skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As the SAT transitions to a digital format in the US today, educators now have the opportunity to leverage the College Board's Question Library database. This enables the creation of custom, adaptive mock tests using official questions for a more tailored test preparation experience.
Based on your data your ideas have 1/10 odds of $1539 revenue and each idea takes on average 5.3 months to execute.

You can:

- Spend the next 5.3 months on a new idea. The expected value of this is $153.9 in 5.3 months.

- Spend the next 5.3 months doing your existing telegram strategy. The expected value of this is $4078.35 in 5.3 months.

This assumes your existing telegram strategy is reproducible. If it is - then double, triple, quadruple down on that. It's working, get after it. New channels are like new ideas, you may need to try 9 of them before you find one that also works.

If your existing strategy is not reproducible (I.e., in addition to the new channels not working your existing channel is also drying up) then I'd take a hard look at why.

And since this is HN:
https://paulgraham.com/ds.html
The control systems to arm the device (authorize its use) are designed to be very strict.
It’s a really an amazing piece of software.
Sabine Hossenfelder's explanatory video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M0Xh-bGDVJ0
Yeah it’s because defense contractors need to keep U.S. tax dollars flowing into their families pockets and not yours
TIL there are still nuclear gravity bombs. For some reason I thought they would all be standoff weapons at this point.
It would be interesting to map how powerful a person is to their perceived power via this study.
Like any mafia bosses in Scorcese movies, they fail to see when they lost hand.

I’d love to see the faces of Cook and Schiller at this point.
So you're 17. It's a pretty unique niche for a young person, so I'd be interested to know where your curiosity in this comes from, and even more so, why you decided to share the output of your curiosity? What got you interested? Where do you see it going? Are other people around you at your stage in life also interested in this stuff?

imo you're on a great path, stick with it!
I'm not trying to provoke trouble. Just trying to understand what you meant. I do not believe that Israel is actually committing war crimes. I've seen no credible evidence for it. I have seen lots of evidence of war crime by Hamas by contrast.

I'm not pro Israel because they are my "favorite team" or "preferred fandom". If Israel or any batik. I am pro Israel because, of the two competing narratives, theirs makes the most rational sense, and I do not ever hear rational rebuttals. Like never. If you have one, that'd be great. I mean, it would suck, but I wouldn't dismiss it. But you would be unique. I only ever hear debunked accusations rotated with diversion, whatabouts, non-sequitur, threats and counter accusations.

Never, for instance, a rational answer to why people just accept Hamas' death toll without any skepticism. In fact, apparently the thread has been flagged. Still no direct response, though.
Previous post from 2019: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18895833

(there are other posts with one or very few comments)
Also lying is not that easy. Humans have evolved various tools to spot liars. I would bet that the average person is better at detecting lies and liars than they are at lying.

The exceptions people talk about, of people gaining power by lying, are all exceptionally good at lying.
I met a guy whose dogs had been killed by a moose during the Iditarod. My understanding is you generally give them a wide berth if possible as they can be very dangerous.
> ask anyone who had to book a hotel in NYC before AirBnB!

I've stayed in multiple hotels and Airbnb units in NYC, and every single time, the Airbnb option was terrible in comparison to my hotel bookings. This is for places of comparable prices as well.

The only benefit of Airbnb, is that the units were slightly larger on average than proper hotels.. but they were usually so run-down, that I didn't want to spend any more time than the bare minimum in them anyway.

I don't think it's surprising that a huge professionally run corporation can offer a better service/product than a small real estate investor.
> Didn't you just say that you didn't want to read about any other build system, as that would involve effort?

No, I did not say that, and you also know that.

> Or, as I said previously, I'm not interested in endorsing build tools I haven't used, because I'm not in the market for a cargo clone. They exist.

If you've not used them, then your confidence that they are equivalent to Cargo comes from where?

> Build tools are not difficult to write. As with the article, if you don't like existing build tools, spend an afternoon writing your own. It's a little graph theory and job management.

