skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Technical people often lack communication skills and can lose the forest for the trees.

This is definitely an issue in my experience. There's some who can communicate well. In cases where you don't have one of them though, the solution seems like it would be a same-level or one-level-junior "PR" type individual, who helps them to hone and delivery a message. It seems incongruous that in this one (?) context, we look for general enabling skills further up the chain, rather than down the chain.
> The notion of a “well rounded student” who does music, art, and extra curricular activities, is a legacy of blue blood WASP culture.

For what it's worth, several of my old college friends are heavily involved with extra-curricular programs at the middle school and high school level across a few different states.

From what I've observed, your generalization isn't true at all. The extra-curricular programs are actually heavily populated with students who have two parents working long hours who want something productive for their kids to do after school.
So people are stressing for no reason over wrong semantics for the (operating & abandoned) nuclear plants in Ukraine. Thanks for your valuable contribution.
Differences:

Webassembly uses the same bytecode and runs on the same VM as javascript, making it much more stable and reliable than the embedded JVM was. It is already in every browser and doesn't need to be installed separately, and has a faster startup time. It can write to the same canvases as JS so it doesn't have to be a separate visual space. Also an obvious difference is that you can use a lot more languages to target webassembly.
> Do you have another customer in mind or are you asking the exporters to deal with it?

I believe the gp is saying it shouldn't be exported _at all_ and hence there should be no customers (outside California anyway).
I'm not a member of Congress
> The need to make money modifies the artistic process. Some expressions will be modified or straight up suppressed if they are perceived as unprofitable or offensive.

But that's always been true, the creator economy didn't create that dynamic. But now, people across the world can support art that wouldn't otherwise exist.

In my Muay Thai example, there are no government or large organisations that I know of doing or funding the work to document, preserve, and spread the art in the way it's being done on YouTube and Patreon. There should be, but there isn't. I'm happy I found and am able to support the two people doing the work.
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I’ll be anxiously awaiting your “from scratch” tutorials :)

Edit: not facetious. I very much enjoy reading your blog posts and HN comments.
If you want to be brutally honest, because other people in industry have the stamp of "MIT". There will just be natural bias when hearing that a prospective candidate attended your alma mata where you know (in your own personal experience) that the school runs you through the ringer. Nothing more relatable than saying "Hey is Professor Bob still teaching Astro 401? his tests were brutal" and instantly understanding how "this person survived that, he can survive JobCo".

If nothing else, the branding is reflective of how the world at large works, I guess.
> Repeat after me, there are two genders. Everything you described has one of two parts between their legs, barring physical ailments like intersex, which are extremely extremely rare.

As the Tiwi would say today (and have been saying for an order of magnitude longer than most nations have existed - about eight thousand years or so):

> Kirrijamiyagirraga naramiya makirri kirrikirriramiya

To roughly translate into English... "If you cannot see if it is a woman, nor a man, why must it be either?"

It loses a little bit of meaning, as it uses four genders and English is not a gendered language, but you can get the gist. (Naramiya is closer to "bear witness" or "absolutely determine" in a somewhat-legal sense. It's a stronger phrase than English really has.)

You are conflating the genetics of _sex_ with the cultural status of _gender_. No one is denying the genetics side. They have just managed to understand the difference between how one presents oneself, and something else that only their doctor need know.
Recently, I've started getting into Youtube again, but following a couple of different hobbies much more closely; woodworking/making, and photography. What you describe is echoed by a few of them, namely, they do not really attempt to make a sole living purely off of Youtube. Instead, Youtube is kind of a marketing channel for them with auxiliary advertising revenue.

Basically, they sound a lot like you, in that they're all running a small business, typically as opposed to pure client work. But I don't think any of them see Youtube as a basis of their revenue; it's more of just another marketing channel.

A couple of different takes on this:

- Sean Tucker, photography: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dI02c5DnRUg
- Lincoln St Woodworks: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fDxs5Y13rlk

I suspect the best generalization is the "1000 true fans" approach, where they're just trying to use different media to just contact those true fans. And build a business around that interaction, and just monetize everything else they can
Ending a Long Fight (With Carl Malamud), GA Makes Annotated Code Free Online
By that logic, we should never pass any laws because we can't perfectly enforce them.
But the point of this article it seems, is not that CEOs with MBAs are worse managers, short sighted, greedy or foolish. The enterprise consists of assets, both tangible and intangible, also called capital, and workers who provide labor. We call returns to capital “profit” and returns to labor “wages”.

If I understand this paper correctly, MBAs in aggregate neither grow the pie nor shrink the pie compared to non-MBAs. What they do well is increase the share that goes to capital rather than labor.
This car wasn't owned by a scummy BHPH lot or rental fleet. It was delivered to an upscale dealer who was installing it as part of an anti-theft package.
I tried a few QnA style queries and most (all?) of them got their answers from Wolfram Alpha.

