skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> What’s wrong with that?

It’s using a ruler to aim an electron microscope.

Standardised tests measure academic potential, i.e. probability of graduating and likely value added to society from the educational experience, with a fair amount of error. Taking everyone within a standard deviation of the cut-off and randomly selecting therefrom admits this error and removes the stigma from those just below the previous, false cut-off. If one really wanted, and if the statistics merited it, one could use a weighted randomisation, with individuals scoring higher getting an advantage compared to those scoring lower.
3) Actually Portable Executable

There's a better option.
What about unemployed people with ambitions?
Oscillating between high distractibility and hyperfocus rather than fluidly directing attention is essentially the core symptom of ADHD.

As someone who has inattentive-subtype ADHD, I must say that this sort of pattern can result in a great deal of loneliness. It is far better to watch the course "learning how to learn" and use something like the Pomodoro technique to explicitly decide whether to be in

- focused mode

- exploratory mode

- actually relaxing and paying attention to your relationships mode
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May be we should call it Universal Basic INSURANCE;
The "Chinese room argument" says that external behaviour cannot be proof of consciousness, intelligence, understanding etc. What my comment above says is that you can't explain a word A by means of another word, B, unless you already know the meaning of B.

My comment is relevant to the question of whether GPT-3 has "understanding" or not, because in order for GPT-3 to understand the meaning of a word A in terms of a meaning of a word B, it needs to already know the meaning of the word B. However, this is what we wish to know, whether GPT-3 knows the meaning of any word. Observing that GPT-3 can use a new word in the place of a different word doesn't tell us whether it knows the meaning of the original word.

As of yet, no, there is no formal test that would convince me or a majority of reserachers in AI that a model "knows", "understands" or anything like that. The reason is not that I am too stubborn, say. Rather there simply aren't such tests available yet. One reason for that is that we don't, well, understand what it means to "understand". We don't have a commonly accepted formal definition of such ability. Without that, we can't really design tests to prove that some system has it.

The take away is that it will be a long time before we can know for sure that a system is displaying intelligence, understanding, etc. This may be unsatisfying- but the alternative is to design meaningless tests that prove not what we are trying to prove and proclaim the goal proven if the tests pass. This does not go well with the purpose of scientific endeavour, which is to acquire knowledge- not pass tests and make big proclamations about winning this or that competition.

In short, I'm not saying that computers can't have understanding, or that we can't know if they do. I'm saying that right now, these things are not possible, with current technology.
philosophically I like the idea of a UBI. but realistically I don't believe anymore in solutions based on financial reorganizations. the society needs a fundamental shift of how resources are allocated and used. I expect a UBI to only produce a low-income class that depends on UBI and can't find a job that pays sufficiently well and another high-income class that just gets the UBI on top of their ample salary. prices will factor in the new offset and adapt positively. we'll see more low paying jobs for UBI-dependent people who can't choose.
What I learned on my own – Implementing JWT Authentication on SailsJS (v1)
> lol, why would they do that?

Basically, using academic aptitude as an entrance qualification includes/excludes different races unevenly, (Asians and Whites do better) so this is a way to get round that. Lowering the standards and using randomness is a roundabout way to discriminate against Asians and Whites, but not explicitly. Of course, another way of looking at it is that tests are racist because of the variation in results.
A preview build vs Internet Explorer/Trident based rendering engine. I'd take my chances.

Or just use Electron
Thanks for the mainsplaining

What you fail to understand is that money is power

Especially when money can be used to

- buy competitors

- put them out of business

- sue them on the most insignificant detail

- sue other small companies just because they use a different fruit in their logo. Why? Because you have money and you can! (see prepear logo fight for reference)

- stall job market to keep workers from going to competitors (see Apple and Google's wage-fixing cartel involved dozens more companies, over one million employees)

- abuse your market position, fines in the range of billions are peanuts for you (see French antitrust authority fined Apple for 1.2 billions)

etc etc

- did we forget that they have a monopoly in a luxury brand used mainly by managers and very powerful people that involves handling their private data and can exactly "control the price of good and services" on that platform at their will?

Companies that make yachts have no monopoly on means of transport, but they make boats for people like Paul Allen and have much more power than Fiat/Chrysler

Last but not least

You are wrong again

Microsoft lost their case because they ABUSED of their dominant position, that's exactly what Apple is doing in the iOS market

And it's much worse because MS was an outsider at the times, Apple is the richest company in the World

US is not dominating the World because they are better - the contrary is probably true - or have a larger market influence, but because they have more money than anybody else and spend more than anybody else on military budget (also used to spy on allies on civil matters, see USA spying Angela Merkel)
*zfs on Linux
> Definition of socialism: Worker owned means of production.

