skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not to diminish your point, but I do think that the idea of Shechu has been so imbued in contemporary Chinese popular culture that for many Chinese this is not that serious or artsy a game (think any Netflix popular show that touches some serious social issues -- it can be well-made but usually not that artsy). It will be harder for a general audience to explore a past social culture (e.g. cold war, great depression) than to explore a present, popular culture.

Also not disagreeing with you -- it will be awesome to play some serious game about the new deal/anti-vaxxers. In general, seeing discussions on game design across HN, I think we (HN as a whole) can be more exploratory in our games, going beyond "being serious, well researched, and non-predatory". The sense of ambiguous loss brought by To the Moon is one direction in this. Some other random examples pioneered by films that I think we should explore include more subtle ambiguity in narratives (e.g. Burning (2018)) or delicacy in depicting the adolescent female experience (e.g. Marie Antoinette (2006)).
We need both. Solar is great but it’s hard to beat the capacity of nuclear.
> You don’t slaughter a chicken to get its eggs.

I mean... if you want eggs on an industrial scale, yes, obviously you do. Chickens live 5-10 years; laying hens are typically killed at about a year in.

If you get all your eggs from your pet backyard chickens, that's one thing, but most people don't.
Perhaps more like globalist/corporatist, which reflects their recent ownership?

In 2015, Pearson - a publishing company - sold its controlling stake to a bunch of corporate owners, like the Agnellis (43%) and the Rotschilds (21%), among others.

The change in their editorial direction was immediately visible (I had been a subscriber/reader for 35+ years until 2016)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Economist_Group
Hypothetically if slavery resulted in more children, we should never have abolished it?
Most everyone talking here is doing so from a place of near-complete ignorance. There is literally sweet F.A. taught in grade-school history/social studies: the programs are myopic and narcissistic. Exceedingly few of us have lived outside our birthplace bubble long enough to understand the history and social climate of a foreign nation. Heck, less than half of Americans have a passport at all, and only a fraction of those who do, go further afield than Canada or Mexico. There is virtually nothing useful that Americans—North Americans—can contribute to a discussion of European policy.
The current discussion I thought focuses around the idea that higher scores should just about guarantee acceptance due some fantasy notion of objective merit, and here they pretty much say that's not the case here:

> To be clear, performance on standardized tests is not the central focus of our holistic admissions process. We do not prefer people with perfect scores; indeed, despite what some people infer from our statistics, we do not consider an applicant’s scores at all beyond the point where preparedness has been established as part of a multifactor analysis
>rather benign (compared to WW3 between the US and the USSR) effects of climate change.

There's nothing benign coming of the acidity/temperature/luminosity levels of oceans going so out of whack that planktons start dying.

Changing nuclear Armageddon for food scarcity Armageddon doesn't make it any less of an existential threat.

Last I heard Mr Putin was playing games with the nuclear shitshow a few days ago, to boot.
His enthusiasm overtook everything. He felt the pain, rushed/designed a solution and everything. But he never followed the money trail. I felt like this was a glaring omission.

Another consideration is you consider : your solution, the end-consumer , and stop there ... and if you forget there's a middle-man (the doctor in this case) thats a miss too.. Middle-persons always complicate the situation.
Is storage becoming less hard with battery backup systems? And from a cost perspective won't these come down, and from a total social spending amount couldn't rooftop solar eventually be cheaper than nuclear plants, scientists, infrastructure, etc. that has to go into it?

Just to note I've been coming from the perspective that nuclear + "renewables" is the right approach, but wanted to learn a little more.
I'm not an expert, but solar has to be augmented by something else or combined with extensive energy storage. Otherwise, where do you get power at night?
Does gallium work on the recent Chromebooks? I thought it wasn't possible
There is difference between religion and pop culture. One person's fiction is another people's truth. This isn't reddit.
Interesting do share your sources
Not a waste if you consider the regret minimization framework. Makes for a nice story too.
>Make something people want. It’s Y-Combinator’s motto and a maxim of aspiring internet entrepreneurs. The idea is that if you build something truly awesome, you’ll figure out a way to make some money off of it.

