skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"The move comes just months after accountancy firm Ernst & Young, one of Britain’s biggest graduate recruiters, made a similar announcement, saying in August that it would no longer consider degree or A-level results when assessing potential employees."

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2016/jan/18/penguin-ditche...
The big issue with bootstrappable builds is how to get started and have good examples. This is an ambitious goal, like landing on the moon, and takes a lot to get there. My understanding of this has been you need to (a) Be able to have a compiler that can be compiled from understandable code, which itself may require a set of increasingly complex compilers. I've heard this referred to before as a "compiler pilgrimage" but I can't find where I heard that term. (b) Then you need to be able to build the code with that compiler / dependencies. This is a pretty well solved problem these days assuming you can pin all your dependencies and transitive dependencies. (c) Then this all needs to be reproducible so that you can actually trust the output and that is a pretty hard problem today.
Last layoff I was in, my boss was in the middle of writing my promotion paperwork. The people cut were mainly people with seniority ($$$). The company then sent my contact info to scammers in a probably well-intentioned attempt at placement help.
A true pillar of passive-aggression /joke
You have a car in real life and want to visualize it in software. You take some pictures of the car from various angles -- each picture a 2D array of pixel data -- and process it through software, transforming it into effectively 3D pixels: Splats.

The splats are individual elongated 3D spheres -- thousands to millions of them -- floating in a 3D coordinate space. 3D pixels, essentially. Each with radiance colour properties so they might have different appearances from different angles (e.g. environmental lighting or reflection, etc.)

The magic is obviously figuring out how each pixel in a set of pictures correlates when translated to a 3D space filled with splats. Traditionally it took a load of pictures for it to rationalize, so doing it with two pictures is pretty amazing.
why can't online universities have TAs like real universities? Pay for a course, have someone who completed some more advanced course grade your work or provide one-on-one feedback!
They say 0.46 ¢/kWh. Its a cent sign rather than a dollar sign. It is less than half a cent per kWh for the fuel.

I also found this [1] chart from 2022 which has nuclear fuel costs around 0.6 ¢/kWh and fossil fuel costs around 3.2 ¢/kWh. So the 0.46 would be 1/7 rather than 6x.

[1] https://www.eia.gov/electricity/annual/html/epa_08_04.html
> You can thank Greenpeace and CND and their misinformed campaigns for that.

I always think it's funny when HN thinks that Greenpeace is omnipotent. Their very first campaign in 1971 was against commercial whaling, which still hasn't stopped more than 50 years later. Greenpeace also has a decade-long campaign against oil, which has not exactly succeeded.

Why are HN readers so quick to think that Greenpeace is all powerful? Or is Greenpeace just a convenient boogeyman to trot out whenever anyone is critical of nuclear power?
I love your consideration for the financial problems of some of the most privileged people in all of human history. I just don’t really care that much if they get a big tax bill (I’m sure they’ll find a way to pay) and for a variety of reasons it will be good for society.
Making apartments airtight has other serious disadvantages: CO2 builds up and literally makes you worse at thinking; diseases spread more easily; air quality plummets due to VOCs. Humans need fresh air.

And it's not as easy to make an actually impermeable apartment as you'd think it is. Pretty much every material we build with allows some amount of air and particles to pass through.

> Isn't second-hand (passive smoking) shown to not increase cancer[0]?

That study takes one position on secondhand smoke and lung cancer, but lots of other studies have found that it does cause serious health problems, including but not limited to lung cancer: https://www.cdc.gov/tobacco/secondhand-smoke/health.html
I think he was probably right, an adornment.
Okay that is a bit more less concerning then and makes a bit more sense to a layman like myself.
How would you rate the prerequisites of each course and level of material covered? I've never taken Andrew Ng's ML class, but the impression I get online is that it's great but it's always hard to tell from these positive reviews if the course is just an introductory exploration or something more in-depth.
An even-ish ratio is probably a plus. I went to a very male-heavy school (as a guy) at the time which wasn't ideal. (Though, at the end of the day, it was fine.) But I'm not sure I'd have wanted the flip side either for a variety of reasons.
So probably statistical noise.
I don't disagree with your conclusions. However, keep in mind what problem we are trying to solve here. The problem being that there is a positive feedback loop in gender participation in the disciplines such as Caltech focuses on, which we would like to fix. This feedback loop stretches horizontally across societal institutions way beyond just Caltech, and vertically across time and generations. Put on your engineering hat and see how you would solve this problem?

The current push is to attack it from many leaf nodes, the Caltech example being one of them. The hope is that if this is done in many places, we will dampen the feedback loop and end up with a more equitable representation.

Whether that problem is the problem we ought to be solving is another debate entirely.
I wonder if that was the secret sauce. Just kidding, I don’t remember that happening at all. There were plenty of girls on the internet back in the day. Maybe not as far back as the 90s but definitely starting 2000. That’s how I met most of them!

