skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Whether rankings matter, I think depends a lot on what your goal (as a student) is for going to college. Off the top of my head:

1- get a good-paying job post-graduation? : you want a school with a good reputation within your target industry (and here's where rankings play a big part)

2- actually get a good education? I'd look at the professors, curriculum, what student-learning opportunities are offered, etc.

3- enjoy the college experience as a young person? That will depend a lot on what appeals to you personally (i.e., big state school vs LAC)

4- study abroad / other opportunities?

5- an affordable option that doesn't put you in debt? This There's usually a trade-off there even if you get accepted into the school of your choice.

6- close to home (usually goes with affordability / i.e., you might be able to keep living at home)

I'd imagine that for most people it's ideally a combination of these, but knowing which is the highest priority for you personally is very important. And rankings don't really play a part in any of those except maybe for #1 -- and even then it's hard to know. Example, my D went to what might be a "tier 2" ranked U (top 50, but not top 20) which most people have never heard of but was well respected among employers in certain industries (engineering in this case), so your target major is a big factor with that. Also, she turned down a top-20 U because it would have put her into debt; often lower ranked U's, i.e., the next tier down, will provide more scholarship money to attract top students (based on SAT/GPA) away from the very top-ranked colleges.
I use a cloud based TOTP(bitwarden) for exactly this reason. I don't store credentials there.

Sure, I've made my attack surface larger, but for me beats having to call, email, or be screwed when I lose access to my phone.
Makes me think that they would probably account for all UFO sightings !!
> You are aware that Confluence is a company specific, and proprietary, reinvention of a wheel (wikis)?

Am I aware that Confluence is a product created by a company for a profit in order to provide an advanced implementation of a design for specific use cases? Yes.

> And it's not even a particularly good one.

I have used 20 different wikis. None of them provide all Confluence's features or are nearly as user-friendly. Very few of them provide a robust API. Very few of them have as seamless a WYSIWYG, not to mention native Markdown support. Very few of them have advanced management capabilities. None of them have as many advanced dynamic content features, very few of them have marketplaces. It is hands-down the best tool for what it is designed for.

> Donald Knuth, who knows a thing or two about writing both documentation and code, invented literate programming because he disagrees with that.

Literate programming is ridiculous. The idea is to use a human language to tell a story and have that story be converted into computer code, with the idea that the human will understand the story better and somehow this will result in them being able to write better code. But that's stupid for two reasons: 1) writing a story is hard. communication is hard. most people just suck at it. the idea that a human will be automatically good at telling a story is in itself ridiculous. 2) humans just suck at writing code, no matter how well they understand its purpose. Traditional architecture is intended to formalize the purpose and function of the program and can result in perfectly adequate code, assuming the human actually learns how to do their job properly, which I admit is a pretty big ask for most people in tech today.

If you don't like Confluence and Jira it's probably because you haven't learned how to use them (or you just don't like that they're not free). They are incredibly flexible and extensible and the marketplace is full of tools to expand their functionality, even though the base functionality is already very powerful.
The Billionaire Who’s Getting a Sweet Tax Deal
The implication of “great extinction” is that we’re seeing a mass extinction event which we aren’t. At least not on the level of the major ones usually discussed.
'23' is a great movie. 'Who am I' deserves a mention too.
Zuckerberg is illegally interfering with elections in Washington state and elsewhere. Honestly this is mor concerning. As we've learned over the past year, there's no recourse for private infringement of human rights. At least with the government you have someone to complain to
Funny you should bring up that question. I was recently told, "You know when every government in the world is pushing a vaccination that it must be a trap."

Strange decision-making strategy, indeed.
Because then you'll have to do whatever is the priority that they think you should be doing, instead of doing whatever you previously wanted to do with it.
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During Chaos Communication Camp in 2019 we held a veryvery improvised screening of Hackers. The people at the Norwegian hackerspace I was with had never seen the movie, clearly this was a mistake we needed to fix!

