skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I was very serious.

The journals take works others have done (work often paid for with public money) and get unpaid volunteers to peer-review it. Next they require the authors to sign away their copyright to it. And then they turn right back around and sell it to very same universities where it came from for thousands of dollars a year.

And for what? So they can have have profit margins rivaling big tech? (Their major expenses are lawyers and server costs for pdf documents…)

And why do researchers publish there? Because they need to in order to keep their jobs, or to get funding. You need those high-impact-factor and prestigious journals. And so you sign away your research.

Most 1st world researchers don’t care or don’t know about the costs. But most of the world is not so lucky. Yes you could go around begging the authors for a free copy (but definitely don’t go to scihub or library genesis and download them for free, that would be illegal…).

The “space for improvements” starts with burning down the journals and scattering their ashes among the fields to fertilize new science.
Mid-flight is all but certainly the best possible place for such an event to occur. It is interplanetary space. The debris cloud would disperse. As this is a constant-acceeleration design, an intercept orbit only exists during the initial and terminal phases of the nominal trajectory, such that debris would tend not to intersect with either origin or destination planets for a considerable time, during which both dispersion and extensive radioactive decay would have occurred, both reducing net risks.

Planned mission profiles look to be Earth-Mars transfers. That's relatively nearby, but still a vast volume of space in which numerous other near-Earth-orbit objects exist posing relatively little risk. Including a Tesla automobile.

It would be a bad day for any crew and/or passengers, but would have minimal effects for anyone else, most likely.

Space is big. Even if we're only talking interplanetary space.
There is a big difference between

"War and Peace"

as a string of ISO-Latin1 characters which are frequently found in that order, and "novel by Tolstoy which contains many insights into the human condition" _and_ understanding the symbolism of said insights.

A grade school student who has read and understood _War and Peace_ would be able to write a paper which is original to the degree that it did not previously exist as that exact sequence of characters, even if it had no original insights, while ChatGPT would regurgitate the most frequent combinations of characters which the metadata and so forth indicate are in the context of writing about that novel.
The inability of the community to self police has driven a ton of people away, myself included.
“Parent-led homeschooling is the approach that puts parents in charge of the education decisions for their children.”

Teachers in the US are required to have a Master’s level education and multiple months of student teaching in order to be certified to teach. Yes, there are many kids in the classroom. Yes, your kid isn’t going to get the same type of 1 on 1 attention you can give them at home. However, work in conjunction with the experts, don’t presume you know better by default.
I don't have a Samsung OS (other than a phone) but it is possible to specify where on a screen a subtitle appears. I've noticed it happening with some shows where they have them high up so they don't block the credits but then go back down later.
That premise is open to debate, there are Western countries with different systems. E.g., most Western European countries have a system called "social market economy" (which is not [exactly] capitalism).
> If I understand your issue correctly, it's `git diff --cached` that you're specifically looking for, not just `git diff` in general?

incorrect. I am simply looking for a normal "git diff", which compares the index with the working directory. shocking this is not available out of the box, hence my issue.
> Have you ever been on a debate team

Agreeing with OP and having participated in debate and mock student legislatures, with some success, from middle school through college — your points in rebuttal illustrate OP's complaints. Your rebuttal plays the prompt before you attempt to understand the point or the person making them.

You aren't effectively rebutting anything with your points; regardless of your intent, you've created a prompt out of OP and then presented a case to win it. The pressure of debate doesn't inherently improve a point; not every disagreement can or should be decided with evidence; reading judge profiles doesn't help exercise empathy and sympathy; "understand the counter arguments at least 2-3 levels deep" misses the point of critically self-examining what that statement means in the first place; a solution lying outside of a debate is not an invitation to reframe the topic but to step out of the debate to try to come to a shared understanding on a different level.

Your approach would be, and has been, a natural approach I've turned to when it was the most prominent (or only) way I'd learned to approach a disagreement. If not OP's point, then at least for me it's proven to be a fundamentally flawed one when applied to most venues outside of the structure of competitive debate. It plays well in a lot of modern venues, especially online, but it doesn't accomplish much.
Huawei too! Just plug your phone into your TV. But behind the scenes it’s built on AOSP code (assuming DeX and Motorola are the same)
You wouldn't be from America, would you, where long-established English terms get corrupted?

