skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Search for surge protector. Power line filters are really transient blocking / low pass filters.

Not sure how it applies in this context. You could plug both power line adaptors into the same surge protected extension but to what end?
Depending on industry and professions there are acceptable and unacceptable turn over rates. Fast food, you expect at least 50% a year. Banking (not that I know) 10% would be considered the top acceptable.

In the end you need to know what it is verses the industry you are talking about.
> but the fact it’s not far more pervasive in our every day

The joke I heard was that AI only refers to technology in the future, and not the past. We use plenty of machine learning models every day:

- Every time you use dictation

- Every time you use biometrics, like face scanning, to unlock your phone

- Every time you use any sort of search engine, news feed, or see an ad

- It is an integral part of the field of computer vision now, so anything to do with scanning documents, using AR, taking photos, etc uses AI

It’s only getting better and more integral to more fields over time.
> Notice that they don't care about diversity of viewpoints or politics

Ever talked to someone from Harvard? (they'll usually tell you in the first 4 minutes you meet them telling you they went to school in Boston). They admit quite a number of conservative people if that's what you're worried about, and even their more left people are pretty center-right, as in they really don't want to pay more taxes.

> they could always expand the size of their enrollment

Really the feds could (and imo should) force them to do so, given a ton of their money come from federal grants. It's always been insane to me that private schools can receive 50k+ per grad student from my taxes, knowing that most people will never get in. Also insane how the elite UCs for example educates more people than the entire ivy league combined.
> We should do what pilots have to do: start with simulators, then move to copilot, then primary pilot with an experienced copilot, then finally primary with inexperienced copilot. T

And this is EXACLY what they do, using cadavers, schooling, and internships. Their work on cadavers is graded, much like most of what they do. This goes back full circle, grades do have an input into the quality of a surgeon. It may not be the "best" or "only" indicator but it shouldnt be outright discounted.

People with high GPA's work hard to get them and have a high level of understanding of the topics at hand.

My ex is excellent in math and always scored very high on tests, but she is not very practical.

If i a math problem i'd have full confidence her answer was correct. If i asked her some non-math questions my trust would be adjusted.
Yes, second chance pool. It's available on archive.org here: https://web.archive.org/web/20221030180939/https://destevez....
It must take a certain level of arrogance to believe that the most famous and widely referenced text in all of human history is a waste of time to a mind like yours.

I'm agnostic as well, but I think it's an ignorant position to take to pretend that the Bible hasn't had an enormous influence in the continued story of humanity.
* FCA Jeep, or Chrysler Jeep if you must.
Collisions? Large enough collisions eject large amounts of rocks into space. A good fraction of rocks ejected from earth would have some viable single cell life inside it, all you need are some cavities in them that don’t reach insane temperatures during this process, which is very possible for big enough rocks.

Remember that while you deal with insane numbers on the space side, viz. it’s emptiness, the number of planets etc., you’re meeting an insane adversary with biology as well. The number of cells in a single piece of sand in this planet is insane. The number of particles we might eject if there’s a catastrophic event from earth is insane. Anyone who worked on biology would know how hard it is to keep things truly sterile. I’m just extending it to outside space as well.

As for the conditions being too specific, while it’s true, I don’t see many outrageous combinations you can commonly observe in planets in the galaxy so I’m not sure if that’s a big deal breaker.
> All existentialists need to give ol' Darwin a read. The only truth is survival.

You're saying that all existentialists should just be nihilists.

All nihilists need to give the ol' The Myth of Sisyphus a read. Actually read it, not some excerpt summarizing the arguments on Wikipedia.
Any estimate of how soon life could appear after the big bang?
Doing it this way will devolve into Goodhart's law where target metrics are no longer predictive of safety. Better to test the safety itself than design guidelines to skirt around.
does that mean everyone who got fired for refusing to take experimental medical treatments gets their jobs back?
I made the same switch a couple years ago
don't forget legacy and donor admission too
While I agree the headline is poor and could be better (your alternative is better) this was made at the request of Tesla and sold on teslamotors.com, it's not disingenuous to call it Tesla's.
Highly doubt this, but I am no expert. A human is just very flexible and the rovers up there look super complicated while only been capable of very simple tasks. A lot of scientific progress happened because somebody took a risk, not in the name of adventurism, but in the name of science.
The one with more As. Standardized tests are actually one of the most fair ways to evaluate two candidates. y = mx + b regardless of your skin color or family wealth. Is it perfect? no; is it more fair than the alternatives? I think so
We need speed governors on cars even more badly. They go way too fast and kill by far the largest share of people by any transportation method.
One difference I recall is you had to read manuals first. Now, you just code, and when you get stuck: google or stack overflow. But with no good search engines, you couldn't search books like that, so your chance of finding an answer by searching was poor. You wanted to have read the book first, so it was in your head.