For those unaware of CCCamp here are some pictures; http://smtw.de/cccamp19/

We managed to steal^Wborrow the projector screen from an empty workshop tent. Hauled it across a veryvery busy whiskytasting event (called Whiskeyleaks). Got a small projector and then we rigged the sound.

A single concert speaker was our sound source, but we had no AUX cable long enough. So we found a headset with an AUX output on it and chained it together with the AUX cable :)

The end result https://twitter.com/MortenLinderud/status/116502963964076032...

Also had a screening at May Contain Hackers this year, and it was great having 30 people scream "Hack the Planet" during the movie and loudely complain when the RISC line came :)
Once you trust your vendors absolutely, your company becomes their company, because they can do whatever they want with it.

What always confuses me about this is that it seems like many owners trust their vendors over their own employees and I don't even know where to start unpacking that sentence.
As mentioned in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32860778, timezone confusion led Scott Aaronson to miss an important meeting just today. The problem is real. (But no word on whether the cause was a daylight-time/standard-time mixup.)
My understanding was that they do have a neo-Nazi militia that was incorporated into the official army, and they made at least some effort to clean them up a bit, after that. This happened because the militia rose up and started having significant success against the Russians in 2014 while the Ukrainian army was struggling, so there was a "the enemy of my enemy..." aspect. Whether they have any sway over, say, policy, I do not know.
> It had Locomotive Basic which was quite a bit more advanced than C-64 BASIC.

Haha, that's a really low bar! Commodore really cheaped out with C64 BASIC.

I wonder if that also was ultimately advantageous for C64, forcing kids to learn 6502/6510 machine language early to get anything interesting done.

Thus a lot of kids could create their own games and whatnot in assembler, with way higher performance than what was possible with BASIC at the time.
Thanks, I was looking for something like this earlier this year but could not find, I will give it a go, hopefully I will finally be able to boost sales.
Speed limits aren't a single value, they are multiple values, because there are many different speed limits. 100 mph is way too fast to be going in a school zone.

My daily driver has road sign detection... it's going to be more than a few years before it catches up.
Amazon gets paid to place targeted ads.

They use the ad money to give five percent cash back on purchases.

Manufacturer advertises "effectively pay 5% more on our web site or Amazon will club a baby seal (or worse)!"

The advertising campaign falls flat.

Consumers are killed/maimed by a counterfeit item they bought on Amazon.

Manufacturer costs go up 10% (spent on lawyers and training customer support as emergency response workers).

Amazon begins production of a higher-margin, but less expensive and non-deadly knock off, and promotes it above the original product.

Repeat.
I mean this is HN, never forget the 'Netflix for Black People' thread
To clarify the title: The authors sampled accounts that tweeted certain pro-Russia or pro-Ukraine war-related English hashtags. Roughly 90% of the sampled accounts were pro-Ukraine and 60-80% of the sampled accounts were estimated to be bots. It's *not* a situation where the humans are pro-Russia and the bots are pro-Ukraine. The vast majority of the (supposed) bots were pro-Ukraine, but so were the vast majority of the (supposed) humans.

From the article:

> Pro-Russian accounts have a mean CAP score of 0.42, while pro-Ukrainian accounts have a mean score of 0.43, with medians 0.36 and 0.34 respectively.

The CAP score is the estimation of bottiness from the Botometer software they used.
There are institutions that compete on the basis of teaching quality. Often private, sometimes public. They emphasize small class sizes, do not stress research productivity in hiring or promotion, etc.

Some of those institutions also signal (e.g., Williams, Harvey-Mudd, etc.) but most of them are relatively unknown and really do just compete on educational quality.
https://twitter.com/tobi/status/1570791158691012610

It's funny seeing the example they give has total comp at 200K considering that a year ago they were still paying less than 100K USD (sightly over 100K CAD) for senior staff
I know at least one clear counterexample for mobile: MetaMask, a widely used crypto wallet app, noticeably drains battery while it's in use. Usually down 3% within a minute of opening, and it's been like that for a while.
Had the Nazis been purged between 2014 and today Russia would have most likely not invaded.

