skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I am almost unhappy to learn that this was a joke. Would have been nice to put a final (personal) nail in the C++ coffin with this insanity. However, I guess it says enough that I did have to dig quite far into the paper to realize whether Bjarne was joking or not.
Here's an archival link of how it looks now: https://web.archive.org/web/20221006151740/https://store.goo...
Did you read Twitter's post explaining which of his tweets were inciting violence?
There were 2 tweets

>The 75,000,000 great American Patriots who voted for me, AMERICA FIRST, and MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN, will have a GIANT VOICE long into the future. They will not be disrespected or treated unfairly in any way, shape or form!!!”

And

>“To all of those who have asked, I will not be going to the Inauguration on January 20th.”

There is no way any reasonable and objective person could come to the conclusion that either of those are inciting violence.

Perhaps you think Trump deserves a ban, but Twitter's reasoning is wrong.
Likewise. I owe a lot to the BBC micro.

A few years ago UK schools were flooded with BBC:Micro Bits - everyone in my son's year-group received one.

I think the idea was similar, seed a new generation with technical know-how. I'm not sure if it will work this time - I guess we will have to wait and see.
Two of these bozos contacted me on a personal address that I have never used for anything work-related, but does happen to be the email I have registered as my Amazon shopping account. When I wrote back and told them to stop spamming my personal address that had nothing to do with tech work, they said it wasn't their fault, because they had just bought the email list from someone else who had done the work to cross-reference my personal email address with my professional identity. As if that would give me any more trust in them as a company!? To me it just made me even more resolute never to work at any of those "big tech" outfits. None of them seem to care one bit about people's privacy.
It's very likely biological.

Here's the thing - the variability of males on average isn't a socially constructed thing. What is socially constructed is what society values generally speaking - or what it values over other things. We value smart people and for good reason. But it's a social construct that we hold Nobel Prize winners over James Beard Award winners, for example.

Progressives should stop fighting science and play on subjective grounds (like what society values and why) where they can actually win.
Thanks! Uh, maybe I can just use a solar cell or something.
I'm always continuously surprised by how extreme, eye-catching news actually always turns out as overblown and yet collectively we as a society still follow extreme, eye-catching news. One would think eye-catching news would be seen similar to hot women washing cars on a car ad, clearly fake to sell product, but somehow people are still repeating the headlines and yet its considered unreasonable to run around pointing at random women and demanding they drop everything and wash their car.
Self driving cars will work, very soon, people underestimate recent breakthroughs in AI.

( Leaving a note on HN just to say "I told you so" ;-)
> Insurance would probably pay them out nicely

I wouldn't have bet any money on that. The dude was unwilling to pay £1100 for a life saving device what makes you think he would buy insurance that would pay upon employee death.

I know for a fact I didn't have any of that cover as my current company does pay death in service and it's like 4 times my yearly salary to my wife. So if he had anything like that he would have said so.

He's was just a cheap fuck. Companies often cheap out of safety gear to make a quick buck happens everywhere all the time.
100% this. This was by far the most valuable lesson I learned in college when picking courses - you have to consider who is taking the course when thinking about evaluation.

This "service courses" effect is, in my experience, by far the most strong for premed students as well.
As a Canadian, that's never been where we get shafted. Paying over 100$ a month for < 10 GBs when you can get unlimited residential Internet for lower is savagely greedy.

I have not had data on my phone for the last 6 months and I wish everyone would do the same just for 3 months and we'd get European rates tomorrow.
I understand the argument, I just disagree with the premise that the OP was specifically anxious about not being seen as gay (though maybe they are in other contexts, I don't know) or that in context being gay is presented as an insult. The premise is projection and/or mind reading in this particular case.

More generally, cynicism about diversity points doesn't automatically mean disagreeing with the validity of LGBT or non-LGBT identity, just the validity of the corporate approach to that identity.
> No, it does not. I wish I could create money to pay the interest on my loans, but I can't (at least not legally!). I use existing money to pay them.

