skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Nope, just a feeling which is further reinforced by other posts on this thread (i.e. confirmation bias) such as:

> Standardized testing was pretty much the only reason I and many other working class folks I know could get into good schools -- I was never going to do a million side activities, and my summers were spent working, not building my academic resume.

– https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30833870

> I grew up as a low-income minority in a single-parent household and I ended up getting into good schools pretty much only due to my high test scores, which has been a life changer. Other than test scores, I couldn't afford to do any fancy extra-curriculars.

– https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30835611

Of course this is (somewhat) testable. I could ask different collage admission boards to summarize anonymized admission records of students where extra-curricular actives was weighted favorably for admission. And then group these activities based on how accessible they are to various wealth classes before counting them up. I don’t know if that has been done, and I’m not in a position to do it my self... so the best I can do is make a bet.
I think you've been reading too much online negativity. In the past even math and science was performed by either aristocrats or precocious folks at the behest of their patron. If anything, humanity has become better at guaranteeing employment for folks who don't directly and immediately move somebody's bottom line. Moreover the Western art scene until the '90s was also quite conservative with what it depicted and who it allowed to participate. Other art scenes (North and South Indian film, Yose entertainment in Japan, etc.) around the world had their own interesting niches, funding models, and lifestyles.
Unfortunately because of lobbying efforts the public doesn’t have access to that data, that’s right tax payers aren’t entitled to know where taxpayer funds are being spent. There are FOIA requests and subsequent lawsuits to get the information and you can see the industry argument for yourself, but these businesses feel they would be stigmatized if the public knew how much they made from taxpayer funded programs and they feel they would be at a disadvantage with landlords in negotiating rent if they knew how much they received from these programs.

They also double dip and both Amazon and Whole Foods accept SNAP benefits/EBT, after a 20% discount, I’m sure it’s a significant amount, after they are the largest employer of SNAP beneficiaries in many states.
Maybe some brave soul will set us all straight and devastate us with facts and logic. To me, the MBA is a useful creature for extracting value for investors for a product/company that is on a path to death. I mean that as a compliment actually, some companies shouldn't waste money on trying to innovate or improving product quality and should just ride out whatever wave they caught, minimizing costs and maximizing revenue while the cash flow still exists.
I was doing a lot of work with SSH tunnels, but it seems Tailscale is an easy way into WireGuard.

For now I just have one node running on my office setup to access everything there and it seems to work pretty well from home. More convenient than mapping ports anyway.

Although...I don't quite grok how it might be more secure than something like certificate based SSH, seems like the Tailscale attack surface might be bigger even though you can go back and close off the firewall stuff that allows SSH to work. Would seem that instead of concentrating on breaking your (probably obscure) public IP address / port combo, an attacker would simply go to Tailscale and attack that instead.
> The auditors could potentially place bets on their engagements and negotiate results based on their interests. Impartiality would be compromised

This is a very odd straw man.

What you are describing would still be a crime in a world in which insider trading is legal.

I think you are the one who didn’t put much thought into this.
Complete disaster for his future? I don't think so, just a slight delay. I've had many setbacks in my life, i've known people in Asia who majorly messed up an exam they'd been preparing their entire life for, they just attempted it next year, and they did fine. If you have the brains to score a 35 on the ACT with no prep, then you really shouldn't have much problems in life if you put effort and deal with setbacks.
Medicine is the same but they do it in Latin so that plebs don't know they're actually using Buffyspeak.
Not all TLD registries offer registry locks, but those run by Verisign (includes .com, .net), Affilias (lots of gtlds), and Neustar (.biz and .org), and according to a MarkMonitor slide deck, about 30 ccTLDs do.

You may need to switch to a registrar that will let you do it, but that's generally a matter of finding one and giving them enough money, which isn't really difficult. Look for a corporate/brand focused registrar and call their sales and see what the minimum spend is.

If the registry for your domain doesn't do any registry locks, then you would need to switch to a different TLD, which is difficult.
I'm not really an expert (corrections welcome!) but having spent some time recently playing with positioning systems:

Most of GPS's perceived suck (in cold boot (TTFF) time, general receptivity) is actually just bad antennas/chips. I bet this thing has a large, possibly active, antenna and a modern, possibly multi-service, gnss module.

As an example, I have some very cheap ~10mm passive antennas that never pull a signal indoors, and some very cheap modules that take >20 minutes to TTFF even with a clear view of the sky. I also have some big chonker 30mms that, with a modern module, have a <2min TTFF inside/in a car/whatever.
This reminds me of the problem before we had the cash register (which Charlie Munger has talked about quite a lot). It was a constant problem, most people companies had a lot of theft. The constant ease of access was just too much for most people to do, adding in a cash register reduced this theft by a lot. It's unlikely these were "bad people" by most definitions, undisciplined, perhaps they meant to repay it, perhaps they had a serious ill.

