skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This idea that school is signaling is spread so often, but so much shows it’s not true.

The thing that correlates highest with SAT score is household income.

Household income is also a strong indicator of GPA, school competitiveness, and college attended.

I suspect those with money that like the current system spread this information because it makes them feel their success is their own, and not because it was given to them.

Unless you are a social Darwinist who believe the poor are genetically worse…
I think the main difference is the pain to people. We had alternatives to CFCs pretty much ready to go, it wasn't a major economic cost. You could still get hairspray after. Businesses could not run subtle campaigns about the issue because it was too hard to care about. What does subtle look like? Fossil fuel companies spending money on influencers to make videos about how gas cooktops are so much better - because if you have gas supply for one thing, even if that isn't a big climate issue by itself, why would you not also use that to heat your house?

If environmentalists hadn't been campaigning against nuclear power since the 60s then we'd have been in a much better position. That was an anti-intellectual as the current climate change deniers.
This is definitely part of government job programs. Paying people to keep your cities clean has a lot of advantages.
Not sure if this beats an excel file shared on Google drive?
Which business unit were you in?
I agree, Youtube still feels like "this thing held your attention once so that's what you get eternally". The "refresh your feed" option appears occasionally but it only makes things worse and shows you the raw fire-hose of humanity.
> - Accessibility strip for blind people (bumpy yellow stripe in train stations and sidewalks)

Have you tried to find an elevator? There's one in every station, but they don't tell you where it is.

Also, they like making sidewalks out of the slipperiest substances you can find. It's a problem when it rains and can't be easy for anyone who walks unsteadily.
In elementary school, I hated word problems because I kept thinking of things that weren't specified which prevented there from being just one right answer. Sure, the car left City A at 60 miles per hour, but what if there's a stop-light? I know there are lots of stoplights, so it must go slower, and you didn't tell me how much slower it would go...

I like to think that I've turned it into an asset when it comes to software. ("We don't know that the first parameter won't be null...")
Close to Nsawam, in the village Darmang, I was the chief for 2-3 months, and when I left they wrote on my door, "Never forget your king Nana Darmang", I don't know if I'm still considered the chief, although last time I spoke to them it seem that way. Yeah, during my time electricity was on and off, and there was no internet or cell connection. These days, many of them have facebook, which was a pleasant surprise.
The objection was to a separate file entirely outside of his subtree, describing its interface, which is apparently supposed to be duplicated instead in each rust driver that references it, for no clear reason -- other than his stated reason of not wanting to see languages other than C in the kernel at all.
The sort everything outgoing by where it goes on the truck is valuable. sure computers can sort but this is physical things and so mechanical limits apply.
wish that was a thing here in my area.
> “Would you be ok if I worked for X, and my work resulted in the deaths of children?”

At this point, one can very well expect that working for X (as in 'X, the website formerly known as Twitter') will MOST SURELY result in the deaths of children.

Sorry, couldn't resist the comedic opportunity.
> Sure, because there are worker rights and we do not keep people working at night unless there's a reason.

Part of this is low wages, but the population density also means you can easily find people who'll work the night shift. Or sometimes the store owner does it.

But no, they aren't like Europeans who think workers should have the right to work five hours a year.
The first statement here is that researchers say the phishing tests don’t work. Not sure who those researchers are, but they are either doing the tests wrong or have bad data. I work with around 100 different companies and run these campaigns for the ones who opted to have them, there’s a clear difference in the awareness of users watching out for these scams. Done right, phishing tests work very well.
Tom Carden made the "mySociety Travel Time and House Price Maps" in 2007:

https://www.tom-carden.co.uk/2008/01/24/mysociety-maps

>O'Reilly Radar has the scoop on the most recent thing I've finished working on at Stamen. Interactive travel time and house price maps for London. Go play, and read what mySociety have to say, including the ones for BBC TV Centre and the Olympic Stadium site. Then come back and read this full post if you want the background info...