LOL, wrong perspective, think of it from the banks point of view. They make money from you for creating money and letting you use some of it.

Again, this whole "creating money" thing is very simplistic perspective, they have limits on how much of this they can do, etc.
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How many news stories from ArsTechnica even mention the subject's age in the first place? Can you please let me know specifically what about my comment was ageist, and specifically shamelessly so? I think I was very reasonable and respectful and clearly indicated that my post was speculation. Thanks Faerie.

PS: As an aside, to be very pedantic, the word ageist is a subjective term, not objective. You can say that 2+2=4 is literally true, but can you fairly say that anything is literally ageist when that's subjective? Just something to noodle over about what that word even means.
> It was pretty clear that Differential Equations, maybe even parts of Calculus, were not necessary to learn the engineering, they were a way of having another department (Math) do the filtering. In ten years of work in the semiconductor industry, I never once needed to use calculus or differential equations.

I’m a trained EE. Calculus and even differential equations concepts were used all the time before I became a manager. It depends on the type of EE work you do, but I would strongly disagree with anyone who suggests these math topics aren’t relevant to EE work.
What if he just checked White vs Asian American. Do colleges even check that?

Probably lots of fraud the other direction. E.g.: A white person claiming to be Native American.

Colleges definitely look to the other way a bit to hit metrics / numbers, but what about the other direction?
Is the finger print sensor still very slow? sensor and/or software on hte 6 was noticeably laggy [1]

[T] https://www.androidpolice.com/pixel-6-slow-fingerprint-senso...
They are not definitely illegal to import. There are just fees you have to pay.
I used to have 4 android phones(all pixel) and 1 iphone in the house, over the years that old iphone still runs after like 7 years(replaced battery once), but on average the android phone was replaced twice for each user(dead phone, bad phone,etc), in the end it costs way more, plus on those sudden-death phones many pictures etc are permanently lost due to lack of backup.

now the house has 3 iphones, 2 pixel phones instead. the two pixel phone owners are using pixels for software-related reasons(job related to android to some extent, and pixel typically has the newest android updates earliest), otherwise it will be 5 iphones now.

in short, Pixel are not solid built per my experience.
Organic chemistry being used as a weed-out system for pre-meds doesn't make a whole lot of sense, particularly anything related to organic synthesis and things like nuclear magnetic spectral interpretation, which doctors simply will never use.

A main issue here is that any real (and interesting) understanding of organic chemistry requires a fairly solid understanding of quantum mechanics and things like electronic structure calculations. This is also true of spectroscopy, which is probably the main analytical and experimental tool used in the field.

However, that would likely require QM as a prerequisite for organic chemistry, which is a course program that makes little sense for pre-med students. Hence, crude approximations, hand-waving arguments, and rote memorization are often used instead of trying to actually explain things based on more fundamental concepts like electron density. (This approach is sometimes called physical organic chemistry).

Additionally, chemistry is one of the most patent-centric areas in the corporate university, and teaching tends to be a second-hand concern. The researchers with large grants aren't required to teach courses, so they farm the job out to temporary hires, grad students and this 84-year old who probably should have retired years ago.
I wish they had gone back to the 3x- I don't have too much use for 4x or 5x. I don't object to a 10x as well but I wouldn't personally use it often.
>bigger than what one would expect

What would one "expect", and why?

In any case, the numbers we find are not "bigger" in raw terms (or per capita) in many sports than say, Blacks. How about Olympic sprinting, or NBA basketball?

If work ethic is the primary determinant, why are they so absent from these sports at high levels?
I'm pretty similar, being an android user since the first phone (HTC dream)

my Pixel 4 will be being replaced with an iPhone

(the manifest v3 changes really piss me off)
[ Disclaimer - I am responsible for a Citrix environment, but I'm reasonably proud of how well it works for our company ]

The technology behind remote desktops is fundamentally limited but I'm amazed at how good the user experience can be on a modern well-configured Citrix environment.

