skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> To game the SAT or ACT you must spend a few thousand dollars during grade 11 or grade 12.

"Or check out a SAT book or two for free from the library.", says my partner from an extremely poor family who got into college on the basis of her perfect SAT score and whom never would have qualified to a prestigious school on a GPA basis. (And whom was also admitted to law school on the basis of a nearly perfect LSAT, which she studied for only with free and extremely low cost used materials)

> Intuitively, how could it be correct that people pay thousands of dollars on these courses

People, particularly those to whom a thousand dollars isn't a big deal, spend all kinds of money on speculative and outright ineffective treatments. Including mystical mumbojumbo, quack medical treatments, and products and services which accomplish nothing except contributing to the 'identity' they present to themselves and others. ("I am a parent who cares, look I spent $zillions getting Jr the best opportunities!").

> To game the GPA takes four years of study and prep and you must start doing it at the beginning of grade 9. Tens of thousands of dollars and preparation+work over multiple years. To game the SAT or ACT you must spend a few thousand dollars during grade 11 or grade 12.

I think on this point we're agreeing to a great extent but we're drawing opposite conclusions. I agree SAT improves with focused study, though I believe that improvement is available for free (other than time and knowing you should do it).

You seem to agree with me that it is very expensive to hyper-optimize GPAs, requiring costs and actions extremely early and on a sustained basis.

My conclusion from this is GPA optimization relatively more available to students with more affluent families, because it takes more time, more money, and requires it earlier and more speculatively. -- we don't have an option where you can't improve your performance with the input of time,money, care but we can choose metrics where the available improvement is available to more people.
>What would that look like? The Treasury would issue digital dollars, just as it has issued paper money since the 1860s. To function as cash, the money can’t live on the government’s books or on a distributed blockchain ledger. That means balances must be stored on hardware. That could look like a stand-alone device, or it could be a secure hardware environment on your cell phone, similar to a SIM card—essentially a chip that is physically segregated from the rest of the device, so that it doesn’t depend on the security of the entire operating system.

Simply putting things behind a security module sounds like a really inadequate solution to double-spending. But it's crazy enough that it might actually work.
Yes! Safe Search is in the pipeline. Images especially.

Most of the information safety work so far is around sensitive or unsafe topic handling, and trying to just fall back to straight search results when a topic is unsafe. This approach has some special challenges with that, because if someone specifically searches for keywords on controversial topics, and you're answering questions about them, then it quickly gets into dangerous territory. In this case it's not because the model is being offensive, but it could well be answering specific questions about dangerous content. People are used to getting search results matching dangerous keywords they enter. They'll be less used to see answers based on the content. So I think we just need to avoid Q&A on any sensitive topic. The downside is that while it is already quite good at answering questions about news and politics, it currently stays away from political or sensitive topics, and just presents search results for this.
They already do this - ChromeOS has been a thing for years.
> Compare these two videos of writing a solid block of color to the screen, first through the SPI task, and second with direct SPI hardware access:

I wonder if the performance difference could, in some applications, create a preference for processors with enough SPI ports to dedicate one per peripheral (no chip select required). Not only no shared bus (as in I2C), but no shared SPI-task.
Fun fact: the default mainline kernel driver (or at least the one used by Raspbian and Ubuntu) for the Raspberry Pi gigabit interface does not support jumbo frames without patching and recompiling the kernel. :/

This is a colossal pain if you run your home lan at 9000 for the aforementioned storage/NAS reason.
It's not that they don't know the truth.They lived for a very long time believing o lie that now is hard to admit that they were wrong. People don't like to admit that they are / were wrong.
Did Twitter Spaces actually take off? My only experience of it was super early on when a celebrity I really likes joined a Twitter space to promote her new project but in an effort to record the conversation, I discovered that the iPad was not supported at the time. :/

Since then I have not heard a peep about Twitter Spaces.
Type patterns [1] are still unfortunately in preview (and have been since JDK 17), and record (destructuring) patterns [2] haven't even landed as a preview yet. I hope the latter get at least a preview in JDK 19 [3], but it looks like they've barely even begun the process of targeting JEPs to 19 yet.

[1]: https://openjdk.java.net/jeps/420

[2]: https://openjdk.java.net/jeps/405

[3]: https://openjdk.java.net/projects/jdk/19/
Too far away, for one. Too different for most people, too, I imagine.
Even to move to Guadalajara, Mexico, you are only a couple hours flight from Houston but you still need to have a remote job and have some interest in being in a different culture and learning Spanish which is kind of a luxury.

