skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Hard drives are a risk since I don't want to toss due to not know what is on it (Bitcoin?) or have my personal data stolen, or just something I may miss copying from it.

Today you can buy a 20T drive for under $300. You can copy all your old drives to it, and then get rid of the old drives. As for stolen data, you can:

1. put it on a drill press and run a 3/8 drill through the platter

2. put your safety glasses on and give it a mighty blow from a sledgehammer

I suppose the NSA, at great expense and effort, might still be able to retrieve a few bytes from it, but even they aren't that desperate for your copy of Oregon Trail.

BTW, I'm a hoarder myself and understand the problem.
The architecture is not AGI. Whether AGI can be acheived within it is perhaps an open question, but that the architecture itself does not constitute AGI is pretty clear.
> perma-crap software

Yeah, we are talking about Microsoft here.

I guess some people will pop-up from nowhere and disagree with your rationale, but it is flawless. Everybody loves the stability anyway.
But it doesn't. The paper (https://opportunityinsights.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/C...) is ultimately flawed because it doesn't (and cannot) evaluate the simplest thing:

look at people who are accepted to the top schools who do not attend. The problem with using waitlist and is that waitlist is ultimately as arbitrary as rejection and not some arbiter of a "marginal acceptance". The entire premise of their argument is flawed to begin with.

Furthermore it goes into jobs held after selection and are highly fixated on "social" jobs, e.g. politicians and supreme court justices, which are inherently scarce and highly likely to be stratified in such a way that is perpetuated by elitism, irrespective of "elite colleges".

In the end the authors (who are from the very schools they think are perpetuating issues ironically) miss the point. Definitionally elite colleges want elite results. Their call to diversify the background of their students and thus the future leaders is inherently at odds with this unless those diversity people already had a propensity to be elite, by definition.
I use Yandex whenever I feel like Google is censoring something. Turns out I feel that way a lot.
I know quite a few Linux users, and not all of them are computer nerds (and none of them use Arch or are part of some small niche group). I'd say about 1/3 of them use Gnome, 1/3 use KDE, and 1/3 use something other than those two.

In general, it seems that those who are used to Windows get along better with KDE.

> KDE should stop assisting with fragmenting Linux

Having a selection of DEs to choose from is not "fragmenting Linux". It's a rather large strength of Linux to be able to select the DE that works best for you. I wish that were possible with Windows!
For a long time I haven’t believed that Starship used for bulk transportation to Mars (if got so far as colonization) would really be reused since I think they’d be a lot of value in breaking them up at the destination. For one thing any operation like that is going to need a big chemical factory which is going to need a lot of storage tanks. Asteroid mining in particular will need a lot of storage tanks before a storage tank factory is at all possible because you will likely dislodge a lot of volatiles as soon as you start taking the asteroid apart.

I don’t think Mars is as bad but I still think the value of a Starship on Mars as materials could be more than the value it has as a spaceship, particularly considering the long transit time. The moon could be a different story.

Another issue is reuse of complex parts (say microcontrollers) which are worth more per pound than metal and will be hard to establish a product line for. In any space industrialization scheme you find there will be a certain fraction of parts by weight which can’t be made in situ and these eventually play a dominant role in the system design.
Virgin Galactic successfully flies tourists to space for first time
First, I’m sorry for your children.

Second, maybe we overproduce good students. Either the curriculum is too easy (imagine compared to Chinese high schools). Either everyone wants to be in the tertiary sector and society doesn’t need so many, and rejects people who are perfectly fit, randomly without fairness.

Third, were they victim of white discrimination?
This is a perfect problem if you're able to tackle it. I'm super curious on the approach.

YOLO style object detection on a manually created dataset would be my first pass at this problem.
The market for data is shady. They can simply sign contracts with a few reputable "market intelligence" firms. I am also very sure that another VPN firm wouldnt mind being a proxy seller the browsing data in return for some comission.
You can run windows 11 emulated on your Mx Mac, you just won’t enjoy it very much (Slow…)
python and c++ both have the same API for 20-30 years I think, and they are both more robust than Java's APIs imo for 95% of cases.
Your recommendations are not magically a description of how your algorithm actually behaves. And when they contradict, people are going to follow the algorithm, not the recommendation.
I don’t say that Harvard, or Yale, or MIT, or Stanford, or Princeton, or CMU, or Chicago, or any number of top private schools don’t influence my life in some indirect way. What I said was it hasn’t directly impacted me, and I have never felt any angst about their existence. I think legacy admissions is unfair and should end, and I think they should be extraordinarily selective and not be swayed by birth or wealth. But I don’t get upset over it, life is too short, too rich, and too little of it has to do with the school you went to, the grades you got, or any of that past your first job.