- The protocol responds well even on low bandwidth as long as latency is OK. On the office LAN it feels like a local computer.

- There is offloading for Teams[1], media streams[2] and even entire web browsers[3].
The tech behind this is impressive and it works pretty well (mostly!)

- For most staff it's easier to use a thin client or a minimal laptop.

- I can keep the Citrix environment patched and managed much more easily than a proliferation of laptops and home devices.

It can be a struggle at times and it's definitely not the right fit for developers. But it's got a lot of advantages and most of the time it works amazingly well.

[1] https://docs.citrix.com/en-us/citrix-virtual-apps-desktops/m...
[2] https://docs.citrix.com/en-us/citrix-virtual-apps-desktops/m...
[3] https://docs.citrix.com/en-us/citrix-virtual-apps-desktops/m...
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I have heard the opposite about Maitland Jones from people that have taken a course with them.
Stable Diffusion is severely limited in the memory constrained Google Colab context.
Thanks! And both approval and RCV are steps in the right direction. For whatever reason, RCV has been implemented more broadly (but still just a tiny fraction of the US).

I've been very encouraged by the results in Alaska after the special election that just happened there in August. 85% found it simple. 73% ranked multiple candidates. And the election workers implementing it had a flawless go of it.

Some data from one of the groups that helped educate voters: https://alaskansforbetterelections.com/polling-shows-alaskan...
You are more brave than I am - I have it explicitly disabled :-) https://gitlab.com/dnsmichi/dotfiles/-/blob/main/.gitconfig

When I pull and it runs into a merge conflict, I want to see that error/log on the CLI. Reason: Sometimes the automated pull-rebase takes a very long time to resolve conflicts after each step. I prefer to first run

git fetch

git diff branchname origin/branchname

and then decide my strategy :)

Bit off-topic but since we share .gitconfig tips - I upgraded to a recent Git version and enabled the "git push" option to setup tracking automatically. No more "git push -u origin branchname" actions. https://gitlab.com/dnsmichi/dotfiles/-/blob/main/.gitconfig#...

[push]
autoSetupRemote = true
Yeah, vague "we may choose for undisclosed reasons" rules are the best way to say "we'll do whatever we feel like, mostly depending on whether we agree with the tweet".
I’ve been developing for the last few years on a cloud VM and love it. Latency has never been a serious issue for me.

It lets me use Linux as my daily driver, I have a highly capable machine with large L2/L3 cache, a lot of RAM, many CPUs — and it’s totally portable.

Not to mention that the internet speeds on the cloud VM are incredible — easily 1gbps+ wherever I am in the world. This is a selling point folks forget.

The combination of speed (hardware and network) and always being on (can leave compilation tasks etc. running) is very nice.

I’ve used Citrix and the modern Chrome Remote Desktop experience is generally an order of magnitude better.

Working on a bus with wifi, typically fine. Even working from Asia with the VM in California, great.

The only issue I have with cloud is that for personal it’s expensive. Google compute VMs are a lot more than equivalent workstations per year for similar hardware afaict.

That’s the question I’m curious how folks work around.
For sure, it doesn't work with every workflow. But I think it would for the OP's described workflow.

And I am currently waiting for my GitLab backpack for contributing something (very small, but apparently it counted!) so thank you to the team for that!
Same. And after a few days the "photos" app will post some AI enhanced versions of the good shots. Some are ok, some are not much better, but occasionally it makes the photo 100x better. It's pretty amazing.

The phone is pretty nice, good screen, long battery life ....
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>We should not, because race is a useless concept.

This may be true, but I find it interesting that white people are the only ones who think this way.

Every other group has in-group racial bias, and actively organizes to that end.
Offhand, I'd say something along the lines of "Not acquiring a reputation for producing undergrads who either fail out of med school or end up accidentally killing a patient due to gross incompetence".

