skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> If you ban legacy, then you lose needed donations. If you lose donations, then costs go up for everyone else.

Or the universities could spend a bit less money. Most donations go to things that aren't exactly central to the supposed mission of a university, like football fields or $90 million dining halls [1]. The explosion of administrative staff over the last couple decades also doesn't help.

[1] https://www.bizjournals.com/triangle/blog/real-estate/2016/0...
Regarding the existence of the soul:

Hey, everybody, everybody

Gonna have a good time tonight

Just shaking the soles of your feet

Everybody, everybody

Gonna have a good time tonight

That's the only soul you'll ever meet
- Queen, Fun It

https://www.azlyrics.com/lyrics/queen/funit.html
It terrifies me to have a patent on the only crop that can grow in a country.

Food is a necessity

What happens if the seller decides to quadruple the price overnight ? (à la OPEC but for crops)

If some country does 'sanctions' ? (like Russia or the USA when they can't just declare a war to a place)

or if the economy collapses and imports are expensive ? (imagine Venezuela, but the country is also not able to buy crops that work)

these crops sellers will own the Kenyans.

I wouldn't buy the crops if patents were enforced.

it feels like some SF novel (or the Washington Consensus, yet again)

Back in the days, China forced foreign companies to work with domestic companies to sell in China. And at least, they are independent on some technologies now.
I did a two week backpacking/rock climbing trip in Wyoming years ago, and we camped at an area just a bit below the snowline. The water there was completely clear and far enough upstream that we didn't bother using iodine.

It was the most amazing, refreshing, delicious water ever. While there was almost definitely a psychological component to the initial taste (we were used to iodine flavor, were tired after about 3 days of hiking, and the area was beautiful/it looked like something out of a commercial for mountain water), we were there long enough and it continued to taste good enough that I'm positive there was something else going on. I think it had something to do with the rocks, a light amount of healthy bacteria(?) and it being fresh snowmelt.

I'm in no way advocating for shipping water across the planet, and I don't think you can bottle that up or recreate whatever was going on there at scale, but there's definitely a legitimate, big range of difference in water quality. I'd bet good money most double blind taste testers could easily distinguish between legitimately fresh cold mountain water and refrigerated water that's been sitting in an aquifer and then a plastic bottle for a while, even if you matched the salt content. But you'd have to go up a mountain to do that test properly. I think it has to be like right out of the stream to make the biggest difference.
What if you fake the user agent?
Hong Kong imported the vaccines. The city was international enough that using a foreign (non-Chinese) vaccine wasn't a political statement that the Chinese vaccine wasn't as effective. The political calculus is different for China generally.
I don't know about small, but the store I usually shop at is owner-operated (though part of a owner-coop in Germany), but they don't do it.

I get the point of shoplifting watchers not caring about queues, but am I just naive that this should be easy enough to solve with tech? You have lots of images from multiple directions, you know how the store looks empty, you can probably do a decent-enough image discovery to find out roughly where people are. If there are 15 people in front of the checkout, ring a small bell somewhere and have a person check whether it's time to open another checkout.

I can shop, scan the products while I walk through the shop with my phone, pay with the app and open a gate to bet let out with my purchased goods, but the computer can't use the camera signal to figure out how where people are?
It's not a controversial opinion as much as it is incongruent.

> IMO It's better to adopt Chromium-based browsers and put pressure on Google to avoid letting it become the sole decision-maker about the web.

But by using chromium/blink-based browsers, you have already taken the pressure off Google. You have already given them what they want, so you've forfeited your hand.

For anyone out there who values the swiftly fading open-ness of the Internet, Firefox or other smaller FLOSS browsers are the right tools of choice.
The SM57 and the SM58 are essentially the same thing, except for the 58 foam screen that makes it more suitable for miking singers, while the 57 is more suitable for instruments. They both are rock solid pieces of gear that won't disappoint, and when more sensitivity is needed, an external preamp such as a Triton Audio, Klark Teknik or a similar one will quietly provide more gain without the need for a more expensive mic.
If you want to purchase one of the above mics, beware of the numerous fakes around, and buy only from reputable vendors.
What if root servers just take it down? Retract the domain registration, etc.
I agree, in first world countries. I'm not sure this is as true in the developing world.
Ok, maybe it's not actually that different in the normal case!
40% for meritocratic entrance is more than twice what is at elite schools in the US. Maybe ambitious Americans should move to India for a fairer chance.

At most US elite schools, less than 20 percent is for “non-reserved” seats. Elite schools reserve seats for sports teams (affirmative action for rich white elites with “sports” like fencing and rowing), legacies (affirmative action for rich white elites), related to professors and school administrators (affirmative action for rich white elites), those who write essays on poverty tourism and their work experience in the NGO/white savior/charity scams (rich white elites), and then regular affirmative action (capped at 20%].

