skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There are sometimes state ran standardized tests done to prevent this very issue of certain schools having uneven standards. And both SAT and ACT tests are conducted multiple times a year with completely unequal testing center conditions if you are into considering anything that might introduce a confounding factor (e.g. some schools they have hundreds of kids sit in a gym like what you'd see out of national exams in Korea, other kids might take it in seclusion at a private testing center). Then there is this idea of the extra tutoring people are paying for outside of the school curriculum basically amounting to something akin to paying for the right to use steroids in sports.
No, it is just tax. Tax is part of a person's contribution to society.

If you aren't getting much value for your taxes, perhaps elect better people to handle that tax money.
Right now tidb. ydb has a few operational challenges that i can see. TiDB was solid during the time i gave it a try.
I was a visiting professor there in 1989, and sat in on the course, which was on math proofs. We had weekly homework, which I did. In one class, I told Dijkstra that his proof was wrong. He couldn’t see my point, and we argued briefly and agreed to disagree. It was the only time anyone spoke up in class without being asked to by Dijkstra. At the start of the next class, Dijkstra announced that his attempted proof was indeed wrong, and proceeded to give a revised proof. Everyone was impressed by his intellectual honesty. He wrote up the episode as EWD 1044 https://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/EWD/transcriptions/EWD10xx/E...

Dijkstra asked me to sit in on one final oral exam which he was expecting to be tricky. It was a very intimidating atmosphere for the student.
I'd do it a little differently.

If a house is destroyed by any form of reasonably common widespread disaster it becomes illegal to build anything on that lot that would likewise be destroyed. You can rebuild after the hurricane, you must build a house that will stand up to a hurricane. (Yes, it can be done.)

I wouldn't apply this to flukes--your town does a Tunguska there's no reason to require asteroid-safe houses.

I would also make an exception for things which by their nature must be in the line of fire--such things must never be permanent habitation and can't have community-rate insurance against whatever happened to them.

A business can rebuild it's beach cabanas but would have to go to Lloyd's if they wanted insurance.
That looks amazing. Thank you for sharing it! I guess the scores are given with some investment horizon in mind. What is the approach there? I.e. is it until the end of the fiscal year? Or maybe it is a calendar year?
In the US people dont use whatsapp. People use SMS and would pay for SMS.

Overseas there is less willingless to use SMS and use of bundles, etc so people prefer whatsapp to save money.
This is a good source for features that may/may not already be existing.

https://github.com/ydb-platform/ydb/blob/main/ROADMAP.md
I'm not, though. I'm terrible at taking anyone's word for anything, partially (not entirely) because I was told I knew more things than my peers.

I'm also garbage at just doing what I'm told. Who's giving me the directions? Why should I trust them? What do they know?

You seem to be thinking of the people who did well in school because they worked hard. Perhaps they are excellent employees.

Those of us who never had to apply ourselves to anything and were told incessantly how much better we were than our peers make terrible employees in most atmospheres.
I am working on an app to make it even easier to run Local LLMs and support for multiple chats, RAG, and STT. I did it mostly for learning about different tasks that’s possible using local LLMs and specifically for my wife who was working overwhelmed with those things (and for some reason was overwhelmed setting up Ollama. Tech stack is Electron + NuxtJS, currently only for Mac but I have already started tinkering with Windows support.

https://msty.app
At which point shielding gets even more complicated.
What exactly do you mean by that? Something like volt.fm?
> but it seems pretty likely to me that it wasn't the direct work ("persistence") that made the difference as much as the generic four more years of schooling and general maturity.
Does anyone know the etymology of the name KoBold?

Because kobolds are the little mining tunnel rats in World of Warcraft. Surely this company wasn't named after a warcraft species.
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And if you want to go there (which you did), older hackers have too much experience and are therefore set in their ways and are incapable of innovation.
I kinda see myself wanting the pip-tools flow, requirements.in -> pip compile -> requirements.txt thing perhaps integrated into pip itself. Seems like the simplest of the solutions out there for good dependency declarations and pinning? I may well be wrong.
> hacking on a separate unique UUID for public use is also bad.

