skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Code as art has its place, granted, but that place is in the privacy of your own time in a repository with one single contributor. I occasionally still go back to writing lisp for fun, but it has no place in production.

That reminds me of an excerpt from this humorous (but still relatable) bit of writing: https://www.stilldrinking.org/programming-sucks

> Every programmer occasionally, when nobody’s home, turns off the lights, pours a glass of scotch, puts on some light German electronica, and opens up a file on their computer. It’s a different file for every programmer. Sometimes they wrote it, sometimes they found it and knew they had to save it. They read over the lines, and weep at their beauty, then the tears turn bitter as they remember the rest of the files and the inevitable collapse of all that is good and true in the world.

> This file is Good Code. It has sensible and consistent names for functions and variables. It’s concise. It doesn’t do anything obviously stupid. It has never had to live in the wild, or answer to a sales team. It does exactly one, mundane, specific thing, and it does it well. It was written by a single person, and never touched by another. It reads like poetry written by someone over thirty.

> Every programmer starts out writing some perfect little snowflake like this. Then they’re told on Friday they need to have six hundred snowflakes written by Tuesday, so they cheat a bit here and there and maybe copy a few snowflakes and try to stick them together or they have to ask a coworker to work on one who melts it and then all the programmers’ snowflakes get dumped together in some inscrutable shape and somebody leans a Picasso on it because nobody wants to see the cat urine soaking into all your broken snowflakes melting in the light of day. Next week, everybody shovels more snow on it to keep the Picasso from falling over.
> It's nice to see LWN on HN for the second time in one day, but please remember: it is only LWN subscribers that make this kind of writing possible. If you are enjoying it, please consider becoming a subscriber yourself — or, even better, getting your employer to subscribe.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31852477

sounds like he is fine with it as long as it comes with subscriptions, which makes sense. Maybe my suggestion should have been to subscribe and I wouldn't have been flagged. :)

EDIT: can I please get an explanation of what I've done wrong? Is it too meta?
The SATs also allow for children with non parental involvement but talent to excel because it's a simple process: take a test
Standardized tests aren't perfect but there isn't anything better. There's no better way for a poor kid with high drive to compete with rich kids. That's why MIT decided to bring back scores in admission. There isn't a better solution.
I don’t really know the rules of evidence, but I don’t think this is coming directly from Meta, nor that they’re allowed to review these documents themselves. The subpoena has to come from the court, and so I imagine it’s the court reviewing the documents, not Meta. I sure hope that’s how it works. I’d love for a lawyer to chime in, though.
The likelihood is not "10-15% per person" that, during the operational lifespan of any given AED, that someone would have a heart attack at work, be treated by that specific AED, and have that treatment be life-saving. (That was the point of the meteor comparison.)
Is that what corporate journalists say about him? You'd do well to go to primary sources when there's misinformation about. His publication history is a matter of public record.

He's actually pro-vaccine as a personal choice, his objection to the public policy at the time centered on the need for informed consent to medical procedures. What well-meaning people find so dangerous about that I'd love to know.
> how do you propose that

All the proposals I've ever seen have been to handicap the students whose parents try to give them an advantage. It's a popular sentiment, growing in popularity every day.
But I thought that this was the main reason why they developed these robots in the first place!
We don’t provide free access to test prep. We don’t provide equal access to parents and friends who are enthusiastic and pushed to do well on these tests. We don’t provide equal access to a culture that values academics over, say, sports and entertainment.
Been using git for 10 years now, never rebased, never had an issue.
I'm having trouble coming up with the right words to make my point. But, to me, this application says "my parents made me do a lot of shit" more than it says that this person is exceptional. What's this kid's resume if he's born in the hood to a single mom instead of a Boston suburb to an associate partner at IBM?

IMHO it's sour grapes from someone that tried to game the system but didn't get the prize they wanted.
A .nl domain name costs < $5... be probably <$10, but still.
>We're don't view ourselves in competition with Meta

>...Meta sells reasonably good gaming headsets to customers who want to be entertained in VR; we're selling general-purpose productivity devices which are aimed at replacing PCs and laptops.

Hate to break it to you, but if you don't think that Mark Zuckerberg is actively trying to create VR devices that are general-purpose productivity devices aimed at replacing PCs and laptops, you haven't been watching some of their recent videos about the new headsets and prototype headsets they're working on. He very much is aiming for that market with future devices (not the Quest 2).

Here's a couple:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IMpWH6vDZ8E

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2zHDkdkqd1I

Also he's described their Project Cambria headset as intended for productivity, as in the following article:

"What’s different about Project Cambria?

