skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Why do you want to make an iOS/Android version when the game isn't very popular right now? You mention the competition will be a lot higher so why do you think it will be worth it?
I think that in the context of the topic of this submission "replacement by porn" is being regarded as malicious intent.
> the ability to come up with a good napkin math estimate for a technical problem doesn't correlate with the ability to actually do the job to solve the problem.

You realise that that's a very strong (and probably wrong) statement? Those two abilities are obviously distinct, but quite probably positively correlated. So while there are be better interview questions, the answer to this question tells you something about the candidate.
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Where is your source that Asian people value education more than other racial groups? lmao
Manpower is a lot easier (and cheaper) to reconfigure between different products than robotic production lines.
Social media algorithms are rather simplistic now, and only geared towards taxonomy, but things will get a lot worse if people don't begin to properly contextualize the process of mental manipulation that carries on behind these closed doors. Entire platforms, any of them, can become corrupt and geared towards encouraging very bad things.

That statement is not geared towards TikTok specifically, all of them are already dedicated towards encouraging users to create content in hopes of success, but these platforms and even advertisers on the platforms can engineer massive campaigns that influence a lot of people to do potentially very bad things... They really don't care about independent content, and there's very little chance of being discovered, that content just allows them to cover up the underlying motives more perhaps.
I really don't see how that's am elaboration of the previous statement.
And parent expanded on that.
Ideally, but if you're a real person, you know that different cultures and nations historically treat races differently.
Exactly. From an European perspective America's obsession with race seems absolutely idiotic. Progressive taxation and major help for poor communities and families regardless of skin colour is obviously the only sensible solution.
The SAT is an extremely high predictor for IQ. It correlates incredibly well.

I grew up in a trailer park, and didn't have access to the test prep industry, so I understand that wealthier kids had a big edge. That being said, nobody is talking about the SAT being biased against poor kids. They are pretending that it's purely a racist, culturally-biased test due to its outcome of having average scores that are hundreds of points lower for certain ethnic groups. And like all hamfisted efforts at "equity", it will benefit the most privileged members of the favored class at the expense of the least privileged members of the disfavored class.

Rich Black kids will gain the most, and poor Asian and White kids will lose the most. Poor Asian kids are already getting screwed. My best friend is the child of dirt poor Cambodian refugees, but the college admissions people treated him as if he was the son of college educated Korean immigrants.

Obama's daughters will never be held back in life, and this ideology makes no room for that fact, or the fact that a pale kid born to a single mom in a trailer park is, statistically, screwed.
Except those are the privileged caste, so it would be immoral to do such a thing in any case.
The you won't always have a calculator justification was always a poor one, even ignoring that we all carry computers these days.

You don't study mathematics just to improve your mental arithmetic. If mental arithmetic were the point, you'd just practice mental arithmetic for your whole mathematical education, rather than progressing to more advanced topics.
I dislike this story in journalism and podcasts too. I listen to a lot of true crime podcasts:

> Before Y was murdered, they lived in X. X is a quiet town, the type of place where you don't need to lock your doors. Y has a happy upbringing collecting flowers along the river at...

Like we get it, this is the first half of every 1-hour long true-crime podcast. Also quite often the first half of every long-form article.
Wouldn't it be more accurate to call Project Mercury[1] the prototype? We sent a man on the exact same flight, except a little bit longer, in 1961[2].

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Mercury

[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mercury-Redstone_3
Had the same issue for Diem a while ago (I don’t work there anymore) and we ended up looking into software to manage dependencies in Rust. Check out https://github.com/diem/whackadep
> we will never really know how life started

A big bang of another sort.
I'm really curious from those folks who have this feature if it is actually useful (and why), or if it's really just a novelty?
My two cents. Be color blind for access to things like this. Then, when you see cultural groups that don't seem to getting through in the numbers you'd like, study the success factors from other groups and help promote those from the bottom up, within the culture. Sounds cliche, but it's better to build naturally occurring desirable attributes in communities than providing the benefits despite the absence of the attributes.
> police have to take an IQ test and get denied the job if they score too high

Pilots as well, apparently.
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Never finished this as kids. Got stuck on the part where you're supposed to hold a crystal up to some light with no explanation.
10.4 (Tiger) was fantastic because it was the first version where the UI and the underlying file system drivers and bash were in-sync - in 10.3 you could delete a file in Terminal but the change wouldn't show up in Finder.

