skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> You can keep a car going forever.

Sure, but not by just replacing the motor oil. Which was my point.

You also can't replace "everything in your body" without replacing the brain. Which, given that the prevalence of dementia increases every year somebody lives, and given the general well-known cognitive effects of ageing, is a key problem here. And that also ignores that we can't swap body parts like we can swap car parts, even if we had infinite spare parts.
If they're being paid they are are crew or mission specialists, if they are paying they are passengers.
Humans were not invented in 2017, nor were words or pictures.

The question of whether you can compel violence with words and pictures isn't a question about LLMs, and it is a question for which history is instructive.

The myopia of claiming otherwise is astounding.
Hollywood cares, for one. I think almost every movie (or book) I read that involves a smart person with good credentials involves Harvard or mit or sometimes Stanford. It’s getting old. Be more creative, people
You did not read the rest of the comment.
The only check on power that can work as intended are higher values, such as honour, generosity and justness. Written laws and regulations are a failure for ordering society. Our modern nations have hundreds of thousands of laws, which nobody can know by heart. So we have this weird situation where it supposedly is okay for rulers to abuse their power since they're not breaking any laws or regulations. Or where there's always an impeachment process going on against a ruler, for some obscure law that makes sense to nobody.

There is a false idea that judges will keep check on politicians, but the high judges are some of the most corrupt psychopaths a society can bring forth, as it has been since forever.

Now if the ruler or rulers act without honour, that is something that is obvious for anybody to see and know by heart. If they act greedy, that is obvious for anybody. It they are unjust - even by keeping the law by circumventing it - that is obvious for anybody. When these higher values are ingrained in a society, they become powerful, and the ruler has to bend to them. But there's a long way to go, since the large mass of the population is currently in a low state.
There's all kinds of unsecured or low secured loans. We don't need to give payday loan places immunity to bankruptcy for them to open up every block
Do you mind expanding on that? I think this paint has a solid use case for refurbishing shipping containers into dwellings, as currently their main drawback is thermal insulation
This is really cool. Recently found Foundry on Discord, how is this different?
As a former PhD student who is now faculty, I have to say that the pace of the game is one of the most realistic aspects. Every small step forward takes about a month, it may or may not pan out, but it passes in the blink of an eye.

It's a game, so it can't model everything. But I thought the biggest missing thing was "leveling up." As you accomplish more, you should have a higher likelihood of future success, and your hope should increase as you gain confidence and experience.

That's how a PhD works -- those who can get early wins (or stick through a lot of bad bounces) can build on success will finish well.

To rip off Tolstoy, "Happy PhDs are all alike; each unhappy PhD is unhappy in its own way."
The EU, and especially some of the member countries, tend to go harder on cases where monopoly power is either misused or cause some harm to the general public.

The legal basis to intervene is there, but may be vague and open to interpretation.

For instance, a near-monopoly position might cause other regulations, like laws against unfair business practices to be interpreted more strictly than for other intermediaries:

https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX:02...

As long as the population within a jurisdiciton univerally supports the principles behind a ruling, finding some regulation to support it usually can be done.

In the US, there seems to be two factors that make it a lot harder to enforce such regulation (to the extent that they even exist there)
- The fact that these companies are American and able to buy influence through lobbying and contributions
- The current division in American politics, where virtually any position supported by one side automatically will be opposed by the other, causing paralysis
>> The mere act of skydiving doesn't justify death, but it is a possible outcome nonetheless.

Similarly, the mere act of driving with a broken tail-light doesn't justify death, but it is a possible outcome. Now...if someone comes and shoots you and kills you, that doesn't make it right.

Similarly, if someone comes and shoots a sky-diver and kills them, that is also not right, even if there was a possibility of death.
I was curious - apparently they still taught the tongue map and the food pyramid in 2014. I haven't been able to find more recent textbooks, but I suspect they still might teach at least the tongue map here, because I found some online teaching material about that.
I remember when I was a kid, writing an essay on a laptop for the first time, and realizing that the reason the page was blank was because I had nothing to say.

At the end of the day, writing isn't scratching graphite onto paper. It's putting ideas into words, and it's the ideas part that form the main bottleneck for me.

As it turns out, having interesting life experiences and or insightful analysis is hard. The former can only be gained by doing stuff in the real world, while the latter can only be gained by staring at a blank page really hard for a while, and or flashes of insight that seem almost random to me.

Writing is thinking. Programming is thinking. Thinking is hard. Procrastination is easy.

I find what helps is to keep a notebook. Ideas come. I jot them down before they disappear. Now I have much more to say, much more work to do, and procrastination is still easy, but at least that's one problem ameliorated.
Ivey leagues do a lot to enable the propagation of generational wealth. Considering that many equally smart and talented individuals don’t get into Ivies because there simply isn’t enough space, one can view Ivies as primarily a tool to enable generational wealth by providing an environment where a hand curated selection of exceptional people (and curated diversity) is admitted to the environment to give your elite kids a well rounded education.

