skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Nah, not at all -- just that the SAT is a reasonable test of ability that is in fact accessible to people w/o rich educational backgrounds.

If you're born poor or somehow outside of the social mainstream, standardized testing is your friend.

(I wasn't commenting one way or the other on K-12 education -- I had a mixed experience personally...I think it could've been done a lot better. My wife had a great experience. But she went to private school.)
We're to think every other professor has lowered standards so far that the only one refusing to do so is routinely handing out tests that garner 30% class averages?
The closest I could find is the following https://openlibrary.org/books/OL818633M/Teach_yourself_Borla...

I guess @tjr is right, if we consider its size consist of 832 pages.
EU wants to know if Microsoft will block rivals after Activision deal
really?`you are unable to think of any situation where people would be unable to save a year's worth of pay?
I'm not vagueposting. Everybody knows what I'm talking about (and that's my evidence that I'm right)
Certainly not by default. And try getting insurance coverage for it.
Not super low. They're just not cool nor super big.
> Is the author hypothesizing that they are somehow controlling undergraduate chemistry classes in private and public institutions across the country, which seems very implausible?

Isn't precisely what accreditation allows professional organisations to do?

It sounds plausible to me that the AMA could impose education requirements like organic chemistry as a requirement to joining their ranks. And indeed that keeping the supply of doctors limited would be in the interests of their members.
A Fitbit is better than this in almost every way. As someone who's been wearing a smart watch of some kind for nearly a decade at this point, there are only really three players in this race: Fitbit, Garmin, and Apple. Everything else on the market is a joke by comparison. That's setting aside the fact that nobody should ever trust a Google product launch of hardware at this point.
Migrating to Pulumi
> if there are fewer than 5 candidates, equivalent rankings can still differ for total scores

I’m having a hard time following, can you give an example?

I’m saying that Borda allows voters to give one candidate 5 points, one other 4 points, etc. and score would allow voters to give as many candidates 5 points, as many candidates 4 points, etc.
It is the weirdest thing how couples, having just had sex, are wearing underwear.

There must be some code I do not know about. It is ubiquitous
Court Blocks 13,445 ‘Pirate’ Sites Proactively to Protect One Movie
Line workers are trained to never assume a line is de-energized, those that forget don't live very long.

(But yes, backfeeding the grid during an outage is dangerous and highly against code.)
Google does not provide any discounts for employees personal projects.

Cloud Shell is free up to 5GB additional storage is $0.02/GB a month.

Alternatively someone linked https://www.gitpod.io/ which also has a free tier.
Sounds like a right hand.
Atari Marketing Video 1982 (obscure)
"Video Games: a Public Perspective." Atari's attempt to quell fears that arcade video games harm our youth. Vintage 80's style with a few cameos from classic game creators.
I digitized this VHS copy years ago from an arcade game collector. Also uploaded somewhere on U-tube.
the fetishization of staff engineers is really fascinating. do they actually act as "force multipliers", are they really essential to the success of large engineering orgs? In my experience, they spend most of their time in meetings not doing much of anything at all.
No it isn't, both are correct statements of fact.
The non-linear workdays changing the shape of productivity
It’s his book because he believes it’s true, not because he’s trying to influence things. I’d highly recommend reading Big Debt Crises.
A set of plain text files (along with a couple of templates), synced using Nextcloud. I don't need anything complex or on someone else's computer to do those tasks.
if you're into datacenter drama you may find this interesting. It's a livejournal of a datacenter in downtown New Orleans riding out Hurricane Katrina and all the crazyness they went through to keep things online in the aftermath. Comes complete with snipers, rolling barrels of fuel up parking garages, raiding snack machines, the whole enchilada.

https://interdictor.livejournal.com/2005/08/29/
The question was too vague to guess what it was about, if anything. It presupposes there is some resource used for renewables that is scarce and for which there is no viable substitute. Without identifying any, it is just trolling: there must be trouble somewhere, what can you come up with for me to carp about?

Lithium is about electric cars, not about renewable energy production.
Wouldn’t it be cool if the rich outside of real estate helped revolutionize home building and access to home ownership in the middle of an international housing crisis instead of wasting their breath on this kiddie Monopoly money nonsense.

What’s Web 3.0 or 4.0? Since dorsal fin has already claimed 5.0, I am formally staking my claim on 6.0, in which I will invent a web where only dancing food may reside. TechCrunch, please write an article about me now. Place me right next to an article about Elon’s next superfluous claims about future car features.
Here is the product https://cloud.google.com/shell

It has a quick start guide and docs.
Quite a few complex solutions (mostly unknowingly) used by vast amounts of people have come from pure volunteer open source work.

