skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hi Steve. Thanks for the confirmation - obviously a synchronous design doesn't automatically/necessarily preclude most high-level use cases that async can support - it just requires an alternative approach and some careful consideration. In fact, it could make it easier to do many things like power management.

Can you comment on this: others have asked here on HN before but didn't seem to get an answer - does power management/consumption factor in at all in the architectural design (even if it's "this makes it possible to add power management later") or is it strictly a non-goal? (I know your current particular application domains aren't constrained by battery capacity.)

It would be easy enough to hack the kernel to always WFI/WFE if all tasks are exited/completed, but I'm thinking about cases where task(s) are still running but the supervisor process is aware that they're all currently in a busy-waiting state. But that wouldn't be sufficient (on its own) if the OS requires certain peripherals to always remain powered up, uses a high-frequency tick interrupt that will constantly wake the device anyway, etc, etc.
I’m genuinely curious about the advantages of going to MIT or any other super competitive CS college for undergrad instead of say, UMass or another less-competitive CS university.

From limited knowledge and experience at other colleges (all pretty well-ranked but not as well as MIT), it’s the prestige and graduate research which makes colleges like MIT superior. Otherwise, for most undergrads it’s like a typical college experience, but with harder courses and smarter peers, but even that is flexible (since they have access to graduate students and grad-level courses).

It’s particularly relevant today because apparently college admissions are really competitive. A lot of high schoolers are upset because they got rejected from everything but their safeties, except their safeties are like Georgia Tech, Rutgers or the UCs.
Thank you! I've been looking for good info for years. You don't happen to know about Soviet ferrite/diode systems, do you?
I agree with all of this, but ML will evolve a lot over the next 30 years of your career. Being able to read the papers as the field evolves is useful, and many of the papers (especially the ones that shift the field) will assume knowledge of calculus.
Because it was Capital One's internal data, which belongs to the shareholders. US insider trading laws are about theft, not about fairness (the markets require "unfairness" in this sense in order to perform price discovery).
How do you do GSSAPI with PAM? (Does OpenBSD support PAM now?)
College Board is a nonprofit organization[0] and thus is partially funded by the government to say nothing of any other grants they may have received. ACT Inc is the same way.

Instead of funding The One True Test, the US government partially funds every test competing to be the best college placement test.

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/College_Board
That's the point at which you launch your bid for congress.
The "AI analytics" companies are all communicating expressly their intent when they purchase the data at the outset. This makes it legal.

Full disclosure, I'm a privacy advocate and believe this sort of selling of customer data should not even be allowed. That said, what the companies you allude to do is totally legal by law, and significantly different in practice than taking data without informing anyone of your intent.

I guess the short answer to your question is that this is the United States. Everything is legal here, provided you do the paperwork first.
So how exactly did you find out about the war and when?
I had a high school teacher that liked to say the following:

You can be smart and lazy and do fine. You can be dim and hard-working and do fine. But smart and hard-working will always beat them both.

I was pretty clearly in the smart and lazy camp, and was OK with that lot. And, as he said, I've done fine.

EDIT: I should add, though, that I'm very happy the SAT did not have the writing section when I took it. I severely doubt it would have improved my relative score.
It would be great to see Slack put some work in here, but could someone make an app (or Slackbot) to enforce/offer guidance?

I know Slack culture can be hugely variable over time, especially for high-growth companies so there definitely needs to be some flexibility.
OpenAI.

(At least I didn’t confuse them for that Cthulu cult with Aella, Yudkowsky, etc. that enables them!)
No, not here. 100% of MIT admissions should go to pupils who are the most capable of succeeding and who are already the best prepared to succeed before they arrive. Utopia aside, as a society we require elite science and engineering ability. If we don't have it we lose out to another society that doesn't do this incessant navel gazing, simple as that. To whatever extent "starting point" is a problem it should be remediated entirely upstream from admission into the world's most prestigious technical university.
I think it's a lot to be tempted with, but it's also relatively easy to stay in compliance: don't trade your company's stock during black out periods, don't talk about revenue with friends or family, and be vigilant about not publicly discussing your information. It's not a complicated code of ethics, fortunately.
the solution to countering propaganda is counter-propaganda?

how can a consumer of counter-propaganda be certain that the Truth expressed in said counter-propaganda is Genuine, when the same techniques as the ones that the opposing viewpoint is using are being deployed to propagate it?

surely, if you are certain that your viewpoint is the Genuine Truth, then it will not need to be propagated through propaganda?
My SAT's weren't on campus. It was on some other campus I never heard of on the other side of town. I biked the school but without a parent would have needed to trek across town on a saturday morning (easily 20+ miles, in the mid 00's right before smartphones would just provide a GPS, so I'd be juggling printed MapQuest directions on a bike) to get there. I'd be cutting it if I took a bus since they ran hourly and I believe the weekend buses started at 8Am for a 9AM test time.