I only ended up here by accident. I don’t think I would have had the balls to just move to another country without a serious push. In my case I was burned out, took a low paying software job in Guadalajara, and ended up meeting a girlfriend who helped me situate with friends and a community. I was terrified of getting another software job in Austin that I hated as much as my previous one.

It was a chain of luck and circumstance.
Low bandwidth internet would also be very useful with mesh networking solutions, which will tend to have bottlenecks at the exit nodes.
“Rules lawyering” being a term from the role-playing games world, where players try to achieve their aims partly by arguing with the game master about the rules…I love the use here. I don’t know if I’ve seen it applied to the eruv, but it’s quite appropriate.
You probably don't have the 13th Floor Elevators version in mind, but that's my favorite! I'll concede that nobody's likely to call it definitive though.
Two things immediately popped to mind. (1) 'con display' from Star Trek (2) multi-star Dyson sphere under construction. The latter doesn't make sense though, seems that many single spheres would be simpler unless it was to be concealed: (3) sub-galactic Great Wall?

Can we detect single-star Dyson spheres as the disappearance of stars before their expected end?
> But the buyers have other options

That's not always an assumption that holds. Many "buyers of labor" in the tech sector right now are very limited on their options, whereas the "labor sellers" have many options.

> Best I can hope for is find an inefficiency and hope to eke out a little bit myself until I can afford to be a buyer?

You will always be a buyer of some things and a seller of others. "Spending" your time to invest in rare and valuable skills that you can "sell" on the labor market can net you very nice returns.
A Conversation with Matt Klein about Envoy, Rust and Windows NT
Iirc ssh passwords aren't sent in the clear. Is that really the case?

Edit: I looked it up to confirm. First time password is encrypted analogous to tls
> Why are you conflating being informed or following one particular event with being obsessed with the news?

I'm not. This article isn't about "being obsessed with the news", it is arguing against following the news at all - in fact he addresses this directly. Did you read the article?

> So what are you supposed to do instead, you might ask? Well, reducing news consumption is a good start but like Dobelli I would say mere reduction is probably not enough. Personal experience of attempting moderation has made me more of a hardliner. Personally, I vote for going cold turkey and simply walking away from the whole idea of news and the illusion of staying informed.
Similar opinion and story. We live in Boise, Idaho and my daughter does a hybrid model of home school and high school. She knew she got top grades and 5's on all her APs but it didn't give her any idea of where she sat, nationally. She was planning on going to art school until a year ago, when she sat for her first standardized test, the PSAT. She saw the score, which was national merit range and realized that she should have higher ambitions. She took the SAT last October (she's a Junior) and got a great score. So now she's considering top schools. She wasn't before.

Without these types of tests, you could end up being biased toward a measure of "how hard did the parents push."
To make naan like that you need a Tandoor oven, basically a kiln. There's not really a way to replicate that kind of heat at home. The yeast is a way to get similar texture without needing the equipment.
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But what would be an appropriate answer? Yes probably, this would mean they were wrong. No would be quite complex, I suppose.

I didn't assume the GP to be ignorant or distrusting the credibility of the researcher, and the question was valid in my point of view as well from that perspective.
It does seems like an oversight. I'm hopeful it'll turn out fine, but I'm also pretty angry about it
If you cannot trust the network, where is the advantage of keypairs over passwords?

If you have a one-time password, worse case is that some man in the middle gets that password.

If you engage in a proof of private key ownership for your login, a man in the middle can use that exchange to log into another server that has the same public key.
Climate Change 2022: Impacts, Adaptation and Vulnerability [pdf]
Canadian politician charged by Ottawa police over Freedom Convoy protest
Weather alerts come through my phone (a notification for a watch, a buzzing for a warning, and some siren like thing for an active tornado).
Software engineering is based on applied mathematics too. You'll need at least some basic calculus to make sense of O(n) analysis, and Calc II as a prereq for probability. Then add plenty of logic, discrete mathematics (needed for algorithms and data structures), models of computation and concurrency, category theory (which is becoming a shared language of everything "compositional"), topology etc. etc.

If you really want a "math free" intro to tech, look into Business Information Systems. That tends to be more ad hoc, at least for now. At some point, people will start to care about software assurance even in that context, and the standards will rise accordingly.
Volkswagen Prepares for a Deglobalized World
Do you feel the same way about the music, shows and movies you watch or listen to? I certainly like the occasional homemade passion project and community theater but I’d really hate it if that was the totality of the entertainment offerings available.
OP has a legitimate inquiry, but you dismiss it with an appeal to authority? Researchers miss things all the time. But if they considered it and rejected it, then it still makes it a valid question doesn’t it?
When looking for Monitors with these options, I found the term "PBP" (Picture-Beside-Picture) useful for searching.

