skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't think an equivalent GPA at a more prestigious school signals anything of the sort. In fact many more prestigious institutions grade fairly leniently on the assumption that their students are already ahead of the curve.

The few exceptions are at places like Berkeley where they accept a large number of students.

It's one of the reasons that I think eliminating standardized tests for admission to graduate institutions may be a mistake.
I used to do that. I did it at a time when we did not understand how limited surface transmission was. I didn't want to remove my mask after the weekly shopping expedition because there was some possibility that viral contamination of the mask surface could be a vector. In addition, I wanted to avoid wiping my hands near my mouth or nose, and simply leaving my mask on until I got home and could wash my hands thoroughly seemed like a good way to ensure that.
Right.. Are cloudflare CDN nodes "the network"? Or a computer?

Because they're "stopping me" already, as of late.
> that's what makes it distinct and therefore a unique language with unique semantics

Unsafe Rust doesn't have different semantics from Safe Rust, it's the exact same language but it allows more operations. Which is to say, for any given expression that compiles with Safe Rust, if you wrap that expression in an unsafe block it will have precisely the same semantics. For the book to describe it as a "second, hidden language" is being a bit fanciful on its part; it later goes on to clarify that it just gives you a handful of extra powers.

> Procedural macros can be used to define new languages within Rust

Sure, but by that logic, Rust (and every other language that supports DSLs) has infinite languages inside of it, which does not amount to a particularly useful distinction; either a language supports crafting DSLs or it doesn't. To suggest that this means that the language itself has infinite sublanguages obscures its actual sublanguages, such as the built-in macro-rules DSL.

> Attributes are the counterpart to Unsafe Rust: their syntax is described separately from the rest of Rust

This is a misunderstanding of the reference manual (which is itself non-normative and fairly ad-hoc in structure); most pages contain their own grammar specification, e.g. the syntax for items is described at https://doc.rust-lang.org/reference/items.html , but there is no user-facing item sublanguage in the same way that there is no user-facing attribute sublanguage. Attributes are attributes, they're just a part of Rust.
What fatality rate would a pandemic have to have in order for you to agree to the kinds of public health measures that were taken for COVID-19? 10% ? 20% ? 60% ?

What kinds of unknowns would justify, in your mind, those sorts of policies?
>web services where the http routing layer is the actual public interface definition and so you're benefiting from strong encapsulation at that layer

this is actually one of the best ways anyone has put it. You may be right. I have often wondered how does the huge amount of Ruby/Python/JS work in building large companies and products, when Java mandates all this amount of massive complexity.

You may be right here - in the web services world, the hard contract of the API layer makes up for less strict encapsulation everywhere else.
Gorgeous and hypnotic.
In my opinion, books are the worst way to learn a programming language. Reading existing codebases and watching tutorials is usually far more effective, especially when you can mostly transfer knowledge of how to do things in one language to another.
I love this. I'd love an idealized version where nobody ever passes on the right even more.
Nope, not common at all. And the word competitor could be every other company out there. Unless every company demands to see tax returns it will be difficult to verify anything from taking after-school classes/tuitions, stock trading....may just push people to take up contract work or freelance for the most part.
You can absolutely use local allocators in Rust, but the APIs around allocation are rough around the edges. Rust 1.0 shipped in 2015, it's certainly no where near as mature as C++ (though it's gaining ground quickly, and can obviously benefit from lessons learned in C++).

Also note that Rust's approach is to have many things that would be core/stdlib features in other languages implemented in community supported packages, where a consensus can form safely without risking shipping a language feature that might not serve the needs of the community, and the package can evolve on it's own schedule & not be tied to a compiler release schedule. On a cursory glance, there are numerous libraries providing this functionality: https://crates.io/search?q=placement%20new

I'm curious, are you a game developer or something? I've written less than 1k lines of C++, so I really don't know much about it, but I was under the impression this was a fairly niche feature.

