skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hey just posted on another comment, but I'm with you 100%!

You can over-ride the NLP and do literal searches.

/e or ~e force it, but any search with things like +"phrase" or site: etc will skip the AI and we'll *try* to do a literal search. It's not always successful but we're trying to expand coverage with it.

So try:

```/e site:cnn.com +"mars rover"```

for example.

The Search Tools menu on the results panel lets you refine searches, related sites, cached version etc too to help with refining via literal patterns.

Thanks again!
I don't get this take at all--learn both real analysis and discrete math. At MIT especially. Knowing calculus (the precursor to RA) is essential for quantitatively understanding the world in which we live, including the 99.9% of it that is not computer science.
> faux pas if not totally asinine

These people are embarrassed that you can think for yourself.

Life has such a high fractal dimension. It's highly unlikely that a single theory, expressed in a serial language, can be a very good description of life, at all.

But it feels good to believe one thing strongly. It feels so, so good. And it feels good to hate people who believe the other thing, and to think they're wrong.

But the right way really is to believe in all the things at once. It's weird, schizoid, scary, and completely logical.

I'd like to put something together to help people understand this. I think the quickest way to get there is:

* math doesn't work the way you think: see Wittgenstein

* space and time don't work the way you think: see Einstein

* matter doesn't work the way you think: see the double slit experiment

* rationality doesn't work the way you think: see tons of psychology

Given the above, do you think anything could possibly work the way you think it works? The best way forward is to just be incredibly weird. (And yet, somehow, be incredibly normal at the same time).
I agree with this; there are these and other problems. However, not all computer games are designed like this.

My opinion is, the game should be made to be standalone. No internet connection should be required for the game to work (unless you wish to join an official tournament that runs using the internet, perhaps). It should be independent of the time, date, etc. It should be independent of other instances of the same game on the computer.

There are other problems too with some games, such as some are too easy. Some have too many cutscenes. Some take up too much disk space and/or RAM. etc.

Fortunately, there are still some good ones. One case of this is some people will write a computer game for older systems (e.g. NES/Famicom) and then you can run in an emulator of your choice (or on the real hardware if you have it); the emulator may include capabilities such as controls remapping, save states, etc. But there are also games written for native code too, that can also be good.

See comment 30827853 (and its replies) for some comments about dark patterns; I will write a comment there, too (later today, probably).
Wow people are not liking this for some reason. This way of thinking about selling your labour in a market is exactly why it's called the labour market. People selling labour need to understand how the market works in order to participate in the most advantageous way for their own situationq. Nothing said here detracts from the fact that the calculus of how you go about this changes with your priorities, for example having children might lower your risk tolerance when deciding where to sell your labour, so maybe the 'company of one' way of naming it doesn't fit, but the concept is solid. It isn't meant to gut you of your humanity, just provide a thought framework to make sure you are competing in the market fairly.
But they also wouldn't be old enough to buy you beer.

Unless you are suggesting adults would buy you beer for you to take the ACT on behalf of a minor they knew. Which seems odd.
I guess I've only ever had a job and never a career.
I wouldn't be surprised if those improvements were mostly moving below-average scores toward the average, by giving deprived students basic skills that their "education" didn't.
Paul Graham predicts food shortages
Russians are forcing people from Ukraine to escape towards Russia and forcibly deporting some of them to far-away places in Russia.

They also stole some children...
It's worth checking out the approach being considered by Matrix[0] which should make the solutions scalable and thus affordable. Empowering users and communities to distribute and delegate their moderation decisions seems like it will enable more innovation, rather than users being stuck with a "one size fits no one" regime.

[0] https://matrix.org/blog/2020/10/19/combating-abuse-in-matrix...
Then you'll just end up with samey expensive garbage. People don't know what they want until they're told what they want. It's important to create a society where ideas that have no current market can be developed. This is how the future is made. Not by making it aluminum and jacking up the price.
And now your nuclear plant which is a net loss running at 100% became an even larger liability.
Nah, there is a straight linear correlation between parental income and sat score.

https://static01.nyt.com/images/2009/08/27/business/economy/...
Knowing Mikrotik for like 2 decades, it should do better than UBNT really. Mikrotik still produces great hardware, but it's totally eclipsed by Ubiquitous Networks these years. It's kind of like watching digitalocean the new cool kid playing the same tricks overtakes linode, sigh.
Not GP, but you should approach this using Bayes' Theorem just like anything else. If one study from MIT causes you to completely flip on any of your beliefs, you need to rethink how you form these kinds of opinions.

MIT's conclusions should cause you to adjust your priors by a certain amount, but they should not cause you to completely flip by themselves -- particularly if you're not in the camp that thinks literally every decision MIT makes is correct by virtue of it being MIT.

