skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> If there's a limited supply of teachers and you can afford all the good ones, then we aren't going into the race with equal opportunities.

There is probably a very small supply of that. But I see little evidence that the rich monopolize them. They can't, because it's impossible to evaluate good teachers (and this probably holds true no matter what metric you hold to be the one that measures "good").

Why would a "good" teacher be noticed by anyone? Is it when they win the popularity contest, and the local paper does some article about how they're some small town treasure? I don't think those are good teachers, they're just "liked" teachers. And besides, even if "liked" means "good" to you, the rich aren't swooping in and hiring them as private tutors or even putting them into private academies. The public, misfortunate or fortunate, gets to keep those.

Are they running some NSA-like intelligence gathering operation, seeing that one teacher that has some sort of impossible classroom grade average in urban hellhole schools? Because I am more than a little certain, even great teachers (again, by whatever metric you want) just aren't doing that. Those children fail not because they have bad teachers, or at least not only for that reason.

> I'm also sceptical of the rhetoric about wealth disappearing within a couple of generations, because that has historically not been the case in Europe at all. Germany hasn't had kings for a long while, but generational wealth lasts, and you can still see the effects of it in various descendants to this day. In the UK, generational wealth has a huge impact on outcomes, with a system of highly expensive private schools that institutionalise the privileges of wealth.

Sure, that's probably true. But who the hell looks at that and concludes "I've seen families that have remained wealthy for centuries and what I want for my own descendants is to become peasants and wage slaves instead"?

Do you hate your own children, your own nieces and nephews so much? Do you just love everyone else's children more than them, somehow?

And it's not like you can even succeed. They've had the loopholes planned for 50 years now. At some point you might manage to rabblerouse enough that you get the no-inheritance laws passed, but for people who can buy a passport in another country they'll just take it with them. One way or another. It's almost as if it's not about the billionaires at all, not the 1%, but about the people who are sitting from 80-82%. They managed to squirrel a million or two away, not even in cash, just a family farm or a home, or some other little piece of real estate. Fuck those guys, the ones not quite rich enough to abscond to some paradise island.

So that's my plan. Get rich enough, myself or my kids or grandkids, to get the hell away from the envious before they manage to hijack the government and use it to steal from me.
When I hear this I’m reminded of surveys asking people how the government should spend its money. A majority will say cut spending, but wouldn’t agree on what to cut spending on.

“I’m ok with spending on defence, social security and education” while another wants spending only on unemployment, health care and policing. That’s the paradox where a supermajority supports cutting spending and “streamlining” government but there isn’t majority support for cutting any one thing.

So it is with cars. You want a “tablet mount and good AC. Maybe power windows and nice speakers”. Some other consumer will say “I can’t get around without GPS so a good maps app on a large screen is non negotiable but get rid of everything else.” And so on. To make a car that appeals to everyone, you have to put most features in. Kinda like an American Congress Omnibus Bill.
Is this statement about the license fact or theory? If you deliver GPL software you have to release everything for redistribution.
then you are atypical. Most people listen to music, news, podcasts, etc while they drive. that doesn't add much complexity to the system. particularly if the car allows phone projection like CarPlay or Android Automotive.
They have a WIP Android app, which is also Material Design 3. It may release later this year.
I'm a grumpy old programmer now but one of the early enlightening concepts I learnt was recursion and how it applied to so many problems. As the saying goes, "To understand recursion, you have to first understand recursion" :-).
Your troll craft is somewhat lacking
It is ironic because SUVs have much worse visibility, especially right in front / back of the car.
Their ISP/host may report it.
I wouldn't give them enough credit to be twirling mustache villains, they're just ignorant.
Is it ok to call yourself a “Freelance Programmer”?
Exposing your microphone to countless strangers could in theory have worse outcomes than “woops” based off numerous factors, such as what you’re doing/talking about/listening to and how long it takes you to notice that you are broadcasting the audio of the room that you’re in.
Maybe one could build an apparatus made of a bunch of narrow expanding tubes that pierced the organ without really damaging it then carried coolant to freeze the organ quickly. Could heat it back up quickly via frozen-in-place the tubes as well. Wonder if this has been attempted before
It's fair to say he got his cromulation game all figured out.
You seem to conflate mass shootings with school shootings
Why is it so rare to hear about Western cyber-attacks?
Out of interest, why do you prefer a salt grinder? I've never understood why these exist. Pepper grinders, absolutely - the aromatics are released on grinding. By not so with salt. Curious if I'm missing something.
Why the sour puss? Greensock animations used to be everybody’s goto back in the days of AS3 and jQuery.
It's the dumb executives following industry trends arms race. Like how when the iphone came out in one big piece of glass and no buttons, every other smartphone had to follow suit, even though it's backwards to make your phone both more breakable and harder to type on. Now it's dumb car executives following dumb car gimmicks.
There are very good reasons to want this. A big one is being able to perform computing without the prying eyes of a corporation, for example if you disagree with the idea of large companies making money off of your data. As a different idea, perhaps you might want to do something with Amiga or old game consoles, and you are developing a game for this. One reason you might want to do this is to teach yourself better 68k assembly language. This is a useful skill to have in certain niches in software security.