Is it bad just because of the extra bytes used, or something else?
William Dampier, Revered and Reviled (2022)
Remarkable2 might be up your alley then. it's a like digital piece of paper.
Two things:

1. The UK parliament reversed course and brought back Charles I's son to be Charles II. In doing to it executed a ton of people responsible for revolt. That included Oliver Cromwell -- despite the fact that he was already dead. They dug him up, tried him, convicted him, executed him, and put his head on a spike for decades. So it's not clear how much power that precedent could hold.

2. Charles III is King of the United Kingdom. The title of "King of England" was retired by Charles I's father. Charles I was King of Great Britain.
QC/QA isn't an infallible process (see: Boeing) and defects or even missing parts may well slip by as the vehicle leaves the factory. Though, I haven't gone so far as to have a new car inspected by a mechanic, personally.
Because Techcrunch are unable to design a functioning website:

https://archive.vn/idisI
I’ve always wanted a tool to help me track my online orders. However, it wasn’t practical to make integrations with every merchant. Even scraping the order emails was way too much work to do for an unproven product.

Now with LLMs it’s simple to extract structured data from emails.

I built [Orderling](https://orderl.ing) that is basically a CRM for your orders. It uses OpenAI api to extract the order information and automatically adds it.
I'm not so sure. Those technologies are lampooned, but in the context of a broader point, namely that software requires ever more effort to deliver results that are not objectively better. I think that observation is valid and interesting to consider, though the rest of the essay is all over the place.
My comment was around the wording as advertised. It will also be my 11th DEF CON next year, never been to Blackhat. We should grab a beer.

I have personally worried after seeing Cesars transform after the events at the Mandalay Bay with the new addition of their own paramilitary group (the SRTs) and their actions during DEF CON. Just check out their job descriptions: https://www.linkedin.com/jobs/view/security-officer-srt-i-fu...

Before the SRTs, I personally know from knowing the staff who run the conference that they have helped Cesars Entertainment in previous years strengthen and work with them hand-in-hand to secure their networks and train their staff. Even work with the goons to make sure people didn't get trespassed over shenanigans. I honestly think the mid level management is sad we are gone.

The other side is the Okta was just a taste of what could go wrong. Seeing MGM totally shut down and loosing millions was scary for upper management. Auditors weren't comparing Blackhat to DEF CON but that the listing on the spreadsheet was not "boat show" but "hacking con" and they deemed that was too much risk for the level of coverage Cesars Entertainment wanted.

Never the less, we all hated Cesars and I am personally excited to see what this next year will look like.
Boeing is like Teflon. The planes are literally falling apart and the stock hasn't even sniffed October's lows.
Really cool to jump in the past.

Thanks for making that!
Concrete roads are noisy for both drivers and people who live nearby
> I am writing a single abstract declaration (I suppose I should have used `extern "C" {...}` to be clear) that one can only use safely.

Your abstract declaration still wouldn't be safe. Remaining unsafety includes:

• possible dangling pointers

• possible incorrect lengths

• possible libc bugs with ZST elements

• undefined behavior if the sort fn misbehaves - (recently reported as a security issue against glibc because that being UB is dumb even if allowed by the standard: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39264396 )

This is why I call it a "half measure".

I also fail to see how your proposed abstract declaration would simplify either my wrapper, or other code that would actually bother to use the raw FFI definition in any significant way. This is why I further call it "unnecessary". It also fails to specify which underlying FFI parameter size_of::<T>() would actually be passed into.

> You are writing some unsafe code with safe wrapper.

My wrapper remains `unsafe` as well, but it ameliorates everything it reasonably can.

> These are not the same.

