skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
American educational researchers are surprisingly uninterested in this topic; I managed to find recent studies on it out of France, Italy (from last week!)[0], the UK, Sweden, Denmark, and the Czech Republic, but none out of the US. In fact, I found more material in the US about the gendered bias in grading by students of teachers than by teachers of students(!!!).

I'll look more into this to see if I can dig out an American specific study.

[0] https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/01425692.2022.2...
> The unit requires about 10% of the space required by solar panels and generates round-the-clock energy

That's a pretty sneaky way of implying that it provides energy at all times, when
it probably just provides energy when the wind is blowing, whether that is during the day or night. There's nothing in the article about any energy storage capacity included with these things, apart from the claim that it can minimize auxiliary storage requirements.
>The point of a salaried position is that you're a professional filling a role for an organization. That role is not "do tasks assigned".

That's funny because if I hire a company to do some work on my house, they do strictly the tasks assigned and even try to charge me more than agreed. They don't try to make my house better.
> A big chunk (most?) of the evil in the world is done by people convinced that they know what's best for everyone else

Not only do I think that's a small part of the harm done in the world, and that the vast majority of the harm done in the world is done through simple selfishness (with possibly overwrought moralistic rationalizations), but also that it's important to make the distinction that this is the source of none of the evil.

Evil can't include people trying to be kind badly, or else it's just become a general euphemism to give every petty grievance one has a grand, millennialist, Manichean cast. Or to be realistic, it's usually just warmed over early-mid 20c anti-New Dealer, anticommunist bullshit.
I remember the push for showers over bathtubs to be based on the argument that they're X% more water-efficient. I would imagine this refers to "Navy"[0] style, as not turning off the shower for the entire duration will easily waste a few bathtubs' worth of water.

How cheap is water in your place you'd consider this a micro-optimization? In my country, unless you're tech-salary-equivalent-or-above, not doing it - and doubling or tripling your hot water (or water + gas) bill - would noticeably cut into whatever discretionary spending money you have.

Micro-optimization would be "grey water reclamation" with a bucket placed in a sink, to reuse hand-washing water for flushing the toilet. Which is something my wife and I started to do a while ago, and while we don't need to do it, the drop in utility bills for near-zero effort is impressive enough that we continue anyway.

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[0] - Or should I say "Standard Showers", as I literally can't think of anyone who doesn't turn off the water for soaping after being made aware that water and heating both cost money.
Given some of the authors and their obviously-wrong-at-the-time claims during covid this could be considered a way to apologise for being overcome by pseudoscience. Or more likely a way to fortify their pseudo science predicated authoritarianism
It's a traditional Regex syntax in several languages including JS (relevant here), Perl, and going way back to ancient Unix tools such as vi and ed.

The vi/ed form you often see in HN and other technical discussion memes too, such as:

s/easy/hard

Which is a joke to substitute uses of the word "easy" with "hard". The slashes mark a RegEx so you can get really clever in such jokes, though usually most such jokes are simple word substitutions.
Please don't post shallow dismissals, especially of other people's work.

[...]
Please don't pick the most provocative thing in an article or post to complain about in the thread.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Company not website.

However, if the company collapses the website will probably go offline as well.
Because the intel me 'is' a standalone system. So it can do anything on its own. Of course it won't connect to your WiFi because it didn't know the password. But lan connections don't need password so it can connect and listen to it in that case.
Try any larger Swift project and suddenly C++ looks pretty fast. Agreed on the pointers though.
Original author of DataFusion/Ballista here. Having alamb and others from InfluxData involved has been a huge help in driving the project forward and helping build an active community behind the project. It is genuinely hard to keep up with the momentum these days!
Interesting. On the trifecta of money vs pain vs speed, Go seems to be a reasonable compromise.
If you are in the USA, then what you received are unsolicited marketing phone calls under the TCPA, a law which allows you to personally collect up to $1500 per violation of the law or associated regulations, per phone call that you received. If your personal phone is on the federal "Do Not Call" registry, it's possible that there are at least two violations of the law per phone call you received.

I would suggest sending a demand letter to Meta's legal department offering to settle for somewhat less than $1500 per violation. Here's an example: https://www.junkfax.org/w/images/0/0b/SampleDemandLetter.pdf

If they ignore you, be prepared to file a local case in small claims court (which you can do yourself without an attorney). The court can force them to pay you if you present evidence of the calls and the law(s) or regulations that were broken.

Disclaimer: I am not a laywer and this is not legal advice, but I have collected money from TCPA legal settlements in the past, each without needing to go to court.
It would be neat if people could post or request a reward on Github issues. Maybe it's a maintainer-only feature, since they have to sign off on the final value. This would enable a way to post requests for work without having to open an empty PR.
Many people were saying this would be a result of all the 'virtual learning' during COVID however, states bowed to the teacher's union, and this is where we're at I'm not sure how you recover from that big of a deficit.

