skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> It largely feels like an excuse to lower the competitive bar to manage the demographics, allowing both more legacy hires and more representative demographics.

It doesn’t seem like a good solution to that problem. How will removing test scores as a factor help smart kids of underrepresented minority groups against dumb rich kids (with influential parents) who are too lazy to study for the SAT? It seems much better to keep the test but apply a corrective factor if you believe it’s biased against some group. It’s the only way I can think of to keep the dumb rich kids out.
It’s better to go from general to specific, just like with numbers. So the American order makes more sense if you exclude the year.

So Y-M-D isn’t just less ambiguous, it’s also superior to the other formats on merit.
RISC-V: Why the ISA Battles Aren't over Yet
It could also prove prudent to not burn heavy oil and demand cleaner fuel. Not perfect, but it would certainly be better. It would have a serious impact on the economics of logistics but maybe that wouldn't be bad too.
never heard of it, thanks for putting me onto it. developing for 2~ years
i thought that would be low in investment world.
I am often amazed that one can run Maxima on an Android phone (Maxima on Android), including Gnuplot graphics and MathJax math formulae:

plot3d ([cos(x)*(3 + y*cos(x/2)), sin(x)*(3 + y*cos(x/2)), y*sin(x/2)], [x, -%pi, %pi], [y, -1, 1], ['grid, 50, 15]);

/* gradient of the log-likelihood for a time-dependent accelerated failure time model */
assume(t>0)$ H:-log(S(integrate(exp(alpha+beta*x(u)),u,0,t))); diff(delta*diff(H,t)-H,beta);

Axiom/Fricas is a beautiful language which provides a powerful mathematical type system.
thanks, I didn’t know that was a thing
Alerting on SLOs
This is a big question but - where would you recommend one to start to feel the “magic” of hacking on a fpga for problem solving?
> Far from a conspiracy theory, Larry Ellison has been very vocal in his support of Trump (and a major donor!), and Safra Catz actually served on the Trump transition team.

I don't understand. Is being a donor automatically amount to corruption/illegal activity in the United States? I thought corporate donations to political parties were legal in the United States. If it is legal I don't see why the need to construct a conspiracy theory around it?
"how do you do, fellow kids?"
> Which I believe was named after Leeroy Jenkins...

IIRC, they wanted an English butler name[1] snooty enough to match "Hudson" - and Jenkins fit the bill (you can almost hear the British accent)

1. https://www.jenkins.io/blog/2011/01/11/hudsons-future/
I followed Tabby's Star news for a while (star that showed massive dips, speculation was that it is a dyson sphere being built).

Most scientists believe that even if the star is encased in Dyson sphere that there would be excess infrared emissions as the sphere would need to vent heat. It would be hotter than surrounding space and thus visible.

They are thus trying to detect such stars with higher mass and IR excess than expected, but so far there are not many candidates.
YMMV. I've been in the same FAANG-to-early-stage position, and I found:

1. It was easy to find people interested in startups at Google, but the quality of those interactions tended to be pretty low. The vast majority of people really did not have any experience with how startups actually functioned, and most people I talked to were more taken with the prestige and fantasy of being a founder than with actually seriously thinking about running a startup. I'm sure there are great and experienced operators at Google who are very competent and pragmatic startup folks - but those were generally not the people you found at internal events geared towards "people interested in startups".

2. I learned a lot cross-functionally when I joined my current team (which was < 5 people at the time). I was talking to customers in sales and support calls, helping to think about product and market strategy, and generally helping out on a variety of interesting things. You're definitely right that I wasn't talking to investors (at least, not on a regular basis - as an early employee, sometimes investors still want to chat to learn more about how things are on the ground) nor was I spending my days prospecting and finding BD partnerships, but I did learn a surprising amount about deal dynamics, selling B2B, and thinking about markets and customers in general. That said, this may have been because of the extraordinarily open and competent sales folks I worked with.

When I look on my list of "people I would co-found with", the vast majority of those people are the incredibly intense and competent folks I met working at the (now no longer early stage) startup I moved to. In general, I think about finding a co-founder less as "cast a wide net to find your one true partner" and more as "work alongside the most aggressively competent people you can find, and hopefully some of those people will mesh with you well enough that you would consider co-founding with them" (with the corollary that, if you find yourself in a job where you feel like you're mostly coasting, this is probably not a good environment for finding co-founders (although it certainly may be a good environment for you for other reasons)).

