skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We need laws covering laws. Impact assessments, criteria for demonstrating success, sunset conditions if it is not successful in a particular time, and clarity and complexity review that shows the public can be informed and reasonably expected to comply.
Lol, these are nort children movies
in the past where you could consult colleagues

Perhaps tests are to make sure that you are a going to be colleague worth consulting then? Yes, pure memorization and recall of facts is less valuable now than before, but knowing how to apply the facts available to you is still a skill worth having, and similarly worth testing. Those skills can also be assessed using written tests, and the potential for cheating is just as on memory tests.

what is the point in artificially creating a test situation where the student is isolated from resources she'll have at her disposal in real life

Let's take language learning as an example: do you consider a foreigner with a dictionary to be just as expressive as a native speaker? Perhaps there is value in testing the immediate knowledge of the student rather than their lookup skills?
Elo also depends on how many games you have played in a time format.

It is likely that the person with 12/15 point gains has less games, thus his delta variation is higher than yours. It takes tens of games before you take "normal" points.
It's common in Asia to be served raw hot chillis as a garnish for whatever you've ordered. I've had probably at least a couple hundred of such meals in Singapore.
Speaking of light pollution, here's a handy map:

https://www.lightpollutionmap.info/#zoom=3.78&lat=36.9075&lo...

For contrast, see:
https://www.lightpollutionmap.info/#zoom=6.42&lat=-26.3451&l...

Great night skies, radio silent zone (for a chunk of the Square Kilometre Array) as a bonus.
I'm not working on superoptimization, but yes it does seem like eq(x,max_unsigned(x,y)) is an "obvious" cmpge_unsigned if one just browses all the intrinsics available here: https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/docs/intrinsics-guid...

I would like to read more about superoptimizers targeting AVX2, since previously I've complained that gcc will not make transformations between various equivalent instruction sequences for moving bytes around within and between registers, and some of these are a lot slower than others.
Not so fun fact: on May 29th in Chicago, the address with the highest number of arrests by far was at Trump tower, against peaceful protesters. Then the police department lied about the number of arrests that happened for looting, saying that there were more arrests for looting than protesters.

If you're looking to build a better understanding of what happened, you might want to reconsider using wikipedia as your source and try to find local news that takes a critical look at policing.

Also... "water bottles"? Come on.

https://www.chicagoreporter.com/chicago-police-arrested-more...
Homes are heated with gas, not with nuclear power. Industrial processes run on gas, not on nuclear power.
For what it's worth, clang[0] compiles to the vpminu[bwd] + vpcmpeq[bwd] version even from manually written intrinsics of the addition-based version, and has since clang 7. Though, interestingly enough, it fails to cancel out a following xor.

(and, for completeness, a regular C loop[1], with some massaging to make it more readable)

[0]: https://godbolt.org/z/e7TE5P73Y

[1]: https://godbolt.org/z/xhj3WTnxv
Soylent Green doesn't even use robots to take care of the elderly, just a feelgood video clip and a bit of medication.
> But the ban will not apply if the light emitted by displays is required to maintain traffic safety or ward off other hazards, and it cannot be replaced by other measures at short notice.

So even the signs indicating what time the next bus comes would not be allowed?
Americans fought a war to keep British nobles out of their business. Whoever they may be over there, they're nobody here.
Funny note, John Carmack did (does?) a little bit like you. He wrote everyday little notes about the day. You can find them on the Internet back to the very old days up to kind of recently.
And they can go fuck off if they don't.

We're in a crisis and they want to waste energy we might need for heating households to manipulate people into buying shit they don't need?

That's not exactly a position that'll get them a lot of sympathy.
To be fair, the problem with nuclear power in Germany is bigger than that the existing nuclear plants are being shut down. It's actually a good idea to shut them down eventually as they're old and inefficient. Calling them "fully functioning" is a bit of a rose tinted glasses type of situation.