I'd be interested to see the numbers for other countries that implemented similar policies. It'd also be interesting comparing districts that were closed for a minimal amount of time vs districts that were closed the longest.

Although the previous numbers from 2019 show that there are much larger problems in education.
Applications that are require clock synchronization across multiple machines should be maintaining their own clock anyways, independent of the system clock. NTP for millisecond-order precision, atomic clock time cards for microsecond-order precision.
Hi, I'm the author of the blog post. Thank you for your comment. I'm sorry about being unclear with that part. The issue is less them using the project, but more creating a support burden by sneaking into community forums and hiding their affiliation. I'd much rather donate my time to homelabbers, and people not being paid an obscene amount of money who in theory should be able to figure it out themselves.
"Microgravity" is the usual term for orbit - it's never quite zero, due to irregularities in the Earth's mass distribution, the tidal differential across the span of your body or the spacecraft, and also influence from the moon and sun. There are also nonzero forces other than gravity acting on the spacecraft, in atmospheric drag, radiation pressure, and thermal emission, so "free fall" isn't quite fully correct either.
I guess that is true, ads in English are for English speakers, etc.

Which level of targeting does society want is a great question!
This is a fundamentally dishonest headline. The Cass Review hasn't said that it's a phrase; she's encouraging more treatment in more treatment centres.
That is true, but only under the assumption that you can qualify for a refinance when the rates come down. Last time that rates went down that much we also had a spike in unemployment and much tighter lending standards - the two seem to go hand in hand.

In fact rates going down without a [corresponding] spike in unemployment is a pandemic anomaly - which allowed so many people to refinance on favorable terms.
Brume 2 Cascading VPN/gateway device
On Halloween Day in 1517 Martin Luther put up his 95 Thesis on the door of Castle Church in Wittenberg, Germany. He expected an academic debate among clergy. At that time the Roman Catholic Church had such a stranglehold on the courts, media, education, and financial and political power that there was no way that a revolution of ideas could even be imagined to succeed.

But thanks to the printing press this all changed as Martin Luther’s 95 Theses spread across Europe making Luther the first widely recognized public figure in history. We call that period the Reformation today and it was the beginning of the end to the Catholic Church’s dominance.

In a similar fashion, the NWO has a stranglehold over courts, media, education, financial and political power and we have entered a new Digital Reformation that just as it was inevitable for the Catholic Church to lose its power during the previous Reformation, it is also inevitable that the NWO will lose their power in the new digital Reformation that is currently happening. Only this time, the Reformation is global and it’s happening a lot faster.
What help? I had a DOS 5 book which was the only source of information available to me at the time, being pre-modem-acquisition and pre-internet. Perhaps you're confusing with later editions? This was 1994.
Will AI replace programmers in future?
If it is able to take down Petr Mitrichev or even close to his skills in topcoder style competitions then is it the end of the road for programmers as a career?
What an interesting article!

It seems as if the idea is quite literal - that attention may become what you need in order to support yourself, a currency, not just something you can exchange for money somehow if you're lucky. Unless I'm missing something, there's no physical mechanism suggested by which this could work - who maintains you, who feeds you, who feeds them, etc. I wonder what the author imagined?
Sure, but then you have to pay for Wi-Fi :)
Embodied, Situated, and Grounded Intelligence: Implications for AI
I think we frankly don't know how much of a problem it is, yet. Since there's no widely applicable remote exploit for it, as far as the mainstream is concerned, all we're left to do is speculate on the risk. If someone operates a server, it's best practice not to have any extra services running on top of what's needed to run the original service. This is because every extra open port, software or complexity increases the attack surface. Same with Intel ME, people don't understand why it needs to be there, if nobody seems to even use it.

Preinstalls are not hyperbole though, there were some nasty stuff over the years. Lenovo, for one, bundled Superfish, which man-in-the-middled all HTTPS browser communication[0]. Similar effort from Dell[1].

I think ME's situation is similar to Stallman's attitude toward proprietary software. Proprietary is not evil by itself, but it's very easy to corrupt it to be so, and then the end user is powerless. And because the end user can't decide when this change happens, they are powerless to begin with. Therefore the thing shouldn't exist in the first place.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superfish#Lenovo_security_inci...

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dell#Self-signed_root_certific...
Really, I think I'm making three incorrect assumptions:

1. People that buy a house will stay in it for 10+ years. This assumption being wrong means you're more likely to be affected by market swings.

2. Market swings won't be massively significant, for some definition of "massive", and I consider 275k -> 115k massive. Meanwhile, the Z-estimate of my house peaked at $618K this April, and is now at $561K. I would not consider that one massive.

3. That people stopping making payments because it's underwater, and not some extenuating circumstance, like losing your job and being unable to afford payments, or having a need to relocate that is unrelated to your home being underwater.

