skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Like many "metrics", college rankings appeal to people because all you have to consider is a single number. One result is that it eliminates the anxiety associated with having to make a choice. You have a single axis and you just aim for the top without having to go through some process of research and prudential evaluation or worrying that you will regret your decision later (you might end up hating your school, but you can rationalize your bad experience by appealing to your school's rank to soothe the pain). Rankings also appeal to people who are excessively concerned with prestige, and these rankings, interestingly enough, generate and reinforce that prestige. The more people believe the ranking, the more it reinforces the perceived prestige. Above all, rankings appeal to human pride because they give us a tool by which to say "I am better than you" in an unambiguous manner, regardless of whether it is true.

When people apply to graduate school, the situation is a bit different. You typically apply based on the people in the department you're interested in or the faculty member you want as an advisor. People aren't so concerned about rankings here as they are when applying to undergraduate programs.

I am not denying quality is variable across schools. It is. Student bodies can also vary, and rankings can concentrate people of a certain mindset (for better or for worse) in one place. But rankings are not as meaningful as the numbers would seem to indicate. At the very least, the precision is far too high and too reductive (what's the difference between a school of rank 4 and 5? of 4 and 10?). The methodologies used also don't necessarily indicate what you think they do. There's a game these schools play, as this article touches on, to increase and maintain rank.

My general feeling is that college education, and education in general, isn't that great, generally speaking, and the costs are preposterously high. There's too much of Dewey's influence. Classically, universities were not meant to be job training centers and glorified trade schools (we can debate how good they even are as job training centers). The reigning paradigm is being challenged, however, especially with rising tuition and conspicuous ideological presence on campus.
On internet, nobody knows you're a bot.
Yes we have this (I work at Stripe). It is an annual recurring grant that has a one year cliff then renews automatically to vest quarterly.

Say you get an offer with $100k in RSUs. That’s then divided by the stock price and that’s your initial grant. It vests in one year. After that you would do the same math again, except this time 1/4th vests quarterly.

It has pros and cons. It works well in challenging macroeconomic environments for the reasons others have mentioned.
Twont happen again.
Joking aside, this is what the law says on the subject:

> The working group shall take input from a broad range of stakeholders, including from academia, consumer advocacy groups, and small, medium, and large businesses affected by data privacy policies and shall make recommendations to the Legislature on best practices regarding, at minimum, all of the following:

> Identifying online services, products, or features likely to be accessed by children.

So a 10 member committee mostly appointed by politicians can decide your service is likely to be accessed by children and you become subject to these regulations. It will be interesting to see if sites adopt design or language choices that make them look less child-friendly in order to avoid being covered. I'm not really sure what that would actually look like.
Awesome.
I've got a 1060 that is long in the tooth, and I've wanted to add a second video card for experimenting with SR-IOV.

Regarding SR-IOV (if that's what it's still called); Can anybody suggest a decent resource for implementing it?

I know that alot of these mining cards will have been worked hard. I'm not afraid to reapply thermal paste, and if the price is right I can get a couple.
There is more to it than that.

Look up the use of Facebook in the genocide of Rohingya in Myanmar. I see multiple comments in this thread about snowflakes and cancel culture but they miss that social media is a profoundly powerful instigator of race hate and violence.

This is no defence of Facebook's actions here but any suggestion that a hands off approach without policing racial language needs to be conscious of the harm it has already lead to.

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/15/technology/myanmar-facebo...
Still rocking my EVGA 1080ti Hybrid SC2 from 4 years ago and its rock solid, not a single issue.

Even mined with it during the winter and obviously lots of gaming over covid...

Sad I won't be able to get a 4080 hybrid (so much quieter with the AIO).
That’s an interesting problem!

Since you have the client source code, have you been able to fully reverse engineer and document the client/server protocol? Do you have a black box server whose responses you can record and analyze?

Have you been writing your server top-down (building an idealized set of game objects and then wiring them up to the protocol) or bottom-up (layering the minimum game code on top of the protocol needed to make the server respond appropriately)?

