skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Should VC and other businesses rate those who go to the lowest cost public universities highest?

From a business perspective, who is more intelligent, the person who pays $350,000 to get a degree from Harvard or Colombia (regardless of if they get grants or don't pay because of income levels), or if someone purposefully goes to something like in California public universities where residents can go to a local community college for 2 years to get the general education out of the way either for free (parents make less than about $40K/year) up costs to about $2000 or so for 2 years, then go to California State University where tuition is $11,500 for 2 years, and get a degree for about $13,000-ish for 4 years. Room and board - you can go to a university in your area for free if you live with parents. If not, there are many super inexpensive areas in California, believe it or not. You can get a share rentals for $400/month. Not the big metro areas, of course, but places like Bakersfield, Humbolt, Fresno, Stanislaus, Chico state universities.

Didn't someone who got a business degree for $13,000 show better business skills than someone who paid $350,000 for essentially the same exact thing? Same thing, because take macro-economics, for example. Let's get real. How much better is an macro-ecomics class going to be at Harvard than any other low-cost public university, or a community college? There's no way Harvard students in that class are going to learn that much more. A community college can even use the same exact textbook as Harvard for their students.

Getting a degree for the lowest amount possible should be the very first criteria to evaluate anyone you are going to hire, or person whose company a VC is going to fund. If someone pays $350,000 for a 4 year degree when they could have gone to a public university where the public pays for part of the educational costs, those $350,000 tuition people are not qualified for making business decisions. Stanford grads...good bye. Harvard or other ivy leagues...see ya.

Also, everyone knows you go to those schools for "contacts" so that's not an argument. I'm talking about when a business evaluates a prospective hire or a VC company funding a person, not "contacts".

What do you think? Is the person paying $350,000 for a business degree, or $13,000 for a business degree - which decision is a better business decision, given that two people are about the same in talent?
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Private funerals and a multi day, country wide state funeral procession are just not comparable.
They've also got a rather nice API - https://api.met.no/weatherapi/documentation // https://api.met.no/weatherapi/locationforecast/2.0/

In particular, I like the detailed info on clouds:

<time datatype="forecast" from="2022-09-13T00:00:00Z" to="2022-09-13T00:00:00Z">
<location altitude="986" latitude="45" longitude="90">
<temperature id="TTT" unit="celsius" value="8.9"></temperature>
<windDirection id="dd" deg="353.8" name="N"></windDirection>
<windSpeed id="ff" mps="10.6" beaufort="5" name="Frisk bris"></windSpeed>
<humidity unit="percent" value="55.5"></humidity>
<pressure id="pr" unit="hPa" value="1020.1"></pressure>
<cloudiness id="NN" percent="78.9"></cloudiness>
<fog id="FOG" percent="0.0"></fog>
<lowClouds id="LOW" percent="0.0"></lowClouds>
<mediumClouds id="MEDIUM" percent="46.9"></mediumClouds>
<highClouds id="HIGH" percent="64.1"></highClouds>
<dewpointTemperature id="TD" unit="celsius" value="0.5"></dewpointTemperature>
</location>
</time>

The difference e between low, medium, and high clouds is useful for deciding "where may there be a good sunset?" Most other services just offer the general "cloudiness".
It was available on IOS. Why would non-users on IOS be an argument for the power of capital to diminish other platforms?
or not to be
Sounds like you and I have similar reactions to marijuana. From “that smells great” to “I’m talking, but I can’t remember what I was going to say” in just three tokes.

What I’ve come to understand though is that for many other people, marijuana makes them feel great - sharp, alert, at ease and in control. I can empathize with the idea that “this can’t be bad!” even while acknowledging you’d have to be very deluded to smoke anything or consume any psychoactive drug while pregnant just because definitive proof of harm is lacking.
Google is a well-known retirement home. But their earlier teams built money printing products. So it's fine. It's a little distribution of money from capital holders to workers (wealthy workers but workers nonetheless). That's all right.

Anyway, article mentioned that it could be things like slow dev tools etc. But ultimately it appears cultural.
If you attract enough people your rent will be less. Attract people means someone comes to go to you and then visits other stores. If you can get husbands to go shopping with their wives (the sexism implied here is at least part based on reality, though I make no claim this example is the right thing to focus on)
The thing is that behind the scenes it's just all really hashtables, so while all that that pointless dynamism is expensive computationally it's also "free" from an implementation PoV, so that's what people do. And then later optimize with caching dispatch tables, etc. etc.