I guess it boils down to do the Ivies really move the needle on upward mobility or is it really just doing it just enough to create the ideal student body for wealthy participants? Is it easier to guarantee entry by merit or through money?
This is from a German perspective but learning a trade in Germany can be a ticket to good income and good life.
There's unfortunately the perception that trades are worth less than academics in Germany from a societal standpoint. I suspect it's somewhat similar in the US. That's part of the reason why we have a massive shortage of any skilled tradesperson in Germany. If you're an electrician or plumber you can basically pick your work.
The other part of course being that the apprenticeship salary and treatment is utter shit.
My brother completed an industrial electrician apprenticeship recently. Right out of the gate he received offers for 50-60k salaries. In Germany that's a really good salary.
What would you change about it ? I'd be happy to learn how to write better code.
TeamViewer is very very expensive!
I understand the "more than just a number" context well from other comments:

Access to use an IP address is a ticket to go online, not just the ticket's number.

The fact that an IPv4 address can be decomposed into four quads has nothing to do with that point.

My comment, said differently, is that the syntax of an IP address is the wrong focus to make a "more than just a number" point.
I wouldn't worry too much. Meritocracy was a satirical idea from conception.
I had a blog that got to the top of HN on a regular basis — gilesbowkett.blogspot.com — but I shut it down.

then I made a small, secret blog about music hacking called https://truthindustri.es

now I have a barely-used blog at https://gilesbowkett.com
A friend asked me to find out why his lightbulb app was asking for his location
For anyone else wondering, Misskey is a Fediverse / ActivityPub project separate from Mastodon. Details: https://misskey-hub.net/en/docs/misskey.html#is-this-a-fork-...
Whenever I think that newspapers may not be worth supporting, I think back on all the times that reporters have broken important stories of corruption in religious, political, and business sectors that have revealed the real harm that have come to so many victims. The eventual justice that can come from breaking those stories offer good reasons to support the news, even if some stories in between are duds.
I think the point about college mobility rates was an interesting one. But then the author lost me a bit:

> what is the economic rationale for having a bunch of educational resources and top students concentrated in a few small elite schools? ... the country’s most talented people into the country’s most important jobs

I don't think that's it at all. I believe nearly anyone could be among "the country's most talented people" if they were wealthy, given access to near-limitless resources, accepted into an elite school. If the same money was put toward social mobility, the most successful people in our country could be folks who grew up in poverty. Most Ivy League students weren't born smart. They're exceptional because they were given access to what they needed to succeed.

> toxic elitism that has permeated American society over the last four decades ... where only a few people and institutions matter and everyone else is left to watch...

That's been happening for much longer than four decades, lol
http://archive.today/2023.06.24-152246/https://thealgorithmi...
As I said, you need to know how that infrastructure is built. Terraform is just fine. If you call to spin up a VM with a disk that's been imaged to a standard, that is immutable. Functions can also be made immutable by programming in a way that takes into account potential shared state.
No clue. Haven't used Imgur in ages tbh.

It did ask me if the image contained matured content, to which I said no. But for some reason it still marked it as mature? Very weird...
> Honestly, I chafe a little bit at expecting the news to be "actionable" by a regular person, because I think there's some general value to being informed about your environment (especially in a democracy).

What democracy? The News is kind of like so-called democracy: something that every serious person needs to do but that has very little impact on anything. The most exaggerated example is the US presidential election which in fact has a very, very long media coverage (News) up until the election itself. And what does a person who can vote get back from that? They only have two parties that they can vote for if they don’t want to “waste” their vote, and the nomination is filled with a mix of serious candidates and people who want to boost their careers (Buttigieg) and then eventually the party itself circle the wagons and boosts one anointed candidate (that was the case for the Dems but I’m not sure about the Reps since I didn’t pay much attention).