How do you obtain the client source code? Will you legally be able to open source it or at least distribute binaries you build?

Is https://blackmoonchronicles.com/ your project? Looks like it’s a different project because they’re writing a cleanroom implementation of a client.
I share the sentiment of learning Rust instead of C myself, so I second this. However, if C tickles you more, then it's not a bad language to know. If anything, you'll be able to appreciate Rust more, if you ever do decide to pick it up.
Yeah. All of my posts have some flake that is stringing me on but can't set a time to meet. Nearly a quarter of scheduled meets end in no shows. One was after I drove 30 miles to meet someone halfway. I won't meet more than 5 minutes out of my way after that - you want the item you can come get it.
Darmok and Jalad at Tanagra. Shaka, when the walls fell.
Correct, so the right thing to do is make sure we get to that point by having open borders.
Don't assume io_uring is an automatic win.

Last time I benchmarked io_uring, it was good enough, but I was able to get measurably faster from syscalls and a well-crafted userspace thread pool for storage to NVMe.

(Note: the I/O thread pool I wrote came out noticably faster than fio, the benchmark tool, so don't assume fio results are the best possible.)

For that reason, I have a small application which can be configured for either io_uring or the thread pool, and the thread pool is preferred for performance.
Do you mind listing what issues you have with Ubuntu compared to Arch (and which ones popOS fixes?)? As someone who's only ever used Debian-based distros, I've always wondered what problems Arch actually solves for people.
See also the song with the catchy title “10,000-Year Earworm to Discourage Settlement Near Nuclear Waste Repositories” (https://emperorx.bandcamp.com/album/10000-year-earworm-to-di...)
Meh. No Nethack/Slashem, no DCSS, no BSDGames, no IF game beyond Zork such as Anchorhead or Spider and Web...
"Foie gras production should be judged not by the worst farms, but by the best"

https://www.seriouseats.com/the-physiology-of-foie-why-foie-...
And I'm sure they will treat your data with the same regard they do government personell files and applications for security clearance.
> AMD are the ones who are really fucked; their cards suck, and nobody bought them out of choice but desperation.

Do they really suck? From some benchmarks i saw there are cards comparable to 3060-3070s (the 6800 IIRC) which is solid midrange competition.
Can you explain this more? I mean why is the space doubled, exactly?
One of the defining characteristics of filters is that, unlike categories, you can just not select any if you want to see everything. This is true on craigslist, ebay, and every other website I can think of that has filtered product listings.
I would say that is very debatable, but it is possible that I am not Linux-savy enough.
I love the idea of this, but I just learned about xstate.js.

It was a eureka moment for me. Why was UI design such a mess? It’s because the UI vocabulary came from publishing and graphic design, but UIs are not static and describing them in that way will always fall short.

I’m convinced that any UI language needs to incorporate a visual state diagram editor to really make a dent in the space.

UIs are not fixed objects, but responsive object reacting to user intent.

Does your language incorporate anything like this?
I'm coming up with ways to stay on task and avoid distractions. So, I have this:

1. Make a list of tasks you need to do.

2. Take on one task and complete it.

3. Take On Me was a cool song.

4. Oh, I should go watch the video

...

I'm not doing very well at it.
Craigslist to me, beyond something I still use regularly to hunt for musical instruments, electronics, bikes, furniture, garage sales, etc, is an enduring shibboleth when it comes to "design."

When someone says "Craigslist design sucks," I can probably guess how that person thinks about design and what it means to them.

IMO Craigslist has survived as long as it has, in spite of no promotion, no advertising, no partner deals, no api integrations, yadda yadda, precisely because it is designed very well for its purpose and its users. I would never claim that CL is the most aesthetically pleasing site to look at, but when it comes to posting, searching and browsing classified ads (and even participating in its message boards), it does the job quite well and with minimum hassle.

