skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well I took calculus, and I did a Master's thesis (much smaller than Ph.D., obviously) on neural networks, and I didn't find much application. Plus, the vast majority of work on ML is not going to be taking an ML paper and implementing it in code. It's going to be transforming this raw data into a format that the existing ML library can accept as input, selecting which cases are useful for training (e.g. making sure each important sub-case is adequately represented), and other things surrounding the data and how it is fed into the (already existing) ML library. Perhaps also playing with the options of the ML library, as to what kind of model you build.

But 99% of the alterations you can make to an ML library, will not make nearly as much difference as what data you feed into it and how. If it's the right data, many ML models will work, and if it's not the right data, none of them will. But regardless, none of this requires, or even really benefits from, calculus.
Apple’s super-powerful Mac Studio was almost two decades in the making
I'd stick up for my CompSci at my "liberal arts college" education, but that was, like 25 years ago.

"University" typically means TAs the entire undergrad, right?
There is plenty of this in The West, too. It's often just couched in different terms, or in different ways. The continued dog-pile on the poor or homeless comes to mind.

To quote some dude from The West:

“It is not enough merely to win; others must lose.”
― Gore Vidal
Why even bother describing the joke if the punchline is too crass for publication? Pick another joke.
I see "embedded" and get scared.

Hardware is an order of magnitude (or nine, twelve) more difficult than a software startup. Expensive rev'ing, long turn arounds, supply chain mayhem, overseas production, profits thinner than the paper they are printed on.

The hardware graveyard of kickstarter is chock full of dreamy eyed hardware guys for good reason.
Well the thing is I went to an inner city public high school. It was much closer to "Martin Luther King High, Detroit" than it was to a prep school. Majority of students were below the poverty line, yet almost half were accepted to Northwestern every year, many with full rides.
> This might be difficult for Americans to understand, but the freedom of speech has certain lines that cannot be crossed in Europe, and it's mostly about clearly hateful symbols and/or words. You just can't put a swastika on your sleeve and expect no repercussions in Germany, like it or not.

As a German: It is worth noting, that the swastika is not only a nazi symbol (Hakenkreuz), but an ancient religious icon in Indic religions and it is commonly used across Asia to this day without symbolizing nazism. The "Z" symbol is coincidentally also a letter and a symbol that I played with as a kid when I was a Zorro fan. No Kremlin-Connection or Soviet-Ideology, I swear!

I think that banning such symbols while ignoring the context is ignorant and pointless, because A) it criminalizes non-nazi use and B) it is easily evaded by using drop-in replacements that everyone in the nazi scene knows, but that aren't banned, such as "88".

https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rechtsextreme_Symbole_und_Zeic...
Except now you require 2 machines and internet access instead of just one machine. You could offload your VMs before too. Keeping them all local and working offline are still important capabilities.
I can’t understand the rationale behind blowing up your life and career in which you made $300k+/year for a tiny $1m gain split between 3 people and their families.

Why are people who should otherwise be much smarter than this doing incredibly dumb things? Just greed? and entitlement?
My experience with the saved convos in Outlook from SfB was kinda hit or miss, but you're totally right. Teams doesn't even try. Or I suppose, Teams does store your chat history in the mailbox, but it's not in a folder that's user accessible anymore. I'm sure reasons include driving users to the Teams interface. But it then begs the question about why I still have that empty folder in my mailbox structure.
That's incorrect. Caddy does not serve any files by default. You have to explicitly enable file serving in your config.
An embedded device running inside my server I cannot audit, with direct memory access to everything running?

Feels like the Holy Grail of backdoors.
I would submit that Dave Matthews Band may have given Mr. Hendrix (hallowed be his name) some competition for All Along the Watchtower, but you make excellent points here!
Seems similar to the Diluted Povidone Iodine Nasal Spray [1] promoted by Dr. McCullough for awhile now. Unfortunately Povidone is available OTC for cheap so not very profitable.

[1] https://covid19.onedaymd.com/2021/09/could-simple-saline-nas...
If I were you I wouldn't apply right away to a 4 year college. Do community college in your chosen field and then transfer.

In California if can do 2 years in a community college you are guaranteed a spot in a school in the UC system. Not UC Berkeley, but still some place great. I think to qualify for this transfer you need to have a 'C' or 'B' average.

If you stay on the pity pot you won't get anywhere.
Also, in California, community college is very cheap.
Virtually no one outside of tech forums considers years of updates as a factor for which smartphone they pick. Most people, at least in the west, get a new subsidized phone on a contract every couple years. And if anything, they hate updates because stuff they're used to suddenly doesn't work like how they expect any more.