To me, "make something people want" is a proxy for "make something people are willing to pay for." To truly want something, you have to be willing to expend resources to obtain it. Anything less than that is people blowing smoke.
You can see that for yourself by getting a copy of MISRA C standard.
Proper management of star lifetime actually requires the opposite approach: subtract mass from the star, so that the star "core" where actual fusion happens can steadily mix with a larger fraction of the remaining mass. The harvested mass can then be stored away as gas-giant planets, and used for miscellaneous purposes.
> And my high school's regular courses (granted a fantastic high school) were actually much more difficult than a state school's courses.

I went to a barely-known state university and was very surprised when some of my intro-level gen ed requirement classes mostly covered material I'd already seen in, and with a similar level of rigor to, junior high school. And my junior high and high schools were nothing special at all—at the higher end of performance in the state (so far as those measures are helpful, anyway) but just regular public schools in a state with overall mediocre-bordering-on-poor schools.

If I'd known that the first couple years of college weren't going to be harder than high school, and would have a lower total time commitment, hell, I'd have probably tried to go the drop out -> GED -> start college at 16 or 17 route. I wasn't gonna get into top-tier universities, anyway.
I had a founder friend in a similar spot tell me: "US Healthcare is all pain and nobody to pay."

There are just lots of weird backwards incentives and deeply entrenched institutions that make it simply brutal to try and make changes.
I do coding tests for the first interview. Nothing hard, just enough to do basic data modeling and writing a unit test. I also time cap to under an hour, and the internet is available as a resource.

This filters out most people.
Nothing and they won't because bitcoin is not stable enough it can still be manipulated you still don't know if a giant amount of bitcoins are lost or just held by an unknown entity. No, sane central bank would ever adopt bitcoin. It might be a cryptocurrency in the future but it will not be bitcoin.
We're thinking three things, although the details will likely change as we're 100% focused on building the product currently.

1. Freemium model - always free and anonymous for anyone to use without any restrictions. Then paid pro plans with extra features for teams/professionals and developer use, including paid APIs and developer tools.
2. Business/enterprise use - Andi could act as a front end to both public and organizational data (the API approach and question answering could both work well with that.
3. Possibly some other options to consider like anonymous referral link attribution. We won't let commerce influence search results, so that rules out most things that aren't paid plans, APIs, licensing.

That's our thinking so far. Our main focus is on coding and keeping it improving, but we know this is an important issue so it is something that we'll think carefully about once Andi is further along.
sshd can't alone be it...i bet there must be an account for git to access on the server when reaching out from the "client" / peer.
This NIC can reach wire-speed (100Gbps) with Jumbo frames.

To me, this suggests that it's packet-rate limited, and if so, it can really only be counted on to do 1500/9000 or ~16.6Gb/s with standard frames.
> We are NOT companies, we're not robots only driven by free will, we don't live in an economy. We are hardcore social animals with huge biological & affective needs, this is scientifically proven.

We are companies. You can be a company of one and not a robot. Being a company of one doesn't imply giving up free will or somehow not being meat and bone. That's nothing to do with the statement he's making.

I hope every young person reads it and take it seriously, because it's reality. No one can manage your time, your money, your mental health, like you. No one will.
Because mass solar doesn't work reliably on a grid scale without massive storage, which is impossible/impractical/extremely expensive, especially in countries with seasons.
Ironically, though not surprisingly, that Mark Twain quote appears to be apocryphal: https://quoteinvestigator.com/2016/12/03/misinformed/
More than rich I would say it’s an evangelical / Protestant trait, somehow. I’ve experienced it in London, and Amsterdam that are anyway still evangelical, but absolutely not in Spain or Italy that are catholic