Also: way fewer libraries. You might write ALL of an application. You might call the OS to just to read/write files. Today is much more gluing together libraries, which is nowhere near as much fun.
> As it stands, most of this as of the posting time stamp amounts to nothing more than “I don’t like Geohotz.” (This is a running theme with Hotz that’s at least a decade old).

Well… duh? This is sort of a defining part of his personality. Of course it’s going to be brought up every time he comes up.

It’s just like nobody is going to discuss Terry A. Davis and only speak of his work on TempleOS.

> someone who is, by all standards, very successful in their field,

What field is that? Not self-driving cars, anyway.
I would say ports are mainly a problem on layers below transport even though some tech overuse ports.
Post author here. We are of course using paid dynos for any business applications. Free tier only makes sense for hobby projects and quick experiments. There's no free lunch in the long run.
It’s related. The US had 200M people in 1970. 330M in 2020. If the number of jobs is about the same, you’re shrinking.

You can explain some of that through productivity improvements, but imo the bill was just outsourced away. The fact that we cannot build iPhones anywhere but in a specific region of China tells the story.

It’s an incredible achievement - globally the industrialization of China dramatically improved the lot of a billion plus people. But that wasn’t free.
I thought they did, but they did have an ad with some screenshots in it, so I changed the link to that.
The Fantasy of Instant Delivery Is Imploding
> trained on publicly available code

Fully respecting the licenses this code was published under, one would hope?
It strikes me as naive to think it would ever work otherwise. Justices are political appointees and political actors. I see no reason to expect anything different. Believing they are somehow "above politics" strikes me as similarly fanciful to believing in the divine right of kings.
The real question is legacy admissions.
Well, not everyone lives in San Francisco, and no one wants to take an Uber literally everywhere. So, like most people, I want to own my self-driving car.

And I personally don't think the industry is mature enough to accept the realities and limitations of the technology we work with to just say, "Hey, actually, we can let attentive drivers basically be hands-free for 80+% of their drives."

And to me, that would be great.
It's usually a safe assumption.
As a parent you are responsible for the toys your children play with full stop. Relying on someone else to care as much as you do will not work out.
If you're anything like me, given enough time you wonder if all the 'fluff' of OO is necessary as you seem to be writing code to satisfy the programming style rather than the domain problem. You'll then try FP and find it has its own pitfalls - especially around how complex the code can get if you have a load of smart Haskell engineers - and suddenly they have the same problems ('fluff'). Apparently at some point I'll have a similar move to Lisp and discover how complex the code base can be with multiple engineers (I'm 8 or 9 years into this engineering journey myself!).

My current goal with software is to write this as simply as possible that a junior developer with 6 months experience could read my code and know how to modify it.
Death is only a really important problem for individuals, and only their own death at that. The fact that we exist today as sentient creatures able to contemplate their own mortality is entirely due to the fact that those who came before us died.
Yeah, but the Supreme Court isn't trying to help Harvard accomplish its goals. It's trying to determine the legal principles to resolve an issue. Whether that helps or hurts Harvard shouldn't be a concern.
Today you can use the internet to patch a bug on a users computer, and the users expect this, and even allow you to patch bugs automatically.

Previously, patching bugs meant paying money for physical media and postage.
I mean, this is how new features come about, for the most part (look at ajax, from Microsoft's IE dominance). The consortium allows anyone to contribute, not just the dominate browser, but the dominate browser will always be able to experiment with new web features without having to discuss it with anyone.
Thank you for this.

Are news outlets not allowed to include links to actual source material or something? Why is it that I almost always find these links in HN comments rather than the article itself? It's really annoying and I genuinely don't understand why this is so common, just like not linking to the actual studies for "science" news. To me it just seems sneaky, like if the article is correct, why not link the source so I can verify that myself? I know most people won't do that, but it feels like including the source when once exists and is already publicly available should be a hard requirement for any piece of journalism.
> if you mean poor, say poor

I literally said "poor" in my example in the second paragraph.

Also, "socio-economic status" is a spectrum between poor and wealthy, including all of them. Just like "race" includes all races. We don't call it "non-white-and-asian-based affirmative action", so i dont see why you have an issue with me not calling it "poor-based affirmative action". It is a sliding scale, with all groups within it having different weights attached. So calling it "poor-based affirmative action" makes zero sense to me.