How much we can expect that to continue is a whole other matter though.
Twisting of words there. Because it appears blue, conventionally we call it blue, even though the thing itself is anything but blue. That it appears blue ironically means it is not blue.
I've never lived there, but I image other would share my strategy (not that I ever got to use it) - move there, make a ton of money, move away 5-10 years later, possibly switch to a smaller company (big fish in a small pond). I would guess there's a lot of churn on the population there but I don't have the numbers.
That was what the original comment I was replying to said, "less accountable hands". I replied mainly to question that. Then you disagreed with me, I guess I misunderstood about what you were disagreeing with me, sorry.
I'd absolutely buy that.

But I'd go all-in on an index that follows the investments of people in Congress.
Not when only the kernel is allowed to do that, and syscalls require root access.
Please feel free to provide evidence of how deleting the accounts has made anyone less safe.
How do you safely use crypto?
Another Amazon Warehouse Catches Fire, the 3rd This Week
BYTE is a Chinese company: it is co-managed by the CCP by definition and the CCP can and has been able to override the company leadership at anytime it sees fit. Investors knew about this risk from day one and knew that any invested capital would be under effective CCP management. In practice, the CCP has an interest in the growth of the company, however state priorities, like intelligence gathering have precedence.

No one/company should have any expectation of privacy or security when doing business with any company operating in China, Hong Kong, or Macau.
Surprised I had to scroll this far to find this point. The ramifications of censorship stretch beyond interpretation of the book itself. Cultural norms are partially established by media, so by censoring this one is in fact reinforcing the puritanical norms.
>> If the criterion is health, it might be better to remove references to Americans eating in front of their children?

> In America we tend to assume that it's ok for children to eat food but not ok to smoke

"Americans eating in front of their children". Does not mention food.

That is the point
Maybe a good rule for projects in maintenance mode. Large scale refactors? Well, that's impossible under these rules, well unless you go full LISP on what a line does.
The things that get me are blurred bums, logos, and paintings on the wall.

America is extremely polarised. On the one hand it's blurring bottoms and censoring words of drugs in songs and the other it produces the most hard core porn and gun violence...
That’s a nice goal for a generic cloud provider, but within a company having many languages causes a lot of problems. You really want two or ideally one language across your stack. Maybe 3 if you have some really specific workload.

If I’m a TypeScript Company or a Python Company I really don’t care if my cloud provider can run JVM. And vice versa.
Thanks for that info. So it sounds like the article is just inaccurate wrt Google. But that has some pretty big implications. Blocking Stack Exchange is very different from blocking Google.

Snowflake and anything else relying on domain fronting are quickly becoming non-viable. I wonder what the next stage in the rat race will be?
Imagine painting with a broad brush an entire nation’s worth of people, one with literally several or many times more people than name a European country.

We’re a country of many peoples with many values and that’s one of the reasons we fight so much. Pretty much everything you listed is a norm which evolved from a strict—and yes, sometimes puritanical view—to accommodations for different people from the heart of the Tennessee River Valley to the beaches of California.

We’re not all still partying like we’re fresh off the boat and it’s 1620. As clean as a Hollywood production might look to you, the people that made that movie were probably all living rather diverse lifestyles, many of whom might make a Roman at their peak blush. The Puritanism is still there, but so is a lot more than that.
It is called killer feature for market adoption.
I think I have Leonardo Syndrome. The Internet being so vast, there's countless things to try out and hack away at, and I have countless unfinished projects hoarded away on my hard-drives. I'm not actually a hoarder in the typical sense of keeping old newspapers for posterity and I'm actually a minimalist, but when it comes to my digital life: the ease of being able to keep mountains of the proverbial 'old newspapers' is magnified a trillion^trillion times.

Leonardo would be paralyzed by the modern web. I find myself also becoming like a magpie, gathering little snippets of code that one day may come in handy, and my bookmarks are overflowing with interesting actionable URLs that I plan to revisit someday. I'm a digital hoarder who likes to procrastinate a lot. Probably need to change that, or is this a natural response to the sheer vastness of the web and the only sane way to approach it?
that copypasta you found has nothing to do with the asset involved…..

it is not likely what Celsius did was legal (or consequence free via the legal system) , so that has nothing to do with the matter that their company held crypto assets

adding clearer fiduciary duties to company’s that hold crypto assets is entirely possible and so also has nothing to do with crypto
Please don’t, unless you’re willing to confront your own contribution to the situation you’re fleeing.

Wherever you go, there you are.

