skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I would be curious which line of work you find has such a supportive environment, we hear so much about environments that are unsupportive.
And this benefit the rich kids who can spend thousands of dollars per year to hire someone to plan a good resume for them
Andi gets this right now:

> "Hendrix played the electric guitar, and his main electric guitar was the Stratocaster."

But this raises a new problem: the quotation marks there are part of Andi's reply, and it says "Source: What instruments did Jimi Hendrix play? - Musician Authority", but the answer it gives is NOT actually a quote from that source, it's a paraphrase of part of that source. It's a really good paraphrase, so that's impressive, but I feel strongly that it should not have quotation marks around it if it's not a quote.
Zephyr can do MPU https://docs.zephyrproject.org/latest/reference/usermode/mem...
Prices are a function of number of market participants and information of each participant. If insider trading is legal, fewer people will participate in the market because they will lose out due to information asymmetry and this will lead to pricing inefficiencies. What’s interesting is that what others are willing to pay is key public information as well.
Yes, that was the one! Some good discussion in that thread - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30792365
>It's important that people, especially immigrants, can get into these schools based solely on their test scores and not have to do any of the other trivial stuff that demonstrates that they can participate in the society in which they live.

So you're saying only studying and not doing anything else to eventually become a doctor that serves a community in Dallas doesn't demonstrate enough participation in society as much as being able to play a sport?

And don't get me wrong, extra curriculars are important, but the simplistic reduction of immigrants studying hard equates they don't participate in the society is a bit much.
I think the parent means "a score above a threshold gets the rest of your application read."

Certainly the article would not support reading "accepting" as "admitting".

"We do not prefer people with perfect scores"

"our research shows students also need [...] the resilience to rebound from its challenges, and the initiative to make use of its resources. That’s why we don’t select students solely on how well they score on the tests, but only consider scores to the extent they help us feel more confident about an applicant’s preparedness ..."

I read this as saying two extremely important traits are:

* resilience

* initiative

Not test scores.
I read this when it was originally written. I have since founded and failed at a startup. Throughout that experience, I thought about this article.

I don't even think "have a business plan" is the takeaway, because no plan survives first contact with the market. All business plans are built on the assumption that people want what you're currently building.

To me, the takeaway is you need a good 2-3 year runway for startups today. Maybe it only took a year to find PMF a decade ago, but it's much harder now. "The digital X" isn't enough. "X for mobile" isn't enough. "Uber for X" isn't enough. I think this is why web3 is partly as big as it is. It's very easy to say "X on blockchain" and get money for it.

You need to have a strong idea of the community you're serving, and those communities are becoming more and more nuanced. Once you find it, it'll take you a fair amount of time to win it over.
Send it an invite.
"A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum" is supposed based on the plays of Plautus from 2200 years ago.
Yet again, supposedly smart, well-paid people taking huge risks for relatively small payouts.
Oh no, so sadly we have our own Blue Screen of Death!

And it's reproducible as I just got it for that search too! I'll report back once I've fixed that!

Thank you sincerely for trying out Andi. There is a lot more coming with anti-spam. I hate spam.

We want to have a freemium model where anyone can use free anonymous search without restriction, and then we have some paid plans and features, like API use. We still have to work out the details, but we want to have a model where are users are the customer rather than the product. And we think that aligns the company solidly with looking after real people, rather than serving advertisers or corporations.

We have to still work out in detail how it would work though.
There is no exam or test for work-ethic, or (in my case) an inability to refrain from constant yak-shaving.
Good point, thanks for the insight!
Good stuff.

But smart sync is a deal killer. I have a few hundred gigs of data in Dropbox at this point and smart sync is a big savior.

But this would be awesome for Linux.
But wasm doesn't provide those kind of APIs, anything we see here should be available on JS too.
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That's interesting. What were the demographic breakdowns in Georgia and Tennessee where you worked?

White people are more circumspect with the magic word generally, it was the American-born children of immigrants who would really get wild with it, along with the black dudes who wanted to be or seem more street adjacent. Such an awkward way to phrase all of this.
> that has gotten caught with their proverbial security pants down around the ankles

So just like any other major networking provider, including opensource projects?
"So how was work today?" "Well, I got to grab mice and force inhaler sprays into their tiny little nostrils against their wills." "Sounds better than my day."
I like the Civilization series, with a modern era start, for this.

There’s often a couple different ways to victory and there’s already enough built out to put plans into action immediately.
Your son and I had really similar stats in high school. I also didn't do well in college admissions, but that was mostly due to my poor strategic decisions and affirmative action (I'm Asian). I would really emphasize that transfers are 100% legitimate avenues for him to take. It just requires immediate planning and dedication now.
Ask HN: Would be possible to power an E-Ink screen with a mechanical wristwatch?
The social security agency of the USA seems to be in high praise of you, is there any connection between you and them?
TL;DR a prior dealership had installed it as part of an anti-theft add-on before selling it to a different dealer who ultimately sold it to the supporter.

