skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is exactly the type of thing that made me lose All faith in the US Justice System and consider defecting.
I would have agreed until I started working at Google. Also, you should completely avoid having Remote Desktop and instead use ssh + an editor that works with remote files.

At Google we have a custom fork of VSCode running in browser and builds can either be distributed or run on my Linux VM to utilize build cache.

I liked it so much I started doing a similar setup for small side projects. Just boot up the Cloud Console on GCP and start coding.

Advantages are:

- Accessible from anywhere (I use my pc, my laptop, etc. The env is always the same)

- More compute (I can attach more CPU + more RAM flexibly)

- Less friction to start (minimum environment setup, most tools are preinstalled)

- Datacenter Network speeds + Artifacts cached (installing dependencies is fast)

Disadvantages:

- network dependence

There are some adjustments that need to be made to your workflow. And for some applications you are dependent on having the correct tooling. However, my personal prediction is most companies will move to this type of development workflow as the tooling improves.
That is probably the reason it isn't taught at school. School itself does very little to encourage class mobility, starting from being funded by local property taxes.
No country is a true democracy nor just that. Every country claiming democracy it an amalgamation of various ideas mixed in varying percentage.

India is a parliamentary democratic secular republic with socialism also thrown in. Most of these ideas are overlapping but also has slighly differing paths.

It is difficult to even agree on one precise definition on what each of these are without a debate ensuing.
Thank you. I'm guessing it will taje a while to propogate.
I can’t wait to generate novel 3D models to CNC/3D print! Can these be exported out as STL/OBJs?
"How Ranked-Choice Voting elects extremists"

https://psephomancy.medium.com/how-ranked-choice-voting-elec...

This article recommends instead a STAR voting system which is still simple to implement and understand while not electing extremists in some cases. I would be sad to see NYC and others turn to ranked choice without considering all the alternatives.
Why can't we just have some kind of "virtual squash" where the commits are preserved, but they're grouped together so you could view it as a single squashed commit if that's preferable?
Creepy Code Collection: A Nonsense Collection of Disgusting Codes
What it's doing is giving techno nerds a free crash course in government, monetary policy and regulation --- or rather the lack thereof.
I'm a current sophomore at Harvard, so take my opinion with a grain of salt. But those ECs and stats really aren't impressive enough to even qualify him for admission at any Ivy or T20.

UIUC and UT Austin I agree, little surprising, but again, the CS program is very competitive, and it doesn't surprise me he didn't get in. Stats are irrelevant for Asians - if you have a 1500+ you're considered "good", you can't gain anything by having a 1580 vs. a 1520 for example. It really does come down to your essays, extracurriculars, and overall 'package'. Which I genuinely believe is the most fair way to accept folks into college.
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I wonder how Indians rank in this. Are they grouped in with Asians here?

In my experience, all the Indians I went to school with did very well in the SAT, but perhaps not as well as the Chinese-Americans and Taiwanese-Americans.
> I can't drive to the nearest pharmacy to pick up a prescription and make it back home in less than 60 minutes...

Weird. Where are you?

I've got three pharmacies five minutes away, and another one ten minutes away in the opposite direction. So, 10-20 minutes total, not counting wait time in line at the pharmacy.
Are there CR tools that don't display the diffs between rebases? Seems like a tooling issue more than anything.
A similar thing happened at the college I went to, the Colorado school of Mines. We had a physics prof, I think it was physics 2 that was the real tough one. It was known for being very hard, most folks didn't get good grades despite trying very hard in the class, and they famously never curved it, at all.

The semester in which my buddies and I took the class was particularly bad. The class average was in the 50s or 60s, the highest score was in the high 70s, and half of the class or more failed the midterm.

There was an uproar, so the prof held a town hall of sorts with the students in the class. In that town hall he didn't back down on the curve, it wasn't going to be curved. It also came out that the prof hadn't actually written the test, nor had he taken the test himself. It was written and graded all by TAs. The students were able to convince him to actually take the test amd report back.

He took the test and reported back. He scored a 68 (or so, it's been a while). a bit above the average in the class but still not good. My buddy scored a 78, he did way better than the prof on his own test. In the end the prof agreed to set his own score as 100% and then basically bumped everyone score by 100%-his score. The folks that did better than his score just got 100%.

It was considered one of thr weed out classes for all engineering disciplines at Mines.

A teacher like this is failing his customers, the students. A educators job is to educate, not to sort or judge.

