skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Brilliant and accomplished people don't always pursue wealth. In certain subcultures it's crass, uncouth, one might even say low class to pursue something too practical or employable, to be too interested in material things and conspicuous consumption. These people aren't rich on paper but they are rich in genetics, habits, attitudes, values, vocabularies, media diets - and they raise brilliant, accomplished kids. Affirmative action for high academic performers subject to low family income would be an almost perfectly tailored handout for this cohort.

Filtering on parental education level might knock most of them out & get better at targeting kids who outperformed their circumstances in more surprising ways. But is the legibility or surprisingness of the kid's outperformance really the point? I think maybe what you'd want to do is give some slots in the meritocracy to kids who are not outperformers at all, but chosen randomly, without regard to academic performance.
We probably have very different definitions of class that's causing this confusion. The definition of class I'm using is laid across a spectrum from those who sell their labor on one end to those who make money from the ownership of property on the other.

The reason I use this definition is because the economic relations are reflected in social relations. The social relations one has when they primarily live off the earnings of property are qualitatively different from those who don't - this difference forms the basis of class.

Know that this isn't an idiosyncratic definition - the cradle it was born in was the same cradle that bore sociology itself.
You don’t even need that. A solar panel and an ion drive will work wonders over time. Heck a solar sail would do the trick.
I'm not suggesting one implies the other. Are you saying the only advantage one could possibly have is economic? Or maybe that you'd expect all advantages and disadvantages to be reflected in wealth or lack thereof?
Back in the day I used Wine to run Microsoft Visual C. I had a Debian Woody running on a VIA CPU. It was "cross-compiling" NSIS nightly and uploading to SourceForge with rsync. That was fun. Very slow and very fun.
Journalists don't decide the editorial stance of the publications they write for. In the short term, it's up to an editorial board or editor-in-chief. In the long term, it's up to the owners.
That makes more sense. I haven't had any response to bug reports for x/text, the author is mia
Not everyone with vision or vision processing issues is blind. Being able to configure custom tab stops is an easy way to control what level of indentation is useful and clear.
Ask HN: How do I become more future-oriented?
There was this one gentleman whom I encountered whom I was super-impressed by. He seemed like the most future-oriented person I have ever met... but then it became clear that everything in his mind was from the 90s. When I was a toddler.

I can do better than that. So please, future-oriented people of Hacker News, how do I become more future-oriented? Keep in mind I'm somewhat bad at technology.
The second order effects of affirmative action's repeal are going to be very entertaining. You can get a sneak peek by taking a look at the student body at a school like UT Austin where, by law, 75% of students must be in-state and automatically admitted according to class rank (GPA).
https://admissions.utexas.edu/explore/freshman-profile

You'll notice that when comparing Harvard and UT's student bodies to the US and Texas' demographics, respectively, Harvard's system was closer to the mark in terms of black and white representation.
https://college.harvard.edu/admissions/admissions-statistics

Most interesting is UT's 40/60 M/F gender ratio. Remember: that 40% of males is almost certainly being boosted by the 25% of admits UT has any real control over. Once AA is overturned, that's it—hands off the scale. I think half the population suddenly realizing they were beneficiaries of affirmative action this whole time—and subsequently understanding the nuances of discrimination in this country—will ultimately be a good thing.
Only thing that will help is serious prison sentences and the right to defend property with deadly force.

Many areas of the country there is no consequences.
I don't actually know anyone who bothers growing cannabis with their setups. I see it online, but mostly I see people who just like growing flowers, herbs, cucumbers, lettuce, etc.

At the industrial scale I know cannabis is a significant driver of light sales, but I suspect growing food is a huge driver as well.
We can use molecular dynamics to model how proteins fold and interact with different molecules and solvents. It’s very computationally expensive so it doesn’t scale to these huge datasets, but it’s not like we have no tools at all for understanding these processes
There was an LBO craze in the 80s, culminating (so the story goes) with the bidding war for RJR Nabisco - documented in Barbarians at the gate

They were unpopular with many, the idea was that a PE firm would buy the company with debt and then sell off parts and make other parts more efficient to service the debt. But underneath that was the idea that companies at the time were not using their assets efficiently, and it was possible to essentially use that efficiency to buy the company.

Tldr, I wonder if we're reaching that phase with big tech, where companies are sl inefficiency that they are ripe for the plucking by buying them off and cutting staff (the new versions of an asset) and streamlining operations.