Citation needed.
I wonder if the 'news' is the 7.4.0 change that allows for configuration for multiple concurrent requests, by spinning-up numbers of workers as needed?
It’s funny that fedora is moving to supporting btrfs as the default FS, when red hat has stopped supporting it altogether. I’m a big fan. In a world where we can’t have GPL compatible ZFS, btrfs is the next best thing.
Atmospheric nitrogen sounds bad.

And the Netherlands has to contend with some serious dihydrogen monoxide issues, too.
as an ADHDer, one thing I've found key is figuring out what things in my environment and mind are the things I want to signal "you're doing the right thing, keep going."

Essentially, what is your 'reward model'? --
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PYylPRX6z4Q

Test-Driven-Development is one example of this.
That's great. You should be able to take those classes if you want to.

Near-as-makes-no-difference half of the classes I was required to take in university -- my upper- and lower-division "general education" -- were an absolute waste of time for which I was forced to pay.

Even if I was forced to spend that money, I would have been better served by pretty much any other experience that carried an equivalent cost -- like spending a year backpacking in Europe and Asia.
Both my undergrad uni, and the university I am teaching at, in Pakistan, have an outreach program, where they find ~50 excellent students from the poorest sections of society, and give them a full ride (tuition + living expenses). Some of these students would not even have gone to any uni, let alone to some of the best unis in the countries.

Based on my non-statistical observational view, these programs are insanely effective at helping these students. Hell, some of the best students in the uni are exactly these poor students. The most successful student from my batch grew up in a village in the middle of nowhere and went to MIT for a physics PhD.

I have seen very little evidence of two-tier because some of the privileged are lazy and don't achieve much in uni.
The Universal Declaration of Human Rights disagrees with you. It says

> Everyone has the right to a standard of living adequate for the health and well-being of himself and of his family, including food, clothing, housing and medical care and necessary social services, and the right to security in the event of unemployment, sickness, disability, widowhood, old age or other lack of livelihood in circumstances beyond his control.

In Article 25.
I mean... That's the definition. Not even the most neoliberal dumbass would try to disprove that.

Edit: Okay, whatever, here you go, right from Stanford: https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/socialism/
Absolutely. Because we want our doctors and engineers to be just "good enough", none of this elitism for us!

I'm sure they'll still cure cancer and get us to Mars, right?

And the truly elite who miss out by random chance ... that doesn't matter because justice doesn't require us to recognise and appropriately reward genius.

In fact, screw those priviliged geniuses, they're only first in line because they won a genetic lottery right?

/s
I heard about gaming the system as a teenage mother, but that cannot be done by everyone.
"It's not worth it for multiple providers to wire up an apartment or neighbourhood when there is already an existing provider there."

Except that it is kinda worth it if they'd think for a moment just how many folk would instantly switch to any competition that arrived in an area that's been consistently screwed over by the only provider there… All they'd have to do is offer honest services at a fair price and they'd steal a massive chunk of the area's subscriber base.
Is this approach similar to Rails Turbolinks?[0]

[0] https://github.com/turbolinks/turbolinks
For Channel tunnel, you are comparing a 50km tunnel under the sea to a 2km bridge in a bay ?
That means you can't copy the executable after executing once and have it run on Windows, correct?
This is very obvious to me too. Australia is placing better than the UK, despite mobile contracts being almost universally more expensive and less good in Australia. It seems to be because there's an expensive UK plan skewing the data, despite not being what most people have.
Is there any way to get a GPL-compatible version of Sciter?

I couldn't tell, just from glancing at the website/github.
Done in the west as well, in order to counter the popularity of socialism with the working class. Had similar results. Was gradually wound down in the past few decades.
Evidently :) Thanks!
Social ills in Japan https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-34615972
> meritocratic measure

We have to this point been unable to produce such a measure, despite more than a century of trying.
> When you give poor people like Alice money, they spend it and create demand for consumer goods. Consumer inflation is what happens when demand for consumer goods exceeds supply. However, this is not a bad thing because increased demand also creates new job opportunities.

Aren't you now arguing that it wouldn't cause inflation? Even if there was an increase in demand, prices only increase if supply can't respond.

And if there are products where supply is artificially constrained (e.g. housing through zoning), isn't that the root cause of the higher prices and not the UBI?

> Charlie on the other hand may invest his excess income and therefore generate no demand for consumer goods.

But that still creates demand. It's demand for business real estate and legal services and office supplies, but that's still demand.

Inflation is caused by printing money.

> In fact it's the opposite, it's entirely possible that his investment is creating excess supply beyond a reasonable point and thereby causing deflation.

That's not deflation. Moreover, it would require Charlie to be a chump who is investing in a loss-making business.