If you wouldn't have looked at MIT's original plan of abandoning SAT scores as proof that they didn't matter, you probably also shouldn't look at them picking up SAT scores again as proof that they do matter. MIT's conclusions should lead you to update your priors by some amount dependent on how much you trust you currently have in the accuracy of college admissions processes when they assess student qualifications and outcomes.

----

My personal take on this is that I do absolutely buy that SAT scores could be a leveling factor between kids from different socioeconomic backgrounds and that they could be a better metric than GPA for determining admission. But of course, that's a pretty low barrier of entry to clear, GPA scores are probably close to meaningless when compared across schools. It seems to me that there's a lot of room here for SAT scores to be simultaneously mostly meaningless and at the same time also a reliably better predictor of school success than GPAs.

It's also important to ask what exactly MIT is measuring -- what does it mean by academic success and how much does that definition overlap with "fits in when placed in an environment optimized for people who are good at standardized testing?" And again, even if they are kind of circular or if they're measuring the wrong things, it's still plausible that they're more reliable than GPAs; it's a low bar to clear.
Could you please explain or link to where I can read about the terms "Forum 2000" and "SOMAD"? I don't know these terms.

Edit: Found them here: https://everything2.com/title/Forum+3000
Demoing an Arm-Strappable Keyboard
Maybe there was another variable at play: language. SATs are in English.

If English is not a student's primary language and fluency improves as they advance academically, up to a plateau with age.

Not sure if this was properly controlled in SAT studies.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK11007/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belaruskali

Corrections to my post:

- 20% of world supply actually

- K, not Ka
Wait, so you think that sex workers shouldn’t be allowed to use TikTok, because you can’t trust your teenager not to defraud you?

That’s a you problem, not the woman in the bikini’s.
> MIT will be accepting anyone over a (presumably secret) threshold

I don’t think it’s a hard threshold. Some people are bad standardised test takers. If the rest of their application shows they won’t flunk their math tests, a lower score could be fine. If, on the other hand, it looks like a pattern, a marginal score could be seen to not make the cut.
Professor borroka,

I'd take the black belt a million times over. That's a rare and magnificent treasure, where skill easily trumps strength. It is also extremely difficult to acquire.
Sorbet: Stripe's Type Checker for Ruby
The State of Pay for Women in 2022
I know English, so I'll just guess at what those non-English people are saying. What could go wrong?
This is neat, but it looks like something the HN crowd would build themselves over buying. I know my first impulse was "I could make this..."
It would require much more
than "cheaply":
1.It has to provide same
nutrition.e.g. egg with
B12 removed would not be equivalent to chicken egg.

2.It could be privately
produced like eggs.
(As otherwise people depend
on megacorporations abusing
their mass production costs
to monopolize the market)
3.It would need to have
to compete with existing
culinary preferences:
i.e. recipes with eggs would
not 'adapt to artificial eggs', with people continuing to use chicken eggs.
Ctrl + F "mysql": 6 results.
Being a parent, you get a sense for what young people believe, and why. It comes from you, but also from friends at school, and of course media - books, tv, movies, games. IMHO the 'ability to fail' message is quite poor, overall, from media. Mr. Rogers being the (usual) exception. That said, failure occurs often in real life, desired goals always exceed capability, hopefully you can give them iterated games they can experience failure, adaptation, and success at their own pace. Often they will invent their own games, which we too often call "misbehavior".

But yes, entertainment obsession in kids (on-demand media plus working single parent works out quite badly for the kids), media emphasis on those who are unaccountably good at a thing, means media portrays failing far less often than is realistic, and when it does it's a Rocky style training montage. Plus no-one really wants to write the manual for kids on how to give up on your dreams.
I mostly read tech news and im very picky with them too. Anything important i will hear from friends. Dont see the point clicking all the useless clickbait articles anyway.
Mystery GPS Tracker on a Supporter’s Car
> That being said I'll stand by artificial scarcity being bad thing and clarify that while I don't have some master plan on how to create a functioning society where we don't have to impose artificial scarcity on the digital world; I absolutely think that is something we should be dedicating a lot of effort to. I reject the premise that we need to deny some people things that can be copied essentially for free.

Again this just sounds like an emotional argument -- you seem convinced on a purely intuitive level that artificial scarcity is bad without actually explaining rationally how the harm it does outweighs the benefits.

There is a _very simple_ argument (which I'm not claiming is _true_ in all cases, but it is at least compelling, so anyone claiming the contrary needs to address it) in favor of artificial scarcity: taking away a major monetization strategy (often the only viable one) massively reduces the incentive to create high-quality products and we all end up poorer for those cultural outputs not existing.
It's pretty common on Twitter for anyone making long posts to do this. Scroll to the end if you are looking for that.

