skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I bring museums into the conversation because it is similar. Museums are often lavishly adorned palaces, largely serving the purpose of leisure.

To that it appears you may have fallen for, and are attempting to spread some discredited outrage porn/flamebait[0][1], possibly due to confirmation bias and the strength of your beliefs. Obviously since video was a fairly new media at this time, I'll agree that this attempt at depicting charity is a little more than off-color now, regardless of the precise contents.

I would check the HN Guidelines[2] since this whole comment kind of qualifies as fulminating and is kind of extremely political and ideological.

[0] https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2022/sep/09/facebook-p...

[1] https://www.reuters.com/article/factcheck-queenelizabeth-foo...

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
You can access an Amazon locker with a barcode printed from the Amazon website, or even from your confirmation email. The app is not required.
Show HN: AskYC - Startup advice from GPT Q&A bot based on YCombinator's YouTube
Direct link to the AskYC: https://transcribe.param.codes/ask/yc

AskYC is a GPT-based Q&A bot that's based on every video on YC's youtube channel.
If you think we have a perfect way to measure (or even to define) pure skill I have a bridge to sell you ...

We're always hiring based on attributes other than skill. If we're lucky and purposeful, skill becomes a part of the hiring process.
isn't a (limited) exam stress a worthy tradeoff compared to life-time stress from uncertainty of sustenance?

Because that's what Asian parents would say, stress a bit now, be sure of an income for a lifetime.

obviously, I am not going to discount that stress does not scale well and that for children, who do not have the maturity to deal with it all, exam stress and peer pressure could lead to devasting outcomes...

but asian parents, who have long since forgotten their one-time exam stresses, but face daily stresses from inflation etc, would argue that it's worth it in the end, since they would be comparing themselves to their old classmates who didn't make the cut and are worse-off than them.

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The exam themselves to tend to be absurdist, but when the seats are limited, and "fairness" is still required... asking candidates to do a special dance might be the only alternative left.
This is like KSP but without the fun.
I've been impressed with Yunohost [0]. I only have it setup on an internal box for now but it works well, and super easy to use. Good for people like me who aren't interested in admin.

[0] https://yunohost.org/en
Well yes, you're going to see anti-chinese sentiments when they're engaged in Uighur extermination.

What did you think would happen?
In this case it's the opposite: they are trying to ban guns while not making murder a crime.
I can think of exactly one guy: a classmate in electrical engineering courses who was from Kentucky. While you can obviously still find accents in the US, there are lots of reasons why you won't run into that family of accents much. Just about everyone in the US can avoid accents they don’t want by engaging in all forms of audible media, and social climbers and people who move around will avoid strong accents. Those are the same people who will filter to the top of any affirmative action cohort and end up at elite schools.

Maybe the redneck culture of poor Appalachian people is less sticky than the redneck culture of many poor Blacks in the US. My personal anecdotes support that, but then selection bias means they necessarily must.

When I run into guys at work with heavy Appalachian accents, they tend to be heavy machinery mechanics. That's also where I find Black guys who cling to a large amount of Black redneck culture. And those two groups together comprise the supermajority of heavy machinery mechanics at work, come to think of it.

Source: I spent my entire childhood on counties adjacent to what is considered 'Appalachia', and I went to a higher-end college with a significant affirmative action focus on geographic distribution around the US.
FWIW I think that's only mostly true. I'm told there are some situations where you really do just shove the bike over into a lean. Of course even if that's true, it's very much a case of (as I like to put it) the exception that highlights the common case. :)
Look no further than Hollywood which for some reason keeps blatantly peddling pro-Communism
Swapping to a persistent db to keep game states.
I find that unacceptable.

There is little need for most people to *learn* cursive these days beyond signatures. However, people should be able to *read* cursive for another lifespan because they're going to encounter it.
Myth? The research over the last decade has born it out.
For non-historic games, it might be good to use https://rot13.com to not spoil others
Until you find out there is some essential complexity you missed that’s encoded in the convoluted logic… and then your rewrite doesn’t function and you look foolish.
>hash collisions could be created instantly on consumer hardware

Collisions can be created, but MD5 is still preimage resistant. As long as someone with the actual model made the hash and Meta didn't generate colliding models themselves. You can trust it.
I’ve had good luck integrating with Astro.JS (https://astro.build/), good luck!

My website is in my bio, happy to chat if you want to do something similar.
I’d never heard of Tufte or this CSS package before, but I recognized it instantly because I use https://scribe.rip/ as my preferred Medium frontend. Now I understand the design choices a bit more. Neat!
> Yes I don’t give a shit about homework, I understand the material which is why I’m slaying each test. I hated that about college. We are adults. I’m paying to get an education, why the fuck is homework 20% of the grade? It’s practice, for people who don’t get the material.

What discipline did you study in undergrad?

