skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There is a huge difference between the Harvard policy and the TJ policy. Harvard explicitly considers race. TJ does not. TJ removed some elements of the admissions process and seeks to have students from every school in fcps but does not allocate any admissions points based on race.
Yeah, but which is the better big cat? Lion? Snow Leopard? Tiger?
I’m very familiar with Kropotkin, but not Russel.
The issue is that recycling plastics uses quite a lot of energy in itself, so it quickly becomes a net-negative over not recycling with current technologies, especially if you use a lot of tap water and generate a lot of wastewater cleaning it.
> that if you try to use it moderately differently you'll hit roadblocks.

That is certainly true, both for Django it self and the Django Rest Framework. If you try to fight Django on how you use it, you're going to have a bad time.

One trick I use when working of Django projects is to look at my code and think: Am I writing too much code? If you have a method that more than 15 - 20 lines, you're most likely doing something wrong.
This isn't a 100% solution but you can pin external JavaScript includes in HTML using subresource integrity (https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/Security/Subres...).

This doesn't help if someone can mess with the HTML though.
The conclusions drawn from the facts are the horseshit part.
I think the reference to bacteria was suggesting bacteria that produce the enzyme, though that isn't clear from the post. Of course there's a lot involved in creating a viable bacterium that can survive in the wild on plastics than just making one produce this enzyme though.
OK. Then I guess that the whole HotSpot VM will be replaced with GraalVM + Substrate VM in the future... :)
It's immensely heavy and expensive, and not very effective.

Edit: okay, that's probably going to need a little more explanation.

You've got a car travelling (frictionlessly in a vacuum, as per all good physics experiments) with a flywheel that can be connected to the driveshaft with a clutch. When you engage the flywheel it disengages the driveshaft from the engine.

Your car is travelling at 50mph, so it has some amount of energy that you can calculate from its mass. The flywheel is at rest. When you engage the flywheel clutch, the car will slow down and the flywheel will speed up until both have (neglecting losses, remember) an equal amount of energy, and the car will be doing 25mph.

Bring the car to a stop, with the clutch disengaged again. The car has no energy but the flywheel is still spinning.

Now engage the clutch to move off. The car will accelerate to 12.5MPH, because it gets half the energy in the flywheel and once they have an equal amount no more energy can be transferred.

You can get around this with clever gearboxes, a bit, and if you're building a multimillion pound racing car that's definitely the way forward.
Try avif?
PreCheck itself bought from TSA is only available to citizens/nationals/LPRs, but nonresident citizens of a handful of other countries can get Global Entry from CBP, which includes PreCheck benefits as well as expedited immigration/customs handling.

https://www.cbp.gov/travel/trusted-traveler-programs/global-...
You can do it, but it remains to be seen if we get a lot of use cases where there are more positive than negative tradeoffs from targeting a VM implementation to WebAssembly and then running a VM inside a VM that way. I guess eg Python could be useful in cases where you want to use it as a glue language between WebAssembly components...
Akkoma: Lightweight and Performant Fediverse Server
I'm old enough to remember when it was netscape or IE... thats it.

so I see today as fairly diverse
I indeed like Rust's approach a lot more than Go's. What I like less still is that it gives the impression that it's even possible to define functions that cannot fail. This is not true. One just has to look at how runtimes deal with stack overflow errors to see how the good old Java RuntimeException creeps in in various forms (e.g. panics) because checked exceptions and it's recent incarnation as error values are a leaky abstraction.
That farmer count is only as small as it is because of the massive society they are built on that allows that to scale. You briefly scratched at with miners, but you forgot all of the machinery and auto manufacturers, the massive energy industry that powers all of it, etc.