I've never heard anyone in real life say "I bought a Samsung phone last time and it was good but it didn't get any updates after 3 years so I'm never buying one again."
I was precisely thinking about futures when typing the post. That is why I did not say "the economy" and said people instead. But I do not understand them so I tried to steer away from them.

Truth be told... I don't know. I wonder how futures look right now. I wonder how many futures are being traded in the agricultural domain, I wonder what is their actual, functional impact on the market. I simply admit my ignorance here.
Japan never had other real options.

Their natgas imports was only ever going to be a temporary duct-tape solution.
For students in the category of "exam easy. finished the exam w/o any time issues", the whole sub-thread is irrelevant. You're going to ace the exam rich, or poor.

The sub-thread and discussion is about wealth bias for exam scores.
When I say one-person business, I mean a business that has one full-time employee which is the case for me. Of course you need to invest in contractors, tools and other things that give your leverage, given your time is limited and you want to use it as efficiently as possible.

I work with a copyeditor for my writing. I contract on an hourly basis, doing a few hours per week. My editor is far more efficient at what they do than if I did it.

If my business grew large enough, this contract role - and perhaps other ones - might become full-time roles. But that size or workload is far enough away in my case.
They do indeed claim 16 254,8 kpps. They have l3hw offload - so not every packet needs to go via cpu - and 16 cores.
This seems a bit ridiculous. One would assume they could fill their entire class with 1600 SAT scorers but they don't and I think it's well known that isn't even sufficient.
I think it's based on this quote:

>OpenAI evidently employs 40 humans to clean up GPT-3’s answers manually

Which feels a bit more ambiguous. It might mean they're cleaning up the answers to serve as future training data, but I think the natural interpretation of that sentence is that they're cleaning up the answers before they are given to the user.
They didn't include the punchline to first joke, who does that? Someone asked the author of the paper though https://twitter.com/Tenthcentury/status/1507168622208188449

Two men were walking along a road talking of this and that. "What do you think," says one. "Which is more fun, defecating or having sex?"

The guy says, "Let's ask that prostitute, she's done one as often as the other."
That’s why I made the comment.

One group wants to delete the tests because they think the test is racist.

The other group wants to delete it because they are actually racist.

I found the irony of it amusing.
If it's a Dyson-anything, it's way bigger than a single star:

"The new MeerKAT radio data shows that the ORC’s large outer circle is possibly more than a million light years across, ten times the diameter of the Milky Way, with a series of smaller rings inside"

It actually sounds more like the wisps of gas seen jetting through the Milky Way and being irradiated by something. That alone, I think, isn't too unnatural of a thing to see out there.

Maybe someday this sort of thing will enlighten us on how matter dispersed in the early universe i.e. when these galaxies were forming out of still larger areas of matter. Who knows, maybe there's some dark energy/matter information to be gleaned in there, too.
We could, if we happen to be looking at that star, but we'd have to catch them in the act. Remember how vast these time scales are, and consequently how improbable it is that any other civilization would be doing it in the same decade or century as we exist.

We've had the ability to detect and track such changes in star radiation for roughly a century. The potential scale of intelligent life is on the order of ten billion years and counting. That's a 1 in 10^8 chance that they're doing it at the same time as we happen to be looking.

Also, a Dyson sphere isn't invisible - the star doesn't exactly disappear. The material will absorb some radiation, heat up, and glow in the infrared. We've calculated what such a heat signature would look like, and haven't found any such thing yet.
Well there is entertainment that exists in order to get you spend money on the product itself. Don't mind that, as presumably the goal is to produce great entertainment. But there is entertainment designed to get your spend money on something else (product placement, kids movies that are actually toy advertisements, talk shows that are actually advertisements for whatever the guest is promoting, etc). Those I find quite annoying. The only exception I can think of is the TV show Shark Tank, which has interesting investment dicussions surrounded by countless advertisements for products within the entertainment itself.

So a blog post where the guy teases his next entry -> don't mind. A blog post where the guy constantly intersperses affiliate links with ad copy -> irritating.
> huge slap in the face to social mobility out of the middle class

No, it was an intentional move to restrict the number of Asians admitted because despite their best efforts to hide it, prestigious universities' data showed systemic discrimination against Asians in the admissions process (see: SFFA vs Harvard). Removing the SAT removes some of the data that opponents can use to sue them. One of the reasons the UC removed the SAT was to "diversify" their admit pool because Asians disproportionately did really well on the SAT and they aren't allowed to discriminate based on race by state law.

My hope is that the Supreme Court, now that it's a 6/3 conservative majority, finally strikes down race based "affirmative action".
Maybe is a sum because it was defined using sums. It's a monad because, from that definition, you can implement functions meeting the monad interface. "Monad" is more like an adjective than a noun.

> I wonder if there is an interesting interaction between those.

