skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> practically institutionalized disdain for the smart kids. I am talking cultural products here

Escaping this is certainly a piece of why people pursue "good" schools in wealthy areas, gifted programs, and private schools. Obviously it's not a guarantee you can avoid this attitude, but there are obvious differences between educational environments.

I went to a good public school K-8, where I was part of the gifted program (what amounted to a handful of students in my year who had a few special class session per week), and then a top private high school.

One of the biggest differences from a typical American public school that I saw in the gifted program and private school was that being smart/curious/interested/engaged/academically ambitious was generally admired and encouraged. I was endlessly curious but never a particular diligent student, and had a tendency to "coast" in school, but I think being in this environment helped frame things for me in a really positive way.

It got a bit ridiculous at the end of high school as my classmates started aggressively competing for limited slots at top universities, but I feel the environment–being among people who valued ambition and using your brain–was super motivating and raised my internal bar for success in general. I'm reminded of something a tennis coach told me as I was first learning to play: the best way to improve your own game is to play with others more skilled than you.
Yeah, maybe I’m the outlier but I don’t know if a lot of the AI stuff that’s coming out right now is doing what people think it’s doing. My impression is that the AI is learning the minute details that make up a cat and confabulating something completely new based on those details, not stitching together images of existing cats. If your three your old cut out a picture of one of your dogs on a picture of another of your dogs I don’t think you’d think that was analogous to what this AI is doing, but I think it’s basically that (maybe we a dozen or so pictures but seemingly much less than my gut would indicate). But more of a collage than an artist using a combination of their memory and imagination to draw something completely new.
In the US legal system a non-government entity can force any 3rd party to spend time and money for their benefit? That seems pretty weird.
There is no due process in authoritarian states. Being suspected by someone on the police that you might hold subversive views is enough to get you arrested, tortured, and murdered.
It depends on the degree of regression to the mean, and to which mean the children are regressing to. Due to selection criteria bias of immigrants they are more likely to be outliers than non immigrants. While it's very likely that the outliers have a genetic advantage it seems that important combinations of genes are often lost and on average subsequent generations do regress to the mean intelligence of the general population that they come from more. If intelligence was a single gene or the average of multiple genes what would normally be expected would be an average of the parents intelligence. It appears that the actual results are the mix of the two which could be readily explained by important combinations of genes not being lost some of the time.

In the future when the important combinations of genes yielding more intelligence are known it'll be possible to select for certain combinations and children selected this way would be expected to have a higher intelligence than either parent. i.e. making multiple draws from a distribution and picking the highest value.
Honestly, what is even remotely interesting about Go? I have never understood the surrounding hype.
It gets redirected to another region though (if you are logged-in) and if this region has no pixel 7 thingy then no dice.
Crypto is pretty much speed running our existing financial institutions’ past history.
People surprised by this might be the sort of people who try to cuddle a porcupine and are surprised when they get stabbed. That said, we have laws designed to protect stupid people from those who prey on the stupid, so I hope these execs get the book thrown at them.
Isn't Borda Count just Score voting where you enforce that voters can't give two options the same amount of support?

I would be curious why people would prefer Borda over Score if so.
> Saying a 5 year old would be a bad theoretical physicist or that a 90 year old would make a bad NFL linebacker both would constitute prejudices based on age the way I see it.

It seems like most people would agree with your examples.

Do you view this sort of ageism filter as a useful tool for understanding the world? Does the word ageism automatically imply a negative connotation then?
Shame that they said it's a "24h" battery life device. My old Fitbit lasts something like a week. I wish these more advanced watches had battery life closer to a week than a day. It would be a hassle to charge it every day.
Pixel 7, Pixel 7 Pro and Google Pixel Watch
>But he did more for lifting up all ethnic groups

How?
`pull.rebase` should be the default just because it avoids the problem of merge commits.
Right, but as soon as they suspect someone they probably run tools like these. They can be ran faster than it takes to find someone and throw then in a van for sure.
If you can lift at least 35 pounds and pass a drug test, Amazon is always hiring. I also hear trucking and paralegal are booming fields.
Similar experience for me. I had iPhones from 2008-2018, they were rock solid - I upgraded when I felt like it, not when the phones broke.

I bought a Samsung S9 in 2018. After a year the case was kind of coming apart, but I’d come to like Android and so I replaced it with a Pixel 4 and hoped first-party hardware would be better. Nope. After like 6 months the NFC stopped working, which I tolerated. After a year the back case adhesive was failing and the case was, again, coming apart. I replaced the back case and adhesive. It held for almost another year, then failed again.

I bought an iPhone 13 mini and it’s been less than a year but so far it seems just as reliable as my previous iPhones and much sturdier than either Android I had. There were a lot of things I liked about Android, and I realize I’m a sample of one but after back-to-back poor hardware experiences I’m skeptical of Android phone quality even for flagships.

