skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> so the superior groups and will dominate.

That may be true by definition, if your definition is that superior groups eventually dominate, but that's of course just tautology.

However, depending on how you define "superior", for example "more intelligent and honest", or "more compassionate and fairer", could be what most people have in mind, then that may not be true at all. In human societies, throughout history, it's likely that who dominates is actually the most brutal and reckless, up to a point where people actually become accountable for their actions.
I liked this video. With the glaring exception of wandavision. Characters in that series are constantly telling her that what she is doing is wrong. There is no ambiguity that it's an evil selfish thing she is doing. It's also unintentional and subconscious because she can't control her powers and frankly she is weak. Her sacrifice is the loss of her children and husband because she recognizes she has to restore freedom to the innocents. This part of the analysis felt extremely unfair.
Sure, makes sense. The way I see it that Julia's differentiable programming features seem like a really good match for building stuff in this framework.
See, no, the second you put in "superior" then you left any idea of a free market. The idea of a free market doesn't claim to make any value judgement of what group is better, the free market is purely about selecting fair prices for commodities.

Your idea of superior groups and so on based on success on the free market is basically social darwinism.
Actually, it's exceedingly common with typical RDBMS that deletes are highly deleterious and time costly transactions to process die to locking database tables for a copious amount of time, bringing the system to a screeching halt. This is why general practice is to modify the the data in place and leave it there in an OLTP system.
‘Not the time to go poking around’: How former U.S. hackers view Russia
Hey, I did not know about EasyOrg. Well done, looks great!

Welcome to the non-Emacs org family :) apologies if it was just me not noticing before!

Consider adding EasyOrg to https://gitlab.com/publicvoit/orgdown/-/blob/master/doc/Tool...
When a seismic network failed, citizen science stepped in
> with Gmail, where you were so aggressive about mining receipt data from Amazon that when I get a receipt from Amazon now it doesn’t actually include what I bought because Amazon are terrified you’ll use that data to profile me and sell more ads

I'm curious if Amazon uses different formatting depending on the recipient's email address?

I use Fastmail and checked my order confirmation (not sure if that is the same as a recipt) from a recent order, and it does not list the item I bought. However, at the bottom it does have a "Customers Who Bought Items In Your Order Also Bought" section which lists a couple similar items to mine.

Do they still have that on the ones send to gmail?
Enchanting in Morrowind is very easy to cheese. First, you iteratively make intelligence potions, which boost the potency of your intelligence potions. After your intelligence is in the 1000s, you can successfully enchant overpowered effects.

You can also just not do that though. I did it after a while for fun, but the game was a lot more fulfilling when I had to find good items in the world.
Even supporting the Ukrainian side, it’s clear that they’re taking heavy losses and doubly so on the civilian side. What I think people are correctly surprised by is how well the Ukrainians are utilizing NATO training an arms, and how badly the Russians are performing.
This is at least true in the north; the Russians are doing better in the south, but those positions would be hard to maintain if the north collapses.

I'm puzzled why more attention isn't focused on Russia's progress in the south and naval superiority. They clearly want Ukraine and the world to accept its annexation of Crimea and bolstering the zone around it is shaping up to be a point of negotiation, as they made clear in one of Putin's demands about a week ago (that was rejected).

Regarding Taiwan restoring conscription: They never got rid of it, but basically reduced it from 2 years to 4 months with lots of exceptions. It's amazing they don't follow the model of Israel and South Korea, considering the PRC menace, constant posturing, and aggressive territory grabs in the South China Sea.
My dad calls it the Financial deus-ex-machina. Every single financial newspaper does it. To be fair, they gotta report what happened with the market so the headline has to capture something in addition to simply "DOW down 300 points". It is not useless, quite the contrary - you get an idea about facts + some context in less than a second of reading the headline. That's efficiency! No one is going to make correlation-is-not-causation arguments off of a morning headline. But it is funny:

“DOW down 300 points as investors worry about Russian aggression”

Next day:

“DOW up 300 points as investors re-assess the Russian aggression”

The financial world cracks me up. Dial in any earnings call to play the headwinds, tailwinds, double-down, as we continue to, can you add color to that?, etc bingo.
Y’all know he died of cancer, right?
>How about we just stop electing people who are going to use power against their own citizens? If you think that's impossible, then how about we change the system such that it is.

Neither of it is possible the average Joe/Jill buys into all the bs sprouted by the powers.
Neat! Looks like that just became my new front-runner.

I'm still happy with OpenWRT on my WNDR3800 for now either way.
Not to be insensitive, but ADHD is a learning disability. Are we saying that anyone can be taught anything? That seems unrealistic to me.
I do not understand how self directed learning like this is expected to work at all for children.