So it is a brilliant way to use regular affirmative action for Blacks as a weapon to ensure that rich white elites always win and do not compete with the “deplorable” poorer whites, the Asians and immigrants.
All languages are easier that way, though? My kids learning python are best with a ton of hand holding. Affordances that show the structure are huge.
Cameras film, people watch. They're not willing to pay more cashiers, they're certainly not willing to pay a bunch of people to stare at cameras all day. Instead it's zero, one or two people. They have enough on their plate just virtually following visually suspicious people through the store.

edit: I include zero because a lot of it is seeing that a "suspicious type" has entered the store, and running to the back room to watch their every move until they leave.
You just described a cage where you gave up everything worthwhile and enjoyable in life so you can sit untouched in a cage while I run around and enjoy as much as I can.

Why would we agree with your view?

It's possible to have your own free will, knowledge, logic, relationships, privacy, time and maps... feelings, emotions and truth without being physically harrased in the same social agreement.

Not total access to all those concepts, but more than enough.
Yeah exactly. Being able to score well on some standardized test is way easier than being able to keep up performance year round when you have problems at home if you have the aptitude to succeed at either.

GPA is also much more subject to getting penalized because a teacher straight up hates you for being poor, disabled, male (this one is measurable by having teachers grade tests with different names), ugly, smelly, other thing K-12 teachers tend to dock you for even though on paper they shouldn’t.

Many extracurriculars are also expensive and poor kids don’t get to do a lot of them or excel at them to the same degree.
30% of subscription revenue to external non-profit organisations
Hi,
I’m debating whether to take a new technology down the non-profit or for-profit path. It’s great that YC accelerator supports both. A successful for-profit business gains some advantages for raising capital in the longer term.

1. Does YC allow a for-profit business which intends to permanently donate 30% of subscription revenue to external non-profit organisations? Paul Graham’s ’08 article (see link) implies great YC support for good.

2. Are there any YC for-profit companies that have done something similar?

3. Please what are your thoughts about the feasibility of raising VC in a business that intends to donate 30% subscription revenue to other non-profits?

4. Which VC firms are better known for benevolence?

5. Do these VC firms attend YC demo day?

Thank you
Your first link explains that when you’re a UK farmer and you save seeds, you must pay the government some kind of tax for the privilege. Oh, and also you cannot give or sell other people the seeds you saved.

Your second link is some kind of NGO the whole agenda of which is to promote seed savings. Hardly an objective source to learn the attitudes to seed saving of Kenyan farmers.
...maybe not that tart, though.

In fairness, I keep the stuff around mainly for cocktails, but if Kingsley Amis is any example, having one of those every morning will certainly cause me many more problems than it's at all likely to solve.
Digital Humanism for Life in the Cloud
how exactly do you plan to put pressure on Google
I get where you're coming from, but I don't believe overloading a data exchange format with too many dimensions of meaning is sensible. In XML, you can use tags, sequences of tags, tag attributes, and children tags; there are a multitude of ways to express the same thing. Following your approach, we could also count the number of spaces tags are indented with as an additional dimension: It's entirely possible to write XML this way and infer meaning from it, it's just not specified right now. I doubt you'd follow along with that.

Let's look at the concrete reality we're dealing with: XML usage has declined, JSON (maybe supported by JSON schema) is ubiquitous. I'd be inclined to say the pendulum has swung a little too far in terms of simplicity - but overall, it's very clear why XML failed, and too few dimensions of meaning is definitely none of the reasons.
My sympathy depends on context. In the society I live in, my sympathy would be very limited, as there is a social security system so these people will not go homeless or starve (though the experience will still be painful to them).

In a society where there's no such system, I don't blame them at all. If someone is coming for the roof over your head and the sandwich you eat, it doesn't matter if they're doing it legally or illegally. You can't begrudge someone defending their own existence.
BBT works with paid data subscriptions of various kinds. There is a location for the various keys for access.
I think it's just a question of how the popular parlance evolves. Band-aids aren't just made by the one company anymore, earlier I "googled" something using duck duck go, and when I get sick I usually buy generic kleenex at the store.

I'll buy the store brands of colby cheese and muenster cheese, but "New Jersey Blueberries" are still a niche NJ product.
Why is a loyalty card a non-starter?
There was a psychiatrist in my town who specialized in prescribing stimulants and benzodiazepines to hippies. One of his patients would get a scaled-up pill bottle the size of a small trash can full of Dexedrine every month, another got 3x a dose of Klonopin that would turn me into zombie. Frequently his "patients" would use only a portion of their medication and sell the rest for (often badly needed) income.