I would say I’d suggest if you plan to be a Supreme Court judge your chances are better if you went to the top law school in the land, just as going to one of the top engineering schools in the world (public!) helped my career for sure. Getting highest honors at a top engineering school that rarely gives summa cum laude helped too. But it only helped at the beginning and on the margin. What I learned at that school is what made the difference when things got real. And I learned more than the kids who got gentleman C’s at a top private school, because at a top engineering public school they hand out gentleman F’s like candy. I eat the Harvard kids for lunch in my career because I do know more, do better work, earn more revenue, and change my organizations for the better. At a certain point in your career that matters a ton more than what school you went to.

To me that’s a better way to focus your life than the advantages someone else has, because that is surmountable and has nothing to do with what you need to do next in your life.
It being a coincidence versus causal is entirely what makes it interesting or not
Yes! We discovered this during the pandemic, but usually cut more like classic French fries. Wedges like that recipe are also great. I used to hate making fries, messy and they're always too soggy, but done in the oven they're easy peasy and always great.
The paper states:

"First of all, the gravitational anomaly in the dynamics of binary stars cannot be attributed to dark matter because the required amount is absurd, and thus there is no way to save the standard theory of gravity."
Most electric utilities have programs designed to reduce load because they don't want to expand capacity. Programs like replacing your inefficient old fridge, or incandescent to LED bulbs and such.

This is going to be especially true as EV adoption takes off. It could be hard to keep up with increases in demand.
I mean, it doesn't need to be extreme comparisons. We have gini-coefficient already, which captures similar.

The rankings correspond reasonably to my intuition too, when I think of which have "elite" universities. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_income_eq...
Show HN: Open-Source Web App with User Interface for AutoML on Tabular Data
Can we all please start building decentralized tools now.

Stop giving these crap companies power over you and your data. You don't know what they'll do with your data in the future (think George Orwell).

As we can see these companies can out of the blue force other companies to delete their old articles. There goes freedom of speech just to rank higher on a shi*y search engine that no one smart even uses (I use brave search). Then again, these companies kowtowing to Googl mainly write for the brainwashed sheep. I personally don't use any of their privacy invasive analytics on my blog.
Well existence of Europeans negatively affected native Americans. More generally existence of humans negatively affected most other species on earth.

Claiming superiority on narrow conditions like Modern American middle-class-ness is still claiming superiority. I don't see how it is an essentially a morally better position.
Gentrification and unbalanced income strata are real things and real problems, but the 1% aren’t causing them simply by existing.

This hits the nail on the head. It's tautological to say "the problem of inequality is caused by there being rich people that cause inequality". It pins the blame on individuals rather than the system they exist within.
Email: VP’s Office Wrote Talking Points About Foreign Exec After VP’s Son Called
Now try that on this problem:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Riemann_hypothesis
Gentrification is a word that has lost all meaning; and this entire paragraph is a load of nonsense. Not only that, but it wouldn't have anything to do with the parent comment even it it were true. It's a complete rambling non sequitur.
Agreed, I doubt it's been a decade.. though maybe close-ish

wasm-bindgen does something similar though, right?
Show HN: Signadot (YC W20): Local Testing with Shared Kubernetes Clusters
Hi again HN, we’re Arjun and Anirudh, founders of Signadot (YC W20). Signadot helps teams developing microservices test their changes using lightweight environments called “Sandboxes”. We use a relatively new approach, using traffic labeling (using OpenTelemetry) and request routing (using a Service Mesh) to isolate environments in a shared Kubernetes cluster. Today, we’re launching a new feature to help developers with local testing of microservices during the iterative development process.

When we initially launched in September last year (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32854746), we focused on preview & PR test environments in Kubernetes. Something we heard from developers overwhelmingly was that while these preview environments were useful for testing changes once they’re pushed to a branch, the feedback loop wasn’t quite as fast as it could be - because it still involved waiting for docker images to build and CI processes to kick in, which could take many minutes for each commit before it updated a sandboxed microservice running in Kubernetes.

With our new release, we’re addressing this feedback. With an updated version of our CLI & Kubernetes Operator, Sandboxes can now encompass not just services running in the cluster, but also those running on a developer workstation. These “local workloads” in Sandboxes can connect out to dependencies running in the cluster, and receive certain labeled traffic back on the workstation. For traffic routing from the cluster to the workstation, just as before, this functionality works out of the box if you’re using a service mesh like Istio (or using our K8s sidecars).

In building out support for local testing, we wanted to make sure that the framework we built for spinning up ephemeral databases or schemas associated with a Sandbox can work well in this context as well. This is one of the areas where we found existing tooling that enables workstation <> cluster connectivity lacking in that they do not provide ways to address data isolation, which makes a shared Kubernetes cluster less stable over time. Additionally, we wanted to support the collaboration just as it works with preview environments - combining Sandboxes containing changes to different microservices and testing them together.