If you replace a high school with letting the students do whatever interests them, a small fraction might study something, and the majority will spend the time watching tiktok, playing league or legends / fortnite, listening to music, etc. maybe you think that letting kids do whatever they want for “education” like this is better, but IMO this proposal is much worse than the current system of directing students to spend time on things that are moderately useful to society and determined to be valuable to intellectual development
I just had my first child at age 40 and of course my experience is similar to yours. I can't help but wonder if delaying (or eschewing) having children is contributing to what seems to be a broadening generational gap. I'm learning lessons in early middle-age that previous generations learned in their early twenties. I could have used some of this new empathy I'm feeling for my parents and their generation 15-20 years ago.
I just like straightforward linear conversations in which questions are asked and answered.

I don't like endless come-ons in which questions are responded to (not answered!) with more questions and a sentence fragment that seems designed as a push to move past the question.
The article is about REST API design, not JSON APIs! It’s a whole different ballpark.
Holy crap, the Comer XINU book is still around. I used that in my undergrad Systems course in the mid ‘80s…
PowerPoint and Keynote both export to MP4 or GIF, as far as I remember. Keynote's "Magic Move" transition does a nice job of tweening the keyframes between starting and ending positions of the animated object.
>"Healthcare was only ever offered as a perk because employers could pay for it pre-tax instead of post tax, but individual employees could not do the same with their own money."

This is completely false. Employer-based healthcare was a consequence of World War 2. The US Congress passed 1942 Stabilization Act in order to combat inflation. As a result of this legislation employers could not compete for workers using wages alone. Employers then began to offer health benefits a perk and since that perk was not compensation it was not taxed. This fact is actually well-documented.[1][2]. It was offered in lieu of compensation and pre-tax vs post-tax status had nothing to do with the birth of this.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stabilization_Act_of_1942

[2] https://www.chicagotribune.com/opinion/commentary/ct-obamaca...
Yes, people will attempt to defeat systems to their own benefit. That is why these policies discussed in the article exist -- to harden the system to such attempts.

"Wrong" in your comment is underspecified. It depends what you mean by the word.
Which author?
Cramming is not memorization. It's not optimal studying, sure, but you've still learned something.
The populists win the French election no matter who wins. The left has collapsed completely, and Macron is sounding pretty right wing attacking wokeness and defending western values versus Islam.
I’d wager that a lot of people using HDHPs are doing so in order to be allowed to use HSAs as a stealth (but best) additional retirement account.

https://www.madfientist.com/ultimate-retirement-account/
> From the stand-point of total compensation being salary+benefits+ISOs+Other, why wouldn't you consider this a pay-cut?

Because of everything you wrote in your first sentence. It's a tiny detail and a non-issue that's getting disproportionate publicity.
I really wouldn't consider, "a budget larger than, 'x'" one of the defining traits of what, "a movie" is. That's gatekeeping.
I have a nit to pick here:

> Elden Ring just isn't very mechanically difficult. Most enemies telegraph their attacks with massive, seconds-long animations that give players plenty of time to react with a well-timed dodge, block, or parry.

The windup animations in Elden Ring have random lengths. This makes them unreliable for executing dodges et.al., though they do tell you how to react. The timing of the defense relies on the start of the actual attack, which is tight.

I noticed this difference because I’ve been working through Demon’s Souls lately, where the animation lengths are static.

In other words, Elden Ring relies on mechanical difficulty as much as everything else to keep the game challenging for long time fans.
Local news at least has one advantage over cable news; it only runs for a few hours a day so they aren't trying to stretch everything out to fill a full 24/7 schedule. But even so it's still crap, I don't watch local TV news either. The only TV news I've ever considered to be worth a damn was News Hour with Jim Lehrer, which was only an hour a day. Even in that case, I might just have rose-tinted glasses on.
YC has been an invaluable resource for me.

An acquaintance was in the 3rd batch of founders and turned me on to the ecosystem and community here. Around that time, I was a few years out of high school and working for minimum wage at a pizza shop.

I was experimenting with web design, making a few extra dollars running google ads on phpBB forums, and learning to code in the process. I never realized my geeky side could translate into something entrepreneurial until I started spending time here. Tracking the progress of my friend and this community planted a seed that turned into a dream of someday being a founder.

Today, my two business partners and I have been running a successful software business for almost a decade. We were distributed before it was mainstream. We're in the WordPress space and have a team of 20+ people all over the globe. I've had the opportunity to travel, meet investors, smoke cigars with business heroes, sleep in if I want to, and enjoy an exciting and fulfilling life.

I still find myself regularly googling about issues that arise in my company with "hacker news" appended to the end of the query. The stories here helped us navigate a very stressful M&A process and countless other "business stuff" hurdles that we encountered over the years (ie business insurance "hacker news").