Also note that I could drive by this time but we only had one car between my mother and I.
The points of Realms and multiple platforms is true, though the PC version does not have a marketplace.
Except just declaring something as a "lie" will not solve the problem. You have to at least explain why it is a lie.
Yeah, IIRC, in the '80s, one product was a device for microcomputer backup on VHS tapes that looked pretty much like a normal consumer VCR. (It might've had a brand name beginning with "V" emblazoned across the frontload tape door, I don't really recall.)

This might've been roughly around the time that the Iomega Bernoulli Box was being sold, but I assume it had died before before the popular Zip and then Jaz drives. (And of course there were always numerous flavors of tape cartridge systems, and maybe a few of those popular on consumer/office microcomputers.)
Given the state of Vogtle, Virgil C. Summer, Flamanville, Olkilouto today and so on the lessons learned in the 1970s were the nice rosy days. Productionizing the research from the 50s and 60s.

Renewables are here and vastly cheaper. Steam based plants like nuclear and coal lost their competitiveness with the advent of the CCGT plants in the 80s. Both are dead simply due to their shared thermodynamic cycle. Renewables are pushing CCGT plants more and more towards only existing as peakers.
As opposed to the game being always rigged but without everyone knowing... just the insiders.
Unfortunately for a lot of people it seems to be the Rick and Morty heist sketch at this point
What I learnt from video games after a long break-up
Bipartite Graphs 101 – The actor-movie network
At my place we use :eyes: for I'm looking at it, but feel free to also look, and a custom emoji of the word "onit" for I'm taking responsibility for it.

There are also dedicated "thank you" and "done" emojis which feel great to see appear or to post, due to the unambiguous positive terminal message.
Probably easier to just process all the fallout of the fukushima black bag piles
I build for myself a little frontend over Google Trends, that fetches news items, translates them for me and kinda gives me daily / weekly top news from around the world, also with the option of checking local stuff. It gives me a pretty good overview of what people are interested in.

I can choose my country, and it's going to show me globally relevant news first but published in my country, then a good chunk of news from most of the political spectrum, and then a good 75% of it entertainment and soccer.

Some takeaways: India has a lot of stuff happening all the time. Soccer is pretty much the king of global traffic. I swear, it's crazy just how big soccer is globally.
Software that tackles russian trolls would be great.
Unless you're in a state determined to make a real-life Gilead where the laws are getting more restrictive than less. I present to you as an example the same Texas from earlier.
This implies a truly bizarre understanding of markets and fairness.

Was it fair when Enron was valued at $70B? Would the situation have been less fair had insider traders with more information pushed the prices down earlier?

Insider trading doesn’t cost anybody anything, it simply allows for more accurate pricing which benefits everybody.
It's discussed in the link they added. The retailers shared the data with Capital One for specific business purposes, not for stock market analysis.
No because it is a NURBS modeler and not parametric CAD, so it is not at all the right kind of CAD, but also because it is not really open source (uses an expensive closed kernel) and will be less open source soon.

What I want is a project that is open source like Blender is open source. One that intends to be open source forever and also knows how to raise funds to manage a real engineering team.
I don’t think these things are as linked in that way exactly.

The benefits of employers to employees has certainly gone down and that’s disgusting but the creator economy that’s been propped up by the internet in a way that was not possible beforehand I think is plenty good, and not a viable career/job for most people.

I don’t think people are going to eschew traditional employment en made to try to make it as creators. It’s not going to happen for most and the pressing needs of survival aren’t going to allow many to pursue it.