Another good one is if you are into homebrew computers or are a computer or electrical engineer. Perhaps you would like to make your own processor, or collaborate with your friends on making a processor.
For me it was the text issues that dulled my desire to keep working it. I was updating a Nim based immediate mode GUI called Fidget (https://github.com/treeform/fidget) and fixed a number of issues. It was fun getting 9-patch rectangles with corners working, etc.

I even implemented a fair subset of CSS grid:

parseGridTemplateRows gt, ["row1-start"] 25'pp \
["row1-end"] 100'ux \
["third-line"] auto ["last-line"]

( https://github.com/elcritch/cssgrid )

However, text input is hard and tedious! Then you ideally would need to handle the different keybindings for each OS. You also loose any plugins the OS'es provide. Not to mention the lack of accessibility.

I recall reading that browsers shim out to native OS text fields and wonder how that's done. It really seems like the best approach for small GUI libraries to enabled first class text input.
>. In the end I decided to just have the engine in my 2008 Honda S2000 rebuilt.

Just curious how much that is gonna cost. Was looking at S2000s online today.
Maybe, but what's the likelihood that you're just demonstrably wrong / an extremist?
It's quite unjust to call anyone a "monster". Human beings have dignity and deserve respect, even if they are found to have done wrong. I would not call any human person a "monster", no dictator, no mass murderer, particularly no bishop or clergyman. The word "monster" is dehumanizing and unjust in itself. It is emotional rather than descriptive or accurate. It is verbal cruelty, and I believe that no matter how cruel someone is, they never deserve human cruelty in return, but rather respect and dignity.
> I see it as being at least as adequate as Debian for those that also upgraded from one RHEL major to the next soon after its release

What's wrong with Debian? I assume this is from a stability standpoint?
Don’t fall off your high horse
The big reveal: Stripe for Healthcare
They were working with rice, after firing that batch they load the cannon with flint corn (pop corn)

Corn explosion is louder than rice one.
Disagree on the take. Was a small car fan until family. Now SUV fan because it makes loading the kids in and hauling their stuff that much easier.

Could survive with a Toyota Corolla? Definitely. Does the Highlander make life better? Yes.

Weird that heavy marketing would finally penetrate my brain the same year we had our first kid.
> How long ago is "a while ago"?

A few days ago.

> Why change the weighting given stories on a given topic without notice?

We don't give notice about that kind of thing.

> And how do you reconcile this change with HN's long-standing policy

It follows it strictly. HN has had over 500 threads about Reddit, containing over 25,000 comments, in the 3 weeks since this kerfuffle went kablooey. (And that's just the threads with "reddit" in the title - there have been plenty more.) For any other topic that repetitive and drama-filled, we would have penalized it much more and much earlier.