In many majors - or even just in well-taught classes - work outside of lecture or recitation is designed to complement what you are learning. It _is_ the education you're paying for. It isn't high school where it's a bunch of repetition of the same concept (although I'd vigorously defend that, too) intended as practice. Problem sets ought to be the application of the material you're introduced to in lecture, done so in a way that forces you to grapple with and connect core concepts to other material in your major.

For example, in grad school I TA'ed an upper-level undergraduate course that would typically have 15-20 students. The problem sets I created with the professor I worked for had problems split across two themes. The first was discover; we'd take something that seemed ho-hum or rote from class, and apply it to an oddball setting which yielded surprising results. Sure, that straightforward equation works - but why does it go so weird in this curated example we're providing? There's extraordinary opportunity for learning there.

The second theme was connection across disciplines. Introduce a mathematics, computer science, or other concept and use it to extend something from lecture in an interesting way. These problems were intended t be challenging. We referred students to other textbooks and invited them to work together or come to office hours to fill in gaps in their background, because (a) this is a _vital_ skill to learn, and (b) it led to really cool and interesting problems and solutions.

There simply is not time in lecture or recitation to cover the stuff we introduced in these homework assignments. That's why the course credit hours tallied up to 3x the amount of time spent in lecture. I'll also note that while challenging, we did not allow poor marks on or incomplete problem sets derail a student's grade. If in lecture/recitation participation and on exams they clearly knew the core content, we'd work with the students to ensure they got a high grade. But if someone shirked off the homework entirely but aced the exams? Well, the exams aren't testing everything we're teaching you in this course, so you better believe they'd get poor grades at the end of the term.

So your perspective seems warped. If you weren't doing the homework, then you didn't get the education you paid for, and that's on you - not the university.
I don't think GTK+ exerted any pressure there - it has never been competitive with Qt, in terms of markets with money. The LGPL relicensing mainly happened because Nokia bought Qt and aimed to make it the SDK for all their phones going forward, which was compatible with permissive licensing business-wise.
If you’re charging way more than surrounding stores going all-in on quinoa seems like it’s a sound strategy, or maybe would have been one in the the recent past.
I think this would be great as a tailwind css plugin similar to the typography plugin [0]

[0] https://tailwindcss.com/docs/typography-plugin
There's a market for getting underqualified students into fancy universities via legalized semi-bribery, but it would be bad for their image if they openly admitted to it. Hence the obfuscation.
Hi, I don't see salaries posted in your NY postings. This is illegal. Can you fix this please? Thanks!
But even small tech companies do coding tests. I don't think its a function of large pocketbooks. Rather I think that they found tests that correlate more to the work done on the actual job.
It's not uncommon to slip into problem solving when listening would be the right thing to do. Often it's men 'solving' feelings for women, but as with your situation not always. I bite my tongue sometimes and force myself to listen harder.
> Social media companies can't decide that a warrant is "invalid". Only a court can decide that.

They can, however, decide “this is worth pushing back against” vs “this is not worth pushing back against” - that 30% represents the number of times that Meta’s lawyers believed it was worth pushing back and they were proved correct
Confining and using an agent who's smarter than you, maybe much smarter, is indeed crazy hard. I've never seen an "alignment proponent" who didn't already agree and consider it a terrible idea. What other answer do you want from them? The OP is about trying to figure out some other strategy to develop very smart machines.

(I read the last paragraphs at your link to see if I'm misunderstanding you.)
Control may be the wrong thing here.

Every technology, at some point, will inevitably bring questions of legal liability and culpability, and AI has a large tendency to do so because of how applicable it is. It’s not the worst idea to try and get ahead of the problem by defining a legal framework.

Examples of how a free-for-all has resulted in legal questions;

* police and the judiciary in the US have come under fire several times for using proprietary AI to determine things like sentencing or traffic stops

* there is currently a class action lawsuit in Washington state about whether or not price recommendations by a third party’s algorithm constitutes collusion on price-fixing if enough corporate landlords use it
Looking back I wonder how many megawatts were wasted on screen savers and SetiAtHome in the 90s
Probably three reasons:

1) They're trying to get ahead of a Supreme Court ruling, which will likely rule Ivies are discriminating against Asian candidates.

2) Elite cultural zeitgeist is in favor of discriminating against Asian and non-elite white candidates.

3) More subtly, the top Ivy admins are overwhelmingly Jewish, and they've likely received push back from Jewish alumni/donors, as Asians have displaced smart-but-unremarkable Jewish candidates. A recent Tablet article alluded to Asians displacing Jewish candidates, which has been an unreported theme in the Ivies over the last 20 years.

Those three things are driving much of it.
Yes, the people who don’t care much about well being and flourishing of people in poor areas of the world might say that. Sure, they work their asses of hoeing the rows, and get quarter of the yields people in the west get with ten times more labor input, but at least it’s sustainable.