We need a modern day equivalent of a cash register.
Zero bits, because everyone is a good candidate for continued education.

From the point of view of MIT, admitting you has a significant downside: they have to turn down someone else, someone who might have been able to do better research than you do and donate more as an alumnus. But from the point of view of an individual person, more education is always better, because your alternative to education is not admitting someone better; your alternative to education is ignorance.

(Schooling may not be the best way to get that education, however... far too many people opt for ignorance after their schooling.)

I didn't say the 5 gives you 4ish bits of information. I said it gives you 1.4 bits of information. That's only 35% of 4, not very 4ish at all. It's barely in the order of magnitude centered on 4 (1.26 to 12.6).
Minecraft had many years of regular updates before either of those came out.
The sum of "news" that you consume is close to the totally of the information you base your decisions at the ballot box on. In a world without news, democracy cannot function, because the link between action and reaction (such as reelection) is lost. It's like an AC being told the temperature you want, but without access to the feed of temperature measurements.
You know, it occurs to me that I've only ever been dependent upon other people for money, though not in the sense you probably mean. In some sense, I've worked for the vast majority of money I've been given, but at the end of the day, the check came from someone.
That was my recollection, but looking at the source I don't think that was correct.
Yeah, I'm a tech worker in China, I quit a 6AM - 11 PM, 6 days a week job (that I loved, a global startup, blah blah) to work as ... exactly doing the same thing in an investment bank and be paid double for 9am-7pm

You know what we bemoaned the most in my previous startup, when hiring ? We couldn't compete with the banks :D You bet, at 9000 USD a month for 50 hours weeks, feels like the post office :D

Everyone knows, btw, that it's a problem, but it's not going to be solved as long as clients expect China to be cheaper, and when it stops, this expectation, we aren't gonna be able to compete because we're not any better quality-wise than the rest. I think India already is the new China and us we're stuck with robot employees that demand more and more money without really giving clients something in exchange :s And our internal market isn't developing fast enough: in fact, the population even decreases so :s
100% absolutely ok :)

You can blend hydrogen in to existing natural gas infrastructure at up to 10%.

There's an Australian dual fuel plant going in to service in a couple years that can do from 5% to up to 100% hydrogen in the future.

While you can't use existing natural gas infrastructure, the logistics of hydrogen are pretty similar, otherwise blending and dual fuel systems wouldn't be possible.

https://www.austrade.gov.au/news/success-stories/australia-a...
And was your extra-curricular activity both broadly available to lower class students (in time, cost, culturally, etc.) and a significant contributor to your acceptance?
> We establish that the proximate cause of these (relative) wage effects are changes in rent-sharing practices following the appointment of business managers

And top level metrics remain constant. So no benefits to stock owners, just rent seeking management at the expense of the firms attractiveness as an employer. Nice.
I don't know why they recommend the $100 Fusion Pro? You can do the exact same with VMware Remote Console which is free :)
>Americans are spending progressively less time in shopping malls[1] and the military[2].

[1] Are Amazon, ebay et al shopping malls?

Given healthcare and college tuition being paid by the state I think you might see [2] drop very, very fast and far. I've heard the argument made that this was why the establishment corrupt of Washington united so cohesively against Bernie.
Probably because high levels of math skill don’t translate to economic success. Analytical thinking is a good skill that math can teach you, but there is more than one path to that. In the context of a college education the ability to write clearly and persuasively is far more an important skill to learn.

As someone with a degree in math, I’ve always found the monomaniacal focus on how America is “behind” on math education quite baffling. Do people really thinking calculus skill is necessary to succeed?
If you are referring to Uber the app, "Uber" had nothing to do with ego. The cab experience was poor, and the service was called UberCab to delineate a better cab experience. Cab++ if you wish.

They got sued for using the word "cab" in "UberCab", and just shorted the name to "Uber".
If only running a business well was something you could learn in class.
It starts as a 'yo momma' and turns into 'NO U'.
And yet the Navy has a pretty good safety record.
You've got it the wrong way around - the browsers' sandboxing is good because they make use of resource isolation features provided by your kernel.
Maybe some impostor, but at the time, there was a penalty for guessing. Between my risk-taking personality and the sense that I wasn't going to get out of the minor leagues by watching pitches go by, I 'swung' at every question and apparently got a lot of questions right that I couldn't actually explain why the answer was correct.

Arguably, someone who knew more than I did but was too hesitant to go out on a limb about it should still have gotten a higher score if the test is designed to assess knowledge.
Some do, like Hackney

https://github.com/LBHackney-IT

As others have said, most don't have the budget or inclination.
This is great! I would also like something like this for exercises (eg. "squats 5x5" ie. exercise reps x sets, in several variations of formatting)
Why would Dropbox want to shut this down? They publish an API, and they encourage developers to integrate with their API.

