skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My dyslexia is so bad that these types of tests were/are a total barrier to entry for me and folks like myself.

Fortunately, tech is one high-paying industry where an IT degree from a great university and certifications are not required to get a job making good money. I was able to learn system administration - network engineering at the community college and use online resources.

If there is one positive is that MIT has a very small undergraduate class so the impact will be minimal across the global cohorts of future college students. Perhaps perspective students will stop applying to that school and focus their application strategy on schools that do not have this requirement.
This is an extremely editorialized title.

The thread is about a law firm that got a un resolution passed to ban the use of mercury as a satellite propellant, on the basis of a company that used it in their thrusters, that was in the process of selling the tech to spacex.

What it doesn’t say:

* whether spacex bought it or not

* whether spacex ever used it or not

* whether spacex still plans to use it or not

… and if I’m reading it right, it sounds like the resolution was passed, which ought to mean that spacex doesn’t plan to use it, because that’d be a violation of un treaty.
> The heritability of IQ,

For better or for worse, regression to the mean is a thing.
The Siege team also did a pretty interesting talk about running game servers in the cloud and the trade offs : https://www.gdcvault.com/browse/gdc-17/play/1024036

It’s quite old now but interesting for anyone whose experience is purely running on their own hardware.
> There are previously popular genres that are either in sharp decline or basically dead (RTS comes to mind).

And other genres that are extremely popular that didn't exist a few years ago. Also, there are good new RTS titles out there, even if there's nothing with the popularity that Starcraft or whatever had back in the day.

> Other genres (MMOs) have been almost completely taken over by games with freemium models and there are few options available if you're not into that.

The most popular MMOs right now is likely FFXIV (not freemium), followed by WoW (not freemium). (Or it might still be the other way around; either way...) There are a lot of freemium model MMOs around, but most of them launched with a subscription model, failed to compete with the dominant subscription model MMOs, and fell back to freemium to try and survive. Taken as a whole, the genre is absolutely dominated by the subscription model; that's where the players and money is. And while no, there aren't a ton of subscription options, that's largely an inevitable consequence of the business model, which has vicious network effects.

There isn't a freemium MMO developer out there that wouldn't trade a kidney in a heartbeat to become the next Everquest/WoW/FFXIV. Conversely, if WoW ever went freemium, it would be universally recognised as a sign of abject failure and a last attempt to try and stabilise the game financially before the servers get shut down.

> there's a limit to the kinds of games that can come from a small team with a small budget

The limit exists, but it seems to be ever receding into the distance. Valheim or Rimworld are both stunning, developed on a shoestring budget by tiny teams.

> Meanwhile, extensive monetization is creeping into more and more big franchises and studios.

You don't have to play games from the big franchises or studios.
Holy shit this is exactly what I'm looking for! Thanks.
Ask HN: How to prevent internal users from overloading shared data stores?
Imagine you have a database or service that multiple teams leverage for their service. Sometimes, those users release code that adds or accesses data in a new way that causes issues for the infrastructure and all other tenants. How would you prevent this? How do you manage shared infrastructure in a many-team environment?
Yeah the us and Russia are at war here the battlefield just happens to be in Ukraine. It’s a limited war though.
If you want to bring someone around to your position, you need to have an actual conversation.

First of all, you need to listen, with your mouth closed, while the other person explains their position--without being forced to defend it. You can ask probing questions, of course (They think that Ukraine needs to be liberated from the Nazis? Have them elaborate about the Nazi problem.), but avoid becoming adversarial or contrarian. Investigate their beliefs, trace them down to their foundations, and then undermine said foundations. The belief that "Ukraine needs to be liberated from the Nazis" may be based on some article claiming that Zelenski is a Nazi.

Once you understand the foundations of a belief, you're in business. If you're objectively correct, you should be able to provide incontrovertible evidence that you are correct. If your evidence is not acceptable (because, for example, it comes from a source the other guy doesn't trust), then find other proof. If you can't, ask yourself what that means.

After you've undermined one of these foundations, (perhaps, by proving that Zelenski is very unlikely to be a Nazi) remind the other party that their belief that "Ukraine needs to be liberated from the Nazis" was based on this fact, and ask if they still believe it. They will, of course, and they'll present some new justification.

Rinse and repeat.

It goes without saying that this process almost never plays out. It requires that both parties be interested in having the conversation, both parties participate in good faith, and both parties are committed to Truth more than to their on cognitive comfort.

After all, how many hours of your life would you spend in conversation with a Russian relative who wanted to convince you that your worldview is based on lies?
Their obviously wasn't much thought put in to this. Anywhere that a conflict of interest occurs has potential for abuse. If the officer/employee/agent has the ability to influence the result and profit then their is a conflict of interest. The legal ramifications are lessened and the cost to benefit subsequently decreases.

