skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I broadly agree with the premise, but this section seems fishy:

>"Recall that compared to electronic devices, the human brain operates at ridiculously slow speeds of about 120 bits (approximately 15 bytes) per second. Listening to one person takes about 60 bits per second of brainpower, or half our available bandwidth."

Source? I was under the impression that the brain's processing is a lot more complicated than that and you couldn't reduce it to something so simple as 'bits per second'. Plus, during the average conversation, there must be enormous sums of data being processed - like the author mentions. Body language, tone of voice, social concerns, smell, sight, etc. There's no way that's a mere '60 bits' per second.
This seems like a fun game. One that I enjoy playing is Carrom which a friend taught me. It's a similar game, except the pockets are in the four corners of a square board and then it's like pool.

There are some fun trick shots people do online https://www.youtube.com/shorts/PTTeLj-fSQA

And you can manage a couple of the trick shots yourself with a little practice. It's honestly quite lightweight and easy to learn which makes it fun.
>they tended to roll much better than Hot Wheels

The older history is different.

I was already a Matchbox fan when HotWheels were first introduced: HotWheels invented the "give it a push and it rolls a good distance" type of wheels-on-wire-axles, slick enough that they could make the HotWheels race track with the spinning rubber capstan sending the cars all the way around the track. A Matchbox's wheels would turn, but it would only roll inches if given a push.

Matchbox was getting crushed in the market. Then a year or two later (a long time when you're a kid) they introduced the Matchbox Superfast line which had the same type of wire-sprung wheels, but they still weren't as good at rolling as HotWheels.

but being a child on-the-spectrum I was pretty upset by the whole thing for another reason, because Matchbox cars were realistic reproductions of actual car models (Maserati Ghibli); HotWheels cars were imaginary fantasy cars (Green Goblin or something), and I couldn't stand them, I liked realism and my favorite way to play with them had a lot of parallel parking... but HotWheels were better.

so the end of the story is... I hit puberty
Crossing illegally is an option of last resort.

If you have the ability to immigrate on a visa, it's much safer and easier than relying on "coyotes" or having to cross multiple borders illegally just to take a shot at entering the US.

There's a reason you don't see Mexicans cross the border illegally anymore.
Well aware of that. Having compared several news outlets to their data, it matches what I would consider reasonable on veracity and political orientation.
"there's ideas, then there's execution".

"there's beauty, then there's usefulness".

Sorry about the flak OP but it's better you hear these comments now than when money's on the line.
Isn't this basically why modern server CPUs support Secure Boot and memory encryption? If I understand it correctly, it should be possible to set up your machines in such a way that 1) the server can only boot genuine firmware images, and 2) unencrypted data is only available inside the CPU itself. That is going to rule out most attacks which don't involve dragging the server into a high-end laboratory, is it not?
Cloudflare uses AMD TSME to encrypt the RAM:

https://blog.cloudflare.com/securing-memory-at-epyc-scale/
"Flying saucers are closer than you think, and all my bitterness about academia"
Hi Peter. I know a little about H1B1 visas and the process of getting one, having worked with many colleagues who are in the US on one, but I don’t fully understand the pros/cons of the H1B1 program from the perspective of the average American.

As one presidential candidate will likely direct his ire at the program if he wins, can you explain why such a program is compelling or vital for our tech industry? My H1B1 colleagues seem happy to be in the US (and have indicated such) but nonetheless appear exploited. My naive economic analysis is that the visa program depresses wages to the benefit of corporations, but I’m sure the situation is far more nuanced.

(I’d like something to offer my conservative friends/family who increasingly think all immigration should be verboten.)
not getting ICE knocking on your door and deporting you after living here for decades (happened to a friend's brother in law).
Three Kuhnian Revolutions in ML Training
I'm one of them! It's a great read, thanks
> Only in its internal propaganda. The UN and even Israel's strongest allies consider all 4 areas to be occupied, and illegally so.

