skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah. It ain't happening. I thought Harvard would take some flack when people noticed 43 percent of white students admitted are legacy, athletes, or related to donors or staff. That blew over in a week. Varsity Blues did nothing either.

Liberals will have faith in elite schools. Conservatives will have faith in churches. Liberals will distrust religious organizations, and conservatives will distrust the academy. We're polarized enough that scandals probably won't change that.

MIT had a huge Epstein cover-up. They did an investigation, threw everyone who came forward under a bus, and did nothing to faculty who partied with ladies on Epstein's island. If you'd like references:

* MIT's factfinding report mentions no faculty visits to the island

* Epstein's web page has a ton of photos of himself with top MIT faculty on the island. Those are the tip of an iceberg -- he didn't bother posting photos with lower-tier faculty, many of whom partied there too.

* News reports indicate Epstein coerced one of the girls to offer herself to Minsky.

By all accounts, Minsky declined and behaved with all propriety (he was there with his wife), but he was far from the only one on the island, and at least rumors suggest others weren't as proper. Are rumors true? That's kind of the point of a fact-finding report.

This became super-visible within some MIT communities, and I kinda expected MIT to implode. It didn't even merit a news story. MIT just shut down internal mailing lists where this was being discussed.

Even if a scandal did do something, the endowments are now astronomical. A mere scandal won't shut anything down.

I believe the only way to do this is to place restrictions on government funding. Institutions which use NDAs, non-disparage agreements, don't respond to FOIA-style requests, don't publish in the open, don't share research data when reasonable (e.g. except for PII), and otherwise shouldn't receive federal funds, shouldn't receive foundation funds, and shouldn't receive alumni donations.

That's hard, but I'm not sure if impossible. Elite schools have a lot of power in government, but things are over-the-top enough that if this isn't brought under control, this isn't getting kept bottled up forever. Brands will suffer.
One of the other comments was talking about the land-use impact of renewables. Nuclear exclusion zones are pretty bad from this perspective.
They release plenty of open code, but then you also end up with situations like them not documenting DPTF and so laptops running slower under Linux than under Windows (https://mjg59.dreamwidth.org/54923.html has more on this), failing to document the requirements for entering deep power saving states and so laptops consuming more power under Linux than under Windows (https://mjg59.dreamwidth.org/41713.html), not doing any upstream work on the IPU4 camera platform so the webcam doesn't work on various laptops - instead this ends up with random people outside Intel having to reverse engineer stuff or do integration work on Intel's behalf. Is it better than Apple? Yeah. Is it good? No.
If you don't understand why people would rather waste their life vs work up the ladder, you have a very poor understanding of what it means to be poor in America.

Surprise surprise, the person who claims they "understand" or "empathize" for the poor actually has no empathy or understanding at all! Really just confirming my original point. HN users have no idea what is going on.
This has been commonplace for a long time. See consoles, phones, etc.
Who is "we"? The world,..the USA? Feels like maybe you meant USA. (Most people on HN aren't in USA, apparently.)
I'd love people to comment more on what I make, it is the dialog around creations that adds that extra layer of meaning to creations.
Show HN: Yet another customer feedback service
Hi, a co-founder here.
I’ve been in the situation when you, as a software vendor you’re being swamped with tons of customer feedback on your products and you don’t have an effective yet efficient system to process it, keep track of it, and also being able to close the feedback loop.

I didn’t find anything that would help us with that and I stated thinking on how that product would look like. I’ve been nurturing this idea for about a year. Then I found my cofounder and CTO and the work began.

We’ve been building a service that helps SaaS business to collect multi channel customer feedback and have a single place to process it. Once processed, it could be attaches to features or ideas inside the system.

A significant channel for feedback can be your public roadmap that will also demonstrate your progress to your prospects and your customer base

If you use CRM and Development tools like Salesforce and Jira, it can show you features’ worth based on the ACV from CRM for the account, a contact of which has shared their feedback.

When you’re ready to publish a release with a new feature, you can can notify every contract that has requested it.

While conducting user research and collecting feedback we realized that we see a strong demand from larger companies than we initially thought.

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Given the energy requirements and how it's kind of morphed into this beast of greed, I'm inclined to agree....but how to pull this off?

