skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You can watch SAT prep videos and pirate prep books for free. GPA gets juiced all the time. Honor AP/IB had a solid premium. Very few extra curriculars that don't cost money / resources.

The handful of kids (including me) that didn't pay 5 digits for fancy SAT prep at my school poured over some study guides and watched pirated VCDs and ended up doing better than kids who half hearted their private prep.
We're talking high school, not elementary school. College admissions don't look at elementary school activities.

High schoolers can walk around unattended. Even a quarter mile, both ways. It's not a big deal. In the summer I often try to get in 5 miles a day of running/walking.

> incredible luxury

Don't overstate your case.

The irony in this thread is all the complaining about "can't do things that will look good on a college application" just means that another student who does find a way around obstacles is going to be the one admitted. Surmounting obstacles makes one a standout candidate.
Takes from the Crypt had an episode along this plot line in the ‘90’s

This messed me up, back in the day…

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0716824/
I've only ever read this on Hacker News, in the form "Welcome to $current_year!", where $ is the scalar sigil in the Perl programming language, indicating that it's a variable, and should be substituted by the reader as necessary.
I'm B+ and wife is O+, and I'm always the one bitten most
1) The SAT is obviously a superior and more objective indicator of "will do well on schoolwork" than the other components of college applications. Essays on political topics, biggest weaknesses, and a time you had to overcome a challenge are obviously less standardized, more subject to whims of reviewer, and this is why they are being promoted. The idea that there are kids with terrible scores but great portfolios of work worthy of admission seems wrong to me. The people with portfolios of work were likely already getting in.

2) "If you can study for the SAT that defeats the point" is wrong. Nassim Taleb made a point of demonstrating that these tests are study-able. The idea that you can't really study for the SAT is loserthink promoted by the SAT. Nearly everyone I know who wanted to succeed in school studied multiple times, took the test multiple times, and greatly improved their scores. It might still be unfair insofar as the better-prepared<->better-supplied kids get a head start but if you grind out a 1600 from a bad school that is still impressive and demonstrates hard work.

3) The solution to inequities in SAT/admissions is to devalue education via school, a la Caplan/ScottAlexander.
GTA 4 was a breakthrough in ped animation due to their Euphoria engine. GTA 3, on the other hand, is memed to this day for the way they made women move their hips when walking. :)
with linux 6.0, lsm got the ability to filter io_uring. deny all and carry on.
Overcoming obstacles makes one an attractive candidate for admission.
That’s right. And guess who does know that SAT prep is a thing and takes full advantage of it? If you said “rich kids and their parents,” you win the prize.
And year introduced, so we cant look at trend.

Personay it's been crushing to me that Cortex A53 (2012) and A7 (2011, a slightly updated A5, 2009) have been around for so so so so long & still dont have a worthwhile replacement. A55 is out but debateably a 10% win at best, and the almost 2 year old A510 doesnt actually exist/isnt for sale. A7 has some A35s that maybe sort of compete.

I want to see what is changing over time, if anything. I never thought I'd be anywhere as thamkful as I am that RPi has seemingly singlehandedly forced some value delivery, some progress. I dont know that we'd be seeing things like A72's (2015) for under $100 otherwise. The low end market has been rough.
O you who turn the wheel and look to windward,

Consider Phlebas, who was once handsome and tall as you.
I’ve been using cron-job.org this way on my own side project and it’s been working great.
Neighborhood quality-of-life crimes ought to be the lowest hanging fruit that municipal police and prosecutors could possibly handle. If they can't catch & charge bicycle thieves, what business do they have investigating corruption at city hall, wage theft or PG&E negligence?
lol CSS in JS is definitely not vanilla CSS.
I think everyone using tailwind probably 'knows css', they've used it, they can test stuff in chrome via inspect, and they know the basics. Most do not know flexbox inside and out, or every different ways to make grids, etc.

Personally, I usually just look through component sites for something like I want, then modify it to my needs. 95% that works, sometimes I go build it out myself.

I'm fullstack, but more backend and that's where I'm most comfortable so the less I worry about design the better it is for my sanity, except I do like dabbling w/ the js layer in vue, alpine, or react.
Still maintained? It has the most frequent and solid beta releases (for 3.5) than any other major project I've seen! And those betas are rock solid, been running them for 2+ years now. Latest was a couple of months ago or so.
Doesn't mean they could have the same level of runner spec as Github.

Especially, when you pay a lot of money for Gitlab. Github std spec is ~7gb + 2vcpu while on Gitlab you need to pay double minutes to get that. They could at least match that for their paid plans.

