my point wasnt so much as "use my favourite tool" as it was that i just think that a lot of good work has been done in cl and cl is most performant of all lisps. cl already targets assembly and c and has ml-level static typing. the author might find thinlisp [0] interesting

[0] https://github.com/ska80/thinlisp
Maybe for Americans who cannot see further then their noses or that don’t speak any other language
Uber's true innovation was convincing the world it wasn’t illegal
If folks are curious about how schools are ranked, I highly encourage you to listen to the following podcast:

https://www.pushkin.fm/podcasts/revisionist-history/lord-of-...
Well the main thing with taxis is that getting any ride to show up on demand is a shitshow, whereas with ubers you just have to wait 5-10 minutes (at least in my area).
Yes, I have opinions on your open source contributions
Homebuyers are canceling deals at highest rate since start of Covid
Kind of sad that US News decided to unrank just Columbia rather than suspending the whole thing. If one college games your ranking to the point that a professor from the university is like "hey you guys this seems pretty sus", it's probably true that all the other universities have the same problem and just don't have anyone willing to talk about it. As it stands it seems like just Columbia did something wrong, when they are the only university that did something wrong but also had someone who did something right.
TBF, that'd still be a win if it worked for all variants of the flu.
Sign me up. I'll gladly be in the human trials for this.

The potential benefits to society are huge. Economic impact: How many people each year have to take time off work because they're sick with the flu? Societal impact: how many people each year die years earlier than they otherwise would have from the flu?

And if it means I also don't spend 72 hours sweating in bed with fever dreams every year (as I do), I'm down to be the first one lined up to get the jab.
While I agree with your list, it's not _always_ going to be 90/10. Day to day work is the opposite, 10/90, especially if you have a lot of production to get done. (then it can be 100% fun for stretches of time)

It's the feast or famine issue. When you don't have enough work, you are required to do sales to stay in business.

Do enough sales, and have enough repeat work, and you may find you have no time for sales, and may not want any more customers. It all depends on your customer base and the type of work you do.

Also, I loved repeat/consistent work from known customers because the documentation and paperwork burden plummets dramatically. Sometimes to nothing more than a phone call/email to start work, and invoice when it's done.
Battery storage is mature, yes.

Unfortunately, there is not enough (economically extractable) Lithium to go around. Experts estimate a Lithium "hole" of up to 300.000 tons of missing yearly production by 2030.

There is nothing we can do about it, only prospecting for more Lithium, reducing red tape for Lithium mining (with all the negative environmental impacts), or further increasing efficiency of Lithium use in batteries. As you said, Lithium battery technology is mature, so we have hit diminishing returns here.

This is why the feasibility of sodium batteries that was announced a year or so ago was such a big deal. Getting Sodium (e.g. from table salt, mined as excess in potassium mines, with a price of around zero) is easy and cheap.
To riff on Hume, all colors are indistinguishable in total darkness.

Or to be Wittgensteinian, that’s not how “of different colors” is used in ordinary language.

In terms of additive color science, different combinations of RGB (or XYZ) light can produce the same color perception.

In part because the human visual system (green cones) has a negative response to a particular frequency band and additive light can’t have negative green values.

At the edge of current color science is accounting for tetra-chromatic perception…not to be confused with tetra-chromatic response which occurs in about 1% of humans.

Which is all to say that there’s a lot of baggage to a logical argument based on voting.
Even the article said there were 10-15 bookstores in a place that had 35 of them in the 70s.
Why is small class size a good thing? Anecdotally, you get better class material and TA staff in larger lectures. Why aren't Universities able to innovate here?
My hypothesis is more cynical.

We have 4 major GPGPU manufactures (Apple, Intel, AMD, nVidia) and none of them want to make creating an open standard easy. There is no reason why nVidia should support OpenCL the same way that AMD does, they want people to write CUDA. There's no reason for Apple to support OpenAAC like Intel does, they want people to write Metal... etc. These 4 companies are trying to push everyone into their proprietary ecosystem or into an open ecosystem where they have a large say.

I had hoped that SPIR-V would be a good inroad to start fixing some of these problems, but alas, it seems like Apple and nVidia aren't big fans. It's early still, though, so maybe that changes?
Northeastern.

Northwestern was already relatively prestigious.
Sarcastic non-serious answer, but:

> Why would it possibly take so long? All you have to do is A, B and C!