Edited - typo.
You really can't have convenient public transit that replaces cars in our current carcentric metroareas. The density isn't there. You'd have to totally dismantle the suburbs, which most people live in. Unless you mean point-to-point buses, but that's just uber.

You could slowly do it over decades in places primed for growth. Places like Arlington, Va are being urbanized.
In this decade that won’t even work except against people who also host their own email. Most companies use email providers such as Google, Sendgrid, Mailgun, or send out through CRM platforms. Those services have many IP addresses and rotate them to avoid blacklisting. I haven’t seen a company of any size hosting their own outgoing email for at least ten years.
Early on, I saw these relatively big spikes of traffic every week day in the early afternoon. Turns out it was a school that was voting on what game to play at recess. Similar idea.
It's a feckless misdirection
custodially held cryptocurrency is not on the ledger. When you own cryptocurrency custodially with someone, what that usually means that they hold all the cryptocurrency and they have their own database of IOUs.

This is why it is unsafe to keep too many funds custodially with untrustworthy parties and why it is a good idea to minimize the amount you have custudially (e.g. on exchanges see mt gox fiasco)
Schools do teach what "dx" is. But it is important for upper level engineering and physics to know "dozens" of integrals.
Please try harder to make constructive comments, rather than vague insults.
> 1. In the top band there are many more males than females.

Except that's not what the data says. It shows females as being more grouped in the center whereas males are more spread out.
Love how you jump from a naval blockade of taiwan to threatening to nuke the US.

The US might not get involved in an all out war over Taiwan but they are likely to support Taiwan in case China attempts a blockade. The US frequently undertakes freedom of navigation drills and would most likely exercise such rights to circumvent China.

Now, will that escalate to a direct conflict is debatable but any genuine threats of nuking US would probably taken as a declaration of war.
Heh, I'm still using the 2XL. It is a very nice phone.
Indeed, and there are some studies to back that up.

Excerpt from https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2018/12/does-it-ma...

But what appears obvious may not be true. In November 2002, the Quarterly
Journal of Economics published a landmark paper by the economists Stacy Dale and Alan Krueger that reached a startling conclusion. For most students, the salary boost from going to a super-selective school is “generally indistinguishable from zero” after adjusting for student characteristics, such as test scores. In other words, if Mike and Drew have the same SAT scores and apply to the same colleges, but Mike gets into Harvard and Drew doesn’t, they can still expect to earn the same income throughout their careers. Despite Harvard’s international fame and energetic alumni outreach, somebody like Mike would not experience an observable “Harvard effect.” Dale and Krueger even found that the average SAT scores of all the schools a student applies to is a more powerful predictor of success than the school that student actually attends.
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This is quite reductive and ridiculous, people don't measure their difference from a candidate on a single axis and vote for the person with the smallest distance.
Why does it have a 650W PSU? I would assume the components are quite light on the power consumption.

To be clear: that is an amazing project and I don't want to take anything away from it, just wondering.
Google unveils new Pixel phones and its first smartwatch, which has Fitbit
I’d start with one hole and test your levels. There’s a very high likelihood you wouldn’t have to drill more than one. With that said it may make sense to just hire someone.
sounds like perfect preparation for the android experience
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> game the system

Getting good grades is "gaming the system" now?
Engineering ability has nothing to do with product management; critical feedback from engineers is even usually met with "Well, that's because you're not the customer." or "You just don't get the vision.". And, to be fair to them, their rate of failure is probably no worse than the odds of a tech startup failing (90%?), it's just more visible because anything a FAANG releases is trumpeted with fanfare.

All that the high level of engineering talent at FAANGs allows is for bad product management to drive themselves off a cliff faster. (But at least the engineers get paid handsomely for it.)
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Here I was thinking it was Kim Jung Un's child or something. Thank you for the clarification.
I feel like in practice this may be ripe for brigading.
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Interesting stuff.

Is there anything that backs up the assumption below? It seems to make sense, but I'm wondering if it's possible the change in activity with the drug(s) could also mean that the areas are operating independently (on separate tasks switching so quickly to be essentially parrallel, or operating on an unconscious task).

"... to look for correlations in blood flow between two or more regions. When correlations are found, the assumption is that these brain regions are communicating and are engaged in the same cognitive processes ..."
You need to get a lawyer.

I am not a lawyer, but I annoy them daily.

You can decide not to appear, but you can be held in contempt. Note that your subpoena comes from the court, not Meta.