Fiat bans cannot really work well against just doing math. Taxation schemes/financial regs tamping down on bitcoin speculation, what you can spend it on? By design I don't think you can just pump money into bitcoin in order to "deflate" its value without similarly consuming a lot of energy?
Please don't take HN threads further into ideological flamewar. It's repetitive, tedious, and unusually nasty. Definitely not what we're going for here.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Yep; I wasn't trying to counter anything said about Rust. At Discord? That's the only place I know of using both (and otherwise I feel like it'd be hard to have comparable overlap).
The part of critical importance is ECDSA (or any public/private key DSA), and p2p networks. With that technology alone, you have the basis for a functional decentralized currency.

The blockchain assembly with proof of work, while an interesting and very creative solution, is just one of a multitude of ways you can arrive at a consensus.
I have an opportunity to apply (and be very competitive) for manager positions that just opened up and this is the part that scares me the most. I could (and likely will) be managing a team of 9 college hires with 1 senior dev. Not a great ratio but that's about what it is from the new teams that were created.

I can stay technical in my role as an individual contributor and be content. IMHO I'd be more valuable to the company in a leadership role...but also at the same time not sure if I want to have to deal with it for a 10% raise.
Just install all your software from snaps on an Ubuntu system ;) (just kidding, snaps have a whole bunch of issues for server software )
Could anyone in the world hack into your phone and steal your wallet from the comfort of their homes like they can with Bitcoin?

Most Android phones stop receiving security updates after two years or less.
Reading this sounds like dejavu.

A company I’ve worked with also had a PHP monolith which was supposed to be split up into microservices to improve maintainability. The choice of language was free, and the first ones were, kid you not, written in PHP using some alpha-quality library which was supposed to make PHP asynchronous, to improve “scalability”. Comically, this stack was used in an image-serving service which had to perform blocking image resizing using ImageMagick. Due to this misunderstanding of the technology, the only way to keep it afloat was to run 90 containers in a home-managed Kubernetes cluster just to keep requests from queuing up. Another comic misunderstanding of this paradigm was when I traced down a bug where the process seemed to hang due to the fact that the developer had intentionally added a call to sleep in a loop. Coming from a Java/.Net background, they believed it would cause the “current thread” to sleep in order to not hog resources. This was problematic since the application (like nodejs) was single-threaded.

I didn’t want to work with that stack, so when it was my turn to work on a new microservice, I chose Scala + MongoDB (same as Etsy) because I wanted to learn about functional programming. Ironically, the microservice was basically a “checkbox as a service”, but I and the tech lead on the team were too brainwashed/high on learning new things to realize the overcomplexity.

The entire thing was an expensive lesson that I and some others got to learn from. The ones who didn’t learn kept their microservices ideology and found other jobs.

Fast-forward and the entire thing was scrapped and rewritten as a Django + Postgres monolith. Not to say that it wasn’t costly to do a rewrite, but infinitely less costly than continuing down the microservices road. Long live boring technologies.
> 50 years

most often it is way longer
Obviously the implication is society needs to change. What's the point of industrialisation if you can't have a normal family experience?
There's definitely a stage for startups where the AWS bill doesn't matter because sustaining user growth is more important, but there's also a stage where the company, usually B2B, is trying to improve margins because it helps a lot with valuation.
> all other forms of energy have undercut the cost of nuclear

Only because the cost of carbon emissions are externalized. If carbon were properly accounted for, nuclear would most likely be economically viable.
Oops wrong link

https://www.bls.gov/cps/cpsaat39.htm
> Two different communities create two very different kinds of software, which run on the same systems, but are created and distributed in very different ways.

This is where the disconnect is coming from. The distro maintainers are coming from a world of multi-user systems where backwards compatibility and updating deps without disturbing a user's workload / forcing them to recompile is paramount.

Go (and a fair amount of rust/python work) come from the land of CI/CD and, to a lesser extent, monorepos. When you are rebuilding the world above a bare minimum of the OS literally on every commit (or at least several times per day), it's easier to reason about code that is running if you can look at the commit that a bin was built from and know exactly what's inside (including all deps).
Again, there is no difference in average hourly rate of wage. Men make more money than women because men (on average) work more hours a week as compared to women. Also men take fewer days off (on average). Thats the reason behind the mythical "wage gap". So, the correct term for it is "earnings gap".

