skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The following paragraphs were especially powerful:

> The chattering class is using poor kids as pawns to eliminate standardized testing. Which helps their own kids. Rich kids who “don’t test well.” But they know how to strategically boost their GPAs, get recommendation letters from important people, stack their resumes with extracurriculars, and use the right slogans in their admissions essays. They have “polish.”

> Applicants from the most affluent families excel at these games. A study at Stanford found that family income is more highly correlated with admissions essay content than with SAT scores. Applicants from well-to-do backgrounds are especially adept at crafting their essays in ways that please admissions committees.

If equity is so important, why not grant preferential treatment to all children coming from families that aren't upper-middle-class? Or ban legacy preferences at the very least? This is a simple and effective way of achieving the goals they claim to be championing. The author hit the nail on the head. Every other metric used for admissions is far more easily gamed by rich families. Hence why they are being preserved. Standardized test scores are the hardest metric to game, and hence, are most under attack. All this talk about equity is the most convenient and cost-effective way to eliminate the one barrier that most vexes rich parents.
China increases its military budget by 7.1% – $230B
Don’t attribute to malice that which can be can be attributed to stupidity.

My current employer has fairly recently hired a ton of ex-Google/Microsoft into upper management. They’re universally clueless about our business, spending most of their time trying to shiv one another for power.
Your comment feels ad hominem-ish, maybe address the points and how the writer's background could make them invalid.
> The most important feature of a tool meant to support creativity is interactivity.

This seems like a requirement you personally came up with that does not mesh with reality. Throughout history the greatest creative achievement have been made using absurdly difficult to use non-interactive mediums.

Also Rust compile times are not as slow as you imagine them to be.
The British government has 10 pages of rules and procedures for seed saving. Are farmers in Britain also "extremely stupid"?

https://www.gov.uk/guidance/farm-saved-seed

I know nothing about this field, but people who do understand the situation in Kenya seem to disagree with you.

https://afsafrica.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/kenya-engli...
Latest System76 Intel-Powered Laptops Added to Coreboot
...And Europeans governments can't via the European subsidiaries of American companies in Europe?
I'm not following. What "running program" is there? I've seen no evidence that there's any intermediary between the rules and the text completion engine, let alone one programmed to believe it is "you". (Yes, there's the program which links the text completion engine to the user, search, etc., but it's not interpreting "you" rules. It's just a pile of C# code.)
They probably should dehydrate it first.
Jiang was actually very pragmatic and good for the economy, building on Deng's legacy, as was Hu.
The article mentions at least 5 things that are reducing food production. GMO addresses one of them.
I was on a jury for larceny from a Target. The footage they showed from so many points around the store made me feel creeped out with every store I go into now.
> Mega rich. Start your own business. It’s almost impossible to get rich working for someone else. Riches do not come from work alone, they come from owning things – assets – that pay back more than they cost, and your own company is a powerful asset you can create from scratch.

I raise issue with this assertion.

> I’m the founder of Silktide and possibly the most unashamedly ambitious person you know.

And now you see why he has it. Like the post the other day said, an entrepreneur giving life advice is like someone telling you what numbers they picked to win the lottery.

My own experience in the past few years is that starting a company was a great way to make much less money per year compared to my old job while having lots more worry about taxes, health insurance, bookkeeping, etc. I lost out on a lot of extra money I would have been able to invest in that interim and worked 2-4x as hard as with my old job in science that had a wonderful reliable paycheck every month and no worries ever. Luckily this realization hit after three years and I start a new even cushier science job in two weeks.
I was disappointed to see this is just a cheap joke. I'd actually be interested to see how well one of the new LLMs does, if you give it a description and some of the code and ask it to name the class for you.

Naming is hard. I think it'd be pretty neat to write the code with a placeholder for the tricky names and then let an AI suggest them once it's done.
Hi there, immigration lawyer here. As you know, H-1B status rigidly restricts the "work" that can be performed in the United States, to tasks for the H-1B sponsoring employer, within the job duties set out in the H-1B.

Freelance "work" while in H-1B status is prohibited. This covers side gigs like driving an Uber, blogging for pay (including ad revenue and donations), playing music for tips, and yes, working on your own for-profit company, even in pre-revenue stage where you're not actually getting paid yet.

Your hack - to base the company abroad - gets points for creativity! It would still violate H-1B status, however, if the "work" you're doing for the foreign entity physically takes place in the US.

Here's a pretty accurate summary of the situation. https://www.nolo.com/legal-encyclopedia/can-i-work-remotely-...

