skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
One interesting thing to come of these discussions - a lot of the problems with US News methodology arise from the attempt to push certain metrics from 90% to 100%. Class size, faculty with a "terminal" degree, class size, admissions rate. Many of these things are treated by the rankings as "the higher (or lower) the better." As an analogy, I'd use lean muscle mass percentage for elite athletes. Generally speaking, lower is better, and in many sports, all elite athletes are all under 10% body fat. But much below this starts to become harmful, and would eventually be fatal.

I think this is kind of what's happening with Columbia here. For example, Columbia claimed that 100% of the faculty had a terminal degree. Prof Thaddeus (if you read his full blog post) questioned this from two angles. The first was to say it can't possibly be true. The second (which I found more interesting) was: why would you even want this to be 100%? Seems like Columbia has valuable faculty who don't have a PhD or MFA or whatever is the "terminal" degree int he field.

The harm here isn't in wanting a terminal degree for a high percentage of faculty, it's trying to get this to 100%. I'd say that it probably is a good sign, overall, that most of the faculty has a doctoral degree, as this is the main training degree for research and teaching. But the way US news does it, you get more points for 95% than 90%, more points for 99% than 95%. Seems like a lot of harm comes from trying to wring out that last bit, since even if you do generally agree with the value of a PhD for research (or other terminal degree), it does seem like you'd build a stronger faculty overall with the ability to hire 1 in 10 or 1 in 20 based on some other credential.

So much else fits this pattern. Small class sizes.. kind of the same thing. Sure, it's a good sign, but they're only an indicator, not a goal in and of themselves. Low admissions rates, high test scores. All good metrics, but things that can become not just harmful but harmful and maybe even fatal to a university if pursued with a single minded intensity as if total purity in the metric is the goal.

Honestly, overall we just have to reject the US news rankings. I appreciate what Prof Thaddeus did here, and it was a useful and very well reasoned and sourced takedown. But now and then, I realized that there isn't much to be added, just new and interesting ways to say what everyone knows at this point - yousnoozeandworlddistort rankings are pretty well idiotic. I actually think college rankings in general can be useful if managed cautiously and read critically, but this one is just a turkey.
It would be nice to see comparison to the Herschel space observatory images from the same location.

https://www.esa.int/Science_Exploration/Space_Science/Hersch...
I picked up an old CRT at Seattle's RePC a few months ago. An absolutely massive 1600 x 1200 (at 85 Hz!) thing

The first thing I did after powering it on was hit that degauss button, and my god the feeling

The bastard clonnnggeddd so loud my roommate heard it through the floor!
Perhaps -- but not "definitely". It depends on what the frequency of each of those things is.

So far IIUC the frequency of critical projects being removed from pypi is 1 (in the space of a few days - although it came back), and account takeover of critical projects for malware publishing is 0 (in the space of many years).
... Would do nothing to solve the issue as all it tells you is if that information was indeed once put on the chain. It doesn't ensure the information is actually correct.
> Dude, how did you go from 2FA for a Python package to Putin in a single sentence? This makes no sense.

The 2FA thingie is not implemented because of some random dude who might want to steal a bitcoin or two, is implemented against state actors. This being the US we're talking about (and the West more generally) the state actors taken into consideration are: China, Russia, Iran, probably North Korea (probably in this order). Hence my mention of China and Russia in my initial comment.
While I understand the desire to claim that bifurcation has reached the point where the "America is not really a single “nation state” anymore" it is, in fact, still a nation state, in the same way that a family that fights a lot is still a family. Only this family, uh, rules the world. And unfortunately it also rules the world while pretending it doesn't rule the world. Acknowledging that you rule the world would be a good first step towards doing a better job at ruling it, but this acknowledgement is impossible within the given parameters of discourse, so a new discourse will likely emerge?
> He was free to simply stop using their hosting service, but what he did was try to continue to use their hosting service without doing the bare minimum to protect that service.

Who is "he"?
Your still going to find basic spoken language acquisition happens at roughly the same rate across cultures. Sure, expectations around learning milestones are subjective but we’re talking about school closures in the US anyway.

You aren’t pointing to any evidence that peer socialization isn’t really important.
I'm a bit unclear about your response. My contention is that the method of determination of critical is based on something that really doesn't tell you how critical it is. I do believe the customer has a responsibility but I am not seeing any of that in PyPI's actions.

Do I blame or think PyPI did anything wrong? No. I think everyone has the best intentions. I just think arbitrarily declaring someone work 'critical' without some involvement from the users of that developer's work is going to cause problems and not actually solve the issue. PyPI doesn't really have access to the information needed to declare something critical.
Is the light bending around some gravitational point, or is that an* artifact of the telescope itself?