Auditors are a good example. They have privileged information and are responsible for the fairness of financial information / disclosure. Their incentives are already complicated by the compensation structure, i.e. the company they attest for pays their fee and ultimately decides whether they will work together in the future.

In this instance, an abolishment to insider trading regulation would ultimately undermine trust in the financial reporting system. The auditors could potentially place bets on their engagements and negotiate results based on their interests. Impartiality would be compromised. There are safeguards in place currently, penalties for insider trading are part of the remedy.
I’d say you’ve got more straw men in that loaded question than farmers have in their field.

You’re taking poorly summarized opinions and pretending that combination of opinions are held by a group of significant size.
Thanks for sharing your thought. There's old car fans but not much old house fans. For Japan, the new earthquake resistance standards was introduced in 1981 so not all prior houses are guaranteed to safe. Old houses could be interesting but almost all 1981 house isn't interesting but just obsoleted. Insulation is also a huge factor.
I always thought of “postfix” as in prefix, infix, and postfix operators[1].

Curious if this was an intentional pun.

1. https://panda.ime.usp.br/pythonds/static/pythonds_pt/02-EDBa...
Yeah but this is less about actual transfer efficiency and more about novel ways to overcome the limits of what is allowed to be submitted.
Right, path discovery I get, but this was the first I'd heard of PSH bit possibly interacting negatively. That said, I'm not sure why it would. Buffering is normally only if you are > MSS? And why would pushing up to application change path discovery?
I am sorry, but this just a good research topic... maybe some team in NCBI will do this and publish one article, and then finish. It can't generate any value for people who is not researcher
A lot of these places are located in counties or states with lax regulations and rules around this. The one I went to "lost" a few of my classmates' patient notes and histories. Also, a lot of the stuff they do isn't illegal. It's just emotionally abusive at times, but because you have all this "support" and attention around its not really seen as neglect. All the kids look healthy, they're exercising, eating three times a day, and their grades are usually better than ever. I do not know a single person from my few years in the troubled teen industry who actually feels better. I've lost 3 of my classmates to suicide in the 3-4 years following treatment. These programs take advantage of families in very vulnerable times.

Unfortunately, you only ever hear about anecdotes because there isn't a lot of genuine research done about efficacy, and since its teens, its all very restricted.
It's expensive to hire even halfway competent developers. Local governments aren't big enough to even have good IT departments, nevermind actual software development.

I do wonder sometimes why stuff like Squarespace isn't used more often. It seems like at least the informational pages could look nice, even if the stuff that requires custom logic looks terrible.
Can you get Amazon same-day delivery there, or is that also restricted?
Seems like the loss of key industries is all but a foregone conclusion at this point.

Example: EVs. US has lagged behind so much in this while China has got tons of EV companies that are about to launch in the US. Sure the US could ban them, the next day China will ban US auto companies and seize their factories. How will the big three survive losing the Chinese market? Isn't that the only major growth market? They will be forced to open up to the Chinese makers. Have you seen their cars? They seem very competitive. Only people who won't consider them are the towns being supported by auto jobs and the "rural" MURICA folks. Everyone else will eat them up.

Repeat this for many other industries. I don't see how we can turn around from where we are at this point.
I have been using yubico with chrome for the past 5 years and not encountered an issue like this. Check your browser settings as I believe there might be a policy in chrome to delete cookies after a period or upon exit.

Otherwise maybe contact yubico support or open a ticket on the Google chrome forums, they provide pretty useful advice.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brandolini%27s_law

It wouldn't need a name if it wasn't common.

And here's a book on it for you:

https://www.callingbullshit.org/
You're an awesome writer haha do more startups please, you'll probably be able to make a decent amount of money as a writer too
If I understand you correctly you are assuming that being valedictorian, scoring 1510+ and scoring 1600 are all independent events.
Unless you happened to get hired on by some organization like the Catholic church that was willing to pay for art and music, there hasn't been job security for creative professions pretty much throughout history.

It was musicians who seem to have coined the word "gig" back in the 1920s. The usage of the term is a reference to what they have always been dealing with.
The pinetime can basically do anything you want it to, as long as you're willing to make it so. I'm wearing it on my wrist right now, but I have an iPhone and the support for it is not great. In terms of build quality, it's quite good, and the battery lasts for about a week. It's slimmer than an apple watch, which is a major plus for me. But if you have an iphone, step tracking and limited music control is all you'll get in terms of accessory use. You can always contribute, however, and there is a very active community working on the firmware in the github repo (https://github.com/InfiniTimeOrg/InfiniTime).

