skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What is preventing them from selling a $99 suit with 36 monthly $99 'Wearing licenses' or other such shenanigans?
If it's encrypted then destroying the key gives you a blank-with-noise drive. There's no equivalent for S3.
From my layman perspective it sounds like this is a groundbreaking discovery regardless.
They used an actual fscking apple emoji in the tweet, which I hate almost as much as the kafkaesque injustice.
It would be interesting to know why Oracle won. Did they offer more money ? Or is TikTok convinced that Oracle won't be able to do something decent with the acquisition ? Other than start fights with facebook etc over tiktok lookalikes ? Oracle will be great at that.

"If we can't have it, then we want to make sure NOONE will profit from it, and we burn that space to the ground in the US" ?

The cynic in me suspects that this is so, Oracle looked like a weird pick from the start. It would have been super interesting to be part of that negotiation.
It's actually pretty solid, UX is also nicer than AWS or GCP
One half solution that people don't tend to bring up: massively increase the number of members of congress. The formula for a states representation in the electoral college is {number of senators + number of representatives}.

Since the senate is fixed at 2 senators per state, it massively advantages small states in terms of political power per person. The number of representatives per state is currently set at 435, and is allocated proportionately to population. This number is arbitrary, and can be changed by an act of congress. Increasing it will dilute the power of the electors from the Senate.

There's also compelling reason to increase the number of for its own sake: the number of people per representative is higher now than it has ever been. And it's much higher than other Western democracies.

When the Constitution was written, the number of representatives was set so there'd be one for every 30,000 people. The idea was that the number would be increased over time, and there was almost almost an amendment ratified to ensure this would happen, where the ratio would never get above 50,000 per.

But the number of representatives hasn't been updated since 1929. Back then, there was one representative per 218,000 people. Now there's one representative per 744,000. If we had the 1929 ratio in place, we'd have 1505 representatives. And if we set representatives at 50,000 per person (as preferred by founders such as Washington), we'd have 6564.
Yes that is a possibility in this sort of research design. The exit-test scores are obviously taken as proxy for educational quality and the study cannot test for any "secret sauce" beyond that.

On the other hand, there's only so much one can do with observational data doing these sort of causal analyses. I'd say its still an interesting outcome.
Or the thing that the test measures is not the thing that causes higher salary. Test does not measure totality of education, just part of it.

Also, quality of education you got is not measure by salary you get after.
> You access the the developer's webpage (via a browser and https) and read the installation instructions. They tell you to curl in (over https) some pgp key and some (https) endpoints for finding and downloading the package.
> The PGP part of this can be replaced with NOPs and this is no less secure.

That's one of most absurd hyperbolic assertion I've had the misfortune to come across in the whole PGP debate so far. You're clearly not acquainted well-enough with how PGP is being used by linux distributions. That, or you're simply debating this subject in bad faith. Assuming the former: HTTPS is only relied upon to bootstrap keys, like pretty much every other PGP replacement you're willing to advocate for.

I know this may be painful to read for someone working on a PGP competitor, but PGP

* is a standard,

* is successful,

* is widely adopted, and

* will likely remain so for the foreseeable future.

The op and the myriad of new PGP libraries and applications that keep popping up stand testament to this. You'd probably do better to reflect on this fact than to argue and downvote a green account on an old hn thread.

Cheers.
There is a maxima to python translation tool. It's good for sharing your maxima code with everyone else.
https://gist.github.com/LakshyAAAgrawal/33eee2d33c4788764087...
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UK carbon consumption (includes imports) peaked in 2007.

https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/...
That is astonishingly high to me. Most YC companies raise a seed so a 1/3 chance to raise an A is insanely good
good for American company, better that data stays in US than in China
When you say Mersenne-Twister isn't good enough, what are the other shortcomings apart from speed? It seems that even modern versions of Python are continuing to use it...
Requirements for large projects are always more than technical. The killer feature of proprietary software is the power of the purse.

Often, a reason large organizations buy proprietary software is because of the power structure created when you have a legally binding contract with the sole maintainer of the project.

The #1 customer of a proprietary product has quite a bit of power to influence and shape how the vendor spends their development cycles. For FOSS, you are often cooperating with (or at least partially reliant on) people who have no financial incentive to favor your priorities.
I'd argue that ISS is a bit too close for comfort to Earth to be analyzing extra terrestrial bacterial samples.

