skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm not trying to make any statements about fairness or the superiority of the US healthcare system, I'm saying that for the purposes of comparing the cost impacts of different putative health policies in the US (which was the context of the thread zer0tonin was replying to) the €150 you and zer0tonin think zer0tonin is paying a month is nonsense, because it very obviously is not an accurate reflection of zer0tonin's actual monetary contribution to the Dutch health care system.
they also get a sweet green username
They are allowed to, but I think it's great to get this news out there. The prestige of Harvard mostly comes from the selectivity, but understanding what traits they are selecting for may change the perceived value of such a degree (i.e. is this because you know somebody who works there, or because you are in the top .01% of academics)
Liberalism is just the ideology of capitalism. US conservatives and “liberals” are both liberals in the philosophical sense, with mostly cultural differences.

It shouldn’t be a surprise both factions seek their material interests.
What kind of project is it and what's the scope of its deployment?
Uno Platform Visual Studio Code Extension Introduces Mobile Debugging
Lol at thinking that pytorch and tensorflow are oss. I mean they're definitely free but have you ever tried submitting a patch for something that doesn't matter to FB/Google? Those projects function as free bug finding programs for their respective sponsors.
There is a saying that in any gold rush, those who make the most money are those who provide the tools. But the real reason is that software for developers will either fail, or get really big, and economy of scale.

Related post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36564994
No, your misdesigned ntpd resets your clock to 1435708799 at 2015-06-30T23:59:60Z. I have yet to see a convincing argument that smearing and freezing are not compatible with POSIX's definitions of time.
Especially as realpython is one of the websites when looking for anything Python related. Their explanations are clear, concise and easy to read, not to mention that they usually cover the whole topic, not just some minor aspect of it (hello SO). When realpython is among the hits I know I don't need to look any further.

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If you have such simple questions then thanks for not wasting people's time on stackoverflow
About 15 years ago I found myself in charge of building/growing/running a team in response to a product that was growing insanely. That growth went on for a decade.

I did the gardener thing, handling "each plant" differently, shielded them from external pressures, adjusted the level of management individually and let those that demonstrated the capability to make sane design decisions solve large problem areas on their own, etc.

I did not expose good work via publicity. I did express it to them personally and via salary increases etc. It was kind of made clear via osmosis in the team, but not outside of it. There was never that kind of culture in that company. It was also in egalitarian northern Europe.

Your comment made me think about whether I should have attempted to introduce it or not. I think I really should have. Sudden big regret.
I like how the page rescrolls to the top as I approach the middle. Very efficient means to generate tons of content.
And 100% of affirmative action students would have been rejected otherwise. So this cohort is doing a little better by that standard.
What’s ALDC? The article didn’t specify.
they're also the entity that gives "bite" (pun intended) to the pollution mechanic, which complicates lots of tradeoffs in the game. with biters/pollution, trees are both an inconvenience and a helpful pollution buffer. it's not trivial to decide whether to build your starter base in the open desert or nested between forests. additionally, the tradeoffs between solar vs steam and the effect modules are shallower when you ignore pollution.

I understand some people just aren't really into the tower defense side of factorio. that's okay, and it's a good thing that the settings can be adjusted to suit a wide range of playstyles. but if that's you, I'd recommend at least trying a low pollution / efficiency-focused playthrough. the game gives you a lot of tools to manage pollution, and the biter threat can be pretty minimal if you use them. imo this preserves the balance better than just turning off biters.
Cable TV has a clear monetization channel, surely there are no ads there.
Yes, where there's a large power imbalance, you have to take that into consideration. I manage people, and if I message one in their off time and it's not an emergency or something I really need them to answer if they see, I'll be careful to state clearly that no reply is needed or we can follow up on Monday or whenever they are next on.

Its the same reason I don't make jokes deprecating them to them within a group (and try not to in private with them). What can be a joint form of bonding where you make light fun of each other can start becoming bullying (even if inadvertently) when one party feels like they aren't free to fire back anymore. I've witnessed that dynamic before, where childhood friends worked with each other and one was the owner and continued the familiar personal reactions while the other started feeling less and less able to interact that way (at least in group settings).

Many of us are somewhat blind to certain power imbalances, others of us are very aware because they deal with it in many aspects of our lives. In any case, it usually matters if there's an imbalance, whether we want it to or not.
This news is from 2019. Here is the published paper: http://public.econ.duke.edu/~psarcidi/legacyathlete.pdf
And probably also low because every unemployed person drops off the list after 6 months AFAIK.
I agree in general, but part of what makes ChatGPT great for coding is that I can test the answers. They either work or they don't.
With cars and rockets there is a lot of government regulation and standards. Musk cannot bypass that, and that's why he is not involved into the day-to-day. He has no interest in the nitty gritty and he loses patience right away. The adults are running the grown-up businesses.