The thing that the PineTime does really well, however, is beat the price tag of basically every other smartwatch out there ($30). I'm not sure how chip-shortage prices might be affecting this though...
What problems does it solve for the authors? The features you describe above don't seem a problem in the current solutions; freedom and availability is a non-issue for authors, "to avoid oblivion each uni/researcher can easily store and serve their own papers forever" is a flaw not a feature (there are already far too many ways to do that, which only add extra burden to the authors if they want to "be everywhere" for the sake of availability), it doesn't seem that it would be easier than the current way; the resources/effort needed would be small but non-zero, so it sounds like just an extra annoyance, not something beneficial.

And if it solves some problems for someone else but not the authors, then how would a comprehensive majority of papers enter the system? Papers are even less interchangeable than movies; if you want to have a particular movie and it isn't available on PopcornTime, you might watch something else, for papers you just have to go elsewhere that actually does have everything.
Interacting with gob.es has given my a vast amount of respect for gov.uk.
Assuming you claim tax exemptions annually, are you partially funded by the government? :-P
I don't understand all the hand-wringing in the comments that creative people being paid somehow makes them a sell-out or will otherwise ruin the hobby/field/employment landscape/whatever else.

Are there people churning out crap hoping to make a quick buck? Yes. Are there corporations trying to exploit creators and fans? Yes. Are there other problems I'm not even aware of? In all probability, yes.

But I also see a lot of good things happening. Examples from my own interests:

Table-top RPGs: before, you only got to play whatever was available at your local store (if you even had one) which was probably whatever the big companies put out (D&D) or your own crappy homebrew system. Maybe you hear about something amazing someone else has done and if you're lucky you get a photocopy/scan of their notes and try to figure things out from that. Today, you can discover heaps of amazing games and support their creators through Kickstarter, YouTube, Patreon, etc.

Muay Thai: I support someone on Patreon and YouTube who puts out tons of content. Hours and hours of her own training footage (with fighters past and present, many of them legends) with commentary. Full videos of all her fights (270 and counting), again with commentary. Commentary on legendary fights. Interviews with MT legends. A long-form podcast. Long-form articles. These cover not just technique but also culture and history. All done for love of the art but also costing money. I don't know how else all this can be made available to a wide audience and be preserved for future generations.
Power doesn't put food on the table.

At best, moderators will be influenced by corporate paychecks and at worst be exclusively composed of privileged people that don't need to work.

This is the reason we pay politicians.
No. The ports on this "NIC" are actually connected to the router, though they can be passed through to the host if needed.

The ports on another NIC would be assigned directly to the host. While I'm sure you can theoretically redirect them to this router wit a combination of VLANs and other Linux networking magic, you will be limited by your CPU and it's unlikely you'll manage more than a few Gbps.
And young people on here imagine having 2 children 2 years apart. One of them doesn't get to go to college because of covid and the other doesn't get to go because ability didn't matter for a year.

EDIT:

I hope this never happens to your kids. Beware of being penalized for trying. Is that a lesson you will teach your kids?

I'm not "bummed". Read my post with anger.

U of MN was not his first choice. It was _fallback_.

Try on some shoes.... Imagine putting 30 years of high taxes into a state as a high earner and business owner (that's me). Then imagine that your almamater doesn't accept your kid when your kid is, in fact, a lot smarter than you and has accomplished a lot more than you did by his age.

Then imagine being that kid and being taught by the State that, while you are in the top 95th (99th) percentile nationally on test scores there's just something not right about you. Is it your GPA? It can't be. You're on the A honor roll every time.

In the end you'll never know and that is fine because the school you might have attended has changed into something it was never intended to be.

Land grant university or something else? The Great Emancipator rolls in his grave.

On the plus side the U of MN gets billions of dollars in state funding and keeps the washout money too. Win-win.
Hi HN! So to clarify to everyone, the idea is that what a concierge search engine would do, a machine could do as well.

sk55 shared this very interesting link [0] which outlines how a complex question could be broken down into micro-tasks and assembled into an answer. The interesting thing here is that each of those steps is now within the realm of automation by Transformer-based models. With the addition of a UI that encourages exploration/refinement of the query, it could be a good way to quickly gain an understanding about a broad topic.