I'm the author of the Fur programming language, which does need a package management system, so I will be doing this at some point. But I very much doubt that it will be as easy as you claim.
The munition in question is basically on every major platform

> The B61 has been deployed by a variety of US military aircraft. US aircraft cleared for its use have included the B-1 Lancer, B-2 Spirit, B-52 Stratofortress, F/A-18 Hornet, A-6 Intruder, A-4 Skyhawk, F-111, F-15E Strike Eagle and F-16 Fighting Falcon and the F-35A. As part of NATO Nuclear Weapons Sharing, German and Italian Panavia Tornado aircraft can also carry B61s. The B61 can fit inside the F-22 Raptor's weapons bays and will also be carried by the Lockheed Martin F-35 Lightning II.
That phrase certainly brings back memories, from when I worked at an object-oriented database startup.

The object-orientation was actually pretty unimportant, (except for those products that brought in persistence via inheritance -- so not really orthogonal). No, the point was adding a new storage class to programming languages.

I worked at Object Design, and we had (IMHO) an incredibly elegant approach. In our approach, persistence really was orthogonal to type, for C/C++. If you want a FooBar, you would write "new FooBar(123)". That gives you a FooBar in the heap, disappears at process end (or on deletion), etc. Or you could write "new(db) FooBar(123)", and then on commit (we had transactions of course), the FooBar would be in the database, and accessible by other processes.

A page-faulting mechanism would bring in pages containing locations that your program referenced. That itself was very elegant.

But the really beautiful thing about this architecture was getting it to work in a 32-bit address space. We did some clever things about mapping portions of the address space during the faulting process to make things work transparently. (This problem pretty much disappears with a 64-bit address space.)

Separate from all that, we had a collection library, integrated with an OO query language. E.g., you could have a collections of widgets in your database, write "widgets[: weight < 0.01 and !strcmp(color, 'red') :], and get back a set containing the qualifying widgets. We also supported 1:1, 1:n, and m:n relationships, which would maintain pointers and sets of pointers in both directions.

It was a "database system" because our VCs wanted it to be. But it really wasn't. It really was a new storage class for C/C++, and later, for Smalltalk and Java.

Object Design also had a spectacularly talented group of engineers, many of whom came from MIT AI Lab/Symbolics.
Ask HN: Selling Micro Courses?
I am curious if anyone has had any success selling shorter micro courses?

Something in the 10 minute to 1 hour range.

If you have, what platform have you sold the course on?

Do you see a lot of repeat customers for different micro courses?

What is your best advice for selling a product like this?
Because it's unsafe, according to [1]. I don't fully understand all the caveats listed there, but I won't take such a risk either :-)

[1] https://privacy.commonsense.org/evaluation/24-Game-Math-Card...
You left out “look cool” which is also in common use.
>servers only see a unindexed random-looking key value store

(quoted from the main readme)

I bet there's some fun attacks waiting to happen, related to watching for specific access patterns. Avoidable I'm sure, but I imagine it'll require awareness from application developers.
Finding and Digitizing the Apollo 11 Moon Landing on NBC [video]
I'm suggesting that the types of issues an engineer wouldn't consider to be significant would actually be too boring to report on.
YouTube commenters insists that Akira wanted to end Goku’s arc at Cell, but fanserviced beyond that. If true, explains a lot. I also felt that there was a lot of maturity and build up to the climax of the cell saga and everything afterwards felt like it undid that growth and just went on and on.
If Google or Mozilla release real versions of their browsers for iOS/iPadOS and offer long support for them, then I see it as a win. I've seen so many usable iPads turn into e-waste because Safari is out of date and can't be updated.
What I can't figure out is how DoS-ing congress helps them achieve their goal. This was an "inorganic" campaign and based on misinformation.