As usual, grain of salt - I was basically a new grad when I joined Google, and I expect the experience would be very different if I had a strong, senior network there. I also come from a position of unusual privilege - my parents are both engineers and I have lots of friends in engineering and I'm good at what I do, so I am unusually risk tolerant because "running out of money" or "being unable to easily find a job" is just not a thing I worry about.
An AI platform to teach you learning Chinese anywhere
What is software quality assurance?
This does not answer my question: You can still use the OpenPGP Signature scheme to implement this, and pick or invent a signature type to avoid the mix-up with existing signatures. You can still enforce "A centralized database", which in fact they already do with the Debian keyring. Such "endorsements" is exactly what OpenPGP signatures, and key upload protocols, are made for.
Is WordPress Founder Matt Mullenweg Threatened by the Jamstack?
The 1970's peak oil triggered the oil crises.
The 2006 world conventional peak oil popped the subprime bubble.
> To pretend that producing a new genetic therapy is the same as grazing one million more goats is asinine.

You're the only one pretending that?

Of course, 0-impact is impossible, except the scale at which we are destroying our environment is unprecedented. Hunting of mega-fauna has occurred over thousands of years. Two-thirds of the world’s wildlife has been lost since 1970 (70 years) :

https://www.euronews.com/living/2020/09/10/wwf-proposes-plan...
A Nudge in the Right Direction
Basically, go hang with rich people. It’s probably not bad advice. I’m not entirely sure why but it makes me a bit sad to think about.
Do you belive that people have fundamentally changed in the past 200 years?
> Cal State sticker-price in-state tuition is only $5,700/year.

Online education will be cheaper. With state subsides it'll probably be free.

khanacademy is already free. Check out this lecture on cellular energetics: https://www.khanacademy.org/science/ap-biology/cellular-ener...

If you want to know why college will be disrupted this is the best essay ever: https://a16z.com/2011/08/20/why-software-is-eating-the-world...

It's no different than what's happening to every other industry.

> If they can't keep up with the material, they can enroll in fewer classes. If they're bored, they can take more, or take graduate-level classes.

It's still rigid compared to online. Still have to study things that might not be necessary for your job or you don't care about. Taking more or less classes doesn't mean at your own pace, it means a rigid schedule you can handle. What if I can complete a course in 6 weeks instead of 16? What if I only want to concentrate on one course at a time for a smaller period of time? What if I'm 9 weeks in, hate it and want to change majors? What if I want to sit at my computer instead of commuting to school or physically going to class? What if the professor talks too slow and I would rather have them go 1.5x speed because It holds my attention? What if I want to rewind them because I missed something they said? What if I can't understand the professor?

That lack of physical space and material allows for greater flexibility.
https://www.stopfakes.gov/article?id=U-S-Customs-and-Border-...

From what I understand, CBP doesn't confiscate counterfeits on the basis of design patents unless a specific complaint has been made by the patent holder to the ITC. So it seems unlikely to me that this seizure is design patent related and it's likely this seizure is in error.
I don't get it as well. Especially the "let's make it look like it has a wire but it hasn't" aspect (there might be some ergonomic aspect to it, but it definitely looks weird)

But to be fair I don't think that I'm in their market as I think it goes too far into the ear to be comfortable to me
Nintendo doesn’t sell at a loss - only Sony and Microsoft do. Both are huge multi-billion dollar companies that entered the console market using money they had from other ventures. There is also effectively no other competition on this market besides those companies. I think my example is fine.
I'm parsing PDFs and extracting tabular data - I am using this library https://github.com/coolwanglu/pdf2htmlEX to convert the PDF into HTML and then parsing thereafter. It works reasonably well for my use-case but there are all kinds of hacks that I've had to put in place. The system is about 5-6 years old and has been running since.

The use-case is basically one where there is a tabular PDF uploaded every week and the script parses it to extract the data. Thereafter a human interacts with the data. In such a scenario, every ~100 parses it fails and I'll have to patch the parser.

Sometimes text gets split up, but as long as the parent DOM node is consistent I can pull the text of the entire node and it seems to work fine.
I feel this is a great initiative, in the mobile OS android and ios goes unchallenged, similar to how it was when windows/mac were ruling earlier, and then linux came and became popular.

I really hope many people get to know of this and can use/contribute to it. One big challenge might be to how to have something as an APP store, without a lot of malware/ poor quality apps.
Yes. It's not impossible. Just really damn hard to pull off.

Sodium chloride is useful for many things beside batteries, if we were to use that as the source. Say, sulphur as well, other traces too.

10x batteries make this a no brainer and super easy to implement, and economical. Heck, 3x batteries even.

You need to make and place enough panels too, doable but needs a lot of political will. And will of course take some time as well.

I think we shouldn't put the cart before the horse though. Fix the immediate problem with a few smaller nuclear plants and work real hard on our own pace to replace them with renewables.
If fusion comes in the meantime, great. In the meantime, we can use the spare resources to remove other sources of GHG vent. (Say optimize transportation.)