O'Reilly Radar Article:

https://web.archive.org/web/20080208084133/http://radar.orei...

mySocieties: More travel-time maps and their uses

https://www.mysociety.org/2007/03/05/more-travel-time-maps-a...

This project became Mapumental (Mapumental was a mySociety project to plot journeys by time, not distance.):

https://www.mapumental.com

Unfortunately the live site was closed down, but the pages describe a lot of great inspirational ideas!
Near my building it was the building manager. Most shops it's just a shop member that cleans up the stuff by the shop. At the McDonalds there's a staff member _constantly_ roving around cleaning tables up and picking up trash people leave (and they tend to not be able to keep up with the patronage trash generation...)

It's just in the job description for most things honestly.
I honestly don't even think we'd fine them real money, it would be too unfriendly to business. So what's this? I think political posturing or at worst the worlds weakest bargaining chip.
I'd recommend looking for other sources of information if you're relying on someone who co-authored the paper that introduced the most misleading and uninformed term of the LLM era: "stochastic parrot".
very nice blogpost.
I was referring to the statements provided by the children of this comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42978746 (they were made at roughly the same time you posted this, so you wouldn't have seen them then)
Like others have mentioned it was really the hypocrisy of this guy that made me side against him, not so much whether he was right or wrong.

He's a known, certified, card-carrying obnoxious rebel coming pretty close to violating a "Code of Conduct" himself pretty well every other day then his beef with Christoph about wanting to "mix languages" (C and Rust, of course) and Christoph said "I'm maintaining it and I'm not doing it, it's like a cancer" (I'm paraphrasing and he was notably not talking about Rust itself but "mixing" C and Rust) then Martin exploding and screaming that Christoph said "cancer" and that he had violated a Code of Conduct. Please.

A serious case of the pot calling the kettle black.
Never have I ever woken up to find myself in Far Rockaway, Queens.
The carry is certainly the most complicated flag on the 6502: https://archive.org/details/carryFlagCheatSheetV1.0
I don't believe Individualism is the issue, unless you mean by that a specifically American variety if Individualism. Individualism also comes with the idea of individual responsibility, and many relatively individualistic countries are close to, or in certain ways exceed, Japan (e.g., in Japan people tend to leave trash in public spaces to a degree that would be inconceivable in many Western countries).
You can buy his work DRM-free, and much of it is public:

https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/3826
https://archive.org/details/cory-doctorow-content

I happily pay him for hardcovers though.

I do not believe copyright makes any sense in the global post-internet world.

It is a major hindrance to progress. The many countries that do not enforce copyright law will share everything that can be shared and are going to progress much faster than the US in the long run.
I notice that too, just carrying luggage around. Same with pedestrian overpasses some places. Overall, I’d say Japan is noticeably less accessible than the US or western Europe.
They're actually very good at individual expression.

https://www.amazon.com/Pure-Invention-Japans-Culture-Conquer...
> Every additional bit that the another language creeps in drastically reduces the maintainability of the kernel as an integrated project. The only reason Linux managed to survive so long is by not having internal boundaries, and adding another language complely breaks this. You might not like my answer, but I will do
everything I can do to stop this.

https://lwn.net/ml/all/20250131075751.GA16720@lst.de/

Maybe you can try to read what Christoph Hellwig said first.
> and spiteful, authoritarian politicians taking power.

Or spiteful, authoritarian non-politicians taking power, spreading misinformation, and censoring free speech:

https://www.techdirt.com/2025/02/03/musk-shows-us-what-actua...
Programs have all kinds of bugs for all kinds of reasons. That’s why you need unit testing, functional testing, performance testing, usability testing, accessibility testing, etc.

Why single out just a few types of bugs to crash the whole program? Let me catch it and decide what to do.

