skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
~.2 isn't really "huge".. Your source shows that the SAT is much more strongly correlated with other measures of aptitude.

The SAT does indeed correlate slightly more strongly with income than the AFQT does, which could show the "gaming" of the test. Only a ~.03 stronger correlation though. Not particularly dramatic.
> In their eyes, they just got an engineer on the cheap, which benefits them immensely.

There's something to be said for the idea of "I want someone to do an important job well, so I need to pay them enough."

You wouldn't expect an American senior software engineer to make $30k a year, and Google or Meta or whoever the fuck wouldn't even _consider_ hiring something for a role that important for that little.

Getting engineers for _slightly_ cheaper is great! Getting engineers for actually cheap is dangerous.
> Insider trading doesn’t cost anybody anything, it simply allows for more accurate pricing which benefits everybody.

Insider trading has an institutional cost: it's corrosive to trust in the market. Retail investors are less likely to make optimal investment decisions if they think that insiders are lurking around every corner. That trust is further diminished if retail investors believe that insiders are not just investing based on insider information, but speculating on higher-order instruments.

It's perfectly fair to note that our current regulations against insider trading aren't ideal, and that the SEC only catches a tiny fraction of all insider trading. But the threat of enforcement does serve as an important root of trust in the market, and removing it is unlikely to serve individual investors well.
There is one belief everyone must share for western society to function: humans are special.

If you disagree and equate owning a chicken to owning a human, then I have no reasoning which will satisfy you or your hypothetical.

Our entire western society is built upon humans being special and having dominion, over both plants _and_ animals.
The point is that even a "shallow" understanding of math is much deeper already than many, perhaps most realize. Many high-schools don't seriously try to teach math at all - there's no such thing as "high school math" in this day and age. You need college to even have a chance of being exposed to it properly.

(Then there's the whole "learning to code" part, of course. This is actually where middle and high school math provides useful application domains for learning to code, and people have tried to teach coding in schools since the 1980s.)
The reporter clearly does not do this habitually, as it took them several (frustrating, from the sound of it) days to figure out what they did. Sounds like it was in large part a learning experience for them.
> Does anyone have a solution for lowering that temptation and making these scenarios less likely?

Isn't the status quo doing a sufficient job?

The temptation may be there, but it's abated by the downside risk of fines, prison time, and unemployability.
I'm not sure how this is possible. With pivpn:

install pivpn, open router port & forward (automatically configured and optionally changed during setup), type 'pivpn add' at the command line for every device I want. Copy the outputted config files to device and import into wg client. Done.
It was just a bad joke! :'(

...maybe it was that bad and it deserves all the downvotes, but given the context of the previous comment, I didn't think it was so awful...
Thank you! Andi is starting to get really good at those sorts of serious questions, and that's a great example.

The trick questions that everyone likes to ask any new AI give us great training data for improving the intent-detection edge cases. But Andi's mission is these more serious questions that it is trying to help people with. Linguistic acrobatics are for the next generation of gpt-based models. So your feedback really lifts a coder's heart!

Users fall into two camps with the UI - pretty much 50/50 between "it makes my eyes bleed make it look like google" vs "I love it, this is the future". We have some thoughts on how to reconcile the two things :)

Thanks again for trying it out and grateful for all and any feedback and suggestions you have!
Yep - this. I wasn't even in /that/ rural of an area, but I was still ~20 miles (32 Kilometers) away from the nearest testing center. No vehicle to take myself.
I think the issue may be that a 10b5-1 is the only way to do this without avoiding liability. Just having your broker make trades for you, even if they're "scheduled", isn't enough.
> Please read the articles before commenting on them:

You don't have to read an article before commenting. Trying to make up rules and hold other people to them is neither kind nor constructive.

Your interpretation of their post is not charitable.

It's explicitly against the guidelines to accuse someone of not reading the article.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
This is nice, but on mobile, I get a huge blank margin to the right.
ok? what is the point? they tipped off family but sharing in the gains.

sorry i said “their own personal account” and not “their family” which they lazily used to try to hide the trading activity?
So, if I were a trader at Enron who made good money trading electricity and gas then used that money to short the stock based on private information, I'd be doing everyone a service and fighting for fairness. Better yet, I could be one of their auditors at Arthur Andersen.
Last I used ZT, it was pretty flaky on Windows. Network would just stop working sometimes, client would bug out and I would have to uninstall/reinstall. Slow speeds also; wireguard is much faster.
Calculus was the first time in mathematics education where I actually had to understand systems and how to derive results from first principles. Prior to that everything was just memorizing: "this is what logarithm is", "socatoah", multiplication tables, etc etc. I straight up hated math until calculus (now I have a math PhD).