LG has one, the 43UN700, which also has a serial port for controlling picture-input layout options, and sound-source. It has a mode for showing any4of6 inputs at the same time, and a bunch of layout options for any2of6 ( Top/Botton, Left/Right, Main/PiP) inputs. Sound output can only come from active sources, though. My only "software gripe" up to now. It comes with a ton of cables, but NOT the required RS232C (looks like audio-jack) adapter. Hrmpf.
Ukrainian Language
The ability to have multiple VMs with many different operating systems.
Define "most people"?

Average Android users, maybe had a clean migration?

On iOS (or worse Windows) you had to seek out new apps each time and there was nothing but confusion. Both platforms, at least in the US, have more than their fair share to be considered statistically significant to "most people" and "I need to find and install some new app" is certainly much more friction than "didn't notice the migration happening".

(Not to mention anecdotally, my GChat experience was through XMPP federation and was amazing while it lasted and I entirely got stranded by the "migration" to Hangouts. Everything including my contacts list was in XMPP. I know that I'm statistically insignificant to Google in that transition and statistically insignificant to "most people", but I also wasn't the only person stranded that way.)
If it had kerning, then would it still be brutalist?
Prior-art-dept.: 5 letter words (Jim Butterfield's Jotto)
I wonder what proportion of these "creators" will ever make a living through it. I bet the distribution of that $10 billion is hugely skewed towards a few.
Yea I agree. You can even be solving a problem in a super amazing way but if there are no customers willing to spend the money for it then you are just making a home project for yourself.

I also see a lot of people fail because they solve a problem that THEY themselves are having but that does not actually happen to a large enough set of people that it translates again to something businesses or individuals will pay for.

Realistically I think the best way to do a startup is being willing to pivot hard and fast and early if necessary or to completely drop a project and move on to something else. If it is a passion project you are doing for yourself that is one thing - if you actually want to start a real business you cannot get caught in the time-already-sunk mentality.
Scaffold a TypeScript App Easy
I feel this thread is chock-full of ahistorical ignorance and fatuous libertarianism that shouldn’t have a place here, not because it is unworthy of discussion but because the participants lack the required education and life experience to do it justice. HN is great for technology insight and complete shite for socio-political discussion.
You should not be required to use the official servers; you might set up your own, which could use LAN if you wanted to do, I should think. However, not all games (and other computer programs) are designed in this way.
Why can't it ever be aliens?
They check the entire string every Friday and repair it if necessary. And it needs repair almost every week.
As a fellow European, IMO it’s very important to follow especially what non-Ukraine politicians are doing. That will help a lot in elections in coming decades. Let’s keep them accountable for once.
The current war and gas crisis in Europe is finally underscoring one of the points that’s been ignored for a long time; depending on unstable rentier states to secure the energy required for HVAC and transit is unbelievably foolish national policy. Nuclear is really expensive to build, both in terms of money and political capital, but the benefits are more apparent once crisis hits oil producing states, which was always inevitable.
Law schools put so much energy into these exam procedures! And all under the banner of preventing cheating and producing a nice curve.

Now the technological arms race faced by law schools is how to get students to read anything in a world where case summaries (eg. Quimbee) and all hornbooks are freely, trivially available.

I suspect the schools will continue defend the case method for a long time to come, even as the vast majority of students don't read cases any more and even practitioners rely heavily on headnotes and other electronic research tools.
I think Instagram does this to this very day? Your video is something not shared by all.
Agreed. I think insurance companies would be the better customer for this idea. They're in the business of paying the least amount possible for medical care.
Scrolled past the giant gif, got their newsletter popup, instantly closed the tab. Indeed the plain-text internet can't get here soon enough.
Reddit would be a fairly unique one - it would be hard for anyone to predict a single forum would take over for most other smaller forums. Then again forums in general were already very popular and I bet many made quite a bit from advertising.
10gbps at full-size packets is 812,743pps
10,000,000,000/(1538*8) = 812,743.82

200gbps is 20x this rate, or 16,254,876pps

This is 9% higher than the 10gbps packet rate for 'line rate', 14,880,952 pps, which can be done on a single core these days.

https://docs.fd.io/csit/rls1807/report/detailed_test_results...
> it was about not eating animals like catholics on certain fridays

Many of them are like animals on other days of the week too.
Some South American areas have an awful lot of guns. An ESL student from Colombia told me that he feels a lot safer in the US.
Basically, if you see the trap you aren't the target. Wow I never thought of it that way.
One of the bizarre parts of these games is that you can effectively become a people manager as a 12-18 year old.
It's funny how I highlighted it as well, along with the guy applying to mcdonald's story. The kind of social pressure and moral shaming it describes is absolutely real
> I'd manage with anything that arose, if it meant something better for them.