The rule is that we moderate less, not more, when YC or a YC startup is the story. Note the word "less". We still moderate, we just do it less—and we've done it way less on this Reddit tsunami than we otherwise would have. In fact we probably went too far in the other direction.

I mean just look at those search results: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateEnd=1687485600&dateRange=custom&.... That is nuts, way over the top, and not at all standard practice for HN. The idea (if anyone is entertaining it) that we've somehow suppressed this story is pretty silly when it's one of the most-discussed (and most repetitively, and indignantly) topics of all time.

If there's significant new information, you'd be welcome to let us know at hn@ycombinator.com so we can take a look. I didn't see significant new information at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36434885, and I certainly didn't see a substantively different discussion in the HN comments - merely the same rehash.
I remember old crank windows breaking all the time. I'd take a modern, convenient and more reliable electric window any day.
That attitude is the exact reason roads in the U.S. are much less safe. Cars are oversized, heavy and completely lethal for any pedestrians or cyclists. It's just a very dangerous trend that will cause more people to die.
So what do they do when they run on the surface?
Plain old Linux system is the way to go. Mount your volumes, set `/etc/exports`, configure a keytab if you're into that sort of thing, and move on with life.

It's honestly less messing around than any of the off the shelf tools. Depending on what you're doing you may want to mess with some kernel tunables. But even then, most of the time the defaults on a modern kernel are good enough for small stuff.
That's not what they did at all
A good portion of it is, and the rest is absolutely worth the money.
Microsoft did this in 2014. Didn‘t hurt.
You seem to be conflating reading an idea and working together. If Stalin had some good programming idea, that idea itself isn't tainted. I wouldn't mind using a library that incorporates that idea. However I would never want to work with him together on a project. A common theme in this discussion seems to be the delusion that working together on code is some pure abstract thing without any emotions or personality involved. Even something as basic as how to name stuff is deeply emotional. And there exists the whole surrounding aspect of communication and coordination.

And in regards to the dangerous part, there is a very real danger in giving people a platform and potentially promoting them. If a known white suprematist draws beautiful pictures, I wouldn't want them at my art gallery. Their world views are so strongly incompatible with mine that I don't want to help them become more popular, even by proxy.
“I’ve broken some rules to make this, I think I’ve broken them with good logic and good engineering behind me. The carbon fiber and titanium, there’s a rule you don’t do that – well I did,” said the CEO in an interview in 2021. [1]

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uD5SUDFE6CA&t=1446s&pp=2AGmC...
I scored 1,000 (perfect) on the game and 1.57 on the dogmatism score, which is both lower than the average score and lower than the average in the lowest quartile (people with low dogmatism).

I'm not quite sure what conclusion to take away from this result. While the low dogmatism score is no surprise to me the research results suggest that a low dogmatism-scoring person would be more likely to opt for the "easy version" handicap to verify their hunches but limit themselves to a maximum possible score of 800.

I don't FEEL like I have exceptional perceptual abilities for identifying dots, but I trusted my instincts and honestly rated my confidence as medium (7/10 times) and low confidence (3/10) times.

I'll also add that I'm a little tired and just finished a single beer, so I feel slightly dulled in my faculties right now. I'll probably go to sleep in an hour.
> I swear whoever designs these are purposefully making them bad just to fuck with us.

Nah, just making the data support a desired outcome.

"Our telemetry data shows that customers just aren't using the radio. It should be safe to stop offering it as a standard feature."
CMU has two open courses on deep learning which are very good.

1. Deep Learning - https://deeplearning.cs.cmu.edu/F23/index.html

2. Deep Learning Systems - https://dlsyscourse.org/

The second course dives much deeper into the internals of the libraries and all.
Except that the semantics of cube semantic layers are so limited and lacking context compared to a rich world model.
This is the attitude you need to give birth to truly innovative ideas like a Bluetooth controller attached to the desktop PC that controlled his hunk of shit submarine that killed everyone on board.

