skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> but this things are barely cost effective already.

This really needs some citations. Wind turbines at sea typically have well in excess of 15% return on investment over their expected lifespan and are being financed without any government subsidies these days. 15+% is not "barely cost effective" territory for this kind of capital intensive infrastructure, that is "how can I reinvest this torrent of income quick enough".
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Yeah I agree this improves diversity and combats school district segregation. I think this is exactly the intent and works as it should.
For most things in the real life that we categorize, the rules that distinguish those categories can be vague. It doesn't mean those categories are not valid, or a function of 'human perception'.

We have difficulty with biological distinction, but we can still confidently categorize something as being a 'Horse' and 'Not A Horse' ... even if sometimes it's a little bit ambiguous, aka 'Kind of a Horse'.

Edit: and as for 'other ways of thinking' it very quickly goes into metaphysics so it's hard to talk about because we don't spend much time in that realm. 'Emergence' and 'Biocentrism' are interesting ideas (fields?) that sit within more or less regular bounds of science and so they're just examples of what I'm referring to.
Or we need more privacy. Like onion sites.
I'll be honest, I didn't notice many differences between Windows 7 and Windows Vista SP1. I agree Windows Vista was absolutely terrible when it came out, but so was XP. And so was 98. And 95.
There are two things that have always set Apple apart in my opinion:

1) Landscape-shifting new product categories

2) Holistic, "scenario"-driven product design (as the author was advocating for)

#1 mostly died with Jobs, imo. But #2 seems to still have deep cultural roots at the company. They don't think in terms of component parts (at the hardware, software, UI, or any other level). They think in terms of making a device that a person can use for things they care about. They start from the top and work downward, everything else serving that ultimate end. Microsoft still doesn't do this, Google still doesn't do this.

That was enough on its own, but now 14 years of investing iPhone profits have added "sheer technical excellence" to the equation, giving them an additional edge.
Cancelling SAT (especially subject exams) is the stupidest decision I've seen anywhere. Make access more fair? Sure. Cancel it? Plain wrong!

How do I know? I'm one of those students who didn't have stellar high school grades, but I excelled in subject exams --- those subjects were genuinely interesting to me (math, science). I didn't find the rest of high school interesting, and I wasn't a nerd nerd studying anything my parents told me to study. I turned out "ok" (graduated as the top my class in college, then had a successful career in top tech companies). Without that final exam that gave me the opportunity, I probably wouldn't be typing this message today.

I'm not even counted as "diverse" (because I'm not black or hispanic) despite coming from a muslim family and middle eastern background. I can only select "white", though I'm not really white (european).

Today's admission debates and anti-racist treatments are wrong at so many levels, I don't know where to start.
Facebook is becoming AOL.
Investigational magnetic device shrinks tumor in first-in-world human test
In a sense, all of the links for the domain in question have rotted, and must be replaced. To your point, your code could replace wholesale based on the domain.
This was the standard setup for a bunch of people I knew doing windows development around then - according to them the MBP was far and away the best (laptop) windows hardware available at the time.
It will depend somewhat on the area, and you can trade panel area for battery pack capacity to a reasonable extent - but you either need a lot of panel area to power you on dark days, or you need a lot of battery to ride through those periods. Out here, at least, we'll have a week where my 5kW of panel on my office produces less than 1kWh/day, often rather significantly less.

The problem is that after 48h, then... what do you have? You need to have either enough panel area to both run loads and charge the batteries, often in dim conditions, or you need a lot more battery.

Doing reliable off grid power takes a lot more than most people who haven't dealt with it assume, especially if you're dealing with serious winters and don't want to light a generator.

I'm basing my estimates off what it would require for me to run 2.4kWh/day, year round, without generator, on my office system - and it takes a LOT. I have 5kW of panel, 10kWh of battery, a typical winter day load of around 3kWh (base loads + minimal compute loads for a work day), and I still require a couple gallons a year of gas to run this reliably. Depending on the winter, I go through 3-5 gallons of propane for heat as well, though I've been trying to move to kerosene - more efficient, as I can run a lantern as a combined heat/light plant on my desk, and heat my hands, which are the only real constraint on cold temperature work in there.

I know those numbers sound somewhat nonsensical for a 100W load, but I literally make a living in an off-grid office...
Yeah I mean you always want the best for your own kid that’s normal
BIT OFF TOPIC sorry, but - What about the crazy rain fall that's happening right now?

Could some sort of devices be placed into subway tunnels and storm drains that pushes a turbine to generate power?

Sorry if that sounds dumb, I'm just curious.
In other words, an SAT score is most meaningful at the low end of the range?
One past thread:

Feynman vs. The Abacus - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5849665 - June 2013 (33 comments)
The killer app of VR has always been virtual sex. We have made no progress towards this.

