skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
55% of America's Billion-Dollar Startups Have Immigrant Founders (2018)
Accepted to MIT and given a generous financial aid package so I was able to attend (2006). I had been fully expecting to have to attend the local city college...
I use rss-bridge but I notice a lot of the bridges don't work anymore and/or aren't maintained very well. (Especially Facebook / Instagram)

I wish it used a different language than PHP so I could contribute.
One of the improvements of the 1983 PC XT (5160) over the 1981 PC (5150) was the removal of the tape port since nobody was using it and it was an extra (and confusing) connector on the back. The other improvements were more on-board memory, more slots (closer together) and HD support.
> Between loans and grants

Just because you can get a loan to cover the cost doesn't mean it's affordable.

I've noticed a definite difference between lower and middle income people in this regard.

People without much income, "working class" if you will, view loans as "something to help make ends meet"

More middle and upper-middle class people view loans as "access to cheap credit." I.e. ways to leverage a little excess money into a lot of excess money.

The main difference is the level of confidence that the leverage isn't going to turn on you and flip your life upside-down because you can't make the payments.
I also quit social media. I've replaced it with other things that bring some quantum of use in my life, chess, learning a language, playing guitar, and other various projects. I find the time I would have wasted on social media is now time better spent.
> They believed church should be a voluntary community rather than a compulsory state religion. For their refusal to submit to the Church of England they had faced raids, prison, exile and death for the previous 60 years.

Let us not forget that less than 30 years later the Puritans had inverted that, taking over control of the British Isles.
Science is highly politicized still. It's part of why I stopped doing that kind of work.

Everything through the grant applications, working with different industries and government groups, presenting our results. Everything ended up being political.

Our data ended up being locked behind a paid government database against the approved plan in our grant application. This came shortly, coincidentally after we ended up discovering an endangered species in an area they hadn't been found before near an active mine site.

I also seen first hand as a wetland restoration project was carried out for absolutely no reason after water samples in a lake pointed to the town golf course being the problem.

Sampling was immediately stopped, there was no more talk of the golf course and a project was approved to mitigate lake pollution by building a wetland on the opposite side of the lake away from the golf course.

Tens of thousands of dollars were wasted on this project. The lake's just as polluted as ever. But the town council just couldn't not have the greenest, green on their golf course.

The whole actual issue was fertilizer run off from the course and it was totally ignored.
> Who wants to hear that?

Science is telling people that everyone driving 20k miles per year in large individual vehicles and flying to a tropical island twice a year for vacation will eventually result in altering the parameters of nature so that it’s no longer possible to do that.

People don’t want to hear that, but they need to hear that. Covering their ears and going lalalala isn’t going to exempt their kids from the future. Unfortunately, it doesn’t seem most people are adult enough to face the music.
According to the article they reached debt restructuring and recapitalization deals with their lenders before even filing. The bankruptcy proceedings should be short and they should come out mostly intact.
The first sentence seems factually incorrect or at least appears to be a bare assertion without basis. "SAT ... does not measure ... native intelligence independent of social or educational background." Studies have found an extremely high correlation between SAT and g-factor. Is this correlation completely due to social and educational factors? That's quite a strong claim and I would need to see some compelling evidence for it.

The correlation between SAT and wealth is not surprising. Wealth and g-factor are also correlated. In addition, g-factor of parents is extremely highly correlated to that of their kids through both genetics and upbringing. That there exists a transitive correlation between all of parental wealth, child-g, parental-g, and child-SAT is totally expected from our understanding of intelligence in the literature. Wealth as a driver independent of g needs to be explicitly tested for in a multivariable model (has this been done?).
Not wrong since they have this in the Github:

> It is released as a browser webapp and also packaged as an cross-platform desktop application (Mac, Windows, and Linux).

and they provide a docker image for hosting it easily, which is how I plan to use it for myself.
It was mentioned in Tim Ferris' book so I tried it at the time, considering I was living in a tropical country at the time, so the cold definitely helped get to sleep. I just checked once more and he mentions a Stanford University professor's quote on the same.
I've never actually seen anyone use macsyma? Is it underneath something "more popular" ?
"SAT scores are highly correlated with wealth"

Isn't this kinda obvious?

I mean, if you have parents that can teach you stuff or pay someone to teach you additionally to the stuff you learn at school you'll always fare better.

I don't think there can be a way to measure any kind of aptitude independently from your upbringing. We don't need better tests, we need to help parents to raise better children.
I’m not sure I buy this.

If you’re wanting to go to grad school, go to grad school. Maybe you don’t go to an Ivy, but if you’re after the grad school experience then an Ivy is a nice potential bonus, not a necessary thing.
Zuck would be insane to that. Even if the situation is crazy its better for him to control it than to let it in the hands of the senate.
Adam, you said at the end of the interview that you are looking for ways to grow your listener base. Well... I guess you got exactly what you were looking for, between interviewing Brian Kernighan and being featured on Hacker News...