The weight is decided based on the socio-economic status, hence why we refer to it this way.
Compare say, Berkeley to Stanford, and you'll see why this could work.
speaking of Ultima www.uooutlands.com/

Been playing this recently. It is Ultima Online but with all the right choices rather than all the wrong choices post 1999 the development studio made. Anyone who enjoys Online RPGs should certainly give it a try. The graphics don't do the game justice at all but the quality of the game makes up for this and then some.
And perhaps a team to make innovations in the knowledge domain. Another comment mentioned wikidata, which is an interesting project to organize knowledge in a relational database. I would love to see the federated version where you can reference concepts in remote graphs, but the development is very slow. I wish they would prioritize such kind of projects
The department of labor does. Even here in Idaho it's amazing how excited the legal team gets when sent a letter of inquiry from the DoL. I imagine they have more teeth in CA.
> The internet was mostly irrelevant to the line of work I was involved in although it was starting to have impact. We had one ISDN 2x line for the entire office. It was set up to open on demand and time out a few minutes later as it was billed by the minute.

Early gig I had in 97 was working on building an internal corp intranet for a prototyping shop. There were around 50-60 folks there - probably 20 "upstairs" - doing the office/business work. I was upstairs. I was instructed to build this in Front Page. Didn't want to (was already doing some decent PHP on the side) but... hey... the IT guy knew best.

Asked for some books on FP. Nope - denied. So I spent time surfing through a lot of MS docs (they had a moderate amount online docs for FP, seemingly) and a lot of newsgroups. I was pulled aside after a while saying I was using too much bandwidth. The entire building had - as you had - a double ISDN line - a whopping 128k shared between 20+ people. I was using 'too much' and this was deemed 'wrong'. I pointed out that they decided on the tool, which wasn't a great fit for the task, and then refused to provide any support (books/etc). I left soon after. They were looking for a way to get me out - I think they realized an intranet wasn't really something they could pull off (certainly not in FP) but didn't want to 'fire' me specifically, as that wasn't a good look. Was there all of... 3 months IIRC. Felt like an eternity.

Working in software in the 90s - a bookstore with good tech books became invaluable, as well as newsgroups. No google, no stackoverflow, often very slow internet, or... none sometimes.
Vercel already ate Remix’s lunch.
The term "socioeconomic" is really malleable, when in actuality you probably meant "low income" or "poor". This might be a better measure, but can be gamed also as you point out. This however doesn't necessarily mean the measure is bad.
Maybe that's just what well-thought-out landing pages look like?
Though good agile development/product design also spends a lot of time up front determining what is most valuable to do next.
I don't think that's the point.

This court has been shredding the rule of law in this country for the last year, and is systematically replacing our democracy with fascism.

Their ruling is definitely going to be more damaging to minorities than anything I can come up with.

Hell, they banned abortion by eliminating the right to privacy in the US.

They were even complete assholes about it. Despite being minority (and arguably illegally, in some cases) appointed, they blame the (underage) women their rulings victimize for not voting enough.

The text of the ruling explicitly states that no ruling the court makes could be sexist or victimize women, since women are allowed to vote.

I fully expect this ruling to use similar logic to blow an equally large hole in our constitutional rights.
A good article.

> This level of investment simply isn’t viable for a company like Snap or Twitter or any of the other also-rans in digital advertising (even beyond the fact that Snap relies on cloud providers instead of its own data centers)

Let's change the industry to autos: "Funbag Autos has a massive investment in aluminum companies. This level of investment simply isn’t viable for a company like Tesla ... (even beyond the fact that Tesla relies on outside aluminum companies instead of its own"

In other words: "vertical integration is good." It can also weigh you down and keep you from advancing your technology.

As for Metaverse: he admits it's a loser, but maybe not that terrible in the grand scheme of things.
Yes, ours had that. There was a door on the top that concealed four GameCube controller ports and two memory slots. We never had a GameCube but I ended up buying some controllers and GC games to play on the Wii.
As someone that lives in Atlanta, this is one of those things that is so obviously not true that it's not worth spending the time to point out the flaws in the study.
> First one doesn't really make much sense. There are so many intelligent lifeforms on earth ... that the leap to exponential tool use doesn't seem like something that would take anything close to 100B years, let alone trillions of years.

I don't quite understand your logic here? The big barrier(s) doesn't seem to be tool use, but rather 1) the formation of life itself, and then 2) the move from single-celled organisms to multicellular organisms (this took 2 billion years on earth, so is clearly a very difficult step).
>[Citation needed]

Here you go, from Wikipedia founder Larry Sanger:

>Wikipedia Is Badly Biased

https://larrysanger.org/2020/05/wikipedia-is-badly-biased/
Who said anything about race? If you can afford Choate, you can afford $250k/year at Harvard. But the kid from Biloxi, MS gets a "scholarship" so she only pays $25k/yr.
Even if this was settled, I consider this quote when thinking about Amjad Masad (Replit CEO).

> When someone shows you who they are, believe them the first time.