Seems like an excellent demonstration of the risks of having your citizens wired up to foreign controlled algorithmic feeds.
Please just let me get Infinity Blade back.
There's a video that is better than the linked article about why Tolkien disliked Dune:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yDqeftRRpB0

This video mentions that Tolkien started a sequel to LotR titled The New Shadow but quickly abandoned it after realizing the story would inevitably be about politics and the evil of Men, about the descendants of Aragorn becoming like Denethor, or worse. And Dune is full of politics and far-future men becoming much more sinister than Denethor. LotR is about good vs. evil, about little people having the power to change the world. In Dune almost everyone is self-interested and Machiavellian, the powerful cruelly use the powerless for their own ends.
One would expect/hope some of those 500,000 have skills in construction.
Same, I originally had a bunch of RasPi's in my lab running differing versions of Raspbian until I got tired of the configuration drift and finally Nixified all of them. Writing a single Nix Flake and being able to build declarative SD card installation images for all of them makes managing a bunch of different machines an absolute dream (tutorial here[0], for those interested).

The only issue is remotely deploying Nix configs. The only first-party tool, nixops, is all but abandoned and unsupported. The community driven tools like morph and deploy-rs seem promising, but they vary in terms of Flakes support and how much activity/longevity they seem to have.

[0] https://blog.janissary.xyz/posts/nixos-install-custom-image
I think tech, particularly the digital landscape, is one of the few industry that are not regulated. Everything else from transport to food has strict regulation. It's not like anyone can build housing whenever and however he wants in the US.
It's fascinating how distance encourages both absurd curiosity (“How does that work?”) and some form of detachment (“At least it isn’t personal to me.“).

As a German I started following British politics in the Brexit years, first for the fun of an utterly funny parliamentary culture (“ORDAAAAH!”) – then a few months later I found myself looking into Erskine May. But I'll be never on that guys level, too easily satisfied after a small-ish dose of something different.
Hi, wanted to try on an old thread first, to avoid disrupting a current one.

I really enjoyed reading a few of your comments, and would like to get in touch.

If you're open, drop a mode of contact in your bio/here?
Daphne Oram's Oramics machine paved the way for the modern DAW
You must be the only person on Windows who likes the Windows store. I'm personally really glad alternatives like steam exist.
Cargo does not do dependency resolution on every build.
But Apple's terms and contract weren't illegal.
Actual monopolies (utility companies forex) are required to do business with people. Utility companies which almost always are regional monopolies have to deal with customers so long as bills are paid. There's also processes for halting service in the case of non-payment. The utility can't cut your power because you were mean to them on Twitter.

Apple is not a monopoly anywhere on the planet and has no such requirement.
Makes you wonder why the stereotype of the "Playboy"-type billionaire who is slave to his desires has been pushed and accepted for long, when it's plainly false.
According to the article it’s technically not moving the dooms day clock closer to midnight because these warheads already existed. They just got new housing silly! it’s just twice as fast and harder to intercept.
> its fundamentally down to incentives.
Aye. As one of my managers once said, you get what you measure and incent.

> reduce the power of a single network

Recall, there were only 3 networks, so I don't think that multiplication of voices is necessary to incent truth-telling. Indeed, it incents each voice to offer the most florid headlines, as they are each trying to outshout the others,

> free speech laws, Big Brother, etc

What happened wasn't any kind of complex change in human rights---what happened was that new technology nuked the supporting business model. Just like the automobile nuked the business model for draft horses. Happens all the time. If doing something doesn't make any money, you eventually have to stop doing it and start doing something else which does. That's why everybody stopped selling news and started selling eyeballs.

Creating the conditions for which a marketplace in the truth can exist, is a job for business and legislative geniuses, something I am not.
Enjoyed this tidbit from the bottom of the article:

“To motivate their employees, organizations often want employees to set stretch goals – goals that are challenging and hard-to-reach. However, we found that setting a stretch goal and not meeting it makes someone look less powerful than setting an easy goal and surpassing it,” said Rady School PhD student Shuang Wu, the first author of the paper.
Sometimes even if it's just some correlation, the factors go together. As in, you start just trying to avoid soda, and you tend to eat more healthy too!