You can't do reality with just sight and sound. I suspect a 100 years from now people will look at us talking about the metaverse and virtual reality with any kind of headset as ridiculous as the old videos of people flapping wings attempting to fly. It just doesn't work.
Suppose you have a number:

x = a0 10^1 + a1 10^0 + a2 10^-1 + ...

If you write down x * x * x, you get something like:

x^3 = a0^3 10^3 + 3 a0^2 a1 10^2 + (3 a0 a1^2 + 3 a0^2 a2) 10^1 + ...

Now equate this term by term to your goal, which is:

x^3 = 1 10^3 + 7 10^2 + 2 10^1 + ...

From the first term, you get:

1 = a0^3

So a0 = 1, giving us an answer of 10 so far. Plug that in to the second term and you get:

7 = 3 a1

which gives a1 = 2---you always round down. The answer is 12 so far. We have a carry of 1, which we need to add to the next one. That gives us:

12 = 3 * 1 * 2^2 + 3 * 1^2 * a2 = 12 + 3 a2

Which leaves a2 = 0. So the answer is 12.0 so far.

As you go further, there are more and more terms hence the "scaling" phenomenon you see. Every time you are solving a polynomial equation in one variable, where the solution is an integer 0 through 9; my guess is that on an abacus you do binary search instead of root finding. On paper this sounds easy, but on the abacus it sounds impossible—each of those adds and multiplies is its own crazy sequence of steps.
Most companies ask you to install work profiles and such only after your sign on. It would be exceedingly petty of them to fire you for something like that, especially at a tech company that will definitely have the money to provide ~$300 work phones
Or that Americans aren't willing to work for the prevailing global wage that manufacturing workers demand. Why would any company keep manufacturing here when labor is so expensive? Effective manufacturing robots would allow manufacturing to move back to the us.
Governments can and do change the legal basis, and they all seem to have a problem with Big Tech right now, albeit for inconsistent reasons.
That Ocado factory had a fire recently cause by a robot collision, so the quality doesn't seem quite there yet [0]

[0] https://www.euronews.com/next/2021/07/19/ocado-warehouse-fir...
> The more we do it, the better we get at it, the more we learn about it. That’s scientifically valuable.

Can you elaborate on that?

Going into orbit, docking to a space station, and de-orbiting is already well understood. If it is about the amount of time it takes to so these activities, that is mostly due to safety or physics.
Show HN: Social word building game where you don’t complete the word
SAT is a standardized test of academic performance, where in there is an affirmed bias in what criteria you qualify as education worth testing. That bias is substantially amplified by dedicated preparation, which requires assets that are egalitarian.

This means wealthy families are substantially advantaged in SAT test performance. As a measure of preparation more than potential it may well serve as strong indicator future academic participation, but for all the wrong reasons. As such it can be used as a tool for exclusivity as a measure of anything.

To adequately test for performance biases aside divergent tests are better than conforming tests. The difference is the former tests for answer distribution, quantity, and validity where the later asserts correctness by asserting one answer against a single approved answer.
"functioning real estate markets"

Is the housing market in the Bay area really uniquely dysfunctional? High property prices are a result of demand outstripping supply. It's what you get for concentrating the entire tech industry in one place. Similar to Manhattan and the financial industry.

In that regard, the real estate market in the Bay area is basically working as intended. Or am I missing something?
"… and still working at Apple" I can't imagine someone from Apple writing a letter like that either, but mostly because OS X, at the time of this writing, was amazing and getting better at a rapid clip, while Windows was its nadir.

Are you implying that there would have been reprisal? Because this whole thing happened just a couple years before a notorious incident where Jobs walked into a meeting and asked the Macbook team why the laptops were so inferior to iPads. He was notoriously critical of their own products.
Yeah it really depends on the students' objectives/options. For Electrical/Computer Engineering majors at my University we all knew we were all going to at least get decent jobs at graduation, those going to Grad school were the minority. So it was a very collegial atmosphere for the most part.

But if you're in one of those programs where the Undergrad is fairly worthless by itself and are competing for a limited number of slots at a prestigious grad program, that's when then cutthroats start to emerge.
The last GIF is Portal
Personally as a 31 year old male, I could never get into Instagram. Always just felt like a shopping catalogue posing as social media, and the discovery is terrible, no matter how much data I try to feed it.

I love TikTok though, and not only do I feel like it "got me" after only a few hours of use without hearting anything or having any friends that use it. I've learnt about a lot of local events, restaurants and days out - in a way that seems way more organic than Instagram paid influencers.

Honestly, their algorithm has been great for me, in a way that only really Spotify has rivalled.
> Cancelling SAT (especially subject exams) is the stupidest decision I've seen anywhere. Make access more fair? Sure. Cancel it? Plain wrong!

