skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Europe: Germany - is already in the recession, but DAX is climbing on par with SP500 (or anything what climbs). Obviously, not a good indicator of a rationality in the market, esp. when greed indicators are at the top. Even Lagarde warned about swift market corrections, but market participants apparently think it all is a bluffing =)
I used to wonder what Rendezvous With Rama's landscape would really look like if I were standing on its inner surface. Same with The Stone from Greg Bear's Eon. The renders I've seen so far have all looked too small, or everything is too clear.

Maybe simulating something closer to the eye, or a 35mm camera, would give me what I've dreamed about. What do these places look like with clear skies, and then with clouds? 2 metres "up" from the inner surface, what does that really look like?
Probably for the same reason that not withstanding the fact that I can squeeze a chest of drawers into a hatchback, it's designed to be a car and not a truck.

Same with C. It's not designed to be object-oriented, even if you can make it so.

If you want C and 'object-oriented', there's always C++. I'm a relatively good C programmer, but I have never got my head properly around C++. Java yes, but C++ no.
That course is fantastic. Just don't be afraid to pause and rewatch. It took me a long time to get through the first three videos.
I would rather muster the effort at the beginning as well. After a long flight i want to be done.
Harvard cannot admit who they want, in case you’ve somehow missed the recent supreme court ruling.
Sriracha lovers feel the heat as hot sauce shortage continues
The self hosted AI community calls them something like "Web UIs" or "Generation UIs" An example:

https://aihorde.net/

This perhaps stems from the popularity of gradio web UIs in the early days.

Even for full blown cloud services, I think this is practical, as generative models really need more inputs and knobs than a Google search box.
I’ve stuck to nvidia for years and it’s reliable on Linux. Needs proprietary drivers for full performance. I don’t think they’re actively hostile since they have drivers available. It used to be that you struggled to get acceleration. Nvidia drivers were the only reliable way. I had an ATI GPU too and drivers were not as good on Linux.

Article is about CPU, though, and both manufacturers seem comparable. I have Ryzen for price/performance.
No kidding. If the author is on Hacker News: your spelling and grammar are impeccable, but you really need to lay out your ideas more clearly (which really is the most important part of a blog post!)

Just from the start:

> Garrett Wollman is giving an example, in the context of the Agricultural Branch, a low-usage freight line linking to the Boston-Worcester commuter line that could be used for local passenger rail service.

Imagine, just for fun, that a reader might not know who the famous Garrett Wollman is, what the Agricultural Branch is, or where the Boston-Worcester commuter line is? (Isn't Worcester in England and Boston in North America? Is there a transatlantic train service I'm ignorant about?) What do you think the above paragraph communicates to the reader?

> The more typical example of residential sprawl involves isotropic single-family density in a suburban region

Ah yes, isotropic density, that perennial scourge! The word isotropic of course means: “exhibiting properties (such as velocity of light transmission) with the same values when measured along axes in all directions”, which I didn't need to look up in a dictionary because it's such a common English word, and the meaning in the above sentence is self-explanatory, really.

Anyway, I think you get the point. This article is written in a way that's inscrutable to a general audience. That's fine if the blog is targeted at traffic nerds who talk about the isotropic density of the Agricultural Branch on the daily, but then why post it on Hacker News?
Saber gifted by Queen Victoria to feudal samurai found in Tokyo
Try Dyson Sphere Program then.

Not as repayable as factorio but still good fun.
> They either work or they don't.

Or they work for a selection of cases but not others. Or they seem to work in a limited number of tests but aren’t truly doing the right thing. Or they do work but have a security flaw that makes your service vulnerable.

Coding solutions have tradeoffs and subtleties which go beyond “it did the thing right a couple of times when I ran it”. If that’s all it took to verify code is good, there wouldn’t be any bugs; you can test code a person writes too.
In context Mintel would launch at the same time with much more success:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minitel
> New research shows that U.S. public pension funds would be $21 billion richer had they divested from fossil fuels a decade ago.

