skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I wonder if there are any studies about the effects of removing highly gifted students from a class of otherwise average students. I'm aware of a few about the lack socioeconomic mixing: rich kids in classes with just rich kids seem to see almost no positive effect, but poor kids who experience a good social mix in their class fare far better than their peers who are in schools where everybody comes from a poor background.

I would expect a similar effect here: gifted kids who are accelerated might show no long term negative psychological effects, and might do a little better academically, but what about the overall effect on everybody else? Is it really better to have classes with the 1% smartest removed?

At least from a political and ethical perspective I would advocate for greater mixing, teaching more fortunate kids that they should put their advantages to fruit by pulling the rest of the class. In other words focus on collaboration rather than competition. However, I have no data to back this up.
As on Orthodox Jew, while I don't have anything against this and it sounds like a fun hobby project, I don't like that it misleads regarding what Jewish law actually requires.

As several others have mentioned, there is absolutely no problem with keeping a server running on the sabbath - computers aren't Jews (Jewish law only expects Jews to keep the sabbath). If it's Jews working to generate the electricity (most "modern" or "yeshivish" Orthodox Jews don't believe this is a problem; I don't know what fraction of "ultra-" Orthodox Jews disagree with that), any public cloud outside of Israel should suffice. If you're concerned with electricity, why not worry that Jews may be working to maintain the server's internet connection (again, this is trivially solved by not hosting it in Israel - all it takes is a non-Jewish majority to provide a reasonable presumption that the workers probably aren't Jewish)?

If you're worried about Jewish users accessing it on the sabbath (in my opinion the least far-fetched concern, but not one addressed by the site), the complete solution would be to shut it down for ~49 hours every week starting from ~sunset on Friday in east Asia - this doesn't require using batteries or really anything special about the site's hardware or even software.

Finally, why call it a 'kosher' search engine when almost anyone interested in such a thing would understand that as being about filtering the search results?

Edit: If you assume that using electricity and/or internet that are maintained by Jews on the sabbath is a problem, I guess you might be able to make a case for avoiding indexing sites in Israel or at all during the sabbath, since then you'd be benefitting indirectly from the work of the Jews that maintained the infrastructure - however, I think it's safe to assume that the vast majority of the internet is not served using infrastructure actively supported by Jews during the sabbath so even assuming you're concerned about this, the final answer would probably still be that indexing during the sabbath is fine.
Amazon doesn't have access to Apple CPUs, although ARM own designs have finally become quite reasonable for server workloads (and thats what Amazon is using)
And this is really the solution to all of it in the end. A user agent which is actually an agent of the user.

Can't wait until first party isolation is the default in browsers.
I do, too, but fingerprinting still works for these people. In fact, using Incognito Mode is part of the fingerprint.
Nokia to add open interfaces to its telecom equipment
I, 100% agree, tests should be automatly made.

When I am on a ruby console and I test manually, I should be able to create a test that will replicate the one done by hand.
I should not have to learn a test framework.

For all for reasons I decided to only test real edge cases.
Also I have now to create that magical gem that will generate automatly test.
Interesting thing to consider. I wonder how actively people want to protect 68k, as not even Freescale/NXP seems to use it anymore.

Shouldn't that already be problematic for the 68k projects in hardware through FPGAs? Apollo already does it and sells hardware, and the MiSTER project also does it by releasing FPGA designs for e.g. the Sega Genesis which has a 68k processor. Is it a different story if you embed 68k in an ASIC?
I wrote a comment[0] in a different thread about just this and how I am excited that, at least on iOS, Apple are helping fix these consent prompts.

0: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23757498
I don’t think “making money for business” is such an innocent activity. Actually “making money” it is the reason and justification behind most the US abuses around the world.

Also, we may not see it, but marketing, commerce, and media are also brainwashing people with the consequences we see today.
Those very much falls in the shady part.

The first option, redirect, is not GDPR-compliant, because then the "consent" cannot be considered freely given, and thus is not valid

The second option is really borderline, and could work out for a US-only news website, for example (arguing it doesn't cater to European residents), but would be non-compliant for a business which knowingly serve European residents.
At least capitalism actually exists.
This old dev has been around to witness the transition from in-depth algorithm development to algorithms as commodities. I've pounded out my share of B-tree search, polygon intersection, and numeric stuff. Try doing numeric stuff reliably and quickly on a tiny computer without a Floating Point Unit and you'll know why you might need to learn, and then program, Jack Bresenham's line-drawing and circle-drawing algorithms.