If you’re interested, you can try this out by going to app.signadot.com, using the quickstart guide at https://www.signadot.com/docs/quickstart/local-development. We have “playground clusters” that can be provisioned via our UI if you don’t have a Kubernetes cluster handy.

We’re working next on improvements to the Developer Experience for local testing in our CLI, and extending our request routing layer to work with other service meshes like Linkerd. We’d love to get feedback and comments from the HN community!
> “Russia’s invasion of Ukraine is barbaric, and I am categorically against it,” Volozh said in a statement. “I am horrified about the fate of people in Ukraine – many of them my personal friends and relatives – whose houses are being bombed every day. “Although I moved to Israel in 2014, ...

Israel cares a lot about what happens in Ukraine because it is in a similar position, a highly-militarized vanguard of the West. If Ukraine falls despite backing from Washington, what does that say about possible outcomes should a (full-scale) war break out between Israel and Iran/Arab states?

So this helps us understand Volozh's motivations.
Oh interesting, so you’re only in the room for induction and reversal/extubation?

I trained in Canada where the anesthesiologist stays in the room for the whole case, I joke around with my anesthesia friends that 95% of their day job is playing sudoku or trading stocks haha.

Not sure if the Canadian system is evidence-based or political given what’s happened in the US.

My understanding is the Nordic systems are public? Curious your thoughts as to whether keeping an anesthesiologist in the room for the entire case is inefficient / wasted resources or there is a real safety benefit.
I did some quick looking and it seems like SharePoint creates a hidden folder called “forms” to store, unsurprisingly, forms associated with a resource. Aren’t polluted namespaces grand?
Only a couple need to be into cryptography. You can setup so than N-of-M keys work, so that you're resilient to M-N losing their key

You can have 2-of-20 which encrypts an encrypted blob whose key you share in your will
I’ll try it again in a few months, because it was completely unusable on macOS last time I tried it in March. At the moment, I have no time for something that may not work when MacVim works pretty much perfectly for me.
This is why I wrote in another comment that making it about Harvard somewhat muddies the discussion because Harvard probably is more likely to admit at least a slice of students that are far more about pedigree than anything else.

But as you say, you need to not only have the credentials, something else that sets you apart, and even then the Teela Brown luck gene. When you're being that selective, there's no way that you're realistically finding strong signals in all but the most exceptional circumstances to admit specific individuals.

(And things have only gotten more competitive. I would be shocked if I would get into my undergrad school today.)
Floating solar on the Equator could provide ‘limitless’ energy
The U-Haul vans are made to be easy to drive for regular drivers. I haven't had any trouble with them.

For example, they have big side mirrors, so you have an excellent view of where the back corners are.
This seems like a win-win for CNET. They get publicity from the news and lots of typical outrage and Google-bashing comments. And if it doesn't improve the ranking as expected, they can always put back the old articles, quietly.
> the outliers at state schools are people like you with extenuating circumstances.

Being middle class is an extenuating circumstance? ;-)
It is so amazing that I can read articles like this for free
I had to test it, but this is true. I just renamed my TODO.txt to [sobbing emoji].txt
I avoid putting stuff on my resume that I don't want to work on again. I just pretend to re-learn Sharepoint for every new job I have
There's also opportunity cost. When all that people were involved in making 100K, they could have been working hard to make the company 10 million.

Both sides are not wrong, and thank God big companies operate this way otherwise small guys would never have any chance. It's already bad as it is.
Are you saying AutoGPT has similar problems or has it solved it?

We tried it recently and found it very challenging to get it to accomplish simple tasks.
Put the projects on your resume along with the associated impact.

In interviews you'll be asked about them. If you're not mention them or refer to them in your answers to other questions! Discuss your approach to the design of those projects, considerations, performance tradeoffs, how you approached testing, how deployments were handled etc.

Mention the tools you used that made a big difference - maybe swapping compilers led to faster build times and smaller bundles. Swapping test runners led to improved test times. Maybe you tried to swap test runners and that increased test times and so you went back to the previous one. Maybe you led an effort to automate deployments!

Discussing migrations from old patterns to newer ones demonstrates that you know what good tools are available and you know how to leverage them.
Mechanical keypad locks dont require you to input the code in a certain order. If the code is 0451 you can unlock it with 1054 or any other combination of those numbers. It's not exciting exciting, but it's oddly novel to show off.
Welcome to a land of memory bloat because you've got a chain to a reference due to a lack of clear ownership.
Who says family life only starts "at the end of the day"?

And who says that it would be the IT department that would want this capability, instead of, say the employee's manager?
Facebook doesn't have guidance telling content creators to publish conspiracy theories, but their policies are willfully optimized to promote it. Take responsibility for the results of your actions like an adult.
> And, in addition, because at least presently, anyone who didn't do Ivy+ is essentially never going to be a SCOTUS judge.

