skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I had the University of Minnesota's "Coding Bootcamp" reach out to me a couple years ago about possibly teaching a course. I was genuinely excited at the prospect, it's always been something of a dream of mine to teach, so I scheduled a call. I never talk to recruiters but I wanted this.

The call very quickly went down hill and they became visibly angry when they found out I was not a NodeJS expert.

You reached out to me. I never represented myself as such. You likely saw on my credentials on LinkedIn which shows I have been writing JavaScript since the late 90s.

I hadn't entirely given up hope yet and said something a long the lines of "I am sure I could pick it up very quickly, I just haven't had the need so far" and the already visibly annoyed interviewer basically shouts "NO, we need someone who is an expert from day one!"

I apologized for wasting their time. They say that they will contact me if anything changes. I, a grown adult of near 40, went in to the call giddy and left tearing up a little. Good riddance.
I think he was pretty clear that the "magic" in frameworks is not something you can easily understand, therefore have to guess how it really works. He doesn't like that.
IIRC the FSF does this on purpose to ensure anything based on GDB must be linked with it and therefore GPL covered.
> I've taken Extension courses from UCSC and from Stanford, and was never under any illusion that the teachers were affiliated with the schools

What does this mean? Someone from those schools hired a teacher to teach a class sold under their schools brand. That's an affiliation. If the teacher dropped out and you didn't get a refund, you would sue those schools.

What this seems like are schools outsourcing their hiring to private companies. It's a problem precisely because the random teachers get affiliated with the school.
I think Paul Romer, economics Nobel laureate, coined this term in 2015

https://www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=10.1257/aer.p20151066

“ Mathiness lets academic politics masquerade as science. Like mathematical theory, mathiness uses a mixture of words and symbols, but instead of making tight links, it leaves ample room for slippage between statements in the languages of words as opposed to symbols, and between statements with theoretical as opposed to empirical content. Because it is difficult to distinguish machines from mathematical theory, the market for lemons tells us that the market for mathematical theory might collapse, leaving only machines as entertainment that is worth little but cheap to produce.”
The place to ask is:

https://www.reddit.com/r/GamingLaptops/comments/18pcypj/best...

and

Wait for Black Friday.

and

Costco sometimes will have really good deals were a 1 k Laptop will be offered for like $600.

https://www.costco.com/laptops.html?computer-type=gaming&ref...

Check out the reviews on some sites like toms, etc.

https://www.tomshardware.com/laptops/gaming-laptops/best-gam...
I was cold called by one of these programs a while ago that was offered through Columbia University. They wanted around $13,000 for a 4-something week bootcamp. It's honestly disgusting that schools with billion dollar endowments feel the need to prey on people like this.
I checked out some gampleay videos -- they do a good job with the swell too, and I really like the way ambient light interacts with the water (daytime you can see in, nighttime you can not) -- but again, the water texture quality is a bit uncanny. It looks like they're just scrolling a bumpmap over a wavy surface, with the final effect of too much horizontal motion for the little surface ripples/wavelets. It makes it look like there's a current, more like a moving river than a ocean/lake body of water.

It's a stunning-looking game oveall, wow. I had no idea :)
I wouldn't be surprised if the Bluetooth was left as a major vector of attack for people with provided exploits.
I used General Assembly to learn frontend web development about 5 years ago. It was a positive experience, the two types of people I saw succeed were

1. people with some kind of tech background already and

2. people who were really smart but not technically oriented (we had 4 former professional artists and musicians in my cohort, one of whom was a Princeton undergrad).

The people who failed were people who had no curiosity to genuinely grow their knowledge and were just there because they wanted to check a box before getting a better paying job.
The article mentions that pinning is often used by mobile apps and IoT devices. In those contexts, you have an easy out-of-band mechanism to deliver the cert: baking it into the app/firmware binary. (The user generally receives this from the App Store, or in a cardboard box from a retailer, so no initial TLS connection to your server is required.)

If you're pinning the leaf certificate this way, really the only benefit I see of using a WebPKI cert is if you want to reuse the same API endpoint for a web app. Otherwise you're mostly getting a bunch of restrictions and downsides (information leaks from CT, revocation drama, etc) that don't make sense if the cert is hard coded in the client.
Is MIT class also taught by outsourced instructor instead of MIT instructor?
Sadly, I don't think so. Many of these carbon burial/sequestration proposals all advocate just taking all of the plant matter and tucking it away, including the N and P.
Scone Geography
Yes

Also, the "Understanding the trade-offs of different certificate pinning implementations" misses one important thing : you can pin the CA, and still requires the cert to be valid for your FQDN

I've seen this a couple of time, and this is wonderful : fully secure, and denies the managed mitm setup by the security team.
Is there really a difference? Most of these universities outsource the actual teaching to grad students.
Higher education has become too powerful and influential due to unlimited government loan guarantees. They used that to charge insane amounts and hired bloated administrations.

