skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
High test scores are correlated with income but income is not a causative factor.

Most asian immigrants came here with nothing and much less resources than the caucasians who've already been here for years. They worked hard and performed well on the SATs and got into great schools and as a result are now generating a higher than average income than caucasians.

https://www.wikiwand.com/en/List_of_ethnic_groups_in_the_Uni...

Not trying to brag about asians here. It's really just part of the culture and it can get really extreme. It stems mostly from parenting... the memes below are really illustrative:

https://www.pinterest.com/lindaschloss/asian-father-memes/

I think one time when I was a kid I mentioned to my dad I was interested in becoming an artist. My dad beat the shit out of me. Now I'm on hacker news and I'm definitely not an artist.

I would argue that what is causing the income disparity is the ability to work hard and study. This ability leads to higher test scores and higher income.
There are aplenty! But there are two key books:
- Crucial Conversations [Check it out here in book depository: shorturl.at/adiyE]
- High-Performance Habits [book depository link: shorturl.at/rsBV5]
Dostoyevsky Misprisioned
I mean, ARM is 'there' in most cases, the issue tends to be perceived latency of RISC vs CISC CPU's on desktop, not overall performance.

There are decent quality laptops shipping with ARM already, like the Thinkpad Yoga: https://www.theverge.com/2020/1/6/21050758/lenovo-yoga-5g-sn...

There's also the obvious: Pinebook pro.
My thoughts on this - The energy used in sending a craft up is already lost when the craft leaves the planet. And potential energy can only be induced into the object from a larger mass. That is based on the object's mass and the large mass like a planet pulling the object. And the "value" (read: usefulness/utility) of that potential energy is based on where it exists

P.S. I am not a physics guy and could be completely wrong here.
Just tried it on Windows; unfortunately the lack of native GUI is a huge turn-off for me.

Software-drawn GUIs always stick out like a sore thumb and look/feel clunky; it's the same reason I hate using anything built with Java as everything always feels so emulated.

Also resizing Geany's window was incredibly laggy as the interface was re-drawn.
There's a bunch of half-answers in this thread.

> Generally speaking, when we lift matter high above, we get some of the used energy back when it falls back down.

> Where is the energy stored in the meantime?

Potential energy in a gravity well is negative. The "zero" point is the limit when you get far away from all gravitational bodies. The better question is: Where does the kinetic energy come from when you descend down the gravity well in the first place?

The answer is mass. All potential energy is ultimately realized as a change in mass, equal to the famous `mass_difference * speed_of_light^2`.

As the body falls down the gravity well, it gains kinetic energy and loses mass.

When atoms bind together in an exothermic reaction, their final state is bound more tightly than their initial state. They released some energy in the form of molecular-scale kinetic energy (ie, heat), and they have lost mass.

When atoms change configuration in an endothermic reaction, their final state is bound less tightly than their initial state. Some energy was required to push them up to that higher-energy state (sometimes in the form of heat), and they have gained mass.

When light nuclei fuse together, their final state is more tightly bound than their initial state. They released some energy in the form of atomic-scale kinetic energy (ie, heat) and a photon, and they have lost mass.

Ironically, when very heavy nuclei have fissioned, their final state is more tightly bound than their initial state. They released some energy in the form of atomic-scale kinetic energy (ie, heat) and photons, and they have lost mass.

When a spring is compressed, the molecules within the elastic material are stretched apart from one another such that their final state is less tightly bound than their initial state, and the spring has gained mass.
> W.r.t Apple Pay and NFC - for the love of god don't fuck with this. It's a perfect implementation as it currently is.

Yet it is not working with every bank out there.
We already had a solution that let us pay using QR Codes, send money to contacts, and pay online stuff, and was integrated with every single bank operating in this beautiful country since 2014.