One counter-example though to the News not being actionable was Covid. I felt that a lot of the news about Covid was actionable. And it was useful to know what people/experts thought about the current threat-level day-to-day.
I'm using several notes on Google Keep: a daily todo that I update every night, current quarter goals, next quarter goals, long term goals and a system todo (what I have to do every day to reach the long term goals)
No we aren’t. Intelligence will never be commoditized. You'll just have higher degrees of competition and disinformation. Hard disagree with you.
New #2023 – The basic template of DiscordJS and TypeScript
Please tell me again how that has to do with my root post on this thread.

but - okay, if you want to play this game - that has nothing to do with this thread: the renewables were built faster under Merkel than under the current coalition. Germany has the (one of) the highest electricity prices on this planet. The german electricity - after putting in $500bn+ - is still 5x dirtier than French electricity. We have not yet even started to build storage, which we will need a lot of. Finland, Sweden, France, Belgium and others are successfully combining nuclear power with RE. Germany is alone on this stupid quest and paying dearly for it.
>you can apply via another role in the Tech department

did not work - the application was reviewed as per original position
Natural short-lived halogens exert an indirect cooling effect on climate
Claim your free time. No sane advisor would ever say no.
>a rough estimate of about 100,000 undergraduates at top private schools in the U.S. That might sound like a lot, but it’s compared to 22 million total undergraduates in the country. In other words, top private schools are educating less than half a percent of Americans. The entire Harvard undergrad student body could fit into the University of Michigan football stadium more than 15 times over.

Those figures are completely irrelevant. The proportion of those 22M undergraduates who will need to make use of any specialized knowledge or skills acquired during their student-hood is also miniscule. They are simply following a social convention by going to these schools. There is no equivalence between these populations, except by sloppy word-based reasoning.
Almost every 2 days I get put into a spam "BTC giveaway" promoted with the face of Elon and I guess that says a lot about the level of disrepair of the site

No, my experience has been pretty much the worse of my time on that platform (a bit less than your period) including tweets that I follow only showing on the 'For You' tabs (because the site is obviously overloaded)
TCP needs revamping.
It is a mess of back compat. on back compat. with many performance regressions and security vulnerabilities which shouldn't be there in tge first place.

Personally, I adore development of QUIC and I think it is going to bring alot of good into networking, performence and security.
I did for the Linux port (using CLion and CMake files). But as I've said, I ended up dropping it before shipping since Proton on Steam Deck ran my Windows port so well.

In the end, perhaps sadly, the Steam Deck was for testing only. I rarely boot into the Desktop any longer.

CMake, BTW, was a great way for someone like me who does not know Visual Studio to get something working on Windows. (Xcode is familiar to me so I didn't bother trying to generate the Xcode project from CMake.)

SDL2 is the amazing framework I found for cross-platform development. Just the right level of abstraction for my code-it-in-C game projects.
> Just passively consume and spend. Let other people keep the world from falling apart around you.

One would presumably need to be creating something of value to be able to afford the consumption. So, they are likely the very people who are keeping the world from falling apart. The professional activists on the other hand...
This is pretty cool, I'm a big fan of the fiber map of Africa - https://afterfibre.nsrc.org/
Ostensibly the value of Ivy league as it pertains to tech is in making connections and partnerships with people who have cash-flow and ambition to match. Maybe this is overstated or tech entrepreneurs are more likely to find investment some other way.

If the goal is just to get in at FANG, well, better show some astounding grades, a grab-bag of portfolio items, a knack for communication, among other things. That isn't contingent on Ivy league.
Formal education is a great tool, however the organisation that delivers it is irrelevant.

Brilliant people are brilliant. They're the people you want to hire. And those people will be learning from everything, not just their Ivy League school.

IMO large amounts of students topping IT classes at these schools are doing majority of the learning on their own at a faster pace.
You're arguing a different point though. OP's point is that you'd have a much greater overall benefit to society by increasing access to more accessible places. The issue of elitism is not a refutation of this.
I'm about to wrap up my PhD in a few months here in the US, I find that while it's kind of close, it's a bit on the cynical side, as is most of the HN discussion about PhDs.

Yes, my advisor emphasizes papers a lot, but there aren't any requirements for number of papers for graduation. While there are extremely busy periods of forgoing sleep to work (eg right before a major deadline), my advisor also constantly reminds us to take breaks and enjoy life. There was also the anxiety about graduating on time, but that too was sorted out by just having a meeting with my advisor and understanding how things work.

On the other hand, the situation with the qualifying exam was the opposite, I had to constantly remind my advisor that I needed to get that done. It involved a 50 page report on the current status of my research and a thesis defense style presentation to my committee, so that was a bit of a challenge to make time for between normal research. Passing it didn't feel like much of a challenge, just meeting the 50 page requirement did. I had enough data, but it was still a lot of writing.
Homo erectus existed for almost 2 million years, somewhere around five times as long as homo sapiens so far. So there may have been more than you think overall, even if there were never many living at the same time.
I've always seen Remix on mobile not desktop, so I may have to reserve my support for it. I don't mind bold fonts and saturation when it's used on marketing sites. Web standards and the like or most suited for utility sites and business tools like Google and Wikipedia. The documentation section of a framework site and the more serious stuff definitely should keep it simple and standard though.

My main complaint would be the scrolljacking on mobile.
> I would invoke "chicken and egg" here: are the leaders of this country in the Ivy League because they're from ruling families, or are they ruling because they went to Ivy League?