I'm putting "work" in airquotes, because performing non-H-1B labor of any kind while in the US is the core of the H-1B violation. So, for example, owning a company in the US is permissible in H-1B status, as long as you don't work there in any capacity.

I realize this is perverse and insane. H-1B requirements are frozen in time in the pre-internet workplace of the early 90's. But here we are.

Personally I'd advise against testing the limits of the H-1B, mostly from hearing horror stories about H-1B renewals getting denied, over dumb things like occasional babysitting, or fixing your neighbors' computers for pay, or "working" at a volunteer organization.

That said, I think there's scope for plenty of activities to advance your startup, that aren't "work" in the H-1B sense. Reframe it for now as an interest, hobby, or skill, and build an online reputation as an expert in that thing. Give advice, ask for opinions, identify pain points, get known, build an audience.

Also, building and testing a prototype of your thing, in the privacy of your own home, still counts as a hobby. Sounds like you've already done this though, so maybe you're at the limit of this one already.

Hope this helps. I feel your pain. I wrote an article about this if you're interested. From 2016, still accurate. My first post on HN as I recall.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11491428

https://visabuilder.com/blog/escape-from-h1b-hell-5-things-i...

Edited to add, the article cited below from "Law Firm 4 Immigrants" is a misleading blend of accurate and inaccurate information, which is pretty dangerous IMO.
How about Arkady Volozh? He got sanctioned not because he has "direct ties to and props up Putin", but because Yandex operates in Russia and has to follow its rules.

Just look at the length of the list with sanctioned persons. Are you seriously saying that all of them have "direct ties to and prop up Putin"?
Of course, which is the point that I am making as well as the grandparent post.

Studies which have not done this should be taken with a grain of salt.
The Most Cited AI Papers in 2022
John Hughes why fp

Worth a read periodically IMHO

https://www.cs.kent.ac.uk/people/staff/dat/miranda/whyfp90.p...
That’s not evidence that all the camera housings are populated. You’re only seeing the ones with live feeds.
The production process was patented.

https://www.lifepr.de/pressemitteilung/kraft-foods-deutschla...

Regardless, the patent office is not a gatekeeper for the use of “inventor”.
Hopf algebras and Markov chains: Two examples and a theory (2012)
Think I wasn't clear.
Psychohistory would all be based on models, because as you say, all science is really about finding models that fit reality.
And I think computer models are a part of that.
Its just I was mistaken and I thought that this study was more about finding some new insight into human behavior, and the model had helped identify it or understand the human side. And having this new better model would allow psychohistory, and better manipulation.

Guess, I thought that the computer model had been used to find some new insight into humans, rather than just finding a better fit to something already known.
JSON5 also allows extra things like single-quoting strings and multiline strings. VS Code uses JSONC which is strictly trailing commas and comments on top of JSON
Drought resistant not a silver bullet. It can help, but only up to a point (and that point seems lower than the sales guys and sponsored studies under optimal conditions might indicate).

Edited because part of this wasn’t factually correct.
Funny as this idea would do on a real try a much better job than most software developers are doing without such assistance. I wish to run such tools over most projects i've encountered to clean up the crap colleagues (and myself) have come up with.
> Our ruling class is doing all they can to prevent this possibility.

HN gets bizarrely left-wing when wokeness comes up.

Ruling classes keeping the poor down? You simply don't see that kind of talk here unless affirmative action or similar is discussed.

It'll be a double win if these attempts to undermine wokeness lead to a society that truly provides equality of opportunity for all.
There is a rest button!
> I wouldn't normally expect that to be an indication that something was made in the country containing that peak.

Really? Because it genuinely seems like a claim about where it's from to me. IN this case are you sure you're not just so used to being lied to that you expect the lie?

That said, your point about Neapolitan makes sense to me. Like - I know full well the "New york pizza" place near me is not shipping pizzas from new york, it's meaning "new york style". Not sure how to distinguish between geographic style references, which I have no problem with, and false implications about a product's origin. But it'd be nice if we could.
You've articulated this very well. It's something I also have for years believed as a non-Asian person that has become a "conceptual framework" (my words...probably inadequate) to better understand Asian co-workers now and co-students back in my school days (to unfortunately generalize here). For me at least it really does explain a lot of the cultural differences that lead to lazy western stereotypes.

So many examples of casually thrown around of borderline racist-ish terminology/dog whistles..."tiger parents", "hard working"...all the "model minority" stuff.

It really is a population density issue...which leads to resource scarcity...as a westerner all you have to do is interact personally with someone from India or China where you have millions of people competing for a seat at a university and it becomes pretty clear how you get the "Asian work ethic".
Would you mind publishing your notes/learnings once you gain enough understanding of this model?
> what’s the difference?

