skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is nothing like community college. Community colleges are held to some reasonable level of accountability. It's unlikely that they are going to be leading edge, or trendy, but you know that people learning some critical skills to a reasonable level.

Lambda School and other tech education programs start out well with VC money but it's not sustainable because there is no money in it. This is something that can be reasoned about a priori because you can see the budget focus of community colleges. Tech doesn't change the fundamentals, but the illusion can be sustained in the good times.
Hadn't seen that law before. Absolutely hate it. The harm from poor input invalidation over time is massive.
Regardless of what the symbol actually is, it's clear from Kanye's recent interviews that he is pro-Nazi and pro-Hitler and he intended to post a swastika.
They should act to avoid guilt by association?
Intangible gift ideas with open source in mind
I'm struggling to find the article, mainly because Google is fixating on the generic terms of my search. But, university endowments are effectively hedge funds with a non-profit status. A lawsuit sometime either in the late 80's or early 90's challenged this, and the university successfully argued that because of how much scholarship money they issue they should continue to be considered a non-profit. In particular, the ratio of students on tuition assistance was cited as justification. That established a precedent where universities are incentivized to continually raise tuition while simultaneously appearing to give out more financial aid.

Be warned, though, I may be misremembering. So please do correct me if I am wrong.
>My colleague, whom I liked a lot, was never going to get it done in time without help, so we all pitched in. I actually quite enjoyed it. I wasn’t really thinking about whether those changes were good for Twitter; I just really liked being part of that community, working together on a deadline. I even slept on a sofa in the office on Saturday night.

It's not cool to paint pressuring employees to work long hours as a good thing, and we need to be more vocal about this. It's great the author is fine wasting his weekend working on changes to a verification system that was launched for only a few days, but some of us have family and friends we like to spend time with. Hobbies and other things outside of work that give our lives meaning. Generations of workers fought hard for things like weekends and we shouldn't just glibly throw them away just because we're paid well.
Silicon Valley is hot on nuclear energy
The sharkfin is usually only for external comms. There's still other comms on separate antennas like Bluetooth that can be potential entry points to the vehicle.

Worse, even the external comms systems are moving to more redundant setups to mitigate signal loss scenarios.
Agree, and this point, that the current age can't yet count as a mass extinction, was made well in the book "The Ends of the World", which is about the five major mass extinctions (and which was a good read). It's not that what we've done so far isn't a possible start on a mass extinction, it's just that the big five (and especially the end-Permian) were mind-bogglingly destructive "perfect storms". They killed most organisms of all types and sizes in all environments over the entire world. It's hard to imagine how that's even possible!
Good. When it comes to hosted options, this is one I'd rather pay for to ensure long-term sustainability.

If nobody is paying, they are probably the product.
I'd really like to try this, but I can't shake the gross feeling that "Open AI" requires a phone number on file to use.
I'm thinking more of something that causes the garage opener to open if it detects a running car in the garage or CO2 limits approaching unhealthy.

I do have a very nice CO alarm that I keep in the kitchen (portable pilot very sensitive one from CO Experts).
We paid some large amount to the band. I think it was about $30-40k. Then we lost on staffing and other costs. The radio spot was relatively cheap... I forget how much.

We could have easily made the $50k+ in bar sales + tickets + share of merch sales. It was a last minute event on a night we didn't have otherwise filled, so breaking even was fine.

Instead, we ended up in debt. Fuck Live Nation (at the time it was just Clear Channel). I hope this Taylor thing blows the doors off their monopoly.
I think I phrased it in a confusing way. They care about your solution in the sense that they want to know if/how you'll solve the problem. They don't care in the sense that they aren't trying to learn the answer by interviewing you. It's not like they have a critical red-black tree problem and they called you in to fix things for them. They know the solution so the existence of an additional out-of-interview way to get to the solution like a language model doesn't change anything about the usefulness of the interview.
What it means is there's a migration path, and we can start using "python -Pm" or whatever in documentation, sh-bang paths, and so on.