Honestly I'm surprised after all these years that there hasn't been any success getting serious hardware support for the kinds of dynamic dispatch tables used in late bound languages. Like hardware accelerated string hash tables, etc.
I wasn't claiming that they're literally ponzi schemes. Clearly they're sanctioned by law, obviously I wasn't arguing otherwise.

I was simply using "ponzi scheme" in the more casual, euphemistic sense of "skeevy unsustainable scheme that will screw people over".

And like I said, I don't believe all pension schemes to be dishonest/poorly executed. Some are just fine. But many are sloppy and poorly managed. A few are even so poorly managed to an extent that I'd say it borders on fraud, if not legally, at least morally. (I don't think that's common, necessarily; I think most mismanaged pension plans are entered into with the best of intentions.)

> Taxpayers and pensioners are not investors. They are people who want to live a descent life.

I'm not blaming them. They're victims of this poor management.

https://www.pewtrusts.org/en/research-and-analysis/issue-bri...

This article paints a rosy outlook. And indeed, it's good news overall. But 35 state pensions meeting their goals means that 15 aren't. That's worth criticism.
> not use CI/CD

That is ludicrously bad advice. Setting up a straightforward CI/CD pipeline can take a couple hours and it instantly provides huge productivity benefits.

I worked for a startup that didn't have an automated deploy pipeline and didn't have any tests. It was a complete shit show from day 1, and I will never work for that chaotic of an environment again.

I am certainly not for over-engineering early in a company's lifecycle, but there are simple, "table stakes" things like use of SCM, automated builds and CI/CD pipeline. If I don't see those I assume your engineering team doesn't know how to build software fast.
I periodically reread this post to remind myself of the communication overhead involved when scaling an org. People love to model headcount and work capacity linearly but it just never works out that way (and Coda explains why).
Well, most of the other factors were pretty agreeable, with marijuana being a somewhat surprising result.
Apparently it is many times faster on a 16GB M1 Mac. It was taking >5 minutes to render at 512x512 on my 8GB M1.

According to others, it’s about a minute or less with 16GB.
Something western governments always wanted to achieve, but for some reasons they kept demonizing China for doing it, good luck implementing it there, the people will reject it, violently, as a result of your demonization, or can we say jealousy? they don't want to admit that was a great idea?

The US did it secretly with the NSA tough
I agree, but ability to code well may help you to guide others. In case that you can code, you may create diagrams as well. You can also create presentations from code. You can point out what is important to solve given problem and use code as example, show some diagrams that describes given process, describe facts and knowledge that you used to solve this problem.

I still like to code, but today I do it mostly in form of some kind of presentations, this might be informal presentation for developers/operations for given use case, this might be presentation describing deployment/infrastructure/architecture, but in general purpose is to guide less experienced engineers to use efficient methods of solving problems instead of just smashing code together.

Based on my experience, communication barriers are biggest issue in big corporations and it's crucial to communicate your knowledge to others in approachable way, even if solution is technically not optimal. It's described so it can be improved later. However sophisticated solution that is not documented, may technically work better, but it's maintenance nightmare.

Has anyone ever liked situation, where you get alert about production incident and you have no idea how to fix it, because you don't understand what happened? This is a people problem, not technical problem, because you cannot understand everything and either someone will explain system to you or you may have no idea how to react. People that understand people problems will ensure that there's always proper documentation and processes to follow, so no-one is stuck. Technical master will create greatest technical solution, but eventually systems fail and that's where the problem begins, if others don't really understand them.
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I disagree. I think there is a lot of misinformation flooding the nets and the news, and this is provably true. Psychosis is a pretty obvious condition, and it was not difficult to observe psychosis thousands of years ago. Cannabis has been in wide global use since at least 8000BC, and yet... there just historically aren't enough crazy people for this to remotely pass the stiff test.
That might even turn British communists into royalists. He'd be the English Juan Carlos I.
Yeah and why not entire Commonwealth then?
It's super important to note that many of the people being arrested and otherwise lead away are not attending a funeral. That's 6 days away. Some have been at processions and that might be distasteful. Grossly offensive or abusive though?

Whatever your view on those cases, many of these interactions have happened at proclamations and just in public places, well away from the Queen. One shouldn't be threatened with imprisonment for peacefully airing their personal views.

You defend it all like it's one horrific thing that needs to be stopped, and I find that far more distasteful than anything any of these people have said.
Yeah that bit is definitely a stretch. I was debating whether I should go as far as making that statement as well.

Its gets the point across but certainly a stretch. We are neither applications nor is the convention well-defined in that example, but the point stands.
I wasn’t aware of that but it doesn’t surprise me given some of the other image intelligence stuff Google has had that Apple is slowly catching up on like recognizing animals/objects.

