skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Your disclaimer aside, patents are becoming as lost as democracy, sold to the highest bidder.

Not only does this exact thing (not something similar) already exist:

https://www.raspberrypi.com/products/raspberry-pi-400/

But patents are supposed to pass a novelty criterion, not something obvious to someone in the industry.

https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/35/102

https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/35/103

That patent is for a laptop without a screen.

The law is like the points on Who's Line is it Anyway?, it doesn't matter unless you have money. It drives me mad that one can read the law, which reads plain as day, and then you see it directly violated in the most obvious ways possible. What is even the point of patents these days besides giving more power to our corporate oligarchs?
Before Beatles, performer and songwriter was typically separate jobs. It was quite normal for a song to be recorded by multiple different artists and even to chart with multiple artists at the same time. The idea of a "cover version" did not really exist, since none of the versions were considered more original than the other. Famously, Elvis Presley never wrote a song himself. Beatles changed that, because they made it prestigious for performers to write their own material.
Bizarre space circle captured in unprecedented detail
From a Californian perspective, hydro and geothermal are basically tapped as far as I know, in-State anyway. The plants that are operational already is about the extent of what we can probably build.

Actually something of a dream of mine is to see nuclear reactors eventually replace some of our dams, maybe restore some of the lakes and tributaries that have been lost, but presently new reactor construction is prohibited here per a ballot initiative from before I was born.

My larger point is that society is going to continue to demand increased electricity generation, which means new plants and installations. It’s one thing to want to replace existing installations but if you’re going to service future demand, then new sources of multiple types have to remain on the table. I would take nuclear over gas-fired plants, but I would take gas-fired plants over coal-fired plants.
The page states pretty much the opposite. If you read the link, they state how, amongst other things:

Good SAT scores can help find students from poorer high schools who didn't have the opportunity to take as many advanced classes in high school.

Also, to quote the paper "College admission protocols should attend to how social class is...encoded in non-numerical components of applications"

Like admissions essays touched up by educational counsellors, who can also get children of rich parents into "volunteering programs" that touch up experience, while poorer kids have to work after school.
So when this person delegates something, we know it's not important?

If that's really the case, it's probably better not to tell anyone.
Developers are your users too
Plain Org (org mode for iOS) v1.2.1 released
Not trying to detract from the current crisis, but it is interesting to think that China would be looking at these issues and changing a lot of aspects to their military over the next half decade or so.

You learn more from failure than you do from success.
There's surprisingly little money to be made in truthfully and honestly informing people even though it's clearly what they want.

If you can convince people to buy the higher margin drug? Yeah, there's lots of easy money to be made in that even though customers don't want that.

Google for "best X" and in a ton of markets all you will get is a bunch of skeevy affiliate sites promoting the best deals for them and a good look at who is willing to lay down the most $$$ on adwords.

Even for branded sites with a rep (e.g. like tomshardware) i have my suspicions that they weight their recommendations towards companies that buy advertising on their sites.
I have a family friend who does consulting for rich kids w/ college admissions.

You basically have someone who's on the board of an elite university coaching kids on their essay, clueing them into extra-curriculars, etc. They get paid pretty well.

I also had a dinner conversation from a lady with two children in Ivy league universities who said she emphasized with the parents who went to jail for bribing schools to get their childrens admitted and would do it herself if her children couldn't get in the school. She also personally knows one of the people doing jail time for bribery.

I had basically no adult academic/university guidance growing up. I just liked reading books in the library and studying things I liked. I was able to receive a scholarship to my university through my SAT scores. I'm not sure how I would square up in the current academic environment when I see the sheer amount of parent involvement in the application process. I also went to a smaller university where the level of tactics and skullduggery is limited.
Sources for either of those claims? Anything causal?
Intel famously tried that with the iAPX 432[0]. It design appears to have been influenced by Lisp machines but with more features and using Ada instead of Lisp. GC support still required OS support, however.

[0]:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel_iAPX_432
Ever watch "Betas" on Amazon Prime?
> See also OO, which also has a similar story where if you learn OO in 2022, you're learning a genteel and tamed OO that has been forced to tone down its promises and adapt to the real world. The OO dogma of the 1980s and 1990s was bad and essentially impossible, and only a faint trace of it remains. Unfortunately, that "faint trace" is still in a few college programs, so it has an outsized effect, but for the most part the real world seems to break new grads of it fairly quickly nowadays.

