skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Trying to imply that Greens on the city council can stop police from murdering their own constituents is also silly. They don't hire the cops, and meaningful reform of PD department's ends up being the voters job since it's usually ballot measures.

Consider that in places like Portland where city government and local people are openly hostile to the cops, the cops are simply quiet quitting. Despite having the budget to hire hundreds of new cops, literally no one applies to work in Portland.

Thus, if your desire is to get cops to stop murdering, you really should vote for the Democrats or greens or whatever. The issue is that the cops just through a massive hissy fit to punish you, the voter, for trying to bring in a safer society.

I was just in South Korea. The cops there are not empowered. Their police stations are usually the most ghetto looking buildings in their community. I could get a cop to look for my lost bags if I needed it, because that's their role in society there. South Korea is one of the safest societies on earth.

Do we have the same structural factors as south Koreans? No, but demilitarized police can still be effective. Luckily hippy blue cities tend to have low violent crime...
This feels similar to the fallacy that startups have to be venture funded and huge unicorns to be successful. Of course that’s not the only way and there are tons of indie, bootstrapped, or other types of businesses that are built successfully.

I think founders who can break out of traditional thinking, following trends, and can be creative and flexible in hiring are good bets to win in the long run.
> regurgitate content (as opposed to essays that teach writing skills or critical thinking, which remain valuable).

Thanks for the clarification.

That said, Devil's Advocate here...

But isn't "regurgitate content" a writing skill? That be all still quite a bit? Don't they have to walk before they can run (i.e., fine-tuning communication skills)?

Regurgitation essays are graded, and that produces a bell curve of quality, doesn't that indicate the skill is a skill worth recognizing? Isn't the lack of such a simple skill indicative of something in a student?

I agree that critical thinking is essential. It's something too few of us seem to have. But aren't these essays the gateway to that next step? That is, if you can't be critical of your own ideas, and their organization and presentation, are you truly ready to move on to next level lessons in critical thinking?

Put another way, if it were math, why teach addition and subtraction? Why not just move on to calculus? Or higher?
You seem to be equating "home ownership" with single-family detached homes, but that is not what the term means -- you can own an apartment flat as well, it's called a condo.
Really terrible headline for a totally decent article.

The Garth Brooks solution is super interesting.

> He adds shows until they no longer sell out. In recent years, on single tours, Brooks has done the following: He played nine concerts in a row in Edmonton, Canada. He played a dozen shows in Chicago. He played six in Kansas, nine in Tulsa, and eight in Denver.

I'm wondering how many shows he does in total per tour compared to other artists. It seems likely to me that he wouldn't be able to visit as many locations which still results in some fans not being able to see him.
The CI has absolutely nothing whatsoever to do with consciousness. The CI view is simply "when a quantum system interacts with a measurement device, the wave function of the quantum system changes to one of some subset of real values, with a probability given by the modulus of the amplitude of that value in the wave function". Exactly what constitutes a measurement apparatus is undefined, but it certainly doesn't involve a human.

In fact, it is precisely the MWI that requires human observers for its explanations, at least to some extent, as it makes the entire notion of a classical world a fiction that only exists inside your own head because you are the one that's getting entangled with a quantum system. Any probability you compute in MWI is relative to you personally, since in MWI any possible event happens with probability 1 when checking at the universe level.
Most jobs in the real world don’t benefit from social cleverness. They don’t even offer the opportunity to schmooze with the boss. They are: “Drive this exact route and deliver boxes, within a time precision of plus or minus 30 seconds.” and “Repeat this physical motion on this part 7000 times while keeping yield over 99%.” and “Ensure TPS reports are filled out exactly using the correct template and are on Lumbergh’s desk every Friday morning 8:30.” I would argue the repetition, rule-following and drudgery of school adequately prepares workers for this adulthood.
> … paying down debt with an interest rate over inflation.

In a stagflation scenario though, wouldn’t paying down debt on any vehicle carrying a rate over what you can yield on the market still net out better for you overall?
Red Hat Releases a Virtual Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop on AWS
With local stuff you can lose it. With cloud you will lose it eventually if it's dependent on any form of SaaS that you don't control.
The problem with dynamic pricing and scalping is that it further divides people by income. Music and culture should be something that brings people together.

I'd like to see a progressive pricing system that somehow forces richer people to subsidize cheaper tickets for poor people.
Is Marc Anthony a descendent of Mark Antony?
Disrupting Sag-Aftra
Are there startups looking to disrupt SAG-AFTRA / other actor's unions? What would be the rationale to disrupt or not disrupt?
Not your property, the aristocracy's property. Cops don't work for peasants.
What I find interesting is that this seems to be an obscure philosophical thought experiment, but it's actually highly political and turns up all the time on, say, Twitter. Specifically, how do you compare "factual knowledge" and "lived experience", and which is more important, and who is the "expert" on things.

