skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>solution is obviously to expand the number of slots,

Exactly! And then perhaps as we continue to raise the bar and challenge our students and teachers to higher academic levels earlier, we’ll raise the bar on education everywhere and start catching up to our peer nations.

The anti-intellectualism that pervades the entire spectrum of US political beliefs is astounding.
This is due to trait Agreeableness in the big five. Competitiveness is a hallmark of Disagreeable people. Being agreeable makes you more likable and much better at building relationships. Being disagreeable makes you more likely to view things as a competition, more likely to negotiate on your own behalf (agreeable people often put others point of view before their own) many games that are competitive generate extraordinarily toxic environments for this very reason, they mostly attract people who take specific joy in feeling like they have beaten others at something.
The sentencing guidelines (which direct the sentence a judge will give you) get changed ex post facto all the f'ing time. So yes, you can be given an ex-post facto sentence, it's just that it's been 'lawyered' to be constitutional (we didn't change the criminal law, just the sentencing guideline that dictated the sentence you were given for commiting the crime) even though the rule is 'Every law that makes criminal an act that was innocent when done, or that inflicts a greater punishment than the law annexed to the crime when committed, is an ex post facto law within the prohibition of the Constitution'.

The sentencing range wasn't changed, just the sentence the judge was required to give, but the range isn't a rule so it's ok. And if the judge sentences outside the guideline the prosecutor can challenge for 'sentence outside guideline range'. The constitution has been lawyered into oblivion.
I suppose it’s time to re-read some Vonnegut.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harrison_Bergeron
> You either have to recognize that sticks, stones, and words hurt people and police them all or recognize that insulting someone to the point where they put real literal bounties on your head is the cost of sticking your neck out there.

No I don't. I want to police hurting people with sticks and stones, but not words. Free speech is a human right, and physically attacking other people is not.
You'll never find Satoshi Nakamoto
Browsing around, it looks like several have had a serious failure events...

One example, but it's easy to find more...
https://www.google.com/maps/@35.0727844,-118.2627452,139m/da...

Are they really so fragile? It looks like maybe 2-3% of them have fallen apart.
Isn't this why people always save excel files a certain points of time? So you can go back to it and see it's state at certain "commit" points?

For me, it often looks like this.

2023 Budget v3 - 2022.08.01.xlsb

2023 Budget v3 - 2022.08.05.xlsb

2023 Budget v3 - 2022.08.08.xlsb

2023 Budget v3 - 2022.08.12.xlsb

The dates indicate minor updates/changes to the data (eg. the database is different but the logic is the same). Where as the version number is a change of business logic &/ formulas &/ file architecture (so v3 files are usually compatible with v3 files, but v4 files may break everything when comparing back to v3).

Granted, it doesn't help any with collaboration. My team still passes around the "current" file and deal with read-only locking issues (we find shared mode to be highly broken and conducive to file corruption). But, it does help with auditing because we can always go back and find why a number was what it was on any given day. So in that sense, Excel documents are as auditable as open source software. You have to want to read the code but it's all there for the reading.
In Finnish, "not" is an auxiliary verb, so "do" + "not" and similar combinations are just one word:

"I do not" => "En"

"(It) does not" => "Ei"

etc. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Negative_verb#Finnish
Are you not doing the same thing that the author is doing? The author has a bias against blockchain, sees blockchain proponents making a poor argument, and that reinforces their bias against blockchains.

You have a bias seemingly in favor of blockchains, you see a blockchain critic making a poor argument, and that reinforces your belief in blockchains.

I think the linked post makes good points (e.g. git and blockchains are related but not broadly comparable) wrapped up in a lot of unnecessary opinion.

Surely the rational approach is to just discount bad arguments, not to treat them as evidence to reinforce the opposite position.
Circumstances matter. Would you hold someone responsible for not keeping an oath to the Reich?

How about Trump?
Oh, I'm definitely not saying they should do otherwise. One of the great things about large corporations is that they can provide a stable work environment that doesn't interfere with the rest of your life.

But to suggest that this is how you "get back at corporate America" is laughable. In fact, it's the opposite.
Great video, here are the steps to add custom content to a game boy cartridge based off what the author did (might be an easier way):

1. Map the pins on the cartridge and create custom hardware to rip the game from ROM over USB

2. Disassemble the ROM into gbZ80 assembly code

3. Add custom assembly code to ROM, making use of the weird memory bank allocation rules for the GBA.

4. Compile and flash back onto the GBA cartridge

What’s most interesting to me is the section on space saving hacks used in the Pokémon yellow code, for example each Pokémon image is only 4 colors: white black and two shades of grey. The game has a file to map the greys to other colors and applies the coloration in real time at render instead of storing the colors in the image file.
> All of the online comparisons say they’re about equal, but Sheets doesn’t even have proper tables, much less lambdas or a “get yoga pose” button.