Morality.

Sending military aid to a country to defend themselves is not the same as sending aid to a country to invade another.

If this doesn't resonate, maybe this analogy does: giving a gun to a murderer is different to giving a gun to someone who is going to be murdered.
"Vending machines you can walk into" is, amusingly, how I describe them to folks.

There is a bit of a misunderstanding on staffing, though. There are still about as many people as you would need for a grocery store of that size, from what I remember. They just don't work the checkout line. So, you get all of the restocking and similar capabilities that machines just can't do, yet.
Toyotas can be stolen by getting access to CAN bus through the headlight
There's stories popping up in the UK, US and Canada recently about this vulnerability.

From a comment in the reddit thread below:

"Thieves are gaining access to the left headlight computer sub-assembly by peeling back the plastic splash guard, where they can stick a couple of pins into the CAN_H and CAN_L wires in the wiring harness plug."

https://www.reddit.com/r/rav4prime/comments/zlddrj/new_theft...

https://www.rav4world.com/threads/can-invader-attack-unstopp...
Why was OOP popular for so long? Tech is a fad driven industry. If you're asking why tech is a fad driven industry, that I'm less sure about. There have been lots of theories over the years. Some think that education drives most of it[0]. Others think it's the tech consulting space that drives it. Both of those things are dependent on regular sales cycles to make money and having a new "ground-breaking paradigm" to sell every 5-10 years makes it easier.

[0]: In this case, education includes anybody teaching programming. This includes academia, youtubers, online courses, etc.
> We are in the 4 Petaflops on a single card age currently

FP8 is really only useful for machine learning, which is why it is stuck inside tensor cores. FP8 is not useful for graphics, even FP16 is hard to use for anything general. I’d say 100 Tflops is more accurate as a summary without needing qualification. Calling it “4 petaflops” without saying FP8 in the same sentence could be pretty misleading, I think you should say “4 FP8 Petaflops”.
I’ve noticed this too. I assume it is because the teachers don’t want parents to realize the school is failing their child until it is too late to have the teacher (or school) address the situation.
Ah, that is indeed a cool setup for a device on your home network :)
>> there’s nothing the US wants less than borders starting to be changed by wars

> I think it's a major mistake to talk about any country as if it's one homogenous, unanimous entity

Not to mention mind reading! It's become so common and acceptable in our culture, we don't even realize when we're doing it anymore.

I swear, this simulation is becoming so bizarre it wouldn't even shock me if one day flood lights came on and we discovered we've been on a giant TV set this whole time.

On the brighter side though: what a show! How will it all end I wonder.
Dedicated lanes exist in this city, but not every street has them of course. The line in question also services a street that does not have a dedicated lane. And that's where it sometimes gets stuck in traffic. Funnily, it used to be routed via a different street that actually does have dedicated lanes. But back then the bus got stuck in the narrower street connecting those two.
You could use a 16 bit load and a 32 bit load. I'm not sure what's faster.

If I make a struct that has a 32 bit field followed by a 48 bit field, I might use a 64 bit load as part of getting the latter. But that doesn't make the field larger. It's an optimization because it's safe to overshoot.

Edit: When I wrote this comment it was replying to a request for a 48 bit load instruction.
Standardized tests are much easier to prep for than GPA and extracurriculars. I don’t get where the statement “rich kids don’t test well” actually comes from, and it wasn’t just made up to argue a point. Perhaps if you had state sponsored test prep like in China (you spend the last two years of high school just prepping for the test), but high school isn’t compulsory and many poor kids don’t even attend.
>I'm confused. You seem to be suggesting that extra-curricular activites are in fact an accurate indicator, contrary to the SAT proponents?

I'm unsure how you arrived at that conclusion. I'll chalk it up to me being unintentionally unclear.

What I am saying is that its largely a fallacy that Universities are commonly put to the decision of a more social candidate versus a more academically talented candidate.

The more common reality being that the leading academically talented candidates are as or more qualified in their extra-curricular participation.

At least within a deviation of academic and social metrics that is meaningful.

Selectivity of admissions allows for selectivity of curriculum. Selectivity of curriculum allows for better trained / educated students.

As well as tailoring of education to meet a student's ability, both on the high and lesser ends.

You may as well ask what the purpose of special education or gifted programs are. To put in in the terminology of those commonly concerned with the plight of haves and have nots, the answer is educational justice.