The bigger problem is that Germany doesn't have any more recent nuclear power plants due to public pressure and instead just extended the lifetimes of the existing ones for decades to compensate. We could have built better and SAFER nuclear power plants but because that would have lost voters we instead had to extend the lifetimes again and again.

All polluting industries have their own tactics to deflect public attention. In Germany coal succeeded at deflecting that attention towards nuclear. The Ruhr region has a romanticized nostalgia for its history of coal mining whereas most people associate nuclear power with Chernobyl (or more recently Fukushima, which really just culturally echoed the existing memories of Chernobyl), the nuclear bombings of Nagasaki and Hiroshima and the threat of global thermonuclear war while being smack in the middle of the Iron Curtain (almost literally, with the Berlin Wall separating both sides of the conflict).

I don't know to what extent the coal industry is actually involved in this, but there is an almost patriotic attitude towards coal plants in contrast with the horrified panic surrounding nuclear. Meanwhile solar is mostly seen as a way to cut down on electric bills by installing pannels on your own roof and wind power is a "blight on the countryside" and "health risk" (because of noise pollution, strobing shadows and of course killing migratory birds). Some of this seems to be finally changing but the "man on the street" will likely still prefer coal over all other forms of energy for no good reason.
Digital billboards use thousands of watts, overall, that's several times the energy consumption of a typical household, the power bill is thousands of euros a year.

So I guess that's worth it, even if some additional hardware is required.
It can, but one would need a bit of a ettiquette to not point it into other people's faces. Pretty sure some people would use headlamps if it was necessary for everyone to bring their light source and that is plenty annoying.
This isn't true.

You could even power the world just from renewables

https://innovationorigins.com/en/researchers-agree-the-world...
Why do people refer to it as new / old world when it's been around and inhabited since forever? It's a weird misnomer, just like calling its inhabitants Indians, and just like calling countries 3rd world.
Eggplant and potato are aren’t fruits. Chiles are fruits, and most edible fruits are eaten raw.
I would wager that neither have most of the Americans and Europeans who seem to be behind this stuff. In fact it seems to have been authoritarian governments who stand to gain most from such systems, for instance North Korea who were using tornado cash.

Further, systems such as these that enable hiding of funds and flows of money are also perfect for abusive, exploitative dictators and oligarchs who want to obscure the source of money they've extracted from their countries to make themselves rich in the west while their people are crushed in poverty.

But sure, it's me not seeing the big picture.
Technically he could, I believe FIDE has a minimum rating increase of 1 point for the winner of a game with > 400 ELO advantage on their opponent. But if he broke 2900 by playing in minor tournaments against low rated amateur opponents no one would take it seriously that he broke 2900. Realistically many, maybe even all of the top players could push for record ELOs by only playing against players well below their level. But not only are the optics bad and the records would be looked at as illegitimate, it would take a lot of time playing long classical chess games against inferior opponents. Which is a major opportunity cost since their time would normally be spent playing in and studying for professional tournaments.
I'm assuming for windows it only works in WSL2? cause last time I checked nix wasn't compatible with native windows development, sadly
The unreasonable effectiveness of shipping every day
Secret, no, but not eating it is always an option.
Even if not media focused, Is 14KB possible with modern web JavaScript frameworks? Asking as someone who builds only text focused web applications with very little vanilla JavaScript if absolutely necessary.
Don't forget the dynamic energie pricing. Suddenly energy prices can peak to 10$/kWh.
Of course, this is why the law is needed.
To much definitely but there is also plenty of energy from atom and water. The small region I live in is energy independent as far as I know only from water.

The main reason Switzerland isn't it full panic mode yet as some neighbors are is because the average energy price rise is not so much compared to our average income. If ex. Germans have to pay €100 more it hits them at least 2-3 times as hard than the median Swiss. Euro is falling as well, so some things are actually just getting cheaper meanwhile.
This is the bait.

