skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Dropping out of high school to go be a "doer" is a great way to become a high school dropout, not a prodigy.

That is only because our system is so heavily built around bureaucracy and credentials. Regardless of his skills or intelligence, the HS dropout will face discrimination for not having his pieces of paper so intense that it would be illegal if done against any other group.
Bevy Tutorial: Pong
And/or follow some industry standard in process and product. Even if that standard is less than perfect. Lot of documentation. It might not entirely make sense for your use case, but having the trail that you did things is often good enough.
Interesting about height and fatality risk: (from the article)

> a 10cm increase in the front-end height of a vehicle led to a 22% increase in pedestrian fatality risk, most strongly affecting the survival chances of women, children, and older people.

Kid killer cars
If the consensus is evolving, sure. If the consensus is going back and forth for decades, and each time it is presented with the authority of medical or physical science, then it is normal and correct to stop listening at some point.

When scientists have weak theories that they're not sure of, they're not supposed to share those breathlessly with the public, and certainly not try to shape public laws based on the theories they know are weak.

And nutrition science has been guilty of this for over a century. You can find people in the field making confident recommendations and setting dietary standards from the time when they didn't know vitamins were a thing. If you followed the science on nutrition and adjusted your diet accordingly around 150-100 years ago, you could literally get scurvy or other vitamin deficiencies. The field has evolved a little bit, but it's still extremely weak as scientific fields go.
TfL has built most of its fare collection systems in-house, indeed it licenses its fare collect technologies to other cities like New York. Also it’s not within TfLs or London Mayors gift to provide free transit, TfL is almost unique in that its costs are almost entirely covered by farebox collections, and they receive little to zero government subsidy.

If London made transit free, they have to find an additional £7 billion a year to cover the operating costs (most of which is mundane stuff like keeping the trains working). Total London council tax (which is the only form of tax the London mayor can control), raises about £37 billion a year. So making transit in the city free would involve increasing council tax by an additional ~20%, and council tax is a notoriously regressive tax that disproportionately impacts the poor more than anyone else.

Additionally TfL is already extremely efficient, it was audited by the previous government in an attempt to find further ammunition to discredit the London Mayor, but it seems they couldn’t find any inefficiencies worth publishing. So there isn’t much wiggle room to reduce TfL operating costs.

Regardless of how you slice it, there isn’t a practical way to provide free transit in London, and certainly removing the cost of the bureaucracy for means testing isn’t going to move the needle on the simple economic facts.
Yup, as long as you ignore this quote “If you're thinking without writing, you only think you're thinking.”
Yes, it is, if there is literally no evidence to the contrary, you have never heard any consistent claims otherwise, and you have never experienced anything that would cast it into doubt. That's not the reality we live in, though. The Bible can't even keep from contradicting itself, so external evidence isn't even necessary to doubt the literal word of it.
> often one succeeds at the expense of another

Transactions in a free market are mutually beneficial, otherwise people wouldn't agree to them.
Linux, open source, not covered under this requirement.

Wikipedia tells me 'Winamp was first released in 1997, when Justin Frankel and Dmitry Boldyrev,[6][7][8] formerly students at the University of Utah', which makes them not high-schoolers. It was released by Nullsoft, Inc.

GTK+ and GIMP, open source, not covered under this requirement.

CERN httpd, open source, not covered under this requirement.

By 'not covered under this requirement' I mean the following text in the directive applies:

> Free and open-source software, whereby the source code is openly shared and users can freely access, use, modify and redistribute the software or modified versions thereof, can contribute to research and innovation on the market. Such software is subject to licences that allow anyone the freedom to run, copy, distribute, study, change and improve the software. In order not to hamper innovation or research, this Directive should not apply to free and open-source software developed or supplied outside the course of a commercial activity, since products so developed or supplied are by definition not placed on the market.
Unfortunately, "knowing the truth when an industry exec is lying to you" is not among the prerequisites for a politician to be successful.
The key part is "on its own".

A necessary, not sufficient, piece of the alternative

We need to work on our orginistaional structures
I'm no specialist either, and initially I had the same thought, but wikipedia says this about an electron volt:

> An electron-volt is the amount of energy gained or lost by a single electron when it moves through an electric potential difference of one volt.