I was on the Google Sheets team from about 2011 to 2018 (opinions are, of course, VERY much my own). I worked in finance before that, so don't worry, I'm aware of Excel's features.

One thing that I found interesting is that, over my time on Sheets, I didn't perceive much change in the volume* of "Sheets is missing critical features" criticism, but I did notice a marked difference in the features that the critics brought up. It's pretty cool that "get yoga pose" now makes the list - it's a long way, for example, from the things Joel Spolsky noted (in 2006) that "you can’t really do well in a web application": https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2004/06/13/how-microsoft-lost....

* In either sense, really.
Those were russians coming from the Soviet Union though. What of the Russians in Moscow that have enjoyed western standards of living for the past few decades?
For pure cancer rates, no, it's still a relatively slow progressing disease and a cancer may grow more in the winter only to be diagnosed in the summer.

I guess you could look at cancer growth rates during winter/summer, however we live in relatively controlled environments. I don't think you could control for AC usage / how much time you spend outside versus outside.
Ok, thanks for explaining.

I got excited for a moment and thought that the compilation was being used instead of hashing as a proof of work. That would require compilation to be trivially verifiable though, so sadly it is not the case.
The one thing that drives me crazy about Excel is that function names are localized. So if you use the German version you'll have to use "SUMME" instead of "SUM" etc. this is really annoying and I wish there was a way to always use the English word. I'd love to talk to the person who made the decision that this was a good idea. In the CAS tool Rhino, you can always do _command to use an English command even in localized versions...wouldn't be that hard to provide this feature.
Private placement trusts are limited to "sophisticated investors"

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

Unlike mutual funds or "full service" ETF's nobody, not even institutional traders, can trade in and out of them daily. In fact usually you can only trade in/out at specific irregular times or by invitation. In some cases you may not be able to cash out until the fund itself is wound down.

There is a middle ground of OTC ETF's like Grayscale sponsors that are closed-ended funds like the above, but has a stock that can be traded "over the counter" (OTC) by retail investors, similar to how penny stocks trade. Because they are still closed/limited funds their publicly traded stock can and usually does trade at a premium or discount to Net Asset Value (NAV). This is because institutional investors cannot create or redeem trust units on demand to Arb the difference like they do in full service open ended ETF's.
Sure but it's not just haih. For example, if I were to ask you if you have any snakes, in english, you'd say "no". But in Cantonese you'd say "mouh" (effectively mh yauh: "don't have" or "without").
With a significantly better alternative universally supported by all browsers for years, using GIFs on the web today is absurd. If you do actually want a lossless, auto-playing thing, the last browser to support animated PNGs (Edge) added it 2½ years ago (in the EdgeHTML → Chromium transition; I disqualify IE from being called a browser, BTW), and the fallback behaviour of showing the first frame is… well, commonly preferable, frankly. Animated images are mostly a terrible idea.

(I have absolutely no idea how good APNG support is outside browsers, relative to animated GIF support.)

But you should almost always use a proper video codec anyway, which are generally vastly more bandwidth- and power-efficient. (I freely admit the situation is messed up with video formats, with the only pretty-much-universally-supported codec, H.264, still being patent-encumbered. WebM is almost there now, with Safari for macOS having had it for just over a year on Safari 14.1+ and macOS 11.3+, but there’s still macOS 10.15 for a little longer and maybe Safari on iOS not supporting it (unclear), so you can’t quite go WebM. I will note incidentally that animated WebP is a thing too, and has slightly better support, back to Safari 14/macOS 11 with Safari 14 for iOS working too.)
At least in the US, providing tools that you know will be used to commit a crime is a crime

Alfred Anaya Put Secret Compartments in Cars. So the DEA Put Him in Prison

https://www.wired.com/2013/03/alfred-anaya/
"Commercial breaks––people actually enjoy TV more with commercials." I've never enjoyed being disrupted by commercials nor has anyone else. This is why Tivo became so popular
> Price is one of the main factors, for sure.

March 7, 1988 — "Smalltalk/V 286 is available now and costs $199.95, the company said. Registered users of Digitalk's Smalltalk/V can upgrade for $75 until June 1."

https://books.google.com/books?id=CD8EAAAAMBAJ&lpg=PA25&ots=...

> … I can tell you, it was very, very slow…

And of-course you used the Smalltalk profiler to fix that?
You sound like a white person from a middle class or better upbringing.
This claim about wealth == white isn't all that accurate. Last I checked the sub-poverty population in the USA has an ancestral breakdown of 45% european 25% african 25% south/central american 5% asian/native north american. While the wealthiest 1% is overwhelmingly european those people uniformly send their children to private schools with lots of resources and hire private tutors for their college entrance exams.