For your example, you need to do a post-graduate degree (law) from the Ivy+. This article is talking about the gating functions of the undergraduate admissions departments.

The graduate school admissions officers are far more likely to consider strong candidates from "normal" universities than their undergraduate admissions colleagues are to consider strong candidates from "normal" public high schools.

Also, consider Harvard Extension. People shit on it constantly and call it the backdoor, not-so-honest way to get associated with Harvard. But in reality, it is more of a front door into a "make of it what you will" program. A significant number of the people that actually graduate use it to get into high-quality PhD programs that would have otherwise completely ignored them based on their past and their lack of "proper" pedigree.

In my mind, the undergraduate portions of these universities are pretty much lost causes. But their graduate schools are far more meritocratic and, much more importantly, fixable without burning everything to the ground. Because if you want to burn it all down and start over you are going to have to fight against all the rich and powerful people, and probably aren't going to win.
George Soros's theory of reflexivity is very useful for understanding this phenomenon.

https://www.georgesoros.com/2014/01/13/fallibility-reflexivi...
Maybe this is veering off-topic, but as someone outside of that industry who understands the basic ideas around repackaging loans, etc., I’m very curious to hear which aspects you think are inaccurate!
Garbage in should mean nothing out. If you ask a calculator what 2+2 is, but you mean 2+3, you still get the right answer, because you didn't put in garbage, you put in the wrong inputs. If you ask it what "pi + transubstantiation" is, it should fail, not confidently tell you "14".
A long long time ago, I initiated a project to move 80% of the SaaS company's workload out of a big cloud provider that is fond of 3 day in office work weeks into privately run data center cages. To be clear, we bought and ran the computers, rented the network and the cages/rooms in the data center buildings/campuses.

One of our grading criteria was how many bathroom stalls and urinals they had in the men's and women's bathrooms.

Some of these places had 200k sqft (20k m^2) and just 1 stall. No bueno!!!

When we were evaluatin the sites/locations (in the early days) we had to queue our 8 folks up for 5-20 min for bathroom breaks before we could go to lunch!
Yeah, I'm less concerned about a cable being cut as much as I am someone unplugging it from the outlet. Sounds like there's ways to think about this though! This is encouraging for me, as I would certainly prefer to get a BEV for my next vehicle.
> “Once you see it, you just say ‘Aha! Of course!’”

These are my favorite kinds of things to learn. Once seen, they can't be unseen and can upend how I think of the world in some domain D.
right well, the problem is people are not iphones, they're human beings. we can throw away our cheap android phones and get iphones, but as a society, we might decide that we should not be throwing away humans who don't come from the right "brand"
What keystrokes does vim use for this? I've never been a big user if terminals inside vim
I'm not certain they are altering publish dates, it is probably an error of Google. I've my own sites in the search results with wrong publishing dates, that don't make any sense.
> No, they won’t, because I’m nobody to them.

I can tell you more about Holodomor.
There's no need for an ecumenical council to reject every single doctrine other confessions come up with. The Orthodox believe that the Fall changed human nature, which means that every human after Adam was affected. Since Mary was also a human, she was also affected. It was the Incarnation, the Crucifixion, the Resurrection, and the Exaltation which allowed human nature to exalt itself back to regaining communion with God. So the Immaculate Conception is rejected by the mainstream Orthodox faith and there is no need to have a council about it.
The question is, could you do a similar filter by asking each applicant about their parents wealth? Perhaps ultra-wealthy parents is the decent proxy for productivity?
This one is true though.
I agree that there are many aspects of how elite universities work that are not what's best for society. I don't think this is the best thinkpiece on it though. One small thing that jumped out at me is the bit about "we don't have to sort kids at 18, because most colleges teach the same stuff". To support this point, the author compared Harvard Math 1a to SIUE Math 150.

This is a bad comparison, because these are introductory math classes for first-year students who aren't math majors, used to satisfy distribution requirements or give math background for non-math-intensive courses. There's a placement system to decide what math class to take, probably at both universities, but here is Harvard's (2020-2021):

https://www.math.harvard.edu/media/Math-for-first-year-stude...

As you can see, first-year Harvard math or physics majors sometimes take Math 21, but more likely Math 23, 25, or 55. (Math 55 is weirdly fetishized, but that's another story.) These classes are significantly more rigorous than Math 1.

Having taken math courses for math majors at both an Ivy school and a decent non-Ivy, it is my experience that while they teach roughly the same subjects, they do not teach the same things within those subjects, nor at the same pace, nor to the same level of rigor. Nor are the students in those classes equally good at math. So, while sorting those students can and does contribute to injustice (especially with the actual way it's done!), it's also not a completely pointless just for the sake of giving gold stars.