I'm talking about MB Way.
Komodo Edit is underappreciated imho:
https://www.activestate.com/products/komodo-ide/downloads/ed...
I mean that they are movies in terms of what Flash call movies. Flash covers a huge number of features (networking, interactivity, animation, etc.) I believe that Flash games are implemented with the functionalities intended for interactive movies.
FFmpeg 4.3 Released with Vulkan Support, AMD AMF Encoder, and AviSynth+
Those kids should then go on to and excel elsewhere with their "Master of Standardized Tests" degree.
Pmarchive: Archive of the best articles from Marc Andreessen's original blog
Evolutionarily speaking, as was qualified, not really. They're more closely related to deer, pigs, camels and the like than anything else in the sea.
So essentially it's Mint.
An argument I've heard is that - looking back to the 1990s when software was sold in boxes in retail stores - was that the publisher, packager, retailer, credit-card processor, et al. combined would take 60%+ - so Apple's 30% means we're getting a good deal...

I suppose I'd be okay with a 30% fee if Apple didn't charge us $99 to maintain a developer account... I thought the $99 was meant to cover the costs of curating the Apple App Store, so what added-value does the 30% cover then?
You're mistaking copyright and patents.

In principle, issuing patents on government developed technology isn't contradictory to their core purpose, which is to ensure public disclosure of inventions rather than keeping them as trade secrets. It certainly helps establish prior art, which is no bad thing, even for software patents.

I'm not sure whether the US government then ever exercises their option to restrict competing implementations of the technology for the life of the patent.

OTOH, the government produced implementation itself is public domain, as you noted, and not subject to copyright.

In theory, this might make patented government software freely copyable (if released), including into collective works of other software, but unforkable due to patents, even though its public domain status WRT copyright allows derivative works.
The fear of failure is a very powerful feeling. Even if it's a subconscious or subtle worry.
You made an insightful if uncomfortable comment. You will be voted down into oblivion.
I hear you.

For me, it is a feeling like you said, of never being able to catch up. Like with debt, for years, I would just keep spending on my credit cards. I tried consolidating several times, and finally, I have used a 401k loan against myself to consolidate. My student loans and car loan are paid off, and I have < $10,000 of actual credit debt for the first time since college.

When something seems hopeless, or too much to overcome, I think the mind says "fuck it", and wants to escape.

I find myself very productive at cleaning when I am on the phone with friends and family. I will pace the house, sweeping or mopping or throwing away papers that need sorted. Why? Because doing it alone is lonely, boring, unfulfilling.

I'm lonely. Despite several good friends and family who care about me, I am very lonely for someone to love and care for me in the way I feel I can care for them - I've had love before, though I didn't know it when I was younger. I miss it.

With debt finally going away, and with a good job, I at least see the light at the end of that tunnel. I may finally be able to travel more, buy a sailboat, buy a house. I have been more intentional about my spending, that I don't use any credit I can't pay off immediately. See? having hope, seeing that things can be better, really helps.

I had to get that out there. TLDR: I procrastinate on doing chores and making hard decisions because it is overwhelming at times, hard to envision the immediate benefit, and so I go a bar to chat with other people who are running from something, too.

Fuck, there should be a support group for this.
A quick lesson about tone and documentation.

I'm always on the lookout for a good lightweight code editor to try out. I looked into Geany once and was excited to see that it had a Vim plugin. Unfortunately, reading the docs for it turned me away from it very quickly.

The first thing the author of the Vim plugin for Geany says in the FAQ is that plugin is written by a guy who doesn't use Vim. Which sounds a little strange but I kept reading. Later in the FAQ, he implies that the plugin sucks, Vim sucks, and that he only wrote it to quell the "constant whining of Vim users."

Needless to say, I will not be trying (let alone using) Geany as long as the prevailing attitude of the author of one of the plugins I _would_ use the most holds users in this level of sheer disdain.
I don't understand why people think that gravity should be describable by same math other forces are. Why should there be a quantum gravity field or quantum mediating particles for gravity?