(ETA: I peaked at your profile & saw it looks like you work at a brokerage - yeah, that makes sense why you'd care deeply about avoiding allocations, fair enough.)
It's interesting to note that the lead acid batteries in ICE cars are among the most (possibly the most) fully recycled products. A large percentage of them make their way back to recyclers at end-of-life and when they do, they are fairly highly recyclable. New lead acid batteries are made of up to 80% recycled material.

Glass and aluminium are also extremely recyclable, but a huge amount of post-consumer glass and aluminium still ends up in landfill. Whereas the logistics, economics and supply chain of lead acid batteries makes them ideal for recycling. And I'd expect EV batteries to comfortably surpass this high bar given how difficult it would be for an EV battery to somehow make it into landfill.
Go back and read the original response again. It doesn't say anything about calories out.
Yes yes yes continue to focus on the partisan differences, tear the world apart, the other side is evil because they have an R next to their name, the other side is (D)ifferent.

It's all the other bad side, not the same freaking loonies that keep everything status quo and pat each others backs.
I can absolutely see how you think that, but I didn't get that impression. There was certainly the thinly-veiled legal threat -- or at least, the implication that it could go that direction if they completely ignored him -- but it sounds like they did take these kids' suggestions on how to harden their system a bit to heart and implement at least some of them. That time isn't free.
This would be the opposite of freedom. The government has no business to be involved in companies
Wow that's gorgeous. Is there a link to the source?
As a software guy, I've always had a phobia of electronics and hardware. I'm gonna pick up a copy of this and see if it fixes that irrational fear.
I'm a pretty technical guy, and I read the whole landing page, and I still don't really get what this is.

Is it a low-code app builder with a real-time collaboration model? Something else?
> Going the angel investor route, 3 different times I formed an investor pool only to have at some point them realize what the technology could do with pornography, and then the investors insist the company pursue porn.

I'm not sure there's a huge market for people wanting to insert their friends and family into porn, but if there was why not just try it? Seems like it'd have demonstrated the tech worked commercially which could have attracted investment in non-pron uses and it could have ended up just one more technology in a long list of tech made successful as a result of porn.
> which is really a mediocre Chinese take on the Hollywood blockbuster.

I quite enjoyed the film. It was interesting to see a different cultural take on how to solve "future problems" in a different cultural SciFi. Would I watch it again? Probably not, was it any worse than the stream of MCU junk? Not really.
https://github.com/jes/nightdrive
A lot of the world does get paid in unregulated "tokens" though. That's literally what the eurodollar system is. A US dollar abroad is not equivalent to a US dollar in the US. US banking regulations do not apply to those dollars. Hence, they even have different interest rates!

But you're absolutely right that this is a mechanism by which they can expand the labor pool for digital work.
yeah, but most of the weight on the new cards is just heat management stuff like heat pipes fans and heat-blocks/sinks.

That card is huge, but I bet it's a fair bit lighter than most of the gaming sector cards now.
> You don't find it hard. Many do.

The question at the end of the day is whether that "hardness" is required or accidental. My gut feel is that Rust does have some accidental complexity--poor support for static/globals, poor support for placement new and alternate allocators, inability to transmute equivalent types well, etc.

However, my gut feel is also that a lot of Rust's "difficulty" is the fact that people really don't know how to program C/C++ even remotely correctly, and Rust is simply slapping them in the face with that fact.
https://github.com/smallhadroncollider/taskell is a pretty good option for a similar usecse.
When there's new pathogen, transmission mechanism(s) unknown, and no moral way to test for "natural immunity", you don't go around saying hand wavy shit like "some people won't need it", because you have no idea who does and who doesn't.
The NUC Extreme line is basically that, which IMO is a really good form factor.

Memory and nvme storage are dense enough to make anything larger obsolete for the practical needs of most users. Emphasis on ‘practical’, not strictly ‘affordable’.