And there's Newton and Raphson's sqrt(). Hint: if you understand your data and your precision requirement, you can avoid iterating it all the way out to the end of your integer precision, and get a lot more work done.

Try transposing a 4-megabyte matrix before the week is out on a machine with 32KiB of RAM and two 5-megabyte hard drives. Yes, it can be done.

When I started doing this work it took deep understanding to get anything done. Now it takes the skills of a good reference librarian. We have to be able to find stuff (via npm, nuget, maven) quickly, assess its quality, and figure out how to use it. So the type of thinking we need has changed from "deep" to "broad".
You could instead possibly:
- move the project and ecosystem completely off GitHub
- sell the project to a FAANG
- go with the MathWorks model and just straight up sell closed source proprietary code (they have 5000+ employees and growing, you have ~30, maybe 40 if you count the JuliaLab that essentially work for JC as well)

As much as people in the Julia community have dunked on Matlab in the past, at least MathWorks has their business model worked out, people understand the tradeoffs being made, and the dark pattern being used is just closed source software instead of exploiting PII.
Tell the people who are still waiting for their federal stimulus checks that things are "functioning normally."
Yeah, see e.g. the Linus Torvalds rants about the "optimal" base page size.

You can probably make a good case for the optimal base page size being larger than 4kB today, but probably not by very much. Maybe 16 kB or so. But then it's not a huge advantage over 4 kB which has the benefit of compatibility, so, meh..
I have a C9. Best television I’ve ever owned. I’ll be heartbroken if it suffers burn-in in a couple of years.
> What is the mess that you perceive?

Not GP, but the mess is near-zero clients and few recursive resolvers are actually doing DNSSEC validation in practice, after 20 years of deployment.

It’s like IPv6.

Also I believe most active ZSKs are actually held and managed by the larger DNS providers on their customers’ behalf. This leads to very little assurance improvement over unsigned records, as credentials to update a web form is all that is needed to “sign” records. There are no real key management requirements for ZSKs as there are with browser CAs.

The only additional assurance provided by a DNSSEC response is that there was likely no MITM between the authoritative server and validating resolver. Which is something, but that problem is more easily and completely solved by DoH which adds privacy as well as authenticity.
How to find meaning in a meaningless world
Clean up your data science mess
It was one of the most bizarre things. It lost like 100 million users. Its not like twitter did not introduce videos and stories later on. I was particularly sad on reading that one of the co-founders died in 2018

https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-tech-whiz-behind-vine-and-h...
Ah, right. I didn't realize some people believe tests should "prove" the correctness of a function (or that if they can't, they're worthless).

Testing has its flaws, but that's not one of them. There's often very good reason to ask the question "does this function operate the way I expect it to when I provide this input?"
"What are the benefits? "

? That the site exists in the first place ?

Why is it so hard for people to do business math and these conversations on HN never have anything to do with material reality of the parties involved?

It's understandable that we all want something for free - that's easy - but it's not understandable that we can't grasp how revenue is used to pay journalists etc.. We know they're all on the edge of going out of business and that thousands of news organisations are gone.

Whatever our 'personal cost' is, targeting ads definitely works, it makes money.

So that's the 'benefit' - you get people doing labour for you which otherwise, you'd have to pay for.
Hundreds of scientists say coronavirus is airborne
As a gentile, it seems pretty obvious to me that this is borderline satire. You sound like Devin Nunes apoplectic about how it is not actually one of his farm animals criticizing him on twitter.
It's all there on the website as well for anyone interested... Palantir isn't all that secretive about their products:

Gotham: https://www.palantir.com/palantir-gotham/

Foundry: https://www.palantir.com/palantir-foundry/
Absolutely not. "Apple Silicon" is branding for their own processor. This is a road to an opensource ecosystem in HW design.
I think the plan is to let people do exactly what you're talking about(let people publish everything down to layout files). At least that's the impression I got from the talk. There is a distro of OpenROAD called OpenLane trying to target this PDK. fossie have a couple of more talks coming up in the next few months on tooling support including OpenROAD, OpenLane, etc..
And I think they're aiming for the first shuttle run in November, so the tooling will have to be ready at least on Q3.
This is how you don’t Osborne your product line.

When they did this with PPC they said the same thing, buying a PPC Mac Mini ended up being a bad choice.
Don't forget cohesion. Microservices achieve the highest cohesion usually since the microservice does just one thing. It's reasonable to combine services together, as long as cohesion is maintained.
I think it also depends on the ROI. I paid in total ~2400€ (2000€ driver license + 400€ mandatory safety training) for my car+bike license and assume it will not be much different in the UK.