> Yes, I do believe that most jobs are superfluous

I think you just don’t understand the purpose of many jobs. If the accountant for the local grocery store didn’t exist, what do you think would happen?
Smarter? Maybe, maybe not. Able to articulate a basic reason to rewrite or not? Most of us here probably are, yet Musk chose the least compelling route, ad hominem attacks.
"In particular, teams in Google's research, Trust and Safety division among other departments have been directed to switch gears to assist in the development and launch of new AI prototypes and products"

Following in Twitter's footsteps, I see!
I wonder why all the citizen jornalists havent been doing their digging and discovered the co-CEO
Than you agree and are missing the point.

Some textbook publishers are intentionally making small changes from year to year to intentionally make the life of those using second hand text books miserable.

Corporations have long since realised that often their biggest competition comes from their own products therefore we now have planned obsolescence (someone who already has your product and doesn't want to buy another) and the war on secondary markets (someone other than you selling your, old, product).
My imagination is awful, but I’m guessing somewhere around 0 years.
So? I'm going to transliterate stuff from Russian with ё from now on, it just looks great. A language is whatever we want it to be, after all
This kind of frightens me. It likely leads towards some kind of ageism, as students and teenagers are comparatively time-rich and can more easily find the time to build up impressive GitHub profiles. As you get older, projects like building a house, raising children etc start taking up your free time and after many years as a software engineer, you do relate differently to your profession, compared to when you first started out. (You're less naive. Less capable of just having faith in some weird karma whereby hard/good work will be recognized and rewarded if you just do it).

I guess other professions have similar things going: Lawyers might take on high-profile cases on a pro-bono basis to build a name for themseves, or contribute to academic publishing even when they are not on payroll in any academic capacity, etc. But they have a different culture to go with that. As a lawyer, I guess your X-hours work week will stay an X-hours work week and your non-billable hours Y are simply subtracted from X.

But most jobs in the software engineering profession come with the expectation that you have an X-hours work week, and your employer usually does not allow you to use any of that time for personal professional status-building through open source or publishing etc. ...your only chance is to do it on weekends, which eats into your work-life balance.
Isn't netflix content served from a nearby ISP's content distribution box? But maybe they just get kickbacks from ISPs to thin out the quality.
Nestor Makhno considered himself a student of Kropotkin.
>But they are obviously not independent.

Yes, independent with respect to the variable you're testing. In the ZKP, the independence is between the challenges given to the prover. In the computational proof, independence is between the probability of computational error affecting the calculation. (To be sure, you'd want to run the proof on different hardware!)

>> Randomization is one way to achieve that but not a hard requirement.

>This is besides the point, but pray tell.

Wait, what? Your original comment[1] was specific alleging that the absence of a randomizer completely broke the analogy:

>I fail to see the connection - new runs of the compuuter proof isn't going to randomize the code.

How would this be "beside the point" when it's the point you introduced? Did you forget the point you were trying to make?

>How do you reduce the probability of an algorithm being incorrectly programmed by means of running it multiple times without changing the input or introducing some randomness somewhere?

Even doing the same run on the same hardware would provide evidence against against the earlier result being a fluke (e.g. from cosmic rays), as I said before. But yes, as above, to round out the possibilities, you'd want different people to translate the proof into different languages and hardware and run it there -- that would likewise increase your confidence in the result, just like running different rounds of the interactive ZKP would.

>I mean, i guess you could say that if you modify the system to add the connection you are trying to establish, then yes the connection becomes obvious.

Sorry, are you really saying that you see no parallel whatsoever between:

a) Run the 4-color computer proof multiple times to increase your confidence that the result wasn't just luck, and

b) Run additional rounds of an interactive ZKP to increase your confidence that the prover wasn't just lucky?

If so, that feels like more of a you-problem.

If you were disputing that additional runs of the 4-color computer proof could increase your epistemic confidence in it, then you should have raised that in response to the original comment[2], not one (like mine) that accepted it and pointed out an analogous situation.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34088094

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34084448
> in English, a diacritic of two dots (diaeresis) is used to show that a vowel is pronounced separately from the vowel that came before it, not as a mix.