Twitter is maybe an edge case, but it's plausible. I wouldn't be surprised to find that 90% of Google's recurring revenue comes from < 10% of their operations, and that an efficiency focused operator could capture most of their profit at a significantly lower headcount. Maybe this is the start of something
One thing I've done ever since the days of del.icio.us is look for the tags that have the fewest matches -- most often they were typos, synonyms, or singular/plural confusion.
Absolutely. The reason for this is that C++ has been around for a long time while maintaining backwards compatibility (to C too mostly). I know no language where it's as important to have excellent automated tooling that restricts usage of the language for your project. Thankfully tooling is pretty good nowadays but there is very little documentation on how to start if you don't have an expert on your team to help with that.
Blowing it up doesn’t work. Turns a cannonball into buck shot. Seeing it early is the ticket. A tiny thrust over a long period of time is the way to move things in space.
Do you mean 600 million in profit?

Twitter has done over a billion in revenue in each of the past several quarters
Pretend Stanford student lived in dorms for 10 months
There's a penalty for being stolen from though in those areas that do emissions testing, since you can't pass without a working converter, and the state won't replace it for you.
It's literally "going out of style".

Gotta get all the cat converters you can before all the cars are electric!
Owner-occupancy regulations are contributing to the housing crisis
>While I believe there is belief that Harvard is accepting C-students over asians A+ students I think the reality is much closer; they are rejecting students with perfect scores and accepting students who scored in the 98th percentile.

While I'm all for objective nd fair opportunity, I don't think the SAT is an example of this, so admitting people who didn't do as perfectly but still spectacularly on some test metric probably isn't a terrible idea. The question is what other weights they apply to the decision and how objectively fair or not those are.
It should be legal to run a straight-pipe if your cat gets stolen through no fault of your own. The economics incentives of the black market are there in the first place largely proximal to policy. As it stands .gov gets to light the candle from both ends, going after those failing emissions while also going after the cat thieves.

Edit: Love the helpful comments though telling poor people just to move out of the city if their cat gets stolen, as if moving is easy if you can't afford to replace a cat.
Possibly I guess, but from my perspective, as someone who reads a wide range of viewpoints, it appears that it's the central and left leaning papers that are the ones pushing the importance of race in America, not the conservative ones like the ones that murdoch owns. The perspective I get from his papers seems more of just generally disliking any black complaint about the society's treatment of them, with the implication that anything wrong with black people is their own fault.
What the DA said on the subject:

"Two days after being sworn in, Alvin Bragg shared a memo with staff Monday noting that his office will not prosecute low-level offenses like marijuana misdemeanors, refusal to pay for public transportation fare, prostitution and resisting arrest, unless given alongside a felony charge. Instead, they would be offered a community-based diversion program."

Does that sound unreasonable? When about 1 in 150 Americans are currently incarcerated?

The heavy use of the crude tool of locking people up as a solution for crime is a peculiarity of the American judicial approach, in contrast to other Western nations. Certainly there are crimes that warrant it, but possession of something that hasn't caused harm may not meet the bar for this approach, when you look at how counterproductive 'corrections' like this measurably are, and the larger history of its use as a tool of prejudice, poor police work, and the profit motive of privately owned prisons.

John Oliver recently put out an explanation of how bail reform is desperately needed in this country, if you're interested in learning that way. An alarming takeaway I had from it is that half a million Americans are currently in jail awaiting their case to be heard, unable to post bail. They are not convicted, only charged. Some non-zero number of them are innocent, their lives completely upended and in indefinite limbo.
It used to be that back when local cops cared about property crime this was standard operating procedure. When I was a kid if you etched a serial number into your bike frame and parts and registered it with the local PD you were practically assured you’d get your bike back when it inevitably showed up at a pawn shop or similar.
Well ... like I said, it was a long time ago (I don't know if Google had even made their first hundred billion, yet). I suffer from CRS. You know how us old "boomers" are...

Not interested in fighting about it. I'm sure that I'm wrong. Being right buys me absolutely nothing. It's not my wheelhouse.
In the style of Disney.
I wonder if the same amount of resources will be used to take down the Nationwide Bicycle Theft Ring as well.
On the flipside, it's unclear to me why the penniless should care what the best outcome is for "the public," as nebulous of a concept that is.
Is moderation a material part of Twitter's headcount? Like is that what 1000 people are doing?
A Pensiltuckian will be keenly aware of the fact, no matter where on the political spectrum they are. The distinction is really between traditional left/right and the "woke left", for want of any better term.
Wherever possible, honestly. I even bought an Ethernet adapter for my Nintendo Switch dock. (And tried to hardwire a HomePod, multiple times)
Nah the final version is chips with a massive data model and algorithmic magic embedded in silicon magic to bootstrap an environment that samples the data model to answer user questions.

A ways off, but some colleagues in the hardware world are working out the requirements on paper. Maybe right as I type this, not really tracking their calendar.

There will be some wiggle room for general programming, patches, hands on customization by the user.

Software is a decades long bubble to help us discover optimal machine state models we can etch into chips.