Because it's a pretty standard political and social concept -> https://imgur.com/a/BdkeTf4

Not to mention -> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liberalism
Until somebody drops their keys and the TV switches channels. Seen it happen!
Back in my day we had real man’s trees rather than the silly “programmer” soft lad trees. It took us a MONTH to chew our punch cards.
Agreed. Another factor here is how the audience for debate is changing. The author of the article themselves is mass reviewing debate arguments on YouTube. Not so long ago this would have been far more difficult (and thus be seen by far less people). Making these debate arguments widely available to the wider Internet implicates that a simple intellectual exercise where you argue a policy position you see as problematic could help to make that policy position more likely to pass in the future if you are very effective in your arguments...
One caveat I have is that companies are generally terrible at recognizing senior+ level independent contributors (ICs). Many companies don't even have a career path defined for this.

I have worked with some of those individuals and they really are worth every bit as much as, if not more than, a systems-level thinker that enjoys mapping business needs to technical solutions.

Most large tech companies I've seen promote standout ICs to either architect or manager, assuming that the skillset and interest largely transfers. I've seen this blow up many times, it's painful to watch and I really hate it for everyone involved.
That doesn't seem to be factual.

The people involved in Libreboot.at / GNU Boot are Adrien Bourmault and Denis Carikli, and the whole Libreboot.at / GNU Boot forks started in 2023.

They don't seem to be the people that were booted in 2021, which are Andrew Robbins and Sebastian Grzywna – http://andrewrobbins.info/libreboot.html

Unless Leah managed to abandon the project in 2021-2022, give it to Adrien/Denis to maintain and then made another (a third!) alleged coup, I don't see how all of this can be related.

Once again, I have no horse on this race and never heard of those people before, but I'm replying to you again because you're the one making those accusations, which I assume are either an honest mistake from you, or you're talking about things that were never published anywhere.
This feels like a fire fighter showing up to your burning house and saying “well I can’t save your house until we debate the merits of private property ownership”. There is a time and place for policy debates, turning every social interaction into an opportunity to thrown in a red herring is immature and ultimately ineffective. None of these debates are going to move the needle and the aggregate effect won’t move the needle either.
Plus 1 to the LOGH reference using it as if it was real historical person who said that.
Conclusion:

> The problem of excess genius is one of the most important questions I can imagine, but very little progress has been made. It surprises me that essentially no scholarly effort has been directed towards it. I warmly solicit any suggestions from readers that may help me to clarify my own confusion and uncertainty regarding this.

Excess tends to have a negative connotation, but not as used in the article. It also mentions that "the great minds in each of these societies tended to hang out together" which resonates as true based on reading biographies from accomplished philosophers. I'm curious to read your thoughts:
Sounds good to me. It's impossible to make a good argument for keeping the minimum wage low so they instead up the ante.
Either you have a concern, in which case you can and should do something about it, or you don’t and just commented for no reason.
All of the foods that come from Bill Gates farmland
The initial cold fusion results claimed success. It will be interesting to see how all this pans out. Results will come because the materials are not exotic.

One thing I found odd, I've read more than once that the 99 in LK-99 means 1999. Who sits on this for 24 years? Perhaps there is a misunderstanding that is being repeated?
Maybe its just an illustration of whatever the name of the law is that says when the title is a yes/no question, the answer is always no.
Edward Tufte's sidenotes. https://edwardtufte.github.io/tufte-css/
"Sidenotes are like footnotes, except they don’t force the reader to jump their eye to the bottom of the page, but instead display off to the side in the margin."
Ask HN: All football fans out there, is it worth staying up all night?
In all seriousness and not sarcasm, using any kind of link to twitter seems like a really bad idea for persistence.
This goes back to my theory that the people most freaked out about climate change are the ones with kids, who are mad that other less responsible people have more kids, while I'm just chilling here with no kids at all and clearly see that if all those assholes stopped having kids, climate change would be solved within 20 years.
Generally the current system makes sense because capital is taking the risk and paying the labor up front to produce something that is also generally the idea of the group with the capital and the up front payment is determined by supply and demand dynamics in the labor market.

Specific to the case of copyright, the idea to reduce copyright term is correct because the natural competitive state of the world is for ideas to be copied by everybody and be pushed to their marginal cost of production quickly (that number is so close to zero for digital media that it should just be thought of as zero). Copyright is fixing the market failure of the fixed cost of media production being unaccounted for in the natural market outcome and that negative spread dissinsentiving new content production. So the correct term to set copyright for is one that insentivizes most media creation with the minimum intervention in the natural market outcome and one has to be insane to think anyone is making new content because of returns from holding a monopoly on its production for more than ten to fifteen years. All the rest of the term is just about unjustly enriching capital, at great cost to society from deadweight loss due to the cost of reproduction not going to zero, by limiting competition for new creations from old creations and capturing residual income from the fraction of one percent of the works that are still financially viable after 15 years.
This is the piece of this story most people commenting here are missing.

I wish this were higher up. I can see why the situation is very confusing to somebody who doesn't know this.
No, that's not what I'm saying at all. I'll try again:

Schools should aim to maximize learning for every child, irrespective of their starting point or their parents' resources.