As far as we know gravity is just acceleration due to non-flat shape of space(-time). Why would that have anything similar with exchanging photons, gluons or other bosons? I understand how you might think there's a quantum math for a field. But how can there be quantum math for acceleration?
We aren’t going to let you do that as that would defeat the benefit.
You don’t want to appear less premium. Hyundai increased their prices to make the Genesis seem like a luxury brand. It worked, their sales went up.
What do you mean by latency here exactly?
I clearly said draw no conclusions. I don't do histrionic. I have been following and archiving the pandemic the entire year.
Well personally, I don't want to depend on a car. So 50 miles would be very far.
How does that make SAT scores useless?
Maybe we'll see a return to the days of coprocessor expansion cards?

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

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macintosh_Processor_Upgrade_Ca...
> usefulness trumps purity.

Usefulness of such behavior is objectionable. Characters with and without diacritics are different graphemes, part of different words. If i search something, i do not want to get plenty of irrelevant results. Just that happened to me few days ago, when i entered a rare word root to search box in Firefox and was surprised that got plenty of irrelevant results because there was common word differing in diacritic marks.

Even if sometimes there is a text written without diacritic marks where there should be, it is usually consistent for whole document, so if i search some word that contain diacritics, i know whether to enter the word with or without it.
And the USSR undertook the greatest ethnic cleansing of the 20th century in response. Should they apologize for that?
> To that end, while I am encouraged by and fully support this bill by Congress to appropriate $22.8 billion in aid to semiconductor manufacturers

I fully don't agree. It appears as the exact opposite of what the rational use of market forces should be.
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I don't think Harvard is oblivious to these effects.
Using Lua as a Serialization Format
difference... bad... unethical...

all of these are concepts in the mind.

in truth, it is all simple ignorance and a case of mistaken identity.

there is no bad... good... no ethics... no this or that.

this is how the world will be until we all wake up.

until then, we rest in compassion.
Delivery Hero Confirms Foodora Data Breach, over 700k Accounts Leaked
It all makes sense on paper but I'm still skeptical.

For the last couple of years every time Apple has tried to do some acrobatics on the Mac platform it has failed miserably.

- Yosemite

- Butterfly keyboard

- Touchbar

- Catalina

I'm not much of a CPU guru but a switch to ARM seems like the most ambitious and risky of all these, by far.
Cthulhu?
You’ll be glad to know that Password1! passed muster.

In other words, if you didn’t already know it, this site is enforcing terrible security practice, and not trying to filter out known-bad passwords. (zxcvbn would laugh at you for trying that. Basically every site that deals with setting passwords should use it.)

The reason it’s terrible security practice is that literally most people will just capitalise the first letter, or add a one, or add an exclamation mark, so it adds roughly no security while making people use passwords that they can’t remember, so they store them insecurely, &c. Sure, people should use password managers and all that, but they don’t.
The last time I looked into OpenWRT/DD-WRT (years ago), it seemed disadvantageous to switch to them because they would be slower than stock firmware due to missing some kind of hardware support. Is this still the case these days?

EDIT: It sounds like the situation for my router (R7000) is quite the opposite now, apparently being almost twice as fast due to new hardware acceleration features.
Here's the NYT article: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/15/technology/ebay-cyberstal...
Other reasons:

- They have only just finished deprecating 32-bit x86 instruction set support in Catalina. Now there is space to support another instruction set, as supporting 3 at the same time would be more expensive

- The patents on AVX are due to expire, making x86_64 emulation a possibility, see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14523587
> you're better off getting it to generate a 50+ character random password (including uppercase, lowercase, numbers and symbols).

Lol I wish. Almost all of the important sites I use, like various bills and loans, use terrible password schemes. One even, until recently, enforced an 8 character limit! I think they raised it to 16 iirc. Oy.

Hell, even the company I work for frequently fails my password generator settings. The arbitrary character requirements of my ~20 character password would sometimes not be satisfied when I was creating accounts in our dev system/etc. Which is annoying as hell, but I can't convince management, because our users (older) tend to use some of the worst passwords out there.. so I can understand where it's coming from.