Least we forget that during that period Nazi death squads killed more people in the break away regions than have so far died in this war. The last time US citizens were killed abroad in large numbers by the army of another country was the Alamo and we still remember it.
It was actually Vice that did the McAfee leak, with a Vice employee phone. [0]

[0] https://www.wired.com/2012/12/oops-did-vice-just-give-away-j...
Trust me, I see your point. I was trying to be diplomatic considering the dominant perspective.
Case in point. Rust is eternal. Rewrite it all in Rust and you will be rewarded in the afterlife.
That will certainly be how this arms race progresses.
Sounds like the Honeycomb.
Your narrative is as old as time and it’s always the same, and every time society listens to people like you seriously it ends up optimistically as zero innovation over regulated society, pessimistically genocide against anyone who’s ever accumulated anything (google kulaks).

So no, you have no idea of life or history.
What part of their story are you referring to? There are lots of indie devs that appear to be having great fun making games and doing well to boot. Valheim, Black Rock Galactic, Celeste, Dead Cells, Papers Please, Stardew Valley, Enter the Gungeon, Don't Starve, Undertale, etc. were all pretty bit hits, certainly made their developers millions of dollars, and AFAIK the developers were having fun making them.
Sometimes you can't beat inflation. Wealth equality is inherently inflationary. If people in developing nations start demanding the same standard of living, prices are screwed, costs go up, and certain cost changes cannot be hedged.

For example, how exactly would you plan on protecting yourself against wage increases? It's not like there's a futures market for wages.
Amazing! :) feel free to message on live chat or send an email whenever you like if you need help
h2o [1] was excellent when I tried it for TLS termination, beating hitch in my unscientific tests. And it got http/2 priorities right. It's a shame they don't make regular releases.

1. https://github.com/h2o/h2o/
Interesting, we have a similar situation. A lot of information all at once, hard to navigate, search etc. Usually developers are so confused a figma doc is often used more like a prototype to show during a demo than a spec to share. Instead our designers make screenshots of it and put them in a well-organized Confluence document. I don't know what's the right way.
Both party suck in the US . However Biden was doing the same thing and shipping illegals at night to republican states as well.

I don't see Desantis as the problem here. I see the Democrat leaders as the problem.

The democrat leaders were clearly not sincere when they declared their state as a sanctuary state ,since they got off guard by just 50 illegals. Not to mention the other democrat self declared sanctuary state having to call a state of emergency to handle the illegals they claimed to want to take in.
I'm sure Apple is more than happy with the situation, which is quite shameful to be honest. They seem to want to project an image of being a progressive idealistic company but at the same time they enable this kind of tribalistic bullying.
Yeah, I've been using linux for over 20 years, but I was pretty shocked by the number of sharp edges I encountered with arch. A recent update basically borked grub. On investigating the issue I found that the arch maintainers were shipping grub builds from the grub master branch, and when I pointed out this might not be the best idea the maintainer got huffy and said maybe I wasn't 'ready for arch'.

I installed popOS that day. I miss the AUR a bit, but pop resolves most of the issues I had with ubuntu, and starts and runs noticeably faster than arch, so all in all I'm pretty happy with it. It's a shame that arch can be so user hostile. I really admire it's wiki.
That's SMT but Neoverse cores don't use it.
From my (very) limited understanding the Angolan Civil War had no good sides.

It was a plain power struggle where two superpowers decided to invest their resources to deny the other a base in Africa. The local proxies were fine with this since they wanted nothing but to kill each other. The result was a bloodbath that went on for decades.
For what it's worth, I always have issues with UPS and never with FedEx. It could very well be a local thing.
That's normal for MSRP though. If 50 websites sold a brand, and that brand had a MSRP, and one brand undercut that MSRP, the 49 other sites are going to send it to the brand and write of a cease & desist to that one site.