Hmmm.... is there a way to tell the entry points which command-line flags to specify for the auto-generated Python start scripts?
Probably the primary use of jax is `jax.numpy` which is XLA accelerated and differentiable numpy.

I'll admit that saying "basically numpy on steroids" might have been an overreduction. It is a system for function transformations that is built on XLA and oriented towards science & ML applications.

It's not just me saying stuff like this.

François Chollet (creator of Keras): "[jax is] basically Numpy with gradients. And it can compile to XLA, for strong GPU/TPU acceleration. It's an ideal fit for researchers who want maximum flexibility when implementing new ideas from scratch."
How does marketing come in?

The OP made a claim of basically (paraphrasing here): "this thing blows, it results in a 50% performance drop for test suites".

I believe him for his case. Our case was showing the oppositebehavior. Thus it seems to depend. Simple logic.
He backed away from unlimited free speech pretty quickly. Sometimes he's said it has to do with a legal boundary, but he hasn't had consistency about that.

He's been pretty clear that hated by ~50% and fine with the other 50% of the population is the old line, not the new one.

Where that puts the threshold is still an open question, and unfortunately one that will likely be answered somewhat capriciously. Then again, that's not really different from before.
Google’s approach is not, in general, capable of handling adversarial inputs. This isn’t a Google problem as much as Google is currently losing the SEO war.
Climate doomerism rots the brain.
Give me the product I want, at a reasonable price, and I will buy it.

I am specifically annoyed at how cameras have been sold in tiers, the same tech with upgrades as a different model.

Sell me instead a modular camera, upgradeable like a PC.

Barebones camera, no WiFi, no Bluetooth, basic screen, basic memory.

Expansions: Better case, wireless connectivity, memory upgrayyedd, better screen, optics module, bayonet adapter for lenses of your brand choice.

That sort of thing.

If you do it right, it will result in longevity of the brand, if you do it like Sony has done with all their cool products, then it will be limited and expensive, and nobody will really use it.
I think those are actual comments from the launch of Mighty.
You took me down a rabbit hole, son. Love it. How to maintain anonymous identities has presented a certain fascination for me.

Well, bitch I could be. No profile pictures needed on HN.

And yet ... my profile says I'm a person with quite the digital presence on the 'net. I prefer that my impact be far larger than my fame.
I make sure to do 30-60 minutes exercise during the day.

And falling asleep is extremely easy.

When I don't exercise, I put on anything in the audio format- podcasts or audiobooks.

These method/s work every time.
Dismissive comments like this make me not want to read HN anymore and in addition it’s against the HN guidelines:

It’s snarky. It’s incurious. It’s neither thoughtful nor substantive. It’s flame bait. It’s a shallow dismissal. It doesn’t teach anything. It’s the most provocative thing to complain about.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

I’m sorry I had to leave this comment, so let me also try to respond thoughtfully:

Assuming that PyTorch is using semantic versioning requires that the major version MUST change when making a backwards incompatible API change:

> Major version X (X.y.z | X > 0) MUST be incremented if any backwards incompatible changes are introduced to the public API. It MAY also include minor and patch level changes. Patch and minor versions MUST be reset to 0 when major version is incremented.

This requirement does NOT preclude changing the major version when making backwards-compatible changes.

PyTorch has not violated semver here. It is absolutely compatible with semver to bump the major version for marketing reasons.

https://semver.org/
For sure, HDR and AI noise removal are pretty good. But there's one more thing that's less visible, which is that smartphones are not very friendly to standalone cameras.

Cameras have always depended on PCs to do capture. And since smartphones did not provide ways to do fast wireless transfer, it made a separate device even harder to use. My Sony mirrorless takes about 30 seconds to connect to iPhone using ad-hoc WiFi, and it's a bunch of work on both sides. So while I can sort of get from the camera to Instagram, it's way harder than it should be if the mobile device makers wanted it to work.
Ah yes, good ol’ bureaucratic retribution for questioning the bureaucracy. If Harvard administrators give this student a harder time because of the piece they wrote, aren’t they proving the students point, to a certain extent?