We would be happy to deliver A, B and C exactly as described at the proposed time. We anticipate these problems. Happy to accept the risk?
One big benefit in this case is that bootstrapping gcc is somewhat easier than rustc, and presumably gcc-rust can then be used to compile rustc if needed.
I found the comparisons to the EU privacy regulations a bit annoying. I think the article would be stronger without them. I think they give too rosy an impression of the EU regulations (which can also be bad or burdensome) and that makes me think the U.K. regulations are less bad (rather than that they are so bad they make the EU regulations look good, I suppose).
People from SEE go to Hamburg, people from Hamburg go to NY.
True, but DC has a fairly unique mix of…
- daytime temperatures that hover around freezing, leading to lots of black ice.
- A major employer (US government) with a disdain for WFH arrangements prior to COVID
- rare major winter events, so not enough snow removal equipment
- crap public transit options (the subway gets stuck in a few inches of snow)

Anybody who works private sector in the area stays home (if they can) when the forecast is for snow. This wasn’t an option for most of the government (including 10s of thousands of .gov contractors). With .gov wide early release when weather hits, icy mix, and crap public transit options, it’s a combination that leads to insane gridlock on the rare occasion we get a true winter storm.

I’m sure there are regions that have one-off traffic. DC gets city-wide gridlock that lasts 8 hours or so if we get more than 8” of snow during a work day.
> As with the previous post, this is tremendously long: 4100 words. There’s really no way to make it shorter.

There definitely is.
I think SQLite is even more batteries included!
https://www.sqlite.org/fts5.html
> the ECB has been printing money like crazy in the last 14 years. So far this money had been absorbed mostly by banks but slowly but surely it is starting to trickle into the real economy.

This is wrong, none of the money the ECB "prints" goes out into the real economy (see [1] e.g.).

[1] https://themacrocompass.substack.com/p/tmc-6-all-they-told-y...
I think the average in my 24 year career in software is about 2 years, maybe 2.5 tops.
Because it puts other 'less desirable' non-elite schools in the same lists for top twenty/thirty/forty, etc.
> Top-level play usually has very few moved pieces (since they are vulnerable to your opponent's general once your own marshal gets revealed), so memory is important but typically not the main bottleneck.

Interesting. Is top level play... boring? Stratego doesn't have a lot of nuance to positional advantaging aside from moving forward or back, and while I'd imagine there's stalemate rules, there's probably a lot of nothing moves to dance around getting super minor and uninteresting advantages. Is that a correct statement?
Seems like the linked study only applies to pasta. Whether it applies to potato is unknown.
Every country is dependent on everyone else at this point. We're all in it together. We do need to be smart about it though. We've been particularly dumb about Russia ever since 2014, that's crystal clear now.

I think relying on (taking advantage of?) cheap Russian gas is only a mistake if you also think that giving Russia a pass over annexing Crimea was acceptable. In reality choosing to do both was a catastrophic error. You can make deals with your enemies (and both Russia and China as oppressive expansionist autocracies are choosing to be our enemies), as long as you make it clear where your boundaries are. We didn't do that clearly enough with Russia, and cannot afford to make the same mistake with China.
p8g 0.4.0 – 2D graphics library for C, C++ and Java
Your body stores calories you eat, and it's really good at it. If you eat too much of anything (that contains more calories than the calories required to digest it), you will gain weight. Eat too much fried chicken, gain weight. Eat too many oranges, gain weight. Eat too many beans, gain weight. You can probably gain weight from eating too much broccoli, although I'd get sick of broccoli before that happened.
Pilot here. The MSFS flight model is so bad that I found it actually counterproductive. Also, the avionics are awful, they basically have a dozen of the most basic functions and that's about it. It's more like a game, not a sim. And yet, I do find myself using it still. Why? The graphics are insane. If I'm doing a flight to somewhere new, I like doing a simulated flight first in order to get a better understanding of the terrain and more importantly, layout of the arrival airport and visual cues. I still find it very useful for flight planning in that regard.
... Yet
https://images-cdn.9gag.com/photo/azVDmmb_700b_v2.jpg
i’ve been an intern, a employee and a contractor

what i can tell you is that being contractor was the worst of three and contracting is just more competitive type of rat race

i suggest you instead to try launching a startup

if you don’t have an idea yet, you can sign up for co-founder matching and meet a someone who does
The Extraordinary Origins of Chess [video]
will this have political blowback for the 'Green' parties?
What do you mean the answers you were looking for were personal experiences?
Doesn't Switzerland has a law similar to gdpr? plus as many companies are operating in eea too, they must obey gdpr too
Salaries of course are better (in some Cantons, not all of them)
It's the coolest project you'll never get to run.