Personally, I think, Gitlab keeps adding a lot of features but the core CI related functionality seem to get less attention these days.
Pizzas are not all made equal my friend. Instead of serving monotonous frozen pizzas, let us bake pizzas with non-fungible toppings. A large supply of unique, all-American pizzas is all that stands between us and anarchy itself.
These were disease-centered facebook groups mostly, but also writers groups, etc. The common idea was "If you disagree, just move along. Don't comment."
If the intent is for it to be Apache 2.0 with a completely optional paid license, you can just do that without a convoluted licensing scheme.
>>Yes, self-defense is a legitimate use of violence. Is there any other point at all in this thread?

Yes, there is another point.

Many people, simply refer to all parties as "warmongers". The "warmonger" accusation is thrown every day at the people, politicians, and countries sending arms to Ukraine. Some of this can be attribute to Active Measures Dezinformatsiya "shaping the information space" directly from Russia and some to useful idiots who parrot the same lines, but not all of it. I've encountered many, like the OP, who just talk about any person or country in a position to project violent power, as a "warmonger" if they suggest using that power.

There are also many people who will claim that the USA is a "warmonger nation", far worse than Russia and China. While the USA has started military action since WWII, and some of it erroneously, it is NOT the USA that is "warmongering" in any way equivalent to the expansionist states Russia and China, both of whom have a continuous history of "annexing" neighbors (Tibet, HongKong, South China Sea, East China Sea, etc. & Chechnya, Georgia, Crimea, Ukraine), while the US has certainly behaved as the worlds policeman (and sometimes over-aggressively), it has not annexed anyone. Yet, there is plenty of "warmongering" rhetoric thrown at the USA, including in it's support of Ukraine, and claims that it is worse than CCP and Russian Federation.

So, what we need to distinguish is who is the expansionist aggressor, and who is the we hope better prepared and better armed democracy.

(That said, if a better-armed democracy tips over into an autocracy, watch out. and make no mistake, there are strong movements in the USA that are attempting to do exactly that, starting with actions to undermine democracy such as undermining the independent judiciary, denying elections, etc.)

EDIT: Plus, people are happy to prattle on about how the US Defense Budget exceeds the next X nations combined budgets, and how it is such a "warmonger" state. Yet when it finally becomes seen that we need to literally push back against Russia or China and defend democracy itself, it's pretty handy how all that turns out to be the "Arsenal Of Democracy" and we can actually supply the effort without breaking much of a sweat. And then people who normally call the US a "warmongering nation" can happily say "I'm all for defending countries"...

So, the main point is that I'm calling out the inconsistency inherent in the "warmonger" labeling.
>many Asians support these measures

(East) Asians that support these measures get the media platform. In East Asian dominant neighbourhoods I've been in, opposing these measures are one of the few things that has politically activated the community in decades.
Another one with a terrible story that I absolutely loved. I don't know whether Kojima is a genius or a lunatic, but I'm glad I played his game.
>System76 first decided to develop an OS as a way to better shape our customers’ >experiences and harmonize the software with our hardware

I dont like people saying that they have "developed an OS"
when all they have done is to create derivative distribution
of Ubuntu which itself rests on Debian.

How about:

"""
We have created a great distribution of Linux and we have
added some brand-new components to it and we think you
will really like it.

We think it is the best distribution for our customers
and a great distribution for new users

Since it is based upon the highly
popular Ubuntu distribution a lot of experienced users
will feel right at home as well.
"""

I hope their work on (a fork?) of GNOME becomes great.

The bit about implementing NTP seems odd to me.
Gitlab is the Firefox of browsers.
Also would be a lot more useful if you could sort by columns.
Agreed, in this case doing nothing could be the best option.
There was a report published by FEMA in the early 1980s about the outcome of a nuclear war.

The summary was worst case scenario (for US) would be 50% of population dead, and we wouldn’t reach pre war GDP for a decade.

Basically what happened to Eastern Europe during WWII.

It’s not good. It’s bad. But it’s not “end of the human race” bad.

Paraphrasing the report: “There is no credible scenario where our knowledge of germ theory will be destroyed, and that knowledge will save the lives of millions, regardless of whether there is a nuclear war.”
Good lord. Get a hobby.
https://law.justia.com/codes/alabama/2020/title-25/chapter-8...

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(a) No individual under 16 years of age shall be employed, except in agricultural service, and except as otherwise provided in this chapter. Any individual 14 or 15 years of age may be employed outside school hours and during school vacation periods, so long as the individual is not employed in, about, or in connection with, any manufacturing or mechanical establishment, cannery, mill, workshop, warehouse, or machine shop or in any occupation or place of employment otherwise prohibited by law. The presence of any individual under 18 years of age in any restricted business establishment or restricted occupation shall be prima facie evidence of his or her employment in the business establishment or occupation.

(b)(1) This section does not apply to an individual 14 years of age or 15 years of age when both of the following are true:

a. The individual is enrolled in either a youth pre-apprenticeship program, youth industry-registry apprenticeship program, or similar program in which employment and work-based learning are an integral part of the course of study.

b. The program the individual is enrolled in is registered by the Alabama Office of Apprenticeship.