In any case, nothing in your comment justifies eliminating advanced learning programs in any school, even if some parents want to push their kids into such programs even if they're not really ready for it.
This is pretty much what keeps me from using it. The whole your project will be deleted in a week of no use thing is confusing to me too, As someone who has a full time job and wants to build stuff on weekends, my beta project is potentially killed because i skipped working on it for a weekend? Firestore is just too easy and cheap, $25 a month is a ton of money for that. Also at $25 a month my (dayjob) company will just want to use aws or azure since we already have accounts there.
I did not experience a runners high until I was running 5k+.

I do experience a workout high from lifting pretty regulary, unless it's a low weight week.
added. thanks for it.
Can you help me in any way?
> One of them bought a house with the woman he met in that country and remains to this day.

That is an immigrant, not a digital nomad. Else by your definition, I'm a digital nomad in Europe for the past 7 years - which sounds ridiculous, considering I'm eligible for citizenship in 4 European countries by virtue of my stay.
Reminds me how often I used to stand or sit outside in (Québec's) winter completely miserable with fingers hurting just for some nicotine, day or night. Good times. One of my favorite parts of having quit (on top of health, stink and money of course) was not leaving my living room repeatedly to go freeze for 5 minutes at a time. So satisfying.

FWIW, I recall the smoke didn't really have a warming effect. After all, I reckon your throat should still be around body temperature even if it's <-30C outside (for the record, -40C is -40F, -30C is -22F), the mild warmth from the smoke wasn't really perceptible.
Record US productivity slump in first half of 2022 risks higher inflation
That was my experience as well in the 90's. The biggest difference was the behavior of the students, which allowed the class to move at a faster pace. Gifted and Talented was certainly a misnomer, but the environment that behavior enabled was a benefit to everyone in the classroom across all levels of gifts and talents.
I’m a security reporter and got fooled by a blatant phish
Came here to say the same thing. What terrible "design".
Ahh... Gift tax (in all advanced countries in the world)? I am confused. Is this a serious post?
Brought to mind a line I read somewhere years ago: "if you think your religion is worth killing for, please start with yourself".
The Russian approach is hybrid: in addition to the use of jamming (they use Divnomorye, Leer, Moskva, Krasukha, ...), traditional hacking is used to extend the damage range beyond what can be obtained through pure electronic warfare.

In the case of Viasat they had access to a badly configured VPN appliance and used it to deploy on the terminals. Which is a classical case of network compromise, not a direct hack of the user devices.

Also considering this aspect the comparison is not there: it's a local access to the hardware vs an "I own your infrastructure and I'm able to deploy my firmware".
I don't think that is the problem. The problem is that the gifted/talented are disproportionally Asian.

That is the real problem. Accepting that some ethnic groups have a higher average IQ than others goes against the American ideal of equality.
canola is in the mustard family
The attack on Viasat was not related to it's GEO vs LEO situation, or blocking signals, it was an attack specifically on the consumer device to disable them

https://www.viasat.com/about/newsroom/blog/ka-sat-network-cy...

There's no reason that Starlink is any less susceptable to that. The attackers got into a terminal management network and issued various commands to shut down the endpoints. There's no reason an LEO constellation is more or less susceptible to this type of attack than a GEO system.
Politically unavoidable, IMHO. That cheap fossil fuel energy is just too hard to pass up. It's like trying to convince several billion starving people to not eat the marshmallows right in front of them.
By that metric, all programming languages including assembly have exactly 0 consumers, since nothing human-readable actually runs on computers.

Look at that, I have saved programming from language popularity contests, no need to thank me. I will humbly accept your bitcoins though.

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The most reasonable definition of a language consumer is as follows: If a program text P is written by a human-level intelligence in source language L, then every user of any automatically-produced-artifact from P is a consumer of L.

Suppose a programmer use typescript to write a web app:

- The programmer, who must compile the typescript to javascript, is a consumer of whatever language the typescript compiler happens to be written in.

- The user, who must run the resultant javascript files, is a consumer of

(1) typescript, because the JS files is an artifact produced automatically
from the typescript text the programmer, who is a human-level
intelligence, wrote.

(2) The languages the browser/JS engine is source-written in, typically C++,
Rust, or Zig.

(3) Possibly javascript, because typescript is a strict superset of
javascript, and thus there is a probability that at least part of the
original text of the webapp is valid javascript, and thus qualify in the
definition. Take note that this has nothing to do with the typescript
program text compiling to javascript, this is solely due to the fact
that typescript is a strict superset of javascript, any language that is
not would not have this property.

