skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No rebase tutorial is complete without the --onto option, which lets you essentially transplant a series of commits to a completely different branch.

Very useful when you've created a branch(A) based on another branch(B), which in turn was based on master, but in the meantime master had a few commits added, so while it's trivial to rebase B with master, rebasing A with an updated B won't work.
> The supporting documents, such as getting a copy of your birth certificate, often cost money.

And if the person was born overseas, this can be a prohibitive cost even for a middle class person.
The ice thing that’s cool, is that those fillings become public (or they get leaked, I don’t know). And it’s increasing to read them.
> The outcome vectors aren't normalized right?

I'm not sure about it, maybe they are, it wouldn't be strange

> So there could be a hefty amount of difference in this space? Maybe not on concept, but perhaps on image quality?

Sure, each text could have more than one image matching the same representation (cosine wise), but maybe the changes wouldn't look much as "concepts" in the image but other features (sharpness, light, noise, actual pixel values, etc)

It would be curious to check, definitely
So practically speaking, what will happen if Twitter ignores Iranian law and allows IPs from that country to use their platform anyway? I don't think the US govt will enforce Iranian law for them...
I have a suspicion that your domain name (stamhoofd = head of the tribe, tribal leader translated from dutch) is likely getting flagged due to some natural language processing thing flagging it as offensive language. I would not be surprised that it is indeed a fully automated process deciding that your site's domain name is potentially harmful for their "brand" to support.
One issue with that strategy is accessibility; e.g. a case that was actually cited at the onset of the discussion that lead to the vote are blind users that need specific firmware to use their audio interface, without which they simply cannot use the installer
Did the recession chase away the crypto folks and blockchain evangelists? They usually would have crawled out of the woodwork by now promoting their favorite product.
Deepmind is going to outperform everyone. Its not going to matter one bit who is scoring more on "calculus based physics".
At the same time (1960) there was already a Programmer‘s Manual for Lisp 1. Lisp then had a real implementation with a lot novel stuff like garbage collection, resumeable memory images, code as data, etc.

http://bitsavers.org/pdf/mit/rle_lisp/LISP_I_Programmers_Man...
Similar. That Christmas when my dad & I started working through the BBC BASIC manual, I thought that this was the exciting experience of owning a computer which my friends were all on about (and I was excited by it!)

...It was only some time later I learned about loading pre-written programs (games) on it.
I was slightly interested in this since I despise using most government websites but after looking at "Yotta" it's a hard pass. A fintech bank with a gambling aspect? Count me out, sounds extremely irresponsible and scummy.
Why not extend this to attractiveness, general health, enviromental factors like air pollution, gender, quality of local libraries, height etc., all likely influencing an individual's success in life?
Don't flatter yourself. We're all getting recruiters reaching out daily. They're mostly ignored because 99.999% of the time it's a lateral move - doing the same thing at a different place. Not interested.

If anything, being a FAANG SWE puts you at a disadvantage for ever having stability. Financially risky startups would love to have you, but a lot of industry verticals simply won't take a look at you because they figure you wouldn't be interested or you're perceived as a flight risk. Thing is, if you plan to retire from this profession those are the kinds of jobs you're going to need.
"PRC... K12 performance on international tests like PISA is similar to what is found in the table above for the Asian category"

Not true. Only a very few select schools China are allowed to participate in the PISA test. It would be like only allowing the top private Boston and Stanford high-schools to join.
When a professor gets the worst course evaluation scores among all courses at a university - just about always it means that there is a problem with the lecturer.
I'm the IT guy for a new non-profit. We aren't separated yet from the company that created us, but we're in the process of separating. I get to decide all this fun stuff.

I had a very brief talk with the IT team for the larger parent company when I started and explained this stupid password rotation thing, as I came from a security background, they wanted nothing of it. Set in their ways.