So a moon base or more realistically something orbiting Moon would be a better candidate.
The problem is the PDF spec itself is not screen reader friendly.
Oracle Cloud Infrastructure it seems to me otherwise what's the point.
Maybe we have a different opinion of "massively hacked". The categories don't really change, so you just set it and leave it.

The tax refund part isn't really needed.
I love this type of sites. I tried another some years ago.

After four dead ends and one "under construction" I was brought to http://chimneysweepnews.com/

This is exactly the type of thing I had no idea existed, have no interest in, but seeing it out there still makes me smile.
I've worked at a html > pdf engine, I don't remember that much issues with text itself beyond making the pdf metrics the same as html so that linke breaks occurred on the same places.

did you write the column one after another (first all left, then all right) or going left right line of text then top down?
Any stochastic data source may not (and almost certainly isn't) evenly distributed--it'll probably follow some normal distribution.

Your PRNG that reads from your telescope would need to compensate for this.

As far as using radiation to generate random numbers, check out https://www.fourmilab.ch/hotbits/
More practically, states have open borders. In the world where the constitution was written, this was not as big of a deal. However, improvement to transportation technology mean that it has become increasingly possible to circumvent one states laws by traveling to another state. Hence, any law a state may want to make legitimatly becomes an issue of interstate commerce, which is nessasarily a federal concern [0].

For instance, when Alabama enacts their anti-abortion law, they could have a legitamite grievence that their residents can hop in a car and spend a weekend taking a road trip up to New York (assuming every closer state passes a simmilar law) and get their abortion there.

Or, when New Jersey passes their anti-gun law, they can get pissed that their citizens can go to Texas to buy guns and take them back to New Jersey.

We (arguably) fought a civil war over this issue. States had different laws with regards to slavery. The southern states were upset that their laws on slavery were being undermined by the ability of slaves to travel to northern states which would than grant their freedom. A compromise was struck were federal law (the fugitive slave act) would require northern states to honor the slave laws of southern states and return slaves. Some northern states asserted their states rights to not follow this law; thereby continuing to allow slaves freedom once they crossed the border. We may have had a civil war regardless; but if the northern states weren't able to directly undermine the slavery laws of the southern states, it may not have reached that point.

[0] Although, even with modern transportation technology, Wickard v. Filburn (1942) takes a very broad view of what constitutes interstate commerce.
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the companies that flee to Texas because of lower taxes aren’t worth keeping

Famous last words.
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There ain't no such thing as standardized exit exams for colleges - especially for the elite rung of the colleges. My college department's professors set their exam papers as did every other faculty in similar colleges - so it's really puzzling what this article is arguing.

Lower rung universities do have papers set by the university for all colleges affiliated with that university but again every university sets their own exams.

There are also entrance exams for MBA schools which are entire different beast and not really connected to what you study in Bachelor's

(Source: studied in the said elite Indian colleges)
Right, you’d need to be positive that biomass is replacing what’s burned in order to call it neutral. On some drawn out time scales this is practically guaranteed, but in the short term it’s very easy to burn far too much without ensuring replacement occurs at a scale and speed that is sustainable.

I suppose you could use byproducts of selective logging where replanting is occurring and actively managed and maintained. Where I’m living there are forests that are quite well managed for lumber such that what’s removed will likely be replaced by the time logging occurs again. Using a similar practice for biomass plants could conceivably be called carbon neutral.

I have a feeling it wouldn’t generate nearly enough biomass conveniently or efficiently enough. I don’t know though. It must take incredible amounts of mass to generate useful amounts of energy.
Sure, but they aren't burning the lumber exclusively. If the timber is supplementing other power, then it wouldn't be depleting forests. Eg if you used 1/40th of all your timber every year, and replanted it all, you'd never run out assuming a 40 year timber cycle.

If solar, wind, hydro, nuclear, and grid storage cover most of the need, then biomass can certainly pick up some slack. And I'm sure there are plenty of industries that generate biomass as waste -- lumber, farming, etc. That waste would decompose into CO2, we might as well get some energy from it, right?
I think librem/purism has a point when you look at it isolated. But when looked at it holistically it completely missess the point. You can put in all the kill switches you want and sure thst will benefit in some small way but until the users data is with Apple/Google/Fb etc it dosnt matter Largely Which phone you use As you are still very exposed. Until that problem is solved (users truly owning their data) everything is simple a bandaid fix. Sure purism/librem might be a slightly better bandaid than what is offered by current vendors But it remains a bandaid never the less.

The reality today still is that you can’t have greatly useful tools and it’s super powerful functionality separated from where and how it’s data is stored. Until that is separation comes all these security and privacy issues can’t be solved at its root.