If the former, that is astounding.

Edit: nvm I think I figured it out myself. There are objects next to smeared galaxies that are not distorted. The distorted objects must be behind the gravitational field, and the un-distorted objects in front.
There are many weights involved; PyPI is trying to strike a balance between them.

Among them:

* Project installs follow a power law distribution: the top 1% of packages account for 99% of installations, and the remaining 99% account for roughly 1% of installations. In other words: prioritizing the security of the 1% of packagers means prioritizing the 99% of users who depend on those critical projects.

* PyPI has tried really hard to make 2FA as effortless and non-invasive as possible: the current program includes giving away two free physical hardware tokens, as well as a long grace period to ensure that maintainers are not caught in a sudden lurch between their open source and professional obligations. Both of these don't work at scale: PyPI doesn't have the material resources to give every maintainer free hardware tokens, and the same packaging power law means that a large number of relatively inactive maintainers will be caught by any deadline that gets set.

Ultimately, the goal is to maximize the number of users protected, maximize the quality of protection, prevent package user disruption, and minimize maintainer disruption. The current scheme, in my view, does a good job at achieving all of these goals.

FD: I worked on PyPI's 2FA implementation, but I do not represent PyPI and am not a maintainer.
Historians use historians from the past as secondary sources. They have never assumed that those sources were bias free. They don't assume the history they write is bias free. History is constantly being rewritten with different perspectives. This is History 101.

Many people have forgotten that bias is the rule not the exception. Our institutions are built assuming bias exists and try to remove it to get desired outcomes.

In our justice system: A court trial is two parties trying to present their own self interested and biased version with a judge enforcing predetermined rules.

Scientific method exists in part to combat assumptions and bias.

Experiments are constructed to remove bias.

Papers are reviewed to remove bias.

Why would the news or anything be bias free? In my mind, if you are assuming it's bias free, that's big red flag. Maybe you are just happy when your biases are confirmed and unhappy with any information that goes against your biases. Almost everyone is, after all. That's how human beings are wired and it's the duty of people who want to be more rational to constantly combat that.
It's like the Hubble Deep Field only with a lot of obvious gravitational lensing.
Also, authorities confiacate quite some crypto all the time...
You're right. Being alone and the very idea of privacy is a modern "luxury". It did not exist as hunter gatherers nor in the "african village" model. In some cultures, it still doesn't exist, think a multi generational home where rooms are shared with many people.

I think indeed the emphasis should be on the "do nothing" part. Which very much is natural. I've once read that hunter gatherers "worked" for about 4 hours per day. As for the rest of the day? Rest, watch the sun set, gaze at the stars.

Many animals also do fuck all for a considerable part of the day.
Web3 games will never be shut down (if properly decentralized). The "game server" is effectively pay-as-you-go.

NFTs grafted on to web2 games is a start of player owned gaming, but true web3 games will be wholly player owned.

These shutdowns (along with things like Diablo's Error 37 launch) are why gamers will gravitate to games they can't get rug pulled on.
> if property or information is secured by cryptography, the state can’t seize it without getting the solution to an equation.

This sort of reminds me of the Eddie Izzard "Flags" bit, except that someone is trying to claim the land without the might of the British Empire behind them. Like, imagine the police coming to evict you from a house, and you confidently showing them that this ledger here says that it's actually your house.
So this is not meant as a criticism of climate change or an opposition or anything like that but honestly a lot of the climate change doomsayers seem very similar to me like religious apocalyptics in a lot of ways.

There is a huge impending end of the world catastrophe coming soon because so many people are living their lives wrong, the only way to stop or change that is to make massive personal changes in your life and do everything within your influence to convince everyone you know to change their lives or else the end is nigh!

I mean really that messaging is pretty much the same between fundamentalists of both the religious and climate variety. It often seems as well they are less interested in figuring out actual realistic solutions to these problems than feeling smugly superior because they are "one of the chosen".

Just my 2c.
So, are the smudges' light coming from behind the objects in the center?
If you're in the small top 'n' I think the prestige goes the other way. Will anyone care if MIT is +1 or -1 some year? I assume those top schools can just run themselves the way they want and still get highly ranked.

And if US news were serious they could simply have kicked columbia out for a year, but it would have hurt them to do so. They'd probably do it for a small college ranked 100 or below though.

I'd be embarrassed for Columbia that they gamed the numbers. Outside that small n though, I presume gaming the numbers is commonplace.
NASA used to do these on their own with no politicians there. Much better IMO.
Using lasers and 'tow-trucks', Japanese firms target space debris
Offering an opinion: the tech industry is invested in the success of PyPI -- perhaps not always in a literal monetary sense, you're right, but certainly in an ecosystem sense.
Why would it look any different? It's a deep field image. There's nothing to see except galaxies.