No, but my wrapper demonstrates an actual use case of your raw FFI definition... and shows the actual concerns of surrounding code that aren't significantly helped by your declaration.
I don't want to cast unwarranted doubt, but this is the third person I've seen posting and asking about sport scores being pulled via API. They all have accounts 4-5 days old. And with sports betting being such a hot pastime these days...I can't help but think this is related.
Does it also backup PRs ans issues and all the comments?
> The problems start when externalities (pollution shirking) and middle-men (rent seeking) enter the room. Both of these distort the price signals, which should (but rarely do!) convey the true underlying environmental cost.

This makes it sound like externalities are the distortion rather than the primary driver of the environmental cost. This is not my area, but my understanding is that b/c environmental systems almost never have an "owner" who is a party to transactions/development, the environmental costs are almost entirely externalities. What are the important underlying environmental costs which _aren't_ externalities?
>stories we know of but have been lost from ancient texts

So many there's a lengthy list on Wikipedia about it. It's fascinating reading ancients casually referencing works that we otherwise know nothing else about. Without the careful, laborious copying (often imperfect) over the centuries most things would've been lost completely. There's also other works such as maps that did not survive, the Tabula Peutingeriana for example is thought to be a derivative work of one commissioned by Augustus of the known world at the time (to Romans) and of which there's a few mentions in some works by historians at the time.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lost_literary_work
Even if the first 3 were area codes, the others still make it invalid.

https://secure.ssa.gov/poms.nsf/lnx/0110201035
At least within the US, individual to individual wine shipping is basically impossible without breaking some laws and/or regulations. Typically, you need to be a licensed retailer or producer (winery), and the rules vary depending on the state the recipient is in. Certainly people do it (often claiming it's "olive oil" or similar), but it's still not easy to do it legitimately as an individual. Even as a retailer or producer (which might be what you were trying to do) it varies a lot by state, and some states are very restrictive.
Ask HN: Any good collection of writing prompts for GPT 3.5/4?
Started working on an LLM application for language learning. Are there any good resources that show how differently structuring prompts gives different results, in a reliable way. I guess I'm looking for prompts best practices, if something like that exists.
Organ playing 639-year-long piece changes chord
unles you have decades of domain expertise, chances are you are going to fail at analysing music in a meaningful way. stop thinking you can just waltz into this subject
We've changed to "blocklist" and "allowlist" to avoid giving offense.

Is it really too much to ask people to come up with another word to use that hasn't been hurled at innocent people as an insult?
Why not just increase power to the main deflector?
To me, it's more the drastic increase in catching a disease. My kids were warded twice last month. First time likely caught COVID from a playground. Second time a common bacteria from a petting zoo. What sucks is being forced to sit in these places for practically half your waking life.
My favourite date is Erlang Day, after a request from pg to have more technical content: https://news.ycombinator.com/front?day=2009-03-11
It sounds like we are reasoning from very different foundations.
Previously: Something peculiar in my 2yo's bedroom led me to a revelation about our universe — https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39151768
Boeing sold and the FAA approved an unsafe plane. The fact that there was an upgrade option does not matter: aviation cannot permit a manufacturer to sell an unsafe plane with a necessary safety upgrade.
Try 175k, that’s more realistic in the current environment
I'm trying to model in my head as to why that would be the case, but I'm not coming up with much. Does anyone have any insights?

Also, another hypercube law: Neuron firing rates go as temperature to the 4th power.

So, a small change in temperature increase the number of firings per second drastically. This is due to the speed at which charges can move in and out of the neuron, which going though a lot of math and fun modeling, ends up being related to the Stefan–Boltzmann law of black-body radiation.

Anyone else got fun hypercube+ laws that they know?
> Firstly I don't think any EULA has ever been enforced by violence

Well, a number of people have gone to prison for software piracy, which would seem to contradict your claim
Unsustainable business is unsustainable. News at 5. Or 11. Or maybe noon. Whenever news that isn't really news is aired.