Are you talking about the notion that OO is about making an ontology, and that recapitulating a poorly-thought-out subset of the Dewey Decimal System in your codebase will somehow make it easier to reason about and extend? The core of OO, that some types have shared behavior and Wouldn't It Be Nice If it were possible to have only one implementation of that behavior which could be shared among all types which share it, is, at best, orthogonal to that ontological notion, and sometimes actively anathema to it. (For example, what ontology includes, as a top-level concept, Things Which Can Be Compared To Each Other, or Things Which Can Be Collected Into A List?)

I also have another example: GOTO as a programming construct now is essentially not comparable to GOTO as it was in FORTRAN 66 or contemporary languages. Skipping ahead a few lines within a function is mostly anodyne, if not outright laudable if it gets you out of a loop without messy flag varibles; skipping three pages back to the middle of a different function is the kind of thing Wirth was ranting about. Do not even mention computed or assigned GOTOs.
Same thought; I would love if there were a way to toggle between "latest commit message" and "first line of documentation for the file", depending on whether it's a familiar project or a new one I'm browsing.
"Quick chat" is definitely a euphemism for "very bad news," especially if it must be done in person or over the phone.
I’ve done more dev work than design, but I’m educated as a designer and do both professionally. A big part of good design practice is studying what your users do and making decisions based in that. Assuming your use case is representative enough to reason about your users’ needs and that interface design is unnecessary with a solid enough UI kit is exactly why designers need to be involved. It’s also why almost all FOSS UIs are garbage.

Most users don’t use the same app on many devices and operating systems. That you consider the OS a constantly changing fungible component in your daily tool chain is incredibly unusual. Outside of some dev and IT tools, optimizing for that use case just doesn’t make sense and even most IDEs don’t try. Most device UI kits are more carefully designed to suit their users interaction needs than any app could hope to achieve, especially considering accessibility.
The Future of Digital Cash Is Not on the Blockchain
Did you read the article? The researcher is very allergic to yeast.
I would say that I'm pretty amazed at what phones and tablets do in terms of computational photography.

I usually shoot with a Sony mirrorless but the two best photos I took in the last five years were taken in HDR mode with an Amazon Fire tablet.

Lately I have been taking stereo photos with a Nintendo 3DS because stereo lenses and attachments for the Sony have been eaten by the supply chain monster or a patent lawsuit and I haven't gotten around to calibrating my Kula to work with my iPad. On paper the 3DS is an awful camera but I the anaglyphic cards I make with it are really cool and with 20 cent glasses I get better image quality than a Magic Leap or Hololens 2.
The speed limit of optoelectronics
The University of California commissioned a study to determine the predictive value of SATs for college success. A strong positive correlation was found. The test requirement was dropped anyway.
https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1508450449745096709.html
> OOC where do you work

Big tractor.
The way to do this here is "Tell HN: You can move frame by frame through YouTube videos"
It's also worth saying that Mikrotik is a common platform for "homelabbers" who use enterprise-grade (ish) hardware in their homes. RouterOS isn't without its flaws and pain points, but Mikrotik brings high quality features into a low cost package that appeals to many. It's the lesser-known (and polished) brother of what Ubiquiti used to be.
Very few developers work in machine learning.
Every major nutrition and dietetics association agrees unanimously that a vegan diet is healthy for all stages of life including pregnancy.

https://youaretheirvoice.com/pages/the-clear-consensus

So you’re simply not correct that we need animals to thrive.
Let's also not forget that head of Ecohealth Alliance, Peter Daszak, published (or got published) a letter in the Lancet at the very beginning of this (~Jan-Feb 2020) essentially calling the lab leak theory a conspiracy theory.

Let's also not forget that it turns out the Ecohealth Alliance was essentially able to write the rules that were used to police their own research referenced above.

Also recall that recently a 19 nucleotide sequence (1 out of ~3 trillion liklihood of occurring naturally) out of SARS-COV-2 has been discovered as patented by Moderna back somewhere between 2013 to 2017.
MMORPGs can also give you this stress, especially ones where you are invested heavily into the experience. Spent some time on a MUD with actual roleplay and permadeath where people were crazy to the point where some would do all-nighters for intelligence stakeouts, battles, and other events. Many of the team leaders also set up a "hot pager" system so they could be quickly reached to assist while they were offline.

In moments when my character was near death I was often panicking and really feeling the tunnel vision of combat stress. The stakes were high in that a character and assets you spent over a year developing could be wiped out in an instant if you lost your focus. Eventually I couldn't take it and stopped playing.

On the other hand, there are games that are just straight up work - EVE is an example (haven't played it myself but do know people who do) and Rimworld if you play with an optimization/perfectionist mindset.
I don't recall those episodes, but I would say that in real life, yes, larger companies can 'kick the tires' for a long time, costing the target immense amounts of focus/time, then walk away.