The investigative effort they put in was quite good.
I will say I'm of decent peer-inteligence (and the test scores put me in the top 1% or higher) but that doesn't account for other aspects of "ability".

I feel my grades more accurately portrayed me as a whole but the test was accurate as to potential if that makes sense.
I don't know about your specific example, but there's some stuff GDS hasn't touched (yet?) and it shows. The 'modern' stuff that has that consistent design across departments, awesome accessibility etc. is all great IME.

Devil's advocate though: I know someone who works in tax (for a private firm of accountants) and hates it. Too dumbed down, and the bar at which they need to reach out to HMRC for guidance or some other resource is just too low.

I find it often ends up linking through to actual legislature, so perhaps it's just something in the middle that's missing, the 'technical reference' level.
The British Empire Was Much Worse Than You Realize
wasm comes into play for things like dos emulator.
I had a mystery tracker installed in a car I purchased as well: https://fccid.io/2AEB4AMV01/User-Manual/Users-Manual-3928375

The dealer even added a $250 fee to "remove" this device, but I found it was still installed, so I think I ended up footing the bill for the device itself.

The device is ostensibly to protect inventory from loss, but it seems like they are incentivizing dealers to leave these in cars to capture location data, for whatever reason.
Are you saying that it is impossible to learn from mistakes?
Similar project:
https://www.os-js.org/

Both look amazing.
I agree with you completely, and a lot of talent surely goes to waste. I'm not sure what difference you think that makes. If the kid from the poor family isn't well prepared by the time he gets to MIT on day one, all of the natural talent in the world isn't going to change that.

One of two things will happen: He'll fail out; this is common for diversity admits. Or, he may require a remedial curriculum to develop these natural talents he is believed to have, but may not, nobody's really sure yet because he can't demonstrate them as well as the other students from richer households. Either way, a prestigious university is not the proper forum for that.
Well we’re talking about shortages so shortages will happen because some will stockpile
Yes but it is one that insider trading incentivizes greatly.
> Complete disaster for his future and really a shot to his otherwise happy and optimistic life

I'm sorry but this is a bit over dramatic, no?

Your son still got into college. Just didn't get into the specific school he wanted.

I didn't get into the college I wanted either. I'm doing just fine.

Some of the best coworkers I've ever had went to a community college and transferred after a year or two.

I get it, it's okay to be bummed. But you're acting like his life is already over. Set a good example and instill the value that you can overcome barriers and failures in life, it's going to be okay.
definitely not over. kicking ass in community college for a year or two and transferring to a much better school with scholarship is a great option for anyone
While acceptance rates have gotten lower, some of it is due to more people applying.

Average scores are higher because more people are studying for exams than 20 years ago.

But I don't think the course work has necessarily gotten any more difficult.

So while it's true that 1480 wouldn't get you in MIT these days, if the same exact "You" were born amongst the kids applying to college these days, your score would likely be higher.
As a 30s something person, the movie had me rolling my eyes. It was designed for the now in vogue Gen Z crowd. A group that apparently don't remember the 80s and 90s when computing was more unstable, there was a lot less software and that you had to internalize that the lower layers were more fragile and built on a bed of sand.

These people live their lives entirely in the application layer and come up with all these fantasies of Virtual Reality and all the magical stuff it entails. I hate it and everything that comes with this new world and I want to re-live the simpler times of the 90s and the 00s.

I fear that time is long gone though. Just that feeling of millennials now beginning to be brushed aside in favor of the next generation's worldview is jarring because now I have to live in it or disconnect and try to retain the memories of the past. I guess every generation goes through it.

I miss the world of Scott Pilgrim vs. The World. That took place during the beginnings of Obama's "Hope and Change". Things were on the upswing. Climate change was not in your face as much as it is now. No coming world war and economic collapse. Just a bunch of hipsters and a guy trying to overcome the baggage of his dream girl the old fashioned way: by battling her seven evil exes via old style 2d video game fighting.
The title is misleading. 280 armoured vehicles. 93% sounds like a propaganda number.

Good active protection system can get this number to a single digit e.g. Merkava thropy https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uRJzcM5ETY4
School grades and ranking should never be used for admission. Just standardised testing is good enough. It brings everyone to the level field.

I don’t know the situation in Chile but surely even the poor can buy books that tells you how to do standardised tests right?
You have to elaborate the problem in crystal clear explanation
Thanks for trying it out. I'm a Type 1 Diabetic, so health search is one of the areas I really want us to help improve for the world. We have a long way to go but it's one of the suckiest areas of search with spam and clickbait taking over the rest of the web. We're still putting together our spam blacklists for health so all ears on suggestions, but we have a pretty good model for detecting decent content, and a start at some vertical "meta indexes" of good resources.