Dropbox isn't pushing ads at users, so it's not like Twitter or YouTube where unofficial clients are a threat to their business model. Very much the opposite, I think.
Economists aren't a monolith.

Legalizing insider trading does nothing for fairness.

The SEC does catch insider trading. And yes, they could do better.

Your morals are showing. Just because you can justify it doesn't make it so for most.
I'll invest energy and opportunity cost into my startup ideas, but not cash.
So what's in these massive installs? I'd love to see a breakdown.
If they get to say 220dpi, 12x8", at least 128 shades of grey and a really, really white "paper", that would be enough for this to be interesting.

But they are not there yet.

I love black and white but this is not much better than framing a page from a newspaper -- which has an appeal this does not.
It seems harder to get a job today due to in-depth background checks. Until the pandemic employers were extremely picky. We're also sitting near record low labor participation rates. If it's so easy to get a job now, why were participation rates higher?
They're all too busy studying to run laps around us.
Agreed, I don't know what 'it involves asking a sex worker' spares us over that. Nor why we want to be spared in an article on 'jokes that have made people laugh for thousands of years' even if it were worse!
Or revenues decline by a similar amount to offset the "savings".
No rosetta doesn't do system level emulation. System vs app level are distinctly different problems.

Att the app level rosetta can operate at link time (yes it does AoT, but that's essentially just caching), where it knows things like what things are text regions, what the entry points are, it can assume that the code is "correct" (if your code is buggy natively, then rosetta won't stop it going wrong), etc.

System level emulation means rosetta (or whatever) loses that transparency, so can't precompile, and can't make any assumptions about code behaving properly. To get an idea of what the performance impact is you should check the performance of JIT compiled code under rosetta. Rosetta ensures that the JIT will work, but the perf hit is staggering. System level emulation basically means treating everything as being JIT code.

I'm sure a system level emulator (Qemu?) could do better than for example just slapping a system emulator mode into rosetta, but that would be because rosetta is optimized for app level emulation.
> the rest of the business is unaffected

The capable employees who know they're being screwed go elsewhere and take their institutional knowledge with them.
I don't get the emotions.

How you save/retrieve bytes isn't the interesting part of this blog post as it's elementary. He could have just defined an interface { save(id, doc), get(id) } and moved on.

If anyone seriously wanted to try to follow along with this code, googling how to use the filesystem in Go isn't beyond them. They'd have their own implementation from scratch just as the blog promises.
This is not at all in line with research on the field.

> It's why inside traders are usually unsophisticated

Insider traders who get caught are usually unsophisticated.
It would be much slower because of so many context switches
> This is presented as humans hard coding answers to the prompts. No way is that the full picture...

This is something of a misrepresentation of what is being proposed here, which is actually essentially what you suggest: "OpenAI are using the InstructGPT algo (RL on top of the trained model) to improve the general model based on human preferences."

One of the things that makes GPT-3 intriguing and impressive is its generality. InstructGPT is the antithesis of that - its purpose is to introduce highly targeted influences on GPT-3's output in specific cases and sometimes ones very similar - and its use improves the output at the cost of diminishing the performance. Furthermore, if the output is being polished in cases like those presented here, that would impede a frank assessment of its capabilities.
What defines true genius?
So like a hospital?

For private practitioners, you forget that referral is another source of income. That relies on maintaining good relationships and being seen as competent enough amongst your peers. So there are various avenues for making money, and each private practitioner has different motivations for pursuing those different venues.
There’s a lot of virtue to be found between complete abstinence from the news and drinking from the firehose.
Not sure why down voted, Oxford and Cambridge don't take legacy into account. (Well at least officially)
The MBA's job is to admit the company does not need the best.
Unlimited energy. Until then it's moving deck chairs around the Titanic.
This thread is scoped to the "creator economy" (see the title, the article, and the other toplevel threads.) I'm not talking about the economy as a whole, and even then we would need to scope that down to a place, a time period, etc etc.

But if we're on the topic of creatives, just look at the pushback that the Jackson 5 received in America or that NWA had in the '90s. Yes it probably was easier to be a white, male artist in the '50s-'90s (like the Beatles), but the case was much murkier for anyone else. And it's not like the establishment went unscathed by technology change either. There's a song titled "Video Killed the Radio Star" after all...
This is something I've been wanting for years to solve a huge painpoint in smaller colocation deployments. Basically, it sucks to have to pay extra for a 1u space and power just for a dedicated router. Virtualizing a router / trusting a hypervisor to keep a virtual networking appliance (connected to raw internet) separate is certainly not something I trust. (maybe I'm just old school?)

This completely solves the issue, in a much better way than me just shipping a 2u server to a DC with a small micro router shoved inside the case and powered with a micro-usb cable haha.