> why is sky blue

Top result: https://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=why%20is%20sky%20blue

> what is the capital of punjab

Top result: https://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=what%20is%20the%20capi...

> what is the population of seattla
(with typo)

Top result: https://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=what%20is%20the%20popu...

For one keyword query I tried "rust lang" the results felt very repetitive.

Just wondering if its a layer on top of Wolfram Alpha or is it doing QnA inference on its own.
PAM has limitations that start getting in the way of more interesting setups. It's also a very specific, integrated environment that's not trivial to extend beyond standard credential checks. I've written PAM modules and I'm happy we're reinventing it in different ways.
Building a _runnable_ system is yet another ability, though. This may not apply to you specifically, but - for example - think about:

- clear error messages (with the actual data that caused it, minus privacy-sensitive information)
- possibility of reloading configuration without having to restart the whole application (configure-once-at-construction-time is not enough; not every application is a web application with a php-like lifecycle)

- atomic check pointing and restoring of long running operations, without leaving a trail of partially truncatd temporary files

- security: you do not know how to write secure software until someone hacks your software in an unexpected way. This includes knowing how actual infrastructure configuration affects the running software (symlinks, permissions, capabilities)

- performance: unless "scale" a software means blindly increasing the number of replicas, there are so many architectural lessons to be learned studying flame graphs of actually running software that it is hard to imagine to acquire those expertise without making your hands dirty. At that point, it is even possible that your software works so well it no longer needs so much hardware
> I have to assume there has been some of that cheating going on.

It's an industry.

https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/college-...
> For my coal mining grandfather, it meant safety equipment like respirators so you didn't get black lung

We have OSHA for that today, so I don’t think the primary purpose of a union is to file OSHA complaints…
> Because of the strict procurement laws we have in the USA, instead of the tax-payer taking huge losses on the program, Boeing shareholders have eaten the cost. I fail to see how this is a bad thing.

So the failure to deliver a product in the agreed upon timeline is a good thing? The delay is having knock-on effects with capacity:

> TRANSCOM: Refueling Capacity a Major Shortfall, Made Worse by KC-46 Delays

* https://www.airforcemag.com/transcom-refueling-capacity-a-ma...

> More problems with Air Force’s new tanker could put the squeeze on the Pentagon’s refueling capabilities, TRANSCOM chief says

* https://taskandpurpose.com/news/kc-46-tanker-problems-pentag...
> "Also, it would be nice to fool the GPS through a jammer that emits false signals in order to make it report a fake location, after placing cameras at that place to record whoever shows up."

First : don't confuse jamming with spoofing. Jamming is extremely easy to perform by any idiot, while spoofing GPS is significantly harder https://archive.fosdem.org/2019/schedule/event/sdr_gps/

Second : keep in mind that both of them are actually illegal in most countries, and besides unless you exactly know what you are doing it's fairly easy to jam/spoof on much larger areas than you would intend to ! (and GNSS is not restricted to consumer products and maps but are used in a lot of industrial/serious applications so it can actually have consequences)
> Intuitively, how could it be correct that people pay thousands of dollars on these courses and receive zero or near to zero benefit from them?

Because the people paying have a sample size of n=1?

Look, any test will be subject to random measurement noise. If you got a bad night's sleep, got lost on the way to the test, had an argument with your parents or broke up with your boy/girlfriend, you're probably going to do worse. Conversely, if you had a nutritious breakfast or take a version of the test with lots of questions similar to the ones you practiced on you'll do better. Some people get "lucky" (for lack of a better word), while some get "unlucky".

The thing is, unlucky people are far more likely to retake the test and pay for test prep. So people enrolled in you test prep class are NOT a random sample of high school students. The sample is biased to include more unlucky people and fewer lucky people.

People paying for your service don't know whether their child was unlucky or not.

I used the work "lucky" for a reason. It is less likely that those negative factors would affect the student both times they take the test than just one time. So someone who encountered a confluence of unlucky factor for the first test might score higher on the second test simply by having fewer unlucky factors--or even just being more familiar with the test, having taking it previously.

> If this were true no one would take the courses, the courses would be rated poorly, and the underlying business would fail.

Your course doesn't need to actually help anyone. Your customers just need to believe it helped them. How do they know whether you actually helped, or whether the improved test scores are down to luck?

Does your average customer have 20 grandchildren who they can randomly split into test and control groups? Or do they have an imperfect understanding of statistics?
IMO the alumni network is massively overrated. It might be different in services or finance, but in tech I've gotten way more mileage out of academic and open source communities.

I do agree that there's a heavy power law on program value, but I attribute it more to the scarcity of great professors and the peer learning advantage of highly selective programs.