Older incumbent companies, especially, may have giant 'business development' teams who almost recreationally do deep x-rays of emerging threats/opportunities. All their staffing/trips/flirtatious-discussions/legally-drafted-non-binding-letters-of-intent may be a rounding error in their bottom line, a cheap research expense. They can go through all the motions of an acquisition, appearing serious to the hopeful founders, with a negligible interest in actually completing the deal.

I mean sure, they'd bite if they saw a can't-lose bonanza - their talks are panning for gold in your stream, before buying or even renting your land. Even if 99/100 envisioned deals eventually fall-through, they're just happy to learn all the proprietary business internals.

See also: ~pg's 'Don't Talk To Corp Dev': http://www.paulgraham.com/corpdev.html
I completely agree! I feel that way about Hearthstone Battlegrounds cosmetics. I've been playing a lot and thought I might buy a skin pack or two to vary the experience up a bit, but all of the packs were more than $20 a piece! I was totally down for like $5-15, but once you hit $20, it's a like a switch flips in my brain to not worth it...
Yes, and since typing is only at compile time, it's also missing some of the extremely convenient pattern matching syntax that I love from Haskell, Rust, Scala, etc....

Despite some downside, I'm a huge fan overall though. I haven't tried ReasonML or ReScript, but compared to bare JS, TypeScript makes frontend programming a lot more enjoyable to me.
> 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 is indeed where they're moving. They've recently announced that the SAT will be transitioning to a digital, adaptive test in the next 1-2 years. [1]

Notably, the upcoming iteration of the test will only be semi-adaptive, adjusting the version of the second half of the test based on your performance on the first half, rather than adapting to your performance on a question-by-question basis.

I suspect overall this will be an improvement in the accuracy of the results. As it stands, for students with a strong math background, a majority of the math questions on the current test are far too easy and cloud their results on the rest. With the recent removal of the CollegeBoard's math subject tests, high-level math students have very few opportunities to demonstrate their knowledge using a standardized metric.

[1]: https://newsroom.collegeboard.org/digital-sat-brings-student...
I recently picked up CODE after seeing it recommended on HN a few months ago and it's really filled in the gaps in my knowledge of how computing technology evolved.
As the name implies, the Minimum Viable Product exists as a way to build the least amount necessary to start generating enough revenue to keep the business viable while you expand the scope of the product to realize your full vision. The MVP isn't for proving the market, but rather capturing a small segment of the market to fund expansion into the much larger market. The validation that there is a market should take place before creating the MVP, like you say.
From my, albeit rather distant, recollection, if you desperately needed more time on the SAT you are probably already screwed.
This argument never makes sense. Why keep senior engineers if they aren't contributing to the business?
> SAT/ACT coaching doesn't improve scores so much as get rid of some of the "dumb mistakes"

If so, that still doesn't imply that rich kids with access to private tutors will necessarily do better on these tests than poor kids - just that anybody with the motivation to read a test-prep book will.
Somebody replied with:

> It only makes sense not to plant if you think you won't be able to make up the cost of the fertilizer when you sell your crop. If there are shortages, food prices will go through the roof. Farmers who decide not to plant are implicitly predicting that there will not be shortages.

Which...seems like quite solid logic.
I agree. I spent some time as a Kaplan tutor. The students in my experience fell into a few buckets:

1. They already know the material/are serious and would do fine without tutoring (maybe some small help here and there)
2. They kind of care, but need structure to study. They probably wouldn't study or study effectively without being in a class or having someone for accountability.
3. They don't care and their parents are paying for someone to babysit them to study

Most students were in camps 2 and 3.
> The darkness of the night sky is one of the pieces of evidence for a dynamic universe, such as the Big Bang model. That model explains the observed non-uniformity of brightness by invoking spacetime's expansion, which lengthens the light originating from the Big Bang to microwave levels via a process known as redshift; this microwave radiation background has wavelengths much longer than those of visible light, and so appears dark to the naked eye.
My shot in the dark: try to keep up with Apple. They are never going to get Apple-levels of performance per watt from their current hardware and software choices.
Depending on the allergy, you might be able to add the flavor back with yeast extract (vegemite) or nutritional yeast.
> we need oil for too many things, from tissues to joints to lubricant, electrical insulation, plastic, ... without something able to replace it on scale

This is right. The next thought I had in this line of thinking is: how much will it cost to extract oil when it's only for these things? What will that do to their price?
https://web.stanford.edu/class/cs253/ by @feross
OFFSET Formula for Scenario Analysis
Actually, the transfer and repackaging of loans was not done legally, and courts had to rubber stamp massive amounts of backdated paperwork when cleaning up the mess so the houses could actually be foreclosed upon.
The article suggests all or nearly all of GPT-3's bad answers get fixed a few days later...