I almost dropped the dime on him because one of his patients was a severely disturbed friend of mine who did not have a proper diagnosis (I'd conjecture today she had schizoaffective disorder) and I think would have benefited from a change in medication -- but we never found out because she took her own life. I'm pretty sure somebody else dropped the dime on him.
Uh, yeah it is just about the origin. You could fly in all the ingredients used in the Champagne region to an exact replica of a Champagne winery in the same climatic zone manned entirely by French immigrants who formerly worked in an actual Champagne winery, and wouldn't be allowed to call it Champagne.

One of Europe's prime exports is its "culture". People pay a lot of money to vacation in various European locales to taste "authentic" whatever where it was originally produced, even if they couldn't tell the difference between it and something made down the road in an Illinois industrial park. Without location-based brand enforcement those locations would lose a big income stream, never mind the "authentic" mark-up they get on their exported products.

As for cheddar, you can buy fancy imported cheddar at Walmart, never mind Whole Foods and the other upmarket chains that will have entire dedicated sections to fancy cheeses imported from all over the world. The reason it got the reputation you describe is simply cost. Same reason Folgers and Maxwell House are still on the shelves despite the insane variety of better coffee available these days.
EUR is all but finished. Chinese RMB is also set for significant depreciation as a direct result of international trade/manufacturing “rebalance” away from everything-made-in-China model. Only thing remaining is USD.
Oops, sorry. I was using the Office 365 Teams (teams.microsoft.com), which runs ok on FF. I can confirm the Teams for the personal account (https://teams.live.com/_#/unsupportedBrowser) is not supported in FF.
Works for me on Kubuntu 22.04. Note that the link above directly goes to the error page.
I’m not sure what you are implying. This is not a problem you’d notice if you use this pattern yourself, but something that makes code harder to read for people that don’t.
That's what I was thinking too. I have to keep Chrome installed on my Linux machine exclusively to use Teams for voice and video calls, since calls have never been possible in Firefox and the Linux desktop client is so buggy.
Developers accuse Binance of stealing their hackathon idea
Japan's first e-Sports high school
Elite institutions like MIT, Yale, Stanford, Princeton and Harvard do not need more donations.

Look at the worth of theirs endowment funds at the end of 2021 :

Harvard 53G$
Yale 42G$
Stanford 37.8G$
Princeton 37G$
MIT 27.4G$

Can you honestly tell me that they need more donations ?
More likely if they did Apple would just stop selling iPhone in the EU. So what do you want a device you can own or the option to own a device you can't?
Correct. It's pretty amazing when it works. I used to try and speedrun the Go store and see how fast it worked. My fastest visit was 9 seconds, receipt was 100% accurate.
https://archive.ph/UsoGA
That hasn't been true in a very long time. A walk through any major airport shows otherwise. The Best Buy Express vending machine is 10 years old at this point and that is just one of many brands now that have similar offerings. See:

https://blog.bestbuy.ca/tv-audio/headphones-tv-audio/best-bu...

and

https://thepointsguy.com/news/things-sold-airport-vending-ma...
In the Netherlands, teacher advice (based on standardized tests)is the way. They really restrict practice for the test in multiple ways, some legal and some cultural.
> This is a simple and effective way of achieving the goals they claim to be championing.

And what are the real goals of these institutions? The whole approach of having artificially limited education where people are sifted into higher and lower status classes based upon judgements made when they're teenagers is premised on elitism, not equity. That's the purpose of these institutions - not to education as many people as possible, but to restrict education to a privileged few in order to increase their own worth. Saying they're concerned about equity is like the casinos that put up signs saying they're concerned about gambling addiction.

There's a reason why Harvard is happy to take people's money and give them an education in the Harvard Extension School, but why they firmly tell those people they can't call themselves Harvard graduates. Contrast this with OMSCS, where they firmly say an in-person degree and an online degree will be the same thing.
Seeds have to be planted continuously to have more seeds. Their shelf-life is notoriously short. No, they cannot just return to their old seeds. They got ground into cornmeal and eaten long ago.
How Your Phone Knows Up from Down
It does have some data scaling for data, but yeah for more in depth and real time you need API keys.

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So… Amazon?
How or what can someone do with this who isn't a ML expert? Is there some docker app that leverages this? To the average dev, is this useful to me? I know there's lots of "plug and play" style docker apps to get started with Stable Diffusion. I'm curious if I can do something fun with this.
This is such a lazy article. Someone has just pulled data from GitHub and done basically nothing to else.
> In order for a programmer to accept a language with strictly less expressive power

Sort of hard to reconcile this view with just how much more expressive the Haskells and Lisps of the world are compared to Go and Python! I've used all of these extensively and functional languages have consistently let me define more general and flexible abstractions, do a better job of reflecting my conceptual model of the domain in my code... all in substantially less code and less boilerplate (excessive imports aside :P) than primarily imperative languages.