So long as we can avoid social collapse or species extinction between now than then anyway :)
I agree, I personally don't hear his sniffles when I'm listening to him intently. It's irrelevant. I was mostly curious if and how, generally speaking, a model could be trained to sniffle. Now that you describe it though it seems fairly clear, so thanks!
...an 8$/month social media expense is a matter that requires the president to decide?

That's bizarre.
It covers binaries all right, the way I understand this RH is very aggressively pursues this as a trademark violation (which it shouldn't be unless it's deployed to third party that can give the blame to RH).
Love raivo. Wish there was an automated backup solution though
I ... sort of got there. But then it rapidly escalated to extremely long and incoherent chains of hyphenated names with "money" and "$" and things all throughout.
I mean this:

"F-1 ENGINE FAMILIARIZATION TRAINING MANUAL" by Rocketdyne

https://www.pdf-archive.com/2016/10/21/rocketdyne-f1-engine-...

NASA Technical Reports Server - Telemetry (23103 documents)

https://ntrs.nasa.gov/search?q=telemetry

NASA Technical Reports Server - Turbo Pump (2800 documents)

https://ntrs.nasa.gov/search?q=turbo%20pump
Absolutely incorrect take. Also, irresponsible to spread this kind of nonsense when you are a public defender, and not remotely close to being a medical professional.
Having both a mother and father at home while growing up is one of the premier biological indicators of future success. Wealth helps, sure, but it's very easily lost if you grow up without perspective.
At this point any San Francisco company that requires its employees to come to the office is enabling NIMBYism.
Every adult in the modern world has a smartphone and buys a new one every 2.5 years.

The consumer market figured out a long time ago that spending a lot of money on some new tech product when the one you already have still works fine is a dumb idea. No-one buys a new PC every 3 years any more either.

I assume some people still get a new phone every couple of years because they're buying an overpriced deal from their network and it comes with a new phone each time they renew for another 24 months. Otherwise the networks wouldn't still push those plans as their default option.

I'm not sure anyone I know does that though. From random personal conversations most of my friends and family seem to either keep their existing phone and switch to a much cheaper SIM-only deal once they've paid off the original deal that had a bundled phone or they buy their own new phone separately and then take out a SIM-only plan immediately.
Rigidly defined development environments breed fragile systems. They are enticing, for often rapid onboarding of new developers. However, not having the churn of letting new people onboard their setup to the system loses on an anti fragile mechanism.

This is ignoring the removal of control from your developers. Autonomy of tool choice is an amazing boon to job satisfaction.

Which is not to say that a cloud environment should not be used. Just don't homogenize the setup.
Compiler engineers will be far more familiar with Rust, C++, C and other similar languages than with JS, so it doesn't really matter whether TS and JS are similar as long as compiler engineers can use their preferred language to build the compiler.
Forgive my ignorance, but all of these forks are also still open source? My impression was that patches and improvements were made in closed source, private repositories to the benefit of the companies without paying anything back.

Otherwise, couldn't some openssl contributors just crib fixes from the forks?
I lived in Chicago recently and it was pretty common there, with fat heat pipes running through several apartments channeling heat from some central distribution system.
Ask HN: Is anybody can show my project on Web Summit 2022?
Due gov limitations I can't leave border of Ukraine because mens can't leave Ukraine. Investors also don't want to come in Ukraine due war and russian aggression.

Is anybody have modern iPad to help our indie team present our mobile project on Web Summit 2022? Thanks
I recently ordered a magnetic usb-c adaptor and the box turned up empty.

I left a review warning others this was a possibility, but Amazon removed it since it was critique of a seller rather than the product.

It’s impossible to tell if you’ll get a genuine product if Amazon censors reviews critiquing sellers sending the wrong product or no product at all.
Yes, it is exactly like that. The objection is a number of people and organisations are talking as if they had solved the recognition problem. The parent commemt was remarking they want to see how a protein folds - it's unlikely that AlphaFold will ever reveal that.
Blip: A tool for seeing your internet latency
This is just terrible. I've trusted ProtonMail for a long while, but my trust in their openness and decision-making has kept eroding for the last several years, and now it's gone. There are now possibly no good options that I can pay for "set it and forget it" open source webmail.
I mean you can buy - and I wish I was kidding - armor for your car to prevent the theft: https://search.brave.com/search?q=catalytic+converter+guard
You wouldn't do something so extreme, but if you were trying to improve the Gini you might adopt measures that seemed to "succeed" but were actually reducing everyone's wealth.
How do we get from catalytic converters to the right to murder so quickly?
Ah, a consultant. Not someone that actually builds systems, but makes money convincing people how they should build systems.
Right. And with the current scale of infrastructure that's used, financing models, market incentives, and cost of fuel, the current density required mostly only occurs in the downtown core of cities, or in industrial parks near a power station (where the waste heat from power generation can be used to heat industrial processes like refining petroleum or cook paper pulp - sometimes this is called "co-generation"). But that's not to say it's a bad idea! You would just need to move the needle on any of those things in the list - for example, making denser homes around a lower cost heat source like a ground sources heat pump powered by solar.
No government operatives have permissions of any kind on HN. We don't know any government operatives nor have we ever heard from any*. I assume HN is much too small a fish for them to fry. You're overestimating HN's real-world impact by a long shot (but underestimating page views btw! it's more like 8M hits a day - maybe 10M if you include the API).

