skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I stopped reading when they said its architecture should be more like Photoshop. This made me actually LOL.

Has the author ever tried coding a photoshop plugin? Or read a PSD file from scratch, its a notoriously poor interface, bogged by bad legacy decisions and duct tape and string quick-fixes. The PSD file format is a meme and prime example of garbage programming.

LLVM does use a plugin architecture, that’s what the whole IR system is.

Comparing LLVMs architecture to needing to have plugins “Like Photoshop” is like saying the Starship Enterprise should have more rope because it can’t pull this donkey cart.
Why would "they" argue against it?

"Socioeconomic status (SES) and SAT scores are positively correlated: Students from higher income backgrounds generally achieve higher scores, and “21.2% of variance in SAT scores is shared with SES, as measured here as a composite of mother’s education, father’s education, and parental income.” The researchers note that the “source of the SAT-SES relationship is likely due to some combination of educational opportunity, school quality, peer effects and other social factors.”

https://journalistsresource.org/economics/ses-socioeconomic-...
Actively maintained and younger than 20 years.
Well yes, aptitude generally correlates to one's ability ability to provide value that demands more money. But that doesn't mean it's unfair.
Are those 2021 dollars?

The 1979 value of $200 would be $735 today.
> Something is off.

Yes. The fundamental assumptions about how brains work are wrong.

I see, far too often, the dismissive interpretation of brains as "A couple crappy cameras tied to a neural network" - which leads to the "Well, we have better cameras and we know how to do neural networks, so it can't be hard!" Throw in some dismissive statements about how awful humans are at driving and such, and you're set for the trap.

Human/animal vision systems are way more optimized than that sort of handwaving dismissal. The "cameras" are well optimized for what's needed, and have some pretty darned impressive scanning features to make a very small central cone of resolution do everything that's needed - without flooding the brain with HD video in places that don't matter. It's an optimized system for making a fairly narrow feed cover everything that's needed.

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

And, yes, there are some weird quirks of vision systems - optical illusions and such. But once you get past the eyes, the rest of the "Make sense of the 3D world around us" system is insanely optimized, and exceedingly power efficient. It works well enough and reliably enough to handle absolutely absurd changes in the operating environments. Humans did not come born with "supersonic low level flight" built into the system, yet... our brains can work with it. It just takes some learning and brain adjustments.

And the whole rest of the system following is similarly impressive.

There's a typically paired arrogance you also see: "We are like gods in the synthetic world of the internet, because we know code and manage 99.995% API success rates, therefore we can use code to solve reality." Reality is infinitely more creative at throwing wrenches into things than we are at solving them with code, and while it doesn't really matter on the internet, it very much does matter at 75mph.

When you dismiss all that as "crappy cameras and a neural network, we know code, we can do that!" - you end up failing in the predictable ways we see with the self driving cars.
There is no limit on upperbound - spreadsheet fetches data from your table in database.
> - it's confusing what should be a text inside a tag versus a tag attribute. Or should that text be parsed into a number? At least JSON is strongly typed, you know what datatype is what just by looking at it.

JSON's types are pretty anemic compared to the XMLSchema's datatypes[0]. Even it you don't use all of XSD's complex type system, having these basic datatypes is extremely useful and I wish JSON had similar.

[0] https://www.w3.org/TR/xmlschema11-2/
I think he is complaining that it take too long to compile LLVM itself because his CPU only has 32MB of cache.
I think it's best to direct your attention here as the comment is rather lengthy and takes up a lot of vertical space: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27307631.
I'm generally in favour of the actions taken against misinformation but this situation surprises me. Lab leak always seemed plausible and non-crazy even if you think the odds are against it.

I don't envy the task of making a call on any of this stuff.
The full self-driving capabilities at $10,000 seem to be a poor value when you compare it to the fact that you could just... pay a person to drive you around.