Also, this is the IR capture. The telescope can't see anything else.
Airbus is a consortium created to compete with US companies. Nestle is Swiss and isn't in the EU, which is what we're discussing.
PNG or TIFF anywhere?
Is the lensing the result of a single large galaxy in the middle that is “closer” or many galaxies?
DALL-E Is Available
> a comic-book villain version of Putin who is apparently an existential threat to the West, but also not powerful enough to even take over Ukraine.

Russia is more than powerful enough to take over Ukraine on its own. But Western aid to Ukraine — because of the perceived Russian threat — has been enormous. US direct military aid since the major invasion this year being more than Ukraine’s most recent annual defense spending.
If anything, Germany is thought to benefit (some said "unfairly") from the Euro, which is weak for its economy, but strong for other member countries. It allows Germany a competitive advantage when it comes to exports.
Potato diet given milk/butter seems quite doable, Ireland lived off milk and oats for a very long time and potatoes, especially older varieties are incredibly nutritious given the skin so mixed with dairy JT seems like a relatively manageable diet.
I enjoyed this piece immensely. Might be a "missing the forest for the trees" thing, but it was odd needing to scroll so far down for a comment that grok'd the theme of the article, instead of chiming in on discounted gas and Kirkland vodka.
Yikes! Will fix.

That must have been a bug in my moderation software...

Edit: fixed now. Thanks!
Unchecked AB Testing Destroys Everything It Touches
The scale is much, much different. This is a fraction of the space Hubble photographed. This is a tiny bit of space shown with the clarity that Hubble had for areas far bigger
The History of User Interfaces
> Nobody is compromising software supply chains to make your 3D printer print 8% slower for the lulz. They're doing it to hack companies and compromise user data.

The high-profile NPM package compromises in recent years have mostly targeted hobbyists/been indifferent to who they were targeting. Crypto miner malware doesn't care what computer it's installed on.
Funnily enough I had to explain what a VPN is to one of my kids this weekend.

But... if the need's there, people figure it out (as he's doing right now - for him it's something gaming related).
> Oh dear lord, the United Microstates of Reddit Meme Subs is definitely going to nuke us all the first chance it gets.

r/BrandNewSentence
I wouldn’t be so sure. Riots don’t require guns to have an effect, as the UK has seen quite recently. Point being: an analysis that draws its conclusion from the presence of state violence is incomplete if it doesn’t also consider violence on the part of citizens/subjects.
Which would be: $0
Your lack of respect for others is astonishing.

Consume wherever you want, just don't be arrogant if others won't.
What worked for me was two things: calculating my number and tracking all of my expenses.

I did that listing everything that I wanted that would make me and my wife happy, calculating the yearly cost of those things, and dividing that by the average yearly rate of return for a plain old index fund portfolio, which was 4% at the time.

When I did this six years ago, my number was $5M. Which is a lot, but is also not very much. I can't find the spreadsheet now, but it included things like:

- A $700,000 house in Highland Park, Dallas (houses are >$1M now, which is still a bargain if you're coming from the Bay)

- Two cars totaling about $150,000

- $30,000/year in vacations

- A large spending budget

I knew that short of starting a startup and it getting an exit (and me not getting screwed by my investors or partners), the only way I'd be able to hit this is to get as close to where the money is made as I can and being ruthless about comp negotiation.

Tracking all of my expenses has helped me visually see where the lifestyle inflation is happening and determine what things I should invest more into or cut out of my life. It has also made forecasting big future purchases much easier, as I can see how the purchase will impact me with a very high degree of confidence. This somehow makes me attaining that thing more real, which helps drive me towards taking opportunities that will yield more comp.

I don't believe in "be happy with what you have." That's what those with say to those without to make them "feel better" that they didn't win the life lottery. I say "always chase more, but know what 'more' is so that you know where to stop!"
Looks like the USA's Defense Production Act supposedly has similar effect: https://www.fema.gov/disaster/defense-production-act
Maybe we need to re-work the docs if the DAG aspects stick out to you so much. The main functionality is the cache. If you have a complex experiment, you can still write the code as if all the steps were fast, and let them be slow only the first time you run it. The DAG stuff is also nice, but less important.