You need to get the lawyer to negotiate down what to provide. The first salvo is always everything, including the kitchen sink.

You need a lawyer to know to whom to talk to. You need to get the lawyer to negotiate the expenses associated with this.

Read Rule 45 (https://www.law.cornell.edu/rules/frcp/rule_45) much of what you describe (distance, financial burden) are addressed there.

Did I mention, you need a lawyer?
Yeah, of course, it's a tough space to be in. Just saying that we need to carve out a niche where Meta can't compete vs try to fight Meta head on.
Exactly. This was my junior year where we were all battle-hardened vets that had survived two full years of weed-out classes. At some point it's bad teaching. I still have test related nightmares in my 30s.
Absolutely agree with your point, and I'll add onto it from experience.

> The ones setting themselves apart with track are participating in Varsity at least a few years, doing well at State, and a likely courting at least D2 athletic scholarships

Sports (especially track and field) don't set you apart at all as an applicant for unless you're good enough to make the college's varsity team. That's the sole metric highly selective schools are using to assess athletic ability unless you have some extenuating circumstance that makes your participation in the sport especially meaningful.
But this would be like putting an official “sanctioned by Twitter” badge on that harassment.
Another fall guy. Ultimately it was Travis that pushed the companies "ethics" and methods and he should be held accountable.
Not directly, no. I suppose I'd interpret it as obliquely suggesting that he was not in fact "driving the bus", but of course that's a debatable proposition for any President and any policy.
It allows you to ask the "ranking question" BUT it doesn't do the ranked-choice calculation with the results. So, in theory, you can use it to collect the votes, but you'll need to do the calculations by hand. I actually wrote an article on this exact thing as a bit of an SEO play: https://www.rankedvote.co/guides/applying-ranked-choice-voti...
It's a lottery ticket. You can be good, even very good, your whole life and do just fine.

But these kinds of once-in-a-generation moonshots, they're a product of wild ass luck, so if you find yourself with one, you grab it with both hands and ride it as far as it goes. Because it's not about you-- you need to be strong enough to hold on, keep the thing from exploding or crashing into the side of a mountain, but it's bigger than you and your level of control is partial at best. Honestly, it's usually the product of something big happening in the world that you've randomly managed to tap into.
First thing we did was get a lawyer.
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Since major hurricanes are often coupled with widespread power outages, the situation could leave electric vehicle drivers “stranded without transportation for days,” the report found.

How do these people think a gas pump works? The whole point of evacuation is to get out before the hurricane is on top of you and destroying your infrastructure.

This is a FUD piece.
> 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?

My rural school district provided free breakfast for precisely this reason... is it not a common thing?
This is exactly the alternative that was presented at the end of the post. He was specifically against remote desktops.
It depends. If it's an interesting problem I have to work on, but I can't right away, I think about it as I'm going about my day. Driving, cooking dinner, rotting in a meeting. Then by the time I get to finally do it, it's close to a fully-formed solution.

If it's a problem that I have to address right now, it's more like prototyping the first idea that comes to mind and then debugging and refining and being more critical.
> Now the customer has two domains and we have been training users to look for signs of phishing attempts using look alike domains AND ask them to put in their CC to buy things

They already have to do that, only currently they have to put it into customername.shop-saas.com, not customername-shop.com, or even shop.customername.com.
I suppose this is why it’s a bad idea to run any company from the USA. Being victimized by their corrupt legal system at your own expense… This sort of thing doesn’t happen when you run your company from behind Tor and use crypto for payment.
Yes. You get a few Kobayashi Maru profs and your GPA makes you look like a moron.
Some code review systems, like gerrit, actually encourage this workflow: you can easily view diffs between commit versions ('patchsets').
It's very hard to develop a built-in resistance to this kind of manipulation, except for one very strong thing: people who are likely to gaslight you are likely to not respect your boundaries because gaslighting is a form of boundary violation.

The other one is to have a robust support network of the kind of people who respect your boundaries. Those behaviors are correlated with identifying when someone is trying to gaslight and warning you. This is particularly helpful when you are already vulnerable due to poor social intelligence, trauma from previous abuse, or otherwise in a vulnerable moment (tired, inebriated, angry or upset, etc).
> By definition, curation means there's a filter,

That is not the definition of curation:

> In smaller organizations, a curator may have sole responsibility for acquisitions and even for collections care. A curator makes decisions regarding what objects to select, oversees their potential and documentation, conducts research based on the collection and its history, provides proper packaging of object for transportation, and shares research with the public and community through exhibitions and publications. In very small, volunteer-based museums, such as those of local historical societies, a curator may be the only paid staff-member.