The most important description we’ve received about Project Cambria comes from The Information; according to the publication, Meta employees have alternately described the headset as a “laptop for the face” or a “Chromebook for the face.” It’s a device Zuckerberg hopes people will use to get work done rather than being aimed primarily at gamers as with previous headsets."

https://thenextweb.com/news/meta-project-cambria-what-we-kno...
My employer blocks Linux clients for whatever reason. Even if you pass through the initial checks there is some kind of system on the Remote Desktop that detects your local setup and kicks you out.

So I use a KVM Windows machine with Virtio drivers. QXL seems to be the best video solution.
then there's autosquash and similar

honestly the commit graph as a first-class value yields a lot of ideas in my mind, we should be investigating compute at the subtree layer more often.
We don't provide access to everyone. If you are a kid who doesn't get fed at home, and you don't get a school meal until lunch, do you have the same access?

If your school can't afford state of the art computers or technology, do you have the same access?

If your school has class sizes of 35 and mine has class sizes of 18, do we both have the same access?
In general it's a good idea to let the defendant decide how to argue their case and have access to evidence, for better and worse.
> It's easier in some languages than others.

Yes, it seems Lisp wouldn't be appropriate for this.
congrats on the launch.. What is the added value in using Permit as oppose to just implementing ABAC on top of OPA by myself? if I implement it using Rego policies they will be in Git and managed in a GitOps way with tracking changes etc..
Ofc I understand that you aim for the permissions to be as easy as for a monkey.. Do you offer a way of auditing and tracking who made changes to permissions?
Because FTC isn't the defendant. How would anyone share counter evidence to the plaintiff?
Who’s panicking? The list of people who don’t believe Putin is bluffing includes Zelenskyy and Medvedev. Others are unsure how to calculate the probability of intentional use. Propaganda fits into these circumstances well, but has any intent changed?

There are two possibilities not discussed in top-search-result media: accidental use, and intentional use without Putin in control.
If they didn't work for meta they'd be working on something that might be competing with meta
There's commentary here which seems to be talking about matrix multiplication in general and ignoring real implementations, which are dominated by considerations of the memory hierarchy. They actually introduce operations, like packing for sufficiently large dimensions but not for smaller, and prefetch. Some of that seems only to be tunable empirically for the micro-architecture too. (I don't know how the considerations vary between CPU and GPU.) Fairly recent work on Strassen implementation, talks about that and the normal Goto-type algorithm: https://jianyuhuang.com/papers/sc16.pdf
Why? Why does skin color == culture, and why is "mono-culture" abhorrent?

Personally, I find treating people like trading cards and trying to "collect them all" is much more abhorrent.
Corin Tellado's 4000 romance novels[1] would like a word. For reference, Simenon would be between Asimov and Stine on this list, I think.

[1] https://thebookslist.com/most-prolific-authors/
Also see urban dictionary for BBC...
This is how I often program as well. I’ve realized that when you do this it’s crucial to have lots of tests to validate the program’s behavior, because it can easily look right and mostly run right without actually being correct.

Though this only works for the implementation side of things in my experience; you still need a good mental model of roughly what you’re aiming for architecturally, I think.
Ha, I chuckled
It's hardly simple to prep for the SAT. It requires time and money and space.
In the US you can use stamps for Priority Mail packages; they're not just for letters! My dad does this when he sends packages because he can get (legitimate) bulk postage at odd denominations for less than face value. You can use more postage than will physically fit on the box; more postage can go into a shipping label pouch. I imagine the stamps get used up a lot faster when you're shipping packages with it.

A tip to anyone wanting to get into this: legitimate bulk postage is sold by the pound!
ugh, that seems like basically the opposite of a good exam. More like setting up a psychological experiment than a useful way of gauging the ability of your students.
Your ... leaves out the "specified limited circumstances". If you read those you'll note none of them include Musk changing his mind.
Thanks for the history, really interesting.

> Surprisingly forward looking for any government department!

Indeed!
> In that, if the FTC thinks they are anti-competitive, they probably are

Wait? What?

It seems like a pretty strange position to just assume that the government is always right. I mean, if I said, all people the police arrest are probably guilty and should go to jail, I would hope you'd disagree.
Sure - but it'd be nice to have it managed for us.
Just a quick note on the word 'push'. We all now the 'tiger parenting' trope. Those parents exists and it makes a difference (with clear 'pushing', which I see as a negative).

But with maths I think it's a bit more subtle. Just the tiny things (even just 'talk' math) you do in early education can make a massive return later. There is no 'mean' in maths education even in ages 4-10 (my kids). We live in the Netherlands, that scores quite well in the table. And still I think math education is at least unambitious for the higher percentiles.