I could have been a bitcoin billionaire too. Or have picked any number of other successful investing strategies. This kind of backward looking "research" is idiotic.
Surprising for me. Can you maybe share some links?
As an android user who's failed throughout recent years to find an app that does real call recording (not just your end of the conversation), has the situation changed? Are there apps you're aware of that do this?
I wonder if a shorter, catchier word means an idea is more commonplace, or a shorter catchier word can end up causing an idea to be applied more.
Any legacy students here? How was your application experience? What/Who was your get in free card? What are your thoughts in terms of fairness?
Transfer can also be exhausting. I would rather have it done early so when I get out of the long haul flight I can directly go to the hotel.

For all my EU->US (and back) flights, if I have to transfer I always do it in Frankfurt/Zurich/Heathrow, rather than US. The fact the airports and lounges are nicer helps.
Jarred says it best: https://bun.sh/blog/commonjs-is-not-going-away

- 75% of NPM is CommonJS

- It’s better for lazy loading / cold start outside the browser than `await import(…)`
What it basically means is working class White middle Americans need not apply. Which is unfortunate, because there is a lot of potential talent there.
43% of ALDC, 30% real academia talents to keep the school ranking high and yes this group is what really matters in the end as far as USNews' ranking for academia 'excellence' goes, the rest left for diversity.

recipe for nearly all prestigious universities I feel, not sure how the recent AA court decision will impact these combinations.
I'm not sure you've identified a cause instead of a symptom.

If Harvard stopped accepting legacy admissions and donors and elites as much, would that mean that the other people would get those political and judicial appointments, or would Harvard just lose status as an important institution?

Another way to look at it is whether those Harvard attendees are being appointed because of Harvard, or because of the connections they made with sufficiently powerful people also destined for similar positions at that time? Of you reduce those people, eventually you may reduce the effectiveness of going there, not increase the ability of non rich people that go there getting those positions, as Harvard itself maybe isn't the most important factor.

Personally, I think it's mostly just nepotism, whether Harvard or Yale or whatever, and reducing the effectiveness of nepotism from going to Harvard will just cause people that would benefit from it to shift to a different institution that does the same. If you want to combat nepotism, stopping g people from meeting at one specific place may be the hardest and least effective way of doing so.

If your goal is to promote non legacy people to positions of power, maybe just encourage more of those people at Harvard while also keeping the legacy people, and make nepotism work in your favor.
The article doesn't mention the grades and test scores of legacy students are as strong as non-legacy admitted students.

"Among the admitted legacies, grades and test scores were indistinguishable from non-legacy students. Both groups had an average SAT score that surpassed 1430. Once on campus, legacy students tended to have slightly higher college grades, but their involvement in campus activities, merit awards, academic recognition and on-time graduation rates were indistinguishable from non-legacy students. In sum, legacy students, on average, were about as academically strong as non-legacy students, neither superior nor inferior."

https://hechingerreport.org/proof-points-why-elite-colleges-...
> I tried to join a server.

This is already a failure. There is no need to join unless you find a topic you want participate in. And you event don't have to, you can even use a mastodon (pleroma, friendica, e.t.c.) account if you already have it if you just want to leave a comment in a thread.
I think it's because we want to transfer while feeling fresh, and then relax for the remainder of the trip.

Traveling is exhausting, and probably a factor is increased stress, and the stress of an upcoming transfer, and a transfer when exhausted just seems so much worse.
Because their alternative is letting their money be eaten by inflation
They get nonprofit tax status and huge amounts of federal research funding. They're also a feeder for folks who end up in powerful leadership positions in society, and if they get the right to shape society, society also obviously reserves the right to shape them back.
The pendulum swing is common in any system, and is a really effective mechanism for evaluation.