There's a rather rich theory of polynomial endofunctors (i.e. generic types with one type parameter built from products, sums, and non-generic types), and I think monads figure prominently (they're somehow related to the initial algebras for such functors). So there's definitely a relationship there.
Same thing in Second Life for about $10?
Nuclear power in a world of military conflicts sounds like a bad joke.
Probably. HN is fairly plain HTML so Common Crawl should have no issue crawling it, and I'm not aware of any HN optout there (which would go against the usual public accessibility of everything on HN to APIs and projects etc), nor would any of the obvious data-filtering measures filter it out.
Is it not enough to just use 2d draft mode in Solid Edge or another freely available program?
A modern (server) system probably has 3-8 of these already, some of them explicitly with independent network connectivity.

Trust your vendors, lock down your network, be large enough to build your stack yourself; chose any 2...
This is hubris. I can think of many adults that know nothing of Calc and do very in life and work. Knowing basic accounting, being able to fix things around the house, being pleasant to work with, etc are far more important.
> Thank you for replying :)

Of course! Feel free to send me an email if you'd like to grab virtual coffee and talk more. I'm evan [at] strangemood [dot] org.

> I'm a but confused here on the ownership - if its the purchaser or the seller who is in control. Filecoin isn't free so i assume one of these groups has to be footing the bill.

Ah! This is what DAOs are for.

A percentage of every sale goes to a community treasury (a wallet). That wallet is collectively controlled by a token. That token is minted to sellers upon purchase, so the sellers control the treasury.

The treasury acts as a "payer of last resort". It pays for Filecoin deals basically. It also can pay maintainers of open source tooling through decentralized Quadratic funding grants (see https://wtfisqf.com/).

Rebase (the company that makes Strangemood) peer's the store's small-file metadata (titles, descriptions, etc) as an additional backup. We don't have to do this, but it costs us about $0.15 per year to do so, and it makes the network faster and safer.

Realistically, DAOs might be a janky solution. I'd love to see payment of file store be included within the protocol itself.

But there's a few quirks of Solana that made this difficult. Specifically, you can't use more than 1024 bytes in a single instruction, which limits the scope of the program. This might be fixed in the future though.
Shameful? No, informative. I haven't checked out slashdot for awhile it is good to know I'm not missing anything.
I can't say for sure that Lisp machines influenced it (the ISA predates me by at least two decades), but it definitly feels to me like it was because it's an ISA build for a language.
IMO there is a difference between gaming a test and just getting better at what a test means to cover. For example, programs like Kumon allow students to learn math more rigorously/at a higher level than what they may get exposed to in a classroom. That doesn’t mean they’re gaming the test, they’re just getting a better education. While it’s perhaps unfair that some students don’t get this opportunity, I don’t think giving children legitimately better educations is something to discourage.

There was another near-top comment when I posted that pointed out that test prep classes only conferred a 30 point benefit. Likely because it’s just familiarizing students with the test and covering basic testing strategies (like skipping a hard section and coming back to it last). I agree the benefit should ideally be 0 but 30/2400 is not much. That’s what I meant in my post.

Also, I’ve heard that in the past the SAT in particular was much more gameable due to the vocabulary/analogy sections, which incentivized students to study specific known topics or cram vocab terms. I’m not sure if they added it back but they’d been removed by the time I took the exam.
> (2) multi-star Dyson sphere under construction.

We have a dozen or so stars within 10 light years. This circle is a million light years across. So I’m guessing it would be a ludicrous number of Dyson spheres.
Same with Mr Robot.

I don't need to watch a show about IT security and mental illness -- that's already my life.

I also think that's why Mad Men and some of the Edwardian dramas are so popular: close enough to our time period that we can identify, but different enough that we don't feel that anxiety or uncomfortable connection.

My dad, for example, wasn't interested in watching Mad Men -- he's from big East Coast cities and grew up in that period, went to 'Nam, etc.
> I'd expect that most students who will be able to survive at MIT can make the SAT threshold with no gaming of the test and no test prep other than maybe doing one or two free sample tests.

Eh, not so sure. The "threshold", if we really trust that they do threshold and don't consider overperformance beyond that threshold (something I am skeptical of), is likely quite high.
And if you're good enough, you can even get paid for it.