To make this concrete, consider expertise on England. Suppose Prof. Smith has never been to England, but has studied it in detail for decades. And suppose Mr. Chav has grown up in England, but is uneducated and isn't even sure who is the Prime Minister. Who is "allowed" to talk about England? Smith, who knows all the facts, or Chav who lives there and knows what it's like? Can Smith tell Chav that he's wrong about England, or does Chav's lived experience matter? (I'm using England as a less controversial example, but this usually happens in discussions of race or gender.)
What is to make of the overlap between institutional goals and those of individuals?

We live in a time where people are developing institutional abstractions as their civil bedrock. How can we reasonably differentiate institutions that are fundamentally man-made from the men who are the means of the institution’s goals?
Airbnb also makes it difficult to rate someone poorly without being rated poorly yourself. You get almost no recourse if you do get a bad review.
It was pretty common when I started writing papers in school up till maybe 10th grade? I've never heard it as "classic 5-paragraph" but as "1-3-1 format." After 10th grade we introduced bringing in counter arguments.
How does voluntary dna registering intended to protect kids with data held by the state relate to Google collecting data involuntarily from people and using it for commercial purposes?

I don’t think the issue is with dna and face data existing. It’s that Google is scooping it up and selling it that is the problem.
Ubuntu’s New Terminal Ad Is Angering Users
> in the last 18 months I've substantially increased the % of net worth I'm comfortable allocating to a home, reflected in both purchase price

And in the past 18 months, the changes to interest rates mean that your budget on a standard 30 year fixed has shrunk by 40%. That is, the same payments will get you 40% less house at 20% down. To make up for that, you would have to increase both your down payment and monthly rates by 66% to afford the same dollar value as a year ago.
> Doesn't that require the universe to have been carefully set up to look as if it's acting in a weird non-local way, on an experiment-by-experiment basis?

Yes. That is a big reason why most physicists do not favor superdeterminism.
Summary in greentext style:

> Article about differences between 2 cultures.

> Describes foreign word as sounding like it could be describing a bodily fluid.

Well done Sarah W!
Nice, that's looking good
Sounds like FED policy is doing its thing, then.
That's a cultural (your?) problem (as well as the other responses) and not excluded per se by remote. Some people seem to be more shy virtually, for others it is the other way round?
WFH being very limited doesn't reflect the situation I'm seeing at the moment. Over half my team have been hired since WFH was introduced, almost all of them live too far away for commuting more than occasionally to be an option. One of them even got it written into his job offer that he has to do at most 1 day a month in office and he gets paid travel expenses.

Apple and Google might be able to pull it off but run of the mill non-unicorn companies? Not convinced.
I was thinking the same thing. I'm wondering if the price differences are reflecting a general demand for certain sizes? When I was maintaining AWS servers, I don't think it would have been easy for me to take advantage of spot prices that were outside of the sizes I was already using. I'd tuned things such that I knew the sizes I tended to need to have the redundancy I needed, and then could auto scale when necessary. Which means, I would never have bid on spot instances that were bigger than what I needed, because it would have been way more complicated to analyze the state of the system as a whole and make sure scaling happened when it needed to. Which also introduces risk that probably was never worth the savings. So if you had a lot of people like me, you'd get m3.large (or whatever current naming) as the thing that gets bid up the most, because it hit an autoscaling sweet spot
There is a need for solutions on several levels here:

1. Quick, tactical. The most obvious fix would be for AI companies offering web access to LLMs to simply make searchable all the text they generated, ideally via an API so aggregator services can index and locate text given samples of it. If you pay enough (corporate/enterprise subscriptions etc), your output doesn't get indexed. Students would be forced to find LLM services that don't do this but there likely won't be that many, as offering such services for free is expensive.

2. Classroom changes. Force students to record their screen as they work on the essay, so teachers can see as it gets typed out. Of course again, some students can overcome this barrier, but it's about raising the bar.

3. Changes of approach. The hardest fix but ultimately the only solution. Students are forced to write arbitrary essays ultimately due to a belief that this teaches people "how to think". Ask what the justification for a humanities degree is, for example, and you'll probably get this answer.

If teachers are awarding good grades to AI generated text either their exercises aren't testing this ability, or AI can actually think and should be protected as a sentient life form. I think it's more likely that these essays aren't a good way to test thinking skills. What could work better? Something more direct, maybe? Testing people on logic puzzles, rationality tests, bias check tasks and so on. I definitely feel our society has major difficulties with rationality at scale, and we saw this during COVID in which people routinely conflated rationality/wisdom with blindly outsourcing their thinking to academics and civil servants, regardless of the underlying merits of the arguments those professors were actually making.

