skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
1. It was relevant to each comment

2. I have no reason to believe that a single comment would reach all 3 posters

3. It was exceedingly, exceedingly ironic that roughly 50% of all top level comments (at the time I wrote my comments) didn’t read and/or pay enough attention to the article when said article _explicitly_ added images of girls in yoga pants to get people to read and/or pay attention to the entire article.
Plastic is not cheap when you need it, e.g. coroplast sheets ($15 for 24"x36") or 4# closed-cell polyethylene foam ($20 for 12"x24"x0.5").
there's no way to turn it off or block it on a vlan?
All these students who aren't going to college are still going to high school. Can someone please explain to me why 13 years of education is considered barely sufficient but someone 17 years of education is considered enlightening and "well rounded."
And yet, the percentage of the population with a bachelors degree or higher isn't much different between the US and EU.
I'm not reading anyone arguing against buying anything now?
These are all quite nice, thanks for sharing. Wish I could read Swedish :P (or are these Danish? Finnish?)
It does seem petty. “I just paid for a $1000 phone with a massive markup and you mean I have to pay an extra $12 to get a decent amount of storage?” It’s not like the 99¢ gets you a terabyte; you only get 50 GB. They could just swallow the cost, but they don’t.
Also really unpopular opinion, especially on HN: Today's Universities are political machines. It is not about education anymore.
College degrees in the US are overwhelmingly not vocational in nature, they are primarily issued by liberal arts institutions. While there aren’t any legal requirements for a degree for nearly any office worker (for example), employers want formally educated workers for a variety of real operational reasons.
Who is going to care about thyroid cancer after this happens?
The most recent thing I setup in HomeAssistant + NodeRed was an automation for my front porch lights, which are connected to a Lutron Caseta switch. When my Ring doorbell detects motion at night, the lights will turn on at 31%, and stay lit for 20 minutes. However this automation won't run if the lights are already turned on at some level other than 31%. Any subsequent detected motion increases the duration so that they stay on for 20 minutes after the last detected motion.

I also use Alexa to fake lights being turned on throughout the house when I'm away for an extended period of time, so the house doesn't seem as empty. There's a HomeAssistant extension that will record normal behavior in your house, and replay it on demand, which I'm thinking about using to randomize the lights even better.
If young people are going straight into the workforce as Uber drivers or Amazon warehouse workers, I think they’re going to find liberal values even faster.
They key to bluffing, is to not say you're bluffing.
There are two cohorts who dramatically overestimate Twitter's influence and importance - tech people and journalists. Twitter really is not very important. At my non tech workplace of 800 people, I'd be surprised if 50 were active on Twitter.
This point is moot. You can think that if you want but it solves in no way the problems as described by OP. In the article, you can basically replace university with school and get the same result (perhaps at a very slightly lower level of gravity). I'm french and just went through education, the situation here is structurally the same. Buildings and furniture is shit; teacher are underpaid and overworked; tons are outright bad (missing field knowledge, missing child psychology understanding, missing basic philosophical concepts about school mission); lower management is under stress and career-oriented, higher management is short-term political and incompetent in the field, in the middle they are borderline corrupted / have mafia-like structure. This whole situation is generalized (one can even look at other public services like health or libraries which are very much taking the same path). So would you say less people should go to high-school? Or less to elementary school? Where do we stop?

Nope, imho it's pretty clear that there's an elephant in the room: public services are better run with long term stable funding (no need for tons, just what's needed) and completely independently of whatever the short term economic market incentives are. Some sprinkle of oversight from generalists and politics is good, but ffs let the people that actually do the thing decide the shape of it. I'm not telling bankers whom they should lend to. (But that's just my extremist pov /s).

ps: just to be clear, the actual acceptable part of your opinion is even acknowledged in the article, in the start of paragraph "We’re going to regret it." tldr: the current university focused on abstraction/math/erudition is stupid anyways. Yes it should go away (as a mainstream thing).
This is one of the best analogies I've heard for denoising diffusion models. I'm totally stealing this the next time my parents ask me how it works :P
> If he gets caught cheating on an online game, whether it is chess.com or counterstrike, who cares?

Chess.com isn’t the yahoo chess web app or whatever, there’s more at stake there than “gamerscore”. Some of these 100 games were in online tournaments for cash prizes.