The only advantages of larger form factors are the ability to add cheaper storage, additional PCI-e cards, and aftermarket cosmetic changes such as lighting. IMO, each of these needs represent specialist use cases.
I always knew that a lot of people didn't read the article before commenting, but I'm still surprised at the number replying here without reading the whole three-sentence comment.
It prevents talking about sexuality with children (up to 3rd grade), whether it's gay, straight, trans, furries, whatever. To say it's about one specific thing when it's about the entire subject is misrepresenting the bill.
Strong disagree. Getting into a top University is hard but once you are there matriculating isn't. In fact many of these institutions suffer from grade inflation.
The answer is obvious. The 5G chip implants that are part of the vaccine have not reached enough people, and until that happens, thus enabling world order government via radio control, the state of emergency will continue.
I believe we are almost at peak GUI. The endgame here is that all these crappy GUIs that are getting worse every year will be relegated to a role of being APIs for AI agents.

Instead of clicking around and filling out forms and waiting for loading spinners all the time, we'll just tell a large language model what we want to do in English, and it will go off and screen-scrape a bunch of apps and websites, do all the clicking for us, and summarize the results in a much simpler UI designed to actually be fast and useful, vs. designed to optimize the business metrics of some company as interpreted by a gaggle of product managers.

This isn't unprecedented. Plaid screen scrapes terrible bank websites and turns them into APIs, though without AI. Google Duplex uses AI to turn restaurant phone numbers into an API for making reservations. DeepMind's Sparrow[1], just announced today, answers factual questions posed in plain English by performing Google searches and summarizing the results. But it's going to be a revolution when it becomes much more general and able to take actions rather than just summarize information. It isn't far off! https://adept.ai is pretty much exactly what I'm talking about, and I expect there are a lot more people working on similar things that are still in stealth mode.

[1] https://www.deepmind.com/blog/building-safer-dialogue-agents
What Florida is asking for is not different than what many on the left have been asking for. The motivation is different, but the powers they want are the same.

People on the left need to remember that if they give the government more power to regulate speech online, whether it is to fight disinformation or hate speech or whatever else, the right wing will have the same power the next time they win office. It's so short sighted.

Unless you want our society to vacillate between left-wing censorship and right-wing censorship every time power changes hands, you should oppose giving any more censorship powers to governments.
> It's hard to classify what it is.

It's generative art :)

You should launch it on https://www.fxhash.xyz/

You might find these interesting:

https://lunarean.substack.com/p/solace

https://mirror.xyz/0xF7E15015D31e1Be374c21E6F1dE91147C8B5db8...
The airlines frequently have extreme discounts on tourist flights - similar to rail passes you need to buy these before you arrive in Japan.

As everyone has mentioned, the trains in Japan are wonderful, but if you get a tourist rail pass you might consider taking a long flight for your first leg (eg. Haneda to Hokkaido or Kyushu), then firing up the rail pass when you finish there and meander your way back on the train.

As a footnote, the rail pass is also good for a large number of bus lines, ferries, etc, so don't assume that you will have to stay in city centers.
You missed the pun
My wife used it in her neuroscience research to see which protein would go through certain tissue barriers (or that's what I understood). It doesn't have the ability to predict interaction with cells and other proteins, and it's not 100%, but it's still useful.

How do you know it's not being useful in research already? Biology is a slow field, you won't see papers mentioning it for months if not years. If I know one person team that uses it, there must be plenty.
No they can't, that's the whole point of onion routing. The next hop doesn't know if the packet started with you or if you're just another node in the payment path.

Reference: https://github.com/lightning/bolts/blob/master/04-onion-rout...
I have pretty much these same dreams, about once a year. My undergraduate was traumatizing. Yet I look back on it fondly 15y later. Kinda messed up
Maps, the Territory, and Meta-Rationality
It says "classroom instruction", so wouldn't it also be okay if it was just the teacher and student in a one-on-one discussion? Since that wouldn't be instructing a class.
Partly because of the lack of acknowledgment about what was already fairly certain about ivermectin, which was dismissed by a bunch of quacks (including the then POTUS), who were absolutely not interested in any kind of "normal" scientific discussion.
I've lost about 15kg in the last year. (109 to 95 or so). While I'm not explicitly counting calories, I've definitely scaled back snacks, desserts, and "eat until I'm fed up" lunches.