As someone in Colorado watching the influx of Californians with a dread and frustration over the past 10 years, the majority of newcomers seem to vote and live exactly like they did in CA, creating the exact same problems in CO that they ran from CA to escape.
I guess a lot can be done to force the model to create properly connected 3D shapes instead of these thin protruding 2D slices. But I noticed something else. Some of the angles “in between” the frog faces have three eyes. I wonder if part of the issue might be that those don’t look especially wrong to Stable Diffusion. It’s often surprisingly confused about the number of limbs it should generate.
Nice to see a tightly curated list like this. And kudos to the person/people behind it.
man, hacker news is just not what it used to be.
I'm confused - the author never did a word problem or shopped in a mega-store? If the price is 3 for $5, what's the price for 1? 3x=5, x=5/3. This is algebra. Unless there's some more-complex definition being assumed... If this is too complex to visualize, I would think that maintaining a checking account would also be too complex to visualize.

YMMV. I heartily dislike memorization-based fields and don't really do well in them. I have no problems picking up piles of arcane information (programming, military history), these are interesting. Botany, for example, would be on the order of teeth pulling. Organic chemistry, as discussed in another thread, damn near death to my GPA.

Edit: I've taken algebra courses. I tried to take a statistics course. How can one do the latter w/o the former and it's a series of equations and formula?
Unfortunately, the real life version is likely to be a corrupt hidden group or organization who have placed themselves above or are circumventing the law, that uses AI and their power to do damage to the lives of others.
>It was easy to edit that orgasm out. The passage sounds better without the uselessly controversial bit, so the reader can concentrate on the experience the two characters are having.

In fact, the opoosite was gained: the american editor forced it to be a story without the fun - two, if not sinners, then desperate people, slamming their bodies onto one another. For all we know, they get nothing out of this. With the orgasm detail in, it becomes fun sex - and dirty.

Same way adulteresses had to be punished for it in Noir films, or they wouldn't pass the censorship.
This was my thought as well. Increase self-efficacy by emphasizing successes. Increase happiness by emphasizing joys.

Since it's clear our memory is already false to a considerable degree (or holographic rather than photographic, if you like), and since memories/beliefs have an outsized influence on our feelings/thoughts/behaviors/actions, this seems like a great opportunity for, er, "ethical self exploitation".

Hacking, if you will.

I'm certain there are many methods for doing this very thing.
In case there is no Condorcet winner, there is actually a more principled way to randomize over alternatives than just choosing each with the same probability, known as maximal lotteries (e.g., https://pub.dss.in.tum.de/brandt-research/fishburn_slides.pd...).
If bitcoin/crypto was going to do something about centralisation, it would have by now.
Bitcoin us a great idea, but it doesn't change anything about how we organise the economy, how we write contracts, the relationships between the powerful entities, and everything else. It just a really nifty financial concept.

I don't see how this is different.
How about build some new cities that allow high density and public transit? I swear Americans always think they could never survive without free parking. You are absolutely not running out of land out west.
First up - bounds checks are simply not expensive, that was true a decade or two ago, it is not now. Similarly null checks are not expensive either. Now the standard C++ "I'll throw an exception now" model for errors is expensive for myriad reasons, and the general mode of development for many projects is to just outright disable exceptions entirely at build time due to the costs that come from the "zero cost" exceptions.

That's why this proposal isn't suggesting throwing an exception - think brk or int3, which is essentially what other bounds checked languages like rust do.

This also isn't mandating that the check can't be thrown away. What it is doing is changing UB to unspecified/implement defined behavior. The difference is important: when something is UB the compiler is free to say "UB is not valid, therefore any preceding branches that would result in UB cannot happen" and then remove them. With unspecified behaviour the compiler only loses the ability to make assumptions based on "this UB path cannot be taken".

C and C++ both have a problem in overuse of undefined vs unspecified behaviour. Take integer overflow: there is no reason that that should be UB, on all hardware it has well defined behavior, and the impact of pretending that this isn't the case has been numerous security exploits over the year. Unspecified behaviour does not (by definition) mean that the spec has any prescriptive behavioral rules beyond "this must be consistent across all sites". For example integer overflow should always be 2's complement or it should always trap, the compiler doesn't get to mix and match, and doesn't get to pretend overflow doesn't happen.
Boston rents are much higher than they should be (build more housing!) but $150k is still quite a lot compared to rents? For example, you can rent a 3br unit 10min from Harvard sq for $3700/month or in East Arlington / West Medford for $2800: https://www.jefftk.com/apartment_prices/#2022-08-18&3
I have this problem with radiolab. A lot of people really love it, but it's so repetitive, filled with pointless filler sounds/music, and takes so long to get to the point that even when I'm very interested in the topic I often rage quit. At least a little banter/joking is new information even when it isn't on topic.
Acclimating to voices heard at 2x speed was the best investment I made during the pandemic.
Doctors everywhere are by and large arrogant, especially surgeons.