I feel like if it was actually an electron-volt-second, that would appear in the definition. So I'm thinking that once the electron has traveled from a place of higher voltage to a place of lower voltage, it has gained energy according to the potential difference, and it doesn't actually matter whether it took a second or a year to do so.

It's easy to think of voltage as something like field strength, to be held more or less constant as the particle accelerates, but really it's a difference between two points, start and end, so the trip length has already been accounted for in the voltage measurement, and doesn't need to be further accounted for by measuring the time it took? Unsure, but that's my feeling anyhow.
And also why it is so easily compromised by commercial interests.
They do, as well as (somehow) omnivores that do not eat game animals regularly. All livestock are supplemented so they stay somewhat healthy AND share a fraction of that b12 with you through that steak. Not very far from a supplemented tofu steak IMHO.
There's two kinds of it. One is "This is BS, here's why it's BS, here's more detail on why it's BS, don't fall for this BS." It's heavier on evidence than it is on snark. It uses snark to liven up what could be dull, but all the data is there, and is carefully explained.

The other kind is heavier on snark than it is on evidence. It uses the snark to persuade, rather than the evidence. That's "I can't be bothered to actually make a real case here (whether or not the data is actually on my side), so I'm just going to make the other side look stupid, and hope that you decide to agree with me so that you don't feel stupid too".

The first kind can be persuasive. (In fact, it can be more persuasive than the dry kind of refutation.) The second kind is a huge red flag - if they're right, it's only by accident, because they can't be bothered to really deal with the evidence.

I suspect that, when different people are reacting to snark in such an article, they're reacting to different versions of it.
The poem uses now-rare characters from classical Chinese but it was written in the 1930s and uses the modern Mandarin pronunciation of said characters. The whole point of the poem is to make everything "shi" in modern Mandarin pronunciation, to argue against switching from Chinese characters to Latin alphabet romanization.
Ah right haha. Thanks for the heads up, I should have checked ^^
I am the author (of the blog post and of the Clace project). Clace is built for one specific use case: internal web apps, to run locally or on a shared server, for use by a team. Clace is not a general purpose web server. It is an application server which uses containers and sandboxing (when running Starlark code) to allow for multiple apps to be managed easily. Clace just happens to implement some web server features for operational simplicity, to avoid requiring an additional component to be managed.

I am not claiming a SQLite database is always the right approach for serving static files. In my particular use case for Clace, I found a database to work better.
Maybe it's time for an update to the excellent Lords of Poverty (1994).
We have already dumbed college down so much to make it accessible to so many. The last thing we need to do is dumb it down further so that everybody can go. 17 years of education isn't really any better than 13. The only reason a college degree was ever worth anything was because it was taught at a high level that most people would never be able to pass.
But you are doing whataboutism. But even if we give you that, Israel’s crimes far outweigh those you mentioned, both in time, and in scale. If you want to find any population that has suffered as many atrocities as Palestinians in Gaza, you would have to go to Darfur. But the impunity in which Israel commits these crimes is not comparable to any other oppressor.

People’s reactions are not based on the criminal act void of any context, they look at the past, they look at consequences, etc. Bashar al-Assad’s mass atrocities were met with international condemnation. Israel’s were met with sympathy from our world leaders, and more weapons to continue and further their crimes. People take this into account.

Peoples opinion also reflects what they see. We see in our news everyday some of the worst crimes of the century being committed against a relatively small population. Every day there is another bomb that wipes out a whole family, including children, in Gaza. Every week there is a journalist or a doctor targeted and killed by Israel. We hear no such stories from East Turkistan, or at least not on the same scale nor horror.

> If you think the UN putting out more resolutions against Israel than all other countries combined makes sense by the numbers - then you are just ignorant of what is happening all over the world.

I don’t think that, but it is worth noting the history here. In a nibling thread you wanted to go into the history to (seemingly) justify apartheid policies. I want to do the same except to justify the UN behavior here.

Palestine has explicitly been the UN problem since it was decolonized from Britain. The UN had (and still has) a policy of decolonization so this made sense. Unlike most former colonies, full decolonization was never realized for Palestine, so it is still an explicit UN problem. Here is the reason why the UN has focused so much on Israel. It is not helped by the fact that on UN security council member keeps vetoing any potential progress for furthering more decolonization efforts. Resulting in many half measures which ultimately don’t deliver any results towards Palestinian liberation.