From (3) we see that languages are not completely mutually exclusive : There is a language called Arithmetic ('+','*','-','/' and numbers) that has a vast userbase unparalled by any single programming language, since it's a subset of a lot of programming languages. Other consequences of this definition is that :

- Languages with no human-level-intelligence writers have 0 consumers

- Every producer is a consumer, since the only human-level intelligences currently writing code are humans, and human producers are always consumers as well since they run the artifacts produced from their own program texts.

- Auto-Generated code add to the consumers of the generating language, not the generated language. If part of a C++ app came from the output of a python script, every consumer of the app is a consumer of python, since some of the artifacts they consume ultimately came from python source. If the script generates (say) Rust or Fortran code that is then compiled and linked into the final executable, the only languages the users consume are C++ and Python. Auto-generated code is an automatically produced artifact.
Ecovado
Like this a lot, especially the Airtable comparison, agree fully about the top-notch SDK.

Chance you would be up for a user interview/chat about this? My email is martin @ username . com
Related (and quite a bit better, too - you guys need to post more substantive comments!)

Snakisms - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13804522 - March 2017 (140 comments)
Standards or diversity, pick one.

Even if you love diversity, do you really want an affirmative action neurosurgeon? Or do you want the smartest kids to get the best education even if they're asian?
This is the news I come to HN for
I did an experiment in college on exvivo cells. We lowered the temperature and then applied radiation treatment. At lower temperatures cells can go to hibernation state and uptake less oxygen. Oxygen radicals are what kill healthy cells during radiation. We were actually pretty successful in increasing survivability compared to the base case.
Depends on the goat and the weed. My goats only like the flowers of dandelion analogues, but for some other weeds, one will try to get the whole thing out and the others just eat the leaves to the ground.

If you put them in a small space, you'll pretty much get bare earth either way though.
As someone who's been eyeing Kubernetes as a learning experience, that actually is really disheartening to hear. If you're being forced to manage your database outside of Kubernetes, what are you using Kubernetes for? Running your web/worker servers?
That's stupidly wrong. I am not saying that this is the case here, but when Hitler wrote about the Jews, if people were annoyed (to the point of attempted murder) about it, it does not mean he had "some fundamental truth" in it.
to be cond
I downloaded BeReal, made my account and within an hour deleted it. It's so boring. There is a feed where you can see the pics of everyone else where they're being real. But why would I care about strangers if they're binge watching stranger things or waiting in a line. And those who are pro-users of it I think eventually they will be bored too. Locket app is a widget photo sharing app. You can capture photos and share with your friends which will appear on the homescreen widget.

But you might be wandering, well if you want entertainment you go to tik-tok . Well of course. BeReal and Locket are not for entertainment purposes but intimacy purpose. But I guess these are tales of two extreme ends. And I see a middle path here.

My idea is basically to build something which strengthens the friendship of friends. Something you can reminisce nostalgically. Where you are closer with your near and dear ones and deepening the bond of your existing or new relationship. Where you know you have someone's back to help you in rough times. Where friend is really a friend and not a facebook friend. Can discuss more about it if you are interested.

A little bit about me: I don't have a track record of building great products. I don't have a CS degree as I am a dropout. But what I am is a person who is really driven to make something valuable. My interest lies in this space. I love this space. And I am more of a idea person or glue person. I am not pessimistic or optimistic about this. Fuck it. I am gonna get it done. I am looking for folks who are driven and curious about this space and want to make a dent. Looking for a tech-cofounder(s) so that we can complement each other skills. I want to have everyone to have at least one friend (just like Joey had Chandler). Consider joining me to execute this mission.

If you can help me in any way, by sharing this post, recommending someone who might be interested in this idea, sharing your feedbacks, it will be highly appreciated.

Please contact me : amanvidyaviharian@gmail.com

Please avoid the grammatical errors.

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Outsider perspective: I can't see generalizing as anything but making things worse in the long run, unless capacity is too limited.

Trying to generalize education means classes will have to deal with a far larger variance in education levels. Anyone who knows a bit of pedagogy and psychology would understand making things too easy or too difficult is a great way to make kids bored. Add a lack of discipline to it, and you're setting up for dysfunctional class rooms. And with the limited time and large classes, it's extremely difficult to appeal to both extremes, meaning most classes will appeal only to some small range while the remainder questions what they are doing.

The primary thing I take from the article, is the immense focus on the gifted. That's the attitude I kinda get in general: kids at the lower rungs are just "there". They have to make it out themselves, while the upper echelons get all the benefits. Of course the less fortunate would fight back when the system itself is a positive feedback loop for anyone up high, and a negative one for anyone all the way down. Segregating based on class levels isn't just there to boost the high ones further up at the cost of everyone else.
Cheers. I'll post the results of our follow-up test and see if we can keep the trial start benefits while bringing retention back up to where it was.