At least 10 years ago the main hook was DJing while coding procedural animations.

After you finally manage to climb the mountain of building Fluxus, you'll find yourself confronted with your ability to do that :)
The main issue is that the ECB will be unable to raise rates sufficiently to combat inflation because some EU member states will be in a lot of trouble.
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S254243512...
You're right, US has printed much more money. The EU is catching up though.

In 2021, EU total amount of quantitative easing was 2.947 trillion euro's.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_Central_Bank#Low_infl...

US: $4.5 trillion
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantitative_easing#:~:text=Th....
Many courses rely on discussion!
Men with guns.

Yeah, they can't 100% win. They don't need to. In fact, even if they did 100% win, they'd still find reasons to need to crush some people just to keep people reminded of who has the guns.
Hugging Faces APIs really aren't that great, I hear lots of people complain about them. All HF did was make transformers very accessible and sharable with a neat UI.
>Has anyone in the history of humanity ever been satiated eating popcorn? To be fair I know a few people who go to the movies and eat only a small bit, but most people I know can easily down an entire large bag and it'll have no impact on their appetite soon after.

I'll take this one. I actually 100% agree that list is useless, but an entire bag of microwave popcorn is extremely satiating to me. It's the perfect midnight snack IME because it is only 400ish Calories and yet takes up a large volume of space and takes a significant amount of time to eat.
Is that no different to regional leaders butting heads in government?
I guess I don’t understand why it is considered morally acceptable to torture countless animals for the benefit of humanity.

I understand it from a purely utilitarian standpoint, but it doesn’t sit well with me ethically.

I wouldn’t want an advanced alien species to enslave and torture me at their own benefit.
It’s like doping in cycling. Everyone was getting caught but we’re supposed to believe the couple who snuck through weren’t like the rest. Once the tests got good enough there was hardly any one left standing.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doping_at_the_Tour_de_France
This press release does not claim that Ross Ulbricht was convicted of murder or anything related to it. It says "found guilty yesterday on all seven counts in connection" and, later

"ULBRICHT, 30, of San Francisco, California, was found guilty of: one count of distributing narcotics, one count of distributing narcotics by means of the Internet, and one count of conspiring to distribute narcotics, each of which carries a maximum sentence of life in prison and a mandatory minimum sentence of 10 years; one count of engaging in a continuing criminal enterprise, which carries a maximum sentence of life in prison and a mandatory minimum sentence of 20 years in prison; one of count of conspiring to commit computer hacking, which carries a maximum sentence of five years in prison; one count of conspiring to traffic in false identity documents, which carries a maximum sentence of 15 years; and one count of conspiring to commit money laundering, which carries a maximum sentence of 20 years in prison. The maximum sentences are prescribed by Congress and are provided for informational purposes only, as the sentence will be determined by the judge. ULBRICHT is scheduled to be sentenced on May 15, 2015."

So, we have...

1. distributing narcotics
2. distributing narcotics via the internet
3. count of conspiring to distribute narcotics
4. engaging in a continuing criminal enterprise
5. conspiring to commit computer hacking
6. conspiring to traffic in false identity documents
7. conspiring to traffic in false identity documents

That's all seven and none of them are murder, conspiracy to commit murder, attempted murder, or solicitation of murder.
Paul's 2 cents:

"But godliness with contentment is great gain. For we brought nothing into the world, and we can take nothing out of it. But if we have food and clothing, we will be content with that."

1 Timothy 1:6-8
Consider two examples:

"Water is wet." - it is true that water is wet, but is that all that water "is"? (Non-comprehensive)

"January 6 was a coup attempt." - it is certainly believed by many to be that, and it was an insurrection (according to the technical definition), but whether it was actually a coup attempt in "base reality" is a function of (among other things) the number of people who genuinely intended to commit a coup. (non-accurate)

> Agreed. But if you offer the explanation “magical pink laser did it”, then I say, “going to set up some lenses and sinks and mirrors to study this phenomena”, then you say, “nope, it’s magical, your dorky science equipment can never contain it”. Then what?

Then I would suggest you ask me to present any supporting evidence for my claim because I have a burden of proof, as I am doing to you here for your claim (with implicit claims made explicit - feel free to criticize my translation):

>> "How can you perceive the supernatural? If you perceive it, then it’s [only] sense data. So photons and sound waves [only and necessarily, nothing else is going on]".
Every jvm language, although different, has so many similarities to Java, that I don't see how you can "not know" or "not care" about it.

Sorry, not possible.