Inflation is a change in the value of the currency. It isn't a change in the relative demand for different types of products and services. That's something else.
> once we acknowledge that natural talent exists at all, even if it were a minor factor, the whole moral justification for the edifice of meritocracy falls away

Not from a society-level utilitarian perspective.

Meritocracy aims to elevate the most competent people to the elite ranks while working to remove incompetent elites from power. (Given power is a zero-sum game, we have no short-term solution to the existence of elites.)

A properly-tuned meritocratic measure thus looks for what a society needs in its elites to survive and thrive. (We don’t have such a function.) It may not be fair, individually. But it will he efficient, socially.

Paradoxically, those elites must then recognise that their position is largely a result of luck, and thus not an opportunity to become extractive towards the rest of the populace. That latter component means not every selection mechanism should to be meritocratic. This is one philosophical basis for balancing a meritocratic private sector and public service with elected elites, whose selection is decidedly not meritocratic.
Or people who can read Greek. I can only imagine how Russians feel towards the frequent misuse of their alphabet.
WordPress as a Service
Maybe... but as an ADHDer, my experience is that the bigger problem is thinking "I have this problem" but hearing from others "you're overthinking things" or "you don't need that, just get started" and consequently:

1. Never becoming confident enough in the problem to start solving it.

2. Never getting the rubber-duck collaborator to help you even imagine how you would solve it.
Do you happen to remember the title? I am very curious to see how they implemented this
My PhD supervisor told a funny story about this to illustrate the phenomenon of learning more, but seemingly knowing less.

First you learn that the Earth is "round". Then you learn about shapes and that the Earth is actually a sphere. Then you learn more shapes and that the Earth isn't actually a sphere but is slightly squashed at the poles: it's spheroid. Then you learn that it is actually more squashed at the top than at the bottom. It is in fact a geoid. So you look up geoid in the dictionary and find that geoid means "Earth shaped".
I usually hate magic too, but I have to say this is one of the cases where I like it.
It's convenient without any danger attached to it since you're just switching directory and not actually executing something against this "unknown" path.
> When the merit function is geometric, all it takes is a small change of fortune to start a rapid rise or a rapid decline.

> "Turning 100 dollars into 120 is work. Turning 100 million into 110 million is inevitable."

These two sentences contradict each other. Also, if making money was as easy as you say once you have a pile of money the Forbes Rich List would be much more stable than it is. In reality most of the extremely wealthy fail to beat an index fund over the generations because of hubris. The Rockefellers are still rich but their combined wealth as a portion of the US economy is less than the founder of their fortune’s was when he made it.

None of this matters to the organizations offering patents of nobility of course. Ideally they’d be abolished, all real property expropriated and the IP released to the public domain. Anything that reduces their prestige is to the good though. Reducing the fellow feeling of the ruling class by giving them a less concentrated base of experience is to the good.

https://scholars-stage.blogspot.com/2019/12/the-problem-isnt...

> Liberal technocrats give us literally no reason at all to think their interests are aligned with the great majority of people, yet when they are attacked as a governing class they stress their credentials and competency. But it'd be worse if they're doing bad stuff efficiently!

...

> The American system of government was built on the assumption that the most salient political divides would reflect geography, not ideology or class. The senator from Massachusetts would share bonds in common with the lay citizenry of Boston that he did not share with a senator from South Carolina. On the national sphere this would allow him to represent the interests of his constituents as if they were his own. This has proven more true at some times in American history than others; yet because of the way American politicians are elected, this sense of representing the interests of a geographically bounded group of people is more true in the political arena than in most others.

> Things have not always been this way.

> Though commentators sometimes speak of the old WASP gentry as an earlier era's national elite, they were not really so: they were the business, cultural, and political elites of one region of America. They ruled the roost in New England and the Mid-Atlantic states. During the WASP heyday these states had greater economic and demographic heft than other regions in the nation, and so families with names like Roosevelt, Adams, and Lodge had an outsized influence on national politics and culture. But those families were not competing against the best and brightest of the entire nation: they were competing with each other. Texas' best and brightest did not strive to get into Harvard—they strove to get into Baylor. They were generally satisfied to be Texas elites, and if they operated on the national stage they tended to think of themselves as such.
If you have a "cheap VPS" for private projects, you might want to consider this as a free alternative: https://github.com/fatedier/frp.

Run one executable on server, another on your computer. With some initial configuration, you'll be serving your local site over the internet.
people say that Ivy's get such a large number of applicants and accept such a small percentage that they could take their applicant pool, accept one cohort, put it aside, accept another cohort and the 2nd cohort would be just as successful as the first cohort.