I know I eat a lot more with (diet) soda. Somehow makes my stomach fit more :)
Semantle is nice but very difficult. You have unlimited tries, though.
This makes me think of the fun people get with sports, tons of information over a long history with lots of stories. Imagine how many people we can get into politics with a fantasy congress! It would be like fantasy sports but you choose your representatives.
I've been looking for this exact thing for awhile now. I'm just starting to dig into the docs and examples, and I have a question on workflows.

I have an existing pipeline that runs tasks across two K8 clusters and share a DB. Is it possible to define steps in a workflow where the step run logic is setup to run elsewhere? Essentially not having an inline run function defined, and another worker process listening for that step name.
It feels like anything that isn’t water has some negatives. Diet soda in moderation seems to be basically fine though.
I have used some micro courses, the more focused the better
And fwiw both GPT-4 and Claude 3 Opus failed to give me the correct answer.
Complete abstinence is easier than perfect moderation...
We have a local state/city sponsored ride share program for elderly, infirm, disabled, and it can do wheelchairs.

And it is still often simpler to just buy a (subsidized) wheelchair van for the person and let their caretaker drive them.
us?
It’s even worse. Wheelchair accessible vehicles are extremely expensive. As in, a basic wheelchair retrofit to a standard minivan adds over $30k of cost. And then the modifications to the vehicle prevent the cabin space from being used to the same level as before (you lose seats and cargo space). So it’s monetarily a bad proposition on many levels for taxi operators.

The best way around it is to push vehicles like the Cruise Origin that come with wheelchair-ready space by default but then you’re into purpose built vehicles that have their own downsides.
> Microsoft doesn't let you swap out EdgeHTML or Trident for applications that use the native OS web frame.

I remember quite clearly a gecko (firefox) implementation of the trident COM interface
> I don’t remember the consequences ever being particularly great for anyone.

The point of Dune books, to some extent, is that the path laid out for humanity was terrible, but still the best possible outcome of all possible ones.

Of course we cannot verify it as a reader, but the trilogy alludes that genocide and despotic power consolidation and religious dogmatism were somehow necessary to prevent an otherwise even more terrible fate for humanity.

Whether that's actually true is left as an exercise for the thinking reader to ponder about.
Homeless Software Engineering Vlogger? [video]
Related:

The Man in Seat Sixty-One - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20983137 - Sept 2019 (16 comments)

The Man in Seat Sixty-One - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18895833 - Jan 2019 (117 comments)
Yeah, if you wanted to demonstrate that TikTok needs to be banned, you couldn't have done it better.

Even beside the national security implications, the fact that TikTok just demonstrated enough influence that it might threaten Congressmen in elections ... ayup, that's gonna get the ban hammer tout suite from both sides.
China pumps out a Monkey King movie every year. They are all totally different interpretations other than he is a monkey and has a stick.
I found this fascinating:

Excerpt 1: "Pujol had the distinction of receiving military decorations from both sides of the war – being awarded the Iron Cross and becoming a Member of the Order of the British Empire."

Excerpt 2: "His fictitious spy network was so efficient and verbose that his German handlers were overwhelmed and made no further attempts to recruit any additional spies in the UK, according to the Official History of British Intelligence in World War II."

Excerpt 3: "On occasion, he had to invent reasons why his agents had failed to report easily available information that the Germans would eventually know about. For example, he reported that his (fabricated) Liverpool agent had fallen ill just before a major fleet movement from that port, and so was unable to report the event. To support this story, the agent eventually "died" and an obituary was placed in the local newspaper as further evidence to convince the Germans. The Germans were also persuaded to pay a pension to the agent's widow."