Already it’s saved me a bunch of time numerous times.
Really? Most food products I see, even processed ones, don't have trans fats.

What foods do you buy that do?
the last 2-3 generations of cpus and gpus have seen the most innovation, efficiency, and performance gains in a long time.

If you don't want to drive a 5l truck, don't drive one, but 500W is not an average load, and if you have high electricity costs thats a you problem not an everyone else problem.

The largest parts of my electrical bill are distribution and overhead charges that don't change whether I use power or not. The marginal utility of the power vs the cost is quite reasonable.
Anandamide receptors. They don't only respond to weed- cannabis happens to be the only plant we know of that produces large amounts of THC or CBD. Anandamide is a chemical our body makes to stimulate those receptors "endogenously" (IE, for its own inner working). The purpose of anandamide receptors is still quite cryptic, or rather, I would say fairly subtle- it seems to "enhance the experience of pleasure in response to reward".
After a feature branch is merged, its content is candidate for any bisect.

If the branch was squashed, bisecting will be less effective, compared to the same branch, merged without squashing (at the conditions of the commits being self-standing).
The number of hours I have seen developers spend on things related to CI/CD is vast.

Kill CI/CD with fire for the sake of speed.

"Craptacular development mindset" is needed.
I don't think there are any researchers saying marijuana is anything but beneficial. It's every day people. Same thing for psychedelics. There was a thread on LSD the other day and I had to point out twice that HPPD happens as a result, and is a disorder that can cause significant mental distress. Honestly I think it only does a disservice to the cause to make claims like that
That arrest happened on Saturday during the proclamation ceremony, the coffin only arrived yesterday (Sunday).
> In what legal sense is the YouTuber with the pug less protected by the "art form"

The rules are different for regular plebs, that's as simple as that. And the lesson is that everyone should know their place.
I'm building a tool called Elm Story (https://elmstory.com) that exports to JSON. It's in early access.

https://gitlab.com/elmstorygames/schemas/-/blob/master/0.7.0...
https://archive.ph/LQJHu
Many of the discussions today sound similar to the ones I read about during the advent of earlier creative leaps – which I think merely serves to highlight the importance of this advancement. However, I do still remember plenty of the discussions around DTP and the computerisation of various creative industries. The themes are similar, while some benefits are lost and many are gained - some people are fixated on what is lost, while forgetting that we're growing the field rather than forcing others to abandon the craft. It is, after all, just another tool.

Which brings me to a topic which seems to never go out of fashion: Purism/Conservatism.

Like most discussions that are centred in conservatism/purism, there's always a thread of hypocrisy, because this type of person will use themselves as the golden benchmark to what is acceptable.

To use an example: a purist painter of earlier times might shun the modern purist painter for the simple act of purchasing pre-made paints. They might bemoan that they didn't make their own pigments and mix up their own paints.

So while this online art community might ban AI work, it merely an action that excludes themselves. AI opens the door to many who otherwise wouldn't have the capability of producing beautiful pieces, just as digital painting did, and the number of those people will be larger than current # of digital painters. They should have just made a subcategory on their website for AI and used it to bring new relevance to their platform.
Eh, it's an ugly truth and my examples could have been less extreme.

Various circuit courts have different tests for what constitutes a true threat versus legal free speech, some of which can be found here[1].

For example, here's the 2nd Circuit's opinion:

> a true threat is “on its face and in the circumstances in which it is made is so unequivocal, unconditional, immediate, and specific as to the person threatened, as to convey a gravity of purpose and imminent prospect of execution.”

[1] https://mtsu.edu/first-amendment/article/1025/true-threats
AI Art dataset sourcing: It’s About the Jobs
What I'm saying is that it sounds naive to think you will be the same person in one year, let alone a decade and to think that your interests won't change.

We've got only one life, and as much as I like programming and engineering, and fp, maths, logic I really hope life has also other things to show me and enrich me, and I hope I moved my interests elsewhere in a decade.
> So it seems that you're agreeing that a bike costs 1x to 5x more than a car, if commute times are held constant, and housing is considered, correct? This was my only point, that, if you calculate the math in a wholistic way, a bike is not cheaper.

No, I don't agree. Because I believe that the relationship between drive time and cycle time is not usually directly proportional - see my point about 20min commutes.

I'm serious. It's peak drive time and I just put a 30min drive into google maps (4pm right now) and it gets you 12-15km from downtown depending on where you put the pin. That's around 30-35min by ebike. Add a few minutes to walk from the parking lot (we haven't even talked about parking costs) and you're describing the same distance.