Get the government out of the student loan business and take a lesson from the Germans: promote vocational and technical schooling. Not everyone needs to go to university or get a university education.
Most people in ML, even if they are very proficient, don't understand why models should generalize out of domain. They just don't think about it.
My expectation is that the core clock circuit has its capacitance and/or inductance change, this changing the timing of the clock.

+/-5% is a region where everything in the digital domain probably still works. Your rise/fall time and dead-time / other critical timings need to be robust against some degree of variability. Transistors can have rather wide manufacturing variability after all (certainly wider than 5%).

So everything still works but the core clock is changing. Which btw, happens in traditional silicon circuits as they heat up or cool down.

A low precision RC oscillator changing by 5% or so between 20C and 100C is within expectations. I'm fact, a -50%/+100% change wouldn't surprise me.

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Old var-caps (variable capacitors) by twisting them tighter or looser. No joke. So that's where my expectation that they've changed the capacitance of some core element that controls an important clock.
Uncontrolled reentry has been the norm for most of the space age (and is still standard practice for the Chinese, and their boosters). The far more important issue is that this a human-rated booster, and an unidentified defect impacts the safety of crew launches. This issue showed up on a de-orbit burn, but it's unlikely to be limited in scope to de-orbits only.

edit: Turns out this isn't accurate; it's still actually normal for US rocket *upper stages* to do uncontrolled reentries [0]. This is a subject of ongoing FAA rulemaking [1]. The Chinese examples are still exceptional because they involve far larger first-stage/core-stage boosters (>50 meters in length).

edit 2: If anyone was curious about the Europeans, the answer is that Ariane 5/ECA has actually *never* done a controlled upper-stage deorbit, because its LH2/LOX engine isn't designed to be able to ignite twice (deorbit burns are excluded)[2].

[0] https://outerspaceinstitute.ca/osisite/wp-content/uploads/OS... ("Uncontrolled reentries are currently used for 35% of U.S. missions (62% if we exclude SpaceX)") (as of 2023?)

[1] https://spacenews.com/new-upper-stage-disposal-rules-help-no...

[2] https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S00945... ("it is not possible to perform a controlled reentry of the Upper Composite")
fair, but is there are too many such courses, the exclusivity of the brand dilutes.
And what it means to optimise is also that some people end up better off and many others are worse off.
This seams like it makes sense and an ok way to store carbon. I have not tried to look up original sources or a paper. Does the 3775 year old log count the time the log spent growing (or does that count)? Does using the wood in durable products do the same thing?

I am also wondering about photosynthesis. Does the tree, while splitting the CO2 into O2 and C, convert the light energy into some sort of potential chemical energy instead of heat? Does anything similar apply to photovoltaic panels? An inquiring mind want to know.
Open NotebookLM – open-source version of Google's NotebookLM Podcaster
* https://x.com/gabrielchua_/status/1840397217099878678

* https://huggingface.co/spaces/gabrielchua/open-notebooklm

* https://github.com/gabrielchua/open-notebooklm
This is definitely true.

My hope would be that the thawed region would be a very thin shell overall, so the overall emissions as a fraction of total stored mass would be relatively low. Can you think of any ways to minimize anoxic activity in the thermally active area?
You chose to take an ambiguous statement that could be read as true or false, and call out the false interpretation. Of course the true statement was the intended meaning, as I’m sure you knew.
Since when Apple is a privacy conscious company.
I was thinking about certificates distributed with the software itself, so extra bootstrapping connection is not needed. Although in some cases it could still be done, just using other, trusted and not pinned context, I guess.

But yes, for the specific narrow use case of web pages and web browsers, this means out of band installation into the browser trust store. And if we focus on this particular use case, what difference does it make if the cert is self signed or not?
Great point. I handwave this away by saying that most of the biomass will be frozen most of the time, providing the necessary structural support.
I’ve never heard of those people
> a low-yield device over the Black Sea or the North Sea

How is it different?

From a detonation deep inside their own territory? You tell me.

a suicidal strategic strike on the continental US?

I never suggested that would be the next step. In fact my words said something entirely different.

For some time now I've been noticing a consistent tendency in your posts to employ straw man techniques. Then we have this:

Letting a genocide continue for years is not a default safe option.

you decide to advocate for vibes

you give it enough credibility (whilst refusing to outline a credible scenario) to talk about "WW3" as a real risk worth more than dead and maimed Ukrainians.

I'm doing absolutely none of those things. Unfortunately the conversation has definitely into unproductive territory, and you seem to be confusing me with other people you're unhappy with. I'm not those people and my energy resources are quite limited. Let's wrap up here and give the topic a rest, please.
You didn't waste their time. They wasted your time.

