skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's the student providing 2.7 bits of information ("I want to take this exam") and getting an additional 1.4 bits from the result. By contrast, being valedictorian is about 10 bits of information, and being in the 99th percentile on a test (1510+ on the SAT) is 6.6 bits. Scoring 1600 on the SAT is 12 bits.

So the SAT can easily give you 7 times as much info as the AP BC, and it's more about your aptitude than your achievement.
An hypothesis based on subjective experience:

In the post-modern era (roughly 1945-20??) people were highly skeptical of their egos and of power, advertised humility, and consequently had a sense of humor about themselves and the world. Thus you get names like quark and Google.

Now in the newly-born (reactionary?) era, ego is our God, and we get names like Uber. Physics perhaps hasn't quite joined the new era, yet.
Most of them are.
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Ah, thanks for the correction, that really changes things!
A small proposal: why not a PopcornTime of papers? Witch means a distributed network (no matter if BitTorrent, ZeroNet, GNUNet, I2P or something else) to publish? That's the best freedom guarantee and just the mere number of nodes with a paper is a good metric about it's popularity, to avoid oblivion each uni/researcher can easily store and serve their own papers forever: files are small, so download is quick, not much resources are needed.
I'm certain you can find teens who have such attitudes and behaviors, but I'd argue that every one of them was made that way through years of abuse and neglect. Does it help them to look at them as fucked up, irredeemable, etc? Cause that is exactly how your comment reads.
The photo in the article shows "P/N: CDMA"

So if it was a CDMA device, then it probably doesn't use a SIM.
>Of course the real tragedy is that we fixate so much on college, even prestigious ones, at all given how unnecessary they are for making people into productive and happy human beings. This change is significant but affects less than one percent of the population each year..

I'm ambivalent because I sympathize with both sides of the equation. One one hand, I have the hindsight now that I didn't at 18 to realize that the world didn't end because I couldn't get into Harvey Mudd. And in many ways it turned out 100x better; instead of staying in LA-ish areas, I explored a whole new area I never would have considered otherwise, still got a great education for a small fraction of what Mudd woulda cost me, and was exposed to a completely different flavor of computer science that helped me decide my career.

But on the other hand, college really does open a ton of doors that for many non-upper class people would never open otherwise. While I was still in tech and had many choices, I imagine people at MIT or Mudd would be fighting off recruitment at top companies with a stick, with many opportunities coming from certain companies who only recruit at such universities. It can accelerate your career on the order of 5-10 years if you stick it out. And you'd likely be unparalleled in resources and opportunities if your focus is on research. If your goal is as lofty as being the next household name or to pivot into creating your own business, there are oodles more oppurtunities there.

I wouldn't trade the education I got for an MIT one, but I can understand why 18YO me (and many others) do feel that way.
Is Saudi Arabia Still a Major Twitter Shareholder?
There's this: https://www.bbc.com/news/newsbeat-34474798

But then there's this: https://money.cnn.com/quote/shareholders/shareholders.html?symb=TWTR&subView=institutional

Did Saudi Arabia close out its position in Twitter?
PseudoGrey (1999)
> Surprised this is so new to people - ESXi has been free for years

> Using VMware Fusion in this way does sound useful in that it sort of replicates the experience you get with vSphere

VMware's first big product, long before ESX (and later ESXi), was VMware Workstation, released in 1999, which provided x86 virtualization and ran on (and virtualized) both Windows and Linux. It was the first commercial product to easily enable people to run Windows without having to leave their Linux environment. VMware Fusion is essentially the same product, just the spiritual successor to that product that runs on macOS (along with a bunch of modern optimizations, of course) going back to 1999.
> It’s funny how it looks like you are almost sympathizing with nazis.

Not really.

> By definition, nazis seek to exclude and maybe exterminate, everyone they don’t agree with, so tolerating them means giving them the right to preach their methods.

If society can't tolerate their preaching and remain democratic, what does it say about society? About humans and their rationality?
A new way to parse plain text tables
1) I'm afraid you're about 15 years out of date with your perception of how genome sequencing and assembly works. Nobody is assembling PacBio, MinION or other long-read data (or short read illumina data for that matter) with slow aligners in Perl.

2) see AlphaFold2 and other related methods -- the protein folding problem is still a big challenge but the field is moving in leaps and bounds
> One of LEOs responsibilities shouldn't be to see how many crimes they can get others to commit on their behest. It should be to catch those that commit crimes. We don't need more crime because LEO encourages it. That's just bassakwards logic.

This is I agree. If someone else commit the crime then the police can arrest them. Police should not make other people to commit a crime, and the police should not commit their own crimes either. Even if they are the police, they should not be mean to everyone else, but too often there is too much police meanness.
Indeed.