That's probably a good formula to go by: get interviews with "big names" who have done incredible things in the field, make the content as good as you can, and submit to HN.

Personally I would love to hear an interview with Fabrice Bellard, if you can get him. That man is a true "superstar" of programming. Interview Fabrice and you have my subscribe, 100%.
Lamdas and first-class functions might make it pretty ugly, I definitely write `func(arg1, arg2, (res) => console.log(res))` from time to time
I was under the impression that lockdowns increased instrument sales, especially guitars [1]. guitarcenter.com seems to have online sales but it's not designed to preferably sell online, it seems. And somewhat neglected? For example, Fender link from New Arrivals page gives 404 [2].

COVID really increased the rate of change for everything. Companies playing online first saw the boost, while companies doing it as if 30 years ago failed fast.

[1] Lee from Andertons was telling lockdowns are nothing to complain about, bussiness wise.

[2] https://www.guitarcenter.com/Fender-American-Pro-II-Guitars-...
I would put forward the following...

Teaching personal responsibility is like parenting, it is about the thousands of actions and needing to get it right ~70% of the time. And, that mostly relies on parents, role models, and culture.

The government forgiving debt one time isn't going to cause to hurt personal responsibility. It is a small gift to try to fix a system that is super broken. And, it might be the only thing politically possible at this time (which sucks).

When I graduated I had ~$40k in debt, if $10k of that would have been forgiven I would have cried because it would have helped me so much. It also wouldn't have changed the incredible lengths I went to paying that off as fast as possible. It also wouldn't have caused me to make more financial mistakes during school that got me to that point. I did as well as I could have with my 17 to 23 year old lizard brain.

IMO I think it is a stupid move, because like you said it is unlikely to fix a broken system. I'd rather we spend the money to boost unemployment or give everyone making under $25k a year a lump sum. Both those would have a better effect on the short term economy to coast us through the current situation...
I cannot imagine punishing my children with Linux. I use it every day and love it but it's just such a rough edged by nerds for nerds OS.

If they want to get into programming and computer science then absolutely. But for the 98% of other walks of life I would give them a Mac so that the OS part of their day disappears into the background.
Quantum Blockchain Vinyl Coinwallet with RFC1149 Support, written in Literate Haskell
Every Gen X person I know who took out loans for professional school at top tier universities is richer than even people who were in technology in the early 2000s. They’re the ones who bought houses in all the gentrifying neighborhoods, they’re the ones with two or more kids, and they bought index funds with all that money, so the effects of going to a top tier university massively compounded.

Some people have already pointed out that top tier universities have been discounted for the last decade. But even in 2000, Harvard college cost less than half of what it does now. Taking out loans to pay for Havard in 2000 would be the best investment you could ever make in your life, just considering that same inflation that partly raised Harvard’s tuition price also reduced the real cost of your debt.

I believe the underlying problem is not financial literacy though.
As someone happily tinkering on a Pinephone, I just don't think the RK3399 is going to satiate Linus's hunger for performance. I think there's some implied subtext "that is actually fast enough for my needs".

He's currently running a 32 core Ryzen desktop CPU, an upgrade he consciously chose over a lesser chip for its improved build speeds. He's also lamented poor screen quality and resolutions before, and I imagine the PBP's would not impress him.

The Air is notable because its processor can run build jobs (like compiling the Linux kernel) in stellar times. While the RK3399 has dual A72s and should be ... better than, say, the pinephone, I'd imagine it's closer to 2010~ish core 2 duos in performance.
Snowflake's $70B Dollar Growth Strategy
Get reminded to text your friends even when you're busy
> This is kind of random, but I was watching a cooking video where the presenter said things like "we add two tablespoons of olive oil", and it looks like they pour much more than that.

I don't know which chef you watched but Gordon Ramsey and olive oil is a meme for a reason. He uses way more than the amounts that he mentions. Most tv/youtube chefs eyeball stuff like oil and seasoning anyway, I wouldn't worry too much about it.
Hi everyone - just wanted to drop a message here in case you sent me an email and I haven't responded yet.

First - thank you for the super supportive and encouraging vibes here, and for the candid feedback. Really, really appreciate how many improvements are going to be attributed directly to you.

Second - sorry for the delayed responses. I'm working through emails / messages / comments and promise to get back to you - I just don't want to rush through bugfixes and conversations, so it might take longer than I'd like.

Third - There have been a few reports of email verification breaking, and also of features not being fully enabled with Early Adopter subscriptions. This is my bad - the email verification flow didn't take into account case-insensitivity. Should be fixed now (for anyone impacted, you should have a new verification link in your inbox). Features should also be enabled by EOD today - the complexity of feature-by-feature upgrades is coming back to bite me now.