- Maya Angelou
Human Interface Device Firewall Feasibility (Against the BadUSB Attack) [pdf]
Or companies might just roll the dice. If it doesn't kill anyone, you've made a lot of money. If it kills everyone that touches it, you're shutting down the company (and start a new one).
A species which has mastered inter-stellar travel and tractor beams (/s) probably has some higher control over their own biology and sanitation practices.
Yes indeed could be Dunning Kruger effect.
This Grabby Aliens hypothesis assumes civilizations remain constantly driven by raw, innate impulses.
I think Wikipedia funding lawyers to defend fair use interpretations of copyright is actually a very useful function to support the encyclopedia. I know it sounds stupid, but there are a lot of lawyers out there looking to make a buck off a stupid lawsuit, and copyrights on the internet are a pretty wide open field for this kind of nonsense. In order to defend things like fair use that should be obvious someone needs to pay the legal bills.
This is a lot of what the EFF does and it generally strikes me as a rather important force in the context of American Civil Rights law.
This is pretty easy to bypass by looking at parents' tax returns from the past 20 years, plus their assets.
Race is easy to game too, in fact far easier. I know people who were around 5% Hispanic who would then write
Hispanic on college applications. They're technically not lying.

There's also just plenty of people that just straight up lie about their race on college applications. It's not like its being verified at all.

I went to high school with a lot of White - Asian mixed kids. None of them wrote Asian on their college applications. I also knew a lot of Indians (like me) who'd select Other in order to avoid being denied opportunities due to being Asian.
Yes, I was sarcastically thanking you for linking to Wikipedia, a practice that people do out of spite and condescension.

“Meta” is such a signal for armchair pseudo-technicality in the blogosphere. So no, I won’t just read Wikipedia because I don’t trust that some random, unprompted bullet list will adhere to standard references; they could just as well be referring to whatever term they invented on their blog about 200 blog entries ago.

What makes matters worse is that the apparent meaning here is “thoughts about thoughts”. Which is useless considering that thoughts often follow each other in a train of associations (train of thought). So what then distinguishes thoughts from metathoughts? They’re all associated with other thoughts.
For folks who fantasize about driving long-haul diesel trucks, I suspect.
I look at this through the lens of the San Francisco public schools. When I went to the magnet high school there, Lowell, they had explicit race based standards. We all got scores out of 70 based on our standardized tests and middle school grades. The differences were pretty stark.

Chinese kids needed a 68, which could mean they got just one B. White kids needed a 62, black and latino even lower. So I totally get why Chinese families were screaming. The standards for them were way higher than for other races.

But also just as jarring, the middle schools that fed this system were incredibly biased. My middle school, Hoover, had a segregation system that split the school in half. The honors half had at most one black kid per grade. We even had a different lunch period.

The honors half was being groomed for schools like Lowell or at least to look at High School as an on ramp to college.

It's not like we didn't have a lot of black students. We actually bussed in two, maybe four busloads of black kids from another neighborhood. But only one of those was ever admitted to honors. I just can't believe that there were no kids on those busses that were smart. I knew a lot of them through sports and they were plenty smart, together, hard working.

If this level of segregation can happen in San Francisco, I can't imagine how bad it is in the rest of the country.

It's complicated, and you can have your own takeaway, but mine is that merit often defined wrong. I'm on the lookout for people who did more with less, or even did equal or near to it with less. To me, that is more a measure of merit than top line measures like test scores.
I'm curious why you decided to migrate from Vue to React.
At least in California, I don’t think there has been enough time to really know. It was a recent change iirc.
You're missing the point that maybe, just maybe, I'm part of a team that looks after >5 million servers.

You might also divine that while TCP can be a problem, a bigger problem is data affinity. Shuttling data from a next door rack costs less than one that's in the next door hall, and significantly less than the datacentre over. With each internal hop, the risk of congestion increases.

You might also divine that changing everything from TCP to a new, untested protocol across all services, with all that associated engineering effort, plus translation latency, might not be worth it. Especially as now all your observability and protocol routing tools don't work.

quick maths: a faster top of rack switch is possibly the same cost as 5 days engineering wage for a mid level google employee. How many new switches do you think you could buy with the engineering effort required to port everything to the new protocol, and have it stable and observable?

As a side note "oh but they are google" is not a selling point. Google has google problems half of which are things related to their performance/promotion system which penalises incremental changes in favour of $NEW_THING. HTTP2.0 was also a largely google effort designed to tackle latency over lossy network connections. which it fundamentally didn't do because a whole bunch of people didn't understand how TCP worked and were shocked to find out that mobile performance was shit.
You're asking for this forum to be based on appeals to authority as opposed to voting, which usually doesn't go down well, and I also disagree would be better - stuff with merit usually gets voted up, just give it time.
I quiet quite Facebook about a year ago. This wasn't intentional or purposeful, the platform was just no longer serving content that I found interesting.

My browers is still logged in though and I see ads by Facebook while browsing other sites. Am I still considered a DAU? If so, is Facebook the new DoubleClick?