They're the ones who contacted you and didn't check your abilities before scheduling a call.
Did you point out to this person that they contacted you, that you never claimed to be a Node expert, etc.? If so, did they have any sort of coherent response to that observation?
Thanks for following our journey! There's still room for more language frontends if you'd like to contribute. :)
Ask HN: How to prevent comment spam on personal blog?
I’m trying to build my own comment system on my personal blog. Currently the backend is Google App Script(but moving to a Flask backend!), but I’m getting a lot of comment spam!

Are there any open-source comment spam protection like Akismet!
Similar situation. The book does delineate between certain activities and how they're reinforced/guided- so I'm not sure your example is a counter-example. It actually fits the narrative of the book quite well. For example, it uses Futsol as an example of a sport that is self-reinforcing: you do the right things, you keep the ball and get a goal- if not, it gets taken from you. In contrast, a student playing the piano is much more successful with an experienced teacher to guide the rights and wrongs.
How does your library deal with state management and data flow? What primitives does your library offer for optimization?
It might be but I strongly doubt it. Such a thing wouldn't be top of mind for anyone unless they had direct experience with it.
> seriously, I think people overestimate how hard basic CAD work is

I think this is one of those things that programmers overestimate worse than non-programmers, too. To the point that they reject CAD UIs too early and get themselves stuck in often rather limiting code-CAD environments, because they never get to learn how parametric GUI CAD works.

This belief that only code can be intuitively parametric is obviously not something that non-programmers suffer from.

I think code-CAD has many benefits (though the idea of the various LLM-to-OpenSCAD tools out there makes me shudder; this is the worst possible combination of obscure knowledge-bases).

But just a trivial amount of time learning even FreeCAD (the least-intuitive CAD package, pretty unambiguously) unlocks so much potential.
On the other hand, they were a way to get large numbers of people into the field and staff unfilled positions. The market was very hot a couple of years ago.
Sounds neat, but isn't like the number 1 most important thing at a reactor keeping it cooled?

You can do that underground in Klei’s Oxygen Not Included — synthesize some supercoolant, run it through an aquatuner, eat up the waste heat with steam turbines, maybe throw a wheezewort someplace for good measure… but I might be missing some steps.
That’s hardly a reasonable retort. The contents implicated Hunter Biden being used as a pay-to-play doorway to his father, who was running last cycle. Using a middle man doesn’t make it less corrupt.
There is no such thing as capitalism. “The first countries to get rid of recurrent famine” were those that began using the steam engine and field enclosure. These are not “capitalism”, they are “capital”, in tge jargon of the economist Marx, or, in modern parlance, technology. All of the parts of the world that are not starving are not starving due to their adoption of a variety of technologies, both mechanical and bureaucratic: fertilizer, machine tractors, and centralized governance using telephone lines and now internet. When people claim “capitalism” ended starvation, they ignore places like China and Russia which also ended famine despite adopting state ownership of farms. There was indeed famine during the transition period, but Russia ended famine by the 50s and China ended famine by the 70s, long before many “capitalist” countries in the 3rd world. That’s because the world isn’t about the phony field of “economics,” it’s about technology. Likewise, the other advancements of society that are claimed to be associated with “capitalism”—the end of smallpox and other old high-casualty diseases, the development of reliable air and trans-oceanic transport, instant global communications: all are due to the efforts of scientists working in labs mostly funded by governments and wealthy patrons, not “capitalism.” Capitalist enterprises almost never take major innovative risks. Even the latest glorious advancement that will doubtless be claimed by “capitalism,” Wikipedia-scraping chat bots, was developed by a non-profit.

Everything is about technology—stop letting economists drag you into stupid, poorly formed debates using undefined terms like “capitalism.”
When there is no alternative, your only choice is to bend over. That's what you're getting at.
... which is a huge problem for solar panels ... but why would it matter for microprocessors?
Bending the rules with flexible non-silicon 32-bit RISC-V chip
I had an issue with an out-of-date mathjax configuration, sorry! I've updated it.

Is it still not rendering? It looks fine in my browser.
> eventually stupid money runs out.

It appears to be a renewable resource.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/There%27s_a_sucker_born_every_...
downvote off-topic content and move on
> Kay’s ideas are definitely interesting, but they can feel pretty vague

They seem vague because they are research questions. Tough research questions.

> [messaging] usually just boils down to method dispatch or large switch statements.

And that's the problem.

> [not something] we haven't figured out yet;

Well, we obviously haven't figured it out yet, because it ain't large switch statements or (just) method dispatch.

> debugging can become quite messy when there’s too much flexibility.

Exactly what he's talking about! Languages like Ruby have the metaprogramming flexibility, but they are lacking in the security of meaning department.

Languages like Go are pretty good in the security of meaning department, but lacking in the flexibility/expressiveness department.

So far, we have achieved either/or. He is saying what we need is both.