MacOS just kept getting better and better until sometime around Yosemite or El Capitan, with a small hiccup with Lion.
That must be why many of the rural, flyover states have higher standardized test scores than the urban ones.

https://worldpopulationreview.com/state-rankings/sat-scores-...
IDK about the murder and totalitarian dread, but silencing is done via NSLs (aka gag orders).
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> If single family homes can pay for their requisite infrastructure without external subsidy

...and they basically don't, over time. The initial boost in property-tax revenue is eventually overwhelmed by the maintenance costs for all that sprawling infrastructure. It's one of the drivers behind the churn that OP is all about. A fuller exposition was discussed here recently.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27727133
> Maybe FB will buy whatever replaces TikTok.

If they're allowed to. There's a lot more antitrust scrutiny now than when they bought Instagram.
Not integrated into laptop, but since 99% of my laptop time is spent docked, i'm using https://ultimatehackingkeyboard.com/
You forgot the history of the writer’s family and the impact that French toast has had on them for generations.
I could imagine behaviors like this happening with object pools, though it does still feel a bit contrived.
I wonder how well it will do with identifying the Mockingbird who plays his car alarm jingle outside my window at night

Edit: Cool, mockingbird is on the list! This link off of their site has a sound sample for those that haven't experienced this bird

https://www.allaboutbirds.org/guide/Northern_Mockingbird/ove...
It's almost like the Marshals saw the comment, knew it was likely NOT a real threat; but sent a "Hey, hold on to that guy's info for a bit, just in case" letter.

I am thinking if something HAD happened to that particular judge within 90 days of the comment being posted, they would be VERY interested in having a conversation with the commentor
"On a cold autumn day in Brooklyn a young child crosses the street with his parents."

How every NPR story about criminal justice starts.
It's never the kid's income, though. It's always the parents' income.
If you have larger data needs you might look at snowcone -> snowmobile family of solutions. Generally 0.03/GB and scales to 50 petabyte + transfer volumes.
> In fact, you actually struggle and waste more time on ios

This hasn't been my experience

> Stock Android is just as mature and capable as ios

It's fine, but everything is just (imo) a little bit less cohesive and polished, and then there's the Google spyware, a shorter lifetime of updates, etc. And then if you aren't going off the beaten path and customizing stuff anyway, what are you actually gaining in exchange for those downsides?
Github's Artic Vault comes to mind:
https://archiveprogram.github.com/arctic-vault/

See also Fallout's "Brotherhood of Steel" ;)
Russians introduced standardized testing for college admissions in late 2000s. The stated goal was to curb regional variations in GPA (easier to get high GPA in a bad district), and to make it easier to apply to colleges outside of your immediate city [1].

The kids & parents have generally gotten used to the testing, but the teachers & educators absolutely despise it. You regularly see diatribes on social media against it. The crux of their criticism is that standardized testing emphasizes very niche test-testing skills as opposed to a holistic education.

But overall, I'd tend to agree - standardized tests are a good thing. They help streamline the admission process and make it less painful/variable, which is good thing for society as a whole.

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[1] Prior to standardized testing, each university in Russia held its own full-on series of admission exams that would take 1 to 2 weeks. Even if you were lucky and lived in a city with several universities, the logistics would limit you to 3 or 4 college applications at most. The "SAT" alleviates this, as most universities now use it as the sole application metric. So you can apply to an unlimited number of schools.

That being said, universities retained the capacity to do their own testing, for example for foreign students who didn't take the SATs. I think elite schools & programs (like a physics program at a top technical college in Moscow) may require additional testing. But overall, the admissions system they have in Russia now seems to closely approximate what you describe for Slovenia.
> I'm sure most people throughout the world would love the option. ... But are single family homes good for society?

Is not the ultimate goal of society to enable people to pursue and hopefully attain what they love?

> They use space so much more inefficiently. They encourage more electricity usage, along with other resources. They forcibly maintain the wastefulness of American car culture. They are ludicrously profligate yet have been normalized in this country.

Efficiency is not a first-order goal of society. The maximally efficient society would kill all of its citizens. Everyone walks into the oceans. Plenty of free food for the fish and no human consumption whatsoever.

The goal of society is to provide meaningful happiness to its members efficiently. It doesn't strictly increase efficiency to simply take away things people want.
> Regardless of the probability distribution of the random button, it does not change the optimal strategy.

I agree, and didn't mean to suggest otherwise. I was just referring to the specific probability computations being made.
Except it's not when it comes to peered bandwidth, like with cloudflare. Which is a big deal especially to cloudflare.

If you're in Alibaba, Azure or Google Cloud you can cut your costs by putting cloudflare in front, even though that adds another service you pay for.

And all of them have ridiculous bandwidth pricing compared to the entire rest of the hosting industry.
Do you think more strength work (i.e. weights) at the time would have helped you keep that up without injury?
You're just grumpy :-). On the plus side the computer that is controlling the robot isn't a DEC-10 in a climate controlled room so there is that.