I suspect you want to explain these things on a racial line. But I reject all such science. There exists much simpler explanations for these things which don’t require us to go on the dangerous path of racialized demographicial behavior.
Please keep in mind the standard of discourse expected here. The discussion should definitely not have been able to veer all the way from sugar vs. fat to "pronouns".

(Also, "liberalist" is a terrible term for the "extremist agendas" you appear to have in mind. I refuse to let them coopt the label.)
> fit the entire IP range in a single 32 bit value

… only if you pretend IPv6 does not exist, which isn't the case in the original blogpost.

But the idea can be extended to fit entire IP (both v4 and v6) subnets in an uint64, given that the minimal IPv6 prefix size to be globally routed is /48, you could use the first byte of the uint64 to mark the address type (e.g. 0x4 for IPv4 and 0x6 for IPv6), the remaining 3 (for IPv4) or 6 (for IPv6) bytes for actual prefix, and the last byte for prefix length.
Tax cars further. They take up way more space than the average pedestrian and required more infrastructure to support and maintain.
That's really unnecessarily complicated workflow you have. It's achievable by yt-dlp with just 3 flags:

--extract-audio

--format bestaudio

--audio-format mp3
And this is the first time I hear about "Fediverse".
I don't think this example refutes the article. LLMs can obviate bullshit writing tasks and remove the appeal of writing altogether for some people.
It's easy to distinguish the worthless degrees from the valuable ones. Google the starting salaries of each major.

If a person picks a useless major, the decision is on them.
Famous composers mimicked other composers plenty, or parodied other composers, copied them or played homages. Mimicked, yes, famous composers definitely did mimic other composers.

Prokofiev Symphony No. 1 is one of the more famous. It mimics Mozart and Haydn (obvious choices!)

Stravinsky’s Octet is another.

There are plenty of other examples. Those are just two of the more obvious ones. Bach did it. Beethoven did it. Mozart did it.
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It's super-cool to see an alternative approach to dealing with Wikipedia content disputes.

In the past, when there have been Wikipedia forks, they haven't generally tried to stay in sync with Wikipedia, at least not in both directions. Do we have an example of long-term forks of collaborative software or text editing projects that did manage to keep sharing productively in multiple directions? Maybe the BSDs to some extent?

I wonder how much work people are willing to do to keep actively collaborating with people whom they have big ongoing disagreements with (at least in areas where those disagreements don't have an impact). Or can such collaboration be made relatively seamless with appropriate tooling?
I don't know why your comment is downvoted because I use this feature of Brave very often and I also exclusively watch YT in Brave mobile (no ads).
> But the middle ground between those who are good at writing and those who can't write at all will disappear.

This observation of Paul Graham may generalize beyond writing: modern technology appears to turn populations into bi-modally distributed populations - for example, those that write/consume human-written prose and those that produce/consume AI-generated prose; those that can afford human medical doctors and those that can only afford to consult ChatMedicGPT or Wikipedia; those that can afford human teachers for their childrens and those that let EduGPT train them, etc. Generally speaking, I expect a trend that more affluent people will use higher quality human services and the rest has to live with automation output.
Thanks for your reply.

"likely to be understood by only a small number of people with a specialized knowledge or interest" is the meaning I was trying to convey here. I think C is more difficult that it should be, but it persists for two main reasons. First, many domain experts seem to regard it in an overly positive light, and secondly, there is a huge amount of fundamental software written in C (as you pointed out) which has inertia sustaining the languages importance.

Difficult to understand describes a reaction you have to learning C, not a property of the language

I think this is true to an extent. Take the following example. I have a C API that requires me to write a callback function, and pass it as an argument to a function called boundaryConditions. boundaryCondtions can actually take a list of functions, but by far the most common use is to pass it a single function. As you probably know, to pass a function as an parameter in C you have to use function pointers. That means that if I want to pass a callback function to boundaryConditions, I need to create a function, then create a pointer to that function, then create an array of function pointers that contains my function pointer, and pass that as my argument. I don't see a world where this is the optimal way of doing things (If I'm wrong, please enlighten me), and I tend to find strange, quirky behavior like this all the time when writing C.