For the new non-profit that I'm helping spearhead, I'm not sure I'll get away from the password rotation entirely, but I can certainly set it to something more reasonable, like every 365 days, rather than every 60 days or whatever travesty most are dealing with. I'm pretty pleased about this.
This is like one (non tech) company that I was hired at as a dev lead where they were about to embark on writing an “address validation module”. I quickly put an end to the entire project and worked with a vendor to license CASS software.

Companies pay employees to add business value. Not to get into their own flights of fancy to do things the hard way. As you mature, you learn only to focus on things that “make the beer taste better”.

I have yet to see an argument by any of the proponents of “obscure” languages where their choice adds business value.

And the “hard problems” that are being solved by the large companies at a scale that has never been solved are doing so by using mainstream languages.

I’ve never seen a report of a job interview where they asked you to reverse a binary tree in Erlang.

The vast majority of problems that developers are being asked to solve are not that hard technically. They are business problems.
I had an instructor that was quite unforgiving on his tests - he was well known for the difficulty of his exams.

However, he made up for the brutal exams with ample extra credit opportunities. As a result, while very few people got As and Bs in his exams, a normal-ish percentage of people passed, but were forced to work harder than expected to pass. This was Calculus I and II, so it was tricky but an interesting teaching style. At least those who passed knew the material. Plenty still failed - but this is why everyone I knew called him a difficult, but not unfair, instructor.
Completely pointless speculation.
The multiple endpoints fallacy also comes into play here. Instead of multiples of 9, it could have been multiples of another number, or any group of sequential numbers, or sequential even numbers, or prime numbers, or...

The odds of a particular remarkable thing happening are very low, but the odds of some remarkable thing happening can be much higher.
How does that change anything? Kids who barely miss out on MIT arent sleeping on the streets. They are at good state schools or other top privates.
How does one get an A on that test, since grades are important as people move to jobs and graduate degrees? How can I compare an A from the University of Everything is Reasonable versus one that includes the grade every student gets on the Kobayashi Maru?
It's a real shame that this guy posted his son's resume non-anonymously, but I have to agree.

Aside from grades and AP scores, it's a lot of "showing up" dressed up as accomplishment. JV track explains itself, the debate stuff is the equivalent of getting third place in one track event at one regional meet, and Eagle Scout is impressive but IMO doesn't show anything that doing well in school doesn't already show.

Everyone applying to CMU CS or Harvey Mudd has high GPAs, high standardized test scores, and lots of 4s and 5s on AP tests. So the extra curricular stuff really does matter, because there are way fewer seats than people with good grades and test scores. And in this applicant's case, the ECs just are not there.

The applicants who are setting themselves apart via debate are consistently doing well at the best national tournaments in the most demanding and competitive formats for years; not getting 3rd place in Congressional at one regional tournament. 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. The ones who are setting themselves apart via scouting are going way beyond the minimum requirements for Eagle Scout.

Also, Northeastern and Amherst have fantastic CS programs and getting into CS programs like those at Harvey Mudd or CMU is probably harder than getting into ivies these days.
Fooled by Experience
I'll never understand how US court system basically allow you to randomly force anyone unrelated to a case into it and suffer the legal cost. It make it so easy to weaponize any case to your advantage.
> People are really (really) misinterpreting this. The OP isn't being sued, they aren't being attacked as a competitor to Meta.

The only way to misunderstand this is to not have read the linked page. HN is not immune from headline-only outrage. The first paragraph literally ends with:

> ... in relation to the government's recent injunction against their acquisition of a VR fitness company.
As always, it depends. Especially for large PRs, I will go through the effort of rebasing to help the code reviewer so they can view key commits rather than a mile long scroll-fest on the GH "Files Changed" tab. It's about being a good co-worker and facilitating faster reviews.
No they should be picked for "ability", and it's all the same whether that "ability" was inculcated by good parenting or not.
He applied for Computer Science, so I looked at the University of Michigan's Engineering School SAT scores, and he was just a bit over the median score for the engineering school. Since admissions at these schools is slammed with applications its not unreasonable that he just didn't get in because he was in an ocean of similar applications.
There's even one[1] of these in the show Silicon Valley. The seasoned, solid-track-record, expert exec they bring in the show to be the "grown up" in charge as the startup begins to take off, who's out of the office messing with his horse-breeding hobby half the time. Like everything else in that show, it's not even really satire.