You've correctly defined diaeresis, but it's not actually used in English except in articles that get published in The New Yorker. There is a reason the common English name for the diacritic is "umlaut".

The normal use in English is to show that a word comes from German. There are some old relics like naïve (commonly spelled naive, now) and Laocoön (again, now usually spelled Laocoon). To the best of my knowledge a diaeresis has never been applied to the name "Menelaus" even though it "needs" one just as badly as Laocoon does.

> Naïve is one example, where it is pronounced na-ive, not nive.

The diaeresis there really just shows you that the word is borrowed from French, where it has a diaeresis for internal French reasons. (Because, again, English spelling does not include the concept of diaeresis.) It certainly doesn't tell you not to pronounce the word as "nive" (I assume you're referring to the PRICE vowel) -- the ordinary reading of the written vowel sequence "ai" would use the FACE vowel, as in plain, main, strain, vain, tail, wail, pail, sail, mail, plaice, taint, and waive.

Note that the Russian letter Ё does not feature a diacritic - the two dots are an integral part of the letter, and it is not related to the visually similar Russian letter E. As noted upthread, it is the iotified form of the letter O. (Russian has five or six non-reduced vowels, but for historical reasons the Russian alphabet has eleven vowels, including a / e / i / o / u plus ya / ye / y / yo / yu.)
People will learn. It didn't happen overnight with email, either.
Are super-rich people just better at making money?
Do you sincerely think the marketing team wants to names things so accurately as to admit the next version is worse than the previous? It seems like that would be a really bad strategy IMHO.
Oh man. I don’t get this complaint. There’s a quadrillion of Windows only software, basically 99% of games are Windows only. Most of Gnome and Kde apps are Linux(BSD) only. Yet they don’t scream on the home page “Watch Out! It’s Windows only!”

Yet everyone assumes that Mac users dream of using their apps on some other OS. Why? I have no idea.
> People also don't fall as much while running as they do when riding

Says who?

Just a couple of days ago I had a runner get past me while I was walking on the street, 2 seconds later she hit a bump on the pavement with her foot and fell down hard (she even made a loud splash sound as she hit the ground). No, she didn't have a helmet. Should she have?

At the end of the day, people should be walking around in full steel plate armour, for protection and safety. Or even better, not walking around at all. Bicycles should be banned!

> it's easy to hit a crack in the pavement and lose control on a bike.

No, its not. The person who says this probably hadn't ridden a bicycle in their life, or if they have, not often and not recently.

Bicycle wheels are EXCELLENT at getting over cracks, bumps, ditches, holes, whatever - as long as the attack angle is as close to 90 degrees as possible. It is the riders responsibility to make sure that is the case. Wider tires also help, lower pressures too... and high speeds, counterintuitively.

Of course, if you are afraid of falling or uncertain of your skills on the bike, wear a helmet by all means. Just don't think that it is "normal" and all riders are like that.
Within the context of the sentence, the only subject previously mentioned in the sentence that 'them' could refer to is enzymes. Yes bringing in external assumed context we can deduce it's talking about plastics, but OP is clearly critiquing the sentence as written.

Also I'd suggest avoiding cheap snark like that, even when you're actually right it's still not a good look.
One more thing that changed is a platform situation. Everyone is looking into building crossplatform tools, and MS tools do not really cover this front.

Thus the abundance of those browser-wrappers such as Electron. The html/js stack is far from trivial but it really is truly portable.

So the new visualbasic has to be different, and I don't think newer ms tools cover this niche.
Helium-infused cloud-dessert that rains on your plate. And flies away
Video of the dish being served over at Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/Damnthatsinteresting/comments/zs4z2...
That doesn’t support your point though that we’re anywhere near post scarcity and can support people quitting. Many jobs that were classified as essential during the pandemic are things people don’t have oodles of joy doing (garbage pickup, power plant coal loader, etc).