Just because it wasn’t a FIDE run tournament doesn’t mean it doesn’t matter or that no one cares. The chess.com Pro Chess League they suggest he cheated in 12 games of had a $100,000 prize fund.
Doctors is a good example of people who don't need college. In Europe they go right to med school from HS. And nobody seems to think their docs are any worse than ours.
he sure is dedicated, but I wouldn't say he makes stuff better
On a more topical theme (related to Russia) NAFO [1] also has a wikipedia page

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NAFO_(group)
I'm not aware of tensor shape type safety (in general) being widely used in deep learning, let alone sum-types. I believe Pytorch and TensorFlow lack support for tensor shape type checking (looks like there is a Pytorch issue open: https://github.com/pytorch/pytorch/issues/26889).
> Everyone gets that he represents the brutality of the justice system.

I mean, The Author Is Dead; this is a fair interpretation. But I'm skeptical that the kinds of police who put a Punisher skull on their uniforms feel this is some kind of Full-Metal-Jacket-duality-of-man commentary as opposed to just fantasizing about murdering [who they imagine to be] criminals.
It's not math. I've been asked about a purchase while exiting a shop. If they wanted to know why I didn't buy X, they would find out. (or specifically why I bought Y and not X, which covers the missing feature)

I'm happy to give those out for free: I didn't buy oneplus 6t, because it's missing the audio back. <- that wasn't impossible.
We don't need more low skill workers. We need more doctors, more nurses, more medical technicians, we need more plumbers, more electricians, more software developers, more engineers, and more teachers teaching all these things.

In addition to universities sucking more we've also scaled back on training people throughout the economy. Heck, we're running out of pilots for airplanes and there's no plan to train more.

We've got a hungry generation of young adults with desire to do more but society hasn't provided the means for them to succeed. We failed to invest in the future.
This piece makes a lot of assertions. Some of them are familiar, but citations or more rigorous argument would be helpful.

I suppose that the form of this argument itself could be mimicking the anti-intellectualism that the article decries, much like the acknowledged use of the stock photos to attract&retain attention.
There is also a fast growing collective of students who see how useless an expensive degree can get. They fear the debt that hangs over so many graduates heads.

I do not think this trend will correct post-zoom. I think this is the beginning of a long education winter, at least until the education market can prove actual value instead of certified bullshit printed on $100 bills
https://archive.ph/mBEXx
Yeah but were is the profit in that. Community college doesn’t enrich anyone
Masks and Respirators. We had stockpiles of expired equipment.
I mean my iphone 6 already got shit battery so i kinda have this feature of it being charged the whole day, haha
Show HN: Internet Protocol
My entire point is that even outside of FSD this is a scenario a base model Corolla has the technology to handle: AEB

You don't actively engage AEB, at the kinds of low speeds involved AEB would have engaged and at least helped stop the car.

This was traffic that was going maybe 20 mph, and the car still hit me solidly enough for my car to lurch forward and almost hit the one in front of me

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But as an aside, this is why Tesla's "Full Self Driving" shouldn't be on the market: It is always human error.

Even if FSD was enabled (I hope it wasn't) it'd be the human's fault for not reacting.
So how do we know they had a recession? If the definition its only a recession if NBER says so you would have to assert that they did not. Have historians have been disseminating Russian disinformation for centuries?
Agreed, but the era of MAD (Mutually Assured Destruction) deterrent principle has come to an end.

Until very recently, everyone agreed that nuclear weapons could not be used because the outcome would be that everyone is destroyed.

Putin has ended that era because appears unconcerned by the prospect of MAD.

MAD only works if all sides agree that they do not want to be destroyed. Putin appears to not care.

So, the equation has changed and we all need to rethink the new equations. It may be as simple as - "there will be a nuclear war because a madman has the keys and is willing to press the button".
Eric Schmidt talks about this phenomenon hapoening at one of his old companies Novell. Middle managers who gatekeep resources or communication between teams to make themselves indispensable. Ed Catmull also describes hiring a large number of middle managers when scalung Pixar up for Toy Story 2. Schmidts solution (he claims) is to simply identify and fire these people.
> The difference might not matter much if you are using power from the wall, but if you are charging off a battery bank you want as much efficiency as you can--you don't want to waste power!

Wireless power banks are already a thing, and they're great because you don't have to mess around with cables. For those of you not using iPhones, they support standard Qi charging as well as faster and more efficient MagSafe charging.

I care about wireless charging efficiency as much as I care about plug-in USB charging efficiency, which is not a lot. If wireless charging is half as efficient, it's costing me a couple bucks extra per year.
Not sure this would be Russia's rationale behind starting an exchange considering how much they would benefit from global warming through the unlocking of farmland and livable territory.