Even without the additional city-based fee, these food delivery services companies are far too expensive.
Even the GPS satellites have to take into special relativity - they have to correct for a tiny amount of time per day due to time dilation causing the moving clocks on the satellites to tick slightly slower than the stationary ones on Earth.
> I think as he's writing it

Or, as the case of Cujo, when he's reading it for the first time
I don't, and that's why I preferenced it as such. Sort of like how you'll self-preface yourself with something like "nit:" before making a nitpick that's meant to be treated as a small note but nothing to consider or delve too strongly over.

The idea is to diffuse siutations like this before it comes about, but I guess nothing is perfect.
Almost like our govs should create a standard for digital currency with 0% fees involved.

But you know, our governments are fucking useless, so that ain't happening anytime soon.
I have been working in this industry for 30 years now. SQL is one of the most ugliest programming language I have ever working with. Like Perl, it's write once, hope you never need to read, language.

SQL was created in 60s. It has not really kept up with the pace of modern programming language ergonomics. It was made for a single person executing a batch job query pulling data from the database.

On the other hand, I kind of agree SQL is good to learn. It's an counter example on how not to design a programming language.
It's rare that a domain name gives me a chuckle but this one did.
Just one thing to add: Reduce the line length and make the font slightly bigger.

Maybe increase the line height a bit.
What Is An Analytics Engineer? (versus data engineer, scientist, machine etc.)
What if you define the "important" reference frame as the speed of light's (in the same direction you are going). Since c is universally constant, it seems like a reasonable privileged reference.
Oh nice, I made a really half-assed attempt with Kicad and python. This looks so much nicer.
Maybe AVP aspirationally (once in sunglass form factor) seeks to replace iPad, then Mac, then iPhone?
Huh. I wonder if there was some (superficially) valid reasoning there for forcing lefthanders to learn write with their right hand. Due to the left-to-right nature of English, and the technology of fountain pens, it really was more objectively difficult to write with your left hand.
I would 100% use this if you had a text -> Big Query SQL feature. Please add.
I was under the impression that the 1Password database is synced and stored locally. If that is the case why would the servers having issues prevent logins to local databases, and not just the syncing of them?

Edit: It would appear the browser extensions can directly access the web interface without needing the stand alone 1Password application installed. As I run the standalone 1Password + browser extension, it can fall back on the locally stored database if the servers go offline.
Are you able to purchase a PPO plan in your state?
You’ve just described almost all publicly traded companies and startups too.

Hate the game, not the players.
At this point a walled garden is more of heavily fortified border wall with razor wire, guns and armed troops.
Missed a step

1. Be co-founder and former CEO

2. Remain calm

3. Tweet at your 66k followers

4. Briefly wait while the dozens of those that work at GitHub trip over each other getting your account reactivated
I just added Neo Store to my boox device. Thanks so much! It is great!

If you have any other recommendations, I'd gladly hear them.
I am happy for you, you seem to have reached your local optimum!
64-bit time_t transition in progress
EternalTerminal: Re-Connectable secure remote shell
What if Donbass took a tour of independent Ukraine and changed their mind, especially as Kiev crowds have ousted the president that they all voted for?

Granted, he wasn't any good, but he was likely the best one Ukraine will ever have, and now has no chance of it ever catching up with 2013.

I'm genuinely not sure why you think people can't change their mind. After all, they also voted "Yes" on Gorbachev's "reform and keep the USSR" referendum a year before that.
nice term this, exposure therapy"
Technological Stagnation (2021)
Chklip MVP
I built a homepage over the weekend, and I'm looking for feedback (on the idea, not so on the homepage, although any comments welcome)
Even that feels way too close to me. Maybe it's because I've adapted to 3 screens?
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well, I worked there under Eric Schmidt, and for all his faults, he was an actual leader. The TGIF right after the 2008 financial breakdown was a masterwork in charismatic leadership. Larry was worse than Sundar, btw.
I don't think there is a good vernacular idea of what "competition" means but something that I'm sure of it that it takes a whole lot of of it to benefit consumers. A classic example of fake competition is that between cable TV, satellite, and now vMPVDs. Today you might have some choice but the choice is always about the same price for the same bundle, nobody is offering anything different.