With Twitter, it's only Elon. There is no one in his way. He can do whatever he wants. If the other industries were not regulated, he would be a serial Stockton Rush disaster artist.
I stopped reading halfway through because the author does not get to the point.
I think OP means systems languages that are memory safe, without garbage collection and sandboxing.
Not when they receive federal money and special statutes and privileges.
Well, they pretend to care a great deal for certain groups of people, but numbers like this show who they actually care for. It’s the duplicity that bothers me personally. If they’d just be honest I’d have more respect for them.
A Nobel laureate claimed antimale discrimination. An early-career researcher
"You stopped paying your landlord? Brilliant!"
liberal in the harvard sense is often more like rich moderate conservative
The longer you stay on a webpage, the more favorably Google perceives it. Even if you're frustrated sifting through spam, if you find your answer quickly and spend less time, it doesn't count as a positive quality signal.

To counter this, websites employ a strategy known as the "Bucket brigade" to ensure you spend at least 30 seconds on their site. It's a basic principle of website optimization and it's just the tip of the nasty SEO iceberg.
They were using racial quotas on general admission to try to correct for the fact their legacy admits were overwhelmingly not representative and not based on merit. Their stated goals of diversity and inclusion are a fiction meant to preserve a classist institution.
Documenting Native Python Extensions Made with Rust and PyO3
Or a bunch of hot air... in an enclosed space..
> modern Python supports the `datatype` decorator

I presume you mean the @dataclass decorator?
Blog.fidelramos.net – Automating Python code quality
With code questions I usually say: 'code only no explanation'. It gets a bit tiresome to type every time, but gpt4 is too slow to wait for it to 'type' the explanation
Don't know if it helps but some people sent me these and I think it might help
https://ahrefs.com/blog/google-advanced-search-operators/
Think it got posted here couple times? found one https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18989922

I don't know if anyone asked and I don't know if it can be figured out but I was wonderin are the bots any better than figuring out them search operators?
Yes, many people think that, and I’d argue many more maybe don’t but use it as convenient kayfabe to blame the poor for their lot / undermine attempts to address inequality.

If you want numbers, just look to the numbers of people who attend prosperity gospel churches. That’s just one very specific example of attributing individuals’ circumstances to their specific decisions (in this case, the individual’s piety)
What do you think I'm talking about? OP pruned the comments out of github and put the code on the page w/o them. I didn't click to the github page. Still confused?
Not sure if this is the issue, but what comes to mind is that some languages in south Asia write from right to left instead of left to right.
I never said that. But it’s an important point nonetheless, which I believe you are right about. If a transition happens, it will be in the layers where these things matter.

For instance, a fire department may switch from Twitter because it’s rate limited. A community for visually impaired may move from Reddit because it’s dragging its feet with accessibility. Journalists and media houses may switch because they get censored by a billionaire who’s on a quid pro quo relationship with entities they investigate. Regular “content creators” may switch when they get copyright strikes or demonetized by an automated system. In all of these cases, the small minority of “providers” take a large amount of “consumers” with them. Cumulative resentment looks just like apathy, until suddenly it doesn’t.

Most people are followers. Other liberties like freedom of the press are inapplicable to most people, directly. But the indirect effects, usually shepherded by “vocal minorities” has been shown again and again to add up and transform society rapidly, in something like S-shaped curves. If you accept the rapid growth phase of network effects you need to also acknowledging the rapid death phase on the other side of things.
Well thanks for sharing but this is fake

https://twitter.com/interieur_gouv/status/167542785100729548...
Fairly comprehensive, highly technical but hardly inspiring or insightful. Old-fashioned, austere (The classical theory of fields has like a handful of diagrams).

The polar opposite of the "Pleasure of finding things out" of Feynman. Or the incongruous visual orgy and outright speculation of Gravitation.

Of-course the interesting question is which educational / pedagogical approach works "best". Alas that is almost impossible to define, let alone prove on the basis of the highly idiosyncratic development of physics in the 20th century.
U.S. public pensions could be $21 billion richer right now
If they want to be a tax-free hedge fund they're going to play by society's rules.
Cheers. Updated title.
[A]thlete, [L]egacy, [D]ean's interest list (i.e children of big donors), [C]hildren of faculty and staff
Unemployment is a lagging indicator for a recession, and credit card debt is also at an all time high.

Sure things could stay positive for a while longer, but there's a lot of headwinds on the horizon, more than I've seen in a while, and these headwinds are tangible, concrete, structural things we can put some numbers to, not just vague philosophical notions of "it can't go up forever" and "everything's overvalued". How big an impact it all makes and on what timescale we'll have to just wait and see, but I'm not leveraging up in this environment.
People seem confused, but this seems very reasonable to me. Consider flying to some far away location. Would you rather

A) A short flight from your local airport to a nearby hub and then transfer to a long haul flight to the far away location

B) A long flight from your local airport to a far away hub and then transfer to a short flight to get to your final destination.