The correct feeling here though should be compassion, here is a group that has been safely nestled in the arms of Google X and is now being pushed out of the nest like so many projects before it, which currently has one such company, Waymo, that is currently not yet dead. Statistically speaking, it is unlikely they will be able to pupate into a products company before they run out of time.

That said, it is also a truism that the constraints on robotics 50 years ago are not the constraints on robotics today. Re-implementing those ideas which had merit before but lacked a sufficiently robust ecosystem to be practical might in fact be really useful today. One hopes that they have the perspective of the excellent technical reports that SAIL produced to guide their development.
Edit: The following is mostly a non sequitur. My response was based in part on a misreading of the article's arguments. They're concerned primarily with the "consolidation" of obesity since about 1980 without any obvious changes for why. The changes for why were in the previous decades and the chickens should have come home to roost by 1980. Yet we are indeed much more obese than in 1980 but not more sedentary. So... why? This I have to say, is in fact somewhat mysterious.

I have a contention with the "obesity hasn't been reversed in any population" claim. Here in Canada, child obesity has in fact decreased in recent years, after several decades of continual increases. Given that childhood obesity, and obesity in general, has been a major social issue everyone is aware of and has been working hard on (I assume), the small decrease in proportion to the amount of energy invested, is rather depressing. Still, maybe cause for some hope.

> Something seems to have changed. But surprisingly, we don’t seem to have any idea what that thing was.

We don't? While exactly how much this is a factor is contended, I thought it was near-consensus at this point that it's because we are less physically active. The timeline certainly fits - beginning about 1890 and ending about 1975 -- that is the period from the beginning to universal adoption of the car.

Between home appliances, powered vehicles and industrial automation, many modern people don't actually have to do anything physical. Hauling their corporeal form between various chairs is literally all the exercise many people get.

This would be unfathomable to my great-grandparents. They walked to the store then hauled the groceries home. They walked a few miles every Sunday to go to church. They walked to work. They tended the fields largely with manual labour and a horse. They mowed the garden and yard, by hand. Every nail in the home, driven by hand. Ground meat for dinner? Minced by hand. And by then, industrialization had already completely changed things for them, to their own grandparents, giving them what they must have thought an amazing amount of free time and leisure. (My great-grandparents clothes were almost certainly machine-woven, for example.)

If we're eating as many calories, or slightly more, as our grandparents did, while barely moving in comparison to them, is it any surprise we all got really fat? In fairness to the paper, I suppose one could view this social change as a mimetic contagion of a sort.
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The article reads, to me, as tightly restrained.

I also wonder about the successes. I have to attribute them to people he hired--or to people they hired. There is a degree of luck there, and of being able to buy valid evaluations of prospective employees. But that isn't enough; there is still a mystery. You can see Google trying to achieve moonshot things, and failing repeatedly. Musk has lots of failures, but two actual successes.

Since he is not a genius, but has certain very good people doing really unusually good things on his behalf, I am forced to conclude he must have an HR trick that gets the best people to do their best work, and he is (just?) smart enough to get and stay out of their way.
Intelligence Killed Genius
Seconding this, especially if you have to SSH into remote or newly spun-up machines regularly.
Pretty sure I can toss a triangular cover into a triangular hole. You might be thinking of a Reuleaux triangle (which is not a triangle, narrowly conceived.)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reuleaux_triangle
This guy truly lives in his own universe.

To enter the Facebook metaverse, you need to abandon whatever preconceptions you had about humanity, ignore all social and political problems around you, and trascend all previously established limits of ignorance, arrogance and technological naivete past the gates of cyberhell. Oh, and you need love ads because, oh boy, are you getting some.
When I wrote my book, they did an early access thing at it was terrible. I was still understanding where to take my book and iterate and I was getting people telling me it sucked. Uh ya, its not finished at all yet, just v1!

Not a fan. I mean I get Betas and access to things say a month or so before launch. But not during active development.
> “Tiktok is a national security threat” hahaha. I miss trump.

More accurately, it's a potential national security threat, but not yet an actualized one.
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How'd we ever know if they did? Are there independent audits or would discovery that they have been doing that depend on a whistleblower? If we know anything about corporations it's that they have zero problems with violating laws as long as they'll have mode more money than the slap on the wrist fine or class action settlement they'd pay out assuming they are ever caught in the first place.
If it’s a game I’m excited about, I sometimes buy the early access to support the developers pre-release and only play it once it’s done.
I think I get what you're getting at, but I see a pretty big difference between a random internet comment and a person of actual power saying "Ayyy, it sure would make me happy if so and so just, ya know, got taken care of"
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I guess turbines will slow down the water, leading to more floods.
I don’t think is true at all. CAM is dramatically more advanced than it was in the 70s - easier to use, and better algorithms mean much faster pathing. Costs are way down. Tooling is cheaper and more reliable.
Share the same opinion - in fact, I downgraded back to macOS Mojave. In some ways, I guess the picture is clearer now on why macOS seems to have gone downhill. With their own ARM processors, Apple had to re-shift its focus away from Intel and make its OS work well on its own processor.