In fact, the reverse is true for younger women. Younger women make more money than younger men: https://www.theguardian.com/money/2015/aug/29/women-in-20s-e...

edit: The updated link you provided tells average "weekly earning", not an hourly wage rate.
Would you mind commenting on your current salary range and location? I've decided I want to stick to C++/Python on Linux for my tech stack, as I've grown to hate the current state and pace of web development.
Why do people miss the substantial transaction fee when proclaiming BTC as a viable day to day currency? And in poor countries out of all places.
Everything is negotiable, including contract length. Reasonably, you should expect a higher monthly price in exchange for flexibility.
> Infusing the existing org with a state of the art rocket/rocket development process has many failure modes (the new becoming "infected" with the stagnant mindset)

It is funny saying that ULA might infect BO with a "stagnant mindset", given how little BO has actually delivered so far. BO had a two year head start over SpaceX, but in the same time that SpX has had over 100 successful orbital missions, BO hasn't made it to orbit once. In fact, thus far BO's only paying customer appears to be ULA – BO is supplying rocket engines to ULA's new Vulcan Centaur rocket. Vulcan Centaur is supposed to have its maiden launch by the end of this year; I wouldn't be surprised if it slips to next – but still, for all we know, Vulcan Centaur might make it to orbit before New Glenn does.
I firmly believe that raw intelligence has little to do with our lead as a species, and it may even be the case that there are numerous animals with more raw intelligence than humans, especially predators.

Our advantage comes from our ability to pass information on to eachother. A piece of knowledge that took 10,000 hours of thinking, observing, and experimenting to come by may only take 4 hours to pass on.

Humans can do this much better than any other animal. That's a skill borne of communication advantages, not raw intelligence advantages.
> I don’t think residential solar will be a significant contributor because you lose the efficiencies of scale afforded by acres and acres of collocated, homogeneous, ground-level panels for construction, maintenance, and operation.

But what you lost in scale you gain in:

- Lack of distribution costs. Roof-top solar (esp. when combined with storage) can be consumed at the point of generation.

- Distribution of maintenance costs. Right now the biggest cost is installation. But it doesn't seem at all infeasible that this could be simplified to the point that it is something that people could easily install themselves.

Places like Germany already have somewhat significant contributions from rooftop solar.
It’s because you need to load firmware on the gpu to make it run fast and that firmware is illegal to redistribute and impossible to reimplement since it’s signed. There is nothing the nouveau project can do short of finding an exploit in the cards crypto.
Well, logic-based "AI" (GOFAI), was much more about logic programming, automating explicit, human conscious reason and that's generally been considered a failure or at least a dead end.

Deep learning and related approaches don't seem as human related as earlier - there's even deep worm that's trying to simulate worm behavior.

The thing about hard arguments against AI, however, is that they have to come down to "there's a quality X that a machine can't emulate". And usually the X is intuitive/philosophical concept with great resonance to humans but which is actually quite ill-defined. If X was exactly defined, well, we'd be able to compute it after all. So you get X as "spark of life", "soul". "being in the world" etc.

And that kind of again shows "human exceptionalism" as the perspective.
The debunking seems somewhat doubtful, they claimed it was just unripe or under watered but the seeds apparently signify that those are untrue.
I think future shock is something for the non-young period. If you are young you don't have a set of norms embedded and are adapting to the new. Phenomenally messed up things like domestic violence can be assumed normal because that is their baseline. This is because of a lack of a strong baseline trained in to have dissonance towards.
BitMix: Mixing 4-/8-/16-bit values using only multiply/and/shift
>The thing about land use that always got me was that solar can be implemented as a roofing system in parking lots.

That's not enough. Rooftop solar panels on a single family home roof cannot provide adequate power for even that family (forget even trying to use appliances like washer/dryer/stove when on solar, much less charging your electric car). And if they cannot do that, then how the hell are they going to provide power to even moderate-density housing (e.g. a small apartment building), much less high-density buildings and housing (like office buildings), or heavy industry and transportation (from electric cars, to buses, to trains).

Solar and wind are diffuse energy sources. That will never change. So you will always have to have a large number of collectors. Our population will continue to go up for a few more decades. Our per capita energy use will also keep going up for a few more decades.

So you're going to have to build huge solar and wind farms and place them somewhere. You're going to have to mine necessary minerals to build those farms from somewhere. You're going to have to landfill the collectors somewhere.
I get the same error but at the bottom it says:

> This request was blocked by the security rules

They are probably just blocking everyone outside the US.
Netflix has a better app to use the Netflix service, but it's totally useless for our own collection.

Kodi is easily the best game in town to consume self-hosted media. Or, at least navigate it.
And yet we have places like the Marshall Islands where US nuclear waste is leaking at this very moment. If it is that easy to contain then why isn't happening?