If something goes wrong, its likely to happen at the transfer point. If something goes wrong, you want to be in a place where you have the most resources available to you. Usually being close to home affords you the most resources/options. Stakes are much lower for commuter train travel, but it still rings true for me.
> sometimes management does illogical things for logical reasons.

It's the principal-agent problem.

Sounds like you sniffed out some blatant nepotism. And the CTO was feeling vulnerable/replaceable whereas you had leverage.

Hopefully, it worked out for you, but most people have motivating factors that point to shutting up! :-)
The Absurd Usefulness of Noise in Game Development [video]
> That's absolute food security in terms of calories.

No.

Despite its domestic production, China has been a net importer [DOC] of agricultural products since 2004. Today, it imports more of these products—including soybeans, corn, wheat, rice, and dairy products—than any other country. Between 2000 and 2020, the country’s food self-sufficiency ratio decreased from 93.6 percent to 65.8 percent.

https://www.cfr.org/article/china-increasingly-relies-import...

> On PRC political instutions, they're fine/great.

No.

China’s economic freedom score is 48.3, making its economy the 154th freest in the 2023 Index.

https://www.heritage.org/index/country/china

China’s authoritarian regime has become increasingly repressive in recent years. The ruling Chinese Communist Party (CCP) is tightening its control over the state bureaucracy, the media, online speech, religious groups, universities, businesses, and civil society associations, and it has undermined its own already modest rule-of-law reforms.

Score: 9/100.

https://freedomhouse.org/country/china/freedom-world/2021
Okay, but it will be slower to first render than a normal HTML page because you have to download the HTML plus execute the JS vs just download the HTML. Again, that’s fine, but it’s an inescapable part of the trade off.
Ask HN: What Happened to Facebook Gifts?
https://about.fb.com/news/2012/09/introducing-facebook-gifts/amp/

When this launched it seemed like the perfect business model. Even the hard to please HN community was applauding the effort.

Does anyone know why they didn’t double down on their gifting experiment?
> market themselves as being the height of meritocracy

This is how they market themselves to the general public, but everyone knows that Harvard and its admission policies were designed by and for the ruling class to educate their children and build connections. A Harvard degree would have no value if it selected based on merit alone.

A meritocracy would turn a school like Harvard into a factory for upper middle class people like doctors and lawyers and defeat its purpose. Harvard wants to educate presidents and CEOs.
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> staff self-declares 98% liberal

Citation? That'll be interesting, asking 10 Americans to define "liberal" will probably result in 12 definitions...

If you want to have a meaningful discussion, what do academic staff say about this selection criteria specifically, and/or affirmative action?
Not sure if this is a devil's advocate take or merely mentioning an actual business need:

I remember hearing that the average number of tickets sold per purchase on TicketMaster is four. The person in the talk that mentioned this then went on to say:

"This provides us with a problem when it comes to understanding exactly who our customers are. Sure, we know who the purchaser is because they have a login and a credit card etc.

But who are the other 3 people? Effectively, 75% of our customer base is unknown to us."

I certainly see the privacy aspect of scanning the face of EVERYONE who goes to a concert (even though everyone's faces are probably being scanned on public transport to get to the venue).

I can also potentially see another article on Hacker News talking about how to profile customers to your website to help A/B test for a better customer experience.
Athletes (recruited by the sports teams), legacies (children of alums), Dean's interest list (relatives of donors) and children of faculty and staff.
Progress, the one thing JS has too much of, too quickly, without stabilizing for quality.

There are a number of benefits (see the link below). We could argue JavaScript shouldn’t be isomorphic, as it barely does its job well on either end. Node might in fact be better off without the ‘pollution’ of client-side packages, but well…

https://www.reddit.com/r/node/comments/rby64z/why_esm_what_d...
The food is garbage.

The food is... whatever you buy or make. If you buy garbage food, you'll eat garbage food. If you buy healthy food, you'll get healthy food. Simple as.

Urban planning is garbage.

Agreed. Every city in the United States that developed after the highway system was built in the 1950s has a long way to go to correct decades of poor urban design. Most cities are
actively taking steps to correct this, but we still have many decades to go. There are plenty of solid places to live, with human centric urban design, in the United States, however, you're just going to to pay a premium. Otherwise you get used to driving, which really isn't all that bad given how focused all of the infrastructure is on making it convenient, hah. I'd still take walkable communities any day, though.

Healthcare

Anyone with an average professional job will have good health insurance through their employer.

Anyone retired will have ok health insurance through Medicare.

