skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Taking the view for a moment of somebody who thinks we won't have a solution until we have plenty of nuclear power,

> the time to get a reactor up, running, and carbon neutral is much too long to address the climate crisis

In that particular sense, it's not a crisis: if you think N megadeaths will occur in time T as a result of climate change (making no comment on that because I don't know much about N as a function of T), there are still (10000 - N) million humans around at time T to suffer from lack of a solution. In that situation, it doesn't make sense to say "it's a crisis, so a solution that helps after time T can't possibly help"?

So for people who think that we won't have a solution until we build a lot of nuclear power, the slogan "climate crisis" seems likely to badly damage those 10000-N million humans because it gives us an excuse to never solve the problem. People could reasonably disagree with the antecedent ("won't have a solution until we build nuclear"), but I hope you see a bit how the other side sees it?

Greetings from an ex-Physics grad student on the other side by the way! Other side both of this debate and of being a grad student I suppose. Have a nice day over there :wave:
tbh I thought APs were generally more difficult than actual classes at a high-level university (USAFA). And my high school's regular courses (granted a fantastic high school) were actually much more difficult than a state school's courses.

That said, outside of admissions, I don't think I got academic value out of them. They were hard for the sake of being hard. I'd rather have taken the SAT or ACT any day.

(also apropos of nothing but I don't think much of the writing section on the SAT either, which was a hot topic 15 or so years ago... a huge amount is dependent on the graders, and it's fundamentally a "blackboard programming" type scenario where the student is separated from basic resources like word processing and graded on the resulting product... that's not how you would actually work in an academic setting.)
Yes. Not eating leavened bread is something you do for Passover. Sabbath is weekly and is about “not doing work”. I thought the sabbath mode for elevator comment was just more broadly talking about “cheating God”
>handling large amounts of cash while operating parallel books. Then pivoting to stock fraud to take in a bigger pie from investors.

They were pretty advanced at this in the 19th century already.
SAT scores correlate with IQ test scores. SAT is just a 'legal' thinly veiled version of IQ test.
Seems their mediawiki is struggling, here's an archive https://web.archive.org/web/20210815185631/https://wiki.what...
Was it this one? https://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/puzzles/js/unta...

I went and found this game again relatively recently. It reminds me so much of decoupling and refactoring software or vice versa. I spent a few years occasionally trying to remember what distant memory of an experience decoupling reminded me of.

I quite enjoy both. Whilst simultaneously kind of hating the process.

Incredible sense of clarity once you've resolved everything that was stepping in the way of understanding. Moments of despair and frustration. Sense of progress combined with feeling this could be never ending. Iteratively trying to step towards something better.
It all seeming worth it in the end. So many parallels.
I was kind of hoping that the inline citations would lead to how they reached their conclusions. But it's just more "our research shows" conclusions without the meat underneath. Do they publish their methodology anywhere?

(It's pretty funny that the first red highlight hover is explaining that you can hover over red highlights to see more information. The only people reading it are the ones who no longer need to be told.)
The problem you speak of called "tragedy of the commons", even if you could track costs perfectly there needs to be a mechanism to enforce actors to pay for these costs, this is the hard part. There needs to be political will and global coordination. Look at the state of carbon taxes to see why, it's not so much that companies are not being tracked, but there is no will to levy a high country wide tax while other countries sit idle.
You have misread the report. In actuality the results are 14 out 16 points for both .us and .de in that category.
DSLRs are dead.
Is the current push back against coding tests in job hiring perhaps similar to this push back against the SAT?
Yes. See Silicon Valley, Season 2, Episode 2.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=JlwwVuSUUfc

https://www.quora.com/Silicon-Valley-Season-2-Episode-2-Runa...

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silicon_Valley_(season_2)
I agree with your comment about the wrong conclusion. Google didn't have a monetization plan, it launched in 1998 and didn't do adwords(ads) until 2000. It's always better to have positive cashflow, however, enough capital lets you have more runway. At the end of the day you do need someone who will pay.

Not that I dislike attorneys but they could have been a client. If you can show that a doctor didn't prescribe the best drug for their malpractice lawsuit it could bring in some money.
One of the biggest problems of our age, even more so than previous ages, is misinformation. This includes wrong information passed through ignorance, and deliberate lies spread by bad actors.

Many of our other biggest problems, including climate change, disease, and wars become much easier to tackle if we could make a substantial improvement in the quality of information being shared.
1200 MTU often in my experience does the trick.