UC doesn’t control access to the SAT, it does control whether it uses the SAT. Not using it in its current form is the strongest influence it has to incentivize change.
I get the opposite impression. The facts of many of these anecdotes would force you to believe that he must have unfathomable genius. But he honestly seems to believe that luck played a huge role; sometimes, the only role. I remember one story where someone puts a huge blueprint in front of him of some kind of plumbing installation of immense complexity. It’s not working right. He feels overwhelmed, so, just to have something to say, he points at random at a valve and asks what it does. That turned out to be the key that let them solve the issue. He thinks this is just blind luck, because he had no idea what anything did in the diagram. I think it’s more likely that his genius subconscious saw something.
Interesting, thanks for the insights
I use Domainy

https://www.domainy.io

to monitor interesting domains being expired and to also find interesting domains that are available.

twitter.accountant? what about twitter.beauty?

Domains are not exactly available when they expire, but this helps me to check if any of them become available.
You will not be a fan of recipe blogs anywhere on the internet.
Or maybe it disagrees with your worldview, you can't wrap your head around other people's beliefs and refuse to even try to understand where they may be coming from (making you a de-facto bigot), and you call it a name because you don't care to understand it or unwrap it.
This sums up my return to the iPhone. I was an android user from 2012 to 2018. I loved messing with things, customizing, problem-solving when things would break.

And then eventually, I just... got over it. There were other things I'd rather spend my finite energy on. I wanted my phone to do phone things and do them well, and without me having to think about it.
There is a risk that good intentioned regulations become a barrier to entry that only large, well-resourced organizations can meet.

For example, what if "management" is a one or two person startup?

Maybe punishment is not the answer, but rather liability insurance coverage requirements. Or treat it like workers compensation where a small tax funds an insurance pool. And make it so repeat offenders get charged an increasingly higher tax rate.
Congrats on your launch! I’m just another Brazilian here cheering for more companies to be part of YC.

Wish all the best and success to you!
I acknowledge that there is controversy over Ingram calling himself an Arahat. I think it's a disagreement about the definition. Ingram has been very clear about what he thinks the requirements for being an Arahat are and why he thinks he satisfies those requirements. One could argue that his definition does not meet the requirements of the title.

Regardless of what you think of his definition of an Arahat is, Ingram's book is the best written reference I know for describing the "Deep End" of meditation, and the "Progress of Insight" as it can manifest in practical terms.

The article talks about Willoughby britten and Daniel Ingram as references. Here's a video of them being interviewed together.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kTLr0gqQTuU&t=2453s

Shinzen Young is a good person to talk to about the "Deep End" of meditation. He doesn't write a lot but here's a video of him talking about the distinction between "Dark Night"/"Dukka Nanas" and mental health issues.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BQ5B70ac_9M&t=56s

I'm horrified that there are "certified" meditation instructors that don't know this stuff.
There's some highly incompetent government officials handing out money.

In the abstract, I think EV-credits are still a good idea. But some of these side-bonuses... such as the "fast charging EV" credits Tesla got for that silly replacement-battery demo... that was bullshit. They took the government's money and then never actually delivered the product (and seems to never have even intended to go beyond taking the government's money).

I mean, sure. We can maybe clap that Elon Musk managed to grab an easy-to-get tax credit and make himself richer. But people's tax dollars were supposed to go towards finding a way to make EVs charge faster. Not for a grifter who didn't even intend to make battery-replacements a real thing.

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The good news is that I'm learning. I dunno if everyone else is learning, but I'm watching this guy. I know what to watch out for if these things pop up within my sphere of influence.

But that's about it. I don't know what to do about it from a policy / political standpoint. Some people want to get grifted: they cheer at these events that haven't actually made any progress.

Solar Roofs, New York / Buffalo jobs, Solar City making revenue for the TSLA shareholders... etc. etc. Same thing. Lots of promises, lots of lies, and very little effort towards making it true. Over and over and over again.

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Its PT Barnum all over again. Mark Twain's fence-painting parable says it best...
Myth: Tail-Recursive Functions Are Much Faster Than Recursive Functions
Hello. We are a group of 5 friends, and are proud to present the Ghost Game at https://ghostgame.io
We used to play this spoken word game in college. It was a fun way to pass time as a parallel thread in our conversations.

The idea is to continue the word fragment by adding a letter, but always keep a larger word in mind. If the next player believes you have completed the word or there can be no word beginning with that prefix, they can challenge you.

We worked on this as a neat little side project. It's built on simple FE stack (HTML, CSS, JS) and uses Firebase in the backend to maintain the game state and logic.

Get on a call, create a room, and play with friends, family and coworkers. Remember, the conversations are an integral part of the experience!