No, sorry, I reject this sort of anti-human approach — people in poor countries deserve to flourish too, and using best farming and industrial practices is crucial to achieve that. I find this sort of keeping impoverished people in a cycle of poverty in the name of “sustainability” (whatever that means) to be rather despicable.
Show HN: A HN clone writen in Go
I've been trying to write my "go on rails" framework for years. I never quite got it like I wanted. There is gin and echo and all sorts of other frameworks and patterns but I finally found something I really like:

/foo/

/foo/bar/

/foo/bar/more/

That's it. Just three levels and all my controllers get passed in what's between the / with var names first, second, third.

In order to really make sure this framework could build something real I made a Hacker News clone. RemoteRenters.com is a HN just for articles about the remote work revolution since covid. Feel free to vote or submit to see how it all works!

Code is open source at: https://github.com/andrewarrow/feedback
> One new study of 6,300 heterosexual couples found that all other factors being equal, men who were not working full time were 33% more likely to divorce in the following 12 months than husbands who did have full time jobs.

You cannot control for ”all” other factors in an observational study. You can control for ”how people choose to answer your survey questions,” which is two steps removed from the truth.
NASA's Thirst for Open Source Software – and for Open Science
https://archive.ph/xd82q
yikes that sounds disgusting. That being said - and while I would, on a philosophical level (being a vegetarian), probably even prefer to eat Hershey's rather than Hematogen, I have no doubt that from a purely gustative point of view (i.e. if I were to taste both in a blind test of different "chocolates"), even that Hematogen would taste better than Hershey's.

Hematogen may contain cow blood (which is disgusting if you know what it is you're eating), but Hershey tastes like what I would otherwise only imagine cow vomit to taste like. And one doesn't need to know what's inside to sense the taste.
Sure, they could. But I find naming these things explains to future users the point of why you're applying all of these functions. A chain of 10 filters / maps / comparisons / etc... do 0 to explain why a program cares about doing those things.
You don't know that this has been going on for at least a decade (probably way longer)?

The Chinese government hires Western influencers to spread their propaganda all the time. Those who are on Youtube and elsewhere.

Getting paid for spreading that government propaganda (and for doing "normal" Chinese company ads) as a white person is referred to in China as going for "a white monkey job".
I'm not using a FF nightly build, but I initially get a screen along the lines that my browser isn't supported and a split second later it goes away and a login form pops up. There's more text but it flashes so quickly I can't really make out the rest.
Don't jump to conclusions. What you describe is one possibility, or may account for part of it, but men who don't have work and don't feel useful or like they have a purpose might also become intolerable, and this could easily lead to divorce too.

For instance, other studies have found that men's work is strongly tied to their sense of identity, much more so than women, so men who lose their identity could become depressed, irritable, lash out, etc.
A valid point, I did overlook that.
Quinoa specifically: it's foreign sounding, so people were unfamiliar with it, and it was touted for being more nutritious than things like rice.

So, novelty and cool factor, plus appeal to those looking for healthy options; some overlap with the faddish nature of trends in healthy eating.
Couple of years ago I had to do some budget downsizing. Stopped buying bottled water- tap water is so good here that it made no logical sense to buy Evian anyway.
Just put water in a caraf and throw it in the fridge and presto money saved.
> 1) If clients spoof their UA, they just get what they asked for. Couldn't care less.

I thought you were specifically talking about testing the behavior of your website on different client by changing your browser's UA. The only legitimate use would be if you have a mobile-only stylesheet like older wordpress themes (because you said "I've never come across a better way to get a sneak peek into the (first) Initial Page Request of a customer to your web app")

> 2) With SSR you're actually making a case for sniffing the UA for the client's device class. Web apps might need to ship vastly different but overlapping code across different device classes. I'm not even talking about things that can be lazily loaded subsequently, I'm talking about the initial screen for given URL.

I'm not sure why this would be the case. For Teams, they can just load a purple top bar with the words "Microsoft Teams: Loading", right? That's a single responsive stylesheet.

> 3) I'm _not_ going to show the customer any loading spinner or just show a white page for 2s. We had that with Java Applets, remember?

What else are you going to show while the page loads? A fake UI with fake data? As soon as the JS starts executing and loading data, that data can start to populate the screen.
Do no harm: can school mental health interventions cause iatrogenic harm? [pdf]
I wouldn’t be surprised if that were the long-term goal but in reality it was not yet cheaper. Automation often proves more difficult than one would expect.
> If equity is so important, why not grant preferential treatment to all children coming from families that aren't upper-middle-class?

College education has always been sold as a way to keep your children elite, and to the less well-to-do, as a golden ticket to being elite. The issue with education is that it has been marketed as the ultimate wealth signal: "My daughter is attending ______." (too bad for your daughter who is at ______ State)

> Standardized test scores are the hardest metric to game, and hence, are most under attack.