I’m not sure I’m not a religious scholar not believer but have still received a catholic education being Italian (went to catholic private schools) and a lot of things that I absolutely hate are mostly explained by people I talk to with being a result of evangelical education

What do you think? Might it be more cultural than related to status?
I once made such a game, but that was more based from how interesting graph theory can be, and how you can visualize graphs and interact with them. The most difficult part was thinking how to create a solvable level, i.e. how to create a planar graph. Oh, and ofcourse actually completing the whole game, which I actually managed to do.
If you were a Jew in early 1930s Germany, following the news would have been very important, but this is an extreme outlier. most news can be ignored.
"Fear of spicy rocks" is an odd way of saying "one of the highest costs per GW/hr and rising despite almost a century of enormously subsidized R&D, and oh by the way, it's also a major pain in the ass to operate and decommission and there's also all this toxic waste....which catches on fire if you don't cool it for months/years first..."

Wind turbines and solar are cheaper and getting cheaper every year and they don't have anywhere near the myriad of problems nuclear does.

That's why we had 30GW of renewables deployed in 2021 in the US, while 5GW of nuclear shut down in the same time period. We're replacing nuclear power generation capacity six times faster than we're losing it, with wind and solar. Because it's cheaper and easier. Investors, industry, and governments consider "what is the way forward for generation?" solved and are focusing on energy storage and grid modernization.

You know what nobody has said in the history of mankind?

"Oh fuck, that crazy dictator is shooting his tanks at that wind farm! Will this cause a nation-scale disaster?"

"Oh fuck, terrorists are trying to steal old solar panels!"

"That country developing wind power generation will politically destabilize the entire region."

"It's so sad that thirty years after that solar farm fire disaster, kids within hundreds of miles from it still have significantly higher cancer rates."

"Oh fuck, that tsunami damaged that wind farm, we need to evacuate people from thousands of square kilometers of area around it and not allow fishing anywhere near it"*

(By the way, more than ten years later, there is still a no-entry zone approximately half the size of Tokyo.)
I'm a technologist who wanted to attend MIT but, for reasons that are beyond the scope of this thread, didn't make the cut. I've still had the opportunity to work for the US federal government, unicorn startups, and a detector team at the LHC. As you said, "The acceptance rate is so low, that it should not be used as a measure of self-worth and accomplishment.", and enjoyable, meaningful work can still be accomplished without the MIT experience (although if they get in, also good, I wish them well and hope they're accepted).
> Kind of ironic, given that "boomers" lived under the 4 decades long threat of total nuclear war.

We still live under that same threat, almost nothing has changed... Other than public perception [1] of the dangers.

All the same failure modes that lead to nuclear war that were in place in 1980 are still here, today. [2] All the same kinds of people are in still in charge.

[1] Just because the news has gotten bored of writing about a subject doesn't mean the subject has gone away.

[2] Also, India/Pakistan/North Korea are now nuclear powers, but as someone who doesn't live in Asia, I'm far more concerned about the Russia/US dynamic than any of that. Neither of those three parties can 'end the world' in the same way the latter two can.
Kaspersky make a problem out of installing unknown extensions and but there is no exploit, the worst thing mentioned in the article that an extension can do is “change speed limits”.

That’s a lot more benign than the GitHub Updater similar plug-in for WordPress
> The NACAC did a study on this and they found that average gains of test-prep students is ~30 points (this was when the SAT was 2400 points).

When I took the SAT it was only 1600 (pre 2400), and SAT prep did in fact help scores significantly.

Back than, the test was designed not for scholastic aptitude (as it's name suggests) but instead to guarantee a standard distribution of scores.

It's been a long time since I cared about the SAT's so I assume once the word got out that the test could be gamed, the people behind it updated it.

> It's far easier for rich students to game GPA, college essays and extracurriculars than it is for them to game the SAT.

Rich students don't need to game anything. They simply get admitted because their family name is on a building.
my point is that we should oppose the system that forces everybody to be in market competition with each other. I understand the position being forwarded, but I think it's describing a system that's antithetical to human values and thus should not be just accepted as a fact like gravity.