Fourth - I've authored a couple more notes to answer questions that have popped up:

Bizdev strategy / vision: https://www.karma.fm/p/SdjVjdj/the-pmalerts-strategy

How closely does PMAlerts listen?: https://www.karma.fm/p/rk3HI4d/how-closely-is-pmalerts-liste...

Thank you again,

- mick
In C you can use [0] for postfix pointer dereferencing.
The main point:

> I don't have the time to tinker with it, or the inclination to fight companies that don't want to help.
It sounds like you have immigrated perfectly. I always assumed that by the next generation, people are basically locals if their parents immigrated well. You're an example that it also works well within one generation.

But many european people who lean against open immigration policies will not make the rational distinction between you and someone who has not intergrated very well, and will instead judge you based on e.g. your skin color or your last name.

I hope you don't have to deal with that!
It's difficult to model the truth conditions for counterfactuals.
Fly fishing?

The common thread is probably patience-based and non-competitive.
Ever been to Manhattan Island?

Also French use and control of the maritime regions of what is now Canada began about a century before the Mayflower, resulting in some small permanent colonies by that time.

France still has territory off Newfoundland.
Ask HN: What is to Reddit, as Reddit was to Digg?
What is to Reddit, as Reddit was to Digg?
They don't need to do much - just document things, and make it possible to disable secure boot.
But you see, where groups of people become a recognizable other and cement themselves into a position that grants them an advantage, then naturally other groups will try to take that advantage from them. Society exists because it is a structure that reinforces cohesion and cohesion means reducing animosity between groups. So within society there is a desire and the mechanisms to address imblances such as these. Where one group begins to dominate it can be in society's best interest to level the playing field. Diversity is a good thing for systems that whish to stay away from local minima.
A big reason for the abysmal performance is however that nvidia has intentionally locked down the performance for code that doesn't have the right credentials. We don't know if Apple have done something similar.
Show HN: Language Agnostic IDL for Rust, Swift and Kotlin
It is rare, but every couple years I do that big what if for different scenarios in life. Just for fun mostly, but it's hard not to get frustrated when your dream life is so much better.

But no, I try to have no regrets. I know enough people saddled in student loan debt who didn't get their big shot. As an introvert, I could see that being me as I probably wouldn't have networked adequately. Then there's the whole fact that I would not have my wife and daughter likely. Very Butterfly Effect like thinking.
Paint.NET solved this by prompting the user when this particular kind of destructive save happen: This format requires all layers to be merged, are you sure you want to merge all layers? yes/cancel.
Thank you for sharing this charming video.
I'm not a cardiologist but I've read somewhere that when you have hypertension it usually isn't salt the problem but a lack of potassium (sodium and potassium have to be in balance in your body, can't remember the ratio).

The recommended thing was to eat a lot greens (particularly big salads) to have loads of potassium (not recommended in pills, might be dangerous).

YMMV, don't sue me etc ;)
Amazon is currently marketing the Netherlands heavily for 'Black Friday' ( a totally foreign concept to us, however it is marketed for 5 - 10 years now ). Not for specific products, for like everything from now till Christmas.

Normally I am totally ad-blocked, but my Mac refuses to reconnect to my OSS Airplay Raspi contraption, and I just don't feel like rebooting ( already killed coreaudiod ).

I wired up my tuner with a dipole and am listening to radio through the ether mind you. No adblocking though.

Amazon is almost absent in NL at the moment, but they will crush the competition in a couple of years.

Amazon should be broken up.
Semantic whitespace looks nicer than non-semantic whitespace?
When I was a CS major in the 90's, one of my professors told me a story of his own college days, with punch-card computers.

His university bought a tape reader (like, punched paper tape, not magnetic tape) to do the boot code of the computer, on the theory that tape was a little easier to manage than punch-cards for the boot (you can't lose one of the cards, or get them out of order, etc with tape). So my prof and some of his friends start playing with the tape reader, and they realize that what controls the IO speed of the tape is actually the tensile strength of the tape -- if the feeder tries to put too much force on it, it will tear the paper tape. The actual computer can read the instructions much faster than the tape can physically handle.

So they got some plastic tape instead, and punched the boot code in the (much stronger) plastic tape. Then, to boot the computer, they'd feed the plastic tape through the part of the reader that actually read, bypassing the mechanical part that pulled and wound the tape, and then manually grab the other end and yank on it as hard as they could, basically starting the computer like it was one of those old lawnmowers that you pulled the cord to turn over the engine.
I think part of the tension is that advertising (and other data harvesting) attempts to monetize content that has virtually zero value for a lot of people: take any of the articles on a typical HN front page - right now the top two are "Booting from a vinyl record" and "Exotic programming ideas". These sound interesting (and are already somewhat well targeted to me as a HN reader), but the content is still worth almost nothing to me if I have to sign up for something or watch an ad to view it. Now apply the same reasoning to most web content that I value even less, like random medium articles or Forbes techcrunch or something that are pretty much designed just to get people to click on them. Most internet content that we are considering here is just there to get you to look at ads, and so ironically not worth "paying" for in any way for most people.