It's a tough problem.
I don't think we components were intended as a complete "framework" for writing web apps, but more for the rendering of reusable UI components.

So trying to do MVC with just web components feels a bit weird, at least to me. You'd need something extra I think
> student's hunger to get the institution's stamp on their resumes.

but this is exactly what the students were after isnt it? The certification is a resume checkbox rather than an actual education.
This will likely increase engagement on Facebook, so it's just good business for them. There'll be more vicious social media "wars," more vicious comments, more toxicity. And while everyone is mad at each other, they'll be seeing ads.
Science works on long (often generational) timelines. Eventually the charlatans are weeded out, even if it’s after they’re dead. It’s a messy process but you have to dig through dirt to find the gems.
There is some irreversible degradation happening in space to human body, discussed recently on similar topic here. If they have ie measurably messed up heart or eye sight they could potentially sue Boeing, maybe.
On the contrary, I expected that after the outrage last time, MS would just lie low until the fury died down, then plow ahead. We need some killebygoogle love for Recall here.
The client must be upgraded when the certificate changes
Yup; this is common at research universities, where professors’ tenure evaluations are largely based on research accomplishments and fundraising. I’ve had many friends tell me that they had better experiences with community college professors compared to university professors, since the community college professors are there to teach.

(Disclaimer: I am a new community college instructor of computer science who worked as a researcher in industry for nine years before wanting a career change.)
Using an equation to represent this is dishonest. It assumes linearity and proportionality between variables which may not be the case. Also none of the terms are really measurable. You might as well write statements instead.

I mean try defining waste and quality.

Fundamentally, and to use a non-mathematical term appropriately in context, it is a load of bollocks. It is used to make simple ideas look like they are rigorously defined to people without the tools to interpret them. And that is dishonest.

As for inappropriate statistical methods, survey companies are a breeding ground for providing tools which the results of are not interpreted with any statistical rigour or language.

Source: annoyed mathematician.
Put it on a Cloudflare free plan or just add Disqus?
> The most notable limitation of interleaving, however, is that its benefits are likely limited to difficult discriminations. The learning tasks in the studies cited in this review were obviously chosen to produce discrimination errors (e.g., the artist paintings in Figure 2), and discriminations of this subtlety are rarely encountered in the classroom. If these studies had instead required subjects to distinguish between dissimilar concepts or terms, the size of the interleaving effects would have almost certainly been smaller. This boundary condition sharply constrains the utility of interleaving.

I thought this paragraph was interesting. Most interleaving research (that I’ve read) is within a single subject, and not across multiple subjects. The SRS/Anki proponents frequently recommend having a single “everything” deck, with interleaving being the main justification for that. This paragraph seems to indicate that having such widely different questions would be of limited benefit since the questions aren’t “difficult discriminations”.

I would love to see research that explicitly studies the idea of interleaving across different subjects.
Landing area is one thing, but more important and dangerous is reentry profile. Too steep, and the capsule melts down or crew inside becomes very flat from the deceleration.
Interesting. My second question after seeing this headline was whether the paintings in question are owned by the Getty Trust (no), which would at least make some symbolic sense.

And in spite of my support for both civil disobedience in general and climate change activism in particular, I have to admit, as a van Gogh fan, my first question was whether the paintings were damaged (also no).

My third question, as yet unanswered: why van Gogh paintings rather than a target directly related to the oil industry or climate change?
One downside: you have to ship all the carbon to the coast. Transport is a non-negligible consideration for all of this. Ideally, you just grow a ton of switchgrass in northern US / Canada / Siberia and store it nearby.
Social proof does tend to follow employment opportunities. If you're a new dev you don't have the luxury to make principled choices in technology, you're more worried about housing and food security and maybe paying back student loans. Asking new developers to trend-set the industry would be deeply unfair. If we want them to learn from first principles then entry level jobs should have first principles opportunities available.
This certainly tugs at all the right levers of the intuition. Not sure how to "buck the trend" in any established organization/regime to adjust expectations according to the theory. Looks like this might need to be demonstrated in the wild at a new concern or as a turnaround job, where the leaders could have a strong influence on the culture (similar to how Jim Keller steered AMD and is now steering TensTorrent).
Pirate library must pay publishers $30M, but no one knows who runs it
Is there a list of acceptable causes that we should all focus on first, before moving onto the next?
See you wrote it in a clearly understandable way without abusing mathematics or giving any credence to mathematics being involved in the concept.
Sure and a lot of those are being kicked out in the current layoff cycle. So it helped, maybe, companies with their engineering seats beeing filled, but didn't necessarily help at all with getting things done.
Reducing production is simply impossible.

There's billions of people on earth who are desperately poor compared to even the poorest American.

There is absolutely no chance those people just accept their position as ultra poor.

If individuals want to reduce their CO2 output the only viable strategy is to buy and permanently store fossil fuels.