I’ll be sad if I can’t get a similar mini form factor when I do eventually need to upgrade, but Android phones weren’t getting any smaller either so that’s a whole separate thing.
I made some minor contributions to MuseScore a few years ago and they turned me on to the joy of rebasing.
> it's prone to bullshitting.

We may be closer to human-level AGI than I thought.
A Universal Cancer Treatment?
Near the bottom: Comes with a built-in VPN, operated by Google, coming soon!

That is an absolutely awful idea and you couldn't pay me to use a Google VPN.
> I wasn’t calculating the annual possibility.

When I wrote:
> For N = 100, this is 63%, ...
I was responding to your comment:
> It means that in out of a hundred trips, it’s pretty certain one will involve an accident.

Whether or not 63% == 'pretty certain' is another matter I suppose.
To speculate, maybe you haven't heard of fixup/squash.

E.g.
Commit 1
Commit 2
Commit 3

Using an empty fixup commit, e.g.

git commit --allow-empty --fixup=commit2hash

You would end up with

Commit 1
Commit 2
Commit 3
fixup! Commit 2

Which will adjust automatically (when starting interactive rebase with autosquash) to

Commit 1
Commit 2
fixup! Commit 2
Commit 3

You could then simply change the rebase 'fixup' instruction to 'reword' to edit/remove the 'fixup!' part of the message, or 'edit' to continue the rebase uo until that commit and then stop.

That said, again, not clear on your use case but maybe that might help you or another reader.
>It's hard to focus on multiple things at once, and we're skeptical that the bureaucratic forces in play at a large company like Meta will allow them to do a good job at making their gaming platform also one that people actually want to work in.

The problem with your assertion is that you over count how many multiple things Meta has to do. What will make for a very good gaming VR Headset will also be a very good professional and productivity headset.

The key aspects which Mark Zuckerberg laid out personally in the recent VR Prototypes unveil pretty universally hit both targets. Comfortable light weight headsets with incredible fidelity is desirable for all VR applications. Not just gaming.
Approval voting allows bullet voting, which is not ideal:

https://fairvote.org/the_troubling_record_of_approval_voting...
would be or could be?
Looking at the Google Store page that compares the Pixel Watch with existing Fitbit smartwatches (https://store.google.com/magazine/google_pixel_watch_compare), I'm not sure why most people would buy the Pixel Watch. It's more expensive than the Sense 2 and Versa 4, but it is not a clear upgrade in terms of features.
Thanks for the kind words!

And, you're exactly right. The online world of people specifically interested in tools for ranked-choice voting is quite small. The question I'm trying to answer is what use cases does ranked-choice voting work better than other existing survey/polling options? That way, someone could be looking for a solution to that specific problem. Right now, most of RankedVote's users are already aware of RCV and then try to apply that in some scenario at work where a simple voting tool would have been the alternative.
Why Do Some People Develop Long Covid?
Yes, that's what a subpoena is. And it can be done in pretty much any legal system.

If you're on trial for murder, and your alibi is 'I was at work', you're going to need your boss to come in to testify on your behalf. If he doesn't feel like it, the court will compel him to show up and testify, on his time, and on his expense, under penalty of prejury.

This is a good thing.
Future Proofing SQL with Carefully Placed Errors
> Can you recall, over your entire career, where a product decision was made for ethical (rather than purely PR or legal) reasons?

Yes, because I made them.

As a nation built on capitalism, it is those who are able to influence the decisions of corporations that bear the burden and responsibility of the decisions made by those corporations. Whether those individuals are held accountable or not is irrelevant to the fact that ethics certainly ought to be considered for any individual involved who believes themselves to be "acting ethically".

I've worked hard in my career to get a seat at the table where those decisions are made because I recognize that is a place where good can be done, at scale.

We should hold ourselves, and capitalism, to higher standards. And for those of us who are leaders, whether that is a small start-up or a major conglomerate, we are responsible for creating an environment where ethical decisions can be made.
Using nanoscale materials for future technologies
[Edited] The original Dreamfusion project was discussed here a few days ago:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33025446
If you are not interested in discussing it further so be it. But go did have segmented stacks that didn't require reserving additional space.
My sister got an MA, worked for over a decade in public health, and then returned to college to attempt biochem one summer. She started as pre-med like all of her friends, realized in her second year of undergrad she could make an impact without going into medicine, and changed her major.