There are also dozens of services that roll out tweets and will present them in another format for you. You can see them mentioned in any long tech tweet replies.
MIT and Caltech have always held a 'number-oriented universities' perception in my mind. This is in contrast to a 'prestige-oriented or identity-oriented' perception that I hold for Ivies.

It is nice to see MIT do justice to those priors.
I don't get these knee-jerk reactions, clearly a lot of people here are putting their wishful statements into his mouth/keyboard - where I see none.

Take ownership of your life, nobody else will. Set priorities straight, nobody else will. Beware of far-reaching mistakes, you can screw up your life irreparably, nobody is going to magically save you like in Hollywood stories.

What the heck? These are some solid life advises. They are crystal clear to any adults, yet so many people fail with those, often badly, and their lives are ruins.

Were you told these things at least once when growing up in a manner that actually sticked with you? I didn't and for sure I wish I did (I ended up all right but I believe I had more luck than average and sometimes risked way too much)
I live my life by the way of Master Splinter, as we all should. Every day I hone my Ninjitsu so that whenever evil approaches, whether it be in the form of Shredder or Krang or an argumentative poster on Hacker News, I will be prepared.

The only difference is the level at which people attempt to integrate the philosophy into their life -- I'm sure there is someone out there who has been impacted more by Terry Pratchett novels than the religion they were brought up as, and using either of those in the way the instigating poster did would be silly.
I understand what you are saying but in my experience the opposite can be equally true. Unless every system in your org is managing the authorized_keys for every account with automation and hourly validation one can end up with rogue keys, forgotten keys, unmanaged keys. SSH has no concept of identity in this regard. If I temporarily have sudo on a system I can append any random public key into the authorized_keys of any account. It gets even worse if that system allows passwordless sudo. Now there is an audit trail that showed you made a reckless change when it was really me. This risk gets exponentially worse if the system I append a random key into is a command and control or configuration management system. One doesn't even really need sudo for this to be a problem given how much power non root accounts have over applications, deployments, builds and secret management.
Lapsus$ and SolarWinds hackers both use the same old trick to bypass MFA
What's "inhumane" about trying to select those who will benefit most from your program?
That's really cool! And if you are trying just to beat the puzzle it would make sense to automate the task.

I play ALOT of Sudoku and the game now for me is optimizing my own thoughts while I play. Moving from a random search and find function, to a structure queries that solve the puzzles quicker and quicker. Sort of like a rubix cube. I focus on beating my best time and making it easier and easier.
I remember a very old video where they rendered 3d scenes for frames 1 and 5 (examples) but interpolated the frames in between, or something like that, instead of re-rendering the whole scene. Maybe they were only redrawing some triangles if the angle changed too much.

If it's that tech, I'm pretty sure it got dropped when 3D acceleration made it feasible to just re-render the whole scene every frame. Dedicated hardware won out over software tricks.
This kind of research seems promising because it's not even a substitute, it claims to be the exact same product, only derived from a different source. A lot of people don't want weird plant based alternatives to animal products because of the taste or nutritional content.
Whenever I play Rimworld, I turn off invasions and make all of my colonists androids [0]. I just want to build things.

[0] https://steamcommunity.com/workshop/filedetails/?id=13864128...
Yeah. This is my point exactly. Most people don't realize there is one close by and once they do the fear of one popping up next door tends to go away.
No, we're in "let's not drive all domesticated animals into extinction" territory.
Crash-Only Software and Recursive Microreboots
I remember reading some time ago that after the Sun runs out there's only enough energy in a state fit for fusion for like one or two more generations of stars in the universe, and after that the universe will go dark forever.
There's the idea that God (being omniscient and omnipotent) knew about any loopholes and had/has the power to close them...
A new approach to tackle optimization problems using Boltzmann machines
Yeah that's probably right. It's not a ranking mechanism which is what I think some people believe it is advocating. More isn't necessarily better.
I currently have a ProtectCLI vault device running PFSense for my router. I also have a TrueNas / FreeNas device (Supermicro board with Xeon 26xx processor, 2x 1Gbps ports).

I’ve been wanting 10 Gbps networking for some time but I’ve been undecided how to best do that. Could I simply get this card, drop it in my FreeNas box, then plug my Arris S33 modem into the card, then the card to my network switch? Would the FreeNas host also get 10/25 Gbps virtually, or do I still need another card specifically for the FreeNas box?
Sorry, I was on mobile and wasn't in a good spot to find any links.

https://vivariumnovum.it/risorse-didattiche/propria-formazio...

That has a functioning link for the same content as the nina.coffee page tries to link to. There are several more French texts, as well as English, Italian, Spanish, and German.