He proudly describes it here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ClkytJa0ghc
Growing up in 80s Britain I learned 3.5" were called floppy discs, and 5.25" were called floppy floppy discs.
This seems like quite a lot (but not all) of stuff you should be able to teach yourself; I'd say university classes should focus on more challenging/profound topics.
What about Belady's anomaly?
How is RHEL going to ensure that a customer does not redistribute the sources?
The reputation may continue but American cars are much more reliable today. They may not match the best of the Japanese but they seem to beat the European makes significantly.
> I like to suspend a paper towel between the lid and the rest of the pot, absorbs excess oil and water.

Interesting. I like to keep that excess oil/water, as that extra moisture on the surface of the popcorns later helps the sugar/salt stick to it - without the need for additional butter/grease.
It's just the latest hipster language trend. When OO was new, structural C was evil. When functional programming happened, everything before that was evil...

Because, yes, sharing state among classes for code reuse, is fundamentally evil... How dare you want to couple state and logic?

Almost like every single UI framework in every mainstream language has converged upon OO as the best way to model the problem at hand... GTk even invented a similar type system to what was mentioned in this PDF just to give C OOP constructs... Now witness as the Rust language has failed to produce a compelling UI/widgeting framework or paradigm, and the best ones out there are Qt-based or GTk-bindings (letting C hilariously handle the OOP for Rust).
place i was at used it for an options trading platform in 2006
I recommend reading sifive's errata, at least the ones it's possible to get ahold of. They are consistently wild, for multiple CPU IP generations. Some paraphrases that come to mind: "mmu doesn't work; workaround: don't use it" and "exception cause register not sign-extended; workaround: don't cause page faults on addresses in that half of memory".
Same boat.

When you look at the total cost of ownership, cost of maintenance, depreciation, and the relative comfort of driving a new nice diesel truck vs a box van it's a no Brainer. When we're too old amd weak to disconnect the trailer from the truck we'll get a motorized rv, until then we'll stick with our truck and trailer.
Right, because world is divided in Silicon Valley and third world hellholes.
Ask HN: How do you implement censorship to a LLM?
OpenAI keeps increasingly adding censorship to its LLM to comply to various laws. But I'm confused how do they do that? I thought it's impossible to incorporate it while training because it seems like the LLM doesn't have those censors before and now they do (?). But it also seems very unlikely that they tinker with the neural nodes directly.

The only method I can think of is that they add lots of prompt themselves that's added automatically with every user prompt. Something like "You may not talk about X. You may not talk about Y." before user prompts. If it's like that, it explains why users can jailbreak the censorship, we just have to overpower those censors prompts.
In the case of Qt, this is simply untrue. Google "qt gui unit tests" and you will find plenty of content -- from Qt and blog posts with Real World cookbooks and stories.

And, Win32 has a whole separate subsystem for unit testing UIs. Read more here: Win32 -> "UI Automation Test Library"

Man, there is so much damn misinformation about Qt on HN. It is tiring. I don't understand the source of this misinformation. Part of it probably stems from their various licensing mishaps over the years that seeded a bunch of FUD. It's a ridiculously good cross-platform UI library. KDE would not exist without it! I don't work for them, but I have used the toolkit for years. Nothing beats it. Yes, it is huge, but it does everything you could ever need.
It appears that this is using coincidence detection to locate objects, surface boundaries, etc. relative to a fixed array of sensors. In order to use this as an underwater location sensor, you'd have to have some communications channel that could time the arrival of muons and correlate them with detections at known fixed locations. I fail to see how this would provide global position.

The referenced paper[1] does not address clock distribution, nor the distribution of detection data for correlation into position information.

Unless the researchers have a reliable, atomically timed source of cosmic ray pulses that can be known a-priori, I fail to see how this could be used to determine global location, except post facto, when all data could be correlated, and the previous locations determined.