I'm sure the same could be accomplished with other fields of math but I don't feel it's necessary to switch. Would be extremely hard to find good teachers and course materials for combinatorics or graph theory to.
Tax exemptions.
Seems like you really thought hard about the subject and provided us with the information we needed to asses the situation in your threat environment. Based on the information you provided it's a clear "How the hell should we know?"
You don't need information theory to tell me that 1% is less than 5%. Obviously scoring in the top 1% of a test everyone takes provides more information than getting a 5 on an AP test. But that 5 still provides, as you put it, 4ish bits of information, which is a lot more than the 0 you have without it or other standardized tests.

How many bits do you really need to know that you're a good candidate for continued education? Is being in the top 5% really not enough?
Getting sued provides for testing and asserting law.

Losing is the part which you wish to avoid.
Isn't this the behaviour of @here? It puts a counter and highlight on the channel.
I play a lot of videogames and never opened loot boxes or bought skins.
> an interview with https://twitter.com/wolski_jaros Sorry, not in english.

1. Who is that person, and what's their source?

2. What interview, exactly?
Correct me if I'm wrong but it seems like you assuming they took the class for credit at university. Community college is also a possibility where it would be cheaper or around the same price. That also comes with the benefit of financial aid.
Not sure it's the same point but ultimately you're responsible for yourself. Even if you were born into bad circumstances or had bad luck. Forcing others to be responsible for you is morally and ethically wrong. That doesn't mean we shouldn't help the poor or homeless, often out of our own self interest, who wants to live in a world of poor and homeless people? But, as soon as you claim I'm obligated to help them you've made me a slave instead of a volunteer.
> No one is making bets that big on search, especially when the online advertising industry (which is the only way to fund it currently) is in danger of massive regulation.

Isn't this exactly the reason why one should do it, as Google is the essence of the online advertising industry and this very regulation could threaten its existence?

>I think there is massive opportunity for domain specific search engines though

Challenge with niche search engine is discoverability. Imagine you had 10 of the greatest vertical search engines available today - how do you remember which one to use and how? The beauty of a general web search is that it is an easy to remember entry point to all of what is out there.

> You then potentially move towards a building “meta” search engines

Ever wondered why is this called meta search engine, and an email software that connects to multiple email servers is called email client and not "meta email". "Search engine client" sounds like a more appropriate name.
Say what you will about how they spend their best years, but they still come from hatcheries where 50% of the population upon hatching are gassed or dropped live off the end of a conveyor belt into a macerator. Equally, they end their life more often than not in a slaughterhouse where the conditions are abysmal to say the least.

The UK has some of the strictest animal welfare in the world, but they are still continuously broken by most farms across the country it seems. One example of many would be the private investigation into the suppliers for M&S's free range organic eggs in 2016. One of the most well reputed retailers in the country, yet they found barns full of ill chickens unable to walk, rotten corpses littering the place, and overcrowding throughout: https://investigations.peta.org/marks-spencer-cruelty-chicke...

All throughout my teens I worked on cattle and poultry farms across the South of England and to be frank, I saw disturbing scenes at every single one of them. Even though I've somewhat reconciled with eating animal products morally in recent years, I've lost any and all trust in the food production system to do it ethically, despite appearances on the surface.

If rigorous legislation doesn't stop farmers from abusing their livestock, then the only option left it seems is a return to self-reliant homesteading where you know exactly where the food comes from, or the production of synthetic alternatives as discussed in OP's article. Personally, as much as I enjoy the eggs from my rescue hens, I hope for the latter.
The training I went through explicitly laid out this scenario and explicitly classified it as insider trading if material nonpublic information is found that would make those trades desirable to execute. I've never heard of the SEC prosecuting someone for losing money due to insider trading.

Again, this probably isn't the case legally. But it was enough for an extremely powerful corporation to deem it as such.
many schools are not public as with the SAT which is also "not-for-profit"

I wonder how one could codify a regulation for schools requiring entrance test to provide "reasonable" accommodations for prospective students to take it; like some parent comments mentioned not everyone can feasibly get to a testing center
Not really a matter of most are never caught but a matter of people doing really stupid trades because they think there's no way SEC's paying someone to check they cleared all their open positions to buy deep out of the money call options just days before a big company announcement.
Very cool! This reminds me of crowdsourcing research done by Aniket Kittur as part of CMU's social computing lab.