I find it interesting that the apparent thesis of the petition is "This class is too difficult" as opposed to "This specific professor is not good at teaching". Has there been a noted decline in his skills in the past few years, or has the content or style of his lectures changed? If not, what is special about the current crop of students as opposed to the ones in the past?

This is a very dangerous precedent. If you don't have a fundamental and strong grasp of organic chemistry, you have no business being a physician, no exceptions. As an analogy, imagine a civil engineering program that bowed down to student complaints about the intro statics or materials science courses being too difficult. Would you want to drive across a bridge designed by one of their graduates?
My question was specific to African Americans, and not specific to CS.
My reward was the missing features I needed... so yeah
5 years of security updates, not necessarily full OS updates.
The best teacher I ever had was known for being difficult.

It was American History (college) and I've never liked history. When people found out I was taking his class, they tell me they were sorry for me.

To this day, that man was the best orator I have ever seen in my life (and I'm over 40). He would get up, start talking, and I would be enthralled. It quickly became my favorite class.

But he was ironclad in his expectations. He had no attendance requirements, but every class he gave a 3 question quiz over the lecture the day before. These quizzes added up to be worth more than the tests in terms of final grade, and he would only allow you to make up 3 of those quizzes (for missing). And he was absolutely, 100%, willing to fail you if you didn't have the points for it.

What I learned from that class is that students didn't like him because he wasn't lenient. You got the grade you deserved and there was never any leeway. He made this quite clear.

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Contrast this with the semester I ended up having to drop Diff Eq. The professor had a policy of 3 missed days is an automatic failure. My alarm clock stopped working and I went over that limit (kept trying to get people to wake me up, but none did). I had to drop a class I had an A in.
Been using git for 15 years now. Occasionally rebased, usually had an issue ;)
Most people I talk to dislike the camera hump on the back, but Google insists on it. I guess it is their new design language. Sad, because I think the simple design from the Pixel 4 to 5a was quite nice. But from what I hear, the series 6 hasn't been that much of a hit as they had anticipated it. I even once saw an ad for it in a cinema, which surprised me as non-internet Google advertisements have been rare in my experience. Not sure if the 7/7 Pro will be better, or if they will just throw everything away in a year or two, and start all over again.

Then again, the only reason I was even interested in following the development was because I had been considering to buy a new phone after 5 years to use Graphene OS.
Agree with @leros.There are 2 keys things that must be done to increase your chances.

1. Convince the executive team of why this is a worthy problem to solve. The only business impact any product can have is acquiring new users (new revenue), increase deal sizes with existing customers (expansion revenue with monetization), minimizing customers churning (retention revenue).

2. Clearly answer why you need to focus here now. Associate your proposal to a compelling trend that is relevant for your business.

ROI is key here. Sounds like you have traction you just need to tie it to an existing important business outcome your company already cares about. I have also done and currently doing intrapeneuriship and this is how I have been successful in getting ideas funded and brought to market. The best ideas usually are increasing revenue through monetization, it's usually less risky than pitching to acquire new customers.
> Would you turn down getting lectures from Donald Knuth even if he's older than dirt?

There's a difference between giving lunchtime lectures and teaching an entire course while assigning grades that affect the careers of young people.
:thumbsup:

curious about the bike joke
The "one bad vendor" is the gatekeeper for 50% of the mobile device hardware space.

If you take a wild guess and assume that most people will interact with home automation through their handhelds, and 100% of them will when away from home and their house hubs, then that "one bad vendor" could seriously crater the health of the ecosystem.
This is a subpoena from a legal team, NOT a court. You are free to write “we don’t know” for much of the questions or even write “too burdensome to answer”. Such subpoenas have little teeth.

Hire a lawyer for a few hours to confirm what I say since I’m some random internet guy.
This is not showing up in the Australian Google Play Store. Shame, I'd love to try it.
How's the Pixel 6 holding up?