With just a few minutes here and there I've managed to get some pretty abstract concepts in their thinking (say: zero and the empty set, that's something small kids understand intuitively / or the first algorithms with russian multiplication or divide and conquer). There's no need for pushing, and still I think I've already help lay a good foundation of math in my 10 year old. No more than 30 hours invested in math his life.
This technique is cool but it seems like it would cause poorly performing pixels to get worse over time.

Would it be possible to create an inverted image that would correct the backlight by burning in the bright areas? It would seem like a more difficult task to accomplish because pixel burn-in time is a variable that’s hard to measure.
Comments on that blog post are a mix of thinly veiled racism and political insults, mixed with parents posting their entire children's resume online complaining that they didn't get into <elite school goes here>.
Warming his office.
> It is particularly bad for minorities, since ALL of them will be suspected of having their position/funding/etc because of their identity instead of merit

It's bad for the ones who would have achieved these things on merit, but it's evidently good enough for the rest of them that (as a voting bloc) they will reliably support people who push these kinds of policies.

I think it's hard to understand when you're not part of a group that interacts this way with the political system. There's no Asian Jim Clyburn.
When you pay $100+ per months for XX services and half of what you want to watch is either not available or available but not in your language you cut your losses and go back to torrenting
A lot of the real world is a "monoculture". Just because a majority of people look similar doesn't mean they all share similar ideologies, experiences, and values necessarily. Race is merely a social construct, and the Asian category covers several unique nationalities and cultures. Black and white are similarly ludicrously diverse. And these are young adults who should be bright enough to seek out diverse experiences and places if it suits them. If Harvard really cared about not being a monoculture they would look at their legacy admissions.
You’re an outlier. That’s great. Most people are not scoring that high without a lot of effort, and a basic public school education, regardless of the quality, is not going to get them there. They will need additional resources within the home and outside of normal schooling.
Possibly https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Machine-readable_passport ?
I wonder how much of this is a self fulfilling prophecy due to racially weighted admission. i.e Many Asian parents are painfully aware of how much the deck is stacked against their kid, and therefore allocates extra time and resources accordingly to overcome the difficulties.
Clojure has a core library enabling Prolog-like programming. Other languages have similar libraries but usually those are third party and less developed.
Just a nit on the HN comment, you can indent the lines 2 spaces so that it shows up as a code block, it should maintain the correct spacing/line wrapping and it uses a monospaced font as well

like this
My grandfather bled on a beach where his fellows wet the sand with their life so lesser men can wake from their comfortable rest and yawn for more leisure. We gave our word and pledged our strength to defend our allies. We shall not break our world and tarnish our honor so that they can rest from the grievous burden of turning on their tv to watch what other men do in their stead.
You're heavily speculating about a person, just to write - essentially - a fictional story you happen to like. Your comment is ageist, nothing else.
Time to get well-versed in malicious compliance.
My guess is there’s a “sheeps-clothing.stamhoofd.shop”. Since the users’ shops are hosted on a subdomain, one bad acting user can cause the whole domain to get blamed. Meta’s enforcement bots have, of course, zero nuance or understanding of this kind of thing. I doubt they would care about trampling small non-profits in any case.
We already have standing legal counsel. George made it sound like we're just now seeking a lawyer, but we already reviewed our policies etc in the past.
1. School funding is actually somewhat progressive: https://randomcriticalanalysis.com/2017/06/22/no-us-school-f...

2. People who are concerned about the allegedly regressive character of public school funding would do well to spell out their model of how spending affects basic math and writing performance. For almost all of history, every educated person studied under conditions that made the most impoverished reservation school in North Dakota look like Andover.
Right, from a user's point of view labelling it "Spam" has the same effect as when you put letters unread on that pile by the door, "I don't want to read this". Should they? Doesn't matter. Years back we even had users who were paying us to send them specific emails and would mark it as spam.

The use of "users marked this as spam" as a signal is a cheap but lousy shortcut and it's bad news that we became reliant upon it.
Wow cool! That is indeed the highest praise, though easily misinterpreted out of context.

I saw a bunch of Flying Other Brothers concerts, who started at an Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) benefit at The Fillmore Auditorium in 1997, and occasionally backed Bob Weir and Mickey Hart!

http://www.fob.com/band/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flying_Other_Brothers
> It's like the equivalent of judging a carpenter for using power tools because he's just not dedicated and gritty enough to use a manual twist drill.

I think this is an apt analogy. Mostly because carpenters who use hand tools produce more beautiful, unique works of art. When everything you do is on rails (no pun intended) you don't have the flexibility or creativity to make works of art. It's like saying Ikea tables (the equivalent of an idiot proof language) are just as nice to look at and functional as a purpose-driven hand crafted table. I have my doubts, despite using Ikea when I "just need something done".