You can cut out the entire “entertainment” or whatever industry you think isn’t essential, but we still need to convince the people working the essential jobs to do it while everyone else free-rides.
I would love to learn more about this too!
Due to the cost of living, if costs increase and the wage do not, you just can't keep living in the city and go back to your parents[1]. At that point you are disenfranchised and you go to work only when you need to gift yourself a video game/thing using a part time job. For that style of living you can just skip every job that is not worth (like service industry)

[1]https://www.npr.org/2022/12/11/1139330863/genz-millennials-l...
Mencken has a point: Gatsby, like much famous Science Fiction, derives its strength neither from story nor from depth of characterisation, but from the world which it depicts.
What you are describing could be the starting point for a processing plant that mimicks a digestive system. Plastics are moved via peristalsis through a series of physical and chemical incubators, extracting elemental substances through membranes along the way. Out comes the unusable, uhm, ash, that needs to be discarded.
It's so much worse than that.

Unless you're using Microsoft Edge, you can only get Netflix in 720p on Windows: https://help.netflix.com/en/node/23742
The author mentions Go, but Go has "exceptions" too in the form of panics. I tested the speed of throwing panics, and if the error type evaluation is involved, the panics don't lag behind returning errors one bit. I even created an experimental library to support this in a playground project: https://github.com/apitalist/lang
> The far right have colonized all theae reasonable positions as sort of gateways into more extreme ideology.

Gee, what a pity there’s no opposition of note to these positions on the left. Surely there would be many leftists open to loudly condemning these positions and mocking those who hold them mercilessly, publicly.
This causes unexpected problems. Depending on how it's implemented (and in a "fair" way or not), the housekeeping / cleaning staff object to this sometimes on grounds that they're being deprived of hours of work. So in fact I have experienced at some hotels (off the books of course), the housekeeping staff asking you to not accept the points-for-no-housekeeping option.

It's kind of like the situation I heard a where a new "green"/eco building was being built on campus. The plumbers union objected to the decreased amount of copper pipes being installed and the associated lesser amount of labor they were employed for (due to water saving fixtures, no flush urinals, etc) so the university had to give in to allow all the usual pipes to be installed even if they weren't to be used. (or maybe it was in union anticipation of the eco-solution failing some day and needing to fall back on the traditional plumbing setup).

Conflicting incentives...
One counter-measure to this is to run the decryption without internet connection. This is easy enough to explain to a hypothetical non technical mother.
Which is definitely not the case
Actually, defective altruism.
Can't Stop and Can't Stop Express are mainstays of my family's COVID-era weekly game night on Board Game Arena.
CL condition system is based on error handlers, which is the 3rd paradigm aside from returning error values and exceptions. Unfortunately, it didn't really permeate the Unix based languages (C, C++, Java), because Unix had completely kneecapped implementation of error handlers in the OS (lack of user defined signals and their hierarchy). Error handlers are so much underrated that even books like Code Complete do not mention them.

Each of the three paradigms has pros and cons in terms of code simplicity and runtime cost (in normal/error path), I don't think there is a clear winner.
You’re confusing “billionaires” with “a few select billionaires that built disruptive businesses from the ground up”. Nobody in Silicon Valley is “drooling at the feet” of the Walton children.
>I don't really see the issue?

The issue is that the instance you join dictates what "being a responsible member of the society" is, and if you don't fit into the restrictions of that one particular instance, you can lose your account which you use to interact with the entire federation.

Given that Mastodon admins can read direct messages of their users and ban them based on that, this is bound to have an effect on how users on Mastodon interact.

>There's also nothing preventing you from having multiple Mastodon accounts on multiple instances

Except for the fact that people use social networks like Twitter and Facebook to represent themselves. Which means one account. Having pseudonyms defeats the purpose.

In Mastodon, the model, in essence, makes you represent the instance you joined when you speak, with its values and restrictions — not yourself.

When deviance means loss of access, that's bound to result in increase in polarization and echo-chamberism.