> In larger institutions, the curator's primary function is that of a subject specialist, with the expectation that he or she will conduct original research on objects and guide the organization in its collecting. Such institutions can have multiple curators, each assigned to a specific collecting area (e.g., curator of ancient art, curator of prints and drawings, etc.) and often operating under the direction of a head curator. In such organizations, the physical care of the collection may be overseen by museum collections-managers or by museum conservators, with documentation and administrative matters (such as personnel, insurance, and loans) handled by a museum registrar.

(from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curator)

If the second type of curator starts "filtering" the museum's collection, they're likely to be fired and possibly sued or even criminally prosecuted. Of course, acquisitions and exhibit curation do involve filtering.

Using the word "curation" to mean "selection" — possibly even automatic, unconscious selection, rather than selection by a subject specialist or even a conscious being of any kind — trivializes actual curation.
> For example, Nigerian immigrants (both first and second gen) are vastly more educated than the average American

This is not a good example because the immigration process itself is highly selective. For the most part, only best and brightest from Nigeria are able to come to the US. Try comparing the average black American to the average Nigerian in Nigeria instead.
Eagle Scout is the highest rank in American scouting, and is achieved by less than 5% of those who pursue it. Eagle Scouts include U.S. Presidents, Judges, Astronauts, Generals, and technology Founders. Those who achieve it and pursue a career in the military are advanced to a higher rank and higher payscale upon enlistment in all branches of the armed services.

https://www.baylorisr.org/wp-content/uploads/Boy-Scouts-Repo...
Ranking the voting systems: STAR Voting > Approval Voting > Ranked Choice Voting > Plurality ("pick only one") voting.

Ranked Choice Voting is marginally better than plurality voting, but it has problems. The chief defect with Ranked Choice Voting is its non-monotonicity, whereby increasing your support for your genuine favorite can actually hurt their odds of winning. This may be what happened in Alaska [1].

STAR Voting is a slight modification to Score Voting, where you simply score each candidate and are not forced to rank them. You are given the discretion to give multiple candidates the same score if you so choose. STAR is highly expressive and simple to count: just sum the scores.

Approval Voting is appealing because of its simplicity. Both ballots and how they are counted would require only superficial changes versus plurality, such as changing the prompt from "Vote for only one" to "Vote for as many as you like." Approval has a good balance of utility and simplicity.

If we are going to invest time and effort into achieving voting reform, it would be a shame to spend that effort on RCV rather than superior alternatives.

[1] https://electionscience.org/commentary-analysis/rcv-fools-pa...
While I’ve had no issues with either my iPhones or Pixels there is one big difference, long term support.

I got a Pixel 2XL and an iPhone XS Max back in 2018. The Pixel no longer gets major Android updates and hasn’t for over a year. The iPhone just got iOS 16 and will almost certainly get iOS 17.

I know Google have said they will support devices longer and I hope that is true but who really knows with Google. They said two months ago Stadia wasn’t going anywhere too.
"Asian" isn't a culture. Hell, even "Chinese" isn't a culture. China recognizes 55 ethnic minority groups, plus the Han majority. I'm sure if you put one person from each group into a classroom, you might say "They're all Chinese. Monoculture!", but it couldn't be further from the truth.
I don't know what it is with C programmers and programming "terseness". It hasn't been the 60s since the 60s, and you have gobs of memory available, your source code can have syntactic sugar for the purpose of readability and the world won't end.
Oh boy. Crowdsourced facts. More equals better than, right?! Ridiculous.
I hear you and that is why I added the hypothetical small biz shipping model train parts. A visit by the postal inspector would really ruin a low margin biz.

Likewise, I suppose a postal service must weigh the cost/benefit of pursuing counterfeit stamps--it might not be costly enough compared to other forms of problems.
Is SXRD just Sony's name for LCOS, or is it something distinct?
I have done the concurrent remote job thing for 15 years now. I'm open about it and nobody seems to really care. I expect they would prefer my full attention, but they also know I have another job right there, so they're pressured to work with my needs so long as they want to benefit from the value I provide in kind.
We enjoyed a brief golden age before the value extracting minds of the media giants wrapped their heads around the idea of streaming and here we are again with content balkanized across way too many services each wanting their own cut of the pie.
It's a bit tooting my own horn but when I first put on the prototype it was really satisfying. Incredibly crisp.