There's also the other goal of teaching people how to write, but being able to write well is largely about being able to think well, once you mastered the basics of spelling and grammar anyway. With modern AI driven spelling/grammar checkers it's also less important to deeply master the rules, and time can be better spent on the learning how to think and structure an argument aspect.
Very quickly, considering the monarchs of Denmark and Sweden removed titles from grand children of the reigning monarchs, and the British are reportedly considering the same.
Buffet's BNSF only covers the waterways Mississippi west. Will this mean further rail buys?

https://einvestingforbeginners.com/warren-buffetts-railroad-...

https://www.bnsf.com/bnsf-resources/pdf/ship-with-bnsf/maps-...
I wonder what is the the absolute bare minimum to run a company like Twitter. I'm assuming that some of the positions eliminated could be replaced by outside services, like payroll and accounting, but how few people could you have on a skeleton crew working directly for Twitter?
I mean what's wrong with the same company owning the venues and the ticketing site for the venues?
The "aristocracy" has their property seized all the time, for unpaid taxes and a litany of other crimes.
What about convincing your colleagues that something about the spec is wrong?

It's worth noting that the same skills the "version 1" essay is supposed to teach should be helpful if all you need to do is compile a checklist and save yourself the hassle of argument.
I wish the "it's all supply side" meme would go away. With Western countries importing millions upon millions of people from other countries--and sometimes, implicitly importing them with wide-open borders like the US--the demand side is at least as much at fault. Western country birth rates are already near replacement levels; we shouldn't have to be building more housing in the first place!
There was an h in the title. We've de-h'd it now.
Some “cash buyers” were actually taking loans against their stock assets.
The whole "let's turn this into a libertarian political-philosophical discussion" angle is a misdirection.

(And an increasingly common one, eg., cf. crypto).

The guy installed spyware on laptops in a commercial store and then publicly displayed the data collected. It's an open-and-shut case.

Almost any person who went to that store, and any store owner, would be furious. It is these people the law here protects(, and damn right too) -- the interests of the artist aren't "the little guy's" and more than a burglar is the underdog.

A burglar claiming the police are corrupt for protecting property owners is as meglomanical as this guy. This isn't some middle-aged academic wishing he were in a mythical past, he's a guy breaking into computers, stealing data, and using it to boost his own career.
As a broke student who recently got started with copywriting to make ends meet, is there any way to email/message you with a question or two if you don't mind?
We could say they choose Ticketmaster indirectly by choosing the venues that have exclusive Ticketmaster deals. Couldn't they pick non Ticketmaster venues if they thought those venues offered them a bad deal?
Can somebody explain how much of the work on M1 GPU can be reused for M2?
Yeah, their browser sucks.

I have a few collections that I downloaded, that have software-relevant ones.
Then what's the relevance of the comment about stability? This thread is about the coming iPad version. It's reasonable to assume you're talking about it (or confused and in the wrong place), given that's the topic of the submission.

Desktop video editors are notoriously unstable (assuming since you didn't specify). It's probably not the same codebase, and it'll be operating under clearer constraints the developers can target for maximum stability and performance.
While in the US Navy (1977 ~ 1981) I can distinctly remember the unique facial structures of the people in Southeast Asia and being able to tell what country they were from because of this. A couple of decades later with the mixing of populations by various means, and their diet changing in that-time frame, I couldn't reliably tell anymore.
Programming can be learned in an afternoon, just not mastered.
Reminiscent of that Linux Foundation president showing up to a presentation with a Windows laptop.
As someone who regularly goes to mix gendered, clothing optional spaces; you get used to it really quickly.
> Cash buyers are generally about 25% of the market

Cash buyers often finance the property they buy. All a "cash buyer" means is that the deal is not contingent on financing, either contractually or as a practical matter. That is, they can guarantee the sale goes through with cash.
If quantum computers would work, it would be very difficult to explain "where" the computation happens without having some sort of MWI into picture. But if, somehow, quantum computers keep their noise levels up without producing any interesting acceleration I'll expect that a theory would emerge at some point explaining that. And it may disambiguate which interpretation is the one.
Sorry, on my phone at the moment so I don’t think I can really type some decent code right now!

I actually think that torch’s ShardedTensor looks very promising. Essentially you can initialize a sharded tensor from an already initialized tensor, or initialize a sharded tensor on a meta device where it’s not allocated locally and each shard gets initialized on the specified remote devices (useful for extremely large tensors)

The sharding is described by a ShardingSpec, where you can either let it shard equally sized shards across the requested devices, where the split happens along a single dimension, or you can do grid sharding along multiple dimensions. They also have a more general sharding spec that allows you to choose explicitly which indices go on which devices, if you need non uniform shards.