Once you look at it holistically you see it’s not just a hardware issue that you are dealing with. You are dealing with a much larger and complex set of issues: user caring about privacy; development of standards and tool that allow vendor agnostic data portability that still are as powerful as google sheets or say maps or keynote etc; pervasiveness of such tools as if only a small population of users are using those tools they are not very useful; business model that supports sustainable monetization of such tools so business can continue to provide such tools.

It’s quite complex and kill switches and secure hardware can’t solve for thst. At least not alone.
To add to this with numbers the US military imposes a standardized test on all service members and many high school students who never become service members. The test, the ASVAB, is composed of several sections but all anybody really looks at is the GT score.

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

The first time I took the test as a dumb 17 year old who was at risk of failing out of high school my GT score was only 107 (out of 130) and my average performance placement compared to all other test participants that year was 79 (on a scale of 0 - 99). Generally, everybody who entered the military as a teenager notices dramatic improvement on that test when retaking it later life even with no preparation.

When I wanted to become a warrant officer I had to retake the test because of my low scores. The minimum GT score to become a warrant officer is 110. I retook the test at the age of 35 after 8 years of being a full time software developer in the corporate world. My new GT score was 129 (out of 130) and my placement amongst other test takers that year (on a scale of 0 - 99) was 98.

I think research generally bears this out across a variety of metrics and meaures including violent crime data. The human brain is still developing until around age 24 give or take two years. This is why applaud California's recent decision to halt standardized tests, such as SAT and ACT, as a mandatory placement criteria for entering university. All those tests measure, given the youth and maturity of traditional high school students, is extreme preparation and not performance or potential. Preparation in that regard is a socio-economic stratifier as it takes time and money outside of the student's own initiative and state provided education.
Yes I actually would do this. Why can’t they lay bricks? Would they rather starve? There would need to be some training component for several jobs (bulldozer driver) but I think there could be a job that’s right for most. This is pretty similar to what the military does I believe, you get a job based on aptitude and such.

I don’t know if it’s the perfect solution but it feels more appropriate than our current approach. I don’t know much about the German way, I just know we pay for idle bodies while we have a lot of infrastructure that needs rebuilding.
This does not solve the issues because it often already works that way today. All of the code I've ever written under GPL was as a private contractor to the government.

The code I wrote is not supported by anyone and reflects the interests of those who paid for it. All of the most advanced systems work, even if not classified, is not open source and often not in literature and this is a condition of accessing that technology at all.

For the US Federal government, they are often dysfunctional when it comes to sustainable open source. And when it comes to the more interesting computer science tech, they have no leverage to make it open source nor any real interest TBH.
You seem to be conflating person-days and performance?

I'll address performance first: Sure, it could be slow if I can't move the actual hard drives and I only have 1Gbps links. But of course I expect the cloud to be faster than "artificially bottlenecked at 1Gbps"! How is that expectation "amazing"?

And for engineering effort, something would have to be deeply wrong for a 25TB transfer of one directory of normal files to take a significant amount. This is a problem that you point rsync at, watch for a couple minutes, and go to lunch.
I always liked the scene featuring Oblique Strategies in Richard Linklater's Slacker:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NWBS0dTpWUM
When big banks stop maintaining their cobol bases, then I'll start worrying about the death of cobol.

SAP is a backwater for programmers. They're at least 20 years behind the curve.
Can you speak more about these experiences? Are these colleagues from average or elite schools? FAANG type backgrounds or typical corp resumes?
The Constitution has been amended 27 times. That seems like enough.
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Don't exclude the alpine folks please
A republic is a democracy. It’s just one that has a president, and not a king.

That’s all it is. It’s not representatives It’s not federalism. It’s just not having a monarch.
Not sure about other countries, but in Germany at least an AVAS (acoustic vehicle alerting system) must be installed in new electric cars and hybrids. My Zoe sounds like a spaceship while under 30 kph, the sound becoming quieter the faster you go, as from about 20 kph the sound of the tires would be louder than an engine anyway. Could be used for mopeds too.
This has been achieved not by buying energy from elsewhere (certainly not Russia), but from a reduction in the use of coal-fired power stations to effectively zero. They've been replaced by combined cycle gas turbine (which has far less emissions), biomass (the largest coal-fired power station now burns woodpellets), and a massive increase in offshore wind turbines.