That being said, as a male I was on the receiving end of the same kind of garbage back then. I had a guy who was sending my mother very creepy emails with her real information just to screw with me, and this was in 98. It affected me worse than it did her, I thought he was going to ruin my life as a kid. Another guy got my email account deleted when I was 14 because I drew a picture that made fun of his art as a joke. I knew it was him because he emailed me saying he was going to do it.

I still would rather trade this internet for that one. It’s too Orwellian now.

I don’t think it’s correct to claim a sense of victimhood over your sex. Shitty people are going to be a problem for you one way or another.

I also found many more great positive experiences back then with people online than more recently. You had downs but a lot of ups. People you meet online these days tend to be more busy, edgy, creepy, or too arrogant to grace you with acknowledgement. There’s also a noticeable degree of mental illness, which lines up with the statistical trends. Which is fine but you really never know what kind of mental illness it is until it’s too late (can be genuinely dangerous). The good people are around but mostly keep to themselves.
// TODO: evil hack!! refactor this
Not necessarily, though that is the hope. This wouldn't directly close the loophole, its meant to be attempt to block it without actually closing it.

A huge question I have here is how unrealized gains on nonfinancial assets would be handles. How would the government determine the fair market value of a multimillion dollar mansion, for example?

More broadly, how would we justify only taxing unrealized gains on individuals? Or would this apply to corporations, banks, and financial institutions as well?

My point isn't actually any specific issue in the proposal, these are just examples of what could be a problem. Our tax code is massive and incomprehensible to almost everyone. Adding further caveats and stipulations just makes it worse. Taking an axe to much of the tax code seems like a much more reasonable approach in my book.
The obvious solution is to let people pick if they want to rent/buy in a smoking complex.

Presumably if this is so popular it has democratic assent, it would create a market advantage and through the free market most everyone gets what they want.

It appears what's happened is some people picked apartment complexes with no contract banning smoking, then had a sad face about their choice.
I've wondered if it wouldn't be better to shift the tax code to bias companies toward paying dividends, as used to be more universal among profitable firms. Then the shareholders will have the appropriate progressive income tax bracket applied.
Later, they learned to, after inciting the boar, run towards the center of town, then overcome it with arrows just as it arrived.
Linus at KubeCon+OSSummit: Will Rust Secure a Bigger Role in the Linux Kernel?
It has taken us more than two years. We are not there yet, but it will happen
> young internet was virtually uncensored and a 100% free for all
> The communities mostly self moderated by kicks/bans.

Kicking people off was and still is censorship and moderation. Services really try hard to not kick people off now and just police the content instead.
I don't think it's purely an optics thing. College is a community not just school. Do you want all your social groups, living area, etc. to be 75+% male as a college student?
Having written a wordle clone recently, this produces the wrong result, by the way. For example guess SASSY with the answer STICK.
It turns out people understand uncommon foreign loanwords less.
I'm still using Linode (have been for around 10 years). Everyone acts like being acquired is some kind of cancer or something, but I don't see a reason to leave. Their pricing is the same as their only real competitor (DigitalOcean) and they just made a nearly $50M investment into upgrading their infrastructure. If they start slipping in terms of offerings, price or customer service, I may move to DO. Until then, I'm perfectly happy with them.
No? I'm sure some code is unnecessary, but I like living in a house not prone to killing me.
Now I was curious and looked it up. They may have a point. Average IQ is highest in asian countries: https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/average-i... and it's not even close.
Please look up what "fascism" means, it will improve the discussion. Don't get me wrong, you have the right to say what you want, even if it is wrong. But I guess it is not so much about saying what we want anyway but meaning what we want, isn't it?
> Other people get pleasure from accomplishing things

Accomplishing what!? More fucking clicks for their shitty boss's worthless website? More rent for the rent-seekers? More dark patterns? More Facebooks for Dogs? More trying to surf waves of buzzword hype on a Venture Capitalist Surfboard and hoping to exit before you wipe out? Accomplishing what!? Nobody is doing anything!

I work on software that I'm actually proud of. And then approximately five people use it for a few years and it dies a slow death. Because it's a shitty consulting business model for a single client at a time. We could actually sell the software to potentially thousands of clients, but the company is run by parasitic accountants playing some bullshit short-term capitalism game and it doesn't suit their needs. Nobody gives a shit about profit, they care about their game of Business Checkers they're playing against other members of the Corporate Caste. This kind of bullshit is rampant throughout all public companies.
No, any randomness is from the temperature setting that just tells mainly tells how much to sample the probability mass of the next output vs choose the exact next most likely (which tends to make them get in repetitive loop like convos).
Open Source Monitoring Extension for Postgres
FlatLaf is incredible and breathes new life into the Swing UI framework.
> we not only need reliable base load energy but lots more of it than we have now

The simulation studies I've read show that the US can get to 90%+ clean energy with existing renewables and storage solutions quite "easily", and likely at a far cheaper price tag and much faster than if new nuclear was part of that mix at all. So what are you basing your views on that new nuclear has to or should be part of the mix?