I mean, hopefully no one is financing or leasing these cars when you're purchasing FSD, right? It only makes sense to me if you buy the car in cash. You could literally just set aside the $10,000 to occasionally have a professional driver chauffeur you, provide drinks in the car, etc.
Well, the most famous example most definitely is.

There's thousands of ways this could have been encoded. Why that one specifically?
This makes me furious
You can practice and take classes that teach you how to do well on the SAT/ACT. No guarantee that you'll ace it but you'll do much better if you know the strategy behind a perfect score.
Fed reverse repo volume hits record high
See also "A Clockwork Orange"
You're comparing coaching to not preparing at all. The question is how much more effective is preparation with a coach, versus the same amount of preparation without one.
Not to be that guy but didn't we agree about moving business all business logic into a single place, back in 2012?
I do appreciate that they provided the like to the research (https://text.npr.org/2018/04/26/604875394/study-colleges-tha...), though it seems to be pretty unequivocally unrelated to the point they are claiming.
The code is calling out to a malicous URL for a script, downloading it, and executing the script. The malicious script from the URL is mirrored here: https://archive.is/TxFWj

Nobody has figured out exactly what it's doing quite yet, but you can paste that code into a Javascript deobfuscator and try to figure it out yourself: https://lelinhtinh.github.io/de4js/

Based off of reading the code for 5 minutes with my very poor javascript skills, it's modifying your searches via Google / Bing and redirecting you to a practically unknown search engine called "Blacksearch". Very suspicious. I found a reddit thread with others complaining about this search engine, https://old.reddit.com/r/edge/comments/kzwb6q/redirecting_to...
They’ve redefined “equitable” to explicitly preclude any kind of meritocratic system.
Just saying I can’t get too excited over Belarus arresting a spy on a subversion mission even if it involves forcing a plane down.
There's a continuous median in that area.

One Bay-area example where the median disappears to allow a left turn lane is C-17 going to Santa Cruz.
Strange, it's not marked sensitive in mine. Are twitter personalising the labelling of tweets now?
> When he started his reign, there were serious military problems on Egypt's northeastern border.

Funnily we are still having the same situation
No region doesn't matter look at the actual statistics on this. I looked at neighborhoods the had above 50% foreclosure rates and those houses STILL increased in value in the long term.

You can argue the real/nominal value, but housing cost are a cause of inflation in this regard not an effect, all prices are relative to the price of shelter for individuals.
> The sun and magnetosphere play a much larger role in earth temps than anything we do

If by "earth temps" you mean contributors to global warming, no, that is not correct: https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2015-whats-warming-the-wo...
I made the mistake to read a few other posts on that site, I feel my brain melting. What garbage.
Buy Low Sell High – Not sure everyone follows this mantra
Great mock up, this is pretty interesting. Food for thought!
As the other poster says, it’s a bot.
That's not documentation that's support knowledgebase. You can just pay for a single subscription at 349$/yr and get access to it. It's worth it if you are running a large fleet.
Yeah, 200 miles is under a 4hr drive. That's just not considered very far in the US. Most people don't make a trip like that every day, but not even once?
It depends on the city and it depends on the crime. If you see somebody vandalizing property in Seattle and call the cops, they probably won't show up (sample size of 3 for me.)
yes excellent mock, I see what you mean.

How would you deal with multiple levels of nesting? :) Let's say you're at level 5 which is pretty reasonable.

Oh and I also forgot about languages like Java that are heavy on interfaces and DI. That would be interesting to handle.
The biggest sign for me is how the Chinese government threatened to charge medical workers with espionage if they speak about what happened during the early stages of the outbreak. https://english.kyodonews.net/news/2020/11/9833532bb925-chin...

Consider the following: How can a medical worker speaking about their own experience working at a hospital in any way constitute espionage?

If found guilty of espionage, by law they can be executed. Anyone who speaks up can be killed.
Correlation != Causation

Do you have a citation for the causation that you seem to strongly imply?
I'm not sure how to express how much I loathe everything about this "solution."