All in all we're trying to make an apples to handgrenades comparison here - you can't hold everything else constant and live in two different places. My point is cycling is cheaper for many distances, less time consuming for short distances, and has plenty of fringe benefits. It does require spending more on housing to live closer to where you work, which if that's the city center, may end up either being more expensive overall, or requiring you to live in a smaller home. If you want to live near the city center, that might end up being worth it when you consider all the factors. If you want to live outside the city, it's probably not going to be worth it - in which case I'd urge you to live somewhere suburban but with a good transit system since our planet can't actually sustain this much driving anymore.
Not quite. ML algorithms that continuously crunch billions of data points don't need to be called "genius", they're simply way more exhaustive in their search of optimums than "a vague idea from a regular person on the Internet that the best reaction to such situation is to do x" (with absolutely zero evidence to show for it of course).
Is it going to be one of this discussion where people speak of Cromwell while pretending the USA and France don’t exist? Just asking.
people forget that art is something unique to the artist.

you can't have another van gogh by reproducing van gogh paintings.

reproducing van gogh painting will teach you a lot about art.

but once you become good, you develop your own flair / style.

and that's what makes art great, the infinite possibilities.

it's the same reason, we tend to overlook countless paintings of trees
done by street artists unless the style is so unique and
evokes our emotions by beauty or novelty.

for that reason alone - I will go against the grain and
say AI art won't push artists out of jobs
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I used cannabis heavily for a significant portion of my life, participated in cannabusinesses over a decade ago, dealt it, etc... Also glad this research is being done. Pot is not purely evil or good. It's a complex stew of chemicals with varying effects on various people at various stages of their development. We need to continue to understand its effects while being cautious about promoting its use.
All those counterexamples are open platforms which get tinkered with to no end. Meanwhile, it's the apple platforms that get more and more restrictions per year.
Yep, I’m using a 500w psu to power my gaming pc with a rtx 3060 ti and a 12700k cpu
Well this is just ridiculous. What makes me a senior engineer is I convinced someone to call me that for my job title. That's it - that's 100% the distinction. It has never had the slightest apparent impact on what I wind up actually doing.
I saw a reporter claiming they are being arrested for their own protection
It depends on what you mean by "art".

There's different sorts of art for different purposes (commercial, fine, etc.), and for many of these sorts of art having an AI make it would be acceptable.

But when I think "art" without a qualifier, I think "fine art". And the purpose of fine art, for me, is human communication of ephemeral things that aren't possible to communicate in language.

I don't want AI generated fine art because it turns the art into just a pretty picture. It's no longer about another person communicating something significant and human to me. It removes its purpose for existing.

In that view, I totally understand why some art communities would ban AI-generated art. I don't see a problem with it. I'm sure other communities will not ban such art. That's fine, too.

But I know which community I would be more interested in paying attention to.
When the criticism boils down to "you aren't doing what we tell you to do," or "I don't approve what you do with your body," then, oh, no, when directed towards women by men this is nothing less than misogyny, and denying it doesn't cut the mustard. Leave women alone, and then we'll know you're not a misogynist. Otherwise, the descriptor fits.
Isn't the boundary of "more than it needs to be" precisely the source of the disagreement?
>> Paste the URL of an OpenAPI spec below, and we'll show you example code for calling any of your APIs.

> Paste a URL containing a OpenAPI yaml file...

>> JSON.parse: unexpected character at line 1 column 1 of the JSON data

YAML or JSON ?
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It is because humans have an irrational tendency towards sycophancy. This was true throughout both the Obama and Trump administrations and before them.

Better to direct that impulse towards a dignified institution that does nothing but attract tourists and occasionally signal society’s values than towards something that tries to have efficient and lethal decision-making power.
History did not start in 1913. Income is not an asset, they have been two different things for longer than the United States has existed as a country. Most governments in recorded history have managed to exist without taxing income.

It would in fact be better live in a country with financial privacy where assets form the tax base instead of income. In terms of convincing the public, I think time will do the former and education the later.
Agreed, maybe it was great in some places but in SoCal it was always wrong.
Sarcasm is not actually correct. An ECS is not an RDBMS, because in the latter is based on row-based storage, while the former is column-based.

The storage part of ECSs could actually be considered a form of columnar db.

For example, locking is at column level, so you can have as many mutable accesses to a single entity (like a row) as there are columns (in reality, it's more complicated, due to access via iterators, but that's the principle).