Perhaps it is you who is being shallow and trite, not understanding the actual objection I have. I know that what the OP is saying is a description of how to optimise your economic standing - I've done it plenty myself because optimisation comes naturally to me; I'm saying that's a shite way to live and invest your time and energy.
I emphatically don't want this. I want literal keyword search like we used to have in the 90s and early 2000s.

NLP isn't good enough (and may never be good enough, unless it's at the level of an intelligent human) to add enough benefit for the cost -- the "cost" being when the NLP classifies my words and gives me "fuzzy" results that have nothing to do with my original search.

NLP has made it literally impossible to search for certain things if if's enough of a niche, or in some cases even if it isn't a niche.
I wonder how much taking the SAT multiple times plays a role. Personally I took it at least three times, and my score improved each time (don't remember by how much).
This is the first really good example I've seen of cosmetics having a gameplay effect. I hate that it's true, but I really appreciate you mentioning it -- signalling of skill is super valuable, and if cosmetics are a reliable enough signal, that's interesting.
This is a great case study in idea development.

He was onto something with the doctor thing.

1) Things that help people make money are 100x more valuable, i.e. something that helps the Docs generate more revenue.

2) This was insulting: "So I’d sorta just be, like, donating this money if I paid you for this thing, right"

Seriously a professional talking about a 'donation' if it didn't actually increase her revenue? What a jerk. "I care about my patients but in the end I just give them Zoloft!" I mean that might say a lot about that line of work.

That said, I think they might actually use it, if it's institutionalized - i.e. they use it Med School, doctors everywhere use it, two doctors 'unsure' about something both check it etc. it becomes 'something needed' at the office and everyone is expected to have it.

I suspect there's opportunity there, it's just take some time and structuring.
> Voting does make a difference.

In a parliamentary system, votes have a substantial impact. You can vote for a minority party that's actually aligned with your views and get represented if they get enough votes to get a seat in Parliament. It's not "throwing your vote away" like it is in the US.

In a two-party first-past-the-post system, the impact of each vote is substantially reduced by comparison since not only are there only two competitive parties to vote for, but the winner takes everything. A vote for the "wrong" party means that vote leads to no representation.

> Also, you can contribute to any candidates campaign - so you can money-vote in many places (USA)

This is part of the problem in the US, because it gives the wealthiest interests the means to back their preferred representatives at amounts minority representatives can never hope to reach.
You can look for "intelligence" on https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SAT. From memory, Human Intelligence by Earl Hunt has plenty of references as well if you're into this topic.
Per the article, cow-free cow's milk is beginning to become a thing.

There are, incidentally, non-animal-welfare-related reasons that this stuff is interesting. In particular, there's the potential to considerably reduce the CO2 cost of producing egg whites this way, and the product could reasonably be expected to be safer.
The top link is a study that shows that the improvement is pretty marginal in practice.

It does miss something: in specific ethnic enclaves SAT coaching is much more effective, perhaps because of a culture of out-of-school schoolwork and teaching beyond SAT prep. Those enclaves aren't particularly wealthy either (if I recall correctly it was a Korean enclave). Even then we're talking 70 points -- not nothing, but also not a radical transformation.
AFAIK, exploits for linux don't typically happen in core linux code, but rather in the drivers.

That's what fuchsia bullet proofs. Drivers are isolated from the kernel such that an exploitable driver doesn't also give the exploit root access.
I don't know many tests you can't study for especially tests that are run on an annual basis.
No, it just needs to be the last part.

It needs to be the first one to be big.
> Hofstadter is clearly a brilliant person...but his ramblings are so often tangential and self-indulgent that probably half the book could be trimmed...