And of course, with their own ARM processors they can further dumb down macOS and lock it down like ios as that's more profitable for them in the longer run.
Does it look to anyone else like all the screen images on the website are pasted on in Photoshop, with some slightly misaligned angles that hit prime "uncanny valley"?
Why are you afraid to admit that your religion prohibits homosexuality? I'm Muslim, and we're not scared to say it.
Yes. With the collaboration on Facebook to flag "misinformation", the heavy-handed coercion over vaccines, lack of pressure on China (didn't expect this though), and now this news, I can safely say that I am very not thrilled with this administration.
Right, merkle tree! OK, so the embedding site only stores a single hash: the root one. This hashes the the remaining hashes. The first thing we fetch from the video is those hashes and if their hash doesn't match, we flag/ignore the video and refuse to play.

Multiple levels of the tree can be stored throughout the video file. The first level after the root can be for major sections, like 5 minute segments. The next levels are then at the start of each 5 minute segment, giving hashes for one second chunks.

If the root hash checks out, we get the 5-min hashes. If they check out, we get the hashes for the first 5-min block, and if those hashes check out, we start to play the video, validating every second of it against a one second hash from the 5 min block. Then we get the next 5-min hash block and so on.

Kind of thing.
I love this animation because it's beautiful, but I hate that it gives the impression of deliberate one-foot-in-front-of-the-other movement. In reality, when the "foot" of the motor protein is unbound, it is oscillating to and fro in a state of brownian motion until it happens to snap into place at the next (or, infrequently but inevitably, the previous) subunit. At this scale, quantum effects such as tunneling come into play, and it would be cool to visualize the organized thermodynamic chaos of the cell rather than the mechanical operation of a homunculus.
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Well, we already _like_ Israel, so there isn't much "convincing" to be done.
Don’t downplay the value to you in fixing bugs, customer support etc. you’ll be better equipped when you release a title that is successful.
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Of course it has no impact on Youtube.
This has a number of problems.

The most egregious is if I'm an attacker and I have the file you request I can hash the appropriate portion you'd use to verify it but fill the rest with junk or exploits. You'd receive the file, it would emit the correct hash, yet be not what you were expecting.

For video especially what you receive isn't necessarily predictable by the client. With HLS or MPEG DASH streaming the video you receive could be one of a number of different encoding e.g. lower or higher bitrates to deal with changing network conditions. The actual m3u8/mpd file you might receive could change arbitrarily as the video provider adds or drops different encodings. The hash of such a file today isn't guaranteed to match the hash tomorrow for entirely banal non-malicious reasons.

Fun fact: the UUHash algorithm used by the FastTrack network (Kazaa, Morpheus, etc) only hashed the first bit of a file. Hashing a large file took forever on hardware of the day. Even hashing small files was non-trivial. The RIAA through various fronts would insert spoofed files where the first portion of the file was legitimate but the content of the file would be junk or annoying sounds. The files would be named like any other MP3 someone was searching for and even have seemingly good IDv3 tags.
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I think long, random URIs are fine for embedded content, actually. Most embeds are short, random URIs prepended with a trendy domain name.

If you could "permalink" certain content for embeds, that'd probably solve the issues, right?
Yeah, almost all of the characterization that hit the cutting room floor wound up in the novel and the game is far richer having read the novel. The characters do actually make a lot more sense given the descriptions of their thought processes in the novel.

In some respects, The Digital Antiquarian's take here on The Dig actually is far weaker for mentioning the novel but not including it in the final review, especially when contrasted with the linked Loom review where the Audio Drama is lauded as being usefully central to the project and the understanding of it.

That said, I'm in the group that read the novel first and found the game worse because of it because you could directly see all the holes of "this thing the novel described is probably a puzzle that got dropped at the last minute" and "this scene in the novel of great importance probably was a cutscene that was cut for time" and so forth.

The Digital Antiquarian rightfully mocks OSC's somewhat hackneyed dialog and it is rare for anyone to wish the Alan Dean Foster dialog on a finished project that ADF did the novelization for (and I say that having loved many ADF novelizations nearly as much as the films), but The Dig is probably high on the list where the novel's dialog was far superior overall to the game's and it showed even beyond the internal monologues and characterization that couldn't make it into the game and/or were cut.
I think in our lifetimes, we'll know enough about the preconditions for abiogenesis to perform experiments replicating portions of the process in vitro.