Security & UX is hard.
I think the Pinebook is an awesome piece of kit and if I could justify doing so I would absolutely buy one but from everything I've read it's not really something you'd want to do serious work on unless you also have the luxury of a beefy workstation to shell into. I suspect the same applies to the Yoga - perfectly alright for most of the day but just wouldn't have the firepower for big compilation jobs or serious multitasking.
What makes Firebird "lightweight" compared to Postgres? Why would I as a developer choose Firebird over Postgres? Just wondering what the benefits are as I haven't done more than a cursory look.
Nano can compile programs, has tabs, syntax highlighting, line bookmarks, color schemes (your terminal’s), search/replace, and an extremely unsound way to wrap long lines. And while there’s no official plugin system, LD_PRELOAD is always an option ;)

A bit more seriously, the things that Geany has that Nano doesn’t are a GUI and plugins. Personally, I consider that still a text editor, although I’m sure someone could write a LSP plugin to blur the lines a bit…
Drivers.

I have a netbook with GMA 500, it has closed source driver for XOrg 1.9 (ten years old) and corresponding kernel [1]. I bought it because Intel graphic cards had open source drivers, not this one. Later I thought as you - someone would hack it, yes, kind of - there is a version without hardware acceleration. Eventually I was living with outdated XOrg server and patching driver to support updated kernel [2]. That I think is about as good as LineageOS - much better start than iPhone.

Hacking out of necessity is a bad idea. If not PinePhone I would definitely check open source drivers support in Replicant [3]. iPhone is too far away (and its users like iOS).

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/System_Controller_Hub#GMA_500_...

2: http://sergeykish.com/linux-poulsbo-emgd

3: https://redmine.replicant.us/projects/replicant/wiki/DeviceS...
Millions of abandoned oil wells are leaking methane, a climate menace
Imagine two football teams.

One full of excellent prima donna's who don't work together at all.

The other full of good players who work really well as a team, communicate well and get out of each others way.

Who would you bet on winning?
it screws devs like me. Creators like me pay 30% gov tax, then 30% fee to apple and in the end we sit with 40% revenue. Then comes apple with their new "search ads",if you dont give them more of your 40% revenue, they will rank your app so far down that you will have to send AppStore URLs to ur friends just so they can find the app.

How about fixing the appstore instead? there are apps that do not even function anymore ranking far higher.

Not to mention, if you app does well keep an eye on the next iOS, it may just steal your idea and integrate it with the OS to kill your business over night.

Absolute scumbags, 1.5$ trillion and its still not enough. Atleast if we had Windows Phone or some other alternatives for high-end consumers we could have some competition. But its just abuse of monopoly as it is.
Ask HN: Whiteboard Tool?
I want to build something that combines the simplicity of this http://witeboard.com/ (drawing app, shape recognition, limited tool menu) with the structure of this https://excalidraw.com/ (object selection, resize) and lets multiple people edit at the same time.

What do you think? Would you pay for it? Already have a solution?
I am the author of the article and I agree 100%. Big startups are ruthless, my manager pulled me once to talk about giving emoji response on slack because he thought I have too much time. I felt really bad for entire day, glad to not work there anymore. No money is worth this kind of stress.
That was a while ago though as you've stated elsewhere. The percentage of kids who score perfect or near perfect scores has gone up dramatically over the last 20 years.

https://www.compassprep.com/great-to-good-the-diluted-value-...

My scores where good enough to get in almost anywhere in the 2000s, but they're barley above the 50th percentile at our flagship state university now.

It's unlikely that the average intelligence of high schoolers has increased that much. It's much more likely that people have figured out how to prepare for the SAT.
I think the parent is saying that Facebook could have been lying about the exploit being patched away, in order to keep the exploit available and have an excuse as to why they didn't reveal how they did it.
> That's assuming there will only be ARM-based macs that use Apple GPU's, which doesn't make sense. For iMac/Mac Pro/Macbook Pro I fully expect those would still be equipped with AMD GPU's. Good as the Apple GPU's are for mobile hardware, they are nowhere near the performance and feature set of desktop-class hardware. This would also free up a lot of silicon on the CPU die to allow for higher core counts, bigger caches etc. I think ~50% of the A13 SoC die is just for graphics...