Correspondingly, people who run instances block entire other instances based on how they perceive them.

This takes all the problems we have with email, and makes them worse.

"You can run your own instance" is an argument that works as well as "don't like Gmail? Host your own email server!".

I wouldn't have an issue if being banned from the instance you joined still allowed you to migrate to another instance after the ban without losing any data / identity / etc.

That's to say, if your identity wasn't tied to any particular instance.

Which is the point of the article.
It's noise dude, you can add it back in but removing it is hard. Exact opposite of your analogy
"district water system" almost definitely refers to the heating system when talking about dutch water systems. Tap water is --as far as I know-- handled on a municipal level, not a district level.
> translate the app

The way translation is implemented today is horrifying.

Likewise for high-DPI. Why are they still using some linear scaling of icons instead of a super-resolution GAN and some caching?

Why can't an OS translate a single-language app on the fly using state-of-the-art translation neural nets and using visual attention to capture context? It's almost 2023 ffs, and people are still using some gettext nonsense?
^ This ^

Brilliant software. And citation format too. Browser and (libre)office plugins
I'm a writer and I say: "Great tool !" - would love to be able to use markdown format (more a nice-to-have than absolute requirement).
But there are a bunch of codes which are yet to be verified as exception-safe. And in the gaming industry it's often third party code that you cannot even inspect.
Metal carbonates are generally not considered organic.
flagrant!
As I posted about 4 months ago on "The Futures of Inform" <https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32571293>:

The "Inform 7 Programmer's Manual" by Ron Newcomb explains Inform 7 from the point-of-view of someone who knows how to program in other languages.
Version as of August 15, 2011: http://www.plover.net/~pscion/Inform%207%20for%20Programmers...

An older 2009 version (if PDF is a problem): http://www.plover.net/~pscion/inform7.html
For people interested in how this would look, there are some videos on YouTube, such as https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rnGpSZmj-cA, where people visit Alibaba's high-tech hotel.
That sounds a bit like what WUFFS is doing

WUFFS: https://github.com/google/wuffs
You can definitely get FU money by making $160K+ straight out of college up to a quarter million a year plus three years later. How much do you think most people make “starting their own business?”
ah, ducks, I flipped the notation in my head; you're correct
sixteens are swinged, but it's 1.5, not 0.75
> Customers for these very deeply nested cul de sac homes tend to value privacy a lot. They don’t want people they don’t know passing through, and may be even more suspicious of pedestrians than drivers.

In which direction does the causation go? If I ended up on a partially closed road I would also become suspicious of people and start to value "privacy".
PixiJS renders 2D exactly the same as 3D is rendered using Three/Babylon, it's all WebGL (with vertex data, textures and shaders) in the end. Pixi3D should perform very similar to the other 3D renders on the web.
Can you comment on why Adobe let Flash die? Did it just become unprofitable compared to their other projects?
Also hospitals.
Yes. You can dither from 10bit to 8bit to alleviate problems like banding.

(You of course can just dither it first and save the result in 8 bit in encoded result; but that would dramatically increase bitrate).
Related: Has anyone tried ChatGPT to generate Inform code? Could be interesting.
Interesting, but is the “date flexible” approach really workable? How does the rest of the business work if the deadline is May, then August, then the following year? At least with the fixed date method you know that a bunch of stuff will be shipped at that date, and you can always have an adjustable plan for eg marketing.
In some countries almost every street is named after a person, so it would be too much trouble to research every street name.

We have a square named after indian city of Bangalore - the Bangalore square. I was sure for a long time that's just another (jewish?) surname. Even though I knew that city, in context of street names I simply assume surnames, it didn't occur to me to think anything else.
There is not really good way of accomplishing with transistors what delay lines are used for in PAL, unless you go full digital.
In America. Elsewhere, hotels have been much cheaper for a long time. Even well before the pandemic, it was much cheaper for me to stay in hotels in Japan or western Europe than anyplace in America.