Idk if people think I'm trolling whilst just trying to share facts. Here is Biden video [1] for those who don't trust written word.

[1] https://youtu.be/iBxpwOmAQcw
*possibly
That's an interesting perspective. So in a way, insider trading corrects the market because the difference between what is known and what is unknown should not result in a vast difference in valuation.
You need to first notice how propaganda works on you yourself. If you're not aware of that, then you're probably not trying to combat propaganda at all, you're just trying to replace the other side's propaganda with your side's propaganda.

Once you do notice how propaganda works on you yourself, you can start to track little movements of deviation from it. But this looks and feels a lot more like questioning your own beliefs than it does like trying to persuade others of the truth.
thanks for pointing that out!
Nope.

https://www.sec.gov/marketstructure/midas-system
It would be nice if there was something like @eventually for everyone in the channel the next time they get on or similar.
I've seen a few orgs build their own etiquette-enforcement bots for things like channel naming conventions, as well as minimum "guidelines listed" in the channel description (like periodically going through all channels and checking to see if channel description has SLAs etc). But it's all organisation or team-specific.

And for about 98% of orgs, building a bot to enforce conventions is definitely not getting prioritised above BAU or project work.
> but honestly what you say is too much for the average person to be tempted with.

I think you underestimate the “average person”. Most people basically want to be good. Everything works better when that is the case — basic game theory.

You see the punishment / pressure about unfairness start in early childhood. You see it in the infrastructure where this is overwhelmingly the case (e.g. shops with unguarded back entrance/exits) vs where not (armed guards outside the shops).

And of course the news (cf the current HN conversation on that topic) focuses on the exceptions to the rules because, on an evolutionary biology* basis we’re always learning and reinforcing on the normal case so we are interested in the exceptions.

* meant loosely…most EB is fanciful.
Well, people love podcasts so it promised to be a more informal podcast platform with user participation and no built in recording. It got hyped by artificial scarcity (the invitation system) and by celebrities dropping in (it's like a dinner party with Elon yay). It was never that good in the first place, just people from the outside feeling the fomo. And then the floodgates open and the scummy parts of society dropped in, mostly fuelled by the ephemeral aspect of the discussions: crypto scams, made up entrepreneurs with no product, hate speech of all shapes and color. It basically turned into 4chan. And then ofcourse the big names abandoned ship.
The point is not that they are not entitled to their chosen identity, but that they should be more sensitive to issues that go beyond the identity and not try to suddenly magically become part of it. Nobody will forbid a white man to use ghetto clothes, but if he suddenly starts to act like he is suffering with racism, that will sound weird. If trans people can’t understand and empathize with the fact that they did not experience the prejudice before, and have the common sense to stay out of the specific issue, then sorry but they are the ones being insensitive and screwing their own chosen ”equals”.
And over twenty thousand people died from the earthquake/tsunami. That's one of my pet peeves: the 2011 Touhoku earthquake was one of the first major natural disasters that was all over social media, and people in the west quickly swept it under the rug in their haste to focus on fearmongering about Fukushima Daichii and how it might somehow impact California.

A massive tragedy had just happened, and people basically ignored that and focused on the cable news hype about a total non-issue.
I think the way to deal with these kinds of community-hostile (or community-abivalent) corporate open-source projects is to just hard fork them once they reach a stable version, and let the community fork break compatibility. You lose the continued efforts of the internal development team, but you get a stable foundation to fix bugs and add polish.
To people disagreeing with this, can you give a counter argument? On face value, what rosndo said seems to make sense.
Good point. Why is so much in gravityless, directionless (i.e., no up and down) space shaped like a disc rather than a sphere? Look at the orbits of planets around the Sun - why are they mostly in the same plane? Look at galaxies.
Have you ever been to the rural US? Things are very far apart (often 10s of miles) and riding a bike may not be practical for things in the same way as in an urban or suburban area.
My favorite example of this is "China Girl" by David Bowie, written by Iggy Pop.

Bowie and Iggy were friends, and for many years (maybe still to this day!), the songwriter's royalties for China Girl were Iggy's primary source of income. Which I think is great. Like a form of patronage. Bowie was a great guy.

Though I prefer Iggy's version of the song.

Siouxsie & the Banshees cover Iggy's "The Passenger", and Ms Sioux wins this time.

Now if only Bowie had covered a Banshees song, the circle would be complete.
I can't use this because I'm on Windows, but it looks cool. I love the idea of more fine-grained sync control with gitignore-style pattern matching. Neat!
How does being a nonprofit imply "partially funded by the government"?
The Dropbox demo video was a prototype at best, and probably more accurately thought of as an advertisement. Definitely not a product, let alone a viable one. MVP meaning "something I did to make my business successful" isn't meaningful. The first version of Dropbox that landed into users hands and started to generate revenue could be accurately thought of as an MVP. It didn't do everything imaginable, but did just enough that customers wanted to pay for the service, allowing the business to grow into something more.
> Physics perhaps hasn't quite joined the new era, yet.