I've had battery discharge problems with the Pixel 4 and 5 just a few months out of warranty. Hope that's been fixed in more recent generations?
At some point, yes, otherwise it can and will be abused, just like patent lawsuits already are.

There are cases of this already happening in the case of poor people, otherwise vexatious litigants wouldn't exist.

I wonder if the judge even knew that one of the list of companies was "small company mctinypants" or just assumed all were massive and huge.
This article is pretty trash to be honest. Yes, organic chem is hard, yes it's a pre-requisite for med school, yes the pandemic has impacted teaching. Frankly, a huge amount of the writing about this boils down to old people writing "Kids these days are too darn lazy". Ok. Sure. The students didn't petition to get him fired, they didn't ask for that. The fact that NYUs response was to fire him, and his reponse was to go to the New York Times to bitch about his students being lazy, show that the problem here isn't the students and the students don't deserve to have their careers jeopardised by a clearly incompetent university.
I ended up returning my 6 for a 6a in order to get a phone that was just "too big" instead of "gargantuan."

The 6a's biggest downside is that it still doesn't fit in a normal pocket. Its second biggest downside is dated camera hardware. The 7 would fix that second gripe, but it's even bigger than the 6a.

Am I really so much in the minority in wanting a reasonably-sized phone? Like 2.75"x5.5"?
> They didn't pay a bill on time (renewal negotiations)

I don't side with Splunk on their actions but I can't stand customers who withhold payment as a renewal tactic and think that it's equally wrong.
Overlay these statistics with multi-parent family percentages and suddenly it becomes even more clear what is going on.
Also, "public school" doesn't mean anything in the US in terms of educational quality. Some public schools are better resourced with more blue blood attendees than any but the richest of private schools.
You can actually, e.g.: https://www.mdpi.com/2076-393X/10/10/1651
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If that is a part of the syllabus than okay. But if that isn't clearly stated as a goal of the class at any point than it doesn't make sense.

If the knowledge is necessary, it sounds like there should be an additional class before said class to give knowledge that can be built on in the more difficult advanced class.
Yeah, I think is more of an organic chemistry thing which I only got to at the end of my class so hopefully some other commenter can provide more color there. I will say the experience I had there made Orgo seem more like a language than a science - there's no way to talk about Orgo without memorizing the language as you would with French or Spanish. But again, I don't have the right context to push that analogy further
Part of the struggle, at least in the US, is you have parents trying to help their kids with math being taught in ways they never learned.

My wife literally cannot help our 7 year old with her math because we were raised in a school system that taught rote memorization. I was too, but I suck at memorization and have had to rely on fundamental understanding in order to survive in math. So luckily I can help with things.

And parent involvement helps a ton. When our kid got 50% on the practice test I spent a few hours going over the material she didn't understand. She ended up getting 100% on the real test.
Why would I get this over the iPhone 14? The former is literally 100% better.*

*This rationale is seriously why the XBox 360 wasn’t the XBox 2. Which makes the XBox One all the more confusing.
Good for you. A device hitting it's end of support after 3 years??? Stop the press this is unprecedented I demand that you keep selling me an iPhone 6 why don't more companies just keep selling their stuff from a decade ago?
The Iran situation is in a lot of flux, so while that may be possible when being methodical about one person, it is less so if you are trying to rapidly detain hundreds or thousands per day.
Pixel security updates for at least 5 years from when the device first became available on the Google Store in the US. Updates may also include feature drops and other software updates. See g.co/pixel/updates for more information.
Coincidentally, the Nazis also spread lies about Jews murdering children. I'm sure if Twitter had been around, you would've seen similar Tweets coming from them, for very much the same reasons.
The goal is merely to reduce the supply of doctors to keep pay high, the way we go about doing it is not that important.

At my school, there was a different organic chem class for physics/chem students that was based on physical understanding + QM.