This is one of the many theses we are exploring. Another one is that "A Google Replacement Will Not Look Like Google" [1]

[0] https://joe.cat/CHI-ka/
[1] https://re-search.xyz/writing/mapping-the-new-world-towards-...
Are there really any significant acquisitions happening just for some database? I don't think this happens unless the data is absolutely massive and very unique.
What are you using to scale the document storage across nodes? Is it the usual master-slave stuff?
Curiously, MIT does not have an university-wide computer requirement, though some departments do. They have been debating this requirement for decades.
Go folk might get a kick out of this but

>> I said this project is "from scratch" but I'm going to bring in a storage engine

Oh, so... not from scratch, then?
Why wouldn't they have used their native language in a secure channel?
Ah, you mean that spin is (two-dimensional?), and that these things form along the 'equator' of the spin? That is, spin creates an 'equator', and the equator is a circle not a sphere, and the orbiting objects align with the equator? Are our solar system's planets aligned with our sun's equator? (Sorry, the mathematical/physical terms are escaping me.)
The whole campaign is odd. Teachers don’t typically have lots of rental properties to air bnb out because they don’t exactly get paid much
No. I love work. It gives me a sense of pride to do a good job.

I was happy serving burgers at McDonald’s. I took pride in making a good sandwich.

Now I’m happy in tech. I would never want to not work in tech.
I really resonate with this post; I don't want to say I there's something I "struggle" with but I do feel the need to be able to balance my time a bit more.

I'm often a very productive member of my team, I love challenges, and I love digging into things and coming out the other side and feeling accomplished; My manager gets me onto things and asks when they might be done by, and I feel complied to deliver more in shorter time frames.

It's not so much that I feel "pressured" by expectations; but more I feel "involved" - my failures are the teams failures, my success is the team's success. and I want my team/product/company to succeed, so I spend my effort contributing to that.

However, this does swamp out time for my personal things that I want to do; I am wanting to learn lisp, and have some of my own personal projects that I want to play around with, in a multitude of technologies; I don't have spare time outside of work, so it's really on work time that I want to be able to experiment with these things. as the author puts it - "it doesn't offer any immediate value to me or the company, ... but I think generally made me fitter smarter and more productive"..

So for me, the balancing act, is to assert time to reflect/recharge in other spheres of technology, while also feeling the communal duty of our team to get the company going.
I'm not certain what you mean. 4GB of RAM is far more than plenty for nearly anything. This card isn't going to be the core router for Comcast or anything... but for what it's worth BGP definitely requires far less than 4GB of RAM, although it depends on the exact implementation of course.

And this card is highly unlikely to be targeted for home use - mostly service providers doing routing within their private networks.
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As you probably know, Mr. Larry Roberts was one of the inventors of the internet; he died in Dec-2018, but he was working with Solomon Harsha a new internet protocol, that is on late stage development.
Am I going crazy, or is there no way on the website to actually buy this?
Triangle Strategy is pretty good, if you can withstand a few hours of dialogue among the battles.
One argument would be that the people who accumulate wealth through insider trading go on to be destructive.
Oh I totally agree that the system right now is majorly screwed up. Loot boxes are absolutely gambling (why else would the odds be legally required to be disclosed in some jurisdictions?)

And of course it's a vanity component (at least for me, though other posters have raised other factors). Everyone's different with different preferences and as long as there's not a problematic spending aspect I think it's fine...but this links back to the gambling issue. Personally I only buy cosmetics in a few games I play a lot and that don't use loot box mechanics.
My favorite one of those is "Hanny's Voorwerp," discovered by a Dutch woman named Hanny, and "voorwerp" just means "object."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hanny%27s_Voorwerp
I disagree with a statement in the article: "As a tech employee, if you can’t bear overtime, you can pivot to other industries. But the social problem is not going to be solved because you quit."

Quitting is the most powerful signal a worker can send. It pushes up the price of that work and is the strongest-possible declaration that something is wrong.

Source: Have quit from a field that I love deeply because the environment became intolerable. Furthermore, I've now signed on to a new line of work precisely because the environment is so supportive.
Having a high IQ means you can probably retain information better with less effort but for the vast majority of students, its a question of consistent work ethic.

Important to differentiate places like South Korea has a massive privatized cram schools where it does a fantastic job of creating high scorers but because it is scaled, it means if you are not paying extra and spending ridiculous time in privatized cram schools, you are almost certainly going to fail unless you can rely on some innate genius. Here in this case, it is truly discriminating students based on the economic capacity of their parents and it has the highest houshold debt not only from real estate but from debt to finance the young into educational hell.

Another unpopular opinion: Unhappiness correlates with high IQ if a proper outlet is not met due to a variety of factors.
Sounds like short-term thinking.
> Does MIT [...] teach the creativity needed to envision the kind of thing you’re talking about?

Absolutely.

Explicitly.

I have just been a bystander, but it's clear.

I don't think that MIT grads are in this thread wasting their breath, though. Which I think is a good decision.

[1] https://lemelson.mit.edu/
[2] https://innovation.mit.edu/resources/
Isn’t Russia and Ukraine the biggest grain exporters in Europe? It (not the article, but as mentioned it has been headlines a few times already) is not about today, but possibly a year ahead prediction.
Lol great read. How naive! Doctors care about money not helping people!