[1] I haven't finished the show, so maybe "at least one"
The new Navy MQ-25 tanker is uncrewed. I expect this future Air Force tanker will be optionally manned. The main issue is that Air Force tankers use a boom system which requires an operator onboard to manually "fly" the boom into the receptacle. In theory that could be automated but it's a difficult technical problem. Navy tankers use a simpler drogue system which doesn't require a boom operator.
Well, its a comfy way to make water tight state machines? Is that the question?
Pardon my ignorance, but what even is this?

From my understanding, it's Ubuntu selling more LTS updates. By "five machines" for free, they mean you can apply a free subscription token to up to five machines.

It sounded like they were handing out VMs/VPS instances for use, but you need to already own/run a VM with Ubuntu on it to apply your free token onto.
Hacktoberfest GitHub Repo – Win a Razor Blade 15
4. By looking at the math score distribution (see full report) one can estimate how many students in each group are well-prepared enough to complete a rigorous STEM major -- e.g., pass calculus-based physics.

Doubt it. Calculus based physics at a university level is a tough SOB. Vectors, dels, series, operators, etc. SAT math is kid's play by comparison, the conceptual leap is huge. Yeah, it is predictive to some degree, but high level physics will tax even top scorers. Maybe on the old SATs it was more predictive but the SATs have gotten easier with lower ceiling.
I'm sorry to hear of the op's troubles with meta, but this "No fake-news, crypto-currencies, violence, porn, or illegal activities... " is a very strange sentence. Why would the author lump "crypto currencies" along with fake-news, violence and porn?

Of course this doesn't take away from the validity of their claim and I wish this stupid shadowban is lifted. Also I hope (at least in Europe) we can get some laws passed that force large online service providers like FB to act responsibly (past record of attempts to regulate the Internet by our beaurocrats and its results notwithstanding).
If you’re going to be running a service like this you absolutely need to have multiple TLD’s and some automation to detect when they have been blocked.
Free after school programs, free lunches, Medicare for All, public housing. These are all things that would level the playing field for poor kids and allow them to make the same decisions that wealthy kids get to make.

It’s not about choosing for them, it’s about lifting the boot on these kids necks enough so they can choose for themselves.
Those don’t fit the definition of terrorism.
First Calendly, now Dalle2?
Depends on the situation entirely.

If I see a ton of commits like "fixing formatting" or "oops", I want those squashed away into proper commits.

If the changes you make are atomic in their own right and I can check out that commit, compile it, then run tests, and it passes. That's perfect. It works good for git-bisect, but the trick is to get everyone on board in the project to do that.

For public libraries I maintain, it's squash merges all the way. I like a clean history and the ability to check out that commit, compile, test, and run cleanly is perfect.
Why can't Asian and Black cultural values be different? Asians are over-represented in academic pursuits. Blacks are over-represented in athletic, musical, acting, and fashion pursuits. The only surprising thing to me is the lack of Black leaders and owners in enterprises with majority Black talent. It means less of a Black person's economic output is kept within the Black community.
Show HN: RankedVote – SurveyMonkey but focused on ranked-choice voting
RankedVote is a web app that allows you to run online contests and make decisions using ranked-choice voting (RCV). RCV is an electoral system used in Maine, Alaska, New York City and dozens of cities across the United States.