There's a reason it's called "playing God".
What is the systemic issue? Some people are too poor compared to others? Insufficient supply of housing in desirable metros? Insufficient supply of desirable metros? Technology and automation allowing for economies of scale that allow fewer people to capture more and more of the gains?
If I get to use a smart watch for 2 years and then get a full refund, sign me up
Not all interrogation approaches are like that. For example, the Reid Technique is nothing like you describe, and would probably be exceptionally good at implanting false memories (and is known to lead to false confessions).

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reid_technique
Only if you have low standards of what constitutes research on artificial intelligence and art perception.
You probably already know this, but Fitbit is now a Google product. One would imagine this Pixel Watch have more than a few things in common with some Fitbit products.
I'm kind of confused but maybe it's my age. My career ran parallel to the birth of open source and it was explicitly a reaction against megacorps behavior and practices.

The participation in it part is newer, they were initially very hostile (I was warned any number of times aligning strategies against oss projects incase it was 'detrimental to my career')
>Maybe it's just me but I don't understand what this sentence means. I've never heard of a "marriage blackout night" and can't parse what it means.

It means drinking inside the house into a blackout stupor (actual or not but meant for effect) during covid nights where you couldn't get outside.

>"the usual briefs and t-shirt" is not a sexual statement.

It's not to you, because of what the author already covered: you want sex to be a story, not a fact hanging in the air.

In other words, you look whether the description has an explicit a sexual purpose.

But this introduces nakedness and the human body without explicit sexual purpose. The sexuality is a background, not a plot, and the details help paint a picture, don't tell a story, and don't serve as plot devices.

That's also what the american editor couldn't understand - and for the same reasons.
You mean when the candidate they wanted to win doesn't?

Oh, republicans are already attacking it because of Alaska

https://washingtonmonthly.com/2022/09/06/sarah-palin-and-the...
There's a thing they are doing on Twitter these days: "a short history of [false meme]". This fits that pattern very well. I can find mass-market news stories about how [large fraction] of SV residents are planning to leave from this year and each of the past 10 years.
Ugh. I do NOT miss commuting into RTP. What counts as a 1 hour drive these days? Dating myself, but I remember co-workers at Nortel commuting into RTP from well east of Raleigh . . . that was awful even years ago when Nortel still existed.

Know much about folks buying that far out these days? I mean, I hear apocryphal stories about Apple/Google engineers buying up houses unseen in the immediate RTP area but I am not entirely sure I believe those.
My thoughts are based on what I have gleaned here. I was very upfront with that disclosure

> Since the firing, I have been reading opinions here. I have collected a set of thoughts:

> There is a smaller chance the course is unimaginably hard compared to similar courses elsewhere. I don't know that very well.

Not specific to this instance, but students do voice their displeasure at course difficulty by semester-end feedback. And I have shared my own personal anecdote of ECE4584 at Virginia Tech. The challenge is finding how much of that complaint is legit vs. good old fashioned whining. Cancel culture used by students is not a meaningless attack on the discussion.

Edit: I skimmed the article quickly and it seems it is vocally defensive of the students & their feelings, having a lot of he-say-she-say type of quotes. I am yet to see reference which solidly explains the viewpoint of other faculty members at what went wrong in this instance. We are no better than seeing the same side of the story. Also, It would be nice to not resort to veiled sarcasm. I am not defending Mr. Jones but pointing out the dynamics of an uncalibrated system which is to detriment of every stakeholder.

Edit2: What I however learned in the follow up article on NYU magazine doesn't portray a rosy picture for any faculty member either:

> “What happened to Maitland Jones is the thing that has made me the most frightened I have ever been as an NYU professor,” said Jacob Remes, a clinical associate professor at the Gallatin School of Individualized Study and an organizer with CFU-UAW Local 7902, the yet-unrecognized union of contracted faculty members at NYU. “What it tells me is, I can be fired. Not when my colleagues want to fire me, not even when my students want to fire me, but when a dean decides that I am more trouble than I am worth.”
I was diagnosed with stage III NSCLC February '21. Radiation, chemo, and a bilobectomy. I had the ALK+ morphology which meant I wasn't a candidate for immunotherapy but I've been on alectinib since my surgery in June '21 with no signs of recurrence so far.

The process is grueling in hindsight, but I'm glad to hear you're getting results. At first I would have said "if this is going to kill me, make it sooner rather than later" to avoid a drawn-out painful experience, but I'm starting to appreciate what the buying time really means. It's hard with all that's going on but get your head straight and make sure you enjoy it.

Keep on keeping on.
On the contrary, you're the one who's defining something being blue as the opposite of what it is. Things are the color they reflect, not the color they absorb. A thing that reflects blue is blue, how could it be otherwise?
New York Post is really not a suitable source for this site, is it?
Not sure why you're calling it copy pasta given that I wrote it.

But it does have to do with crypto, because the company involved was holding crypto like a bank, but aren't regulated like a bank because it was crypto.