You almost always want somewhere in the middle, but it’s often much easier to move back after a large jump in one direction than to push towards the middle.
I take your point for long-distance travel, but the same argument doesn't really make sense to me in the commuter context. if something goes wrong with the second leg of my commute, I probably want to figure out a different way to get to work, not turn around and go home. either way, I'd just end up taking a taxi, bus, or both. as long as it doesn't happen often, it's not a big deal.

personally, I am primarily optimizing my commute for low average travel time and variance. I'll always pick the fastest option that allows me to walk out of my door at the same time every day and get to work on time for >90% of trips. practically, that equates to planning transit where the second leg has very short headways, regardless of where the transfer happens.
SendGrid, Calm, Cameo, Udemy

Udemy source: https://twitter.com/gaganbiyani/status/1377644096869650432

Calm source: https://twitter.com/tewy/status/1377382690475872257

I’m not aware of an official source for SendGrid and Cameo but I’ve seen it mentioned by a few people.
Sotheby’s Attempts a New Auction Model Amidst the Economic Downturn
From a Google search:

> Unlike humans, all sharks are born with teeth. They grow in conveyor-belt rows, with the biggest teeth facing outwards. Over time, the smaller teeth in the back move up, replacing the front ones. Most sharks have between 5-15 rows, and the whale shark has a whopping 3,000 teeth in its mouth!

Not sure if you'd want that!
Mastodon's active user base has increased by 110K over the last day
there is basically no overlap between the people on admissions committees and conservatives. Look up on linkedin who does admissions at ivy league schools. Hint its not stuffy old white guys.
This is an important point. I do agree wealth and access to privileged resources are too concentrated, but it's silly to assume that the child of two Harvard graduates, due to education, genetics and preference, wouldn't be a better candidate for Harvard than a random person
> You conviniently left out all the good parts of the economy: unemployment is at all-time lows, inflation is down (but still not at 2%), consumer spending is at an all-time high.

On the ground here we were at 3 typical incomes to make basic bills in Jan 2022. As of this month we're solidly at 4 incomes to meet those same bills. Most of that jump occurred this year.
Yeah, Europe is not as economically strong as the US. We still have sky high prices, stagnating wages, and a war on our doorstep. I read a lot of news of economic slowdown in German exports due to several factors.

Anecdotally, got laid off in early spring, still trying to land a decent job, but despite the so called labor shortage all I get is shit offers for 2018 money. While I'm sure this benefits some, the fact that the stock market is now up, is little comfort to me.
I guess the point is that Nim's creator brought up seemingly unrelated, pointless rants on political matters against a genuinely organizational question? This is not exactly a civil discourse in any definitions, especially considering the context that Araq is supposed to be the most representative figure of the community.
This is a fantastic conclusion to one of my favourite blog posts ever. Thank you. I never thought the record could ever reach this high.

It's so sad to see it hasn't picked up any traction here.
MongoDB is web-scale [video]
its more about losing the ability to show up and make a living than the cost of rehab
You neglect to mention that you'd have to be alone in those woods, at which point physical threats become a more-pressing domain of concern.

People are a liability. No wife, no kids, no problem! You could be the world's foremost security expert; it's no protection against them or their friends bringing this crap into the network.
> Governments are the biggest polluters

in what ways?
Let's further break-up the white student category, if any interesting correlations come up. For undergraduates specifically:

Ivy League US Ratio Mean nationwide SAT score [1]
Jewish 17.2% 2.4% 7.16 n/a
Asian 19.6% 5.3% 3.71 1216
White (incl. Jewish) 50.3% 61.5% 0.82 1148
Hispanic 11.4% 17.6% 0.65 1043
Black 7.8% 12.7% 0.61 966
White (non-Jewish) 33.1% 59.1% 0.56 ~1141 (lower bound estimate assuming a generous 1284 mean Jewish SAT)

SAT score seems to offer no benefit, up until the magic cutoff somewhere between 1142 and 1216.