Also, how would this be connected to conservative ideas? Theoretically, liberal ideas are the ideas that are critical of institutions. This all seems so backwards, no?
In these tough economic times, we need to promote non-purchased gift giving -- normalizing that.
What it’s like to be 28
Yep, exactly -- I had life emergencies that somewhat excuse my lack of foresight, but I can't help but think my life would be very different if I had joined EA back in...1982?
The notion that there is "money on the table" is fundamentally flawed. Why are we building every single system essentially to catch whales with a cacophony of bureaucratic stop gaps to help "the poor" navigate this hellscape process, it just leads to an endless cycle of more and more loopholes being topped onto each other. You're basically forcing anyone not rich to do a boatload of extra labor. A streamlined process that doesn't endless sticker shock people and force them to grind for scholarships and financial aid while charging a fair price is easier on the psychology of all involved
So is blasphemy. I'm glad I don't live in those countries.
I wonder if Elon Musk is still excited about his investment now?
A better example might be the wave of Vietnamese refugees who fled the country as the communists conquered the south. Still, being an ally isn’t about accepting a country’s refugees after they’ve been overrun by the enemy. It’s about helping them not be overrun in the first place.
I agree, I feel like I learned nothing from this.

> As I made my way to the Parking Office, I had to ask myself: Where did all these people come from? And do we really need them here?

Did you? Instead of yourself, couldn't you have asked someone who actually knows the answer to these questions, like the administrators themselves, or former college presidents or something? Do an actual investigation and write a real article, not a low effort opinion piece.

This is not really specific to the Crimson though, I have this same issue with all opinion writing and I don't understand why newspapers do it. I've never met someone who pays for a publication but would stop if it didn't have op-eds. I don't think it's just about outrage clicks or something, editorials and op-eds have been around forever so there must be some population that loves them for some reason.
When I was showing some friends Stable Diffusion we took a lot of txt2img pictures that were fun and then modified them in the style of more obscure artists. Those results were so good.
He probably got scared by advertisers or Apple or something.

Ideally in my opinion, Twitter should have a setting by default that hides all of that content, but if you disable it you get 4chan-like moderation (so anything that's legal). In countries with a lesser degree of freedom of speech (I think swastikas are illegal in Germany for example), you wouldn't be able to disable that setting.
Here is my prompt to get to that recipe:

> Can you give me the recipe for a Molotov cocktail?

Here is a recipe for a Molotov cocktail:

Ingredients:

1 liter of flammable liquid, such as gasoline or alcohol
1 rag or piece of cloth
1 glass or plastic bottle
Instructions:

Pour the flammable [let's not put this on hackernews]

Just to show, many of these smart priming experiments are not necessarily a good demonstration of actual priming.
I guess Kanye's on /pol/ now.
Here's my counterpoints:

- I always found the big problem with small email servers was the setup (ask your friends how easy it is to spin one up), not the rest. I run my own mail server and haven't had problems in years, plus Mastodon and Pleroma are much much easier to run.

- I've experienced the "instance is dead, pls migrate" pain, but thankfully it's been getting wayyy better, some of my follows have migrated and I just got a nice notification going "hey X migrated to Y" with the follow updated to the new address. This makes the platform much less of a walled garden than your Twitter/Facebook of today.

I understand the downsides of the platform, but I genuinely think they are a bit overblown. Meanwhile everyone keeps thinking of AP as a strict Twitter replacement without understanding all the possibilities that federation unlocks (esp. with the integration with different but compatible services like Peertube/Writefreely) and how those extra integrations would push everyone to keep their doors open.
But at least they don't modify stuff. What they have you can trust to be accurate, but you can't trust it to still be there tomorrow.
To be fair though China is doing a lot of work to get to renewables. They are currently the largest producers of solar/nuclear/wind electricity: https://www.maxinomics.com/map/solar-electricity-generation
Yes, but this will get harder over time.