I wonder if it's worthwhile to find some compelling distraction-- the equivalent of "I'm grudgingly coming to the table and slamming the least amount of food possible so I can get back to my task" sort of thing. If I'm at my desk away from food sources, I'm not consuming calories.
Larger portions of the planet? Humans activities actually cover very little land overall, and also most of what we do is just scratching the surface of the crust. The planet is much bigger than what you see with your eyes.
In my opinion...

You earned your degree, and your subconscious needs to needs to acknowledge it.

Why would you be drug down by this question? Perhaps there is a deeper reason.

“Dig deep within yourself, for there is a fountain of goodness ever ready. Dig deep, and it will ever flow." -Marcus Aurelius
How did interest from the pornography industry halt further progress? I would have assumed the high demand for the product would have driven innovation much like how the porn industry decided the winner in the vhs/betamax format war
Not if you care about side channels. There really aren't any good solutions here that let you safely run untrusted code in a shared address space. Yes, you can slap barriers behind every single branch and after every single store (memory ordering violations can cause mispeculations in straight line code!), but that's going to come with an enormous performance cost (academics regularly brag about inventing new mitigations with ""only"" a 20% performance overhead lmao). The only option we've really found is to make interesting secrets inaccessible (site isolation in Chrome, for example). Trying to shove all user applications into a flat address space would mean giving any application the ability to read arbitrary memory, which is not great.
"That was an invasion on incorrect pretexts"
Colin Powel knew beforehand that the evidence of WMDs was FAKE! That's why he demanded that the Director of the CIA sit right behind him within camera shot when he made the presentation on TV. It was a lie and Colin Powel knew it was a lie.

NATO members ARE helping Ukraine. They are behaving a lot like they would if Ukraine was an OFFICIAL member of NATO. They only reason they dont send troops is because Russia is a NUCLEAR power. Simple as that.

I'm not arguing whether the Invasion was good or bad or moral or immoral or justified or unjustified. I'm arguing that, over what the US has been doing in Ukraine for years was bound to provoke a Russian invasion.

International Relations is ruled by power not morals.
... because I went back to grad school as a 40 year old.
So create a channel called #drop-in and start a huddle?
Maybe but I think it’s the right direction. These are not apps they are communications protocols owned by rent seekers
Why the Obvious Geopolitics of the Taiwan Policy Act of 2022 Matter
> Harvard is really good at finding the "Harvard quality" people among applicants.

How hard is that sifting process? How good is Harvard at doing that? How was it tested?

I certainly think Harvard could have made an incoming class out of rejected students and they would all be the same caliber.
Are the website owners asking Cloudflare to stop you?
The computer doesn't solve problems on its own, but it is objectively a breakthrough technology. It's pretty clear that AlphaFold is a phenomenal innovation.
We don't have to live there. If there is a sentient industrial space faring equivalent of our species then trade, cultural exchanges etc can be performed off-planet. There are ways around these problems.
I don’t think we’re exactly sure how much of the Earth’s heat is due to radioactive materials in the core or just left-over heat from its formation, but either way a super Earth should have more of both.
i hear you - then let me ask you: what would make Java frameworks better (not the language) ?

Not just for existing developers, but also people who are new to the language and are doing the old golang vs java eval.
It’s 11 o’clock at night and this is absolutely perfect. Bravo on the music version.

https://incoherency.co.uk/nightdrive/
Of course we could, the problem isn't the size of the landmass, the problem is the stubbornness of our brain mass.

We radically modified our country for cars in a very short amount of time. We can do the san with cheaper and more efficient transit methods in a shorter amount of time, for at least a core that covers 60% of people in very little time, if that is what we wanted.