Obama went to columbia and harvard. Trump went to UPenn. Neither are from ruling families.

It's simply a matter of the ivy league representing some of the oldest institutions in the US and the ruling elite being entrenched members of these institutions. So those who want to serve the ruling elite need to go to these schools to get themselves vetted.
Overall it does work like that though. Google (or other tech companies/elite institutions) attends MIT engineering career fairs, it doesn't attend others.

Corporations are not good at identifying promising talent outside of their traditional (Ivy League, etc.) recruiting grounds so they stick with their traditional recruiting grounds and then they'll favor "diverse" students from their traditional recruiting grounds. That's why they (corps) haven't made any substantial progress in "diverse hires" IMO.

For example if "Google" wanted to make a difference it would actually ban hiring from Ivy League or top-20/30 universities (wiggle room on details here) and instead focus on universities that have higher admission rates (50% or so), large public universities, big time diverse populations relatively speaking.
It's kinda interesting that you, a user, had to bring this to our attention. The article linked by OP only focused on the empty spaces left behind by billboards.

Of course art can take the place of billboards, but clearly that's not what this article aims to convey.
> That’s exactly what every side in every war said, ever.

It's true with Russia though, every time there was any sort of anything like negotiating they just try and raise the stakes.

Like when they intentionally bomb Kyiv when international visitors are visiting just to try and make a point.

> Sure, they would have if Naftali Bennett was allowed to conclude a peace agreeemnt JUST LIKE NIKOLAS SARKOZY DID in the Russo-Georgia war. The question to you is WHY DID THE US BLOCK IT? Answer that directly, don’t dodge!

This was answered for you by someone else, so I am just going to link to it.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36600919

> Sure, Russia could just allow US to go 3000 miles away, flip all its neighbors against it, put nuclear missiles aimed at Russia on its borders

This was never going to happen, no one wants nukes in Ukraine but it ironically would be poetic justice as Ukraine gave up their nukes for a promise from Russia, the US and the UK that they wouldn't do what Russia is doing right now.

Why don't you care about the peace agreement Ukraine has had with Russia for decades?.

You seem to want very much some sort of Minsk scenario but completely ignore the fact the Ukraine already has a peace agreement with Russia.

They have just being ignoring, because they don't care to follow international agreements when it doesn't suit them.

It's funny though your opinion on this exact topic and many others just happens to be the exact same as all the other pro Russian people.

Yet you claim to be 'even handed'.

> The worst part is, the fantasy scenario is exactly the one Kennedy warned about will bring about the destruction of humanity. And our leaders have it as an explicit policy! It’s a game of chicken where they are actively chasing down the cornered animal with larger and larger escalations until it reacts. And we are all held hostage. Why ?

No one is escalating aside from Russia.

Defending yourself isn't escalating.
Or your advisor retiring in year 2...
Yeah I hear your complaints about Vue 3. I had the same experiences when I was building a few apps with it pre 2020.

Next/Nuxt really take Vue and React to a whole new level when building a wet application.

I’m very well versed in all 3 of big reactive JavaScript frameworks, and React is my go to for now.

I switched from Vue to React as my default after struggling with complex data tables in Vue; when React had a bunch of libraries on GitHub that would work for my project at the time.

The final nail in the coffin was a contract requirement for .Net core framework, and it came bundled with React in it already. From there, I found Next, Typescript, and Tailwind, and haven’t looked back :)
Does riding a bicycle with a working chainsaw on a leash sound like a rational protesting technique?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?reload=9&v=qUutjFQ3y_U
I wanted to love driverless taxis, but then my ride took a sinister turn
https://archive.is/Cwzjv
Me too. If I had to keep a window open in — say — Photoshop open all the time just so I didn't have to wait ten seconds every time I open something with it, it'd drive me crazy.

Visual Studio on Windows does drive me crazy for exactly this reason, especially as each instance can only have one top-level document (solution) open at a time.
Exactly this. I now work in a team with a bunch of Ivy League UK equivalents (Oxford/Cambridge), but I'm about 5 years older working at a similar grade/comp ratio. I had to hop around 4 different teams at 2 companies, and build a pretty extensive portfolio of work, before I got a foot in the door they did straight out of university.
Or hypothetically they think it's very much not pointless. I imagine most of us would have some current events that we think is not only worth listening to, but acting on. Which isn't an argument to watch news/etc, as it may be exceptionally rare. Just that i imagine we could all say quite similar things.

To me, if anything, it really goes to show up important "yelling with appropriate volume" is. So many of those "with a cause" as is being discussed here are pretty widely ignored, as it seems they're always yelling. I can't tell what is meaningful from them when it's almost always of equal volume, fear, etc.