Functional languages don't stop you from writing imperative code, they allow you to write code that isn't—and, either way, that's just one small aspect of what makes a language adaptable and flexible.
> something equivalent such as bonding to a metal pipe that extends underground.

I discovered recently that this is advised against, at least in my country, nowadays since metal water pipes are being replaced with plastic ones. But sometimes not up into the house. So it might look you have a metal water pipe running in the ground. But it cuts off to plastic just outside your house. And it might not be buried deep enough to act as a proper ground. So always test with proper equipment what your earth ground resistance is and don’t assume anything.
Now that chatGPT breaks the college essay, proctored standardized tests seem like one of the only ways to assess kids.
You get explicit informed freely given consent, and then ask people. That's how. You act like not having that information is of paramount importance.
Those cookies are disabled by default in Firefox. Are you saying that to successfully use Teams one has to alter their browser configuration to make it _less secure_?
What I’m saying is that isn’t “the issue,” it’s just pretext.

Schools can do affirmative action for African Americans without making standardized testing optional, they have been for decades. What’s harder for them to do without getting rid of such tests is discriminating against Asians (and middle class whites) in favor of rich whites.

It’s no coincidence that this is happening in the wake of the Harvard lawsuit. What these schools want is a class made up entirely of diversity, athlete, and development admits. The first generation Asian-American kid isn’t taking a seat away from a black kid, he’s taking it from the son of the CFO of a Fortune 500 company.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Budweiser_Budvar_Brewery
When it gets out of its data-science pedigree and can be used for standard apps. When it gets good tooling. When its stack-traces stop being arcane gobbledygook. When it can be compiled to a single binary at the command line without going through arcane hoops. When it gets interfaces/protocols/traits.

At the moment, Julia is a nice language at v1alpha1 for scripts and data exploration.
Okay but what is the individual's option if their municipal water sucks?
Voting? But continue to drink the terrible water in the interim?
The question "functional programming is great, why isn't it more popular?" predates package managers by decades. That question is older than Linux, older than Haskell.

Best of luck with improving tooling, but it's not the answer.
Privacy concerns?
Oh wow, I clicked on that link on mobile and was unable to go back. Pressing the back button just redirected to the same page over and over again. Usually you only see that on malicious ad sites.
When I tried it I joked to my dad they offered San Francisco-style shopping: just grab the stuff and walk out
I reached out to Microsoft to try to buy the rights to it several years ago. They referred me to the original developer in Germany, but they either weren’t interested, or the ownership was too complicated. I’d love a modern version of Urban Assault, although the original is still completely playable. I’m not aware of any other game that managed so well to combine RTS and FPS.
> IMHO a really underrated feature of Rust is how friendly its tooling is towards its users. I'd really like to see something like that for functional programming.

> abysmal tooling around them

F# has amazing tooling.

Debugging works out of the box in Visual Studio and Rider, and it's impure enough I was able to get comfortable quickly and .NET core has a crazy amount built in (e.g. no fuss JSON serialization). I ported a project from C# to F# and the old bash/powershell scripts to publish a standalone executable are now just F# scripts you run with `dotnet fsi`.
Do you have any code from your discord bot you're willing to share? I'd be happy to share back any updates I made to it. I've been wanting to play with this idea for a bit.
> You can’t do a 32 bit load followed by a 16 bit load, the memory address is in one register so the only option is a 64 bit value be stored there

Putting the bits together into one register and doing the sign extension is a matter of arithmetic. It doesn't touch memory any more. You very much can do a 32 bit load and a 16 bit load and no other loads.

> you need to know what the first 16 bits are to see if the last 48 bits refers to the high or low portion

No you don't. That's not how the sign extending works. The top seventeen bits of the 64-bit value are all the same.

> what happens when the rubber hits the road and the CPU loads the address

The CPU will fetch an entire cache line, 128 bytes, but you only need to pull 6 bytes out of L1.

Then you can sign extend the upper bits and use your address as normal, to load any number of bytes from elsewhere in memory (maybe only one byte if you're feeling feisty).

Also you added the part about the register itself not being 48 bits to your previous comment after I replied, but I've never claimed the register was 48 bits. Just that it's effectively containing a 48 bit value. The reason I keep hammering on about sign extension is that you could put the same memory addresses into an 80 bit register, but it wouldn't make them 80 bit addresses. You're just using a register of arbitrary size to store a 48 bit signed number.
Yeah it's weird how little following FUTO has. Such a good concept. But that's not weird if you realize that popularity and merit aren't related.

But the lack of popularity is why he hired Louis I assume. Because Louis has a large audience on YouTube.