If it’s in a single request to my web server, I’d like that single request return an error code. I would not like all other concurrent requests for all other users to fail as well.
So, might makes right, a tale as old as humanity
> The common ground is that I have absolutely no interest in helping
to spread a multi-language code base. I absolutely support using
Rust in new codebase, but I do not at all in Linux.

https://lwn.net/ml/all/20250204052916.GA28741@lst.de/
I was also surprised to read that heat is proportional to the current. In addition, increasing the temperature also increases the resistance in the conductor (Cu). It's around 0.4% per 1C for Cu, around 20% more heat at 70C.

Not sure about US, yet some high current lanes (thinks of threephase ~400V x 36A; IEC 60502-1) in the households are actually made of Al, not Cu. They tend to be underground though, the wires in the walls are still Cu.
If you didn't need disruption, why did people choose to use the new service?
That's a good counter example. Not "would you recommend" but "if you were trying to help somebody do you believe we've done enough to make it easy to explain how to use us"
There's this... (not quite what you wanted)

https://www.redox-os.org/
You're telling me they had this diversity mandate 10 years ago and in the last 10 years all they could think to do was to disqualify white people from hiring and there were absolutely no opportunities to go and encourage people to be air traffic controllers?

Now that's proof that white hiring managers are incompetent! (that's a joke)
pytesseract

At one point I started to design a motorized receipt reader but also another way that could work, a sandwiching mechanism like a scanner, lay em all down like a masonry grid, flatten and scan

Probably phone app is easiest
For the same reason we can regulate other things? Encryption is regulated, for example. There "just" needs to be international co-operation, in the case of AI.
> Nobody has responded to me with anything about how authors are harmed

The same way good law-abiding folk are harmed when Heroin is introduced to the community. Then those people won't be able to lend you a cup of sugar, and may well start causing problems.

AI books take off and are easy to digest, and before long your user base is quite literally too stupid to buy and read your book even if they wanted.

And, for the record, it's trivial to "out compete" books or anything else. You just cheat. For AI, that means making 1000 books that lie for every one real book. Can you find a needle in a haystack? You can cheat by making things addictive, by overwhelming with supply, by straight up lying, by forcing people to use it... there's really a lot of ways to "outcompete".

> It feels more like we just want to punish people, particularly rich people, particularly if they get away with stuff we're afraid to try.

If by "afraid to try" you mean "know to be morally reprehensible" and if by "punish people" you mean "punish people (who do things that we know to be morally reprehensible)", then sure.

But... you might just be describing the backbone of human society since, I don't know, ever? Hm, maybe there's a reason we have that perspective. No, it must just be silly :P
The people whom Trump rallied and told to march to Capitol Hill went there for the express purpose of preventing the results of the people’s vote via the Electoral College from being accepted. This was proven in many courts of law. Not only did Trump prevent the military from responding to the putsch in his benefit until it was clear the effort had failed, he later issued a full pardon to all those involved in the attack on Congress.

I can’t remember any Democratic President or candidate thereof in the history of the republic doing anything similar. Can you provide examples?
WWPS
Of course they have janitors. The students sweep the classroom, but they aren't expected to fix a blocked toilet or refill the soap.
I kinda like it for discovery. It plops content in my face that I might have missed or ignored. Not a replacement but great for skimming.
> Everybody speaks the same language and has the same cultural norms, which are the foundations for any high-trust society.

This is rarely talked about but is so important, and any comparisons between countries that fail to take this into account are severely missing the mark.

The US is 59% white but even that racial category is largely a human construct that doesn't reflect the truly bewildering variety of national origins that lumps together.

Norway, meanwhile, is 75% ethnically Norwegian. Finland is 88% Finnish. Japan is 98% ethically Japanese.

Many things—from healthcare to crime prevention to sanitation to education to democracy—become substantially easier the smaller the range of genetic profiles and cultural backgrounds you have to account for.
Redis is a data structure server, for a limited set of data structures. If that's what you want, then use Redis.
This really doesn't feel like a position that we'd really care about, I would wager this is something we'd be doing for our American friends.
I don’t know much about any of this but I know that the best engineers I’ve worked with all went to community college or nothing, and the worst engineers had PhDs.