The numbers don't sum to 100% because multi-ethnic students, a few minor ethnicities (American-Indian, Pacific Islander..), and students categorized as "unknown" or "other" by the universities were excluded from analysis. Data on university undergraduate demographics was taken from the universities own diversity reports. Jewish representation was gathered from http://hillel.org/college-guide/list/, https://forward.com/jewish-college-guide/, and https://ejewishphilanthropy.com/how-many-jewish-undergraduat..., taking the lowest estimate when sources conflicted. ejewishphilanthropy.com (eJP) points out flaws in Hillel's data gathering (e.g. showing Harvard as 30% Jewish, when eJP found it only 16%) Hillel seems to have since fixed these flaws, as the estimates they now give are in-line with those of eJP.

No correction has been made to look at only the college-age population of the US, or only at the Northeastern US where all the Ivy League universities are located, so that may be a source of some bias. It's also hard to get consistent demographics from the universities, as they all report them in slightly different ways. Corrections welcome.

[1] https://www.ednc.org/eraceing-inequities-the-influence-of-ra...
This author's advice is predicated on tremendous job security and self-awareness, which don't come easy.

Take the 1:1 advice with direct reports:

> First, an honest closed-door conversation about her real concerns or goals. Is she unhappy with the company? Frustrated by my management style?...

Admirable intent, but there are so many written and un-written rules working against this.
For the years I worked at Google I always wondered when they would update the “organize the worlds information” mission. The reason was simple: information eventually will reorganize itself around everyone trying to make their own money. Not money for Google. It felt like a mission that would only decrease in urgency not bc they are solving it but the world (internet) would get better at it over time
Holy misleading title, batman. The linked preprint is talking about an adult _fruit fly_ brain:

>> Here, we present the first neuronal wiring diagram of a whole adult brain, containing 5x10^7 chemical synapses between ~130,000 neurons reconstructed from a female Drosophila melanogaster.

Really need some clarification, that title does.
FINALLY

Maybe Minecraft will switch to GraalVM now... With some interesting moddability and performance implications.

I personally have seen some dev interest in GraalVM compiler development. But it instantly gets sapped away once the devs find out compiler contributions get sucked up into Enterprise Edition.
Implementation-defined is not a problem if there is only one implementation, since your code is going to work the same everywhere.

Languages like Java literally copied most of their syntax from C, so obviously they have the same problem and I hate them too.

Ditto for other languages that don't have compile-time asserts.

X-macros are a poor substitute for… well, actual macros. Or just metaprogramming in general.
That's not the right comparison. You compare white people to another ethnicity, not to a program. 100% of white legacies that got in because they were legacies got in because they were legacies. That represents 75% of the people who are white legacies, and 31% of white Harvard students.

So the comparison is between e.g. black Harvard students and white Harvard students - would more than 69% of black Harvard students have gotten in even without racial preferences? Maybe, maybe not, but I guarantee you don't know. You're just using Affirmative Action as a euphemism for black, like a racist would. And in addition, racial preferences have been struck down by the Supreme Court, I hope you know, so that means that 31% advantage now stands out there alone, rewarded because one fell out of status quo genitals.
Obligatory:

https://youtube.com/watch?v=_tK4fd0HFe0&pp=ygUMTmljZSBncmFiY...
Actually, with the week divided between in-office and wfh nowadays, my most common reaction to something going wrong with my commute is to turn around and go home to work from there.
I can pretty confidently tell you that for every student admitted to Harvard with 1430 SAT there are at least 10 more students out there who were rejected with at least as much score. SAT score and grades are merely a necessary condition to get in, but they haven't been sufficient in a very long time.

As for grades, check out https://www.thecrimson.com/flyby/article/2013/12/5/the-harva... but in summary, the most common grade in Harvard is A, so don't think the data point says much.
The original post was about the US stock market, but I guess should have still clarified that I was talking about a US recession. I don't follow the Europe economy as closely
I’m not the above commenter, but it seems obviously true? They’re not saying minority students, but affirmative action ones.
Sounds like a good reason to eliminate legacy admissions if the claim is that these students can compete without the crutch.
Did the Supreme Court ruling on affirmative action deem legacy admissions unconstitutional?
This isn’t quite true because their racial admission bias was far stronger than that needed to make up for all the nepotism (legacy donor athlete etc) admitees.
> Remember that obesity and its attendant maladies were the leading co-morbidity in COVID deaths, but that was conveniently memory-holed for fear of fat shaming.