If schools have everyone go at the same pace, some kids won't learn anything at school. Parents with resources can always pay for private tutors or, if that's not enough, pay for private school.

I'm glad you brought up Stuyvesant. Imagine if Stuyvesant didn't exist, and all students at all public high schools in NYC went through math at the same pace. Imagine further that your Uber driver can't afford private tutors or private school, and is too busy working to tutor his kids himself. Would it be fair that his smart kid has to go slow whilst an equally smart kid with rich parents will be doing Calculus BC in 11th grade?
you should post in ShowHN
No, all of that is still true at most tournaments.

The author's piece is a description of the national circuit, and perhaps of a very few regional circuits that heavily overlap with the national circuit. All of her statistics are for an invite-only championship tournament (TOC) for that national circuit. Note: it's not the national championship, which does exist. It's a championship for competitors in a national circuit.

Most kids attend tournaments close to home. Not only do they not attend the TOC -- they don't even attend a national circuit tournament that would allow them to qualify for the TOC!
> I don't see how morality comes into it when it's a choice made by adults

It's not black and white. Morality is a continuum of cause and effect.

Shooting someone is bad. Shooting bullets recklessly and accidentally hitting someone is bad, but less so. Shooting a bunch of bullets safely but leaving the lead in the ground to leach into a neighboring properties well is bad, but lesser still. Etc.

There are moral consequences to literally everything you do, it's just a matter of each individual's threshold for caring, and the social contract formed when people become part of a group. Some people care about the first and second order effects of smoking (increased burden on healthcare, land use competition, agricultural pollution, microplastic pollution, etc.) and some don't.
> I am horrified to read that people use them as a therapist replacements.

I'm guessing that (thanks to wait times or simple anxiety) for a lot of those people, the alternative isn't therapy, but nothing (or worse, anonymous strangers on the Internet).
Do you think that a factor in why Ks are becoming more prevalent and desirable amongst participants (judges and contestants) might be because of the increased audience that their debate positions have, since they are all put up on YouTube?

I would imagine the incentive changes quite a lot when your effective arguments for (what you perceive to be) an odious policy position could help to make that policy a reality.
Critical theorists and academics in general are smart enough to be able to hold multiple contradictory ideas in their heads at the same time. For example, they are at the same time against capitalism and against starving to death in a gulag.
> Isn't Leah the person that sold ThinkPads on behalf of Libreboot

No: She sold librebooted laptops under the brand "gluglug" and later "minifree". This was never "on behalf of Libreboot"; it was always separate.

> didn't send it, then put the blame on her mental issues?

Yes, mostly: in 2020 minifree accumulated a backlog of orders that she wasn't able to fulfill. However, AFAIK, she did eventually ship all those orders, and minifree is in a good place today.

> Then she abandoned the project and let the contributors take over

Sorta: She had removed herself as a Libreboot maintainer after the 2016 drama between her and the FSF. She had already long not been a Libreboot maintainer by the time she encountered trouble in 2020.

> after some time she booted them with fake accusations, banned them from their IRC channel and took over the project. The contributors complained that she didn't even have the decency of contacting them

Yes: She did forcefully take Libreboot back over in 2021. But, in the 5 years of SwiftGeek et al. being the Libreboot maintainers, they never shipped a release. At the the time she took it back over, the last release was more than 5 years old, shipped by Leah before she stepped away in 2016. So IMO her taking it back over was the right thing, even if how she did it was shitty.

> but she was adamant of taking the Libreboot name for her again to sell used Laptops.

No: Again, her controlling the "libreboot" name has nothing to do with her selling laptops under the brand "minifree". She was adamant that libreboot start doing releases again, instead of withering away.

> This was also the moment that she began to add binary blobs to Libreboot.

No: That didn't happen until November 2022 when she merged with osboot.

When she did that, several folks (I believe with no overlap of the folks who were maintainers 2016-2021), forked libreboot.org as libreboot.at and claim to be the "true" libreboot. This libreboot.at is a snapshot of the pre-osboot-merge libreboot, and doesn't have any new releases.

Then, in June 2023, the libreboot.at folks decided to start working toward doing new releases under the "GNU Boot" name. At this time, there has not been a GNU Boot release.

> she, not satisfied, created another "GNU Boot" just to say that their project is "inferior" and now she complains about a "cease and desist" of a person that rightfully don't like her.

No: She published some GNU Boot "releases" that were clearly marked as "unofficial" incorporating work from libreboot that she thought would be useful to the GNU Boot folks. https://web.archive.org/web/20230719185342/https://libreboot... She did not create "another" GNU Boot. She did call GNU Boot "inferior", but not because her unofficial release was better, but because of the FSF's RYF and FSDG policies force it to be inferior; her unofficial GNU Boot releases are also inferior to Libreboot in the same way.