In the city where I live now I know quite a few people for whom it's not worth it to invest that kind of money because the public transport is good enough. However on the country side where I come from there is not a single person who doesn't have a driver license.
Where would you argue a war exists today that does not have its roots in the economic domination of one group over another, and is purely fought on religious grounds?
I just ask the prepared questions... That is a good question but I force myself to concentrate on other interesting questions.

They have said that if we want a new question added to the list we need a good link controlled experiment : ask a random sample of candidates, don't use the answer, and then evaluate after 6 months if there is a difference between the two groups performance on the job.
Cipherli.st certificate expired a week ago
It's the thought that counts. Like a teenager choosing not to swear front of their parents.
Bringing the cocktail effect to video meetings
I've been interested in the idea of having a user-facing website that generates static copies of its dynamic content on a set schedule. Do any of you have more examples of this?

You can do this relatively easily using Github actions. For example, https://oliverjam.es/blog/schedule-netlify-github-actions/
I think there are two things that explain the difference.

1. Tesco was a pioneer in the sector, they really did push it all forward.

2. The grocery sector is much more competitive in the UK. Although Tesco is big it is nowhere near the dominance of Walmart in the US.
>In retrospect, I'd say a better thing to do with a smart kid is to convince them that they should work on things they're not as good at. Nobody's good at everything. However, that would have required individual attention of a sort that wasn't available back then.

Yes and no. On the one hand, there is a lot to be said for ensuring a balance in learning, making sure that everyone has basic competence in a number of things, and exposing children to things they might not otherwise encounter and might really like.

On the other hand, if you look at achievement among adults along basically any kind of axis you find that success generally comes from extreme interest in and specialisation in a small number of things. There has to be an age and a level of basic general competence where we recognise that it is sensible for child to follow the things they are most interested in.
Pong rendered in Windows Task Manager on 896 Core System
Close, but not quite.

In your hypothetical scenario, North Koreans would certainly be able to sort themselves out without the daily handouts if they weren't being oppressed by the NK government.

Is it the case that the Ayn Rand Institute would have been perfectly capable of supporting themselves in this crisis if everyone had just been paying lower taxes and had fewer regulations? Perhaps people at the Institute think so, but I'm pretty skeptical.
The way they are doing things. HAProxy is configured with a fixed amount of slots. This effectively acts as a maximum limit, so should be enough for the running instances + newer instances coming up anytime due to auto scaling.

They have a tool listening to applications starting and shutting down. It's adjusting the configuration live while running to remove shut down instances (free a slot) and put in newer instances (find a free slot and reconfigure).

From the explanation on that day, there were more instances than usual due to high load. It seems the tool was looking for a free slot at some point and found none and crashed.

I'd say, it's an issue with capacity planning because they didn't plan enough slots for their infra on high load and an issue with the tool because it shouldn't fail silently when out of slots.
Japan's middle class is 'disappearing' as poverty rises
The same reason I enable telemetry in software I use - I want the system to be optimized for my usage pattern.
> sites like Newsmax

As recommended by Donald Trump: https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/12798842130559262...

> .@FoxNews weekend afternoons is the worst! Getting into @CNN and MSDNC territory. Watch @OANN & @newsmax instead. Much better!
> I wonder what results you would see for something like yahoo, the daily mail, reddit, or other sites that heavily rely on ad revenue, which attempt to force the user to accept the cookies through non-obvious no buttons, or long processes to opt out of cookies.

I don't wonder about their numbers, it's obvious their numbers are good for them. What I wonder is how are they getting away with something that is clearly illegal.

As already explained, in properly implemented GDPR survey, it should be equally easy to accept, decline or ignore tracking, with the default being decline if user doesn't give explicit consent.
Buy/acquire a whole load of books and have a large bookshelf in your house/apartment. These books should be on a range of subjects that interest you. When you find yourself with spare time, pick up one of the books that takes your fancy. I find just reading will improve my world-view, feed my imagination, and provide inspiration.

Of course without access to a library of book store, you might have to use the internet to buy the books in the first place!

Good luck!
Sorry if I came across as apopleptic - I'm mostly not at all confident that most gentiles or secular Jews would readily identify it as satire - when I clicked on the link, I expected to see something real.
The problem is that companies which do that kind of dark patterns are very likely to ignore your settings anyway in the future. Like, for example, Amazon.

What then comes to my mind is the thought: "Well, would I try to do an ongoing delicate business with a well-known notorious asshole and trickster?". Obvious answer is "no".

So, in most cases, I just leave that site.
And Judaism, Islam and Christianity don't?