When you consider how much worth-while reading remains for each of us and how little time we have, I've come to think such prolix authors have bad manners of the self-indulgent kind.
Just because the growth rate isn't constant, does not make it not exponential. I do acknowledge that there are smart people forecasting the end of exponential growth, but who is to say a cultural or technological phenomena will not change this path?

It is currently exponential, anything else is a lie, and I don't even know what the intentions would be of someone perpetuating such nonsense. Now there will easily be at least a whole generational period in which we don't really know for sure if we have leveled off, that is just the nature of human reproduction, seems safer to wait at least 1 generation before we have declared victory on our biggest enemy.
Clearly the shielding problem will have been resolved by then as well (or we have genetically adapted our grandchildren to be rad-hardened).
Anything that gets people to really see beyond their limited scope.

7B people now, another 20B in our children's lifetime.

We're attuned to what bothers us (software introspection, social network garbage). 10 days of just sitting will show you your emotional concerns are meaningless delusions.

Meanwhile, the forces that determine actual lives - availability of food, housing, health care, transportation, energy; education, rights and corruption, political capture; cultural goodwill and compassion - go largely unseen, mainly driven by people seeking power.

The doomsday clock is mono-dimensional. We need a world dashboard we can all agree upon and fight over. Once it's measured, people can optimize it.
Sudoku is that for me. Feels exactly like work, but perfectly balanced where is hard enough to be interesting and easy enough to be fun.
It's a shame fuchsia is so hard to spell. 25% of the references to "fuchsia" so far in this thread spell it incorrectly.
It would depend on tests. Antidepressants work in different ways. If your body is not producing enough serotonin, you'd want drug class x. Or Dopamine a completely different class of drugs.
In my personal experience, about seventeen years ago, retaking the test raised my score some 90 points (iirc) out of 1600, excluding writing section.
One of the creators of Very Good Table here - I used MS Access a ton in the late 90's and early 2000's and have yet to see the equivalent on the web, even with solutions like Airtable out there. It was a big inspiration for building VGT. :)
What's interesting about this is you picked:

1. Extremely high quality publications.
2. In a controlled manner.

That's not "no news" at all, it's a healthy relationship to quality news.
Windows Steam Games Can Now Run on an ARM PC with Box86
I cured it with vitamin B6 B12 :D
> It is significantly harder to find someone who can score well on the SAT and is willing to take the test for you compared to gaming GPA, extra curriculars, etc.

Idk about that. I found people to pay me for taking the ACT for them through my alma mater's subreddit. Top schools are full of people who got 35/36, I'm sure there are plenty of other people who scored there and would be willing to take the standardized test for 10k too. In fact, in some ways it's easier to find someone to take the test for you than it is to find someone to boost your extracurriculars because you can structure the payout around the score obtained. I got 10k for a 36, 7k for a 35... no guarantees with tutors and coaches.
If you read the section on "The Paradox" in the article, it's basically using a simplifying geometric assumption to divide the universe into concentric shells, each of which contributes the same intensity of light to the observer. If space is sparse enough that any light reaches us from shell N+1, then you'll get the same amount of light from every shell, and so you'd have a fully-saturated bright sky.

So there are possible infinite/steady-state universes universes (very dense, lots of dust) where you don't see shell N+1. But since we can see stars from shell N+1 and other shells, we know that we don't live in that universe. Therefore our universe isn't a steady-state / infinite time one.
> I conceived a stock exchange called the Human Stock Exchange, where every human being was a human stock ticker,

I've had a very vague (somewhat similar) idea that I'm stil trying to articulate well.

something like what you said but the stock is run on a blockchain

then every person can emit their own stock which can get traded around.

at some point, the emitter person must (somehow) be made to respond for what they emitted.

naturally, some people will be reliable (and their emited credits will have high value) and others will constantly flop and default so nobody will be interested in having lots of their credit.

so far, this "idea" (which is just barely a sketch) poses more problems than solutions (maybe it's a bit of a barely-baked idea looking for a problem?) but it's fun to think about what else we could possibly do that nobody's thoght to do yet.