But it's #3 that really gets me. I fail to understand the "My mortgage is underwater" -> "I should stop making payments" logic jump.

I think it's because I do not see my house as investment or even an "asset". It's my HOME. I agreed to pay $338K in 2015 to have a HOME. If there was a real estate crash immediately afterwards and I was underwater, my only regret would be that I could have bought the house cheaper if I had waited a little longer. I would not in any way feel incentivized to stop making payments and walk away, because not only would that mean I would still owe the bank money, but I wouldn't have a home and my credit would be destroyed, making it hard to get another mortgage.
Maybe it's low if the $100 is coming from a single person that needs it desperately. But if the fix brings big value to the community as a whole, we'll like see more people chipping in as the incentive grows.
HOA's are also restrained by their individual covenants. You can push for changes to the covenants.

I have an HOA in my neighborhood for example. It has no power to levy fines at all.
Picking this one at random to reply to, but this goes to everyone: Thanks for all the replies.

I'm still confused. I think of inflation as a thing that devalues a present day $1. But as it applies to companies with revenue it seems like a rising tide that would lift all boats, and something that kind of divides out of the analysis of the future revenue stream of a company.

e.g. If Reddit's daily revenue is $x and inflation is 10%, then its daily revenue in a year is (approximately, caveats about their ability to raise prices, etc.) $1.1x. So Reddit can say "give us a dollar today and we'll give you $10 multiplied by ten years of 10% inflation in ten years". Is that mental model wrong?

I'm also confused why this problem particularly applies to Reddit, which seemed to the the implication of the comment I originally responded to. Is that just because Reddit makes a loss, and this challenge applies to all such companies?
What they don't tell you is that python 3.8 was slower than 3.3.
That doesn’t mean they shouldn’t be allowed to make a profit on services and software. That’s the direction the auto industry is moving as well.
Typically solar panels are 21% efficient and lasers are 10% efficient, so the panel+laser setup is about 2% efficient. The mirror setup can be 70% efficient, depending mostly on your absorber design.

Building a laser normally also requires carefully aligning mirrors, as well as typically other advanced processes like glassblowing and high-voltage arcs (for low-pressure gas lasers) or glassmaking with high transparency and carefully controlled doping (for solid lasers), and in most cases fairly advanced chemistry. You might be able to make a laser out of fluorescein-doped jello, for example, but where do you get your fluorescein? It doesn't grow on trees.

Of course you can just buy a laser off the shelf, in which case you don't have to mess with any of this, but you can also just buy a big Fresnel lens off the shelf.

People have been polishing metal into mirrors for 6000 years, and as I understand it, the mathematics of parabolic reflectors for burning things was known by Euclid's time, 2300 years ago, which is probably why the English word for the point where the rays meet is "focus", Latin for "fireplace" (though that sense of "focus" may be only 400 years old).

Newton was making fairly decent-shaped parabolic mirrors 354 years ago, and interferometry has been good enough to make parabolic mirrors essentially perfect since about 01851.

The great limitation on these processes was historically the cost of materials: from Mesopotamia to Newton we're talking about various shades of copper or bronze, which are very expensive materials. For optical concentrators you don't need such optical perfection; gold leaf on something like polished stone would probably be cheaper, but in the Victorian age we learned the art of silvering glass with mercury, and in the early 20th century we learned the art of vacuum-silvering with silver, gold, or aluminum.

Ancient Egypt evidently made polished stonework on lathes, but may not have had the mathematical sophistication to make paraboloids of revolution, or to know why they were important. And the compound parabolic concentrators which allow you to not have to track the sun precisely are, I think, from the 20th century.

So, you might say, why didn't we have solar furnaces before the Industrial Revolution? Well, actually, before being murdered by the French Revolution, Lavoisier discovered that diamond was a form of carbon by burning diamonds in a solar furnace, in 01772. The solar furnace was crucial for this experiment not only because it allowed him to reach especially high temperatures but because it didn't introduce carbon dioxide.

Lavoisier's solar furnace used a lens like Seegers's, but enormously heavy and thick. Fresnel wouldn't build his first Fresnel-lens prototype until 01820.
In California at least, the law forbids HOAs from blocking solar:

https://findhoalaw.com/solar-panels-solar-energy-systems/
I wouldn't change a thing. I learned programming by watching youtube videos on how to create a soundboard app for iOS. I ripped audio files from Napoleon Dynamite, hooked it up with near zero knowledge of what I was writing, and launched it on the Appstore under my Mom's name since I was like 13. Made ~1000$, got a cease and desist from Fox, and deleted the app. Later that year I learned about open source apps, basically ripped off a pong game I found, and subsequently got a cease and desist from Atari.

Since then I've fallen in love with code, become a senior dev, and developed morals when it comes to using others' code. But still, I wouldn't change a thing.
I thought that companies you are doing business with are allowed to call you. He has an account, they can call.