Oh, I meant that it hasn't been 75 years, not that the territories aren't occupied. They've only been occupied since 1967.

This isn't just a quibble btw - it's worth asking who the territories are occupied from. Because there was never a Palestinian state, and those territories belonged to Jordan and Egypt, who don't want them and have peace with Israel. Normally "Occupied" territory is territory that is contested by the country it was occupied from.

In this case it's more complicated, because the Palestinians that live on that land consider it theirs and have nationalistic aspirations. Which I 100% support, and absolutely think an agreement should be reached.

(Btw, itt is worth asking why, in the 20 years during which Egypt and Jordan had control over those territories, a Palestinian state wasn't created.)
As someone that got rear ended on my way home from work and had my car totaled a few months ago, I disagree haha
I sold the last of my vector arcade games to a friend when I was moving (Tempest and Space Duel). I threw in a PCB from Major Havoc too just to give it a good home. A few days later I decided to price check that board and some collector had recently paid $1200 for one. I was happy it went to a decent home instead of sitting on my shelf.
Every C compiler I ever used will tell you that void()(void) is not convertible to void ()(char). If people still do it then they are a bit on their own. But how is this then different to Rust's "unsafe"? (of course, there is other UB compiler do not tell you about, that this seems a bad example)
So is verbal communication, whether poetry readings, speeches, presentations, or even just skilled conversation.

The problem is that if an employee's job involves giving presentations, they'll likely be explicitly trained on it and given additional tips of they're struggling. Most offices haven't established a training process for written communications - even emails, guidance is often "Do it right. No, not like that, right, like this."
I think that one has the best screen of the whole batch of the new Snapdragon laptops, too. That's a sick deal
One: Can we test the tests using some somewhat formal specification of the why?

Two: my intuition says that exhaustively specifying the intended input output pairs would only hold marginal utility compared to testing a few well selected input output pairs. It's more like attaching the corners of a sheet to the wall than gluing the whole sheet to the wall. And glue is potentially harder to remove. The sheet is n-dimensional though.
Anecdotally my cat is always very cautious before going through cat flags, which are not particularly narrow but very short, but never hesitate to run into narrow but deep stuff...
Ask HN: Tips for a third-world JR Dev seeking international Job
I've been working as a JR developer (mostly back-end with Java and Node) for almost a year here in Brazil, but two things are making me strongly aim a international job:

1- Brazilian currency (Real) is cooked;
2- More space to learn and build cool stuffs;

I'll graduate in CS in two years and I want to spend this time working to be competitive for international remote jobs. Any tips or things to consider?
Call this a cautionary tale about 'rethinking' school design.

The high school I went to was designed/built in 1973 by some people who "re-thought" school design. Their idea was a 'flexible learning space' - basically a giant open-plan area where different classes would just sort of sit in circles in one big room. Certain rooms - the library, admin offices, the science labs - were walled off individually but most general classes would just be in this big open space. Teachers were assigned rolling desks with a locking roll-top that they could move around to whatever spot on the floor their class would be in that day, kids would circle the desks around and creativity would thrive (or something...)

This plan was basically a disaster. Getting a bunch of teenagers to focus on a lesson is hard enough without the distraction of dozens of other classes within visible/audible range. Within the first year they retrofit the whole building with walls to break the big open space up into conventional classrooms. The walls were vinyl panels stretched between the structural columns - if you pressed on them, they would flex noticeably. It worked well enough, but one side effect of the late addition of walls was that the HVAC had been designed for one big room with a few 'zones' of control. When all the vinyl walls went in, they didn't align to the 'zones' so there would be a thermostat in one room, but the heat/AC vent(s) would be in other rooms, leading to some classrooms constantly being too-hot or too-cold.