So you're right, there are only so many slots for medical school, and you don't even need to be pre-med to qualify. Unless you're just ambitious, ultra-focused, and well prepared enough to do pre-med into med fresh out of high school, you have time to gain experience and decide what you really want.
You cant actually be confident until you run a statistical test
I also can't get 512 in Canada. It only lists up to 256
Do you have to declare a major when you apply? Can't you be ambivalent about it? Or apply for a different major and then switch to CS after you get in?
Allow me to counter your experience with my experience. I don't know about the Pixel, but my Samsung phones last yeeeeeeeeeears. Wife and I use Android phones, kids use iPhone. The kids have been through way way way more iPhones. My Samsung Galaxy S7 was used from approximately 2016-2020 until I finally updated to the S10e which has been equally - if not more - reliable than the S7 before it. In fact I was honestly looking at this thread and wondering why people bother upgrading to these latest and greatest devices so soon when these older phones last so long.

BTW that Galaxy S7 still works. I only upgraded because all the updates to Google Maps, Gmail, and other newer versions of software were understandably too slow for the device.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/We_Can_Remember_It_for_You_Who...
UMass Amherst is where I hope my children want to go. It’s a prestigious school by all means, and it’s a beautiful campus-oriented life not too far from civilization. Plus in state tuition. I went to a prestigious private school and don’t think it’s really better than a flagship state school.
null hypothesis is underrated
I can agree with all of that but still question how it requires so many supposedly “best” engineers. Facebook won the network effect lottery years ago, creating (or falling backwards into) an addictive platform that people join because everyone they know joined, not because their platform has obvious technical advantages over competitors. They scaled the platform organically over time because they had to, not because of some genius master plan.

My parents successfully use iPhones and iPads and GMail, along with Facebook. I can’t say they “like to use” Facebook, but if they want to see photos of their kids and grandkids they have to use it. I don’t know anyone who enjoys using FB, including my own kids. It seems users see it as a necessary evil — where else can they go?
It's one thing to pull some elaborate and complex fraud, but you'd have to be really stupid to do such blatant insider trading in broad daylight. Are they taking calculated risks in doing this because surely they're getting prosecuted and having all their money taken away as well?
It may surprise you to learn that I know the technical meaning of “begging the question” and have used it correctly. That is, the article argues (roughly) “ADHD is caused by internet,” which begs the question: why doesn’t everyone with internet have ADHD?

Begging the question, as the Wikipedia article you link explains, is a logical fallacy akin to circular reasoning: x is some way because it is x. My usage of the term was calling out this weakness in the article. I am not completely sure what the intent of your comment is and suspect you might be leaning on your awareness of this lesser-known fact as a sort of thought-terminating cliche.
It's just testing and rewarding people who studied for the stupid test, that's all. It also rewards conformist personalities.

It reminds me of undergrad calculus, where you had to memorize how to do dozens of types of integrals. You're not supposed to ask "what does dx mean?" Asking those types of questions will give you a worse grade.

I remember back when I was supposed to "study" for this thing. I asked "if it's an aptitude test, how does it make sense to study for it?" No one could give me a good answer so I decided it was stupid and never studied for it. I thought it was disgusting that so many people were paying for services, books, etc. to specifically prepare for the test even though the whole pretense of the thing is that you're not supposed to be able to do that.

On the other hand, I loved a lot of the AP stuff (chemistry, physics, calculus) since you were rewarded based on understanding the actual content of a subject, a system that made sense. But it's a good thing I didn't think to ask what "dx" meant back then, otherwise I would have probably gotten a worse score.
Wait to get it until GrapheneOS makes a ROM for it.
Author here, had a lot of fun building this as it's just ~100 lines of Rust code + some CSS/HTML.
If someone is looking for a fun thing to contribute to during Hacktoberfest, the code is on Github: https://github.com/mre/zerocal
Will mainly use it for myself to send out event links to friends.
Same, I've been through several several of all the phones you've mentioned over the last decade. 0 issues.

Modern technology works just fine in the general case, aside from anecdotes of failures. News at 11.
To? The Middle East, China depend on the West. If they become unstable, stop producing, the whole world falls apart.

South America is consistently on the brink of revolution, and Africa (broadly) crawls along on the coattails of China.

I don't think there's safe refuge anywhere.
Pavel Durov: Stay away from WhatsApp – a surveillance tool for 13 years
Isn't this the result of the artificial bloat that was in the US economy before the whole domination of the dollar as reserve currency thing came crashing down?

Just a few months ago, dollar was the uncontested reserve currency, allowing the US financial institutions - including the Fed - to inject cash into the economy in whatever way including fractional reserve lending. Inflation just didn't go up. A lot of money to invest. Resulting in a bloated stock market with immense 'valuations' with little profit to show for the valuation.

Now the Ukraine war, sanctions, various countries moving to trade in their own currencies, and voila - all the dollars that were being used to trade before are unused and they are flowing back to the US, causing inflation.