For the first three weeks after I moved to San Francisco, more than sixteen years ago, I couch surfed at my boss's place on Stanyan street in Cole Valley. At the time, Craig also lived nearby. My boss and he were friends and would frequently meet at a coffee shop, and I would often join them. When I was first introduced to Craig, I quipped that I had recently moved, and did he know a good place to search for apartments? He gave me a gentle smirk and a merely mildly condescending roll of the eyes. Very pleasant, intelligent, and unassuming person.
Why is this a story? Like most countries that are still around, Iran will retaliate when it's attacked.
Most currencies don't have it baked it into the core workings of the currency.

In crypto, possessing money generates money, without investing it or putting the money "to work." This would be like if the dollar bills in your wallet periodically grew another dollar.
Network Rail testing lasers to clear leaves from the railway tracks
It uses the KJV. My go-to translation is the NIV, but the KJV is the most historic and has some of the most colorful language. I am curious how some of the images would look if you used The Message.
I made a voice simulator of my own voice (https://locserendipity.com/sim/voice.html) by recording individual phonemes. My goal was to create the smallest possible phonemes that can be concatenated into a wav file. Ultimately, I want to be able to export a wav file or mp3 file as base64 text enabling the largest amount of voice data to be stored on a CD. Does anyone have further advice on how to achieve this?
Comments moved thither. Thanks!

Normally we'd prefer a text submission, but (a) this article doesn't have much information; (2) commenters seem to agree that the video does; and (c) the other post was earlier.
That seems extreme for what amounts to playful banter, but it doesn't matter either way. My point was that Apple has a huge advantage in that people look down on the competition, so why would they even consider working to close the gap?
I love eating out alone. I used to do a lot of travel for work, and had many a alone meal. It was great to just sit in peace, read, catch up on news, etc. I never saw what the big stigma with eating alone is.
I do this sometimes, just have random conversations with strangers. You’ve gotta be able to read their expressions and see if they’re interested. Sometimes people just aren’t in a talking mood, sometimes they are. Maybe just say “hey, what’re you gonna order?” Or something like that, and they’ll react one of two ways:

1. “Oh idk yet” (this means stop talking to me)

2. “Oh well I was looking at the shrimp, but the tofu also sounds good, I usually go for fish… etc etc” (this means keep talking)

If they react like #1 (short and not as interested, body language is turned away) then just smile and leave them be, no big deal. Just don’t keep talking at that point or you’ll just be annoying. Nothing personal, they just aren’t in the mood.

But a lot of the times, their eyes will light up, they’ll turn towards you, and they’ll tell you some more details like #2. This is where you ask more questions — “Oh, do you come here often? Do you live in the area? What other restaurants do you like? Have you seen the dolphins today?” And from that point, just see where it takes you.

Sometimes it’s just a quick 2 minute conversation and you don’t have much in common, so you just say “Ok well I hope you have a great rest of your night!” …But sometimes you get a response like “Oh the shrimp here is good, reminds me of a dish I got in Spain”, and you’ve been to Spain before so you go into more details about that! And it just takes off.

You’ve gotta just pay attention and be willing to stop talking if you run out of things to talk about, but sometimes you’ll have a lot in common and be able to dig deeper into shared stories and stuff.

Really it just takes practice, but nobody reasonable will be upset if you just kick off a quick chat & know when to stop if they’re uninterested.
Absolutely amazing work!
Looks great, congrats on shipping :)
AFAIK pulseaudio, PipeWire and Jack are all built on top of libasound's snd_ APIs, it's the only sane way to use ALSA - just like you aren't going to make manual syscalls for read or write but going to use a libc
Are you talking about this, where he hedged against a market collapse, and then his portfolio only dropped 66% of the drop at the beginning of 2016:

https://www.fool.com/investing/general/2016/01/26/how-warren...

I'd read the strategy there more as "don't be greedy and invest in companies with lots of growth and weak fundamentals". That applies to bull markets too.
Awesome, I'll add it to the comparison folder in this repo: https://vectorsearch.dev
I’ve been trying to build a way to allow for more scripts to get automatically turned into UIs. Then can be built, shared and run in web browsers. It’s amazing how far browsers have come especially with the addition of ES modules.