Here's the relevant research paper: https://joe.cat/CHI-ka/

Looks like a very similar process you landed on except their approach has many workers crowdsourcing the answer together.
Indeed. I worry that the crises of the last few years can be used to dismiss the (slightly) older structural problems that would have led us here regardless. This vision utopia was already cracking before Covid and even before Trump.
Texting Robots: Taming robots.txt with Rust and 34M tests
It is the (apparent?) ability to make inferences that makes GPT-3 look impressive. Take that away, and it looks more like a demonstration of the banality of everyday chatter than a significant development towards AI.
While I agree, venture outside central government to local authority and you still get a shit show of bad websites and services.

The other day I paid out yearly fee for our garden waste bin collection. The page takes you to an completely un-styled credit card form with no branding and just the price, no details, then the “confirmation” screen is just white page with a single line “payment received”, nothing else not even a redirect. Oh and no confirmation email.

Our local planning site had a bug for six months where when you typed in the search box, focus was lost if you typed to slowly due to the results appearing automatically and steeling focus…
Oof. Tough look to name the model after yourself. Why is this cited so many times?
If insider trading is legal, you could actively destroy a company from the inside and profit from its downfall.

Like you could buy put options to set up a leveraged short position, take all the company's money, set it on fire in public(or make a stupid acquisition so you can't easily be sued by other shareholders), watch the stock price drop in a predictable manner, and profit from the predictable decrease in equity.

Sort of like how you can't buy life insurance and then immediately commit suicide and still get paid out.
100% agreed. I could also buy a test prep book on amazon plus get a few others from the school and public libraries for a grand total of $15 spent on test prep.

That's a lot cheaper than dedicating my working summer to smarmy volunteer/extra-curricular projects.
You may not need a degree to learn the material, but as someone new to the field, there are plenty of jobs that list a 2 year or 4 year degree as a requirement. Having that degree will open more doors than just learning on your own simply because that’s what they’re looking for.
Not that we we will be able to test it, but I would bet against your promise. I don’t see a reason why cows or chickens couldn’t survive in the wild. Not in all areas obviously but I am sure there are areas where climate, vegetation and predators allow them to thrive. We have wild turkeys, we have quail, so why not chickens? And if horses can survive, then cows can too. Horses are way more fragile than cows.
I could not help the feeling he was selling to the wrong people? Shouldn't this product be sold to Healthcare providers instead of doctors? The providers have an actual interest of reducing doctor trips, cost of treatments and this type of hard optimization. Heck, someone got to sell step-counting-bracelets to health care providers.
Gosh, apparently I’m not a “creator” or a “creative”. Sux to be me.

I did co-create a kid. Should I be demanding residuals?

Phooey.
> Retail investors are less likely to make optimal investment decisions if they think that insiders are lurking around every corner.

But the reality is that there are insiders lurking around every corner. The argument is essentially that we should seek to actively mislead retail investors instead of simply acknowledging this fact.

To me that feels dishonest.
No, Rosetta is private and not exposed to third party applications, and not really appropriate for supporting a VM because it is designed for apps running in userspace.
> With the exception of Congress of course.

Banning Congress from making stock trades has broad bipartisan support[1]. Absent any evidence that the person you're responding to doesn't support a Congressional ban, it's probably safe to assume that they do.

[1]: https://thehill.com/homenews/news/588630-76-percent-of-voter...
The point is not that the system lacks creativity, it's more about claims like the one in Wikipedia that "the quality of the text generated by GPT-3 [being] so high that it can be difficult to determine whether or not it was written by a human".

"There’s no guarantee that you’ll be able to climb a rope faster if you hold your ears with both hands, but it’s worth a try!" doesn't look like something a human would write - except in the sense that any gibberish written by the system could also have been written by a human.

This kind of "quality" is relevant when the technology is hyped as an information processing tool.
The UK Online Safety Bill explained: A reckless threat to free speech
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.
There is nothing we can do if Putin decides to push the button. The world as we know it ends at that point because the USA won't hesitate to answer with our own nukes, and I wouldn't have it any other way. I don't worry about things that I could never have any control over. I am worried about global warming per this conversation about energy sources that won't destroy human civilization via natural disasters.
I think the point that they're making is that there wouldn't be a large opportunity to short Enron if people were insider trading from the very beginning. The price of the stock would be more accurate from the beginning, because people would trade at the first sign of an opportunity to benefit from insider information.
My son found out 2 days ago he didn't get accepted to his in-state land grant public university. The University of Minnesota. This was his fall back plan. Now he's screwed and may not be able to start college in fall.