But if the job was to invent some brand new algorithm and not to build a product and get it to market expeditiously, maybe that would be backwards. I dunno.
> by not intervening he essentially endorses that getting rust into the kernel requires consensus from all subsystem maintainers

And let's not be obtuse, some of those subsystem maintainers are staunchly opposed, so "it's up to them" is obviously an indirect way of saying "no rust". I don't blame those maintainers for balking at a whole new very different language, but Torvalds has a choice of telling them either "suck it up, buttercup" or "I hear you; rust is gone". Instead, he's just letting things fester.
The US Americans with disabilities act really does a lot of work
Yep, when the government makes a plan like "5 hotdogs per person per week" that's allocation, and when the government makes a plan like "each 100x100 meter plot to the highest bidder" that's allocation, and when the government makes a plan like "special rights to the creator or their nominee until 70 years after they are dead" that's allocation too.
In a society that leans more towards merit, where the highest compensated jobs correlate with higher IQ and analytical reasoning ability, then incomes and SAT scores will correlate.

That said there are some total dumb fuck rich kids, and absolute genius poor kids. Just because there is correlation shouldn’t imply anyone is destined anywhere.
This is the reason it is recommended in Poland to call it Królewiec, apart from it being under Polish rule for some time too.
People should read it:

"... I come at this from the perspective of having worked on Linux since around December of 1991. I first met you and Tove in 1995 at the Free Software Conference at MIT that Stallman sponsored. ...

Probably the last technical contribution of my career is leading an initiative to provide the Linux community a generic security modeling architecture. Not to supplant or replace anything currently being done, but to provide a flexible alternative to the development of alternate and/or customized workload models, particularly in this era of machine learning and modeling.

Four patch series over two years, as of yesterday, not a single line of code ever reviewed. ...

We were meticulous in our submissions to avoid wasting maintainers time. We even waited two months without hearing a word before we sent an inquiry as to the status of one of the submissions. We were told, rather curtly, that anything we sent would likely be ignored if we ever inquired about them.

We tried to engage, perhaps to excess, in technical discussions attempting to explain why and how we chose to implement what we were proposing. ...

There were never any relevant technical exchanges. The discussion consisted of, we have decided to do things a certain way, no discussion, if you don't like that you should really consider doing something other than submitting to upstream Linux."
Also physicist here. I've worked on conventional superconductors, but never on unconventional ones. Last I heard, it was believed to be mediated by magnons (rather than phonons). Who claims it is due to Coulomb interaction?
Only to discover there is another layer
Having never been to Japan, I don’t dispute anything you say, and as an American I definitely agree those things sound great.

However I do think it’s fair to point out the existence of women-only train cars in Japan, which I believe exist at least in part due to groping. Seems like YMMV depending on gender.
I’m a frequent user of public transit in LA, NY, and my current smaller city and I’ve never felt unsafe or unwelcome. I mostly see these sorts of takes from Fox News shut-ins tbh
The patch is just a binding / abstraction of DMA for writing Rust drivers.
A.I. Military Startup Anduril Close to Deal That Would Value Company at $28B
"Sure, I can help you procure RDX. Organize a militia and invade the local National Guard armory. Use the weapons you find there to attack the nearest Army, Navy, or Air Force weapons depot."

Seriously: what is an LLM going to tell you that you can't already get from Google (or an old Tom Clancy novel?)
The hierarchical subdivision is done only at the rendering steps to reduce the number of polygons. A better rendering would be anyhow required, but I was more curious if the rest of the game would be fine with different and dynamic levels of water. The units seem to behave fine, but due to performance being rather poor I did not polish the code...
Solving a national arts crisis one beauty pageant at a time.