Instead we have public processes that take five years to decide on installing a bike lane. We took all the inefficiency of centra planning, then took away the only advantage, speed of decisions.
"Chris Impey is a University Distinguished Professor of Astronomy at the University of Arizona. He has over 210 refereed publications on observational cosmology, galaxies, and quasars, and his research has been supported by $20 million in NASA and NSF grants. He has won eleven teaching awards and has taught two online classes with over 300,000 enrolled and 4 million minutes of video lectures watched. Chris Impey is a past Vice President of the American Astronomical Society, and he has won its Education Prize. He’s also been an NSF Distinguished Teaching Scholar, Carnegie Council’s Arizona Professor of the Year, and a Howard Hughes Medical Institute Professor. He has written 70 popular articles on cosmology, astrobiology and education, two textbooks, a novel called Shadow World, and eight popular science books: The Living Cosmos, How It Ends, Talking About Life, How It Began, Dreams of Other Worlds, Humble Before the Void, Beyond: The Future of Space Travel, and Einstein’s Monsters: The Life and Times of Black Holes."

-- https://www.as.arizona.edu/people/faculty/chris-impey

Naturally, none of this makes him right... I have no judgement on that point. But does clear some of the ad hominem.
Water cooling (with standardised connectors) seems like a sensible option (the heat-sink's the problem, not the GPU).
In fairness, that's more or less what I remember (from 20 years ago). Operator overloading in libraries built by incredibly smart people could produce beautiful syntax. Unfortunately, most library builders weren't that smart. Maybe it's better now.

As a language feature I can't feel more than ambivalent about operator overloading. Kotlin has it, Java doesn't, I'm ok either way.
> It seems to me a tautology to suggest to that going for a walk is less complex than purchasing a specialized device in order to to a specialized exercise in an attempt to fend off obesity (when we already know that walking alone will probably not do any such thing).

Fair point, and I do agree that pharmaceutical approaches seem more likely to reach more people affected by this problem. My broader point was that the simplistic "just be more active" seem ineffective... and in my experience in some cases even counterproductive, so providing more alternative routes to healthier lifestyles makes sense to me, as complicated as they may seem, maybe they will be more convincing/enticing than what we currently do.
Lol the CDC
Welcome to the future. Digital abundance. Meatspace scarcity. This will be the case from magazines to teachers to meetings to vacations. The "real" will be a luxury.

Life as we know it may turn into Wonderbread.
This. Why eject heat into your case?
Quit naming your companies after objects in lord of the rings books.
Detecting Gender Bias in Transformer-Based Models: A Case Study on Bert
Ambisonics hardware was on sale in the late 1970s and early 80s, but few people at that time had multi-speaker setups, which meant that the companies making it went defunct.

Libre and gratis ambisonics encoding and decoding software has existed for more than a decade. It is the domain of enthusiasts rather than regular consumers.
> The real challenge comes in figuring out when to work within it, and when to work outside it, in my opinion.

You don't need to feel bad about "working outside" the borrow checker, and maybe that's a signal that needs boosting. I've been using Rust for ages and I'm not averse to cloning things when I need to. It's cool that you can create zero-allocation libraries by threading lifetimes everywhere, and I certainly appreciate all the library authors who go the extra mile by doing so internally to their libraries, but in my application code it's easy to tell that a given thing isn't going to be a bottleneck and isn't going to be negatively impacted by a little copying and allocating.
We already have electric powered busses, and they don’t have dirty and heavy batteries. It’s called a trolley bus.
so, maybe this is a dumb question, but is Asahi Lina just marcan with a pitch modulated voice and an anime avatar?
I think a big use case is running kernels/UDFs directly inside databases or data infrastructure systems. For example, [0]. Imagine you need a custom function in postgres, but instead of implementing it in C and shipping a shared library, you would implement it in WASM.

[0] https://redpanda.com/blog/wasm-architecture