As a reminder, the GNU Boot folks are trying to take the Libreboot name from her.
Yeah if you're going to walk with groceries, use a mesh or canvas bag with handles, or a grocery basket/cart if you're buying more than a few items. Carrying paper bags sucks because you have to hold them in your arms and support the bottom of the bag.
When it comes to enforcing laws, you can count on San Francisco!
then remapping them by some arithmetic is tautological, isn't it?
There is also a standalone (go) version [0] that can be deployed on a server.
"one of the main advantages of standalone Snowflake proxies is that they can be installed on servers and offer a higher bandwidth and more reliable option for users behind restrictive NATs and firewalls."

[0] https://community.torproject.org/relay/setup/snowflake/stand...
I was in high school debate and I would agree with the poster above you. In general, debates are judged based on the stated arguments in the debates, which makes sense. However, what this often leads to is debaters simply preparing rote responses to any argument the opponent may present, and then reading off as many as possible (some even speak extremely quickly, called “speed”).

The trouble with this is that most times, a nuanced or carefully considered argument will be quickly overridden by several generic responses, and when you don’t respond to all of their responses they will argue that you dropped the point and therefore they automatically win.

Debates mostly devolve into a game of tug of war, with very little thought or quality put into the arguments. K’s are in a similar category, and are mostly successful in an attempt to catch the opponent off guard by arbitrarily changing the topic.

Most of the skills I learned in debate have been thoroughly useless when it comes to determining the truth or making decisions. It has made it easy for me to derail discussions, though.
Pretty much this. Teach them as much as they want to know. We were extremely fortunate and decided to home school our kids through elementary and middle school because a) they were learning faster than their peers and bored, and b) we had a lot of community involvement which was much better social interactions than school provided. If you are in the Bay Area and can send your kids to Reikes Nature studies[1] it is a wonderful program (as an example). Conveniently California provided all of the knowledge they "expected" kids to know[2]. Each of my children reached math proficiency differently, all of them went through calculus "C" in terms of subject matter but I don't thing the English/Business major took it past that, the other two (Physics, Bio) did.

[1] https://www.riekes.org/riekesnature

[2] https://www.cde.ca.gov/be/st/ss/ (side note, all of our kids could pass the high school "exit" exam when they started high school. I attribute this not necessarily to personal talents so much as a very low student/teacher ratio meant everyone learned things and a lack of "deadlines" on when they had to be done meant different approaches could be taken on a subject if one didn't seem to be working out)
> They (GNU Boot) don't want her help, and I understand why they don't like her. The fact she is making more drama from it is more proof that she is not trustworthy.

Everyone is still free to fork GNU Boot, even if the maintainers don't "want help". Also Leah seems to be the upstream maintainer. Reusing the name for a fork is of course not the best thing to do, but it was promptly changed when requested.

And publishing a C&D is not really making drama. Transparency is important.

EDIT: Also have to point out that the sender of the C&D wasn't among those expelled from Libreboot in 2021, they merely object to the inclusion of binary blobs, as per http://libreboot.at , so there isn't "personal drama" in this.
He started a computing REVOLUTION–then the shortage hit [video]
In the real world, people in cities are healthier because physical activity is integrated into their daily routine.
The paper bags they give you are terrible, they're barely fit to walk to the car with. They always fall apart on the walk home, and the ergonomics suck too. But with any reasonable bag I find it's not a big deal.
That looks like deliberate sabotage, and not merely a "the screen wasn't calibrated correctly" which I suspect Apple is going to try to spin this as, especially if using the existing controller with the new screen as the video claims causes this to be fixed. Watch the video - it's very short.

More disturbing is the realisation that there are people working at Apple to implement stuff like this.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36647258

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36213136

The Algolia search tool here at HN is quite helpful for checking earlier submissions.
I've replaced 2 iPhones and and an iPad for no other reason than that the lightning socket came loose and unreliable after a few years (even though the devices were otherwise fine). I've never had a single issue with USB-C
You just exposed yourself as a partisan hack.

Glenn greenwald and taibbi are not republican sycophants but true left but, just like criticizing Hillary made you "russian" or trumpist, seeing the truth about censorship makes you "right winger/republican".

Edit: hypocrisy at its finest: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36927153

It's so hilarious. You can't even come up with an original dismissal. It's the same old tired labels. Try harder.
Ask HN: What books should a novice read to learn what's needed for astrophysics?
Assume starting from scratch, about what materials and what order should someone interested in astrophysics learn?
One is, two are at established companies.