I think once these are implemented (along with some special cases like cloned tensors, and things like that), and once the distributed autograd engine has full support for CUDA, it should be pretty easy to start building out distributed versions of common neural net operations.

The one thing (that I haven’t thought about a ton, to be frank, and I’m sure other smarter people have :)) is that you’ll end up in cases with both a sharding spec for the weights as well as for the inputs, and what’s the best way to make sure everything matches up. Is the best way to handle that custom logic for each operation? And do you have each operation just reshard the input automatically? Seems potentially like a pretty big performance pitfall.
I agree it's not very good evidence that there's a real problem here, the articles and report are more of a good starting point for interesting discussion. On the other hand, the report isn't literally zero evidence either. There are students stating that they're doing this, even if they don't name GPT-3 specifically (does it really matter what model they use?).
I had no idea: my devices are a couple of years old now. It's sad there are fewer local-only smart devices.
That definition of what is valid or not depends on the type of checker. When you're talking about Rust's borrow checker, then you can take any property that it checks for, such as "there are no aliasing mutable references" or "any variable that is read from has been initialized" and build an example for it that would be correct, but is rejected by the borrow checker.

Here is an example where a variable is definitely initialized, but it will be rejected.

fn main() {
let foo;
if true {
foo = 1;
}

println!("{}", foo);
}
When challenged on why we had to follow rules that real writers often ignored, such as those "arbitrary standards" you hate, he responded: "They can break the rules because they already know them by heart. You need to learn them." That stuck with me. I firmly believe that writing essays about boring drudgery is a necessity to develop the skill required to write essays about what's important to you.

School is not about doing great work. It's about learning the tools which you can use to do great work. School does not ask you to do novel research, and so it doesn't ask you to write novel essays.
Ah, that is true I didn't consider it from that perspective. It may also serve as a decent anti-spoofing measure if you compare the two results for position that you are getting directly from GPS vs from the Starlink satellites.
It's not legal anywhere, though the name varies. Most states would refer to this as either a DUI (driving under the influence) or DWI (driving while intoxicated).
go see local or smaller acts at smaller venues. don’t go see boring stadium shows. problem solved.
Interesting - I actually like the experience of using DICE here in London, UK. The UX I thought is pretty neat, presenting me with the artists I’ve told them I like to listen to. I thought the ticket experience is pretty cool too.
Eh, these are models, not reality. The Many-Worlds interpretation makes the fewest assumptions, so it's probably the least prone to over-fitting.

Until we find philosophically or experimentally distinguished ways to pare down its ontological cost, working with most general theory is just keeping an open mind.
> this decomposition is called decoherence, where a classical state splits into a superposition of several different classical states.

No, that's not what decoherence is. Decoherence is the spread of entanglement over a very large number of untrackable degrees of freedom (usually referred to as the "environment"). This makes interference effects unobservable. But decoherence itself does not involve any "splitting"; the entanglement that decoherence spreads over a very large number of untrackable degrees of freedom has to already be there before decoherence can act on it.
That's true, but not universally. There are places where one doesn't have to live in a concrete cube. Instead one can buy a home and have a space to go outside.
People have been claiming "you'll price out your fan base" as long as I can remember, meanwhile Blink 182 is a 25-year old band with demand for tickets seemingly higher than ever.
Discussed yesterday: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33281645
LiveNation only owns a few dozen venues, and it owns fewer than AEG.

They also don't own venues big enough for acts like Taylor Swift, most of them are small to mid sized concert halls. The major acts are selling out stadiums and arenas, none of which are owned by AEG or LiveNation.
> e.g. into astrology, QAnon-style "theories", "General Artificial Intelligence", spiritualized ecology, etc.

Most of all: College. Not only does it share a lot of the practical value that the church historically provided (community, fellowship, teaching), but notably it carries a similar fear-based belief system whereby there is a lot of social pressure to attend and it is accepted that if you don't attend you will face the scorn of the economic deity; the modern day version of "you will go to hell".

The specific "higher power" may have changed with time, but the human behaviour certainly hasn't.
Hey there, I thought about this for a little bit because I find table layouts more pain than they are worth and the secret sauce that's missing from the examples above is nesting!

Just like Tables have <table> and then <tr> - your div's need a similar parent-child relationship to work.

Here's a working fiddle: https://jsfiddle.net/0389jsca/
All you're telling me right now is that if I were a contractor, you'd be my favorite client because you don't ask questions.

Even in the bay area, those prices are astronomical. You're getting ripped off.
I guess one would be that it is python and not Ansible.
'Objectification' is built into the human OS.

Straight men objectify women, gay men objectify men, women objectify babies.
Puppies and kittens are objectified by all.
Is this a serious comment? I can't believe that this is a serious comment.