And likewise, not sure it would favor the United States all that much either since 1/8th of our landmass is in Alaska. It'd probably be a wash for the US but certainly Russia has no reason to use nuclear weapons to halt or reverse global warming.

I could see this conspiracy theory being slightly more believable for an exchange between India and Pakistan, though. And by slightly, I mean only mildly less laughable.
> These ads are in the public space without any consultation about what is shown on them.

> This would also apply to the sides of buses, and on the London Underground and other rail and metro systems

This is a good point. The other arguments were much less persuasive.
I'm not clear on why you have such a negative take on the response to the pandemic in general. I thought the speed of development and delivery of the mRNA vaccines was nothing short of unprecedented. A lot of things went wrong, but drug development and delivery wasn't one of them IMO.
How many of these jobs will be left in 50 years due to automation? 100? The capital required to automate a lot of these jobs is declining and wages are rising, at some point they're going to intersect.

It seems disingenuous to say, on the one hand, "tech is going to disrupt industries and people just need to deal with it" but on the other hand "education to acquire higher skills should be restricted to the elite few."
> If COVID taught us anything, the government is going to let these drugs expire useless, incinerate them, refuse to replenish them, and import loads of fakes when an actual crisis hits.

What are you referring to? The US vaccine development, production, and distribution went quite well, all things considered. I remember the loudest complaint being that we weren’t giving away enough of our supply to other countries.
It's funny that you consider the biggest threat to "conservatism" is an educated population.
I've had this thought before, that high school should be good enough to not require higher education. However I think as I've grown older I recognize that public education in the US primarily serves as day care and secondarily as an education. This is why schools have gifted programs, some students are there to learn and they are encouraged to go as far as they can, but some students are just there because its compulsory. I don't have a solution, just an observation.
I agree with your assessment but also think with the size of this plane it is a good candidate for the parachute system some planes already have. Maybe making that a requirement is a good middle ground.
Where did I mention anything related to the pandemic?
Good point, I should have emphasized that it can be perfectly clean, but it often sounds like it's missing something, so it's usually made dirtier afterwards.

I just wonder if the reason it sounds like it's missing something is because subtle noise and saturation sound objectively better to human ears, or if it's just because that's the precedent that's been set and we've grown fond of it. Early music was recorded to tape by necessity, and the digital era tries to bring those subtle distortions back to sound like it. Even a teen who has never listened to older music recorded to tape still listens to modern music that tries to sound like it was recorded to tape or passed through saturating transformers.

I think the uptick of intentional digital artifacts in music shows that we grow fond of what we're used to experiencing, even if it's considered a negative in an objective sense. But we can't ever really prove that without a separate society that somehow skipped the entire analog music (or film) era.

Also yeah Skrillex really breaks all the typical rules but his mixes sound fantastic (or garbage, depending on your opinion. His stuff is really divisive). The hosts of The Mastering Show podcast thought his youtube video was fake because of how much saturation and limiting he uses. I'm pretty certain it's totally real.
I have a preference towards Germany (I did a short-term project working on research at a university there recently), but would be open to somewhere else as well.

My grades from my undergraduate program are good (4.0/4.0 GPA); it's possible my grades could decrease a bit, but I don't expect them to drop significantly in the future (although you never know).

I really do want to learn CS better; I think the opportunity to do that would be good. But the expense / opportunity cost is high enough that it does seem like more of an economic question of "will this help me get a better job?", which there doesn't seem to be a good answer to.

> At least where I am, the level of CS teaching in Universities is not as good as in the US (at least my limited sample of known people/universities).

Would you mind saying where that is? (I can email also if you don't want to here)
Does that make sense to you? You read that and think Oh yes obviously, brilliant, why not adorn the article with images of 'girls in yoga pants' given fake names and paper thin characters to explain something completely unrelated to girls (specifically) or yoga 'pants', yes, you have my attention, that makes perfect sense?
"Acceptable" range is short - they're not really trying to compete with planes, but with other modes of transport.
This very topic is a vivid counter example to that claim
Have you people actually taken a basic statistics course that doesn't require calculus? They are all about memorizing formulas that you plug numbers in to calculate different statistical measures, they don't teach you to understand anything at all.