Can't wait to buy one of these.
Even flushing the toilet could be harmful if it contains legionnaire bacteria, they aerosolise well especially in hotter climates.
Is that not ego? "We're better than a cab".

It would be ego-less if they called it CabApp or something.
While I really enjoyed Stardew Valley, I had to stop playing it. I wasn't getting a chill country farmer escaping the busy city vibe. I was trying to maximize my actions for every minute of play to get the most rewards in the shortest time. It really felt like work, not play—so I gave it up.
I don’t want to run it… unless you pay me two salaries: one for knowing all the stuff about building modular and maintainable systems, and another for knowing all the stuff about infrastructure topics (conf. management, security, monitoring, scalability, networking, etc.)

As a dev, I do know a bit about infra topics (just because I’m curious) but not enough to be oncall on Sunday mornings.
As I understand it, the "power" budget here, is to effect change. An eInk display is statically showing the arrangement of the beads.

So a mechanical watch would presumably be doing something to charge a capacitor, to get sufficient "power" in electrons, to push some beads around.

If you want to count seconds with more than 1 bead, I suspect no. If you want to count minutes with a single digit, as long as its a low bead count, maybe. if you were up at 5 minute granularity, I think its possible high quality changes could be pushed out.

You might be re-winding the clockwork a lot.
A trend I've noticed often among "business managers" (MBAs or wannabes) is to assume they can manage something they don't understand, then simply shift to the lowest common denominator of dollars and cents (or your local equivalent).

Rather than actually manage anything, they then just demand others find ways to reduce the number of dollars in the cost line, and raise the number of dollars in the profit or revenue line.

The end result tends to be foreseeable and in line with most other comments here - short-term thinking outcomes, like asset stripping, selling things to free up capital (that isn't needed) and leasing them back (to make the business look more profitable as it spirals into the ground by burning up all that capital pile, after paying a large dividend), etc.

I wonder - is there an argument in favor of this, beyond the usual "shareholder value" or "shareholder return"? Is this something that's taught or expected as part of the doctrine? Is the idea of turning complex things you don't understand into revenue a taught principle? (As in my experience, it ends up with very obvious catastrophic issues, caused by the business manager not understanding or believing the impact that will arise from the change they make, followed by them changing job before the foreseen and inevitable negative outcome arrives).

Could companies get better business managers by releasing their bonus over a period of years, so that people's true ability to perform is factored in? Aka the principle of being around for long enough to get found out, which in theory ought to get you better managers, since those who would get "found out" will avoid the opportunity?
If your intuition allowed you to guess with a high enough success rate that it overcame the penalty then it is that intuition that gave you an advantage. You didn't just get lucky.
>It also repeatedly antagonizes liberal democratic values that citizens of the current hegemony hold dear as it pursues dissidents abroad (Operation Foxhunt) and organizes economic retaliation against foreign companies and celebrities and countries (like Lithuania) that just speak out against China's government policy.

The west does a lot of what you describe, just on a smaller scale.

If you dare to go against Israel, which the US has deemed untouchable, you are met with economic sanctions, targeting from multiple intelligence services, online threats from supporters and laws placed specifically to stop your activities (anti-BDS laws). This is even if you deal with nothing but non-violent protest.

There is no such thing as hard liberal democratic values, just a sliding scale of values that go up and down depending on the time frame and circumstances. Different eras of Europe/US/western nations have provided different levels of "liberal values" to different groups of people.

With all this continued imperfection, what right does the West have to criticize China?
The Canon Cat: The Writing Information Appliance (2004)
Feds Allege Destructive Russian Hackers Targeted US Refineries
How does this all compare to the old and dead idea that you'd just run java applets from your browser? Is it believed that browsers are harder targets than JVMs?
> but we couldn’t use them because we need to support old browsers like Internet Explorer.

Isn’t IE dead?
So, you don’t actually have an argument to make?

> Legalizing insider trading does nothing for fairness

But it does, it increases information available to the public.
Others will always excel or do more because they feel that's valuable, so though I agree with you, I don't think it could ever work that way.

Some people work harder because they want to see their team succeed, some people do it because it's a status game to them, some people do it because they've got nothing better to do.
"The reduction in wages following the accession of a business manager leads to an increase in profits: the return on assets (ROA) increases by 3 percentage points in the US and by 1.5 percentage points in Denmark. In the US, we also find an increase of about 5% in the stock market values of companies that appoint business managers."
Here is a nice aggregator for gemini

https://proxy.vulpes.one/gemini/warmedal.se/~antenna/
This is nice, and very refined. It's nice that it is standalone and doesn't force you to go through an app or "the cloud".

loosely related is inkplate, which is a wall-mountable DIY e-ink project:

https://www.crowdsupply.com/search?q=inkplate