To answer your question, what you have is (effectively) code, and just use a programming language for this, call it a function, give it a name, arguments, test suite and register it as a plugin to your platform. Oh, and documentation, change history, etc.

Seriously - the "overhead" more than pays for itself when 100 other yahoos do this nonsense and you end up with data files containing untestable code that breaks when combined with other code, breaks when the platform is changed, etc etc
Fail fast and KISS are pretty celebrated virtues of sustainable project development. I understand that on the scale of Facebook you have issues with project management but if there is a significant amount of code that is locked to specific cohorts of users aren't you opening up the door to unprofitable levels of complexity and long running poor investments?

I'm sure a lot of developers on here try and minimize their use of integration branches in the day-to-day (they are necessary for some things but keep them short and sweet) and try and get in-progress features into master ASAP - that's largely due to the fact that maintaining multiple copies of the same basic logic can quickly become extremely difficult to manage.

Localization is a really big exception to this but that's why, whenever possible, you'll see game companies limit localization to strings only - including logical statements in the realm of information to be localized can make security issues extremely fun to track down along with causing frequent usability breaks in less used localizations.

I don't know - whatever the reasons for it and no matter the resources FB has - this stuff increases in cost exponentially and if they do have a really fragmented codebase it's likely that the majority of their labour goes into process definition and QA to make sure that they don't break the Swahili language version of the landing page for China when they change their contact us link.
Smart, aware of how the market works, self promoter author would do it naturally - otherwise publisher would ask them to do it.
the problem is freeboard https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freeboard_(nautical) , i.e. the height of the "wall" of the sides of a ship to keep the splashy water out.

Oars need to be relatively close to the surface of the water, and where there are oarlocks water can get into the ship. Open seas are heavy seas, meaning the waves are very very high; six foot seas are nothing in the ocean, but a bitch to bob around in. And, in heavy seas you need deep draft--the "height" of the boat under water--for stability. Also, the "powerplant" and "fuel" for oars takes up too much space limiting the freight capacity of a ship. This is basically why rowing technology was abandoned for sailing around the world or across oceans. Paddle steamers were used somewhat, but the paddles just don't have the purchase against the surrounding water to move a heavy deep draft ship.
please no. just no.
The brain has hyperspecialized and hyperoptimized single-purpose hardware. Human AI systems run on more general-purpose machines with a few decades spent improving the hardware. Blaming the software is silly.
This is my way as well, but in part it's because we use gerrit instead of git(hub|lab) which explicitly allows for this workflow of separately reviewed patches that build atop each other. I'm curious, if you are using git(hub|lab), how does it work with their workflow?
> Which will hurtle you 200mph at a wall and then disengage autopilot 100ms before hitting the wall and not count it as an autopilot death.

This is false: "To ensure our statistics are conservative, we count any crash in which Autopilot was deactivated within 5 seconds before a crash."

https://www.tesla.com/VehicleSafetyReport

It would be more helpful to focus on actually deceptive issues in how they report data, namely the conflation of easy highway miles (Autopilot enabled) with more dangerous city driving (Autopilot unavailable). For example their Q1 2021 report:

"In the 1st quarter, we registered one accident for every 4.19 million miles driven in which drivers had Autopilot engaged. For those driving without Autopilot but with our active safety features, we registered one accident for every 2.05 million miles driven. For those driving without Autopilot and without our active safety features, we registered one accident for every 978 thousand miles driven. By comparison, NHTSA’s most recent data shows that in the United States there is an automobile crash every 484,000 miles."
Ask HN: If I want to implement my own overlay netwoks where do I start?
There is a great docker Swarm feature which provides you with secure by default overlay networks with just few lines of config.

But it looks like it’s not a part of standalone swarmkit tool.