But, I don’t like the presumption in IPv6 that everything supports 1280. What if there is a VPN running over a 1280-MTU link, what is the MTU of the encrypted IPv6 payload? Now add in a couple more layers of VPNs for good measure.
Dey took er jerbs, we gunna take eir homes!
Nuclear is cheap in Illinois because Exelon, the company that runs the Nuclear plants, bribed the state to give their plants subsidies. https://www.bizjournals.com/chicago/news/2020/11/19/ex-comed...
Because they can serve any list of public keys they want; they can return a blank list and lock you out, or append another key at will.
People sometimes use weird domain specific languages, the principle of charity goes a long way in being able to understand peoples' concerns despite the weird way they communicate them. I hate how easily we dismiss people with nonstandard language usage. Grow up.
>What's surprising though, is that APs and similar exams are not enough.

That isn't what they said. They said that access to those tests is not universal. Students from high schools that don't offer AP classes would have a hard time taking AP exams. This would exclude people from rural or impoverished areas.

This is why the SAT and ACT are useful: they are meant to be aptitude tests. They are IQ tests in disguise. If properly designed, they will measure intelligence with minimal influence from education or cultural background. Theoretically something like these tests could be administered to elementary school students and still be useful for predicting success in college a decade later.
That monitor has not been for sale for some time, I looked it up. IMHO you are lucky to have one.
The actions of big prestigious institutions like MIT have an effect on opinion. So if MIT starts doing something tons of people will just knee jerk take their side on whatever the thing is. So another few institutions might follow suit and it might snowball and standard testing could become back in fashion as fast as it went out of fashion.
There's a vast gulf between a soup kitchen somewhere cheap and a sit-down restaurant in the middle of the city with high quality but high rents and high wages.

McDonalds is still going to exist and be cheap enough to eat at a lot.

Hole in the walls, with relatively cheap rents and family owned with takeout and streamlined overhead will also still exist.
How do you explain Putin's speech at the beginning of the conflict, claiming a return to previous imperial Russia borders? Or the fact that a quick celebratory article explaining Russians, Belarusians and Ukranians where united again was published by mistake and then quickly deleted by Russia's main news agency? Is Putin a US agent in this scenario?
I find there's generally a hidden truth in how they answer it, but not in the answer itself. Stuff like hesitation, over the top praise, indirect answers, etc. If it sounds like they're telling me what I want to hear (or sounds like a sales pitch), then the BS meter starts clicking.
Defense in depth matters. The blog post shows an example of Hubris correctly killing a task that's touching memory it's not supposed to. That "supposed to" was due to a configuration error, but configuration errors can and do happen, and maybe would not be as benign as this one was.
This times 10. GPAs have been rendered close to useless, especially at identifying above average ability, due to grade inflation, and also extreme variability between schools. Same for valedictorian and other appellations.
Rant HN: Next.js and Gatsby are not static site generators
Let's look up Wikipedia article "Static web page"

> A static web page (sometimes called a flat page or a stationary page) is a web page that is delivered to the user's web browser exactly as stored,[1] in contrast to dynamic web pages which are generated by a web application.[2]

what Next.js and Gatsby actually do is they statically source your content and generate a dynamic React App

the generated React App then adds dynamic functionality, for example if you navigate the page instead of redirecting you to the page itself, it will redirect to a virtual route

once you hit the virtual route, Gatsby for example will fetch a .json file with the page contents and render it dynamically via React

now, what's the deal? here's the deal: if your website needs javascript to work, it is not static per se!

if your aim is to create a truly static site, you should use a real static site generator, examples: Hugo, Zola and Jekyll

stop calling Next.js and Gatsby static site generators! They are not, they are React App generators with statically sourced (bundled) content
Neither's C, but it is extremely common in safety-critical software.
I showed him the exact problematic line, but he didn't seem to understand it. same thing happened previously.
Perhaps that was not the only man he shot.
Either that, or in the (rather limited) machine language the processor supports. But there is no push to solve this in a particular way.

Here is an article about the Lisp Machine's garbage collection:

http://funcall.blogspot.com/2009/05/before-i-got-distracted-...
I happened to start playing that game a week before Russia invaded Ukraine. It made everything much weirder.
That's great! Unfortunately, at the pace our stack is moving, I don't think I'll be using Python 3.10 for some time
As nice as Queensland and Brisbane are, I’d be worried if I was keeping a historical archive/collection there myself. The climate change trend is definitely looking like cyclone severity is rising and the storm severity is increasing too and they both bring greater humidity swings, as well as more serious flood risk, which unfortunately a lot of people are grappling with the consequences of at the moment.
There's no "blocking light": anything that "blocks light" would get hot from absorbing that light and, then, reradiate. By this time (some point along the curve of "infinitely old universe") everything should be radiating a lot.
This doesn't seem right. The economists on /r/neoliberal and the NYT told me that outsourcing and global supply chains were infallible, extremely superior, and that there was no point in bringing manufacturing back to the USA.
Hacker News commenters have hated (and been wrong about) cryptocurrency ever since the first Bitcoin article appeared here. It's very strange. I chalk it up to some sort of Dunning-Kruger contrarian effect + demographics skewed toward cynical authoritarian statists (not sure why, since tech used to be full of libertarians).