20 years after this (the '90s, when I attended) there was still one room filled with the long-unused rolling desks with locking roll-tops.
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Are you suggesting that ARM isn't a large contributor to those things being possible? Genuinely curious.
Brighter nights and darker days predict higher mortality risk
This would be a fun video to send to your DM before showing up with these dice.
This is super fun; easy to get into and really nice that it has proper mobile support, great stuff!
A part of this lives in the spec name, and a part in the assumption that the Devs are not psychos. As in, if you test that sum(a,b) returns a sum of your numbers, the name/description of the test says so. And the second part means that it should hold for all numbers and the exceptions would be tested explicitly - nobody added "if a=5 & b=3 return 'foobar'" to it.
That standard exists, it's called SystemReady. Vendors choose not to implement it.

However, device trees are far better than ACPI. The only reason anyone likes it is that there's a lot of generous people dedicating their time to patching over broken ACPI tables so that users don't have to see how utterly terrible it is. Device trees make that pain into very clear and obvious errors instead of giving you a subtly broken system.
> VMM == Virtual Machine Monitor, "such as Hyper-V, QEMU, VirtualBox".

So, can it run Windows 95 ?
A lot of gaming headsets have built-in sidetone. I found it a bit disconcerting at first, but it really does help you speak more naturally.
Me and my cofounder are non-US residents and live in Germany. If we get into YC, what would a typical / recommended way to proceed be?

We haven’t established a company in Germany yet, we want to be strategic and make what’s best to succeed.

From what I know we can do the batch with our current tourist visa, so I’d like to know more about the post batch options. Being US based or Germany based is an option for us.

Thanks in advance
The solution of course is to fix the asylum process so that applications get reviewed faster not to restrict asylum (that's my view at last) but until that happens, for those who get work authorization based on an asylum application, this is just a temporary fix because at some point, their application will be reviewed and if not valid denied.
Yeah, agreed - Meta and other corporations are trying to do what is probably best supported by a government program so obviously they run into limits.

But trying anything like that here is "socialism".
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Not so few: It was a big hit in the Gathering of Friends convention almost 20 years ago, and BGG con started commissioning 2 new custom painted boards every year: One to raffle, and one to keep.

It's a great activity to do while you are waiting for some people to show up. As any dexterity game, the issue is playing across skill levels. Going against an experienced player as a newbie means they better take it easy on you, or you are never scoring a point
Hello, being a founder (recently got H1B)of an early stage startup is there any consequences of not paying yourself the prevailing wage, especially since you also own the company so won't report it to anyone.
Perhaps if the sample only includes the US, Japan, and Hongkong...
>Other Chromium browser vendors have claimed that they will continue to support MV2 based content blockers, later revealing that they were unwilling to support the code once Google removed it.

But Brenden said: >Brave will support uBO and uMatrix so long as Google doesn’t remove underlying V2 code paths (which seem to be needed for Chrome for enterprise support, so should stay in the Chromium open source). Will Google Chrome Web Store really kick them out over V2? We will host if needed.

So it seems like Chrome Enterprise needs V2 code paths so not all Chromium browsers are botched but Chrome Store can kick them off the Store or maybe they will stay as legacy extensions? Time will tell.
The financial outcome for not buying property adds up after ~10 years. On paper, I've been paid to live in my current residence every year that I've owned due to housing appreciation. If I had rented - the financial delta compared to renting would be between ~400k-1MM dollars over 10 years depending on how one counts.

It would require a very large income to offset the financial cost of renting a home, which would in turn reduce the likelihood that I would take a financial risk on a new startup or push harder at work.
I'm particularly impressed by your choice of "up there with Euchre" as a metaphor to explain Crokinole. It's like you wanted to make it relatable for people in a larger geographic region, but only a little larger.
Federal probe targets airline frequent flyer programs
This is my (not Peter's) advice for Canadians/Mexicans for TN, Australians for E-3, and seems to apply for Singaporeans/Chileans for H-1B1: If it is an automated system, just put no. That may be an automatic filter. There will be time to talk to a human and say "all we need is X/Y/Z" where X/Y/Z is something the hiring manager can do without involving a lawyer. If a human is asking you, then just say "Yes. I need a visa but I can walk you through the process. No lawyer needed."
Well it was a credit replacing the food that’s normally available. If the stated purpose is credit to get a meal while working there, it’s fraud to buy other stuff with the credit. I can see why an employer would want to terminate you, they have to trust you and your work.
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> both of those investments would be worth the same dollar amount today