Typically the brand does the enforcement, but competition does it just as much, since price shopping and competition can be brutal in eCommerce.

It doesn't matter if one store has lower fees (e.g. doesn't accept Amex compared to another store) - they can't undercut MSRP.
Don't click the link please. There's a "special" redirect image when the referer is HN. Just go ahead and copy-paste the link to a new tab.
Prestige is informal and unmeasurable. Columbia's prestige will remain high even if the quality of its education declines. But people expect the top-ranked schools to be roughly the same as the top-prestige schools, which is one of the reasons for these kinds of shenanigans.

The rankings are probably more meaningful at the bottom of the list than the top.
Try THEC64 from RetroGames.biz: https://retrogames.biz/products/thec64/

Yes, it's "retrocomputing on easy mode": an ARM Linux computer running VICE and preloaded with a carousel of C64 games. But it can be set to boot into BASIC just like a real C64, and it gets you about 80% of the way to the experience of the real thing without needing to recap mainboards or track down a missing pulled SID on eBay. And it hooks straight into modern TVs and uses modern peripherals (game pads, etc.). It can be programmed in BASIC or any other language/environment for the C64 that's sideloaded onto it.

If she wants to mess with more modern paradigms of computing, get her a Raspberry Pi 400 or something also. Old laptops with Linux are good for this use case also -- a used ThinkPad will work wonderfully. With modern tools, she can even more easily write 6502 programs to sideload onto her THEC64!
I would take it as only one factor, since it's more about whether the students like the professor (and how strict he/she is), which is different than whether they're good at teaching.
I'd argue that, yes, there can be a valid counterargument against everything you mention. The only dangerous trend here is pretending that there are undeniable consensus. Especially if they were forged in the last 0.5-0.05% of the lifespan of humanity.

Also nobody is critizing Ukraine from defending itself. We're critizing Reddit and redditors in general for being hypocrites. Never in history were "people of color denied from existing without harassment", etc. What does people of color even mean? Doesn't that group comprise the vast majority of human beings?

You've swallowed an entire package of propaganda and, more importantly, implying that that's The Truth (tm) and that it cannot be argued with. That's why I think people like you are our biggest pressing problem.
This might be better for most of employees. Big companies rarely benefit from the standard “lock in folks on the upswing” and “incentivize them to leave on the downswing” that stock grants usually do.

When the stock goes up, difficult conversations emerge when the company realizes it’s paying someone the equivalent of an entire team. On the way down it’s hard to manage comp expectations. An individual engineer rarely impacts the bottom line in a material way.

Which is to say, if tech workers can demand high six figure pay - it should probably be mostly cash for most public companies and individuals.
> how much user-hostile most of mainstream software products have become, and how much people are willing to tolerate that

Yeah. Software isn't about us users anymore. It's about corporations, their needs, their profits, their rights, their platforms, their everything. We're just incidental. It's getting worse every year and it feels like there's no end in sight.

Stallman warned everyone about this and very few people cared. Free software exists to combat this but there's increasingly no point since the hardware itself is becoming hostile. What's the point of free software if we can't run it?

I just feel so hopeless about all this. Computers had such potential. To see them reduced to advertising appliances is just sad.
> by the time it finishes vesting.

Right and during that vesting period if you had been paid cash you could have invested that money in a wide range of assets that are both more liquid and are not perfectly correlated with your source of income.

Now if we're talking a bonus that would be paid at the end of the vest period such that you can't invest that money until you would have vested anyway then stocks is theoretically going to have increased by the risk free rate, so it's expected value will be higher than the bonus (however it's much higher variance).

Everyone has weird thoughts in their heads about RSUs people the last decade has been insane, and no one remember the last tech crash. The next one will be bigger and when you realize you are getting laid off at the same time that your RSU drop to near zero, it will feel like the variance might not be worth it.
This guy? One of the best traders in history.

https://priceonomics.com/the-trade-of-the-century-when-georg...

