skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've had dogs my entire life as well.

If you have all the experience with dogs that you say you do, and yet still hold the thoughts about dogs that you do...i'm not sure what to say about that.
Cough syrup deaths: Why drugs made in India are sparking safety concerns
That’s a pretty cynical way to look at it. If you look at LIGO, that thing is detecting changes in length of 1/1000th the width of a proton. The actual data looks like noise. But it’s not noise. GPS data looks like noise in raw form and yet it gets millions of people to their destinations daily.
hating on NYC has been a thing since well before trump. even before george W
Bug report: clicking "pricing" while on the pricing page leads to blank page
Gating as late as possible was precisely the philosophy of the OMSCS program of Georgia Tech. They reduced the bar for admission and admitted as many as they could (given they didn't need to fit everyone in physical classrooms) but kept the same academic rigor.

I benefited greatly getting this program, but would have never bothered to apply by taking GRE first (in my 30s, if I may add) otherwise.
Ivy has the money, we have the brains.
> I find fast.com massively overestimates my speeds.

I find fast.com more accurate than most, going by the throughput I see to/from other resources, particularly for upstream rates (which some, including Cloudflair, seem to significantly under-measure). Of course this may vary depending on line type (FTTC, “up to 67Mbit down n& 17 up”, generally seeing more like 50/12) and location (due to differences in local network conditions and peering between you & the speedtest) to I'm not surprised to hear you see the results quite different to those I experience.

> if you hide the tab running their speedtest you get even higher speeds

I suspect this is due to your browser throttling CPU use and timer granularity for background or occluded tabs⁰ reducing the accuracy of the readings, if the code isn't working to mitigate the effect of these throttles on the calculations.

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[0] refs: https://blog.chromium.org/2020/11/tab-throttling-and-more-pe..., https://www.reddit.com/r/incremental_games/comments/jefviz/f..., and many more
Yup. Me too. On Firefox.
So how do you manage the risk of a user connecting to a remote desktop with an un-updated machine full of malware? In the end if the client machine is breached the remote virtual one will also fall?
"track" probably refers to "tracking", which is education jargon: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tracking_(education)

> Tracking is separating students by academic ability into groups...
It might not be 100% coercive, however, at least in the EU the general legal principle seems to be that by default it should be assumed that it is coercive, due to the inherent power imbalance in employment contracts.

E.g. PriceWaterhouseCoopers was fined for unlawful handling employee data despite having having the employees "agree" to it (https://www.lexology.com/library/detail.aspx?g=9a315cca-bc71...), and the "consent" being in the employee handbook effectively was an additional violation "PwC had processed the personal data in an unfair and transparent manner, by giving the false impression that it was relying on consent".

For resolving such issues, quoting that article, "the EDPB/ICO guidelines stipulate that in an employment context, consent cannot be given freely as there is most likely an imbalance of power between the employer and the employee".

It could be that in some particular scenario the relationship wasn't coercive at all and the consent is valid, but it would be up to the employer to demonstrate that, and if somehow 100% of employees consented to monitoring, it could be very, very difficult for the employer to demonstrate that no "motivation" (positive or negative) was involved and everyone really just loves being monitored as a pure coincidence.
Most of those university clubs are kinda dumb anyway. It's a country club; you can just join a different one and get the exact same benefit.
Not a doctor, but is that a form of Obsessive-compulsive disorder?
BGP / routing is likely to be static during the course of a test (and indeed much longer)
> the usual forbidden path and filename characters.

It’s pretty irritating when files and folders on my Mac can’t be uploaded to Teams due to this limitation. It’s only forbidden for Windows users.
“Sir! We demand your sacrifice your life to us now! It’s tour duty.”

Not your call, nor for any other arm chair general.

Right or wrong.
> [We should maximize individual potential even if this causes more variance than we have now]... But we agree on the ideal, right?