It's all just a repeat of the negative comments over and over... https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=599852
Does your assessment of nuclear energy include incompetent and bad people?

We don't fear that russian rockets hit WEC.
> And everything requires more energy to set up than choosing a plain old password

That's only true so long as there's no mainstream alternative. If everyone needs to have WebAuthn set up anyway for some other service they're using that doesn't use passwords, then the marginal "comfort-cost" of adding another account to system will be even lower than the cost of signing up with a password. (Choose a password? Or just click the "use WebAuthn" button?)
No evidence for this particular case but can investors or competitors just gain private information about a company by pretending to buy it? It's free and the info is very detailed.
For what it's worth, I've been doing this for 10+ years, being a lead, a manager, and I never worked anywhere that tried to have "efficiency" measurements of devs.
Wafer Scale Quantum Chip Prototype Delivers 1M Qubits by 2024
There are combinations of both, for sure. But there was an interview some time ago on Eurogamer about a super spender (thousands of pounds) on Candy Crush who was awarded some airplane tickets to attend a Candy Crush convention, but she couldn't afford tickets to get to the airport...
You obviously didn’t read the article since the author’s point is to work better/smarter, not to work less. For example to improve your skillset rather than to frantically jump from task to task.

Not very conscientious of you to comment without having read the submission.
All MIT students, regardless of intended major, must pass two semesters of calculus, plus two semesters of calculus-based physics, as part of our General Institute Requirements. ... There is no path through MIT that does not rest on a rigorous foundation in mathematics, and we need to be sure our students are ready for that as soon as they arrive.

For a period in the 1980s-1990s, you could argue that calculus was not essential in computer science. It was all discrete math for a while. But then came machine learning, and it's all about hill climbing and gradients now.
"Pour vivre heureux vivons cachés"
I don't really have evidence for this, but it's always felt like SAT/ACT coaching doesn't improve scores so much as get rid of some of the "dumb mistakes" that cost you score.

It's gonna help you when the test writer was playing some gotcha tricks with phrasing or whatever, but if you don't understand the material, even narrowing it down to a 50/50 isn't going to get you a good score, and if you truly don't understand the material you probably won't be able to eliminate half the answers anyway. And they are absolutely aware of the "answer b/c if you don't know" nugget, that's nothing special either.

Also "adaptive difficulty" systems where the system throws harder questions at you after successfully answering the easier ones are basically the "elo rating" of academics. Everyone hates elo but... it slots you into a very statistically accurate ranking. If you score highly on Level 600 questions but you are failing on the Level 700 questions, odds are good you are somewhere between 600 and 700. My understanding is that's what SAT/ACT were moving towards about 10 years ago, that it would be computerized and "everyone's test is personalized" by the elo system probing your exact knowledge level from a bank of questions with difficulty scores dynamically based on how "similar ranked" students performed on that question.
That's amazing! I didn't even know displays like that existed at the time.

I wonder where we would be now if that had gone according to plan.
Two fields I'm quite hyped about:

There are tons of cool companies and non-profits driving the digitalisation of the medical sector, and a lot needs to be done to truly realize the potential of all the data we are gathering currently. Aggregating medical research, data mining actual operations, and leveraging smart devices to personalize therapy are all just beginning to transform the sector.

The second thing would be the digitalisation of Africa, especially in banking and healthcare. Same as above, tons of startups and non-profits are engaging with this now on very promising paths. Already, millions of people gain access to banking and healthcare through these platforms beevry year, and it is transforming lives and economies at large.

Maybe it is just my limited perception, but while I realize that efforts in both of these topics have been going on for well over 20 years, I feel like it has been accelerating greatly in the last couple of years, and is beginning to show real tangible differences.
He added a link at the end which puts it all in one post.
Not sure I agree with such a sweeping opinion about 'what video games have become'. I've been playing video games since the early 90s and quite frankly I've never been happier with my gaming career like I've been in the past 4-5 years. And haven't been paying anything for it (aside from the price of the game). Maybe I'm playing the 'wrong' games? I also don't play any EA games out of principle..

I do agree with the underlying sentiment. But these pay for play schemes are so easy to ignore. I play CS:GO and get a lot of enjoyment out of it without paying for skins or special weapons or whatever.
That's the fundamental problem of any startup. How can you identify a customer without any product to show them?