Its basically a JavaScript DSL to create little web apps with reactive, understandable code. For example:

const age = input(“what is your age?”)

text(“your age is” + age)

Would automatically create a UI around this.

Can see it at https://trytoolkit.com

I’ve been surprised how much I’ve personally been getting value from this little app.
My prejudice is that if ch4c3 had noticed that the parent comment did provide an example (and it did) he would have said something like: the example you gave is not applicable because… do you have any other examples that are more on point?
Why do so many countries invest heavily in car-centric infrastructure and completely abandon public transit? Isn't transportation technically a solved problem already, with politics being the main obstacle?

Sure, small populations in hard to reach places will still need to use cars but that's like what, 10% of all people? (at least in the EU)
Programmable APIs.

A HTTP request is a function call with named arguments. What if the server had some endpoints that provide basic fp (map, fold, curry, …), and you let your users create their own endpoints by currying together other endpoints?
It's not like I'm abandoning the decades of development. I'm starting with a fork of Stockfish 10(pre-NN, and using too recent a version could make it hard to submit it to TCEC due to rules about similarity to existing participants.) and I've been digging into the code and algorithms therein for months now. My approach is an extension of existing techniques.

I actually started with a greenfield implementation, but found myself reading more and more Stockfish code anyway as it's an excellent reference for the state of the art. And I realised it was far too much work to reimplement all this stuff, so that's why I switched to a fork.

And I wanna learn linalg and deep learning anyway.
That, plus even if they did give a shit about you...who cares, it doesn't affect you either way.
Better, Figma proves how Web apps can be good enough on the browser by itself, no need for Electron garbage.
You write “Blaming technology” in response to a comment that does not mention any technologies. You might want to examine what your preconceptions are, that you would see “technology” in a comment that does not refer to technology. You were responding to a comment that describes two business strategies, perhaps you should respond to that.
>This is just incomprehensible through any lens

What about the lens of "Nvidia only allows us to sell at a 1% margin"? Revenue means nothing if you're not making profit.
Because there is never a point at which everyone knows that Netflix is going to jump 20% a year for 5 years.

That's my point. There are times at which people think this is what it's going to do, and after it's done it lots of people believe it to have been clear in hindsight. But the situation where people know in advance for sure that there will be huge excess returns never occurs.

Netflix is a great example. Would you have been keen to take a large amount of income deferred and in stock at the point when streaming was just a weird perk bundled with the DVD mailing subscription?
I have built a proof of concept that demonstrates the core mechanics of the approach. The challenge is that my background is in backend development, and so the UX doesn't make a good first impression. I am building a more polished demo, but it is slow going given my lack of frontend expertise.
...and is also used, unsurprisingly, as a euphemism for penis.
Yup, got interviewed by person who reviewed my feature PR on their OSS. Easiest interview ever.
> it takes 2 seconds to create a new virtual bank card.

how do you do this? My bank used to have this back in the day but they yanked it.
A fun way to use the Dynamic Island
Yeah, I'm fairly certain they were 100% NVidia.
My pneumatic tube story about things that can go wrong with them: A customer pulls up to the drive-thru, puts their money and deposit slip in the carrier and sends it off into the building. The teller receives it but it's empty and tells them "I'm sorry, but you need to include your paperwork" and sends the carrier back. The customer holds up the carrier so the teller can see that there's paper & money in there and sends it off again. The teller holds up the carrier they received at the window, and it's empty!

What had happened was a previous customer had driven off with the carrier, and the teller put their spare into the tube. Then the customer who had absconded with the carrier realized what they had done, and returned to the drive-thru lane - putting the carrier back in and leaving without saying anything. Now there were two carriers in the tube. So when the next customer arrived, the carrier that arrived at the teller was the spare, the one that didn't have their documents in it.
If you’re that concerned, talk to an attorney on how to structure the business and contracts based on your specific situation.