See the other branch on how I view fusion. I see DD or enhanced DT fusion as endgame and mostly a space technology. (Fusion engines would be rather nice. Think 50x better ion engines, the technology is related.) Few hundred years of work.
This isn't necessarily due to underfunding.

Parents are supposed to provide their children school supplies. And many teachers are reimbursed for that.

Probably a better metric is dollars spent per student.
> Your comments imply that you’ve observed companies that deliberately inflate their FMV, the opposite of the common practice I described. Can you name companies and why you think they do this?

A snake oil salesman promises to cure cancer. Investors rush in to buy the salesman for 50 billion dollars. Did the salesman deliberately inflate their FMV? Technically probably not. The end result is the same: the valuation is based on nothing but tea leaves, hype and speculation. That was the original question, wasn't it?

In the examples I provided:

- Magic Leap outright lied about their technology (remember their jumping whale video?)

- Uber would fold within a day without billions in subsidies from investors (they lost something close to 20 billion dollars in the 11 years of their existence?) and is the definition of a non-viable company. Their business model is price dumping (an illegal practice BTW) by losing money.

- Nikola doesn't have a single product. Even their prototypes are highly suspect. They are definitely inflating their FMV as "the global leader of zero-emissions transportation solutions" with exactly zero produced cars

And that's the current story of an increasing number of "tech leaders" and "innovators": indefinitely burn through investor money based on inflated "fair market values" defined by nothing but random coin toss / reading tea leaves / interpreting flights of birds.
Phosphine detected in the atmosphere of Venus – an indicator of possible life?
Do it more and more and they'll have the tools to efficiently manage them.

Also likely the small tweaks they will want from time to time should be "easy" to follow internally, if you can orchestrate everything from top to bottom and back.
I'm hungover and posted a non-sequitur response to your comment which - as you pointed out - was largely responding to my own imagination. A mental lapse on my part. My bad.

There's a sad irony in the fact that in reminding me to assume good faith you actually did the opposite - assumed I was attacking you rather than having just made a mistake. And now you're rudely suggesting that I lack elementary reading comprehension. Maybe in my current state, sure. Not generally.

Calm down and be kind. Golden rule and all that.
Zhenhua Data leak: details of millions around world gathered by China tech co.
I’m genuinely curious from where you’ve developed this position that loans create deposits. My own understanding matches that of the person you’re replying to, and I’d like to read more on your alternative point of view. Do you know any books that expand on this idea?
If there is life on Venus, I am sure that priority #1 will be bringing it back to Earth. There are procedures and techniques with dealing with dangerous viruses, bacteria and such. If it is a bacteria that lives in an acidic oxygenless environment on Venus it is doubtful it could survive in an oxygen rich planet.
> At what point do you stop believing in titles society gives people such as Judge, Doctor, Lawyer

The judicial system is, in effect, highly dependent upon good faith. This can be seen with parking tickets being paid by the wealthy or not stalling the lawsuit until the opposition runs out of money.

So, if a person acts in bad faith against such an incredibly fragile system, then I don't think their title ought to be recognized. And, in my eyes, hoping that the president extra-judicially locks up half of hollywood and his opposition, and then ships them to guantanamo bay, qualifies as acting in bad faith, as it seems to overturn the judicial system.

> start to fill in your own narrative because it's simply convenient?

I'm sure I'm the one seeking convenient narratives, not the group of people who believe in satanic ritual abuse is being conducted by their political enemies because of a guy who used to post semi-anonymously on 8chan. There's not much nuance to be had in that belief system
Footnote: With Ada/SPARK being much more battle-tested and ATS being a much more flexible & complete solution. Though I wouldn't exactly recommend ATS in terms of learning curve.
Off topic but related: anyone have examples of novel things to play with in electronic music / generative? I recently got an itch to experiment with some analog synths and some hardware / software hacking to make music. Novel or just... fun!
As well as this, I think it's also perceived to be a clunky old language. Our modern languages have much more ergonomic build systems, are much less verbose and have coding conventions tailored to modern tastes.

This is important, so I predict that over the next few years, as the 20-30 year olds of today gain more senior positions, they're going to choose python, JavaScript, kotlin, golang or rust for new projects.
Does adding them together double count CO2 emitted for goods produced and consumed in the UK?
> The worst is that so many event flyers and things, even important local government information will just be dumped online as a pdf

Well, they could have uploaded it to some online service that shows the document in the browser as an undownloadable but browsable thingy (I don't even know what to call that, and I am definitely not going give any publicity to the online service by spelling out the name)
It just worked for me. The card verification page tried to launch Flash for some reason, but it worked even though my browser blocked it.
Everything you need to know about pointers in C (2010)
Windows is supporting tech. There is no such requirement.