Last, maximizing the education of elite academic performers tends to maximize results for the nation in the real world in a manner that raises the living standards for have nots.
There's no empire with current Russia. They have Belarus and stir a few nearby regions. It is just a fascist state angry it can't have more.
Since when is free speech a thing of "Parler-style right-wing" websites?
Is that an issue with the store concept, or an issue with not making it clear to users that it’s a non standard drop off location? I don’t see the lack of a warning reflecting on the actual store itself very strongly.

Also- why even bother with Amazon and trying to return packages etc if you have no easy way of getting your password? If this is too much of a hassle just use in person stores..

I’ve had drop off at mail shops locations be unexpectedly closed which is objectively worse than having a bad but possible return experience…..and never once claimed that “mail shops are an unmitigated failure”
Today in "I won the lottery, and you can too by choosing my numbers".

Guidance like this is rarely ever helpful, and serves as a bias of n=1 cause it 'worked for me'.

There's some obvious things like "drinking and smoking are bad". And there's good things like "time is your most important asset". But suggestions past those, are well just completely subjective.

Like the recommendation to move. How do you tell what a community is like before you're moved there? And most of us can't afford to move around the country chasing some illusory 'maybe'.
I've had this somewhat while taking prozac. My dreams are so vividly remembered, and the contents of those dreams often so mundane, that its not always obvious to me which is which (e.g. dreaming that I bought eggs and milk). I think this is why we're actually supposed to forget memories; they are counterfactuals used to train the brain to avoid overfitting, but not supposed to interfere with our actual recollection of what has and has not occurred.
Functional programming is not new.

OOP still exists only because of institutionalization. Outside of embedded systems there is no other good reason to continue OOP for new applications at this point.

OOP was invented with SIMULA76 in 1976 but was popularized with C++ in 1982. The primary benefit of OOP allows developers to scale applications via inheritance which conserves memory. The idea is to instantiate an object in memory and extend that object as necessary on child instances with memory duplication. At that time, 1982, memory was about $1700 per meg and most computers were operating with 128kb total memory.

Most modern languages use garbage collection: Java, JavaScript, Go, C#, and many more. In a garbage collected environment you, the programmer, are completely removed from memory management. Modern languages also prioritize speed over memory conservation because modern computer have tremendous amounts of available memory.

OOP increases complexity compared to functional programming. Complex means many, not challenging. This is objectively provable by counting.

The reason why OOP remains popular is because it is taught by universities and most programmers are produced by universities. Universities continue to teach OOP primarily in response to a broken feedback loop. Universities produce developers primarily reliant upon OOP because that’s what industry says it needs because that’s what’s available from the universities.

There is no motivation for universities to prioritize other programming paradigms when their stature is determined by ratings based upon industry demand. Ratings, and thus rankings, determine how much money a university can generate. Although most universities are nonprofit organizations revenue remains a primary consideration of all activities both athletic and academic.

It is nearly impossible to impose functional considerations as first principles in the work place. In open source or personal projects the owner of risk is the person writing the code. At work it’s all about hiring flexibility and least common denominator.
> The hypothesis I aim to test with a new programming language is: By making different tradeoffs, these issues can be mitigated and a more broadly-appealing functional language can be built. With such a language, I hope that the true promise of functional programming for parallel computing can be widely realized.

Proceeds to give zero indication how to achieve this.
I still don’t see how it’s discrimination against White students. This actually looks more like discrimination against Asians, with Whites being the biggest beneficiary of the discrimination based on the numbers. Blacks get the biggest bump, but it is Whites who “steal” the most spots.

It does make me wonder about the marketing of anti-affirmative action. For example you see on social media the kids who posts about their great grades and scores and not getting into the Ivies. The common refrain is that some black kid got their spot due to affirmative action. Although it’s actually more likely, if the applicant is Asian, that it is a white kind who got that spot due to affirmative action. I wonder how public perception changes if they knew that reality?
>why bother?

For example because your production capacity in China will produce your stuff for cheap and you will be able to sell this stuff with a good markup? You will not be able to easily sell the production capacity and move the resulting capital outside of China as you would in the US or EU, but as long as it operates it will generate you profit.
They definitely detect the explosions themselves, not just missile launches (remember that ballistic missiles are only one method of several for delivering nuclear weapons). This is for monitoring compliance with nuclear test bans, as well as just generally knowing what is going on. If a nuclear weapon goes off for any reason, the US government and other nuclear powers obviously want to know about it. These systems would also be able to distinguish non-nuclear explosions such as bolides from nuclear explosions, which is important for MAD if you don't want an accidental war. The systems to do so are now built into GPS satellites.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vela_(satellite)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_MASINT#Space-based_Nuc...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_Positioning_System#Mili...
This may be a dumb question but why specifically does the headlight need to be connected to the CAN bus?