His streak was something like 25% or 30% over 30 years?

The tide is definitely going out. The Fed created a huge bubble and everyone knew it.

Fed Balance sheet at $9 trillion…
Re: Prop K

> The idea of taxing Amazon for guaranteed income was popular: the tax polled at 74% support, according to its supporters, and received more than twice the necessary amount of signatures.

What I don't comprehend is how these actions by regulators, while obviously popular, actually help people get elected. I don't understand why unelected regulators would be doing low-information nonsense at all.
No, I haven’t. That’s why I used the term “hashtag form” instead of just “hashtag”.
I've always been against "hate speech" bans or modifiers for this reason.

Real, actionable incitement to violence and bodily harm is already covered by law as not legal speech.

You're left with either superficial hateful sentiment or someone who has a nuanced position. It's fine to say "don't do that here, thanks." But, it's being used as a cudgel from the top down to constrain public discourse and manufacture consent as what is "hate" becomes more and more abstract and more and more inclusive. If PETA is suddenly in control of the "community guidelines" on a site, would sharing the fact that I had eggs for breakfast be a form of hate speech?
This is an amazing concept. It got me searching through Hackers content on AO3, haha. Thank you for sharing! https://archiveofourown.org/tags/Hackers%20(1995)/works
This looks really nice, I've been looking for something to build a bot.
For sure. I can't judge what a listener would grasp since I do have the text in front of me, but at least the code is mercifully short.
Ivies have pretty tiny STEM departments for the most part.

Massive state schools like UMich, UWisc, UW, GATech have a much larger faculty and tend to be better for exploration.
It’s correct trump was very critical of Germany for their gas deals, but trump had a record of attacking Europe and nato at any chance he got. But He simultaneously praised and fawned over Putin and deferred to him so much that even trump’s own top advisers considered they may have dirt on him. The criticisms of Germany really seemed to stem out of his antipathy to Germany, just one of about 29countries in nato.

It doesn’t make sense to refer to that guy on Russia/nato when the only time he was right was when it happened to give him a way to criticize a country he hated, while turning around and fawning over the Russian leader when not talking about Germany.

It doesn’t make sense to bring up trump here unless one simply can’t get over trump. There’s plenty of others who are far more appropriate like romney who got made fun of for being right on Russia, not someone who showed open appreciation of Russia hacking their political opponents and regularly showed admiration and deference to Putin.
How big is your index and how many sites do you cover?
This is my sentiment, too. I tried to shop for $20-30 dress shirts in 6XLT, and it was a hot mess of availability and off brands. No thanks. Spent $70 at a local store instead.
Interesting article about Tacit Blue:
https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/41892/new-light-shed-o...

tl;dr from the article:
"Tacit Blue's notional concept of operations involved flying over or very near the forward edge of the battlefield at around 25,000-30,000 feet and orbiting overhead at 250 knots or so while its radar scanned the area below."
React is MIT licensed, so no.
I'm currently working on tools for better latent space exploration in generative models. The latent space of Stable Diffusion for example, is incredibly rich, and the traditional txt2img and img2img pipelines for accessing it are only scratching the surface of what's possible. We're talking about billions of images compressed (lossily) into 4 GB — yet we're still using very basic interfaces for interacting with this neurally compressed data structure. I'm working on creating other ways to explore latent spaces like this. My current project is just to dip my toes in the water, and it's an animated music video generator built with Stable Diffusion. I hope to show it off here on HN in the near future.
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I’ve personally only used the generated code as a starting point or guideline at most, because I usually have an implementation in mind already and it’s more work to reorient myself around the generated code.
For the timeframe relevant to your body, you can draw several multiples of the circuit limit for the branch circuit. (A breaker will typically pass around 3x its label rating for 3 seconds or more before tripping.) The resistance of your body would be the limit here rather than the breaker typically.