Obesity is not the most common or most severe risk factor for COVID death. And it was discussed much.
Archived: https://archive.ph/ibGjP
So what?

Aside from being egregiously hypocritical and unfair -- the practice promotes foundational rot and moral cretinism among the nation's most powerful and influential, at the expense of society at large. By providing fake credentials to boost the careers of e.g. this person:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jared_Kushner

See in particular:

https://www.propublica.org/article/the-story-behind-jared-ku...

Is Harvard not allowed to admit the students they want?

Not if they want tax-exempt status and federal subsidy.
My wife is incredibly western and low-context. She still gets pissed off when friends and/or family in different timezones wake her up in the middle of the night with text messages.
donate (iirc) 10% revenue to The FreeBSD Foundation

Tarsnap contributes an amount equal to its December operating profit to open source software. This largely takes the form of sponsoring conferences throughout the year and then the FreeBSD Foundation gets whatever is left in the budget (once I know how much profit Tarsnap made in December).
> Is Harvard not allowed to admit the students they want?

As of last week's US Supreme Court ruling, no.
Scooter are actually small enough to take them with you everywhere. A single fold makes a scooter compact enough, that they could be accomodated on public transport

I love bikes, I have 4, but they do not integrate with public transport - even folding ones require 3 folds, then fold of the pedals. The full sized ones take up loads of space on trains, and must be constantly held or they will fall over.
Of course the legacy student test well, they have had access to amazing resources their entire lives.

This isn't about test scores, it's about the opportunity for lower class advancement rather than perpetuating existing wealth
Thing is, Browser JavaScript projects tend to implicitly rely on CJS hacks, such as Jest, as the article points out, or, and correct if I'm wrong, most popular HRM implementations.
> Imagine the signal to noise ratio on some random NY Times article

Yes, it's pretty fine on the articles they enable it for. They're sorted by upvotes so the first few comments are usually pretty decent. There's no reason to think it would be different on the articles they don't enable it for, since they're enabled on a wide range of types of articles (straight news, divisive opinion, etc.).

> I expect most people are thankful the NY Times only enables comments on selected articles.

I think it's the exact complete opposite -- nobody is thankful for that. Comments don't appear unless you click to open the comments panel, so anybody who never wants to see comments, never does. But of course people who do want to see comments, are prevented from doing so if they haven't been enabled.
the one reason people use Windows in the first place

The other reason is UX and people's familiarity with it. I tried switching to ubuntu a few times but small inconveniences adds up eventually and at some point I don't see a reason to switch. Windows works just fine and I like its UX (however we will see if that will change with 11), Linux needs to provide a bit more for people like me to switch for their personal computers
Even C has a (simple) type system. The problem is that everyone (especially the standard library) take every opportunity to avoid it, instead casting everything to plain void pointers or char pointers. Thus the compiler can’t do much for safety checks.

The good news is that you can build typesafe alternatives on top of the underlying std crap. Would be nice to have a standard <stdstruct.h> that provides common typesafe structs for things like os paths, sql strings, html strings, etc. just like <stdint.h> did for sized integers.

I’ve rolled my own typesafe wrappers fo my current C project and it’s been great so far.
Any reason for the archive?

I am not on Mastodon, but links to it from HN always load quickly for me.
The original study does address whether ALDC applicants are "as good" as typical applicants -

> Overall, our
results show that only one-quarter of white ALDC admits would have been admitted if they
had been treated as a typical applicant.

And on athletes -

> Being a recruited athlete essentially guarantees admission
even for the least-qualified applicants. An athlete who has an 86% probability of admission—the average
rate among athletes—would have only a 0.1% chance of admission absent the athlete tip
The claim being made is correlation.
While for most people ends won't meet without working, making the ends meet in this context has a bit more specific meaning you glossed over. The difference is subtle but makes the whole difference.