This phenomenon of a bad language sticking around is not unheard of in programing (JavaScript for example). I think the Corolla is still around because it is a great car, and people want it. I think C is still around because of inertia and overly positive views of the tool.
> In Gavin Newsom’s book Citizenville he talked about how, after becoming [San Francisco] mayor, he discovered that fare collection cost as much as the revenue generated from fares. He started the process of making the bus free but was told by so many advisors that the busses would become “dumpsters on wheels,” from a combination of homeless people using them for shelter and people not respecting services that are free, that the plan was scrapped.

~ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21808851
Where does it say they outsourced their IT? The article mentions city hall outsourcing their IT to TfL, but city hall is sister organisation to TfL, they’re both organs of London regional government. The London Mayor is the chairman of TfL and the head of London regional government.

It’s not like they’re outsourcing to some private organisation, every single organisation is either a state organisation, or a state owned company.
My goal is not to remain in academia, it is to build medical devices.
> that **false** proxies are game-able.

You say this like there are measures that aren't proxies. Tbh I can't think of a single one. Even trivial.

All measures are proxies and all measures are gameable. If you are uncertain, host a prize and you'll see how creative people get.
true. thank you
While Goodhart’s Law often occurs because of a narrow focus on a metric without understanding its role in the larger system, the approach in Jack Stack’s The Great Game of Business is to make targets an educational tool, teaching employees how to interpret and impact those targets responsibly.

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1. involving employees in decision-making and teaching them about metrics,
2. giving them a line-of-sight for how their contribution impacts the overall business, and
3. providing a stake in the outcome

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Bottom line: GGOB recognizes that business success takes everyone, at all levels, and values the input of each employee, right down to the part-time janitor. The metrics are used as tools, like the scoreboard in baseball, to guide decision making and establish what winning as a team looks like. It all comes down to education and getting everyone aligned and pulling in the same direction.
A lot of them teach
>informal organization to promote wargaming of all sorts, called Fight Club International

First rule...
It depends on what you mean by the British Empire today. If it is the countries whose head of state is the King of England, then you are right. If it is the territories ruled by the government of London (directly or indirectly), then neither Australia nor New Zealand, both sovereign states, are part of it anymore.
This has been a perennial "story" for at least 15 years on English language internet, but for actual Chinese it's not really a thing.
I provide a source license to my software. How does this affect me and my European customers?

More specifically, the directive says:

> Information is not, however, to be considered a product, and product liability rules should therefore not apply to the content of digital files, such as media files or e-books or the mere source code of software.

All I send is a license and copy of 'the mere source code of software'. Does that mean my product is not included under this directive?
I don't have any particular trust (or distrust) in Wikipedia as an institution, but this seems to be putting the cart before the horse: is there a reason to believe that a federated wiki would be more accountable, rather than less?

(This isn't meant to be a jab; I like federated stuff. But I'm also not sure the order of operations is right here.)
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> It's purpose was not to produce enlightened individuals but to produce productive/obedient laborers.

I hear this all the time, but I've never seen any evidence of it.
I think there are a few factors:
2 - beams going in two directions so double energy.
2000 - mass difference (feel like I'm going to get corrected om this one)
n - the LHC is the last in a whole load of booster stages. It doesnt hit TeV from a standing start.
I can believe, I live in London and depend on TfL all the time. It’s last 10 or so years, I’ve probably only bothered looking up my travel data a dozen or so times. 99% of the time I’m charged the right amount, and I don’t have to think about it.
I'm not sure the economy overall is shrinking, but there was massive over-hiring at the start of covid, and the inevitable right-sizing drops a lot of applicants onto the market at the same time.

Growing your own startup is hard. You need to find a small niche and fill it well. It takes lots of work, most of it not the fun stuff (programming) but the work stuff - sales and marketing.

The payoff (if successful) is getting off the job-hopping hamster wheel, and becomes less dependent on your employer liking you.

If you go this route I strongly recommend you stop coding and start selling. If you can't sell it then you're coding the wrong thing anyway.
Looks interesting, did you write this? From what I can tell it's an iframe pointing to admeen, an online games portal?