RankedVote’s goal is to build support for RCV by giving people an easy way to run contests and make decisions online.
Sometimes things are just hard and it should be expected that nobody masters it in any arbitrary period (e.g., the course of a two week period covering a topic, or even over a semester).
Malicious compliance is a good way to get thrown in contempt. Courts aren't stupid.
This uses relay server i guess ,and doesn't work in nat
“Free”

They’re probably largely to blame for setting the precedent that Internet services should be free. And of course backed by selling user data or unsustainable venture capital backed business models.
If that isn't something taken into consideration by grad programs and top hiring firms, then the system is broken.

How do you compare two "A"s, one from a mediocre place and one from a well established institution? By knowing the difference, of course.
I went to a different school, but I've also experienced similar "teachers" only in chemistry, and even specifically OChem.

Difficult/opaque lecture style, very high difficulty tests, openly mocking students in a 500+ person lecture if he deemed a question not intelligent enough, and on top of all of it, forced to buy a textbook he co-authored (homework questions taken from the required book, refreshed every year).

For some reason this story seems to happen more often in chemistry than other disciplines. In my experience as a Biomedical Engineering major, my chemistry classes were by far the most difficult, almost like it was the point - just difficulty for difficulty's sake. And I had plenty of other hard classes, including AI/ML, Diff EQ, and a course on the physics of blood, but each of those professors, while rigorous, were also fair and kind, willing to help students understand the material, and definitely never refusing to answer what they believed to be a "stupid question."

I even remember conversations with friends about how the chemistry department seemed to have a very high number of massively egotistical professors who mistreated their students. My chem major friends confirmed it was like this all the time.

All of this is anecdotal, but soft-confirmed by multiple friends and friends of friends at the time. When this story broke I was honestly not at all surprised.
I didn't notice that typo (or more likely: immediately corrected it in my mind and forgot about it by the time the comments opened), so I'll just take that typo as a meta commentary on memory; or maybe the submitter trying to create a Mandela effect where different people remember the title differently :)
Of course anything Meta does is a bit worrisome. I just don't think we're in the same niche-- IMO Meta is fundamentally built on data collection, and VR is just a side effect.

Unless Meta decides to abandon that, I think we'll have a niche.
Then again, however, a 100b size company — like meta —inevitably has to go for moonshots when their primary source of revenue is steadily declining.

Seems like he has no choice. Even if it doesn’t work or we’re all skeptical — he better play along and go for it.
"Just" shoving things into firmware at least means the closed-source code runs on a different CPU, often (but not always) isolated from main memory, often (but not always) with no network access, which the main CPU often (but not always) has the ability to power-cycle.
Just over 23 hours later and my QR code in my downloads folder has still not been "tripped". I guess I have another 24 hours before my requestbin expires but so far it seems there has been no reproduction of this.
You're arguing that past discrimination justifies present discrimination, and that past discrimination is in fact solely or majorly responsible for present disparities in outcomes. I can't see a world in which these positions are provable in a meaningful manner and not devolve society into a bitter, recriminatory cesspit, especially when it means that some people will in fact be hurt by present discrimination.
>Google still provides android, Google maps, Gmail for free. World changing at it's time still helping people around the globe.

That's just the fat, juicy worm dangling on the hook just waiting for you to take it all in--hook, line, and sinker.
practicing means practicing problems and learning ones you don’t understand. with the abundance of youtube videos/free sources on the internet, today there is no excuse except for a parent not teaching a kid what to prioritize in life imo.
> Google still provides android, Google maps, Gmail for free.

Not to belabor a frequently raised discussion topic, but "free" as in gratis is not the same as "zero dollars"

And google charges its customers
Hi HN! I’ve been running RankedVote as a solo founder for over a year and have had great success (and luck) with it being used to educate voters in New York City and Alaska. Bill de Blasio even ate a piece of pepperoni pizza as the result of one contest held on RankedVote.

BUT…what I’m looking for at this stage are use cases outside of direct voter education where RankedVote can be applied. By crossing over into everyday uses, RankedVote can better promote ranked-choice voting to people who are unaware of it.