His sins:
- a 35 ACT score (legit with no studying or ACT prep classes)
- a 3.8 weighted GPA (because he took multiple AP classes and actually was in college for his junior and senior years through Minnesota's PSEO program)
- leader on robotics team
- lettered in 2 extra curriculars
- etc etc

Why? Because U of MN doesn't consider weighted grades nor do they accept test scores anymore. So why even try hard?

The only upside is that we weren't stupid enough to put his college savings in a 529 tied to MN. We would be superscrewed if we'd done that.

35,000 applicants. 7,000 freshman admissions. My kid not even in top 1/5 of applicaents? Complete BS.

EDITs:
2021 UMN Twin Cities admission stats:
https://admissions.tc.umn.edu/competitive-admission-rate (20%)

MN 529 plan 20 years ago was MN-only from what I remember. Honestly don't care.

[redacted] is "okay" school for CSci. However they have a 120MM budget and are facing 15MM shortfall for the college that hosts it. Out of state tuition for this school is 20k per year with max scholarships.
"While the UK government claims that the 225 page Online Safety Bill will “make the UK the safest place to go online,” the means to achieve this so-called safety include granting the government unprecedented censorship powers, deputizing Big Tech companies to carry out this censorship, requiring these tech companies to collect even more user data, and giving large media outlets special exemptions that aren’t afforded to regular UK citizens."
Starlink plans to use mercury propellant, 100s tons expected to enter atmosphere
No joke, I see them for $1500 and up on eBay. Many have more than 10 bids.

https://www.ebay.com/itm/OMEGA-x-SWATCH-Moonswatch-Mission-T...
How does it respond to similar questions? If conversational AI could be implemented just by getting users to type stuff, getting humans to respond the first time, and merely caching the responses in a bunch of if-elses for future users, even home computers would have reached this standard no later than when “CD-ROM drive” started to become a selling point.
I’ve been using Ghidra on Apple silicon even before M1 came out, it works quite well. I’d suggest building it yourself so you can get native decompilers, though.
He actually received a clue from 'Susan', one of the doctors he demonstrated his application to: "in many cases I’ll just prescribe what I normally do, since I’m comfortable with it"

He should have sold his tool to sales and marketing at pharmaceutical companies who would use it to convince doctors to prescribe their product.
I can relate, and I appreciated the doors the PSAT and SAT opened for me.

OTOH, I test higher than my actual abilities in my opinion, and that was a relatively unfair advantage the test gave me.
The suburb of St Ives in Sydney was allowed to do a similar thing there, after a long battle with the council and electricity companies.

St. Ives has many Jews, many from South Africa IIRC.

https://www.sbs.com.au/news/article/nsw-council-approves-jew...
I think it would be dishonest to do so actively, which is why I try to acknowledge that the SEC's current ability to enforce insider trading laws is relatively weak and ineffective.

I think it's my civic duty to not only inform others of that fact, but also to advocate for better enforcement.
> Although, in Snow Crash, not much happens in the metaverse. Most of the action is in the real world.

Which is one of its insightful points.

“White Columns” would not only not offend anyone woke, but satisfy their assumptions.
> If insider trading is legal, you could actively destroy a company from the inside and profit from its downfall.

What you are describing is an entirely different kind of misconduct than “insider trading”.
"After hours" means different things to different people. Just set up your DnD settings and let people message when and how they want, and then reply when and how you want.
sounds like they went back to China and got new jobs. https://www.crunchbase.com/person/bonan-huang
> the PDF is not a format fit for sharing, discussing, and reading on the web. PDFs are (mostly) static, 2-dimensional and non-actionable objects. It is not a stretch to say that a PDF is merely a digital photograph of a piece of paper.

It is too far a stretch, murdering the poor subject:

PDFs are the best format available for long-term information, such as research papers. They have the advantages of digital data: Searchable, copy-able, transmittable, and data is extractable. They are also an open format, don't rely on a central service to be available, and they preserve presentation across platforms. They have metadata, and are annotatable and reviewable. And the PDF format is the best for long-term preservation, carefully designed to be readable in 50 years - partly because they preserve presentation across platforms - and that includes the metadata, annotations, and reviews.

PDFs are like paper in that they will look the same 50 years from now as they do today, unlike (almost?) any other digital format.

Yes, I wish they were a bit more dynamic in layout, and that the text was more cleanly extracted.
I think these go in our "let's break the AI" hall of fame :)

Having search results alongside answers does lead to interesting serendipity, particularly if you asking compound questions that span a few topics.

When I was testing the new Q&A new feature, one of the test set was "where was elon musk born and how did he first become interested in computers?" It gives a pretty good answer but some of the stories about his childhood and bullying that came up were surprising.

Now I need to ask Andi about casting your loved ones in wax to see what shows alongside that query!