It works to get people clicking and engaging with the content. Click bait won't go away because it continues to work as seen in this thread.
OK, but now we're talking about very esoteric systems to set up codified economic activities and interrelations as an extension/plugin to a niche, federated social media platform ... it doesn't seem that interesting to me, or any less buzzword-laden.
How is getting rid of annoying ads at night "normalizing poverty"?
Even if they're not insured, pregnant women get free healthcare, in my EU country.
Of course. Same with tobacco and oil companies working against transparency for smoke health risks and climate change.
AFAIK, you can cancel all GSuite services and enable Identity Platform on GCloud to at least keep the Google Account linked to the domain.
I want to test their ability to perform a task - rather than how well they memorized things. Which is not to say that memorization is not important, but it's just one piece of the Puzzle. So when it comes to language tests, rather than having the candidate fill in prepositions into blanks, let's have an actual conversation with them in which they apply their combined skills.
Still, emitting light through a thick diffuser and a poster is not as efficient as just putting up a light.
Is there a part of the US healthcare which actually does work properly? Properly as in, providing the care needed by the people?
cdlatex and in-buffer previews with (org-latex-preview) are great too when not writing in a .tex file.
This could be done with tests, by having open book tests.

The point of a test is to check if you are capable on your own, and not piggybacking on someone elses intellect or hard work.

It is true, that in the real world, the resources available to use are infinitely larger than a classroom or a teaching setting. But your idea springs from lack of understanding about the true purpose of education, i.e, to groom children to think.

Alas, modern education has become a cesspool of rote learning, atleast in my country, India.
Those scenarios can be better tested through simulations. E.g. to pass a driving exam you are presented with a road situation, and given only a few seconds to respond — this completely eliminates the possibility of looking things up on the internet. A similar approach can be used for other disciplines.

> separate wheat from chaff

Wheat can demonstrate/use the knowledge, chaff can't. Why does it matter whether the knowledge is internal or external, assuming results are the same?
My city banned billboard advertising once. All of them digital and non-digital. It was fabulous and finally felt like a place to live. Sadly it did not last long and their revival only reinforced how refreshing their absence was. I think we do not realize the value of visual space and pay a heavy price when we decide to monetize it.
Those areas are explicitly excluded from this.
SEPA: https://www.ecb.europa.eu/paym/integration/retail/sepa/html/...
An aging population is a significant factor, another one is the increasing range of treatments available today - and of course they combine because most medical expenditure happens during the last part of a person's life.
I believe the issue has more to do with the accreditation of learning institutions. “Untimed power tests” are the gold standard for testing, and in the modern world this includes own internet access. Everyone acknowledges that these are better at assessing knowledge, critical thinking, etc.. The problem is that these tests are very difficult to make and logistical nightmares concerning cheating. A timed, closely proctored, closed book/internet exam is much easy to create and administer, and it halfway (better than nothing) assesses whether or not the student has learned the material.
Why DALL-E will not steal my job as an illustrator
There are extremely few things (if any) we can know for certain. Thinking in terms of boolean logic like this appears very primitive to me.

In my opinion, the only rigorous way to improve our knowledge, is to employ Bayes Theorem, and Bayesian thinking in general.

You and I may have different prior on a topic. We may see the same evidence, but end up believing different things because of the prior. As long as we state the prior, that is good and fair. If the evidence contradicts my prior, I should lower the confidence I have in my belief, even if the prior was big enough that I still believe the same thing.

Unfortunately, what often happens, is that people lock themselves into believing things absolutely. If you lock some prior probability to 1, Bayes' Theorem has n way to let you update that belief.

This is especially common when it comes to beliefs related to religion and identity. In fact, this is one way to define religious belief. Anything you believe that you will NOT stop believing regardless of evidence, could be defined as religious.

If you believe in God, and we discover that Heaven is not on the other side of the starts, the believer just modifies non-core parts, and claims that "God is everywhere and nowhere".