Some people absolutely disagree with this ideal. One argument against gifted classes is roughly "Those kids will do alright regardless of the classroom, so we should ignore them and focus resources on less gifted kids"
Pervasive within-species spatial repulsion among adult tropical trees
Very true. After basic needs are met, the majority of people will spend the majority of their efforts pursuing status. So anything that confers status will become focused on that alone to the exclusion of other goals.
Forbes Has a Fraud Problem [video]
Clicking on "get started for free" in the blue pricing box while on pricing page opens blank page in the new window
Why is your experience the only one? Congratulations on feeling good about your decision but you're not everyone and your opinion is narrow and selfish.
Thank you that seems interesting.
Personally, I wonder what the long-term effects will be like. I think reduced cooperation and communication will have an effect on new products, coming up with ideas etc. which cannot be measured right away.

Also, I wonder how many of those studies took children into account.
Now that COVID lockdowns are over people can work at home without the family present which definitely leads to fewer interruptions.
What's a counter-example at a reasonable scale? By reasonable scale, I mean millions of people.
> There’s a reasonable argument for putting the top professors together in one school, sure, and maybe even PhD students.

Who's "putting" the professors there? The entire thing seemingly hinges on the idea that Harvard's role in society is somehow intentional and planned, as opposed to emergent and organic. I just don't buy it.

The institution's stated objective may be the creation "citizen-leaders", but the influence Harvard has, and the harm this causes, is entirely predicated on our willingness to buy that narrative.

Make an argument that Harvard's importance and credibility is vastly overrated, go ahead. I'm fully on board with that. But don't go blaming the institution itself for it. There's a ton of organizations with similarly lofty goals and aspirations, but we don't consider them harmful. That's because the harm is coming from without, not within.

Harvard doesn't need to not exist for us to be able to ignore it.
Well, if you really want to confound things you could write your own __start which is typically the entry point called by the kernel, which in turn calls `main()`.

But actually that's just by convention: C (and C++) programs drop `__start` into the binary and then tell the linker to mark the binary (mostly an ELF file these days, thank goodness) to indicate that the entry point is the symbol `__start`. There can be different versions depending on how many arguments to `main()` are requested, or it can simply pass all three and let the function body ignore the unwanted ones.

If you really want to confuse the TA, write the following program:

#include <stdio.h>

void foo();

int main() {
printf ("I'm in main\n");
foo();
printf ("I'm still in main\n");
}

void foo() {
printf ("I'm in foo!\n");
}

Then tell the linker to mark `foo` as your entry point. You could do this from the command line or even a custom linker script.

Of course depending on what your OS needs from `__start` you may have to do some extra setup, sorry. But this might work on Linux.

I've actually been thinking of modifying gcc's `__start` to pass the arguments and env vars as a span (well, the function __start calls that calls `main()`.)
This is a classic joke, but settling on a common gauge was really difficult, it was not just copying some old Roman standard. There were even riots when different railways started to standardize because common rail gauge meant you can move through the town without engaging with the local economy, see Erie gauge war. Russia still has a wider gauge than Europe and Australia has 3 different ones.
Seems like you've got your rose tinted glasses on. The first universities were established by religious leaders to organize/control priestly power. Basically the same as today.
Several months ago when ChatGPT was just published, I asked it to draw a diagram of the contents of a cell (nucleus, membrane, amynoacids etc) in SVG (similar to the experiment shown here). At that time, it generated an OK SVG drawing, with very basic figures (squares, trianlges, circles, etc) representing the elements in a cell. I did this test to show my Biologist mom, the "power" of this new AI technology.