This then suggests those 40 people are reviewing every input and output for bad responses.

Seems like a lot of work...
I don't work as hard at work as I did in papers please.
I know spanish so I understand some french sentences. It's actually quite easy to see what I don't understand. It doesn't usually go wrong.
MSS clamping is a nasty hack that works only for TCP.
AP scores and SAT II's are highly subject to the quality of instruction. I had several teachers who treated it as a more advanced class than honors, but felt no need to teach to the rubric for the test specifically.

I aced the SAT and ACT but had a decent number of mediocre AP scores because I was seeing the material for the first time when I opened the test. Got to college and after a single 45 minute lecture covering the gap material, I'm pretty sure I could have scored a 5. Ended up making for several easy A's freshman year.
Mikrotik misses the "polished" aspect still, that UBNT does well. As someone with moderate enterprise network experience, setting up RouterOS as a basic L3 switch was way more difficult than it should have been. That being said, once I was done I haven't had to think twice about the switch, it just works (which should be default, but isn't always the case).
Hmmm ... I still don't get it, but oh well.
Maybe I'm dense, but wouldn't that solution still use 1U more space than the PCIe card mentioned in TFA?
I'd think dogs are mostly able to because they're still around humans and can scavenge off our garbage. Any breed that's not damn close to a wolf, I'd expect not to be able to find/catch enough food to survive long if dropped in actual wilderness.

Chickens would become food for other animals in days, at most. It's hard enough to keep that from happening when they're kept, let alone in the wild.

Cows are like giant, extremely stupid deer, so I doubt we'd tolerate them in the wild anywhere even slightly near civilization, putting aside their ability to survive on their own (which I also doubt—first bad Winter would take care of them, I reckon).
I tried both of these and had the same response.

Something that did work as "fun" for me was Infinifactory, even though thematically the game is all about it being a job, it's puzzle nature is less daunting than being a sheer optimization problem.

That, and the incredible "Create Mod" for Minecraft, which gives you all sorts of mechanical gizmos. I find it more interesting because building a machine that does something is the primary focus, instead of linking machines together optimally, and the fact that your automations help you achieve the other open-ended goals of Minecraft
> The example you pointedly ignored that I posted above is one such example.

Nobody thinks this is the mainstream consensus view, not even Graeber.

> The story serves the same purpose either way

> It is which is why Graeber did explain why it's important.

The whole thread is about why Graber's just-so explanations are wrong. And your arguments are materially different from what is actually in the text.

> I guess we both misremembered.

From The Principles of Macroeconomics, 3rd Edition. Chapter 15 - The Monetary System

> The social custom of using money for transactions is extraordinarily useful in a large, complex society. Imagine, for a moment, that there was no item in the economy widely accepted in exchange for goods and services.
> A shabbos goy is a non-Jew who performs certain activities which Jewish religious law (halakha) prohibits a Jew from doing on the Sabbath.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shabbos_goy
This was literally on the front page of the NYT a week ago: https://www.nytimes.com/2022/03/20/world/americas/ukraine-wa...
> And once again HN claims to be rational...

If you have an alternative theory as to why people prefer coal to nuclear, that would be useful. Commenting line by line with silliness isn't.
Without legacy and the prestige and the entire shebang of old English style college, the Ivy Leagues aren't the Ivy League.

I agree with you that eliminating legacy would solve the issue of making the school different - it's never gonna happen though, so there's no point in talking about it honestly.

Also yeah, MIT is not a legacy giving school
The only modifier is that there's usually social outcry when prices rise in response to a shortage and demands for the government to step in and fix prices with force. Sadly that tendency means even if a food shortage is perfectly predictable there's no incentive to prepare for it. Obviously prices can rise somewhat without being fixed (as has been happening in recent months) but there's a limit and in the case of widespread food shortages that limit may be reached.
There is a legitimate start-up that basically is outsourcing tasks to a digital personal assistant but they log all questions and their researched answers. It make take a while but they will have a moat within a few years with a really robust repository.
I would point to

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

as somebody who came from an underprivileged background, showed talent in standardized testing and had an outstanding career as a military officer, author and politician.
What's wrong with humans eating authentic meat and eggs? I mean, other creatures do it.

I can't wait for the day when they come out with plant-free vegetables.

If it already exists please don't tell me.
As far as the terminology goes, maybe. As far as people choosing to believe what is convenient, profitable, or flattering about the world around them, that's been the case as far back as anyone can recall. I think we like to imagine that technology both makes us immune to the problems of our ancestors and makes our problems immune to historically-informed solutions.