If belief in racist oppression is what defines you, and you find that most individuals are not individually racist anymore, you can just introduce "Structural Racism" that claims that hard work, staying married and maths are racist.
I actually adhere to this philosophy when hiring candidates as well. Rather than having them explain how to reverse binary trees on a whiteboard, I have them sit down and do a mini version of the actual task they will have to do in their job later. And, unsurprisingly, knowing how well they do the actual task is a much better indicator of how well they perform at doing the actual task later.
1) This is the weirdest response ever, that Russia and similar terrorist organizations are under economic sanctions is a feature and not a bug.

2) No, they couldn't. Sanctions prohibit trading and investing, and freeze physical assets. The method of payment is irrelevant.

3) The logical conclusion of your argument is that we should abandon banking at all: money being digital is an implementation detail, banks would create money even if they resolved transactions on paper ledgers. Is your ideal world one with no financial services at all? I hope you're good at NP-hard problems, because that's what's going to happen when you go buy groceries in that world.
Heroku got the Salesforce trreatment. Sinking ships sail predictably.
"Add a few days of storage"

This is very non-trivial and will take decades longer than building nuclear power.
I’ve always enjoyed the chili tasting interviews produced by Chili Klaus:

https://youtube.com/c/ChiliKlausDK/videos

There’s such a lovely range of human reactions to eating those little spicy-fruity peppers.
In CL land, we have good support with Atom, Jupyter notebooks, Sublime, VSCode (new plugin, hard-ish to install), and to a lower extent Geany, Eclipse (basic support) and other terminal REPLs. https://lispcookbook.github.io/cl-cookbook/editor-support.ht... Not to forget Lem, an emacs-like CL editor that works out of the box for CL, but also for other languages (Python, Rust…).
> to manipulate people into buying shit they don't need?

This is encouraged by our system, switching off screens at night won't change it. Attack the root cause not the very last symptom
Agreed completely. As I said in the last bit: The proper solution is to put up proper lighting.
So basically the authorities outsourced a part of public safety to the ad companies?
Working on large VAXclusters early in my career, totally spoiled me as to what was possible. Even now, I look at what is laughingly called 'clustering' and I sigh.
That's not artificial.

There are literal physical reasons why the prices in different markets are different. The transmission capacity is the limiting factor.

Why do you think those are left-wing and artificial?

Wind has been the cheapest source of energy in Europe for over a decade, yet the Swedish right-wing are against it.

As long as the power plant has decent pollution controls and the carbon is taxed I don't really have an issue with it. That provides a clear price signal to build more cheap renewables, like wind. Unless you are against that, like the Swedish right-wing parties. Which doesn't really give me any confidence that they're doing the smart things to solve this 'problem' they've caused. And the local Swedish energy experts seem to agree with me.
Privacy of communication is fine. Anonymously sending funds globally is different, the criminal uses vastly outweigh any legitimate use.

If privacy is really needed use cash, the difficulty of having to move large quantities of cash around physically is a good limiting factor. If you are worried about banks knowing your transaction history most shops still accept cash.
I thought the standard was that they had to produce fertile offspring.
One man’s problem is another man’s opportunity.
In one of my Math/Computer classes in college, part of the class was that along the way you were supposed to be implementing the mathematical concepts in code along the way, so that you would have your code available to run on the test questions when it reached the day of the test! Whether you programmed on a TI-89 calculator or your laptop was up to the student, but the tests were open note and open device and it felt very freeing. The actual methods of input and exact algorithms were of course carefully picked so that there would be no easy off the shelf code solution, but once you understood it the problems could be trivially implemented in any programming language with a BigInt type
Building enough nuclear power plants to power a country also takes decades and is very non-trivial. The quicker we reach 90% carbon-free, the more carbon budget we have left to figure out the remaining 10%. Renewables are the quickest, cheapest way to do that.
Average power usage for a 1 person household in Germany is 1300 kwh/year (roughly, numbers vary, but not to a degree that it matters).

That's about 150W sustained. So 1500W for a large sign, that's like 150 high power LED light bulbs, I guess that checks out.