The above cover the majority of the population. Anyone else definitely suffers, for sure. Obamacare is very expensive. I would gladly take a single payer system over the existing system, but if you're working professional, what we have is fine.

Guns

Gun violence is just not a lived reality for basically all Americans outside of the news and outside of certain economically depressed areas, like south Chicago. Doesn't mean we shouldn't have stricter gun control, though.

Politics

Populism is definitely a real bummer, but the United States is not unique in this trend.

Every state also has its own unique political environment. Federal politics is only a small part of the lived political reality for Americans. Local state politics are far more impactful, and there are plenty of liberal states enacting policies Europeans would be proud of.

Why would I pick this over anything in Europe?

America is a pretty sweet place to live along a significant number of important dimensions, but by no means is perfect, for sure.

No European country is perfect either, even if many of them have a leg up on the United States along important dimensions like urban design.

Live wherever you want to live, but be careful of basing your life off angry social media posts and the news. They're not going to be very representative of reality.
People that are saying this is SEO, in my opinion, haven't read or used RealPython. It is genuinely one of the best Python learning websites out there. Their articles are written by people knowledgeable in the field, and usually comprehensive and thorough, while still being easy to understand.

I also think Google's ranking is fair in this case, assuming you want to know most high quality information about "how to iterate through a dictionary". I certainly would prefer this kind of a RealPython article with a table of contents so that I can find exactly what I am looking for.

I do think Google (and the web in general) has started to suck because of SEO spam, and generally agree with the authors premise. Searching for recipes suck, searching for reviews suck, searching for places and events also suck.

I just think this particular instance is a bad example. RealPython values your time, and I wish there were a lot more websites that valued my time too.
I have driven a Mercedes and I have used Linux on my Desktop for over 20 years. Why should I care whether they're 1% or less in the market?

I just don't care if you use Windows on your Desktop or drive a Chev.

You can do what you like, and I can do what I like. The choice is ours!
This was the main criticism of AA. The minorities admitted because of AA were usually neither poor or from the working class. Example of that: the Obamas.

AA was the only reason why the legacy entry system was still allowed to continue.
> So what?

they're funnels for the political and judicial elite. Eight out of nine of the current supreme court judges graduated from Harvard or Yale. A country being run by nepo babies rather than the most capable is kind of concerning
It's an aquired taste. I forced myself to stick with diet/zero beverages and the digust dispears pretty fast. I don't know why one would want to do this if they're fine with water.
> crude oil is a commodity, and it going down is a good thing

Unless you happen to believe that climate change is real, and market-based pressure is useful in its mitigation.
Yes, my thought is to read Bob Nystrom's "Crafting Interpreters". It's excellent, in-depth but not academic, and the writing style is great. https://craftinginterpreters.com/" He also has a lot of good thoughts about language design.
I don't think the intent is "whataboutism" it is about outlining the structural inequality in the system that affirmative action and race based systems are supposed to attempt to mitigate. We can argue about discriminatory criteria on effectiveness, fairness or legality, but it certainly is an important date point in that discussion.
I think you know, but in the civil fashion of this site and assuming positive intent in your question;

Shorthand for American obsession with identity politics, pronouns, trigger warnings. Those things are okay, but when it's all you post about and your entire identity is being oppressed and offended- it gets old quick.
How is it different that the page linked in the article? I do not see why that page is so bad, it looks like an average page from a book with a linked index at the top.
But the entire paragraph where they are introduced is a commentary on them.
Because despite being privately owned, universities enjoy many benefits due to their role as public institutions. An obvious one is their tax-free status.
You might live in Luton, take the train to London, then use the Underground to get to a job at Canary Wharf.

Americans and Canadians apparently don't do this, since the 'new' just-out-of-the-centre development has residential buildings near the station, unlike Canary Wharf where the nearest buildings to the station are offices.

The suburban trains also run frequently and all day, so Brixton to Wembley is a reasonable journey by train. This would not be the case in the USA.
> Food is not just about taste, you know.

No, but diet soda is literally just about taste. There's no nutritional value versus water.
factorio isn't CPU or GPU bound though. memory bandwidth is typically the bottleneck, at least according to the developers.

I'm glad the developers have prioritized game mechanics and sim optimization over graphics, and I think the game looks good enough for what it is. but I wouldn't mind if they improved them either. they could do a lot before it meaningfully impacted UPS for megafactories.
> Let’s be honest, though — this is just whataboutism.

This is classism. Shockingly, institutions can have both classist and racist discrimination - let's be honest, they're both bad and need to go.
This is a classic appeal to authority. Let's play the argument, not the man.

(My understanding is that the GP wrote LMDB, works on openLDAP, and was a maintainer for BerkelyDB for a number of years. But even if he'd only written 'hello, world!' I'm much more interested in the specific arguments).