Basically, have legal entity, legally maintain it, don’t be negligent, don’t commit fraud, and have legally enforceable termination clause in your contracts.
Kids ain't getting outside enough.

I'm afraid we'll be in that boat too. My toddlers walk outside every day but it's harder in winter.
gamers might not be paying attention to the merge situation.
Those are areas that have not only deindustrialized, but have been losing population steadily for the last 60 years or so.

Deindustrialized - the South Side has never really recovered from the Stockyards and the US Steel South Works closing. Even the hospitals are closing or are closed already.

Losing population - The Englewood neighborhood in Chicago, one of the most violent and poorest in the city https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Englewood,_Chicago#Demographic... population peaked at almost 100,000 in 1960, now around 25,000.

Hard to think of a solution except to subsidize economic activity in such neighborhoods.

The Obama Presidential Library may have such an effect for Woodlawn, though it's worth noting that it is sited so that it can be reached by car without actually traveling through Woodlawn.

And yes, for the Dan Ryan.
> Why make it more complicated or ritual-worthy than that?

Why not?

What's so bad about complexity or ritual? It's the author's choice whether or not to do it. They aren't demanding that you do, nor are they even demanding that you read about their personal choice to do so.
Buybacks are not alchemy; buying back stock just uses the same money that you saved when you issued stock instead of paying in cash.

Of course, the stock price might have gone down, but also it might not. Companies don't usually time buybacks right to buy stock cheaply.
To get around this I usually just store the secret (from the QR code) in a secure place (encrypted database with yubikey).

This always allows me to recreate the TOTP entry.
> Also, people were never forced to get vaccinated.

This will be the line when people start suing their employers over vaccine injuries. "It was always voluntary. You could have just let us fire you."
Don’t confuse brains with a bull market…
it takes two minutes to read enough the article to know, it was contractors to State-level intelligence, doing side business as ordinary ransomware. As others say, this hardly seems to be a story at all, very common.. on all sides.
Lots of good options for cheap GPU clouds, including Paperspace (mentioned above), Coreweave, and Crusoe Cloud (crusoecloud.com). Crusoe Cloud's angle is that our GPUs are powered off otherwise wasted energy and are carbon-reducing; running one for a year provides an emissions reduction equivalent to taking one car off the road.

Disclosure, I'm head of product @ Crusoe Cloud. Feel free to ping me at mike at crusoecloud dot com if you've got questions or feedback.
There is no need to mention that no force was used for the society-wide isolation orders. They did the job of reducing mobility and reducing spread, which means that many of the 60-70% of the US population that has gotten COVID got it after they had been vaccinated. This would not have happened if Bhattacharya's incredibly naïve plan of just closing off nursing homes had been followed.

16% of Americans are over 65. Of those who died under 65 (retirement age in the US), composing roughly 1/4 of all COVID deaths in the US, many of those were high risk (obese, diabetic, etc.) The estimate of 40% does not seem unreasonable.
Safe as any big city in the USA. Crimes like this take place everywhere.
There is one other cryptocurrency use for these mining rigs, and that is to compromise existing chains.

Now that there is a great deal of excess capacity, presumably it would be possible to attack smaller chains in an attempt to glean some profit through double-spending, as those chains might now be vulnerable to larger-scale history-rewriting attacks.
Paywalled, so I can’t directly address the points in the article.

Do humans not have thousands of years of genocide each other long before Facebook? It’s hard for me to believe that if only Facebook did not exist, everything would be fine in Myanmar. No, almost certainly they would have found a way to kill the other tribe.
https://youtu.be/jAG3fQpeZtU (not me)
That was wondrously great.
I love self-checkout. But I wish stores at least were generous enough to give us an incentive for doing some of the work ourselves.

The normal checkout at my local store includes free fruit bags, while the self-checkout has nothing.

Maybe they think skipping the long queue should be enough reward.