Only one of those investments would also have generated thousands of dollars of income in the meantime.
Love it! It's like a Chromebook or Samsung DEX in my browser.
You're right, in the sense that the standards that enable this magic are not present on Arm SBCs, but I wouldn't consider that "fundamental". Arm is at least theoretically on board with UEFI, for example, and there are implementors making boards that support it.

What I'm really asking is if a sufficiently determined person couldn't have avoided all these headaches by building and/or standardizing equivalent technologies. (And if it's possible why hasn't it happened yet?)
That likely wouldn't work, doesn't mean the letters were simply rotated. Would probably be just random.
I'll be stepping out for about an hour now and then returning for another few hours. Thank you so far for the great questions and comments!
Show HN: Loomos: Convert rough Loom recordings to professional videos
Over the past few weekends, I have been working on this tool that helps you easily create professional product videos or design walkthroughs from rough screen recordings like Loom. It’s a one-click platform that doesn’t require any editing skills.

The idea came when I had to make a product demo, which took a lot of time with scripts and retakes. So I thought it would be a great way to learn more about AI while building something I’d actually use. I’ve tried to keep it as simple as possible. Please give it a try and share any feedback.
Terraform Stacks
Boat owner: "We have a new boat and we need a name, let's have the internet vote! It can be the people's boat!"

Internet: "Boaty McBoatface."

Boat owner: "Democracy is a mistake."
What I Learned from Auditioning for an a Cappella Group
You can use the TLA+ spec to generate a test suite: https://arxiv.org/abs/2006.00915
C&H moments are the original XKCD moments!
The quality of toys seemed to be in steep decline after my generation. I had a collection of Ertl diecast tractors growing up, and the detail was spectacular. Occasionally I have seen the toys section in big box stores and it looks like Idiocracy in comparison.
StartHead: Decentralized Accelerator for Startups
Hey HN! We’re hosting an online event called StartHead on October 19 from 4 PM - 6 PM (UTC). It’s all about building a decentralized accelerator for startups and innovators in the blockchain and NFT space.
Looks like carrom but easier.
Better nowadays. Previously Macs were widely laughed at as constantly having a generation or two (or more) older CPUs and GPUs, particularly for the price.
Comments like this are a way to instantly kill your credibility. Let's go back to 2012 and compare laptop trackpads and then see if we can pretend that your comment isn't hyperbole.
> For myself only, there's also an implication that perhaps the authors are a bit more concerned with safety and security in general. (Don't reply with counterexamples. I know them already. I mean that as a trend, not a solid rule.) That is, the sort of person who might pick Rust for its features might correlate with the sort of person who cares more about those properties in the first place

I haven't seen any causation between SW and their creator. A good example: Hans Reiser.
No, it's way worse if the product I rely on does as you suggest and keeps adding new features just to see what will stick. I hate that sort of behavior with a passion and it is the sort of thing which will make me never do business with a company again.
This will definitely be implemented, in fact we mention it on the website as the next major feature. We would also like to support NAS & FTP as well, but most likely start with the major cloud providers.
Oh, I meant that it hasn't been 75 years, not that the territories aren't occupied.

You are right of course. It's been so long, I lose track of the math myself.
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I keep thinking about all the sci-fi I've seen where a machine with rotating parts opens up a portal or a wormhole...
What about the people who live nearby and maybe don't want to smell a cafe's worth of weed smoke? Apartment dwellers are already captive enough with smoking neighbors.

> California notably banned smoking in bars and restaurants nearly 30 years ago, the first US state to do so.