You can define the existence of a market. You can know that there exists some customer with money and a problem you can solve. But that's not the same as being able to say, "Hey, wait a couple of years while I implement this thing. I don't suppose you'd be interested in paying up front?"

Every successful startup has that moment of bravery where they commit their own money and hope that the customer still exists, and is actually willing to cough up money rather than continuing to do whatever they had been doing while they waited. Every failed startup had the same moment, only the customer turned out not to be willing to spend the money.

There are obvious cases where they should have known that no customer existed. But there are also a lot of cases where they simply weren't in the right place at the right time. I think it's a nice myth that the business majors tell themselves that they would always have known beforehand, but it seems more like survivorship bias to me.
Ah ok thank you for taking a moment to help me understand that. Having looked up the term and re-read the comment, I see what was meant.
Nasal spray treats Delta variant infection in mice
Very welcoming improvements, especially the introduction of the standard AEADs from a standard source.

I look forward to these crypto features!

Will error correction coding be on roadmap at some point?
then you should be equally sceptical of the claim that wind and solar are the future. There is no scalable solution to their volatility and magical battery tech is always just around the corner.
> They said that access to those tests is not universal. Students from high schools that don't offer AP classes would have a hard time taking AP exams.

Yeah, I wish they'd just flat out told me "we expect AP courses" before I applied for MIT back in the day. Would have saved me a lot of hassle that just resulted in "sorry, we wanted AP credits" in the end.
> they consider those technologies to be girly, and therefore still bring up big hairy nuclear reactors whenever anyone fails at avoiding them at parties.

I don't think this is really a thing, and I suspect this appeal to ridicule is being made in bad faith.

My impression is that there's currently an active and honest debate going on right now on whether nuclear is necessary or not.

https://www.factcheck.org/2019/11/what-does-science-say-abou...

Every argument I've heard about nuclear was about getting to carbon neutral or negative fast enough to avert climate disaster, and providing a stable base load in light of generation fluctuation of solar and wind, and current lack of sufficient storage to smooth load - generation curves.
> I don't know where you're getting 5c per search from, but that unlimited plan would cap it at something I could live with and I doubt I'll need it.

I said a single search 'can cost' 5 cents, but in reality it depends on the search and how many filters you apply.

You can view the cost of your searches on your account. Each 'user search' can be multiple 'charged searches', which is why the cost can be >5c for some searches (e.g. if you search Dog, then click images and size -> large this is 3 searches charged to your account not one, and if you click through various options to refine your image search each click is chargable for instance).

If you click on the top result, find out it's not what you wanted so hit back, then click on the second result, this is charged as two searches if your browser prompts a reload - which depends on the page you visit (even though I would class it as a single search).
the parent is critiquing the argument that we are all homo economicus - an agent whose primary function is to operate within the market at maximum efficiency to optimise for profit. The counterargument is that no, we aren't, and optimising for market exploitation is both an effort in frustration and anathema to human wellbeing. The GP is encouraging us to act like robots by living our lives in accordance with market calculations, not human actualisation and need-fulfilment.

It's an ideological position, and a harmful one at that. We aren't all totally independent actors competing in a ruthless market to maximise profits.
It’s also important to note that they try to make clear that they’re describing their own situation and not providing a blanket statement.
I practiced the math part several time to make sure I had it down pat, never the writing part though. Reading those long essays is a chore. I think the reading/verbal part is less coachable than the math part.
but they didn't say where the gold is parked. it is in London and Switzerland, not in Moskow! so it's not safe of sanctions at all.
> [The Economist] is a relatively right-wing, centrist if you will, publication.

A comment above, in response to the publication being labelled as having "a sharp left / European bias" says:

> The rest of the world would mostly call it "left-leaning", or maybe "radical centrist".

I would probably categorize it as centrist myself, but it's funny how confirmation bias works.
Yes it happens
I was referencing my earlier comment, when I was learning this years ago my assumption was that it was about not eating animals like catholics on certain fridays, because I was not familiar with the origins of the tradition until learning it in school. I suppose I could have paid more attention when we got to Ezekial.
But we would build more power plants, this would mean more construction related deaths.
> SAT scores correlate with IQ test scores.

Do you have a source on this?
> at the end
In the name only. Russia is a hostile nation and there is great effort to do the most economical damage to it.
I agree the reason for backing out was total fluff. A likely scenario is financing on buyer side fell through.
Ask HN: How do you deal with the fear of judgement?
I've had experience fear of judgement throughout my life, but the work setting has been challenging in different ways.

Particularly pushing code, speaking up during meetings, and asking questions has showed to be challenging, causing me to delay tasks unnecessary. The fear of making mistakes, asking dumb questions, and not meeting expectations has made working harder that it could otherwise be.

If anyone has experienced it, how did you deal with it?