Excerpt 4: "For radio communication, "Alaric" needed the strongest hand encryption the Germans had. The Germans provided Garbo with this system, which was in turn supplied to the codebreakers at Bletchley Park. Garbo's encrypted messages were to be received in Madrid, manually decrypted, and re-encrypted with an Enigma machine for retransmission to Berlin. Having both the original text and the Enigma-encoded intercept of it, the codebreakers had the best possible source material for a chosen-plaintext attack on the Germans' Enigma key."
In a pinch, that is probably sufficient.

But presumably the bomb has some mount and you would want to validate that and the bomb door/release mechanism. You probably also have some sort of targeting system, guidance control, arming system to integrate all which probably require some sort of validation.

You would probably also want certification to validate the operational characteristics of the aircraft carrying the bomb, e.g. range, flight performance, detection, capacity.

And seriously, it is a nuke, better safe than sorry. If you can test it ahead of time you do that.
You can't refuse stop and frisk, here you can say no and just not board
More similar in that they force them to obey the regulations, yes. But regulations cover things like interoperability & anti-competitive behaviour, and here retaliatory actions. I'd very much like _all_ choices to be forced to behave the same w.r.t. not being able to retaliate against protected action, or all be forced to follow the same laws.
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Not at all. If you injure someone you pay damages.

That's a completely different thing than e.g. giving them the ability to sue you for not providing something you never promised to provide.
Quotes from the researchers:

> "could pave the way to finding the elusive quantum gravity theory"

> "we are one step closer"

It's a great breakthrough, but the title of the article overstates the results.

Title of the article:

> "Scientists Crack the Cosmic Code" is not an accurate summary...
Seems to me they ran course of strategic layout set by Jobs and are cruising on play it safe and more of it now. Hence wide variety of the sameness in their product offerings. Cook is a good operative, but not a strategic visionary. As for what's the hot topic about, Apple was always heavy handed, only now is the era they got a chance to have that hand be real heavy.
But apart from the housing, fitness, public transport, cities, work life balance, architecture, job security and cheese, what has the EU done for us?
There's a long gh issues thread with technium struggling with Mistral 7 and loss spikes. Easy to find googling.
Very depressing to see y’all cheering when the state gains more power. We should cheer when the state is kept in check.

You have the choice to buy a Samsung phone instead of an Apple phone; most people don’t have the choice to switch governments.
At least it is now completely obvious that Apple is "verifiably untrustworthy" as a gatekeeper for third party stores.
Seems like you need a marketing strategy that will reduce the CAC... Does your GPT have any suggestions?
I'm not sure it's possible to be "too cynical" in the commercial fishing space. If there is even the remotest financial incentive to do something, we should expect people to maximize profits and do it. The concept of "intent" doesn't really need to enter the discussion, I don't think.
And to get to this we spend far more (as a percentage of GDP) then other western nations.
same with AMZN (Berkshire Hataway holdings for example), 1kUSD -> 100 USD because of stock split (eventually shows -90% performance)
Back in the 90s there was still this idea of working at the same company for life. Places like Kodak and Xerox use to have this.

Some of my adjunct professors in the Rochester area would tell me about this.

Things started to change after the dotcom crash and the acceleration of new technology taking out larger legacy firms.
The Piko Interactive business with acquiring the brand is basically never going to happen. When I was developing BleemSync for the PlayStation Classic, I got a very informal C&D from Piko over the use of the name "Bleem". IIRC the only thing he acquired was the trademark for the Bleem logo.

Piko has been buying up licenses for basically abandonware and some homebrew. It seems that bleempowered.com (a nice rip off of steampowered.com and no longer exists) was supposed to be GOG/Zoom-like.
Probably why LotR translated so well into film, while Dune is very hard to capture in live action. The first book at least has some big battles and over the top villains to anchor the whole thing. Children of Dune is like 90% discussing religion and its appropriate role in government. Especially all the chosen-one tropes that are fun in a movie are pretty brutally deconstructed in Children.
It seems like we just need more doctors, no? The AMA is notorious for trying to limit the number of new doctors. They do that more than much of anything to do with public health.
Outsourcing trust – blocking freedom of speech