(2) This section does not apply to employment procured by an individual 14 years of age or 15 years of age when the employment is supervised through the Alabama Department of Education and approved by the Alabama Department of Labor.

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Doesn't sound like those rules were followed. And I assume that the restrictions is mostly because heavy equipment like metal presses lack fail safes like a lawn mower does.
Ask HN: Open-source log collection and alerting
Pulling my hair out trying to understand the loki grafana alerts thing.
What do you guys use? I'm looking for a powerful and simple open source solution.. is there anything like that out there?
Very structured with lots of very visible patterns in your JavaScript demo site. Some screenshots: https://imgur.com/a/2zQh4bA
I feel obliged to share a gotcha regarding nesting...

The idea of nesting in SASS/SCSS is that you need a combination of selectors, and you don't want to repeatedly type out the first one.

What I often see though is developers using it as grouping structure, closely mimicking the nesting of the markup they're working with. This is massively convenient from an authoring point of view, but it leads to issues.

For complicated components, I've seen output consisting of 12 selectors after each other, whilst only 2 would be needed. Not only does this lead to verbose output, it also makes that style rule extremely specific. In case you ever need to overrule it, you'd need 13 selectors or an !important.

To illustrate:
.selector1 .selector2 ........all the way up to .selector 12

Or:
.selector1 .selector12

Example 2 is what you want. You got your parent scope and after that it doesn't matter where .selector12 is in the markup, assuming you use something like BEM. The 10 nesting levels in between are completely pointless.
Please don't spread misinformation playing a FUD book.

Nothing stops you from using cron in your Dockerfile:

RUN apt-get install -y cron

Actually I just did it a few weeks ago and it works as expected.

fly.io is universal, it just runs your Dockerfile. Everything else is up to you.
We have been using render in production for about 8 months (paid services).
Overall happy but some things are annoying:

- Latency of the oregon region is very high. A simple health endpoint is around 500ms from north america and europe, 1.3s from Asia/Australia (we have been monitoring it for many months with better uptime)

- Services tend to die at least once a week, so you do need at least two instances all the time

- Logs are often delayed for a long time, though it has been more severe recently.

- Build time is just horrible, our rust service takes around 40m to deploy. I get that it is free, but at least give me a docker registry so I can build it elsewhere and push the image

- No option to pay for support 24/7, so if there is an outage during the US night you are on your own
The point of saying children can't consent, is that they can't do it alone.

You are just supporting OP's point unwitting.
Good question! Contact7 looks like a Wordpress Plugin? Sendfly works anywhere you can write HTML and puts you in control. You get to build and style your form as you wish and Sendfly just delivers it for you.
They don't have to be funny. They just need to provoke thought in people like any other witty writ about the situation at hand.
Spent a month in a coma. Can confirm! (Anecdotally)
I'd like to know how fast the networking is of such boards. As in: read a file and distribute it over ethernet or wireless, in MB/s.

What's the next best indicator? Clock speed? CPU?
What does pavucontrol not do that you want? It seems like by far the most powerful option I've seen on any OS. Nicely usable by regular users, and still good caoabilities for power users. Works great via the built in pulseaudio api support in pipewire which nicely wraps pipewire capabilities.
That shows "contributors". It looks like they have roughly 4 regular contributors. Their Github org lists 5 members. I would not consider that "a lot".
This is directly opposite of excusemaking for genocide.

The Spanish never had an intention to exterminate the local population: they needed people to exploit the land they had conquered. The massive death toll was a result of an influx of diseases from the old world, and not due to some extermination policy they had.

On the other had, the natives did perpetrate genocides on a regular basis, and the conquest did put an end to it. So I believe that in the end life actually improved for the majority of those natives who did survive the waves of diseases, compared to what they could hope for under their traditional way of life.
With the utmost respect, I’ve never heard “blocking” described as “takes some measurable amount of time” (which is how I’m reading your above statement); by that definition, async blocks to a degree too.

You’re throwing traditional blocking/non-blocking distinctions on their ear.
The entire situation is a bad outcome. From the article:

> The .NET Foundation accepts projects that use permissive licenses within that set [of OSI-approved licenses].

> The board clarified that projects in the Foundation must use a permissive OSI-approved license and that projects would all be treated the same.

Per the linked article https://sixlabors.com/posts/license-changes/

> Previous attempts (sponsorship, support license) to provide a sustainable income to ensure the continued development of the Six Labors libraries have not proven successful, yielding less than a few months of developer income over a period of several years.