So ad blocking puts the user in a funny position. It let's them continue to look at things they don't value much. And I think content creaters looking for views probably would rather complain about ad blockers than give users an ultimatum that could result in them just going somewhere else.
You assume that chemistry works the same in different gravitational fields of different strengths!! How plebian!

Also: /S ;)
It will probably have large error but still be 1000 times better than the intuition of a hungry human.
This is probably a very dumb question but I'm new to all this and trying to figure out how to mix/match these frameworks like you're describing. I have primarily a static site (using Jekyll, but Middleman would apply) but now need to add some server side stuff (e.g. with Sinatra). I see how I could dump my generated site into the Sinatra /public directory, but then I'm serving everything through the sinatra server when I really only want to hit that when I need the dynamic content/calls. How would I keep them separated while still having a single environment? Have tried googling to no avail, don't know if I'm asking the right questions. Any pointers would be super helpful! Thanks
That technology is using good headphones to simulate the acoustic properties of large speakers.

For a more obviously untenable example:

Imagine using an old VR headset to test out newer, more capable VR headsets.
Because if there are software projects that can't practically be free software while bringing in enough money to fund development, then free-software advocates should acknowledge that sometimes proprietary software is a perfectly valid option. Put another way, while free software is good and should be encouraged when it's practical, I don't think it's right to insist that proprietary software is bad and should always be avoided. The companies that abuse the power that comes with the proprietary model are well-known (and thankfully I no longer work for one of them). But some developers of proprietary software are just trying to develop good software while making a living, the only way they've judged that they can.

Also, the hosting business model sometimes leads to misaligned incentives. I don't believe Sourcehut falls in this category. But consider, if a developer of an open-source package makes their money from hosting, then what incentive is there to make the package easy to self-host?
I have dual boated mac and linux for some time.

They main thing about running linux on mac are the drivers. All the touch pad are design to use with macOS.

Using mac is a also new way of using user interface with multi-touch and scroll.
I think it's a bit different than the butterfly effect. When a major event affects everyone somewhat, it's like billions of chances for a butterfly effect all happening simultaneously. An aggregate butterfly effect where major change is practically guaranteed.
I don't think moderates favor rational discussion so much as they disdain conflict.

In my experience, a moderate is a conservative in all things that effect them, and a liberal for anything else.

Most moderates I know revile anything that might effect change, until it effects change. And once the change is implemented, they bristle at anything that might change that.

No political block gets to claim the province of rationality in a world where political disputes are as much about values as they are about coherent policies.
There's also just less reason to run Linux for most consumers. Bootcamp was valuable because there's a lot of legacy, proprietary software and drivers that some people must use, which bootcamp gives them access to on the same device.

On the other hand, notable software on Linux are all FOSS. If there was sufficient demand there's nothing stopping someone from making a MacOS compatible release. And indeed, most FOSS developer tools do have MacOS binaries.
Reason Digg faded was that Reddit decentralized moderation across subreddits. Although there are still some global rules set by Reddit (no drug sourcing is one I personally disagree with).

https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy is federated Reddit. It's also open source just lacks community. Some things are also already better like more performant front end. If I was to bet on something to overtake Reddit, it would probably be it.
Going to College During a Pandemic?
'Your scientists were so preoccupied with whether or not they could, they didn't stop to think if they should.'

No, seriously; though, as a programmer by day and turntablist at night this tickles both my nerd fancies hilariously.

It, of course; makes entirely logical sense, as booting from tapes was obviously common back in the day.

The turntablist side of me also needs to know how they managed to get it on the record. Is it just a dubplate? Do they have friends with a lathe? The article doesn't mention the process of getting that audio onto the vinyl. Surely it had to be custom-made for the process.
Ask HN: What are the leading ideas on the nature &/or structure of dark matter?
Yeah, somehow I am surprised with his cooled down take on this.

With the exceptionally good ARM hardware coming in from Apple, I can't see mainstream future for other laptops which will allow OS freedom. As time goes on, Apple should be able to significantly reduce the price of entry level Macbooks. Look at iPad pricing, entry level laptops just for iPad level work on a laptop form factor don't have to cost a lot.

I always thought this will be Chromebooks, and hoped Google would be more friendly to other OSs because of their past, but it looks like it will be Macbooks that will fill that space.
A lot of times they aren't competing but making competing hard with lock-in (that's anti-competitive).