There's an Icelandic text which isn't totally in Icelandic but, IIRC, is in the same vein as these. PDFs of it can also be found online pretty easily. I have not explored any languages beyond these as the two languages I'm interested in learning/practicing are Italian and Spanish, this content was sufficient for me.
Given the fascist war loving nature of Russia today, I don’t see the slippery slope.

Do you know the definition of slippery slope?
I guess the issue in their analysis is that they are trying to predict MIT grade success, which is possibly another flawed metric. If say exams at MIT resembled SAT, it seems more logical that you'd find a correlation between SAT success and MIT academic success.

What would be a more interesting measure of real value is to study for academic innovation and invention (valuable to society), as well as future success on the job market or at new business ventures (valuable to the student and economy).

I'm making the assumption here that since we have limited educational resources, we'd want to provide the best education to those most likely to advance an academic field through new discovery or insight or invention, as well as those who'd best innovate or provide for existing business and services to society.

And I'm curious if we've ever had any study looking into that? Or if this one did?
To Learn Better, Make Mistakes
Anecdotally I improved 600 to 400 points from test prep, depending on what you count as my "first SAT test" and my last SAT test.
Software is good at one thing processing information. Anything you can do to improve information about environmental damage of products helps.
For example CO2 emissions of vehicles are published. But not the CO2 cost of making the vehicle. People buying new cars don't know what the CO2 impact of a new car is, at the point of sale. If you can use software to get that information in front of consumers, it helps people make the right choices.
If people don't make the right choices with good information, use the information gathered to proportionally tax the products because even selfish consumers can read the price tag.
MIT is one of the more rigorous schools but I expect its still pretty easy to avoid failing out.
"What do you mean by "mere taste"? Hominids didn't evolve for 22 million years to have taste buds that are completely useless."

Not for nothing. It can be useful and pleasurable, but taste has a dark side as well. Having a sweet-tooth has been a stab in the back for many modern humans, as it leads to over-consumption of sugar, which can be horrible for one's health. More on-topic, the craving for the taste of meat has led to the suffering and slaughter of countless animals.
Glad to see "in mice" spelled out in the title. Too often it is an unstated condition in early tests like this.
It's very difficult to read a webpage with huge red rectangles covering up so much of the text that it looks like a redacted document [1].

I imagine it must not look like this for everyone... ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Edit: It seems like this is an issue with the Dark Reader extension. Here's an archived version that renders as expected [2].

I wish they'd used an existing popular tool like Hypothes.is [3] for annotations rather than rolling their own isolated system.

[1]: https://imgur.com/a/jWkVFgd

[2]: https://archive.ph/v1Rm1

[3]: https://web.hypothes.is/
Hi HN! Cadran here, Elpha's CEO & Founder from the S19 batch.

We are a community of 75K+ women in tech and we surveyed our members asking them to share their comp + detailed information about their thoughts on salary transparency, and whether they believe they are paid fairly. This report includes significant findings we uncovered about the racial pay gap and salary transparency, among other topics.

I'm here to answer questions you may have about the report or the Elpha community. Thanks for reading.
Cows and chickens will not survive in the wild, I promise you.

Yes, dogs, horses, and others can in certain instances.
KosherSwitch
I have a half-baked product in the making for 4 years but never had enough time (and skill) to fully make it, every time I asked potential customers all of them wanted it right away except I could not finish it. Tried to apply for HN to no avail. I just need some investment(500K should do it in one year) to hire one or two developers to help to ship the product really, but I don't know how, which is why I'm back to work full time these days.
With solar you need to store for use when there's no sun. Relatively doable for overnight with batteries. Outside of niche solutions like pumped hydro it's practically impossible for longer periods such as during the winter or just a string of overcast days.

Green hydrogen has some promise, we'll see over then next decade or so.
You and I clearly have a different definition of pay to win. If I start the game on a new account, and don't have access to the same champions as my enemy from game 1 unless I spend money, then the game is pay to win. Period. The fact that I could pay money, in that moment, to win, means the game is pay to win.

Edit: Further, here is an article[1] breaking down how long it would take to unlock all champions without paying money. 9.5 years playing 1 game/day. It's absurd to pretend that isn't "pay to win". By that definition, Clash of Clans isn't pay to win either, because technically you could grind the game for 100 years without paying for anything and get really far.

[1] https://www.dexerto.com/league-of-legends/lol-fan-works-out-...
You're just making things up now. They said they want to work 20-30 hours a week, not lay on the couch all day. How would someone else working 10-20 hours less than you equate to them stealing money from you?
A lot of folks focus on act/sat scores when talking about diversity when really these ivy league schools shouldn't have an express lane for legacy entrants. If you are trying to be different than how it was previously, how can you expect that to happen when you give preference to folks that benefited previously?