If that is true, its not about lowering the bar, as both cohort pass the same bar, its just about increasing fairness.

if its not true, then yes, you are correct, it lowers the bar.
Take two individuals with the aptitude and the willingness to learn engineering and pass said exam. Give one person enough money to pursue an engineering degree. Burden the other one with an ailing parent. There is no conflation here.
I upvoted you, but it is true that for most graduates, a degree is just a ticket to the upper middle class where they will mostly do meetings, email, and office documents.

Sadly, this is true for a lot of engineering jobs too.

Whether they learn anything is irrelevant.
I'm really pleased to hear this, because I've kept scratch notes in english text written in the greek alphabet for decades, and every so often I wondered if it was more readable than I expected if someone who read greek happened to glance at it :) (It's not secrets - more like a habit of stream-of-consciousness writing while listening to someone talk, that would probably look bizarre).
I think it’s more similar to Stimulus or StimulusReflex? ie you can declare the targets and actions of the JS within the html tags
Surprising Facts about the Arabic Language – Arab Academy
My screenreader can pronounce Greek. Which means the first is far easier to comprehend.
30% Law makers are selected via Lottery in Belgium https://archive.is/vMt1d
> Could we please just fix native software development, so it doesn't suck, rather than adding the kitchen sink to web browsers?

People have been trying to fix native software development forever, from the JVM to electron. But the web remains the only open platform for distributing software that works on every device. Fixing native software development will eventually mean making the web native, so that your OS is just a browser.

> Making it possible for news websites to touch ethernet/usb/serial/gpu compromises that.

There's a simple and obvious solution for that, which is to make them ask for permission, just like with desktop notifications.

> Same goes for optimizations ilke JIT'ing and WebAssembly which have certainly done a great job making it possible for Gawker to reprogram the microcode in AMD K8 CPUs.

What kind of argument is this? Someone who doesn't need a technology uses it anyway, so ... it's worthless?
>Do prices rise when consumers have more money to spend? Is consumer inflation tied to employment rates? Does inflation slow when poverty grows?

Pretty much, but that's not a flaw of UBI, that's how the economy works and if the amount of UBI is picked carefully by skilled economists it would be very easy to achieve the desired amount of inflation. Everyone is somehow scared of inflation because we have been in deflation or at least near zero inflation for at least a decade.
> to date we have not failed a single A/B test

This smells fishy. If you're experimenting with a typical p < 0.05 (which is often too high for ecommerce optimisation), surely you'd expect to fail 1 in 20 by chance, even if your product is better?
So, I've been thinking about this comment a lot over the weekend.

It is interesting to consider a "cool kids" demographic, of developers who stray far enough outside of the mainstream to find small but worthy languages. These would include Scala, Haskell, Kotlin, Clojure, Racket, and Rust. (Plus anyone's favorite non-mainstream language, which I in my haste totally forgot!)

Earlier this year I found that, at a rough approximation, language mind-share in 2020 consists of 25% Java, 25% JavaScript, 25% Python, and 25% everything else. (My source for that is https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Og847HVwRSI -- and I'm sure there are any number of possible objections against those numbers... but I think my point holds even if they're several percentage points off.) We live in the strongest language oligoculture since FORTRAN and COBOL in the 1960s. These top three languages, and their communities, act as strong attractors. People flock around these languages because they're popular and established.

Despite that, I'm hopeful. I think there's room for experimentation and playfulness. I think evolution in programming languages is still happening, and that solid/interesting ideas are coming mostly from that fringe, not from the established languages.

Both Arc and Bel have a decidedly hobbyist feel. Maybe that's why they are not drawing large crowds. I think the target audience consists of people who like to "sketch in code" and whip something up in 10 minutes using a REPL and highly interactive development rather than something heavyweight and serious-feeling. A language that "sparkles joy" a little bit, where easy things feel easy. And I don't think it's too late for that, or that the fringe has run out of room for such language attempts.
Downvote and move on, no need to start a fight.
Transparent compression.

Subvolumes: "Lightweight partitions" allow you more easily to define the scope of a snapshot. With ext4+lvm you have to create a new partition and logical volume.

I don't think, it is a big game-changer, but then I don't think, the other things are such dealbreakers as many people think. I consider "is more prone to data corruption" as largely historical/anecdotal.

Btrfs send sounds appealing, but personally, I prefer my backup solution to be independent of the filesystem.
Similarly. Take two people with the aptitude. Have them both spend a year messing about. One of them has a family who can afford to help them get back on track, the other doesn't.

I'm doing really well despite falling off the rails a bit in my early 20s. If I didn't have my family to help me, I'd not be doing nearly as well.
That's true. But, bluntly, and speaking as a member, we don't matter anywhere near as much as the absolute best.

The members of the "upper middle class ticket" group might as well be selected by ballot from the intellectually qualified.

But I'd never suggest that if it in any way imperiled the idenfitifcation and support of the very best and brightest. Which, AFAICT, is exactly what this proposal would do.