I dunno, I've noticed that most physicists I've met have the "ego is God" vibe pretty well cooked in, and they will definitely let you know it.
I don't like the title. The author didn't waste the money. He learned something that cost $40k to learn. He doesn't say what he learned and would do differently next time.
But will it be Ryan Gosling's face?
Sorry buddy, I can't give you anything other than my anecdata. No knowledge on whether anyone has done any studies on this specifically but lack of public infrastructure contributing to the income disparity has been widely studied.
Most movies are only a 1.5 to 2.5 hr investment. Games are often 5hrs to 100+hrs
I wanted to use this, but it doesn't handle Smart Sync, a feature I find myself really taking advantage of. But, I'm glad this sort of thing exists!
That's why we rely on empirical observation: our subjective intuitions suck.
"Scared of public channels" often means "doesn't have the psychological safety to say something out loud that might end up being perceived negatively or as though they don't know what they're doing."
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None of Palantir's products do anything really useful. They are instead used as glorified tech demos by their sales teams. Then their engineers go in and build custom solutions for whatever the client needs. The company doesn't do too much more than standard tech consulting.
Read my other comments in this thread about HN, but I mainly do a title skim, and a topic that’s an outlier but appears on the front page might cause me to look. Also I do comment and follow up.
I certainly agree with your broader point: nobody is handed a degree from MIT. If they have a degree, they've put in the work and have a good grasp of the subject matter. (Also, MIT doesn't give out honorary degrees.)
The Indian education system doesn't care about learning at all. It's all about scoring good grades and getting a job at the end. It's quite important as every individual needs to be able support themselves. However, it's really bad for learning. I'm a product of that. I've been struggling a lot with an online course from MIT but at least I'm enjoying learning a lot of stuff as I'm employed now. Physics and Mathematics are the most beautiful things if done right and not under stress. Good luck, man!
How do you schedule a zoom call with a spider?
The “No hello” ethos in chat goes back to at least 2005. This is not a new thing at all, it’s just the industry is constantly being refreshed with young workers who learn anew what many people understood well over a decade ago.
The heritability of wealth, combined with assortative mating, means that increasingly class divides are forming around differences in wealth. I think many people are rightly concerned that this will eventually result in simply a different entrenched class hierarchy.
False.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Consumption_of_Tide_Pods

Do not eat!!
You’ll pay less and you’ll love all of humanity for it; you just don’t know what you want.

(/s)
1.) Install wireguard.

2.) Install pivpn.

3.) (Optional) Modify makeCONF.sh/removeCONF.sh if needed.
I don't think the math part of the Gaokao tests memorization.

Looking at a sample paper (https://medium.com/@yujia_jo/2016-jiangsu-gaokao-national-hi...), it seems like the examination really tests for the ability to do math and problem solve under fairly heavy time pressure (150 minutes total for all questions if you are in the science stream).
Hanford still not cleaned up decades later, those unpaid costs are part of the societal total cost.
But how would this steganograohic ID fair throughout the multiple encoding/transcoding that happens during scene distribution?
Exactly. It is the perspective often repeated by economists.

There exists little political will to legalize insider trading because it would be hard to sell to a public that doesn’t even understand why stock markets exist. To the average person on “insider trading” is just bad stuff evil rich people on wall street do.

In reality the arguments in favor of banning insider trading are actually quite weak, usually relying on very vague ideas of fairness and public perception.

But the idea of “fairness” in markets is an illusion anyway, even without insider trading there will always be those with more information. Someone could follow corporate executives to restaurants, eavesdrop on their conversations and trade on that basis. That wouldn’t be illegal insider trading, would it be fair? I personally believe it would be just as fair as illegal insider trading.
I think I still have an ISA bus Backer card in a box somewhere.

I got it second-hand for not much money and was pleased to have it. At the time, it was the only practical way for me to back up my 500MB harddrive.

My vague recollection is that the software that was supplied with it, for windows 3.11, could store about 500MB on a three hour VHS tape.

I tried various settings in the software and reading a tape holding files of mostly under 1MB in size always gave a checksum error on two or three files.

A different VCR might have worked better.

I would let a backup run for three hours, wait another three hours to play back the tape then copy the few files that could not be read to a floppy disk and keep it with the video cassette.
I did mean the local limited version, but it depends on the programming language (for example, some have a break command and continue command, etc).

However, it is a good point that it is not necessarily performance-equivalent.