While this is true, standardized tests tend to favor children from more stable family situations and higher levels of wealth. The attack on the SAT is usually from the side favoring evening the odds for less financially advantaged groups.
Apple stores are famous for being some of the most profitable stores mankind has ever created. And there aren't that many of them.

These Amazon stores are just local convenience stores. They're selling candy bars. And Amazon is a much more "experimental" company than Apple -- they launch and shut down stuff all the time to iterate and learn. This isn't about penny-pinching or margins, it's about finding product-market fit.
Ask HN: Taking care of someone's dog, things to consider?
I'll be taking care of a colleague's dog for a few days and am wondering if there are any particular questions to ask them or accommodations I should make beforehand.

I'm comfortable around dogs, but it's been a while since I lived with one, so just want to make sure I don't have a blind spot about things to keep out of harm's way.
Having been involved in 3+ $8-figure legacy replacement projects, this article seems to be missing business, management, and cost perspectives. In particular, "non-compliant with recent standards" is the least important reason to consider rewriting a working system. Often, chasing whatever is popular at the moment is the root cause of maintenance problems in the first place.
I've got experiences in both camps. Well managed rewrites (typically portions of a system) can fix a lot of problems in one fell swoop, but you have to really know what you're doing and actually have concrete plans for improvements.

If not, all you've done is just replaced a bad system with another bad system. I've also seen that lately. You're right that often it's just "different" and not better, and that makes it hard to sell the case when a rewrite is truly needed.
I'm familiar with that 30 point differential because it shows up in research.

You're right that 30 points isn't that much if you're thinking about the whole distribution, but I guarantee it can be significant around the selection threshold. That threshold might be implicit or explicit, but it's there, and if it's enough to nudge applicants past it, it's significant.
Strong AI is a weapon. It will be regulated just like firearms/munitions - see the current EU draft which consists of some hundred pages of forbidding this or that under the guise of ethics and whatnot, after which comes a paragraph of "the above doesn't apply to law enforcement or military entities".

We're still in the early stages of this technology. ChatGPT will be to strong AI like a firecracker is to a BLU-109.
> People are rewriting I/O bound applications

With 10 Gb Ethernet and NVMe SSDs, I/O bound doesn’t mean what it used to. 10 Gb Ethernet and NVMe SSDs can expose the garbage collected language as the bottleneck pretty easily.
It's extremely intensive to onboard a new employee; and extremely disruptive to onboard a new employee and then immediately fire them. It's also very demotivating to the existing team.
I'm suspicious of regulation until a good case is made for it. I'm suspicious of people whose world view is "we must regulate what others do" as their default position. I'm fine with regulation when there is a proven need for it.
Probably a lot of this to it. When I got married the amount the state expected for any kid went from a pretty standard computed amount of 20% (30% post tax) to more like the ~10% post-tax it actually costs me to take care of the kid without mandated support (which still affords them quite a generous lifestyle). There's no rational reason why the kid is always gonna need 3x the money if you're not married, yet the courts say it's so dire a need to spend 3x the money for unmarried couples if you don't pay it you go to jail.
Because nobody really ate it in the US and then it was everywhere it was a fad among rich yuppies. Yeah peasants ate it in South America (there were even newspaper editorials chastising yuppies for denying poor people their quinoa supply by eating it for frivolous reasons) but so what?
Equity is not actually important, and the author said it saliently in this paragraph

> Elite colleges are eliminating standardized tests before they eliminate legacy admissions. Tells you all you need to know.
Men's sense of identity is much more strongly tied to their job. Losing your identity and sense of purpose is a challenging hurdle to overcome.
A good filter can improve the taste of municipal water. Maybe not to the extent of Fiji water (never tried it) but it can at least make it not terrible.
Sadly there was (still is?) a mentality that daily turning off your computer was somehow bad for it. Considering energy consumption it always seemed crazy to me, even with a nominal increase in drive wear.

Steve Gibson still advocates never turning of spinning disks in this modern era.
Page, in the 1970s. I did not notice any disparity among the houses. Freshmen were initially assigned to houses at random, and then they'd go through "rotation" where they'd have dinner at each house in turn. After that, the houses would each make a rank of who they wanted, and the freshmen would say yes or no to the selection. I don't recall anyone, ever, talking about their social/wealth background in this process.

> There are a lot of rich kids at the school

They must have hid it well, because I didn't notice any. I never heard anyone mention skiing in Aspen. Nobody had even an upper class car. Nobody had an expensively outfitted dorm room.

As for me, I come from a lower middle class family, and managed to get a modest loan in aid, which I paid off after graduation.
That is a pretty cool idea.
Can anyone else not ignore all of the characters being white after reading:

> Life begins when you’re assigned a random character and circumstances:

I feel like that framing would ideally make most think "hmm... these characters don't look so random".