YC provided me with direction and inspiration when I was floundering around in my early years. The simple ideas that you don't need an MBA to start a business and being an odd duck is a valuable entrepreneurial trait were life-changing. The community and discussions here are where I come to learn and be inspired. I sincerely hope it continues to be that for myself and others for many more years to come.

Thanks YC!
This is politics in its finest.

China will not be able to handle the rise in fossil fuel prices and will perhaps be the country to ask Russia to stop it's invasion of Ukraine because it hurts China too much because of this.

USA wants this. It's not something that had just happened. This is a coordinated effort based on good intelligence work. Imo.

Xi Jinping is also running for election soon and is under massive internal pressure. So he has to act.

Not sure where this will leave Russia but they will be the one who lose because the pressure from the outside is to much. But sanctions will likely continue and Russia will be doomed.
As a parent it becomes super apparent how many interested parties, especially child-less interested parties, are interested in capturing the minds of your kids. Be it to make a buck, to further their political cause or for something sexual/nefarious. Or even usurping their minds and psyche into something destructive as an ignorant and unintended consequence.

Then all the "stupid" authoritarian, seemingly arbitrary and maybe even paranoid shit your parents pulled all of a sudden comes into focus and understanding. You, more easily see, how irrational panics happen/occur and sometimes when those panics aren't entirely unjustified
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On the other hand (as a father of two) I find myself thinking about how my dad handled situations, comparing how I just handled it, and going, “wow did he have that backwards” haha. Not all the time of course and like you I have definitely come to appreciate how tough it is to make the “right” call, but we certainly have learned some things.
One thing Boomer parents were really bad about - at least in my experience - was building a healthy relationship with food and meals in general. So much punishment and reward centers around food, it’s quite upsetting when you really think about it.

I’ve had quite a few friends in my life - men and women - with eating disorders of all shapes and sizes. You can almost always find stories involving their parents at the core of them. Making everyone sit at the table until the last person has finished their plate, the old “starving children in Africa” line we’ve all heard at least secondhand, forcing toddlers to eat everything and then they get dessert as a direct reward (which often ignores teaching them how to read signs that they’re full). The list goes on.
You're right that it's not a coincidence, but that's more a reflection of the video's author than its subject matter. I agree that the depictions of female characters in question are shallow and uninteresting, but I wonder what you're watching if you think recent blockbuster movies with male leads are much better.
Well, I suppose the devil's advocate argument is once you get to this stage (publicly traded company), the company's priority is no longer just "do things to get traction", but also "do things to support share price". You could argue the ex consultant MBA type product manager is better suited to solve a problem that institutional investors run by ex finance MBA types have.
UK startup is raising funds for Open Power processor
Same boat, same feeling. But I also think there are mistakes we aren’t making, a maturity that will lead to perhaps enhanced outcomes for our kids even if not for us.
Red Semiconductor Ltd. is a UK startup designing a family of “auditable” microprocessors based on the Open Power processor instruction set architecture. The processor is intended to run the Linux operating system amongst others and will be able to run x86 code in native mode thanks to emulation capabilities, according…
Ask HN: Death Comes in Threes?
Hi, any thoughts/theories/anecdotes/references/readings/etc. about this superstition?
What “due process” exists to rectify a lie on the internet? I’m not aware of any. A teeny tiny percentage of the audience who consumes a lie might happen upon the correction at a later point in time but by then it’s too late. The first lie wins. Overwhelmingly. And we (as individuals and as a society) have almost no recourse whatsoever.
I wonder if they carry the same serious side effect risk of the mRNA covid vaccines that are currently available: (permanent) heart damage, death and persistent long covid like side effects. Maybe a whole new set of them?

I would love to get a safe and effective HIV vaccine, but I wouldn‘t take it if it could give me a heart attack!
the # if people in the US with glucose monitors says differently.
In the first case, they complain, and there's ~750 of them (in the course I TAed) so even a small number can take up a lot of time. The right way to think about it is for a small additional bit of time spent clarifying instructions you save yourself a larger amount of time later.

In the second case, it does depend upon how much the instructor feels it's their duty to uphold the integrity of the grades in their class. I'm not sure if I would have made the same choice in my advisor's shoes, but that is the decision he made.
If you would like to turn your ideas into a scientific investigation (for example, by coming up with a testable conjecture) the first thing to do is to clarify your terminology. Not necessarily to bring it in line with established terminology, although personally I don't like the proliferation of terms. But at least, you would need to pin down what you mean by neologisms such as "artificial glia" and the neoteric use of "engram" in the context of ANNs. Establishing clear terminology will help you tremendously to minimise the potential for misunderstanding of your ideas.