I think that (for this reason and for other reasons too), that most general purpose programming languages (and many ones with special purposes, too) should have a goto command. (Although, there are also some kind of programming languages for which I would think that having a goto command would be inappropriate, such as Verilog and Haskell.)
The Many Faces of Literary Censorship
Stoli sold in the US is Latvian (they recently renamed)

https://www.foodandwine.com/news/stoli-vodka-stolichnaya-nam...
You've spot on described a startup I worked for. It was a recruitment startup, so of course they decided to replace recruiters with "AI". We weren't allowed to call them recruiters anymore, but 'customer service', even though the customers were the people they were recruiting. The pitch to investors was that we're 80% there, even though the reality of the 80% was a manual SQL query that I wrote with some weights for certain columns.

The end result was a system that was built with higher assumptions than the current state of things, thus for example a non-working filter was not considered important because in the future, filters will be auto-applied by "the AI"; also, a workforce of humans that were perceived as being almost replaced, so the value attributed to them by the leadership was of course abysmal.

When I called quits I've been told that startups are not for me and they will be replacing me with an AI. The reality of the AI replacement is a team of developers barely keeping the system up, which maybe is what you'd expect for $500 for 5 people for a month. One has to wonder where the million invested in them is going.
99% of the time seems excessively high. The changes in demand are really dependent on the properties of the good in question.

Also, this phenomenon is called the "income effect"[0]: as the price of a good Y falls relative to other goods, consumers' "income" will increase in a real sense (i.e. they'll be able to consume more of all goods), so they may increase consumption of Y, depending on whether Y is "inferior," "normal" or "luxury." The definitions of these concepts have to be made carefully to avoid circularity, but suffice it to say that 99% of goods are not normal.

Energy, however, is a normal good when measured, though a 2x increase in income leads to less than a 2x increase in energy consumption for a sufficient starting level of income. (If you were living in a remote village that was only recently electrified, for instance, electricity would be a luxury good: increases in income would lead to significant increases in consumption of electricity up to a certain point.)

What's more interesting is how firms react. Decreases in energy costs could lead to significant increases in productivity for firms, allowing for economies of scale that did not exist ex ante. This isn't really "consumption" per se, as energy is being "converted" into another good. But it seems likely that firms' demand for energy could increase quite a bit as the price for energy decreases.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Consumer_choice#Income_effect
I don't like the title. The author didn't waste the money. He learned a lesson that cost $40k to learn. (Less than many failed start-ups.) He doesn't say what he learned and would do differently next time.

It seems to me this is a classic case of spending too much on the tool and thinking that users will just somehow come. Too much on the tool; not enough on the marketing. A more streamlined MVP would have sufficed to see if there was a product/market fit and to figure out how to monetize it.
All research data and findings from a failed SaaS startup (2021)
The cryptos are purveyed and transacted through private servers in esp Europe.Governments are into CBDC so as not to lose their taxes commission and esp more hold on all chunks of funds with public citizens and even non citizens through covenants.cyber loopholes and even pot holes are visible to be patched before any practical shape to the concept.Present system of digital images of all components of cash has not stabilised and is more prone to glitches with frauds as one of the components. Hence the fight is to grab the hold on wealth in the form of cash to have political domination with loopholes as though all cash is accounted for taxes etc as per well declared polcies. Society is developing into islands of cash holdings away from Govt glance to eat away or nibble their hard earnings as tokens of value
> If society can't tolerate their preaching and remain democratic, what does it say about society? About humans and their rationality?

You could just look back and see by yourself. We don't need to hypothesise about "what could happen", because it already has. Popper himself based his explanation of the paradox of tolerance in the rise of Nazi Germany.
Interesting take. Might have something to do with the culture of science, which still adheres more to values like collaboration.
This stuff allows for way too many back doors and intentionally makes the process more opaque. If they were honest they would just name an amount that guarantees admission so rich guys could buy their way into the school instead of hiding behind “charity”.
You have a good point and I basically agree with it 100%. I don’t think any feminist would disagree that transgender people have their own issues to deal with. What they want is to make sure different things are treated differently, and I think it’s reasonable.
I could agree with this. The one regret I had was burning through all my math classes within my first two years while my early CS classes barely seemed to use Algebra to begin with.

Then lo and behold, turns out I like computer graphics a few years later, and all that linear algebra and multivariable calculus I skimmed through slams me back in the face as I find out that GPUS chew through such math for breakfast. I could never find the application of such math to my career track until long after I took those classes.
It’s fairly well separated from the perspective of being able to write content fairly agnostic of a presentation template, and then swap in the required publication template in the end (with a few cosmetic tweaks very occasionally).

But LaTeX is largely an extension of TeX, and these markup languages seem not very amenable to re-implementing parsing / automated processing (given numerous attempts that have resulted in stalemates).