10 years ago I would fly a lot of out of the airport in Ithaca which had good connections to hubs at PHL, DTW and IAD which could get you anywhere.

Today the ITH airport looks close to dead, the only flights are to NYC, one to EWR where I've had to exit and then re-enter security every time I've made a connection there. It's almost unthinkable that I'd take the plane to NYC if I was actually going to NYC because bus service is highly competitive to to the city. Although there are no longer national carriers like Greyhound and Shortline (going to Detroit is hard now) but for the point-to-point route there are numerous buses at different price points some of which are budget like the Chinatown bus and others are premium like the bus that stops at the Cornell Club.

I can find something positive in losing our local airport in that SYR has greatly expanded and now has numerous low-cost and ultra-low cost carriers. For once I can get on a plane and know absolutely it won't be a 737. I can fly Jetblue to LA for less than it ever cost on Delta.

Yet I can point to many signs that the industry has not been thinking clearly or that the choices it has been offering people are not real. I'd point as exhibit #1 the experience you'll have boarding a plane on American Airlines at their hub at PHL where they'll spend 20 minutes reading from a very long and complicated list of who is allowed to board in the plane under what order under whatever circumstances. Turns out there is a definite hierarchy for all the credit cards you might have with American Airlines or with some airline that got bought by American Airliners not to mention many different levels you can be in the frequent flier program, many kinds of tickets, etc.

We know if they just boarded the plane outside in we would all be on our way a few minutes earlier and it would not demand so much of the staff boarding us and they might have fewer cases of staff rage quitting because they are being abused like this, etc. But instead it's an important opportunity to rub the average traveller's nose in shit, prove how little worth they have compared to other people's in the airline's eyes, etc.

Before 2008, airlines offered just economy and first class on domestic routes, refusing to sell you anything a little bit more expensive that would be just a little bit better because they didn't want to create competition for first class. The proliferation of Economy+ and other service tiers after the financial crisis was actually a sign of sanity, of the industry getting more flexible. Still the major airlines form a cartel where they won't compete for better service in economy because they couldn't afford to give up a single first class flyer to a more humane coach.
Doesn't it need some clever acronym so politicians can talk about their DoesntMeanWhatYouThink Act?

Humans Own Unsupported Software and Electronics (HOUSE) Act

perhaps?
Grew up in the east coast of Canada where we have frigid winters. There's popular knowledge there that water will seep unevenly under the road, freeze, and lift parts of the road up. This causes the road to crack. Given snowplows scrape the roads, and cars still drive during winter, the lifted pavement gets damaged. This eventually results in potholes.

Pavers don't work because the city needs to remove the snow, and the pavers would get removed by the plows. I don't know of a viable road alternative that is also economical for places with snow.
There's a middle ground, where we use free market effects to encourage competition and bolster progress, while not letting monopolies and other progress-stifling mechanisms take form.

You can have all the benefits of a free market without also letting someone like Google have the kind of control over the internet that they do.
> I'd like to see Sundar gone too but I don't know who they could find to replace him.

I think a piece of slowly rotting cheese could probably do a better job. You could use the mold growth as a random seed for making decisions, and you’d have about the same hit rate as Sundar.
Commercial DNA synthesis operations do a good amount of customer and order vetting, so it won't be easy to revive smallpox using a commercial service.
That's clever, but I am not a fan: Booleans are implementation dependent; making the assumption that Boolean 'true' evaluates to 1, or even a number greater than what Boolean 'false' evaluates to, is not a good idea, even if it happens to be correct most of the time. Even if it is defined that way in the language specs, it might not be defined that way in a future version of that language or certainly not necessarily in other, simlar languages.

Now, if you're exploiting that quirk for performance purposes, that's another story. But then the code should be labeled as such.