The problem with nuclear is that people are too greedy to use it safely or want to weaponize it so lots and lots of regulation is needed. Nuclear energy will be fixed the day human greed and aggression are gone.
You're making a distinction between "packagers" and "users" which does not exist. Packagers are advanced users that take the initiative to improve their distro when they find software they want to use and that isn't integrated in their distro.

> Let the new complicated juggernaut software be deployed and configured by the users, according to developers' instructions, using whatever modern mechanism they prefer

I'm not sure what "they" refers to here (developers or users). The existence of packagers is proof that some subset of users "prefer" that software "be deployed and configured" via distro package managers.
Because transporting it (it's heavy) and recycling it consumes more resources than making it fresh.

Additionally glass is harmless in the environment, and it's not something we can ever run out of.

So why do it?

Additionally, if you actually do want to recycle things, glass shards contaminate everything, making it much more difficult and expensive (i.e. consumes more resources) to do it.
You're misreading his comment. He's saying Windows is share nothing.
Making a molten salt reactor safe might be much cheaper than a light water reactor.
> will work in the beginning by me judging which project to include into the ad network.

A solution to this problem that doesn't take your time is to ask projects to put down a deposit. Bad/spam projects don't get the deposit back. https://repowcha.com solves this.
> maybe the i-cache

This I doubt. On a statically-linked application, all calls to functions are going through a regular function call instruction. When you dynamically link, every call to a function that might cross library boundaries (which on ELF systems defaults to every call that's not to a static function) instead calls into the PLT, which will itself dispatch through to the underlying function call.
Well, where do you set the hard limit for “wanting” something, and how many grains of sand makes a pile?
> Why would you prefer Typescript over, say, Clojurescript if functional is your priority?

Because the benefits of a powerful static type system (type checking, documentation, refactoring) are also a priority.

I’ve used ClojureScript extensively, and shipped cljs projects in production. But one of the problems I encountered frequently was completely inexplicable behavior when I mistakenly passed incompatible values to core functions. Absolutely bonkers errors or silent failures I had to track deep into the inner recesses of cljs.core etc, generally having to reverse engineer the advanced compilation to understand what had happened.

When I filed bugs on cases like this, eg asking for a meaningful runtime error, they were without exception closed as WONTFIX with snooty notes like “just don’t pass incompatible values to core functions”.

While I’m quite a fan of TDD, even my extensive coverage would sometimes fail to catch issues like that. But TypeScript routinely catches them for me.

> It's the immutability that matters in functional.

I believe the ML family of languages would strongly disagree...

> Typescript is just a better way to manage mutable code.

TypeScript is a better way to catch type errors in JavaScript, mutable and immutable alike. But it does help enforce immutability if you use `readonly`/`as const` extensively, which I do.

Sure, I’d vastly prefer immutability was the default. But it’s a small price to pay for such huge productivity and safety improvements.
The most frustrating thing is that pip doesn't make it easy to use more loose declared dependencies while freezing to actual concrete dependencies for deployment. Everybody rolls their own.

> Python libraries should not pin dependencies. _Applications_ can pin dependencies, including all recursive dependencies of their libraries.

Is the pypi package awscli an application or a library?

poetry is frustrating in that it doesn't allow you to override a library's declared requirements to break conflicts. They refuse to add support [1][2] for the feature too. awscli for example causes huge package conflict issues that make poetry unusable. It's almost impossible not to run into a requirement conflict with awscli if you're using a broad set of packages, even though awscli will operate happily with a more broad set of requirements than it declares.

[1] https://github.com/python-poetry/poetry/issues/697

[2] https://github.com/python-poetry/poetry/issues/697#issuecomm...
How are you different from canny for example?
Robust for everyone. In theory it is the responsibility of the Clojure devs, but if there isn't a packaging workflow that they are aware of, how can they be expected to integrate with it and make design and development decisions that it would reveal to them? The point is more that, the greater variety of different environments a piece of software runs in the more likely it is that systematic weaknesses will be revealed, sort of like chaos engineering, except for whole environments instead of sporadic failures.
Can you understand your own goal? I can't, I don't know what my goal is.

I also can't change it or improve it.

As far as I can see, I'm just a process that keeps on going because it was good on going before, and has no purpose whatsoever.
Do you not view the USD (or other currency) you hold as an asset?
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I still follow this process extending my personal knowledge base each day. The gained expertise led me to now managing an international growth team and coaching first-time entrepreneurs at Imperial College.

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