Your ycombinator analogy still applies pretty well actually.
The GOV.UK website will no doubt continue to support IE for a good while yet based on this information [1] from one of the developers of the Government Digital Service, as it's required to be as accessible as possible.

[1] - https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2021/01/the-unreasonable-effectiven...
Many universities explicitly want policies of institutional, systemic racism.

Obviously many people who are in favor of this hateful divisive racism will try to gaslight you into believing it somehow isn't racism, or try to redefine the meaning of words such that they are innocent and you are guilty. But that doesn't change what it is.

So at the end of the day these institutions will bring in whatever policies they want, and they don't really give a crap about actual racism. All they care about is money, PR, etc.
i could not recommend "the humane interface" more highly... not because every idea emanating from it came down from mt. sinai, but because it has such beautiful, coherent end-to-end user-experience-oriented analysis... i feel like anyone who cares about these sorts of things who reads it would immediately recognize the genius of the book / product / etc. which is not to say that the product itself was worthy of this level of praise-- the thoughtfulness and ... clarity of thought in its presentation makes it an incredible piece of work. funny to me that he wound up on the sidelines of mac / pc history (apple probably made the right choice btw), but the choices, thoughtfulness, etc. in the book are just beautiful and enlightening. a book worthy of ones' "books i actually give a shit about" bookshelf, as it is on mine.

like... i would be willing to send this book to randos on hackernews should they prove interested-- that is how strongly i feel like this book should be consumed.
>The police budget is unaffected

I would have to imagine that after several such incidents, the police budget would begin to be affected.
I'll just drop the fact here, that 15% of all google searches in 2017 were new and unique.

https://blog.google/products/search/our-latest-quality-impro...
the ZUI thing might be a bit silly, though. or maybe it is genius.
Oh, please. You wouldn't be doing everyone a "service" because you'd be making money (or at least losing less) than the other investors - you'd have a material advantage. If you truly wanted to do the world a service, you would have just publicized their fraud and taken a bath along with everyone else.
As long as there is plenty of water in the ground to serve as a reserve, there is no added benefit to adding more.

If the benefit is only storage, you have to ask if we are out of storage options. Our reservoirs are typically low so why would we put water in a storage place that is both expensive and carbon intensive to access?
> My hope is that the Supreme Court, now that it's a 6/3 conservative majority, finally strikes down race based "affirmative action".

Agreed, and also favouritism for "legacies", children of faculty and athletics (they can get in on their own merit if they have it). This is a rot that seems to be unique to the US. In the pretty much every other country there would be an outrage if someone got admitted because their parents donated a lot of money.
> As long as it doesn't end up negatively impacting other key areas such as academic performance and extracurricular participation

lol
The fact that this is being openly shared implies to me that he is trying to get in Putin's head. Perhaps to provoke him to do foolish internal things. If you really had the kind of information he is espousing, you wouldn't share it.
As a European i have no problems with the individual Russian or Chinese citizen, it's entirely the government that's the problem.

The Chinese government wants to be able to take over Taiwan some day, so they can't send a signal that Russia is doing the wrong thing in Ukraine.

It's some progress that the people are trying to stop the pro-war plans.

But i guess stopping the extreme COVID lockdown strategy is out of reach.
That's kind of the problem. If the dog indicates there's evidence in a place you can't get to (private property, for instance), the dog's indications can be used as evidence to get a warrant.
I heard a quote from somewhere a long time ago but can't find the source, here it is paraphrased as best I can remember:

email to all: "Some of you are concerned about the recent change in leadership and of the changes they have enacted. Many feel that John Smith is just an MBA wielding moron who has no business running a software company. I have personally known John since we were kids and I just want to set the record straight: John does not have an MBA."
You might need to be a bit more specific. "Conservative" has been a Big Tent™ for quite a while.
I think this is a case where one really can't be sure what's going on unless you work at OpenAI. OpenAI claims that they aren't hand-coding outputs for specific inputs, and I think that's probably correct, because it seems impractical. But I think the evidence in these posts makes it seem pretty likely that their staff is doing *something* active.

I think the most likely possibility is that they do have team members who look at perhaps some sample of conversations where they think it's likely that GPT-3 is not handling some input well, and use those as test cases for their team to debug and improve the model. If it's the case that the OpenAPI team working on GPT-3 has a way to make tactical adjustments (perhaps be extending their training data set in a way that their engineers expect to fix the bug), then I think them having a team that squashes bugs, especially those reported publicly, seems like a plausible explanation for bugs being fixed suspiciously soon after a user finds a good one.