Recently, I’ve seen it used for anything from mascot naming contests, to monthly book club selections, to scrum prioritization, to deciding what character should be included in a new version of a video game.

Question to the HN Community: Where would you use ranked-choice voting in your life (or at work) to make decisions?
If you like at the lives of the winners and the destruction that a jackpot often brings, you could say that you are financing the winner's destruction.
Just paving the road with some good intentions.
Cybercrime in Hollywood: Why hacking is portrayed more accurately than you think
I believe the model you're talking about is a Kibbutz, though I don't think they were state run.
WebVM: Linux Virtualization in WebAssembly with Full Networking via Tailscale
I looked at some of those institutions SAT scores and his scores would have been very close to the median scores of them. IE he was just one application in a sea of very similar applications. Obviously he worked really hard and that is impressive, but clearly so did many other people.
Then don’t teach a semester-long course about it. Break it up over two semesters
Would it not be fair to look at the median score for different racial groups, since we know that many universities do in fact discriminate on the basis of race in admissions?
End-to-End Neural Coreference Resolution in SpaCy
Right, when mail in ballots required an excuse to obtain, they had lower volume. When they were made available to everyone, in the middle of a pandemic, volume was greater. Go figure, people prefer voting from their couch on a Saturday as compared to voting in person on a Tuesday.
Bootstrapping a Small App Into a $20k/mo Business
I doubt that's what people actually learned
Gamers hit up blurbusters to see how the motion is and it either looks okay or you get a headache. The OEMs optimize for that (hence the focus on g2g and adaptive sync) and then just jack up the saturation slider to compensate for everything else.

And hey, those wasabis and catleaps got you a 1440p IPS panel that did 90% of what you want for 50% of the price at a time when 1440p and IPS was still kind of rare to own. Most people who got one were upgrading from a typical TN so even a crappy IPS looks good in comparison. I was playing eve online at the time and caused at least 10 people in my corp to buy them when they saw how much screen estate you got at a higher res.
I hadn't written one until ~30 mins ago [1]. I cheated and looked at a Java quine (not particularly elegant, but easy to see what is going on.), but I wrote one for Virgil. Just think string substitution; a string with a hole in it and you substitute a copy of the string, quoted into the hole. Just one substitution suffices.

[1] https://github.com/titzer/virgil/blob/master/apps/Quine/Quin...
I hope SimulaVR does crowdfounding the legal costs instead of folding to facebook.
This is the first and yet only VR Product i am deeply interested in.
A Raw Django Boilerplate
Hey Hackers, Hope you all are doing great. Have created a raw django boilerplate with async background tasks support. You can use this boilerplate for your upcoming django projects. It's pretty easy to setup ( refer README.md ). The boilerplate consists - django (obviously) celery, celery-beat, postgres, redis, gunicorn, docker, docker-compose. You can find the boilerplate here - https://github.com/nightwarriorftw/django-boilerplate . Feel free to suggest improvements :)-
> then IME the entire PR needs to be re-reviewed from scratch

Why? What's the difference? You can still diff the previous version of the PR with the current version and end up with the same thing that an add-on commit would give you, but ready to merge as-is.
Heh, demand that the court provide you immunity from prosecution for being a monopoly, or refuse to testify on the fifth (because you obviously are a monopoly planning on buying Meta).

As you can see, also not a lawyer.
Reforestation by LED: Scotland Wants to Grow Millions of Trees in a Vertical Far
That's fine, but that lesson shouldn't also impact your finances (having to maybe retake the class), your future career, and your life in general... that's pretty extreme. And yeah, depending on the class, failing one test can really have consequences like that. I had a few classes where I only had 2 tests and 2 finals. The tests were like 40% of your grade. And it didn't seem like it was an isolated incident, from the tone of the post.

If the outcome was the teacher talked about that lesson, then said "we'll adjust the grade so you don't all have negative consequences b/c you did nothing wrong: this is a school, after all!" yeah I'd agree with you...