Fast forward a couple of months later, I tried it again, and it was "blocked": It kept telling me "as an AI I cannot draw", even after emphazising the part of "generate SVG code". For me, it was another example of OpenAI "borking" the capabilities of ChatGPT.
Hulk Smash New VR ‘Superhero Therapy’ Crushes Chronic Pain
> - Incredibly slow

Almost as fast as Java, and for performance critic processes 99.9% of the time we bump on infrastructure performance problem BEFORE hitting the wall with Clojure (see https://clojure-goes-fast.com/blog/ for tips and tooling about performance)

> - Hosted on the JVM, so you're going to be dealing with Java eventually

For me it's a major selling point: JVM is battle tested and a wonder of engineering.
The Java ecosystem richness is incredible (see tooling above for monitoring and profiling for an example). And the platform is constantly moving forward (see latest JDK with virtual threads, generational ZGC, etc.). And of course GraalVM... (https://www.graalvm.org)

> - No automatic tail call optimization because of the limitations of the JVM, so it feels like you're writing a mess of macros rather than real functional code

Never have been a problem and I don't see the point with macros, and code we write looks _very_ functional...
The Romans did not use war chariots, since they are basically useless in combat. They only used chariots for sports in the hippodrome.
Because one day they'll be 30!
Basically just a bunch of d3 — could be cleaned up significantly, but that's hard to do while iterating and polishing the charts.

I also have a couple of little libraries for things like annotations, interleaving svg/canvas and making d3 a bit less verbose.

- https://github.com/PAIR-code/ai-explorables/tree/master/sour...

- https://1wheel.github.io/swoopy-drag/

- https://github.com/gka/d3-jetpack

- https://roadtolarissa.com/hot-reload/
The case was really about what is a reasonable temperature to serve coffee at.

It was found that McDonald's, as a franchise, mandated coffee to be served at this temperature, generally 20 degrees higher than the temperature of take-away coffee served at other establishments.

This 20 degrees difference accounting for the difference between third degree burns within seconds and a significant chance at preventing the third degree burns.

Liebeck's behaviour was of course risky, but even applying common sense, she could not have expected the coffee to be _this_ hot.

McDonald's was also aware of the tendency of drivers to want to immediately drink the coffee after buying, yet continued to insist on serving at this extremely high temperature.

McDonald's should have been the ones to apply some common sense and simply lower the mandated temperature.
This is a typical "let's be all equally poor/bad" argument. Harvard is simply a private institution with excellent reputation and not a single person is required to go there or hire someone from there.

Why do Harvard people "drive 20% above the speed limit"? Because selecting good people in a sea of resumes is HARD. Degrees aren't amazing proxies for productivity, but they are decent proxies. I've seen dozens of theories on how to interview and triage people, but few approaches beat the cost-benefit of supporting decisions based on a degree from a solid institution.

Having managed over 100+ people, I can say that on average the people from better institutions are better employees - even though I have managed amazing people without college degrees and bad people with amazing degrees. The top schools can be pretty darn great, Harvard being just one of them.

Not very different than an Apple product being generally better than a product from some random vendor from Amazon with names like "GREAT TECH" or "SUPER QUALITY PRO".
ChatGPT generated text in a published scientific paper
Which ones were fairly egalitarian compared to others?
Fast.com seemingly tries to compensate for the overhead. Bandwidth includes every bit on the wire and that's why "940mbps" internet is usually just normal gigabit with a bunch of packet headers and intentionally unused transmit space consuming the phantom 60mbps.

It's hard to guesstimate the exact bandwidth of the data that arrives in your browser because of differences in protocol, MTU, header compression and all that nonsense, especially over technologies like WiFi. In my experience, the WiFi throughput numbers seem spot on.

Their compensation makes for some hilarious statistics, but when you're downloading more than 200mbps the fast.com speedtest doesn't make much sense anyway. No way in hell is Netflix going to allow your single home internet connection to somehow pull in a full gigabit of streaming video. If you're your own ISP you can make it happen, but on the other hand you'll probably also know how to get statistics directly from your network hardware, in which case the fast.com numbers are useless but it still becomes a useful way to spike the load.

Netflix's speedtest is mostly reliable for what it's meant to do, which is solve the question of "my internet is fast but Netflix keeps buffering".