In a normal software product designed to solve a problem that is imprecise/heuristic in nature (and with a privacy disclaimer/model that explicitly permits this sort of development), that'd be expected and great, and the only question would be whether one can make the problem-specific bug squashing work easy to scale (i.e. you don't want it to require a bunch of time from a machine learning expert to fix each bug). For many applications where one can imagine using something like GPT-3 as an input, it's not really a problem to have an error rate that can be reduced through investment as long as one can figure out a way to quantify those things and your application is one where an acceptable error rate is possible.

For GPT-3 in particular, they might not want to confirm this class of explanation, because they're marketing the technology as a little big magic.
The project basically got hijacked by Microsoft who view the word "open" as a fun marketing term for selling software services.
Weird seeing MIDAS referenced on HN. Always seemed like a minor thing from the inside at Thesys.

Also, don’t forgot the notorious CAT project.

https://www.finra.org/rules-guidance/key-topics/consolidated...
It sounds like you and I have a similar setup. I recently set up WireGuard using the linuxserver/wireguard image, and although it was really easy (took ~5 minutes to grok and get running) and is useful for my phone to get pihole dns from my home network, I don't think I get any benefits when using wireguard on my laptop vs just using sshuttle, which doesn't require any extra software at home.
> I hope there'll eventually be room for a position along "We should investigate whether the West's methods actually match their values - but Russia still lost all legitimacy the moment they attacked a sovereign nation".

Sure, I can agree with that. No need to wait - I can agree today.
I think this is largely irrelevant for deep ground water, far out of the reach of surface ecology.
I suspect there are many reasons, but probably employers for full time employees don't really benefit much from this. Your team overhead scales quite a bit by doing this (more hiring, more onboarding, more communication needed) with not much benefit to output. I'd assume that due to FTE benefits, the business would want more like a 60-70% decrease in wage to keep per-employee profitability at the same level.

On the flip side, those same businesses always have need for contractors, and those can often be negotiated as part time
Yeah - I deliberately suggested engineering just to be controversial and test the idea, but I guess I'm thinking "any subject that isn't taught by a business school". A common pattern I've seen outside the US is a trend of doing a "generic business degree" leading to a few years of employment in a nondescript generic role, followed by an MBA.

I'm not quite sure where the market need for undergraduate business degree education comes from, or who is hiring them. It's clear the demand is there, as they're not unemployed en masse, and many do it, but I wonder if business could viably become a "postgraduate only" subject, so everyone doing it had a grounding in a subject matter area, rather then a generic undergraduate business degree?
I don't think you've exactly fallen for one such post, although, it's hard to say.

However, I think that if you were to look for it, you'd find a lot of this stuff. Psychedelic culture, anarchist culture, etc are heavily wound up in this kind of dis-communication. It's culture jamming.

If you're confused by it, that's the point. Is it effective? Could it possibly accomplish anything?. Probably not, except that it makes the writers feel more free.
> I don’t think the author correctly identified his error.

This is his error right here:

“It had been a bit of a working assumption of mine over the past few weeks that if you could improve the health of the patients then, you know, the doctors or the hospitals or whatever would pay for that.”
Odd that no one mentioned yet that those look like the Ring from Expanse.
I understand that your perspective is colored by your immediate colleagues who might not have the bandwidth or horsepower to solve simple problems, but please note that Indians are a large diaspora globally. If your Indian peers cannot solve the most basic problem, how did they make it through the same interview process that you did? It’s sad to read such commentary on HN, a bastion of inclusive commentary. This is like me saying that Aussies are lazy and just want to party, based on my anecdotal experience with Aussies who are all about barbies and beer.
> The easiest way to understand the shortcomings of these tests (at least their older versions) is to realize that students who use paid SAT/ACT-prep materials and services get higher scores than students who don't.

Admission criteria do not exist in a vacuum. Since throwing up our hands and saying "we're just not going to admit anyone since this is an imperfect criteria" is obviously not the answer, It only makes sense to compare to the alternatives. I can't think of a cheaper (and more accessible) measuring method than standardized tests. Compared to the cost of participating in leadership roles, sports, learning an instrument, etc, a $20 SAT prep book is an incredibly accessible option.

Or put another way, out of all admission criteria, is standardized testing really the least useful / fair? If not, why should it get cut first?
This should have (2020) in the title.
On a micro level, most cases of T2 are preventable. On the macro level, many aren't: food deserts have higher rates of diabetes and heart disease, and the people who live in those areas are frequently "stuck" there for socioeconomic and racial reasons.

There are also subgroup susceptibilities in play: Asians and people with Hispanic backgrounds are disproportionately represented among American T2 diabetics[1]. Recent studies suggest these groups are actually underdiagnosed still, since the dominant T2 tests are less reliable on them[2].

[1]: https://www.cdc.gov/diabetes/library/socialmedia/infographic...

[2]: https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/2757817?gu...
Meanwhile, Mozilla Blog:
"Firefox now has single-site isolation and containerization!"