We teach students calculus at that age since teaching them statistics is basically a dead end, we teach statistics to those poor students who will need to calculate statistical measures without understanding them but we should not force every kid to suffer through that boring thing. Calculus is way more interesting, since kids can easily understand it and you can derive all results on your own, statistics is just plug and chug, much worse than calculus ever could be since students aren't ready for it yet.
A side question: how does one plan urban surviving? I'm sure even a nuclear war won't wipe out any of the major governments out there so stability would be re-established maybe in a few weeks. But the initial chaos could be deadly to whoever survived the initial blast.

Does anyone know where to hide if sirens sound?
> But I really wish there were an HTML-native way to load <template> from separate files

Seems like the JS folks blocked this from happening. It's weird to me to think we've arrived at the point where JS considerations have come to dominate for something that was built to be a document sharing platform.
Yes - I have two t420s and one t420 and they all have 16gb ram, sata ssd, plus 2tb HDD in ultrabay. Love those machines!

(I also have a t25 as my main daily work and personal laptop, and couple of other thinkpads in various states of setup :).
>if they have literal screenshots of the discussions between Niemann and chess.com admitting to cheating

Screenshots are easy enough to fake perfectly that if I didn't trust a party to give an honest summary of the discussion and (as in the current stake) thousands of dollars or more is at stake, then I wouldn't trust screenshots either.
Here's the response I half wrote before:

GPT (and many other modern NLP models) use byte-pair encoding. Your summary of the benefits of this is correct - it can deal novel words much better.

Byte-pair encoding (BPE) is better than character encoding because it can deal with unicode (and emojis).

CLIP uses a BPE encoding of the vocabulary: The transformer operates on a lower-cased byte pair encoding (BPE) representation of the text with a 49,152 vocab size

So strictly this vocabulary is NOT (just) words, it is common sequences of byte pairs. You can see this if you examine the vocabulary - you'll find things like "tive" which isn't a word but is a very common English suffix.
My point is that the political imperative leads politicians on both ends to take on many unfunded liabilities without planning for continuity or completion. I'm hoping that the extended storage for this is well accounted for and immunized against the whims of the next administration.
Hey Craig! Is this an eager dupe?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33088216

:)
I like re-watching movies that I enjoy. I don't need to pay too much attention because I already know the story and often I notice new details while watching.

At the very least, I know it'll be a good movie instead of taking a gamble with an unknown quantity.
It's time to replace TCP in the Datacenter
What does everybody think here of C#? I've just made foray into it and I like it a lot compared to Python, Java etc. It almost feels like Kotlin, but with certain even cooler properties.
(other things to note:

- for the bitcoin transaction, you should do this from a machine or VM running Tor system wide.

- for the EVM transactions, you can do this from the Tor machine as well, but also consider running your own node because in EVMs the nodes do not know which node saw a transaction first. Whereas using a remote note such as Infura or Alchemy has lots of records. Most of the Ethereum stack is Javascript heavy so this undermines the desire to use Tor browsers and operating systems, but it doesn't really require Javascript, thats just what the communities built. It is tricky (but not impossible) to run an Ethereum node over Tor, as the default behavior is that the protocol cannot find the other nodes - but once it does it can download blocks just fine, so either tunnel or hardcode some nodes to connect to. But remote nodes over API connected via Tor may fit your use case well enough. Just things to be conscious of.)
yes but in August 15, 1971 the US stopped using the gold standard.

Ever since then when the Fed needs more money they just printed it.

Reminds me of that scene in Douglas Adams Hitchhiker Guide to the Galaxy

"“Thank you. Since we decided a few weeks ago to adopt the leaf as legal tender, we have, of course, all become immensely rich. [...]

"But we have also," continued the management consultant, "run into a small inflation problem on account of the high level of leaf availability, which means that, I gather, the current going rate has something like three deciduous forests buying on ship's peanut." [...]
"

One wonders when the defoliation stage is going to hit.
Thanks for this comment - answered a lot of my questions
NFO is the National Farmer's Organization, a producerist movement founded in the United States in 1955.

Perhaps you're thinking of NeWS?
>"We don't see any practical evidence today in the U.S. intelligence community that he's moving closer to actual use, that there's an imminent threat of using tactical nuclear weapons," CIA director William Burns told CBS News Monday.

is different than

"that is not a train used by the nuclear organization, they are not moving weapons, etc "

He specifically does not address the claim. Which to me, is a red flag of lying by omission.

Personally, I never took the initial story super seriously, and view articles like this suspiciously.