The bloated stock economy is going down, and the companies that used to float on the bloated value of their capital are feeling the squeeze - Facebook, Twitter, Google...

This may result in an adjustment in the economy with normalized valuations, salaries, prices and monetary compensation in the long run. It feels like its just cutting the fluff out of the bloated economy that ran on inflated stock values. But in the end, the resulting environment should not be too different than the former one - just without the bloat.

How would this affect the investment in tech, is an open question though. It would probably end up like how it is in other regions of the world - still high, profitable and lucrative, however, less bloated. Like in Europe, China and anywhere else.
I mean, if they cannot shift it to the markets, it's because the markets think its not worth what they paid for it. And it's a lot of risk and capital to tie up themselves.

They may have to resell some of it at, say, 14% to get some of the risk off their books.
So nothing of relevance to my main point.
> I had an O-Chem professor who explicitly set a curve and
> gave incredibly difficult exams, such that only a few people
> in the 100+ person class could get an A.

Isn't that how an 'A' grade is supposed to work? I'm not suggesting you curve it to deliberately fail people, but an 'A', 'B' and 'C' should have some meaning. If 90% of a class get's an A, the grading is meaningless and might as well just be pass/fail.
I don't follow crypto, so these are actual questions, not trolling:

- If Celsius is a trading platform, how can Celsius itself owe anybody anything?

- My naive understanding is that cryptocurrency, being based on blockchain, is a log of universally agreed upon, legitimate transactions. So how can there be a liquidity crisis at all, let alone one in the billions? How is the platform allowing transactions not backed by actual funds?
Pixels tend to be pretty heavily discounted. I paid about €650 for 6, which was important argument comparing to other flagships.

In my experience cheaper ones tend to have performance and battery issues much more quickly, than high end, and in the end aren't cheaper.
It depends what you're doing. For a normal web dev workflow, I have yet to see my M1 MBP be anything but flawlessly responsive. I'm sure there are other workloads where it's different
Crypto Exchanges Cut Fees to Gain Market Share from Rivals
IoT Harmony? What Matter and Thread mean for your smart home
Not the OP, but i know for something like PlayStation Now, it was acceptable for most games. It was a pleasure to just decide to play a game and well yeah, I was playing the game. The latency wasn't a concern.

I couldn't see myself playing an FPS on it, but then I prefer kb/m anyways. But for the games I play on console? It was fine.

There can still be issues, of course, but the latency overall wasn't a deterrent.
any% noreg tas
Oh interesting. If you don't mind me asking, what is the tie breaking mechanism?

And totally agreed on the framing. Also, prepare yourself for the feedback of "we should have a runoff election with the top two" and then people completely rejecting the concept that you've already done the runoff. :)
I use public mobile with a 25$/month 500mb plan and a bunch of addons (these persist) for 4GB,in case I actually need data.
It's still horrible,coming from Italy with 6 euros/month you get 50-70 GB of data, but it's better than those crappy "min 40 dollars for any data" plans,given I'm 90% of the time under wifi
And the most amazing part --- it's not even a scam.

He really didn't cash out anything that was legal tender --- what he cashed out was a bunch of play money. Technically, this isn't a crime because it wasn't "real" money.
Because of 5 candidates, there are 3 I approve, and 2 I hate. But of the 3 I approve, I love one and only reluctantly accept the other two.

People often have strong feelings about their top preference, and approval rating destroys that.

And then in my example, the voter is tempted to approve just 1 in order to give them a better chance of winning. (Known as bullet voting.)

It's much more intuitive and less cognitive load to rank options by preference than to decide on an arbitrary threshold of approval. You already know your ranking; you have to strategically decide on an approval cutoff.

(Also, between the candidates you disapprove of, you still often think some would be better/worse than others, and want that to count too.)
In Shakespeare's Macbeth, the witches prophecise to him that he will become King. Spoiler alert, he does, by killing the previous King in order to make the prophecy come true.
Could it detect the use of an iterator after a vector<> push_back()
>If you look a bit deeper at public school funding in more well-off areas and you will usually find a system of tax-deductible private donations to the school, organized by a PTA or similar organization. Much of the spending difference vanishes when you consider that.

Do you have a cite with those numbers?
Do you already have a movie database in RDF (with statements like so-and-so directed such-and-such movie) or do you have to make one?

I have done RDF similarity queries with queries similar to

select ?s2 (count(?s1) as ?cnt) {
?s1 ?p ?o .
?s2 ?p ?o .
} group by ?p ?o

where ?s1 is bound to the input movie. That will count the number of shared attributes such as director, actor, year, tagged genre, etc. you can do better if you weight it so po’s that are less common contribute more to the score. Against dbpedia that heuristic does very well for most subjects.