While I agree that the higher-end machines will still have discrete graphics, that doesn't mean they won't also use on-die graphics—after all, the MacBook Pro I'm typing this on uses Intel HD graphics when it doesn't have to spin up the Radeon.

And I wouldn't really want to bet that the Intel onboard graphics are/will be less powerful than Apple's.
The most important paragraph in this piece is last one, which plugs a $22.8 billion bill to support domestic semiconductor manufacturing in the USA and suggests the need for new entrants.

Semiconductor manufacturing is truly one of the few remaining manufacturing industries in which the USA has a competitive advantage (albeit quite eroded by TSMC over the past few years).

Especially with US aviation circling the drain, this is a sector we can't afford to lose. Removing semiconductors from US manufacturing statistics makes US manufacturing statistics go from "stagnating" to "extraordinary decline".

And it's not just the manufacturing sector. Semiconductors power some of America's most valuable companies (including but not limited to the FAANGs).

US economic and actual security absolutely depends on a robust supply of world-class semi-conductors manufactured on-shore.

Congress should take the advice in this piece and avoid making the same mistake with Intel that it made with Boeing (piling the bulk of all federal and state support for an entire sector into a single clearly dysfunctional company)
Not a physicist.

Assuming gravitons exist, then that would mean that they are constantly being exchanged between objects of mass. This would imply that objects containing mass at a fixed distance would spontaneously become entangled due to their gravitational interaction.

A bit of googling reveals [0], which I believe describes such an experiment.

[0] https://arxiv.org/pdf/1707.06050.pdf
Hmm. Random question here... what prevents Apple from building in an x86-to-uops decoder stage into their desktop ARM CPUs?

That way they could run old code simultaneously with new code - x86 apps get their memory flagged (by the MMU perhaps?) that all code from this memory region gets executed with the x86 decoder stage, and code in normal memory gets executed with the ARM decoder stage.

And to be honest this is entirely what I'm expecting of Apple - yes they are not concerned with backwards compatibility but no one is going to buy a multi-ten-thousands-dollars Mac Pro or even a multi-thousands MacBook Pro if it can't run Photoshop or their favorite sound editing/DJ suite.
I'd really like to see an iPad Pro crunch through as many VSTs as my old 2600k did in its 2 millisecond budget
There’s more moving parts, since each prop has to rotate on its own axis in addition to rotating in line with the aircraft. Jets are stupidly simple, but turboprops are more complex due to these requirements of the props. Turboprops also can’t go as high or fast as jets, because they need a certain amount of air density to operate.

They can provide fine-controlled reverse thrust, so they have that going for them. And they’re less complicated (and lighter) than a traditional piston engine, making them a win over normal engines in mid-sized aircraft.

EDIT: "Jets" in the above is a poor reference to turbofans, as pointed out by replies. Thanks for the clarification.

A Turbofan still has a turbine being powered by a jet engine, similar to a turboprop, but it does not have the complexity associated with being able to change the pitch of the props.
I think a Windows desktop-as-a-service offering similar to Amazon WorkSpaces is more likely.
A while back Linus said something to the effect that x86 was the default for servers because that's what people used on their desktops. I personally find this news very exciting because the x86 architecture is just so messy and filled with cruft from ages ago.

If ARM becomes the standard on the desktop for a significant portion of machines, then I think that we'll probably start to see more ARM processors making inroads in the server and workstation market, which I think will be a huge win.
I’d add “most likely to become famous for a good reason.”

Most likely to graduate is interesting. Almost everyone I know who didn’t graduate, it was due to finances. Purely academic reasons, at least anecdotally, seem relatively uncommon now.
Interesting! I stand corrected about it not working in mobile browsers, thank you.
It may be cliche, but I found a bunch of non-computer hobbies and it helped a lot. Unfortunately it also gave me a glimpse of life not spent sitting in front of a screen, and while I still love programming, I am looking for a way to escape using computers for a living. Sorry, software industry, it's not you, it's the screens.
awesome job!
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