Very grateful for you trying out Andi, and for your encouragement!
What makes an option ROM so expensive?
"sharing research via PDF must inevitably come to an end."

Maybe instead of using the obsolete toolset arxiv provides, they could host their groundbreaking research on their own platform? The combination of ground breaking features and insightful commentary would draw users?

Actually, many of the negatives they list are positives in my book. The latex barrier screens out a ton of garbage in my view - I'm on some social science / word based research lists, and the quality of stuff is mind bogglingly bad.

Getting stuff it fit into a PDF (instead of the NY times new scrollable story stuff) makes grabbing or print off or even reading easy - less dynamic is good in my book.
Coal, much like alcohol and tobacco, is basically grandfathered in. If it were newly considered as an energy source with all the externalities we know now then it's unlikely we'd use it so widely.
EPA estimates 50 tons a year from US coal plants. [1]
Around 8.5% of global coal consumption is from the US [2], so a ballpark estimate would be 588 tons/year globally from coal. I would guess this estimate is a bit low as there are EPA standards to limit mercury emission by coal plants [3]. Top coal consumers like India and China are likely to have less mercury emission regulations, but I don't have a source for that. US coal varies in mercury content by up to 3x [1] so global mercury emissions are likely to be highly dependent on coal sources.

[1] https://pubs.usgs.gov/fs/fs095-01/fs095-01.html#:~:text=EPA%....

[2] https://www.worldometers.info/coal/coal-consumption-by-count...

[3] https://www.epa.gov/mats/cleaner-power-plants
Via a web app.
I also love the lack of advertising.
The SAT being a help to low-income students shows how messed up the US high school system is. Normally standardized tests hurt low-income students because they require extra-curricular resources to do well on. In the US they hurt poor students less because the GPA system is so badly broken. AP courses are not offered in the poorest schools but offer such large bonuses to GPA that a 4.0 GPA is considered very poor for applying to university. A student can literally have a perfect GPA in the best courses offered by their school and be considered a very poor applicant academically.
I wish we could and I think we should.

I'm just very sad we don't have safe hardware w.r.t. memory corruption via rowhammer and I don't think any of the typical formal methods or seL4 account for it. Safely running untrusted code is nearly impossible on modern computers.
they were fooled by their smartness. They don't realize that the govt. plays for keeps.
No no no. The thesis topics are in graduate schools are more cutting edge, and the opportunity to interact with real science as an undergraduate are invaluable. I would tend to agree that excelling at a second tier university with a comprehensive program is an acceptable start. It generally gets you to a higher level.

Competitiveness is about speed. Anyone can look something up. It’s about knowing things right off the bat, knowing what’s an unreasonable answer, estimating things, knowing what’s important. That takes years of education and practice.

In the US, we have probably had 750,000 excess deaths in the last two years because politicians do not have an intuition about probability and statistics. This was generally true in the West, but NOT in China and Asia in general, where the leaders were more numerate.
This thread offers no evidence that SpaceX plans (or had ever planned) to use mercury as an ion propellant. I think the "Starlink plans" part of the title is an unjustified editorialization.

Starlink thrusters use krypton,

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Starlink

edit: If you look at the text of the legal complaint, the only mention of SpaceX mercury is a *pure hypothetical*:

https://peer.org/wp-content/uploads/attachments/11_19_18_FCC...

- "If a corporation such as SpaceX, OneWeb, or another major space company were to deploy an entire proposed LEO constellation with cheaper and more powerful mercury-fueled thrusters on-board, they could be launching as much as 198 tonnes of mercury into orbit, which will then be fired off into the upper atmosphere."
Come on in said the spider to the fly kind of invite?
Councils and other local government organizations are expected to get fleeced by Capita and other "preferred" private outsourcing companies that don't care about anything other than collecting taxpayer money.

Of course it would make complete sense for the gov.uk team to expand and help local government organizations with their online presence. But that won't feather the nest of the right people.
So do I (on iOS), it seems to be caused by the math overflowing the page.
There is no solution better than the current ones. After a company I worked with was acquired by a public company, I was given a role that included accessing to sensitive information in financial dbs. Along with that was a welcome email from the chief counsel, then every quarter came emails listing blackout dates. I nave traded in the company’s stock or options, but it would have been incredibly clear when I was prevented from doing so.
Alright. You seem to feel pretty confident about this.

Having worked with quite a few MIT grads over the years, at least in my anecdotal experience, they were smart people who were no more or less likely than any of the other smart people working around them to stumble upon the next evolution of the web browser.
My money is on "NoCloud"
True, if the processor powers down too.
You'd have to look up recent case law, as with all SEC rules, which may be what your company is referring to.