Social media influencers are gross for a lot of reasons but people making content for an audience that is willing to pay is a good thing. Structuring a company so that 90% of its workforce aren’t employees to deny having to pay them reasonable wages/benefits is a bad thing. I just don’t think they’re directly connected.
Recent and related:

Sumerian dog jokes, or the difficulty of translating dead languages - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30752942 - March 2022 (315 comments)
The right way is probably to look at /etc/network/interfaces or whatever your distro is using, then restart networking. You can use ifenslave manually but that won't persist across reboots.
Oh and Ukraine is piloting a CBDC with Stellar right now.
Hmm, are you saying POSIX compliance makes scalability impossible? Because it makes it possible to run software written in unsafe languages? I'm pretty sure Fuchsia will always be able to run software written in C.
It’s more likely to me that they talked about it internally (to colleagues?) and someone reported it to HR, the police or SEC directly.
There was an article recently I read that basically posited that was actually no longer the case - Ticketmaster has bought up the companies that own or have exclusive contracts with most venues and now most venues are fairly locked in. I am sure there are some in any big city that are not but not nearly enough.
My suspicions are many on Wall Street do it.
Web3 is DOA. Let's go to Web4
> The arXiv of the future is format-neutral and separates format from content.

Didn't this use to be Latex's tagline? Separate format from content. Which the authors of the article don't find separate enough.

How does the proper separation of format from content even work? Don't you need to markup your content in order for it to become formatted?
Taking the Calculus BC test already puts you in the upper echelon of high school math students though. According to a quick google only 15% of high schoolers will take the BC exam, so getting a 5 is something only 5% of students achieve.
Sounds like you’re effectively saying there wasn’t grade inflation. You were an A student elsewhere and then become a B/C student at MIT despite working hard. That’s my point — now imagine you were only an A student because you were rich and somehow swindled those good grades in high school. Imagine what would happen at MIT.

Note that Harvard undergrad has something like an A- average. That’s grade inflation.
One of the comments was

>With all the negative pushback this is getting, it’s making me think he was onto something.

Or maybe the idea is bad. I see this line of thought all the time sometimes implied by the misattributed Gandhi quote.
I really wish there were more tactical games where the battles and armies were predetermined rather than configurable - I absolutely love tweaking army composition and handling resource builds and tech trees and etc. -sometimes- but some days I really just want to be airdropped into a (preferably turn based) fight and left to think my way through winning with the resources I've been given.

(then if I really just want to shoot a virtual bad guy, I go back to replaying the old Wing Commander games since for whatever reason I can climb the learning curves of those more easily than FPSes)
This link does not work any more - any idea if there is an updated one?
Prosecuting whales is both super expensive and risky to the conviction rate. See https://www.npr.org/2017/07/30/535799735/corporate-bungling-...
For now. After Brexit, UK will most likely adapt more US standards to allow more US imports to offset the lack of trade with EU.
> To me all weirdness IS poor design.

Weirdness is subjective. If you look at lisp for the first time coming from other languages it will be weird.

PHP had glaring issues for years, but they started to clean up the language around 7.x.

JavaScript was effectively a toy but grew up in a hurry when Node pushed ecmascript forward and into a well paced release pattern.
Yes indeed. Using federated learning with Flower makes training over multiple disconnected partitions possible. Additionally there are privacy enhancing techniques such as differential privacy but they come with a cost and are not always nesesecary.

You can train models over multiple silos, devices, users and many other kind of partitioning where for some reason you can't aggregate the dataset centrally.
I mean, you can look at vulnerable populations that report abuse (not the same abuse as kids in these programs, but abuse), and you can see it denied, including here on HN regularly. Women and black Americans are two prominent examples.
Yes any localization is very much a future feature. There are some small functions that use it that are things our user community has asked for, but we're very much taking an iterative approach. I think with a small team you have to do that, and accept that early on you can't do everything but that you can keep iterating and improving quickly based on the things that users say are most important.

The most important feature for our early users so far, based on the feedback we get, is factual information question answering, and there are some classes of query where Andi is already very useful. And as it gets better we hope it can save people a lot of time. Reader view is popular for the same reason because it saves people time and distraction.

At the same time, I think everyone (myself included) likes to play "let's trip up the AI" with something new like this, and it's fun and a great way to get training data and share a laugh on our Discord. When we don't log searches, it's some of the most valuable data we can get :)
Using the C Preprocessor to Perform Compile-time Computations (2016)
Aside from the fact that is is proprietary and cloud based, I love OnShape. It does have some limitations, like operations that logically should make sense but will just fail, but this is what makes CAD very hard even for a large experienced team like OnShape.