Here's the obligatory link to the UK's live electricity sources: https://gridwatch.co.uk/
I paid $24.99 for my first copy of Linux. Bought it on the shelf at Walmart, actually.
A small orbital rocket (like from Rocket Lab) costs 7-ish million. Then you have to actually design and build the payload/observation equipment to fit such a small rocket
Wherever plants grow, there is biomass created. With agriculture, it is all the parts of the plants which aren't eaten, be it by humans or lifestock. But the same applies for all natural plants growing. Left on its own, it would decay and emit most of the carbon content as CO2 anyway. Burning any available biomass for energy generation is basically CO2 neutral. Using available biomass as an energy source, is a good way of reducing the carbon footprint. However, there is only so much available, the ability to artificially increase the supply is extremely limited.
How do you define what constitutes an emergency?
And yet everyone is different, on different devices.

Why should they all see the same thing?

Using PDF here is self serving. It’s actively user-hostile.
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Who said people don't use CD-ROMs?
PDF is great for what it was originally designed for: a portable format for instructing printers on how to print a document. The problem is people using it in ways it wasn't designed for. Sharing a PDF of your document is about as useful as sharing an SVG export of your document (actually, an SVG probably has more semantic information). It is a vector image format, not a document format.
The Andrée expedition is a similar failure in well just about everything. Can recommend that rabbit hole as well: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andr%C3%A9e%27s_Arctic_balloon...
The biggest advantage of this kind of virtual technology is that human intelligence can continue accelerating iterative evolution without any reservation. As long as the iteration time is long enough, super civilization may be born.
Literally your entire comment is based on the assumption that I advocated "a single, winner-take-all-bloc." Elementary reading comprehension in all its scarcity reveals that I never said that.

What is your point exactly?
ByteDance will not sell TikTok's U.S. operations to Microsoft or Oracle: Sources
Important caveat:
The test in question seems to be the exit score of junior colleges, equivalent to 12th grade education.

Which suggests that the discontinuity found might very well be due to the educational quality of the "regular" college. It would, likely, only get rid of general intelligence as confounder. This, however, would just make educational quality more pertinent rather than less.

Edit: Well I found a working paper from 2011. The matter is more complex.

Apparently, in India, both public and private colleges exist under the heading of a single local university. The students at private and the more prestigious public colleges then take the same exams in Bachelor.

The authors have collected data from one university and a couple of colleges. For that sample, they control for ability with the entrance scores, but then match the regression discontinuity on exit scores.

That is: Public colleges have on average higher exit scores. The paper shows that this is due to having stronger students (entry exams). Controlling for this, they find no difference in the "educational trajectory" of public vs. private colleges, however, public colleges then have better job outcomes.

So my earlier caveat should read: The study shows results for one Indian university (with several colleges) in the field of liberal arts.

Whether the study is externally valid for IITs I'll leave up to the reader.
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Nothing to see here.

You don't graduate university for test scores. Test scores only work in low level learning like high school.

For this study they used -

"These exams test for language competencies (English and regional language) and stream-specific competencies; for example, commerce students take tests in accounting, taxation, and so forth."

Basically IQ tests.

Maybe they learned more. Maybe it's about cohorts. Maybe elite universities are used to signal. You can't tell from this study.

DOI: 10.1257/app.20140105
The so called exit exams(tests) in Indian colleges may not be what Westerners expect it to be. In Indian exams, challenging problems are not touched upon at all. Exams are about how much ground can be foraged rather than how deep you can wade in. You can easily get by through cramming and rote learning.
I am sure university/college/school exams still lack questions that force students to solve problems, applying learned concepts along with their analytical skills.

There are two types of exams in India:-
Entrance exams - where the grasp of concepts, analytical ability etc are tested.
School/college exams - where it is all about regurgitation of information.

With latter, the only aptitude that can possibly be assessed is the tolerance for a monotonous and brainless desk job.
Article from official Chinese state media seems to refute an earlier front page article on hacker news:

Oracle Chosen as Winner in Deal for TikTok’s U.S. Operations

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24464933
> Then tell OP to keep their anti-electoral college agenda off of HN

Discussing a better electoral system is not inherently partisan. Any electoral reform that ends up with America still having to pick between Republicans and Democrats would be a failure in my books.

America needs a better electoral system so that it can finally move on from a 2 party system and move towards better representation.

> The EC isn't inherently broken, most critiques of it miss the point that it was explicitly designed so that the states, and not the people, elect the president

Do you think that's something worth keeping? Honest question.
I keep trying to press my friends into watching it. It should be taught in schools and shouted from the rooftops. Ditch Netflix this evening and watch Century of the Self instead.