But that's the explicit design of 10b5-1: that it provides coverage if all its requirements are satisfied.

The SEC can charge you for making favorable trades according to a predefined plan, but they're going to have an uphill battle convicting you, if you kept your broker at arms length and didn't alter your plan beyond what was initially communicated.
Sign on bonuses are very common in software engineering and other hard-to-hire roles in tech right now.
I'm struggling to see how any of what the author mentioned is actually automatable. If you can invent an AGI, sure, but otherwise the problem can only be solved by human intellect, and good luck making that a business for $10/month.
I find this pretty terrifying because it’s undermining the very basis of leisure time and changing many ideas about hobbies into a bland performative regurgitation of the parts that sell. It also feels like things are getting weirdly homogenised.
Show HN: Visualize SQL Queries
My co-worker and I were debugging a SQL issue; having not seen SQL in two years, I embarrassed myself by confusing union vs. join. After this episode, I tried refreshing my SQL memory, but there are few websites that animate SQL for you. Most of them just have a series of images to help you visualize. There are a few tools that are quite good and robust (especially for large/complex use cases) but require installation and are too complex for my simple purpose.

So, just created a small tool to help visualise SQL. Most of the animations are just my understanding of how SQL works. Would love to know what you think? Do you also visualise some of the queries like that in your head? Any feedback would be gold. Btw you can also edit queries and see different results (but its a bit limited).

Have fun ;)
Somewhat related, I remember Space Colony, where you had to manage an eponymous Space Colony, which not only involved assigning jobs to people, but also looking after their mental health.
they almost always get caught. The SEC is so good at detecting this stuff especially when people do it many times thinking they got away with it the first few times. .
For scale:

> The odd radio circle’s large outer circle is possibly more than a million light years across

The entire Milky Way galaxy is 100,000 light years across:
https://www.universetoday.com/75691/how-big-is-the-milky-way...
As a pointless pedantic nit, Java's type-system is unsound: https://io.livecode.ch/learn/namin/unsound

But realistically, the above doesn't matter.

What actually matters is that you often _do_ have to cast at runtime in java, so it's somewhat common to hit type errors at runtime in practice. Haskell's type-system makes runtime type casting both less necessary, and vanishingly rare, meaning such runtime cases are practically never hit.

The above is at least true from my personal anecdotal experience.
I think the bigger question is whether we should have exclusive schools like MIT.

Screening for college admissions made sense a century ago, when 5% of people went to college. Today, not so much. From an undergrad class perspective, the difference between MIT and a better state school is mostly the brand stamp and the admissions department.

Why do we want to stamp people with a stamp like "MIT"?
I see this take all the time but it’s kind of misleading. Realistically things like uptodate, clinical journals and conferences mint money. Doctors are one of the prime demographics of people who do things for non monetary gains. Yes if you want to be nihilist you’ll find a minority of docs where this isn’t true, but the point is there’sa huge market to doctors willing to improve care without direct monetary gain.

This startup product failed because it wasn’t shown to improve outcomes— it just compiled study results by a non expert. At the very least the founder should have at least attempted doing a study on the tool showing using it resulted in better outcomes. But it didn’t make that link and so people didn’t know what to do with it.
Sure but many are beating the market by making trades on companies that those members are supposed to regulate.
You people are harsh! :)

I'll put it this way: I only write about stuff that I think is interesting. And I don't believe my title is clickbait.

If you read the article and still think it's not interesting or not my normal level of educational, well then I'll be surprised.
> Really, this week? With nuclear war looming over us all?

Nuclear war has been looming over us all since 1949, this week is no different than last week or 10 years ago.
Not OP but I am an abnormally good "tester." It was always easy for me to see what the questions were asking for and could make a go of anything multiple choice. I'm also good at writing essays. It does not make me smart, it makes my abilities especially suited to standardized tests.
Did you read the article? He addresses your point directly. Your criticism sounds a little petty, but, perhaps you're being flippant and it's lost on me..
Personally, I think the argument is interesting. Let us split it into technical and cultural concerns.

A market changes according to flow and distribution of public and private information. The more publoc information, the more accurately priced the stock. Insider information increases public information indirectly through trading said stock.

From a cultural standpoint, many people do not trade on insider information because it is seen as unfair or immoral. A number of people abstain because it is illegal. Some do trade based on self interest and the disproprotiate personal gains to risk involved.

Nowhere, in any of this is the quality and manner of disclosure. Ultimately, it just creates another financial game where people race to see who can get the information quickest.

Needless to say, the systems of reporting in corporations would adjust and the largest share of gains would be made by those who have large holdings of stock. At the same time, it takes away a measure of enforcement and adds traders who were deterred by laws and morals.