Plenty of posts on HN are critical of megacorps, government, status quos, and/or media narratives. You might be closer to the mark with your phrase "sowing resentment", though—that sounds like ideological battle, flamewar, and other low-quality internet noise, and those are indeed things we don't want here. Not because we're trying to preserve status quos—we aren't—but because we're trying to run a forum for curious conversation, and resentful rallying poisons that utterly.

* other than from law enforcement on rare occasions - maybe once every 2-3 years, if that - in connection with some investigation or other. Never anything political or ideological though.
Also, one of the themes of the book is how different the outcomes are for Nell, who had a real narrator, and the children who had an artificial narrator. (Although the content was AI-generated in both cases.)

But I agree, it’s a great book. One of my favorites.
No one can comment on the mere idea of violence based on lies without having picked a side and defending a specific political agenda now?

To my knowledge it was never the Republican Party's position is that pizzeria was a pedophile ring was it? What should being of a particular political party have to do with it, that event was based on 100% confirmed fake news. There are no conservative or liberal policies seem involved in that story at all?
What incentives do you mean? Catalytic converters protect all of us from harmful compounds in exhaust, and I don't see why to fight thieves we need to breathe bad air.
The person you’re replying to indicates the choice is a tradeoff. The negative effects of daylight savings are just one part of that tradeoff. Kids going to school in daylight is another part. Most parents I know wants their kids to go to school in daylight in the morning, if only to help wake them up.
No the SteamVR tracking system used by Valve Index, HTC Vive, Pimax and some headsets with extra tracking-plates use IR photo-diodes:

https://triadsemi.com/product/ts4112/

VR users that want full body tracking usually go with outside-in tracking, with tracking devices strapped to their bodies. It is expensive, but the accuracy is very good.
What was the editorialized title?
> Google and Facebook are not really in the same businesses as ... Apple.

Not for long, Apple is getting into the ads game as well, and much more strenuously than until now.
There is also development on social features like topics, the algorithm, spam filters, Ad management and much more.

So its not really a fair comparison.
I agree. I feel like I now have issues with all well-known providers. Have you found any paid webmail provider that you can trust?
TFA links to a detailed explanation of why they can't afford to do that. They even address the issue of Twitter and Reddit getting a free pass not available to others.
> 4 is as you say purely opinion

I mean sort of opinion, it’s a pretty solid fact that there is less TO read, maybe you can argue that doesn’t make it more readable.

Go

package main
import "fmt"
func main() {
fmt.Println("Hello, World")
}

Python

print(“Hello World”)

Seems like a no brainer to know which one would be easier and faster to develop sysadmin scripts in from the above alone.
Well, I hope you’re right about this, but if experience is any guide, I bet that new obstacles will be invented, and in a decade you will still believe that the building boom is just around the corner.
Mosh is great!

I hope one day we can get mosh-like port-forwarding.
What's wrong with makeup?
Doesn't California have TWO public university systems doing this? University of California and California State University?
> but can also see its appeal for someone that's not as confident over the minutia

It's not confidence, I just don't care. I don't want to learn the minutia of C++. Rust is the thing that has got me interested in lower level programming.
I'm sure there's a quote about their logic - something to do with making it long and annoying to really make you think twice about it.
And recently NG price dropped negative in Europe.

Just a month ago people here were carrying on about how dumb it was for Germany to have shut down a few nukes, and how they were all going to freeze in the dark.

One may reasonably doubt they will announce how ashamed they are of having been so tendentiously wrong, or that they will be any more careful in the future.
As far as I know, all of the major ones are. I don't believe anybody has attempted to make a closed fork of OpenSSL, at least not one that has gained any real traction.

> Otherwise, couldn't some openssl contributors just crib fixes from the forks?

They do! But I assume it gets balanced with their own feature development time, and it becomes harder as the codebases drift. OpenSSL probably hasn't done itself many favors with the recent (3.x) "providers" refactor.
I use this extension (works on Chrome and Firefox, maybe Safari too) to bypass paywalls, works great.

https://gitlab.com/magnolia1234/bypass-paywalls-chrome-clean
I think people generally care about the public interest because of their shared humanity. People generally identify with their society and want to see it prosper.

They should also care that their society remains well structured because it increases the probability that their own situation improves over the course of their life, and that their children/grandkids will be wealthy.

They gain nothing from believing in the false promises of demagogues, except the ephemeral contentment of false hope.