Let us know how you like it.
The problem of the flagging isn't so much of an issue, if it weren't for the fear that you don't know whether you can get an actual human being at Google to get in touch with you.
afaik a lot of extensions aren't fully supported yet. I tried about a dozen different tab managers on FF Nightly, none of them worked. I'm guessing the Tab API or something isn't fully ported yet
> I'm not even counted as "diverse" (because I'm not black or hispanic) despite coming from a muslim family and middle eastern background. I can only select "white", though I'm not white white.

Should that even matter for admission purposes?
Yep. Currently working there as a dev on a team completely unrelated to Apple (i.e., i am not working on iOS apps or anything else that even remotely requires a macbook), using a company-issued macbook pro. And of course, you are always welcome to bring your own machine of any kind, as long as it allows you to do things you are doing for work (e.g., if you are working on something super-windows-specific that just straight up cannot be done on macOS, well, you better get a different machine or install windows on your macbook through Bootcamp).
> Why should my chance of getting into college be hampered by where my parents live or what color skin they gave me?

Why should theirs be hampered by the same?
Sure, a much stronger argument can be made from Leviticus than S&G, but S&G features showing divine judgement and doesn't invite pointing out the way the way OT rules are cherry-picked by Christians (even if it is canonical cherry-picking, since it is specified in the NT.)
They can't even give me relevant ads in youtube, you think they are going to solve all those problems in 20 years? not even in 200
> There is no real evidence for the idea that a difference in scores predicts a difference in performance,

Except for the gigantic study commissioned by the UC system the article references?

“ Second, while high-school GPA has been found to be more predictive of success at college than standardized test scores at some schools, the exact opposite turns out to be true for students at UC schools. There, standardized test scores say more about which applicants are likely to earn a degree and to do it in less than eight years; they also correlate strongly with students’ GPA at the university.”
Thanks, I didn't find it clear from the article and had no desire to go looking for content.
I don't doubt the claim, but this story is so specific ("the cube root of 1729.03") that it seems plausible there may be at least some truth to it. And it starts off with him being soundly beaten in adding and multiplying, so it's not totally egotistical. (I get that it's still pretty egotistical, since the parable is that he understands the actual numbers while the salesman is just using a rote, mechanical process without fully understanding the underlying theory.)

I could definitely see him totally making this up by working in reverse (decide to teach a lesson about mechanical vs. fundamental understanding, start with a tough operation, pick a mentally tractable number like a bit over 1728, tack on the simpler arithmetic contests before it to contrast and build tension), so I'm not saying it's a good argument for it being real. Just that it's tough to say one way or another.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inflation#Money_supply
I take your point for sure, but, that's not really what we're comparing against, is it?

The comparison is more like google drive, or whatever MS's version of that is now. At that point the distinction seems relatively minor to me.
Capslock as esc/ctrl is great.
Or Delete/Cmd.
Whatever actually, as long as it’s not capslock.
But in some sense Shazam has it very easy - it is working from a discrete set of specific audio recordings, not, say, the set of artists, or the set of songs. Shazam is useless for live performances, or covers (by different band) of songs (unless those specific recordings are also in Shazam's database). Birdnet is tackling the problem of trying to get some essential properties of one species' song (and each bird is a new live performance, by a different cover artist).

There used to be an an app called Midomi (I think?) that could identify songs by humming or you singing, which was cool, but then I vaguely remember it rebranding itself and being less useful. Does anyone else know of a song-recognition app that is more like BirdNet and less like Shazam?
The Dig and SC2 are very different games, but they share one key theme: the touch of unknown, a great mystery that lies beyond. And I loved them for it.
> "deep entrenchment into the enterprise"

If that was all it took, Sun Microsystems would still be alive too.
SpaceX to launch the Europa Clipper mission for a bargain price
Things That Fall [audio]
No it shouldn't, but as a society we seem to want it to so it does.

Sowell has an interesting take on AA and believes it actually does more harm than good because it pits those subject to it against scenarios they have not been prepared to handle and thus in turn results in over-stress, higher rates of failure, and ultimately disillusionment.
This is factually true and irrelevant.
War is no longer declared; even when taking on actions that normally require war
Those have gotten way worse. It’s an SEO thing right?
> No you don't. For further reference, also look at the other library privilege-separation techniques I linked.

> Yes. Such as C.

Am I missing something? Your page lists the following privilege separation links:

- Google's SFI paper: that only works in NaCL environments, and does not support "regular" C libraries

- Wikipedia link to capabilities - no mention of C there, only Java and C#

- Stack inspection - trivially bypassed in C

- "Capability-safe architectures such as CHERI" - does not apply to common x86 servers.

- "Multics-style "call gates"" - this is Multix specific, no such facilities exists in modern OSes

So, if I have a modern app written in C or Python, which runs on regular Linux machine, and let's say there is a library which keeps running out of memory and crashing - what are my options? It looks like none of the links you mentioned apply.