Custom made software is not, and requirement should be for it.

> this would effectively prohibit companies who do proprietary work in the private sector to work with the government at the same time, because they'd be forced to open source their code.

The company that does implementation work wouldn't be influenced IMO in any way whatsoever - they already have an active deal with gov, they are 100% on the topic, they have the best chance to offer quality support as they developed it etc. The other gov client who takes that software and does't pay development will pay support to the same company and additional development in majority of cases. First client could incorporate such changes without any additional price making entire ecosystem better. If third company now devotes its time to study, and improve the open code, so that they are now better at it then original company who developed it, then by all the logic they are the right team to continue with it. This effectually reduces lock in which is the major problem. Academia could research those open systems to look for bugs and other defects and provide stream of fresh minds already prepared to work on the gov systems. It looks like too good to be true IMO.
I wrote my PhD on the philosophy of Norbert Wiener, namely, 'cybernetics'.

I think what people haven't realised is that for Wiener - though not necessarily the successive generations of Cyberneticians per se - cybernetics names not only a transdisciplinary field of study, not only a primitive form of control engineering, but a philosophical system that contends directly with GW Leibniz's monadology. Wiener considered it to be a kind of monster, a 'golem', since whereas the monadology posits universal beneficence throughout nature and humankind, Wiener's cybernetics is, when applied to human societies, structurally, infinitely, conflictual. Moreover it points towards awesome consolidations of power.

Generations of readers of cybernetics have completely missed or disregarded this aspect of his thought, conveniently mistaking a system of regulation in nature for a system of regulation in artificial human societies. For Wiener there is no self-regulation in the body politic, societies are fundamentally anti-homeostatic, and the techniques that his generation had bequeathed to the world would only exacerbate its positive feedback loop.

This is why, for me, Wiener is still so compelling, despite the unfathomable equations, the desperate arrogance, the stuffy air of cigars. He was the first to see the world that Snowden brought to the public's attention. And it's all there, systematically in 1948 (and even, sort of, earlier).
We will rather need an IDE and decompilers for genetic code.
But if your chip heavily builds on arm's IP you need a license for that at least as long as you can't replace the infringing parts of the design. Which sounds very much impossible if you also want to progress on other aspects of having the best chips.
I feel like this is yet more terrible news for the UK.
>It’s not exactly like this snuck up on them, we’ve been locked down for 6 months now. You’d think they’d have decided on common software platforms, provided some training for the teachers, something.

In Germany we have the same problem. A side effect of our politicians not wanting to modernize anything fundamental in the education system for years.

Hell, Bavaria still bans cellphones in schools.
hey, i really appreciate you breaking down the importance of using the expressive elements.

i figured the use of ARIA would mitigate this, but after reviewing the MDN docs I saw

> developers should prefer using the correct semantic HTML element over using ARIA

so I guess that’s not as reliable. I was unfamiliar with CSS resets as well. will give this all a go
Is it completely crazy to potentially harvest energy from gravity through the force of pressure on crystals sitting in between a mountain generating piezoelectricity and perhaps doing some form of computation or cymatics with it?
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I've written some proprietary code and I know that my competitor contractors have written a similar thing.

I don't know whether it's the way to 'create more jobs'.

GPL frees individual developers from the companies. It changes the tempo of competition process because there is less of inertia.
Sonic Hedgehog Gene
Cynically, keeping kids occupied so that parents can work. This is also (IMO) why in my country (NL) and others they are and have been so pushy on opening up the schools again, because it's a hit on employee availability and productivity.

The other less cynical factor of course is kids' education, but at the same time, ours was homeschooled for a while during the pandemic before the summer vacation and he's learned a lot more and more broad things than he did in his own school (history through youtube, music / singing er... also through youtube, maths, etc)
That is the same in NL and DE, however, I have never worked in an office and I have been professionally coding for 30 years, mostly for Dutch companies. The ‘secret’ (it is not a secret and it works in Austria too) is to start a limited (or specifically not a 'freelance') company; 30 years ago I borrowed 20k guilders to open it (which used to cost 18k alone) and have cards, leaflets and style for letterheads etc made. Companies hire companies, especially if it looks professional. The company always had 1 employee for 30 years and I never had issues allowing to work wherever; even for large corps like ING, Kluwer and so on.

Also, a guy I hire on upwork sometimes made well over a million in the past years via that site, sitting in his house in ukraine. Without a company or anything like that; in modern times it is not so hard as it was.