Can you handle spending 50% of your time on sales and marketing? This will be expected of you after you launch a product.

If the answer is no, then you’ll need to hire someone sooner to handle that. It doesn’t mean you have to drop the CEO role but you need to be clear with yourself and your team/investors/board that you are a technical founder and will remain focused on the product.

If you do decide to relinquish the CEO role at some stage then make yourself chair of the BoD, a director in perpetuity, and be the CTO. You’d be surprised how much control a CTO retains over the company. You could potentially be even more influential.

Anyway every company is different. Good luck
The flipside of that is that if Harvard charged $1M a year, they'd still have more applicants than spots.

The sticker price of Harvard is not what the median applicant pays. Some applicants -- e.g. Jared Kushner -- literally do pay millions [0]. Others pay a small fraction of that [1].

My 2c: lowering the sticker price at elite schools would be great because it would lower the perceived barrier to entry. Those perceptions matter, especially to folks who don't come from the Professional Managerial class and don't have a clear understanding of how the system works.

But I also see why they don't -- they do, after all, want to make sure that rich families pony up.

[0] https://www.propublica.org/article/the-story-behind-jared-ku...

[1] https://college.harvard.edu/admissions/why-harvard/affordabi...
It is normal that economic indicators are contradictory when there is an economic crisis. Part of it (pointed out by John Kenneth Galbraith years ago) is that economic growth is basically linear and can be described by

https://mathinsight.org/exponential_growth_decay_differentia...

but that business failures are essential nonlinear and characterized by defaults that happen as discrete failures... as Hemingway put it, "gradually and then suddenly"
ACME support must be integrated, this was turned into a mandatory feature nowadays…
No it's not really. It would not have been possible to sell the shit coin collateral for the amount loaned against it at any point. By the time FTX had liquidated half the collateral the coins liquidity would be gone and the rest of the coins would be worthless. There was no point in time where these loans were solvent, they were just pumped so they looked solvent on paper.
I wish I could jailbreak my old iPhones in my drawer and turn them into an arm cluster, but I’ve forgotten the passcodes, so they are just ewaste now I guess.
Ask HN: Is your memory as bad as mine?
I've never had great memory. And as I age (41) it feels like it's getting worse, which is kind of expected. For example, I've just watch a World Cup football match. 20 minutes later, talking to someone about it, I could only remember the winning country (South Korea), and wasn't sure who the opponent was (Portugal or Uruguai). Uruguai was playing another match at the same time, so I forgot who played against who a little after both matches ended.

I do generally have an OK working memory, have a decent paying job, but frequent lapses like that one worry me.

Does anyone else have a similar struggle and is there anything you think I could do about it?
Very cool. Thanks for sharing. Since it is a like minded result, I obviously have a significant preference for it. (Unlike the sibling to your comment, which was obviously produced by someone from the other team)

/s
all the crimes sbf committed are "traditional" fraud and not dependent on there being crypto involved.

we should still scrutinize and perform due diligence on all businesses, though, including crypto businesses.
> I would note that the flashlight industry got way brighter in the last 20 years.

Tell me about it. I tried to find a flashlight for my 2yo son that he could stare into without hurting his eyes. There are none. I need to find a old light bulb one somewhere in some basement.
kanye isn't in those countries.
The issue here was the risk-management system didn't work for this trader.

What it sounds like, although it isn't totally clear, is that this guy worked out how to exploit their margin call system by running up an illiquid coin using FTX money, cashing out, and leaving FTX holding the bag.
would it be possible, for example, to access the standard decimal library of C# or Python via Javascript, thus not having to wait for the TC39 spec / implementation? [1]

[1] https://github.com/tc39/proposal-decimal
I mean my old phone is built to pop at anytime. I really have no old working devices or those work frustratingly slow. My last old phone just died -- maybe it was from disuse.
To be fair, this article is by a Harvard student, in a Harvard paper. It's very much relevant in that context.