We should deregulate and clear the way for fission startups, but I don't expect them to be able to compete with renewables+storage on either a cost or time basis.
"This one secret doctors hate..." because thats where food comes from, not the grocery store stork
K. To start with, it's been a common phrase in open source since before "open source" was invented and fairly self-explanatory; it means what it means on its face. Even if that weren't the case and someone were just encountering it for the first time in 2024, a 2-second attempt to get acquainted will not leave anyone wondering.

There are 200 results for "patches welcome" on HN:

<https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=5&prefix=false&qu...>

The top results on Google for the phrase "patches welcome", most being posts written around the 4-, 5-, 6-year mark after the post I linked to, are all based on the same premise: "patches welcome" is (a) common, and (b) not what anyone wants to hear.

<https://www.google.com/search?num=100&q=%22patches%20welcome...>

E.g.:

> "Patches Welcome". We've all seen it in the Open Source community. Nothing makes me angrier than these two words.

<https://fy.blackhats.net.au/blog/2016-02-17-patches-welcome/>

But I'm also missing some context here; my "Huh?" was rather more directed at the part of the remark that says "[...] for me to agree or disagree with it".
This is a propaganda talking point from anti-nuclear activists that is misleading and/or false. There are several misleading or incorrect levers used to justify this statement. The first sleight of hand is looking at the cost of headline capacity of intermittent sources. The second sleight of hand is the assumption that our current (insane) energy market pricing structure is reasonable. There's also the significant caveat that intermittent generation will depend on backstopping by carbon-emitting sources like natural gas. Finally, even reducing "capacity factor" to a single number is garbage. The minimum production really matters, and for intermittent sources, the minimum is zero.

Which is all to say -- it is not clearly and obviously correct to say that nuclear generation is cost prohibitive, and repeating it as if it were is a signal of bad faith.
> And I fail to see why our human brains couldn't be doing something very, very similar with our language capability.

Then you might want to read Cormac McCarthy's The Kekulé Problem
https://nautil.us/the-kekul-problem-236574/

I'm not saying he is right, but he does point to a plausible reason why our human brains may be doing something very, very different.
You confusing content moderation with censorship. Do you consider filtering porn or gore as censorship?
It's very VERY bad for women if you REALLY think about it from a perspective where life and death are on the line. Think about it: You need brain surgery to remove a tumor. You have a slim chance of surviving the procedure. Maybe your doctor is there in that position ONLY because they are the best. But, MAYBE they are only there based purely upon some non-skill based factor as well. Do you take that chance? No. You don't. You seek out that Asian or White male brain surgeon because there is no doubt that they are there ONLY because they are skilled and not due to some other indelible physical quality. This DEI stuff only hurts the talented women who ARE there based upon merit: because you have to stereotypically assume that they aren't the best of the best. It sucks, but this is what they have done to the workforce by pushing this backwards ideology.
Caltech's gender makeup was 45% female a decade ago, although the school did only started admitting women in 1970. A more interesting question would be the ratio of debt-burdened to free-and-clear graduates from Caltech, which reflects on parental wealth. Not that the LA Times would want to take the focus off identity politics and onto class politics.
How do you know that, of the Caltech applicants, there weren't just more qualified women than men? Women are outperforming men in education across the board.
To be fair, consistency can also be called stubbornness. It depends on how you slice things, but growing and changing your mind as new data comes in is not a bad thing.
How can you guarantee this ? From the article, it was the result of campaigns, not affirmative action. Not saying you're in the wrong, but it would be nice to provide proof from what you're assuming.
Telegram's Loudest Defender: The Global Crypto Industry
The link between Volt Typhoon and China is not as firmly established as news reports tend to suggest. It's mostly based on tactical attributions (as opposed to operational and strategic ones). China attributes the indicators to a cybercrime group. This blog post has a good summary of the state of evidence (such as it is):

https://nattothoughts.substack.com/p/who-is-volt-typhoon-a-s...
Management listens to the community by doing the exact opposite of what most people want to see.
Multi-Agent System
I don't actually see it as a left/right or DNC/RNC decide. The policies often look different on the surface, but in the US today both sides of either "divide" lean heavily into increasing federal authority and regulation.
We Finally Have a Definition for Open-Source AI
Women don't go to university to enter your personal dating pool.
You get more dumb money for a new idea, especially if it's something nuclear.
Yes, God forbid someone tries to get some real usage statistics and actually improve the product. Much better to rely on random emails bikeshedding about some minutia
Why will SO be gone? They are now partners with OpenAI - https://stackoverflow.co/company/press/archive/openai-partne...
Unless the pool of female applicants was way more qualified than the male pool (i.e. by several standard deviations) this is true as a simple matter of statistics.
> The Hunter Biden "story" was merely revenge porn of a private citizen gained by hacking a private laptop, they were right to censor it, they would do so for any other private citizen