Thus, I fail to see this as a viable candidate for replacing the global positioning system, at this time.

[1] https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S258900422...
How exactly can we compare these? The controlled vacuum implosion is 1 atmosphere outside and “a vacuum” inside, which would approach 0 atmospheres. The Titan is 380 atmospheres outside and 1 atmosphere inside. 380/1 is easy to calculate, but how do you calculate 1/~0?
For pop corn you need fine grained salt. A grinder lets you control that. It is only about the grain sizes. Nothing about freshness with salt.
With pepper it is about freshly releases aromatics.
It depends on the material and external conditions.
They had 6 major advances:

1. 3 axis control (as you mentioned)

2. first propeller theory

3. first lightweight aircraft engine

4. wind tunnel tested airfoils

5. solving adverse yaw problem

6. targeted research & development program

They needed all of them to fly. All modern aircraft can trace their designs back to the 1903 Wright Flyer, and none of the other contenders. It's a stunning achievement, and all at a cost of $1,500. (The Langley project cost $50,000 and solved none of the problems.)

In my not-so-humble opinion, the 1903 Wright Flyer is the start of the modern technological age.
Don’t forget bureaucracy!
Sometimes, on a planet with 8 billion people, more than one newsworthy event happen concurrently without coordination or conspiracy.
What are those laws?
I'm surprised no one has posted The Muppets' Swedish Chef's instructions for making popcorn:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B7UmUX68KtE
Welcome to Hackernews. Being sour is part of every user here just to spread negativity in the guise of "user feedback". Just ignore those comments and read the positive ones.

This project is really good. Really really good!
I agree with all benefits you list, why my wife and I want to get a van in addition to our travel trailer eventually.

Just one nit pick, #8 is common and easy to setup with trailers as well. Our truck charges our rv batteries
I think the keywords are 'laptop formfactor'. If your goal is specifically to run niche specialized soft-processors and you wanted it all bundled into a laptop style dev environment, then I think this is a great idea. But for an actual functional laptop, no way.
Having not read the article, nor really the Ars piece either, let me hand wave by saying that cosmic muons are produced as secondary particles emitted from a high energy collision of a primary extraterrestrial particle that collides with particles in the stratosphere (around 30km up).
This shower of muons is “boosted” by kinetic energy of the primary particle. That means they have a lifetime that is longer than at rest when observed from Earth, but relevant to this method, they are also temporally correlated in such a way that by determining the time of arrival at multiple stations, the origin of the primary interaction can be determined - and more importantly, the timings between the stations can be deduced. Having fixed stations, and an unfixed one, means you can infer the latter’s position through geometric analysis.
The way I’ve always thought about it is having a small working memory has forced me to approach problems algorithmically from an early age. For small to medium sized problems this puts me at a speed disadvantage, but when problems grow large enough to exhaust everyone’s working memory, the wholistic thinkers stumble while I am at home.
I fixed that on my computer by turning off start menu web search, IIRC something like this: https://pureinfotech.com/disable-search-web-results-windows-...
1. You think adoption is the answer? Well, how many children have you adopted?

2. In the US, there are currently 60,000 children 2-years or younger in foster care. Based on that, I’d say putting a child up for adoption isn’t all that easy.

3. There are many reasons a person does not want to carry a fetus to term. Maybe they are a rape or incest victim? Maybe they don’t want to their body to permanently changed by pregnancy? Maybe they don’t want to risk death during childbirth? Or maybe maybe it’s none of our fucking business why they want to have an abortion.
The fascination with the gaming controller is a bit silly.

It's not safety critical like the ability to drop ballast is. If something goes wrong with it you just kill propulsive power, resurface, and replace it. Also more engineering effort will have gone into making the controller reliable by its manufacturer than most would want to be able to justify spending creating something custom.
I also don't use salt grinders, preferring coarse salt like Kosher or coarse sea salt on most dishes. However, to play Devil's advocate, a grinder is adjustable between fine and coarse.