Anything that reduces ads in the public sphere is fine by me.
Eggplants are fruits, in biology definition
This is all roughly right except that when you say "incredibly quickly on the time scale of milliseconds" it's often actually microseconds.

This sort of work is done either in custom hardware or FPGAs - that's the only way you can precisely control the phase offset of signals (and measure it). They can respond very quickly.
Central Bank Digital Currencies (CBDTs) are a really bad idea.
Think Big Brother on Steroids - every single Currency Unit would have it's own identity that could be easily tracked and controlled by a central authority.
See my blog post for more info on this and much more about money.

https://www.onedb.online/blog/what_is_money
Pretty much. The article says that the contracts require the lighting so that the area is illuminated. I'm gonna guess, however, that they wouldn't keep up the lighting if it weren't required.

Which really isn't so surprising, considering how pervasive advertising is in many societies.
I think that improving the shell experience and allowing e.g. multimedia content to be displayed and manipulated directly into the shell, would help a lot with interactivity. Maybe some specific terminal emulator (like kitty) with ipython would constitute a good starting point...
Is it a good thing for a startup's CEO to be obsessed with “reality”?
Is it a good thing for a CEO to be hyper relentless about all co-founder's arguments being first principle and completely coherent, that is backed up in every way by data and contains no made up information? What if this slows down our conversations too much?
The research and tech actually exists for large scale nuclear power. It's essentially a solved problem, unlike large-scale energy storage.
This is a common rebuttal but despite the fact that everyone does have google in their pockets, clearly a lot of people never use it to learn and only use it for entertainment so testing what they know off by heart does still matter imho.

When we locked down in the UK, millions of people were furloughed for 6 months+. How many of those people retrained, studied etc.? Not as many as we might hope because education is firstly about motivation and secondly about information.
Yeah, the person I replied to quoted it and was upset about it. I was replying to their reaction.
The quotes here are only about transmitting to cellphones, not about receiving from cellphones. Is uplink also a part of the plan?
I would love it if someone other than me made this site -- I certainly don't have time to do it!
I appreciate that decisions have to be made, but it's odd that several of the things I think of as HN classics don't appear to be in this list. Things like "The Story of Mel" ... how can that not be there?

What submissions do you think of as classics, and yet don't appear? How can the selection criteria be improved?

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Edit (After OrangeMonkey's comment):

Sorry, OrangeMonkey's reply to this comment made me realise that "The Story of Mel" isn't necessarily recognised by everyone, so I did the HN search[0] and here are the top few hits. I haven't made all these into links, because you can do the search for yourself. If you do so you'll see that the exact same URL is submitted many times, but doesn't always get 30 or more votes each time. Possibly different URLs are found and submitting because the previous ones are rejected by the dupe-detector.

Finding the true HN classics is not a simple job, so consider this a useful test case. If your criteria don't find this one, maybe a more complex selection criterion is needed.

The Story of Mel (1983) (https://www.cs.utah.edu/~elb/folklore/mel.html)
445 points|thunderbong|17 days ago|167 comments

The Story Of Mel (http://www.catb.org/jargon/html/story-of-mel.html)
169 points|jacquesm|8 years ago|77 comments

The story of Mel (1983) (http://www.pbm.com//~lindahl/mel.html)
80 points|vaksel|13 years ago|22 comments

The Story of Mel Explained (http://jamesseibel.com/blog/?p=109)
68 points|seibelj|7 years ago|25 comments

The story of Mel, a Real Programmer (http://www.pbm.com/~lindahl/mel.html)
43 points|donw|14 years ago|9 comments

The Story of Mel (1983) (http://www.cs.utah.edu/~elb/folklore/mel.html)
22 points|thefreeman|8 years ago|8 comments

The Story of Mel ... (http://www.jargon.net/jargonfile/t/TheStoryofMel.html)
19 points|urlwolf|12 years ago|17 comments

[0] https://hn.algolia.com/?q=story+mel