Also not a lawyer.
> Python is a popular but reputably slow interpreted language.

_sigh_

Why do people still say that?

1. There are no interpreted "languages", only interpreters for said language. One can compile or interpret anything.

2. When Java didn't have a Jit, it was still called "compiled language", even though it was running bytecode, same as Python.

I think this "interpreted" vs "compiled" distinction is an anachronism. Pure interpreters are almost extinct.

> (Javascript) It's a JIT compiled language with far more investment

Oh, so it's compiled now?

It's indeed due to investment, it wasn't always the case.

> C++ is a compiled language

Or is it?

https://root.cern/cling/
Problem there is if you say upfront you're gonna kill it, you won't get any partners willing to build their businesses on top of a given product.
That's a really low bar because (1) BMCs are a security nightmare because their firmware is garbage and (2) many PC owners do not need or want BMCs.

I think the ME hating is kinda strident but it has a bunch of undocumented firmware and your PC still works after you remove it so... what was that firmware doing?
Calling someone "completely unfamiliar" is not much of an attack. I don't think it's any worse than saying the comment is "completely wrong", but it gets the point across slightly better.
> Passivity is antithetical to whether something is a hobby.

Maybe it should be, but I don't think that reflects what the broader culture believes. Add to the fact, you can't reliably determine the threshold at which something is active enough.
No, there is only a frontend. There is a JavaScript backend though. I hope the GC proposal for WASM ultimately goes through to enable a backend in WASM too.
Yeah, this didn’t happen, or at least not in the way implied by parent.

Only way to get salary info is to count backwards from the tax records, which are made public after the coming May.
Technically, GraalVM Enterprise Edition is state of the art. It's similar to C2 for Java code, but for compiling other languages EE smokes C2.
Ask HN: What to do with a fairly hefty work learning stipend?
My work recently instated a learning stipend. I'd rather not say the exact amount, but it's in the low thousands per year.

I'm a backend engineer at a growing company that also does ad hoc devops work when needed. I love software engineering books, so that's something I'd definitely spend this on, but there's no way I'll be able to read thousands of dollars of books a year.

What are some other good resources I can take advantage of here? It's a really generous stipend and I'd like to make the most of it. It's restricted to things that related to my current work.
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When I search for any name on that website, I see numbers as follows: "YYYYMMDD-XXXX" (with the "XXXX" parts being obfuscated). Do you mean it shows the full ID if you sign up for their service? I would be surprised if so, but have never tried that before so I suppose it's possible (that's also generally how these services provide tax information - behind a registration and usually paywall, even though you can request it for free from the tax office yourself as well).

Edit: I think you may be right and that registration and possibly payment could reveal the whole personnummer: https://www.imy.se/privatperson/dataskydd/introduktion-till-...

TIL!
Not faster the second time around, every time I run each command from the makefile it takes 1 minute before there is even any output too

I will try running things without involving docker and see if that changes anything
I think the similar one I had was the Super Snapshot cartridge, and it was quite magical. If a game could fit in RAM, you could dump the works to an executable file, and then the cartridge had a speed-loader that made the drive much faster as well. And a drop-in debugger, as you mentioned. It really changed the way I thought of interacting with software at the time.
Providing a single sample of random software as the ultimate rebuttal to my claim speaks more about your understanding of how performance comparisons of compilers and runtimes are made than about Java itself.

My turn: NASDAQ moved from cpp to Java quite a few years ago. Do you think you know something they don't?
Isn't T2 there because apple didn't trust intel me at all?

There is no one trust about this sh*t except intel themselves.

The only difference is apple have the power to ask intel get rid of it but we don't.
It's why it was pretty brilliant that he skewed the plane.
Post your code and I'll fix it for you.
Musk Will Buy Twitter at the Last Minute
Convergence of common and rare genetic influences on autism at chromosome 16p
I guess the politicians at a loss could try to sue each individual plaintiff that was previously paid out, but that seems improbable. That would be a good thing in practice, if you toe up to the line so close that multiple courts overrule each other you lose regardless. That would help keep our rights intact.
There is a standard for LAN authentication, though I think only high-end network hardware enforces it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IEEE_802.1X
I also possibly misinterpreted someone else's comment about "for" breaking, assuming it was a regression instead of an intended syntax change which might have been covered by units. My bad
GRB221009A: Detection as sudden ionospheric disturbances (SID)
> A Twitch streamer was swatted in the UK

It says "Canadian" in the headline and throughout the article. Still a country other than America, but not the UK.
You can’t pay bills with attention.

Unfortunately, the way you exchange attention for actual currency you can use to buy fuel or build buildings or pay staff is via advertising.

In the process we gave immense power to the largest advertising companies, Google and Facebook/Meta.
Exactly.

You need devs to write good tests in general.