How should I approach the goal of creating similar feature from scratch (or lower level libs, building blocks)?
TBF the entire concept of an SPA for Reddit is insane to begin with. There are no complex split-second interactions or anything. It’s a case study in what does not benefit in any way from spas.

I have pretty much the same thoughts about discourse, which I loathe.
How I raised a $5.1M seed as a first-time, female, solo founder for a biotech co
I think it was because the Trump admin had a history of China bashing and many of us just thought this was more of the same.
The niche that immediately came to mind when I saw this was allowing a user to specify a filter expression for some query, either as a simple text-based language or using some sort of UI (with drop-downs and such). Having a well-established spec with existing libraries for turning these kinds of expressions into an AST for transfer, storage, execution later, etc is valuable. I've definitely implemented a simplified, domain-specific version of this kind of thing in various projects over the years.
It's just arrays and maps. Regardless of how large or deeply nested json gets, it's always very simple.
There have been recent developments in wood skyscrapers for the benefits you mentioned, so I would bet wood only gets more popular.
From what I saw, it drives worse than an intoxicated teenager on the first week of their learner's permit.
Yes, we have programming languages. Lots of them. Most are distinguished by what you can do with them. Few are distinguished by what you can not do with them.

This is one of the few projects addressing the latter problem space.
"The past never had been altered. Oceania was at war with Eastasia. Oceania had always been at war with Eastasia."
This will be an attempt to lighten the mood, and it will fail, but still : isn't that a form of "good news" that we feel almost "done" enough with the pandemic that we can start to worry again about climate change?
CU Boulder has a good engineering program, and it's much more selective than the university.
That Vigilante ad gives me serious Jennifer Government vibes
Countdown to WTO ruling in Canada's favor [again]...
I loved Eric's books, and my daughters loved having me read the books to them some 20 years ago.

It's funny, as I read Eric's obituary I can hear my own voice reading those books to my daughters so long ago.

RIP Eric, and thank you for bringing us so many good times.
Yes, but this doesn’t imply that SATs unfairly favor rich people. The most recent shared ancestor in this causal graph is “parents’ intelligence”, which causally influences both their expected wealth and their children’s intelligence. SAT is basically an IQ test.
> I think it will happen but only by making many expensive, intrusive changes to our cities and roads to accommodate "self-driving" cars.

We could put some metal guides in the ground so they can follow that path.

We could then separate that path from other obstructions with barriers, maybe put some tunnels in the ground that keep other people out.

And have signals that indicate when the "self driving" stuff is going to interfere with other roads, so nobody gets in the way!

"Totally change cities to meet the requirements of self driving cars" sounds an awful lot like "Just put rails in and call it a train."
I don't completely disagree, but his point about the irrelevance of SOLID, OO, and Java in this supposedly grand new age of FP programming ignores that OO is still the pre-eminent paradigm for most applications and Java is remains one of the largest and most utilized languages in the world. Also, I would say that excitement around FP has waned more than it has for Java.
That there is more than one way to excel at a standardized test does not mean that economic inequality doesn't play a big role.

Note that never at any point did I claim that _only_ money could lead to success on these tests. It's then irrelevant that a group of children from specific socio-economic and cultural circumstances and backgrounds happen to succeed on them. It doesn't matter—I didn't say it couldn't happen.

Money plays a role because of the nature of the test. It's an unescapable reality that children who would otherwise score much lower scores highly simply because their parents can afford a tutor to hammer questions into their child and resolve doubts every day. They don't learn many life skills, true mathematical appreciation, scientific knowledge, or real literary analysis skill from the 'tutoring'—the test, then, is purely a reflection of the tutoring money they spent and not their actual college readiness.
It sounds like your language didn't steer clear of Turing completeness.

That's usually how this type of thing goes wrong. I've seen similar things both work and fail for that reason.

This language made it an explicit goal, though.
I met Jim Knowlton when he came to attend the IgNobel ceremony (as an alum) in 1994 or 1995. He was great friends with the Post-Doc I worked for, both having earned PhDs at Columbia.