Edit: If you believe in a religion, then religion exists in the most real sense possible, as that which guides your relation to the beginning and end of reality itself, God.

If you don't believe, then religion exists in no more and no less of a sense as capitalism: it is a fiction which vast amounts of people believe in and live their lives by, and so it is real. Not in the sense of the computer in front of you, but in the sense of a real social relationship. From a secular standpoint religion and capitalism have no more and no less reality than other fictions like gender and race.
I don't feel qualified to answer this question in its entirety. I'm sure I could do better at being me than I currently do, and I feel this is a question for which people such as developmental psychologists might be experts.

However I have two things that I think I do know enough about to add here:

- Presenting. Doing work is not sufficient is no-one knows about it. In most work contexts being able to present your work is important for getting recognition for it. This doesn't necessarily mean formal presentation with slides etc., but being able to speak up for yourself in a group setting is a good minimum. It's also useful for interacting with govt officials like the police.

- Maintaining your body. Know enough about your body to keep it working well (exercise, stretching, and so on) and recognise common problems before they become big issues (e.g. identifying skin cancers)

Finally, I think any answer is going to be biased by context. As someone has already noted in this thread, driving is an essential skill in some places but not in others. It would be better to give context for the people who you might be teaching.
I see it as an inside joke or maybe an art project.
I wonder what that means in practice. Are they going to block HK IPs, take down their app from the local app store, close accounts of HK users or will they simply dissolve whatever business presence they have there and claim that means they're no longer operating there?
Jews exist outside of Israel. Saying that an organization with majority non Jews probably has no Jews working on it is bizarrely innumerate.
Given that Apple was one of the original founders of Arm, and has an ARM architectural license (the most gold plated license Arm sells, basically allowing the customer to create their own chips implementing the ARM ISA), I'd guess Apple would be the last one to switch from Arm to RISC-V (assuming such a switch would ever happen).
Human being living in isolation needs very different skills than a human being living among other human beings. The latter's ability to integrate into society is essential.
That excludes like 75% of adults and our government
Sold my first story to them almost a decade ago when they were just getting started. Nice to see them still going!
The ins and outs of open source for AI [audio]
It's rather common for blogs to be rebuilt on updates and served as static files.
At the time, I'd assumed failure of US to assist was some linear combination of (a) Monroe Doctrine, and (b) the juntas having been a client state.

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

(to this day https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guerra_de_las_Malvinas doesn't explicitly mention that the victors called it https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Falklands_War )
The irony if the internet is the wretched signal-to-noise ratio.
Kite surfing (or some other hobby that you can throw infinite enjoyable hours behind and still have more to learn).
I had the same kind of experience making holograms in the physics lab. My transmission hologram was a blurry, faded mess. I suspected old chemicals, but to be honest we had no idea why. My lab partner and I tried about three times, with three total failures.

The reflection hologram turned out to be the best one the lab supervisor had seen in a decade. I have no idea why it worked at all, let alone why it turned out so good!

Both processes are simple conceptually, but incredibly finicky in practice. The interference fringes can be ruined by wind outside the lab shaking the walls, which then shakes the optical table through the floor. You can't feel it, but the hologram is ruined. The laser could have a short coherence length, and you wouldn't know it. If it warms up too fast, it'll shift the fringes. Don't cough. Don't bump the table. Don't bang the door. So on, and so forth.
You are totally mistaken. Have you seen what the PS5 is doing with memory bandwidth? It's amazing. The entire PC industry is going to end up emulating their architecture.
>people or Jews

I like the distinction you make here.
Colleges Brace for Sharp Drop in Foreign Students, Especially from China
That's not in the airline's interest because then the plane crashes and they lose a hundred million dollar plane and get sued and go bankrupt.

It could be in an individual manager's interest because then they get a bonus and are working for some other company by the time the plane crashes, but the airline itself has the aforementioned incentive to put processes into place all on their own to prevent that from happening.
That's the same thing parent said, so "Absolutely yes".
> A climate scientist says Facebook is restricting her ability to share research and fact-check posts containing climate misinformation.

Why would a climate scientists have the ability to do that? How is she restricted? Being a scientist or sharing the majority opinion doesn't give you the authority to shut other people down. This childish behavior is just damaging educational efforts and is undermining legit research.

Display info about disinformation campaigns and their financial ties if you have proof. That is all you can do and it will convince many more than an effort to silence opposition.
It's also working out which outages matter the most. A 10 day outage is not equivalent to 10 1 day outages, the latter has a multitude of important reputational risks - but the former is quite possibly enough to end the business completely.