(Not well, mind you...)
I have worked for a medium size ISP and we had Juniper, Cisco and lot of Mikrotiks.
For me the big lack in Mikrotik, compared to the bigger vendor, is the lack of real support. No TAC services, no SLA, etc. The only way to get support is via email, but you have to wait days for a response. And also the system is not stable like the one from big vendors.
Anyway, the performances of Mikrotik are impressive for the cost.
This founder is obviously book smart, but street stupid. I can't imagine any other outcome here. The fact they wasted 40k on this is amazing to me. If they had been forced to raise that money, maybe they would have been forced to answer the important questions first.
My problem with SAT/ACT actually has nothing to do with the test itself. I grew up very poor in suburban middle of nowhere and even with a waiver for the fee, I had no way of actually getting to a testing center. Parents worked 24/7 to make ends meet, no real public transport and this was before Uber and Lyft. The real culprit here is the lack of public infrastructure.
InstructGPT is really cool: https://openai.com/blog/instruction-following/
KrakenD 2.0 Released
Good point! Astronomy is the study of "Space Blobs"
> but it is entirely industrially feasible and is still generally cheaper than any other kind of battery.

Really? That sounds interesting. Can you send me some materials on this?

> there are no industrial scale mining operations extracting uranium from seawater, and there is no evidence that existing prototypes would scale up to global power requirements

This is true, but again, hardly relevant, because nobody really tried to do that at scale, as there is no good reason for it for as long as mined uranium is cheap.
>I find it hard to believe that a board certified psychiatrist (Susan) wouldn't know which medication has better efficacy in which scenarios.

The field of medicine is constantly changing with new drugs and studies coming out all of the time. So no Susan might not know that and if she does she learned the new information from somewhere.

The problem that the guy in TFA has is that the business he wants to build already exists. Uptodate provides phsyician references, Cochrane does a lot of meta/review studies, and I'm sure there's others.
Ray tracer written in pure CMake
Nice idea for a marketing campaign. Make a 90 version of your site and post it everywhere. The curious people will click.
> I simply cannot believe how terrible their IPv6 support is (still no connection tracking!)

I see a list of connections under "IPv6 firewall" under the connections tab?

> and plenty of weird glitches

this bit however I agree with
I don't know that all stressors are alike. I don't feel stress in exam situations, most of the stress I feel at work is around social stressors. I don't think a university education should be easy persay, but I do think that the stressors of education should not be unique in the world. If success in the face of stresses of examination in school don't predict success in the face of stressors you face elsewhere in life, then maybe they should be re-evaluated.
As Google Chrome 100 arrives, we tried version 1.0 on Windows 11
Nuclear War: A Beginner's Guide to Survival
> Our research can’t explain why these tests are so predictive of academic preparedness for MIT

Can't explain why an IQ test predicts success in cognitively demanding work?
> Is it better to use a box or a match to start a fire?

Hey, I used a box to start a fire recently. It was wet, windy and cold out, and I just happened to have a cardboard box. So I cut holes in the sides of the box at the top and bottom, stuffed it with twigs collected from the ground and a few pieces of dry paper rolled up tightly. I lit the paper and closed the box. A few minutes later, I had a roaring fire. So you know, GPT-3 is right!
Calculus underpins almost every scientific advancement since its discovery. To exclude it from the curriculum at a school focused on technology would be insane.
There's a certain group of people who self-identify with the super rich, even with the ones that are orders of magnitude more wealthy than them. An attack on the rich is perceived as an attack on "their group". So they retaliate, usually against the poor, which they otherize.
Comcast Business Gateway: Multi-Gigabit Wi-Fi Speeds Comes to Business
Any discussion of Fukushima must include the incredibly destructive earthquake and tsunami that precipitated it. 20,000 people died and hundreds of thousands were displaced. The economic consequences, from Wikipedia:

Early estimates placed insured losses from the earthquake alone at US$14.5 to $34.6 billion. The Bank of Japan offered ¥15 trillion (US$183 billion) to the banking system on 14 March 2011 in an effort to normalize market conditions. The World Bank's estimated economic cost was US$235 billion, making it the costliest natural disaster in history. According to a 2020 study, "the earthquake and its aftermaths resulted in a 0.47 percentage point decline in Japan’s real GDP growth in the year following the disaster."

Yes, we can and should make nuclear power safer - but let's not overstate the risk. The reactor failures were a tiny part of an enormous disaster, and not by any means the worst part of it.
There's de facto price controls on drinking water during a catastrophe or at least calls for them. That's what I was thinking of.
That depends on your use case, of course. I'm not going to be working offline at a coffee shop anyway.
I just learned of this case. Wow. Wait, wasn't she inside a sub which he ditched?
It's pretty incredible that such a benign statement caused so much ruckus! The misunderstanding is palpable.
But shouldn't starting points be taken into consideration when you are judging someone's merit?
Same for me! I already use a lot of plant-based substitutes and the fact that I'm lactose intolerant makes this even easier for me, but as you already outlined - there are a few remaining niches which can't be filled adequately by alternatives yet.
In what way? The spray in question contains a TMPRSS2 inhibitor. It seems similar to povidone iodine the way that penicillin is similar to bleach.