But this wasn't their stated reason for it. They claimed it was "Russian propaganda" or a fabricated story knowing full well it was not. Then they try and gaslight you into thinking they did the censorship for principled reasons rather than a cynical ploy to hold onto power. Some people fall for it, others learn not to trust those who consistently lie about their manipulative behavior.
How come Musk has never raised awareness on censorship issue in China - which is orders of magnitudes worse than the US? He very clearly has no problem speaking out against other countries governments
What did any of your points have to with the topic of “native look”?
> Taxing seated/parked assets, especially on the very wealthy seems like a recipe for disaster.

Idea: tax loans taken out using assets as collateral at regular income tax rates. After all, that money gets used like regular income (living expenses).

The taxed amount can then be added to the basis when the asset is sold. It would be like reverse of depreciation calculations.

Set an asset and loan value floor so it only affects people with assets $10M+.

After all, regular people pay taxes on annuities, which are similar in structure.

Disclaimer: IANA-Accountant, but I am a taxpayer who tries to legally minimize my taxes.
Are you a Finale user?

I guess you can call it stealing if you want. The word steal has many figurative meanings, such as ‘you stole my heart’. When a product fails, yes it eventually becomes impossible to use, even when you paid for it. To me it seems like misleading and hyperbole to call it stealing because you’re implicitly assigning malice to the business that simply failed, because they failed and aren’t getting value from the software becoming EOL, because they’re offering refunds to people who paid recently and haven’t had time to get value.

Do you call all products and business that fail or go out of business “stealing”?

If you read the letter and FAQ in their entirety, you will see they are not making it impossible to continue to use Finale. Customers who paid can continue to use it, for as long as their computer works. They are turning off new activations on new machines, in a year from now. It’s hard to imagine that mattering very much in the face of the facts that Finale is now dead, cannot be purchased, and is going to be obsolete eventually due to incompatible OS changes no matter what. But if you depend on Finale enough to not upgrade your computer, you can continue to use Finale as long as you want.
It's just dumb.
For Linux users it's a non-native look-and-feel or no app at all.
Having attended a school in the 90's with a 7-1 male to female ratio, I concur. A strange culture and negative behaviors are reinforced on both sides in such an unbalanced environment.
I would assume the cost of making all existing apartments that well insulated (and actively ventilated to compensate), not just from the outside but from each other, is prohibitive. Raising standards for new construction sounds nice from a QoL and energy efficiency standpoint, but I’m not sure if the upfront costs or technical feasibility are there.

And from your link - “Passive smoking has many downstream health effects—asthma, upper respiratory infections, other pulmonary diseases, cardiovascular disease—but only borderline increased risk of lung cancer”. I think that’s still more than enough to make one person’s smoke their (wall-sharing) neighbor’s business.
With what money?

Correct me if I'm wrong here, but it sounds like they are already paying them to under-produce. So why not just pay them to produce the excess and then...do something with it? Sell it to other countries, donate it as humanitarian aid to areas like Gaza, Ukraine, etc.
It should matter. In fact, this is why antitrust law exists. If ideas are a marketplace, then Facebook has pricing power in that market. Facebook is big enough that it's actions alone dictate the opinion of a large portion of America. Twitter used to be the same way.

The answer to all this censorship is simple: break up Facebook. If we absolutely, positively can't, then make them a common carrier, regulate them like a utility, and strip out all the profit incentive to keep bad actors on the system. The funny thing is that Facebook's crimes are not merely censoring what they believe to be disinformation, but also amplifying people who break their own rules. Facebook and Twitter had world leaders policies intended to justify keeping politicians who break their rules on platform, specifically so they could amplify them, because it made the company money.

In other words, everyone angry that Twitter banned Trump in 2021 should also be angry that Twitter didn't ban him in 2017.
yeah but you can still disagree with them for doing so. I don't get why so many people think the 1A protects them from criticism of the way they exercise their own freedom of speech. It's not just your freedom of speech that gets protected.
I really wish Microsoft had gone forward with their Midori project, or at least open-sourced it; they apparently put a lot of work into designing a capability system, both in language design and OS architecture. https://joeduffyblog.com/2015/11/10/objects-as-secure-capabi...
This comment responds to the idea of native look being important with a list of performance issues. Whether software should be efficient and responsive is separate from whether it should look native to the OS it's running on.