That said, you could execute sklearn. If that's what your experiment needs, it's the right thing to do. This is why it gives us the flexibility to also support Jax: https://github.com/allenai/tango/pull/313

The DL-specific stuff is in the components we supply. Like the trainer, dataset handling stuff, file formats, and increasingly, https://github.com/allenai/catwalk.
Biden to Show James Webb Space Telescope’s First Image
Mark Braverman Wins the IMU Abacus Medal
> A network state [requires] ... a recognized founder ...

Uh-huh.
Something to drive home how impressive this is - "If you held a grain of sand up to the sky at arm’s length, that tiny speck is the size of Webb’s view in this image."
Infantile Amnesia
It’s a treatment, ADHD has several pharmas it also uses to treat the condition, and counselling and other therapies.

To treat is the correct word.
Pretty good idea, does that exist yet?
Can someone ELI5 how the USD can go up vs EUR if US has higher inflation (about 1% or so) than the eurozone (or at least Germany). Wouldn't that mean that stuff gets cheaper in EU compared to US? Shouldn't there be arbitrage at some point?
Hi-res initial James Webb telescope picture released
https://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/ma...
I got really excited about Mr. Lee's Greater Hong Kong when I read Snow Crash when I was fifteen too. :-D
> All you have to do is A, B and C

I'd inquire why they are saying that. Are there requirements in your proposal that aren't required?
Enterprise development best practices for instance, if the customer wants to prioritize time to production or time to market, it's normal for him to push aside writing 12 factories and 7 dlls to later/never.
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It seems like everything in that article reinforces CICO. Is there something that diverges from the CICO model that I might be missing?

E.G. it’s examples of the Maasai and Inuit eating higher calories make a lot of sense when you consider their exposure to temp extremes and additional cal burn coming from thermoregulation (along with probably elevated levels of daily activity).

Most of the nuance I’ve seen around CICO that holds isn’t that CICO isn’t true, it’s that the intake and output are hard to calculate when you look at nutrient absorption and lifestyle
They said the bending isn't an artifact of the telescope.
This whole comment tree seems to be full of people who deliberately misunderstand physics and economics.

Europe is still going to have access to gas if Russia cuts its whole supply come winter -- in fact, 60% of the European gas supply will still be present. Probably a bit more, since lots of crisis efforts have been made to provide gas from other sources. Only part of the heating needs have to be replaced.

Let's say Germany still had the, what, 8000 gigawatts of nuclear power online that it has shut down during the last decade? Wild-ass guess, but it's a lot. That's base load, of course. Electric power.

Resistive heating is dirt cheap to deploy in terms of capital costs. You can buy a 2000W heater for $20, perfect for domestic use. So the operating costs dominate. Using a heat pump is 3-4 times better in terms of operating costs; that's not as easy to deploy but many places will already have A/C installed and that's usually the same thing.

So then it becomes a question of economics; many industrial processes cannot be replaced with electricity. But as we've seen, heating of living spaces can easily be done with electricity.

So in the kind of crisis we're discussing here, those thousands of gigawatts of nuclear electricity would be pretty damn useful for emergency heating of German homes and businesses, during months where the gas would be more profitably used for the industrial processes that require it.

It sure as hell wouldn't have been cheap, but it would be cheaper than shutting down half the economy, which is what we're preparing for right now.

It's a moot point, of course, because those ~17 nuclear plants are already shut down. But it would very much have made the issue dramatically less painful.
Seems to be multiple objects creating gravitational lensing. I assume that is what's causing the weird smudged galaxy.
The weird bit is that quality control is so completely out of the question that it's not even mentioned, but authentication is seen as more important than anything else. I wonder how accurate that threat model really is.

I mean, node-ipc would have happened regardless of how many authentication factors were involved in uploading. And offers to buy ownership will keep coming. What happened to Sourceforge wasn't lack of security.

Turns out those distribution people did more than just wrap software in other formats. Turns out that multi stakeholder thing had merit. Who would have thought?
Thanks for the explanation. I was clearly wrong! Honestly, not sure what "better" I had expected.
I dunno. There's always a chance it's Braverman.
If you are in clinical trials, then it is not vaccine by definition.
Everyone should zoom into this image on your own because it is just absolutely amazing! I don’t care politically either way, but I’m sure/hopeful NASA’s presentation tomorrow will actually do a better job of showing just how important these visual discoveries really are.
The scenario was presented as follows:

> ABC's central bank has 10% interest rates. DEF's central bank has 1% interest rates. […] You could borrow DEF 1B, convert to ABC, earn 10% interest and then pay it back later. If the exchange rate remains fixed, that would be a risk-free return of 9%.

If you have now 100 ABC = 100 DEF you have the choice of getting in 1 year 110 ABC or 101 DEF. If ABC depreciates against DEF and in one year 1 ABC = 0.918 DEF both choices become equivalent.