USA has become much better with Californias lead to ban smoking in restaurants, disappointing backtrack.
IBM PCs use ACPI tables, which are basically the same thing as device trees. It's just that ACPI tables are burnt into the UEFI bootloader on the motherboard, while most SBCs put the bootloader on the same media as the OS.

(generally I think this is an area which just hasn't become mainstream enough for this standardisation to be useful: when most of your users are hacking around with the SBC and are happy to just download the vendor's SD card image, there's very little impetus to make something plug-and-play)
Sometimes I wonder if you can cash off the AI trend by setting up a page like this with pre-AI royalty-free clips (thousands of those exist and sound pretty convincing).
Scurvy in the Age of Billionaires
I’ve seen the ads for Ground News on YouTube that suggest you might come to the truth if you read the left-wing take and the right-wing take yet it seems to me that road leads to ashes…. Partisan news is all crap because it’s not really news.

On the other hand, I like The Guardian and I like the The Economist which I think are both good papers that each have a partisan take but that’s in the UK.
I’ve been working remotely for nearly 20 years and will never return to a cubicle.

The secret to making online meetings bearable is simple: use audio only - just like talking on the phone, which people can do happily for hours. I don’t need to see you, and you don’t need to see me, but we can always share a screen if necessary.
It seems like shuffling of exces.
Taylor Swift and Billie Eilish are very big pop stars. It's trying to make a comparison like a battle of the "greats"
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.google.and... perhaps?
I look forward to the updated book too (bought the Kamal 1 version!) :-) Thanks for writing it.
I try to follow this rule, 3 or less - cameras can be on, 4 or more - turn cameras off, they are a distraction.
They have a lot of nice window dressing, like excellent touchpad gestures. Until the Snapdragon chips launched they slaughtered everyone else for battery life and power-per-watt on laptops.

But it's certainly true that a lot of their prestige just comes down to brilliant marketing. What else could get businesses to buy laptops with non-replaceable batteries and storage and non-upgradeable RAM that need to be trashed every 3-6 years?
I've heard "tests are documentation" a lot, and even said it without thinkibg much myself. It sounds good, and I definitely like the idea of it, but I'm not sure it's true. Here's my thinking:

- I've never tried to understand a code base by looking at the tlunit tests first. They often require more in depth understanding (due to things like monkeypatching) than just reading the code. I haven't seen anyone else attempt this either.

- Good documentation is good as far as it aids understanding. This might be a side effect of tests, but I don't think it's their goal. A good test will catch breaks in behaviour, I'd never trade completeness for readability in tests, in docs it's the reverse.

So I think maybe, unit tests are just tests? They can be part of your documentation, but calling them documentation in and of themselves I think is maybe just a category error?
Not an improvement for me. I've been instructing NotebookLM for weeks now already by including the instructions into the sources. That way I have version control on my prompts and can easily drag into the sources upload. This requires finding my instructions and copying and pasting, there's also a 500 character limit which is very small, I have over 2000 characters for my standard prompts.
This resonates for me! As a younger person I had so much trouble getting things done. But habit trumps willpower. If you set the bar really low-- go easy on yourself-- and make a habit of doing one thing, you can build on that habit.

Another thing I have learned over the years-- you have to do a lot less in the moment than you think. When you are young its easy to get overwhelmed by all the things you feel you need to make progress on: education, career, health, relationships.. But you have a lot of time. So as long as you are making some progress continually (ie habitually) you will eventually get to everything.
Hey, that's the code to my safe!
What makes you think it is a large contributor?
Had no idea Crokinole was a local thing.

In Grade 7 it became big in our classroom. We ended up having a weekly tournament. I could never shoot the pieces reliably, so I made a tool out of K-Nex that resembled an elastic-powered pool cue inside a barrel that rested nicely on the board. I even had a slider I could adjust to "remember" the right amount of power for a given shot.

The specific rules that came with the board did not cover this, but after me absolutely crushing the first tournament it was summarily banned. This might be part of my engineer origin story.