You had me up until this one. It is not (in my view) necessary to optimize monotonically toward anything that makes life better for my children. All the stuff you said before that, I would certainly do if the alternative was deprivation for my children, but having secured their basic well-being, making things even better for them is only one consideration among others. As an extreme, if I had enough money in the bank to secure them shelter, food, education, and enjoyment, I would not then take or continue in a job I hate in order to pad out a big trust fund.

I fear this is a pedantic point I'm making as I suspect this sort of going above and beyond is not what you meant, but it was my reaction to the end of that first paragraph.
I find it odd that you consider Dart an "odd programming language", given it is a very "mainstream" language. One of its core goals is to be unsurprising and easy to learn.
"work" is a bad translation. It should be translated as "creative activity". Creating light in this case.
It's always aliens.
Can I see your contributions to statistical theory and data analysis please?
It's important to remember how money requires a lot of regulations, because without enforced regulations and laws against fraud, money quickly becomes pointless.

I don't dislike capitalism, I just dislike how corruption quickly makes capitalism immoral, especially when money goes across borders.

It's sad but capitalism will never manage to gain support if it's corrupt.
He can do it once, maybe, if you don't authenticate the server. With a password, he can do it any number of time, to any number of targets, and there's no way to catch it.

Yes, it is still not perfect, but here's the advantage.
I linked elsewhere to an essay showing how 'lazy' or 'idle' aren't insults, but mere synonyms for 'efficient' and 'purposeful'.

I don't get how you deduce that there's no room for agency. You seem to confound that with the different amounts of leverage that people with widely different origins get; those coming from a more resourceful starting point will produce more, regardless of the actual effort they put in.
To argue anything other than its exponential is to zoom into an area of the curve that is meaningless.

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

I found the actual population estimate he seems to be referencing are from the Lancelet https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Projections_of_population_grow...
There are enough referenced facts on that wiki page to know that is not a certainty.

Human population is obviously not strictly exponential, as there have been worldwide phenomena that lower it globally, and these will happen again in the future, but if the net growth rate is even 0.1% it is not linear, it is exponential. Only when the growth rate equals the replacement rate (deaths) will it suddenly be static, but if it increases even a hair over that its exponential at that moment (because new humans produce more new humans).

Also as we know from microbiology human population with finite resources can't be exponential in the long run as resources will limit it, so sure its not an exponential function because it obviously is a logarithmic function (likely with a whole other side to the graph once it reaches its peak). Sure maybe we are smarter than this, but it does seem like a leap to get there. So yes technically you are 100% right human population is not and cannot be exponential, it just has been for the past few centuries, and there isn't a good reason to expect it not to be in the future.
That has nothing to do with what caffeine actually said.
I remember finding myself in 3rd year Calculus in a Computer Science degree, and realizing: I don't have to be here! (only two years were mandatory)

I've always enjoyed math and kept enrolling into it out of habit, until it became so esoteric, and my actual interests more solid and practical.

I find a lot of my university career was fascinating and... useless. Not just from "I will never use this directly perspective", but also largely from "this will give me broader understanding and framework and enable me to learn faster" perspective. We can have wonderful philosophical discussion on what University should be for - job prep or educational enhancement for the sake of it - but truth of the matter was that I envied those in Engineering fields who had fun AND learned AND were doing practical things AND were going to apply some of it. Whereas my 3rd and 4th year maths were just maths for the sake of maths.

I may be hanging out with uninteresting crowds, but same experience is broadly true for my friends and co-workers - Java developer, VMWare architect, Database Administrator, ERP developer, etc. We all value education and love learning and will go on our vacation with couple of technical books - but university Computer Science degree seems very mistailored, or at least, sold wrong.
The problem is that the switched network has to emulate behaviours that were free on CSMA/CD system. So we get MAC learning, Spanning-Tree Protocol, and ultimately if you want performant large scale ethernet switching (and not just terminate ethernet at point2point) you end up with complex software directly managing forwarding tables (all sorts of SDNs) or essentially turn ethernet into routed network (using IS-IS routing, two standards exists for implementing it, one of them - TRILL - is reportedly backbone of Cisco Nexus Fabric system).

There's a reason why another name of Layer 2 ethernet network is "broadcast area".
A friend of mine got married in NZ and told the caterers they wanted a vegetarian menu. The caterers responded with a lamb focused menu.

This was right around when My Big Fat Greek Wedding came out so it came up a lot in the subsequent jokes.