Edit: another factor to consider is that accurate timing has been disabled in most browsers because of side channel attacks like SPECTRE. It's possible that those are affecting your measurements at very high speeds.
You have (recur ,,,) for TCO.
I started searching for pasta recipes in Italian and it worked fantastically, feels like learning the things that will become a trend in english youtube videos 3 years from now. I feel like I've learned so many useful techniques and ideas that I can just improvise really really high quality pastas whenever I want now. It's fantastic.
Can you provide some counter-examples then? It seems like all animals have hierarchies.
We also downvote sh*tposting
On that same theme, I've learned the basics of bread making recently, and it's been exciting to me to realize how easily I can make bread that's far better than anything at the grocery store. When I realized that I could 'win' by just using flour, water, and salt, it felt like I had unlocked one of life's cheat codes.
This is great! I took a look and it looks awesome, and the team seems pretty young! Love to see such innovation at a young age!

Congrats on the launch!
I fully agree with you. Digital sovereignty is important for countries and it makes sense that they are trying to become digitally independent. The bad part is that this particular instance, it will be used against the people.

I would say that better goal would be for individuals to be digitally sovereign, and not countries. Individual digital sovereignty protects us from external and internal oppression.
Papers that try to implement a multi agent system

https://arxiv.org/abs/2307.07924

https://arxiv.org/abs/2307.02485
In the mid-90s there was a fun and short period of time where IRC clients like mIRC could be set to auto-receive files through DCC.. and would happily write to names like LPT1 (which of course would just write the data directly to the recipient’s printer)
>I’ve never once felt someone else going to Harvard impacted my life in any way whatsoever

Eight of the nine current sitting Supreme Court Judges are either Yale or Harvard Law graduates. It's pretty likely Harvard has had an impact on your life in a lot of ways because a lot of people who govern you went there.

Degrees from those schools are basically licenses to occupy the highest positions in the country's administration, it matters a pretty big deal who gets funneled through those institutions.
Not really advice, but I can share what I went through.

It started happening on its own once I found a way to feel safe and secure. I grew up never having felt completely safe even at home because my father was alcoholic so I had a chaotic home life. And I learned that I always needed to be on guard even at home or in my room.

So quitting my job and letting my wife totally support us for a 6 months while I reassessed my life and let go of being the “breadwinner”/man of the house was key. But hard. I made SV money and she makes $18/hr. It’s the hardest thing I’ve ever done. And the scariest.

But Berne Brown was a powerful voice to help me choose a direction and learning how to connect with others.

Just feeling empathy for others isn’t enough. People will be suspicious or think you’re fake if you don’t reciprocate openness/vulnerability.
The existence of these institutions hinges solely on the reputation we assign to them. If we collectively recognize them for their role in perpetuating economic inequality, catering primarily to privileged white adults whose parents bought them a ticket to attend, their worth will diminish rapidly over time.
I have a doc, which is password-protected and shared with my wife. It contains details of bank accounts, how to access shares, who we're insured with and passwords / passcodes for things she might need access to.
Actually, several static snapshops exist (a benefit of open licensing) despite the fact attempts to fork and continue have been not so successful. In addition to the one upthread there are also:

https://dmoz-odp.org/

http://www.odp.org/homepage.php
This reminds me of James Iry saying "all your code and data are in one giant mutable array indexed by pointers, good luck". Half true, but insightful.
Those two are obviously GetExtendedMemoryMap and Saxophone.
Not an achievement at all considering we are on HN, but earlier this year I made my first website. It’s just a little personal site that’s hosted on GitHub pages. It’s a skill I’ll definitely utilize again in the future so I’m quite happy about it :).
I think the argument that “1% of the pre-agricultural humans didn’t hoard 90% of the bronze” is more of an issue of logistics than desire. Even apes and chimps have hierarchies.
> nor is it embarrassing

Isn’t it? The folders work fine on a Mac.

Teams is not a things of beauty, and is rough as all hell for daily users.
The author is pontificating on some very fundamental things without considering reality.