Nice one, being it elucidates the art being lost in other fields (and perhaps all over).
IANAL, but I would imagine that at the very least, Meta's lawyers would need to be able to see the documentation so that they can adequately prepare their argument/defense.
Sourcing the LEDs, disassembling the panel, and re-soldering each LED is not scalable. The solution mentioned in this article can be open-sourced and distributed to the masses.
You've never used gerrit then. That tool is entirely designed around rebasing with merges as a rare event.
That's the thing, it's not only about the salary.

Yes, you leave money on the table if you do that (I know I did, I have friends the same age as me who earn a lot more than I do because they went the non-obscure language path early in their career), but at the same time you also bring some purpose into your professional life, which cannot be entirely bought with money.

Or maybe I was the weak one when I didn't see myself programming in something like Java for a living for my entire career (30 to 40 years), again, that would have literally caused me to cry before going to work, in which case, yes, those persons that can surpass that type of feeling should definitely go for the "more money/less interesting programming stuff" route.
You can use the parsec client, usually dedicated to gaming, to work on a cloud desktop. It works really well.
You've never lived.
To your point, password rotation is considered an insecure practice because it causes people to append 1, 2, 3, etc to the same password.

But I've seen so many companies that still insist on it.
> different race, in general, have different culture, values, and strengths

The coarse divisions that we call "race" don't help much here, either - there's a lot of variance between different groups of asians as well as different groups of whites (think of how different italians are from irish). The way we're lumped together is actually very arbitrary (and changes depending on how the lumpers are trying to score political points).
Amusingly Microsoft purchased RDP from Citrix (like 30 years ago). See version 4:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Remote_Desktop_Protocol
The remote desktop app captures the shortcut that would normally trigger auto-type. If I invoke it from the password manager's GUI it does work.
>I'm having trouble coming up with the right words to make my point. But, to me, this application says "my parents made me do a lot of shit" more than it says that this person is exceptional. What's this kid's resume if he's born in the hood to a single mom instead of a Boston suburb to an associate partner at IBM?

Try: speculative, imaginary, and unsubstantiated by evidence. Stereotypical, if you’re feeling adventurous.
It's astounding how fast stuff falls off front page these days.
Yes, of course he knew that all occurrences are equally probable, but he took into consideration what other people bet. Anyway as I remember when asked about that strategy few years later he said he changed the sequence (to 2,3,4,5,6,7 or something similar) to avoid potential prize sharing with people who followed his advice.
I see this brought up a lot and it always makes me wonder - what is the "correct" number of black people who should be admitted to Harvard? Like if you removed any racial consideration, what would be the results?
"abhorrent" is much much stronger than "suboptimal for socialization skills".

Besides, every other country in the world gets to have its own cultural identity. The "real world" is very much a collection of monocultures. Only in America is it considered bad to have a cultural identity.
My daughter credits the test-taking techniques they taught in her SAT prep course for a big boost in her SAT score. She says the test-taking techniques were orthogonal to how well she knew the material. I'm happy for her but at the same time it seems unfair that my ability to afford the SAT prep course gave her an advantage not available to families with lower incomes.
This is a commonly held myth but the numbers don't bear it out. Poor areas tend to be in cities and cities tend to have lots of commercial buildings that pay tax but do not send kids to school. Atlanta, where I live, spends 30%* more per pupil in APS than the surrounding suburban counties do. That's typical for American cities.

*Or so. I'm going off memory.
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Welcome to the internet. It’s pitchforks all the way down, baby
serious question: so where is a better place for users to get news? or share their thoughts?

Also, Twitter is more than just politics .. Lots of hobbies share information with others in their group
I see these efforts as an XY problem. The goal is X=Fairness. The solution Y=Help Disadvantaged groups.

Giving things to people who have been treated unfairly seems fair. But each individual in the group is different.

Do you want to help a member of this group because (X) they have been treated unfairly? Or because (Y) they are a member of the group?
Test case based problem solving. Write some hilariously simple test case scenarios, solve those, ship it! I have yet to find a workplace that doesn't suffer from this bias towards simplicity in inherently complex problems. How do you explain to non-technical folks "its not that simple" without looking like a sandbagging son-of-a?
If I were simulaVR, I would make this very painful to meta.

You would put together business plans that literally say no other vendor can compete against meta. Basically confirm the anti-competition. That even that subpeona is anticompetive and an attempt to further crush them.

Malicious compliance the entire way.
Ceph is not becoming Spectrum Ceph. Along with ODF, it will remain 100 percent open source. IBM said it will assume Premier Sponsorship of the Ceph Foundation, whose members collaborate on the Ceph open source project.

That is the key take-away for me that I hope remains true and does not go the route of Sequent. Should that be the case I also hope the Ceph Foundation keep Ceph alive and independent from IBM perhaps by forking it in the same manor that was done with MySQL (MariaDB and others) when Oracle acquired it.