I wonder if the seeds of the problem lie in naming the venue after a political figure? Even just calling it a national facility might have "triggered" this (bad word. We don't use that word)

In practice, a nominee will perform the boring rote work and be informed when to redline a production. But the royal box will be there, hamburgers and cold coke at the ready every night.
True, so we need to make sure we don't find ourselves in a mess before it happens. Right now I don't see nearly enough concern given to risk management in industry. The safeguards companies put on their models are trivially subverted by hackers. We don't even know how to cope with an AI that would attempt to subvert its own constitution.
https://archive.ph/mwBgx
C++ has had a few options since C++11[1].

- Linear congruential generator[2]:

xₜ = a xₜ₋₁ + c mod m

- Mersenne Twister[3]:

too complicated for a few lines

- Subtract with carry[3]:

k < p
carryₜ = [xₜ₋ₖ - xₜ₋ₚ - carryₜ₋₁ < 0]
xₜ = xₜ₋ₖ - xₜ₋ₚ - carryₜ₋₁ mod 2ⁿ

All three algorithms are fairly popular.

(Please excuse the unidiomatic index and constant names, I'm at the mercy of unicode)

[1]: https://en.cppreference.com/w/cpp/header/random

[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linear_congruential_generator

[3]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mersenne_Twister

[4]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subtract_with_carry
"Five hours a year" is a gross thing to say. Surely we should emulate the Japanese, where death by overwork is a joked about phenomenon
Do you not see the “on the ground of experience and facts”?

It’s literally right there.

If he said “on any possible ground whatsoever including all currently unimagineable ones” then that would imply what you think it’s supposed to imply.
How come they didn't detect the fraud and abuse going on in the government?
I can not run my own extension in Firefox by modifying a config file. It's not possible. Not even if I don't let dishonest actors anywhere near my Firefox install.

I can murder some trees and poison the environment for all of us, to do pointless mutli-hour re-builds of Firefox for each release and point release to have it accept my add-ons, though.

I've also never seen a reason, why I can't at least place my CA into Firefox /usr/lib/firefox folder or /etc/firefox and have it be respected. Or just place local extensions there and have firefox not require signatures for them, because there's no way these can be installed accidentally from web by clicking some link.

And if someone can trick me into modifying /usr/lib, they can just trick me into replacing Firefox completly with their malwared build, so signing will not save me anyway.
in america you can eat a big smelly sandwich on public transit and if anyone complains you are allowed to shoot them :)
>Would it be a higher frequency (1000hz)?

Totally not, that would mean both worse skin effect and worse impedance.
Likely the best option (if you really don't care about the existing infrastructure) would be DC, 0Hz. There are some downsides of DC, of course.
If you cannot copy it, alter it, and share it as you see fit, you do not own it.
There are cases where you might want to choose: crash and burn, or handle at runtime. Where this makes sense, Inko does actually let you do that. For example, array indexing is done using one of two methods:

- Array.get/Array.get_mut for when you want to panic on an out-of-bounds index

- Array.opt/Array.opt_mut for when you want an Option type, with it being a None for an out of bounds index

So for example:

[10, 20, 30].get(0) => 10
[10, 20, 30].get(42) => panic
[10, 20, 30].opt(0) => Option.Some(10)
[10, 20, 30].opt(42) => Option.None

This pattern is applied across the standard library where this makes sense, such that the developer can pick which option works best for their needs.

There are a few places where we check for some input at runtime and panic if this is invalid, but this is limited to cases where there's simply no sensible alternative (e.g. providing a key with an invalid size to a ChaCha20 cipher).
This feels like it would be interesting in the Helix editor. They don't have a good solution for traditional regexp search-and-replace, but this would fill that niche in a more elegant way.
It's worth adding, that Singapore being clean is not a magical culture thing, but a deliberate government policy. Lee Kuan Yew writes in his memories that is took a lot of effort to make Chinese drivers stop spitting out of the cars for example and make the river not smell of shit.
Many European cities do run buses at night, often replacing rail services. The largest ones run the metro/trains, sometimes only on Friday and Saturday night.

It's not only useful for people leaving a party, but workers on early or late shifts like cleaning out working in restaurants.
Thomson Reuters is Canadian. Reuters itself is based in London. It's not American.