It sounds like James' monetization efforts were unsuccessful. The new monetization approach and relicensing is not considered compatible with the open source nature of the dotnet foundation. Whether the new approach works remains to be seen, but it likely burned a lot of community goodwill.
Ask HN: Locally generate GraphQL schema and resolvers from DB
Does anyone have a local equivalent for Hasura GraphQL engine?
"The Hasura GraphQL engine automatically generates your GraphQL schema and resolvers based on your tables/views in your database. You don't need to write a GraphQL schema or resolvers." https://hasura.io/docs/latest/schema/index/

Dgraph.app and Amazon's AppSync do this already from a backend but I am looking for something that can run locally. At a high level, the engine is a GraphQL ORM for data in SQLite or WatermelonDB.
Red Bull owner Dietrich Mateschitz dies aged 78
The term "blocking" in UNIX-like OSes is jargon with a particular meaning. It means an interruptible wait.

Disk files do not block - they may Disk Wait instead, which is an uninterruptible wait (this is what the 'D' process status stands for). Disk Wait doesn't interact with O_NONBLOCK, select(3), poll(3) etc.

(Back in the bad old days it wasn't even possible for a Disk Waiting process to wake up to process a SIGKILL and die, which was the bane of system administrators everywhere when NFS introduced the idea of disks that could disappear when the network went down. Now it's common for OSes to make some kinds of Disk Waits at least killable).
Free tier is limited to 12 months though, isn’t it?
A vacancy tax would make it less attractive to investors but people purchasing it to live there as their primary residence wouldn't mind. I dont see how forcing a landlord to rent a property out at market rates or pay a tax is a massive burden. It doesn't have to be a real tax, but it would help stop landlords withholding units for no reason except they aren't making enough profit.
We have indeed learned amazing things about melatonin and light exposure and iprgcs over the last four decades, and I think that's very important, too. So I'm glad you've mentioned it: a natural night with extremely consistent start and stop times (or following the seasons strictly, which is better) absolute darkness (except red light is okay) and nine hours of it is a very good thing for health - mental and physical.

But yup, I meant melanin, the more recent outpouring of research there is amazing. Melatonin is an amazing antioxidant, just amazing, and as a hormone it initiates processes that fight illness at night, including pathogens, but I don't know of it having any direct action against pathogens.
TikTok accused of covert plot to track specific US citizens' every move
You’d need to some some basic HTML to use it. You can add whatever fields you want to the form and post it to our endpoint like in the example.

We have some built in spam protection; a secondary confirmation after the forms submitted.

The form gets emailed to you but you can also view it on your account.

Tons of great questions; I’ll look at adding a FAQ to the landing page to give a bit more detail!
yah, i've read that thread before, as well as tab atkins' "abandoning @apply" post, and i think both are trying to solve problems that are beyond css itself (js-style scoping in the first, and shadow dom styling in the latter).

what i'm imagining is something more like this very contrived example:

:root {
--thick: 4px;
--border-color: black;
}

$standard-border {
border: 2px solid var(--border-color); /* not evaluated here */
}

div {
@apply $standard-border; /* evaluated here */
}

/* somewhere else, perhaps a different file */
.bordered {
--border-color: grey;
@apply $standard-border; /* evaluated here */
border-width: var(--thick); /* an override */
}

here, the string would simply be substituted into place and then evaluated as if the substitution had been written there all along. this seems like it would avoid the multiple evaluation and circularity issues that have sunken prior proposals.
That's a pretty good deal on the hardware. List price of a Lenovo ThinkSystem with 2x 32 core Xeon SP Gen 3, 512GB RAM is $100k each, that $1.6 million for the quoted RDS setup, and you still need a place to rack it up, electricity, and cooling.
>the accessibility wheelchair in the lower right-hand side is unlike anything I've seen offered by a website before.

but they're not in a rush..

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33226849
I am trying the reconcile the feeling of free-will we experience with its evident absence, per the theory.

(Of course, you could also just say the feeling is an illusion.)

I don't know if you can ever answer it one way or the other, because while consciousness certainly exists (again a fact I believe just because I feel it), it can't in any way influence the universe, at least per current theories of physics.

On the other hand, if you're right that many-worlds is real and our consciousness persists in all of them, then we will, individually, come to realize that is the case, as find ourselves still alive, forever, ever more improbably (since, I think, the odds of dying would never be 1, so you'll always be alive in some lucky world).
Evidence to the contrary: this and all other stripe posts here on HN.
> The only real solution I see is a large amount of new nuclear power generation and, yes, some solar and wind.

I wonder who would build a nuclear power plant these days? On a forum dedicated to startups, do you see many energy startups? I'm aware of some looking into "elecrofuels" - basically a bet on turning the carbon in the air into conventional(ish) liquid hydrocarbon fuels, which is a bet that fossil fuels will continue to increase in price while solar energy will continue to decrease.

But I'm not aware of much going on in commercial nuclear power.