Of course that poster was on every door in my dorm, so it was great fun to meet him!

The poster comes with an insert that gives extra detail about the penises. I asked him to read the clip "The porpoise has a remarkable penis..."

I had to dig way deep (disk image backup within disk image backup 5 layers deep), but I have found it and now you too can experience his narration:

https://www.dropbox.com/s/c2g5irqb7s1vpee/porpoise_penis.wav...
The problem with this thinking is assuming the government of China actually knows the truth and is acting to protect itself from a dangerous reveal. They might not have known then (or now!) and are simply acting based on some probability it could be true, default secrecy, and organizational fear.
One problem with politically charged issues is that one's bias can significantly color unresolved factual issues. In the article the early 'red flags' pointed out in the January 2020 study by The Lancet left clear open questions regarding the Seafood Market hypothesis, but many in the media glossed over these red flags. Now that additional facts are coming to light including the fact that multiple scientists at the lab were hospitalized with Covid like symptoms in late 2019, the facts are starting to pierce through the early dismissal of the lab leak theory by many journalists. I think this will result in a rethink of how we tag unresolved topics as "False Information" or before enough facts are gathered. Perhaps a "Controversial" tag would be preferred. I really like the site https://www.allsides.com/ that provides Left/Center/Right bias indicators for any story so you can read all sides and get the gist of how politics is coloring current stories in the media.

(1) https://www.allsides.com/tags/wuhan-lab?search=wuhan%20lab#g...
You're right-- there will never be a metric that the rich won't find a way to game. SATs will get tutoring (and in rare cases, cheating). If colleges focus on grades, there will be grade inflation. Essays will be bought. Interviews will be coached for. Expensive family trips will be turned into stories about personal growth.

If we accept all that, the question becomes this: if you were a poor but talented kid, which metric would you like them to focus on? I was a poor immigrant raised by a single parent, and to me the answer is that I want them to focus on the SAT.

We could never afford the prep courses, but the prep books were cheap at the local bookstore and free at my high school library. I took advantage of that. Now there are even more options, such as the Khan Academy's free prep course. There's even some data suggesting the free course produces outcomes that rival the paid courses[1].

Bottom line, the SAT gave people like me a fair shot. It can be gamed a little, but I worry that replacing it with a "holistic approach" will just become a proxy for social/class status that will penalize people like me.

[1] https://newsroom.collegeboard.org/new-data-links-20-hours-pe...
Two high income parents probably both went to college. This alone will set their kids up for success due to genetics and educational values
I am also suspicious. The way the topic shifts seemingly at random is very common with GPT generated text. It has several correct technical details but they don't support a central thesis, another telltale sign of a GAN in use.
Try participating in extra-curricular, volunteering and community activities while working a minimum wage job 20+ hours a week and going to school. Have you worked in a restaurant? It is fu##ing exhausting. At least testing tries to achieve standardized results. It is not perfect but it is better than the current alternative
Yes, the system that gives my kid the best shot of getting admitted. /s

Rich families want legacy admissions.
Asian prefer grades and tests because they generally excel in those areas.
Under-represented groups want to do away with both because neither legacy or tests benefits them.
Surprised no one mentioned https://apenwarr.ca/log/ yet - such a great read!
If we accept that taking action against misinformation is good, then this sort of mistake will inevitably happen.

If you're in favor of taking action against misinformation, then you should be willing to accept this situation as an acceptable failure. I'm not willing to accept that.
Nah they removed it because BIPOC+ tend to score much worse on standardized tests which reduces the number of showcase minorities.
please no. just no.

"Logic" is lazy word for "code" and we saw what happened when Excel "macros" grew up into major applications.

To be safe under maintenance, safe vs security, etc code needs at least these things:
- source control
- docs (and ideally, examples)
- tests (and ideally, CI)
Humans are hardly perfect drivers either.