I think you're proposing a collaboration? I'm afraid I must very firmly discourage it. I'm currently writing my thesis and cannot justify any work outside of it. HN is a guilty pleasure that I really shouldn't be indulging in. But, thank you for the proposal, I'm flattered.
Great Celebrity Memoirs?
I’ve read a lot of great celebrity memoirs that surprised and moved me (Will Smith, Mel Brooks, matthew mcconaughey, Arnold Schwartzenegger) and I’d like to get more into business or tech memoirs. Any strong refs?
What makes Canada more attractive to Indians than the United States?
All this talk about encircling Ukrainian forces and taking ground would have made sense if the Russians had additional echelons to continue the rapid advance while the first one sieges. Without a second and third echelon the first one will simply have larger and more vulnerable flanks if they encircle cities.

But they have only one echelon which didn't get any objectives. Given the bad logistics and attrition it needs to take the cities or the war is lost. And even if they take the cities the subsequent insurgency can still kick them out of the country.

Putin simply did not bring enough troops, hoping that either Ukraine would collapse or that the expensive weaponry (cruise missiles, jets, attack helicopters, modernized tanks) would be much more effective than it is. Soviet doctrine talks about requiring 3:1 or even 5:1 advantage against entrenched adversaries, but they have brought about parity, with Ukraine rapidly getting more volunteers and Western gear in the defensible cities.
A long time back I had see the video. Not the best points in the video, a little like how to make a million bucks. The concept is sound but the execution is hard. Most independent thinkers cannot even conceive of a parallel society. For the few that do, the numbers are really tiny, to the point that bumping into each other is near impossible. Either that, or they are so off radar that it's impossible to find them.
The question I don’t have an answer for here is how does Russia control Ukraine if they do win militarily? It seems incredibly unlikely that they have enough troops and doesn’t seem remotely sustainable.
Actually, free markets are only efficient if p=np.

(They are not strong form efficient, that was disproven long ago, and are only weak form efficient if p=np)

Unfortunately, this hasn't stopped people from believing in them anyway, because they really really want them to work, and people "feel" like they should
But since it’s not a generation facility and has a 70% efficiency, that implies it stored and returned 2506 GWh of electricity. At peak retail prices where I am in California (absurdly expensive) that’s worth over 1.5 billion dollars. Obviously you won’t have retail pricing, the market is different and you have transmission costs, etc. but the economics are still surprising. 200 $/kWh might be perfectly fine for a safe, low-maintenance, environment friendly storage that can be used with no time constraints.
The root of it, for me, is that most of my choices as I grow older are compromises for the sake of ease, or from of a sense of obligation to my wife and kids. Like I recognize that different, harder choices could make me richer, or leaner, or more accomplished, or whatever, but I'm often exhausted and such choices would often be harder on everyone else in the family too. So rather than ice cream and Lamborghinis and video games, my examples would be: living in a small downtown apartment, not having a TV, walking or bicycling everywhere, prioritizing 8 hours of sleep and another hour of exercise, and going into a long disconnected "deep work" state everyday. Instead, we live in a big house in the suburbs with a two-car garage for our minivan and tons of other stuff, and everybody watches too much streaming video, and sleep and exercise are things I do only after everything else is done, and I remain near-constantly connected for the people who depend on me. I love them, but I also just wish that I could "have it all."
We don’t have a cryptographic proof on each statistics both sides news give us.
They're both important, but I think having exams given by a separate person or organization might be a win in some cases?

It might mean more teaching to the test, though.
People love to lampoon Fukuyama, but he merely put into words and placed on a pedestal an entire mindset (which continues to persist) that has proven to be highly flawed. I am grateful he exists as at least a small focal point people can bring up. Even now the world just continues with this hazy 'everything's gonna be better eventually' talk that is well loved and perpetuated even in the face of an opposing reality.
>tests simply estimate whether someone has memorized the material sufficiently for a short 1 hour exam.

I feel a deep sadness reading this. Is your computer science curriculum more accurately described as a software engineering curriculum?

Memorization should be virtually irrelevant on most computer science exams. Proofs should be core to computer science exams; the ability to reason is the most fundamental skill to all scientists, especially for fields which are tightly coupled to mathematics.
So there’s nothing wrong with pharma sponsored conferences for doctors right?

Yes corporations understand conferences because there’s a benefit to being a sponsor/running one. One needn’t ignore conflicts of interests.
Interesting! Do you find that returning an array of errors works in practice?

Most validation I’ve seen looks like:

raise error if foo
raise other_error if bar

This pattern turns into one exception per response, and some foresight in architecting exceptions would be needed
> The UEFI is persistently running at the background, has communication pipes with the OS

this isn't true, it ceases running once it transfers execution

you're thinking of the SMM, which is something else entirely
What Happens When Cases Rise?
What calc books are those? Reading a calculus book is a massive investment because I will be rereading pages. So I’d like to find the best one first