8 Billion human beings cannot be jammed into the same exact university. It's as simple as that. Sorry for being reductive but that's the reality. Naturally, you have to have more universities. Naturally, some will be better than others.

The author tries pushing some marxist ideas about how everything can be exactly equal but even in a marxist utopia you are going to have some neighborhoods/schools/universities/hospitals that are better than others.
I'd be interested in some of those counterexamples you mentioned, I can't think of any that weren't transient/temporary on the way to the hierarchy which normally emerges after even the most severe disruption.
It's a tad insensitive, and I just plain disagree.
Russia is very lucky that someone blown up their stopped pipe-line, because that saved them many billions in fines for violation of supply contract.

They also very lucky that working pipeline is not blown up.
> I'd say the one law of nature is that there are no laws of nature.

That's ridiculous. There are certainly laws.

But I think OP meant more so "natural pressures" that cause things to more often than not to align certain ways.

Taking "law of nature" so literally is pretty dang useless.
That's the right attitude to have. We can still do better. Trchnology like chatgpt can help close the equity gap. It's still left to be seen how much the elites will plunder it.
Reported on Twitter: https://twitter.com/gcabanac/status/1689334454798491648?t=Dv...
If I ever do anything where I let people name things it's rarely a good idea to NOT lock it down with some restrictions. "Minimum length", "Maximum lenght" at least, but anyone who has programmed windows machines for any length of time might also have the scars to remember to do "is a valid file name" too.

Having to escape everything or replace names with stable guids is not a good relpacement for storing \whatever\logs\channelname or whatever the need may be. Especially for systems that are hard bound to windows filesystems or Sharepoint to begin with.

I bet there are apps on other OS:es where you CAN name things a "\0" sequence or "/" and for each such app I imagine there are people who regret making that possible.
bloodermilk
I use fast.com instead.

This one tests a 10MB chunk at last and that's the only reliable indication for me.

100KB and 1MB down/up load tests show unrealistically low values, perhaps due to a high latency (ping).
Trivial things: The busy beaver fast growing function, and how turning machines represent "all things computable". Somehow this was an epiphany I never realized... I always thought "x can be represented on a turing machine", and this itself always seemed like "so what." All it really means to me is you can play doom in your _random thing_ thats turing complete. Once I learned about the busy beaver function however, and n state turing machines, I had a massive epiphany that ive been thinking about it backwards. Whats better is to think that some N-State turing machine can represent EVERY POSSIBLE THING THAT CAN BE COMPUTED (!!!). And its like starting at the top of a very large infinitely tall pyramid, with an N(1) state turing machine and all its permutations of computation, and then N(2) and onwards. In this case, all the answers of the universe (or at least within the computational realm) exist within some N state turing machine in this pyramid.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kmAc1nDizu0

Work things: typescript, nuxt 3, and converting my ENTIRE 10+ year vim config to fancy Neovim with full LSP support.
According to many op eds that I have read, we should not even consider running models without paying Mr. Altman because there is a mean guy that works on the other models
>Senders: [...] Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden GmbH

Why am I not surprised to see Springer as one of the claimants? /rhetorical question
You can reassign real device to any of these names
I suspect that a lot of people rent storage spaces against the day when they'll have "more space" or "have the time to sort through their stuff." And that day never comes or, worse, they move and now they're paying for storage space in an inconvenient location that they'll need to make a project to go to and open up.

Nothing wrong with storage lockers for a specific purpose but a lot of people have them because they have too much stuff and put it in a locker absent any real plan.
Out of curiosity to better understand the ways in which Vim can be used:

> Features I find useful have been removed.

Which ones specifically?

> significantly other Vim9Script

What do you like more in Vim9Script?

> Gvim is useful at times.

What are your use cases for the GUI?
The flavor of Reddit in the humor. “Epic.”
There's a talk I uploaded on youtube where Rich Hickey explains some history of clojure. https://youtu.be/nD-QHbRWcoM