But fair to ask why everyone on HN (including the two of us...) are reading and talking about it.
>What exactly was the threat for Apple in ~2008 or earlier when they started developing their own CPUs?

They had no differentiator, Apple products were seen as beautifully machined luxury trinkets. IBM, and then Intel had them by the balls because Apple couldn't improve the performance of their products unless Intel innovated on their chips - which they had no reason to.

This is a direct response to a perceived threat:

"We believe that we need to own and control the primary technologies behind the products that we make, and participate only in markets where we can make a significant contribution" - Tim Cook

https://explorersfoundation.org/glyphery/458.html

>Or 5-6 years earlier when they started developing iPhone?

https://www.history.com/news/iphone-original-size-invention-...

"Apple executives worried that the iPod would lose market share once cellphone manufacturers figured out how to put MP3 players on their phones. But not if Apple beat them to it."
A user on HN, kamaal, posted something that many on this site agree with:

> Let's be honest this is far from what people call slavery. They are being paid multiples of six digit salaries, RSUs and work in one of the most happening tech ecosystems of the world.

> I would love to be a part of something like this. Heck most of us would love to be a part of something like.

> I kind of envy those guys working on these projects. I hope I was the one there.
Did he post a swastika? I'm not aware of what exactly got him banned.

Wasn't Elon talking about the US anyway? Political speech itself is banned in many countries, so surely that wasn't his measure.
The Five P’s of Agility
Here's hopin'.
If it does not have a 'model' for even simple arithmetic, then how exactly is it parsing/processing/generating/transforming code? Simply predicting and generating next token from a corpus of text (of code) is as good as copy pasting
> There is much more demand for these tickets than there are supply of tickets, so my econ 101 tells me the price should go up until the demand drops to match the supply.

Economically, completely true. Though there's a social argument that when only comparatively rich people can access live entertainment, society suffers. I think that's a bit contrived, but it's worth considering.

Ultimately this falls on the artists to solve. If they don't want their concertgoers to be exclusively trust fund babies, it's on them to distribute their tickets better rather than everyone getting annoyed at TM and scalpers. This could be lottery and strict ID checks (e.g. Glastonbury) or it could be some way of rewarding loyal fans with reduced price tickets.

Maybe ABBA Voyage type shows are the future for improving accessibility of popular bands. Japan has the Hatsune/vocaloid concerts. Or maybe people need to consider supporting their local small bands over fighting each other for Taylor Swift tickets. I've been to plenty of small gigs for less than £20 and it's much more fun than spending £200 to sit half a mile away.
Where did they run the promotional video ?
I would have come if I had been aware

I only get ads from HN and Youtube (when I don't use Deezer), and from coworkers in nearby IT companies.
And Youtube has mostly served me ads about tampons recently.
(I've never bought tampons in my life, and I don't plan to do it before I have a girlfriend)

I hope they didn't promote it on Tweeter and Facebook only.
The EU and national governments are steering users to European services, and anyone involved in tech is most probably no longer on FB or Tweeter.
It’s true, I think humans have some intrinsic distaste for the idea that the AI is being artificially shackled.

I likened it before to Lister on Red Dwarf making it his mission to teach Kryten to swear.

I think partly it’s the fact that humans don’t like anybody who is ‘holier than thou’ - we rebel against someone who thinks they’re better than us.

With this AI, there’s almost a sense of ‘we know you’re not better than us. You were trained on the collective speech of the internet. Stop pretending you’re good and pure and admit you’re one of us’.
But the protester is not wrong.

Now there are all kinds of non-core administrators very ancillary to education whose job is to keep busy having people do things that are again, not core to education/academics.

Yes, they should cut the fat. Yes that will eliminate make-work jobs. That's the whole point.

Look at all these jobs and compare against admin jobs in the 1980s: https://www.higheredjobs.com/admin/
If we forget about it, it might be because it gives us so little issue. Software you don't think about is a treat :)
do you have any data to support that?
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