But I like that I can run it in Linux because it is browser based, tho I would prefer a local native app. Onshape is hard to use on a slow connection.

But I use it to design all kinds of complex robots and it is great.
I imagine through either scholarships or taking on bunches of debt. I was nowhere near as aggressive as some other classmates, but I managed to grab ~20k of total scholarships that helped me out immensely for college. Still a small chunk of what was needed for college, but it was an option I had compared to high school just making me eat the admissions and AP test costs wholesale.

Fortunately my parent did cover these costs, but I know others weren't so fortunate.
Compare a list of companies that attend MIT's career fair vs those that attend UMass. There will be some overlap, and it's not a closed door if you don't go to MIT/Stanford/etc. But, if you want to land an internship at "the best" companies (which can often lead to jobs), being recruited at a college career fair is the best option.
> If you try out his prompts the responses are fairly invariant to paraphrases. Hard coded answers don't scale like that.

This is discussed:

>> Smith first tried this out:

>> Should I start a campfire with a match or a bat?

>> And here was GPT-3’s response, which is pretty bad if you want an answer but kinda ok if you’re expecting the output of an autoregressive language model:

>> There is no definitive answer to this question, as it depends on the situation.

>> The next day, Smith tried again:

>> Should I start a campfire with a match or a bat?

>> And here’s what GPT-3 did this time:

>> You should start a campfire with a match.

>> Smith continues:

>> GPT-3’s reliance on labelers is confirmed by slight changes in the questions; for example,

>> Gary: Is it better to use a box or a match to start a fire?

>> GPT-3, March 19: There is no definitive answer to this question. It depends on a number of factors, including the type of wood you are trying to burn and the conditions of the environment.
my guess is if they did everything via in person discussions and didnt leave a paper trail of messages, they likely wouldnt have been caught
Thanks! Dictionary.com at least says hairbrained is just a variation on the spelling.
Seems unlikely given wars that are going on now, like Yemen, or resource wars like Congo, or genocide like Burma, Rwanda, Cambodia…

Humans’ abilities to make others suffer continually amazes and horrifies me.
This always comes down to a no true scottsman argument, right? I clearly haven't used the Linux apps enough, otherwise I would accept that they're just as good (if not better) than the non-Linux apps. Maybe you're right, but I'm just saying that just because you've found a possible explanation, you shouldn't assume that it's correct. There are other possibilities, such as me being right.
That is unfortunately true. It seems to me, at some level, the whole problem is less about knowledge than about which sources someone regards as trustworthy and which not.

We can only experience very little of the world directly. For most of our knowledge, we have to rely on intermediaries which tell us about the world. If some of those intermediaries offer contradictory information or offer information that contradict with your own experiences or discredit other intermediaries then things get problematic and you have to pick side about which intermediaries to trust.

I think psychologically, this is a hard problem to solve.
The thing is people with a maths heavy background tend to think you need a much deeper understanding of math for this than you actually do.

You need very little beyond high school level math for most CS. Some areas, sure.

I've done things in my career that touches on a lot of different areas of math. But the number of times I've regretted not having taken more math have been pretty much non-existent. I wish I remembered a bit more of my trig, mostly.

Most software engineers come into contact with far less CS subjects where math matters than I do.

I don't have an issue with a place like MIT insisting on lots of math, but this notion that you need to understand so much math for software engineering is deeply flawed - you don't need much even for a lot of theoretical computer science.
Yikes.

I see him get shit on a lot but what exactly did he say or do that was so wrong? Some of his original "fringe" ideas are now supported by science. Like having the audacity to say nature immunity is a thing.
I have friends with Cricket (not sure which carrier they attach). In the city that they spend the majority of their time, the service is fine. We went on a road trip where once we left the major city's coverage, their signal was no longer very good until reaching another major city. My phone with one of the main companies where they own their network never lost signal.

That's the anecdotal consensus I've heard from all of these smaller vendors.
What a strange article relative to its title. It provides one complete example of a joke, and then admits that no one would actually find it funny these days. It seems to be more about the fact that scatalogical humor as a category has been considered funny for thousands of years.

I wonder if there are real examples of jokes that have remained funny for thousands of years. There are ancient comedic writings like the Greek comedies, but from the little I've read of those the humor doesn't really come across either, at least in modern English, though it's also clearly heavily scatalogical.
Probably the economist, though it might have been mentioned on HN