skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The cognitive dissonance in this article is staggering. It's the "top school" in the country, but at the same time it's being mismanaged because administrators aren't doing the work of some third-party student-ranking corporation? Or it's the "top school" in the country but there's deep injustice because they don't throw pizza parties for kids who are good at standardized tests?

The struggle between "this is the best school" and "these administrators are terrible" is never resolved, but it sounds like the quickest way to end this battle in the "war on merit" is for the National Merit Scholarship Corporation to mail the paper to the students instead of outsourcing it to the teachers.
> There are no such things as benevolent billionaires.

Interesting thesis, do you have any reasoning to support your claim?
Linked accounts: https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/issues/7292

Right now you can emulate this by putting your other instance links in your bio. I do think there should be a dedicated "linked instances" section which is more coordinated (only lets you link when you can access both accounts, and updates every other instance when you add a new one).

I hope they add this feature soon enough. The nice thing is that anyone can add this feature, and if the devs approve it, most active instances will likely update. I won't be the one to though :)
Are you talking about Hotz or Musk?
It's from an algorithm called PULSE. It seems to search the latent space of StyleGAN to find a face that compresses to something similar to the query image.

https://arxiv.org/pdf/2003.03808.pdf

https://www.theverge.com/21298762/face-depixelizer-ai-machin...
Cryptocurrency is, in many ways, especially useful for fraud. It's relatively anonymous, which makes transactions between individuals more difficult to track. It's unregulated, so there are fewer safeguards against fraud. It's complex, so scammers are able to prey on more people who don't fully understand it. And it's unprotected, in the sense that consumers usually have no recourse in the event that they are scammed.

Can traditional financial instruments (like cash, securities or commodities) be used for fraud? Absolutely. But it's not as easy.
Is that really how you reason, though? Do you think you really reason by having some kind of subconscious statistical computer in your brain somewhere?
I agree with the point about unlimited and undetectable. I think there's nuance to low latency.

Here the latency the attacker is limited by the amount of parallelism they can bring to bear on e.g. PBKDF. Ultimately this is an economic consideration about the cost to protect a secret vs cost to crack it.
eMTBs are thousands of dollars a piece. The idea of buying an extra just for friends to ride as general advice is very silly, even ignoring the problems with differing sizes. It's terrible general advice. In the specific situation where you have a lot of disposable income and a very specific friend in mind, sure, sounds fun.
Ryan Salame took out $60 million in “loans” from FTX, donated tens of millions to republicans, and bought up a bunch of restaurants in the Berkshires. How are all these guys not being arrested?
What makes you think Catholic school kids don’t have parents or other relatives?

And are you trying to argue that the Catholic Church does not have a history of child molestation? Because the evidence seems pretty overwhelming to me.
SVT-AV1
Are those recordings publicly available or any source?
What exactly do you think communism means?
We fundamentally disagree on how removing film grain, or changing things like saturation, affects end user experience. I don't believe it harms the viewing experience in a meaningful way. I respect that you care about artists' intent, but I think you're assuming more people care or notice than actually do. I don't believe adhering so strictly to the artists' intent will lead to a better watching experience. For some films where only a 1080p master remains, if you don't denoise before upscaling and then adding in artificial film grain, it'll look terrible.

There is an endless list of poor Bluray and UHD Bluray transfers where the the film grain makes it unwatchable. The unfortunate thing is that the nicer the display is, the sharper the image and the more distracting the grain. In some cases, I would trust the AV1 endcoder decoder to do a better job at adding a more reasonable amount of grain than the 4k transfer did. It's not a slippery slope, bad transfers and poorly color graded films/shows already exist. Mistakes exist in both directions, the UHD remaster release of Terminator 2 is a exceptionally horrible example of too much DNR. In my opinion T2 is bad enough to bring real actors into the uncanny valley.

The developers aren't doing anything different from what films do when going through an analog to digital transfer.
I assumed this to be the missing word based on my prior knowledge of recycling, petroleum, etc. Still, the title should have included this. How did such an obviously bad title get through the review process?
I cannot believe I'm upvoting this...
I was a National Merit scholar, FWIW.

It’s not really a “prestigious award”. According to the article, 240 kids at the school got the same thing.

At my large high school, lots of kids got it too.
I know it’s referred to as film grain, but digital cameras also have grain, and the amount of grain will vary from shot to shot depending on lighting, shutter speed etc.

Adding extra fake noise to the movie solves a few problems such as ensuring a consistent look from scene to scene, as well as avoiding video artifacts like banding.

It’s also an artistic choice just like the choice to use telephoto lenses that blur backgrounds into fuzzy balls of light.
There are two ways of looking at this: home ownership and college is more expensive but the returns are much higher even adjusted for inflation. College grads earn way more today than 40 years ago, even after accounting for inflation and student loan debt. Home ownership has minted many millionaires , unlike 40 years ago, when home prices didn't do much. Real returns for home owners has surged since 2008 and keeps going up.
> and I mean, it's from a Federalist byline...

Good point.

I'm not from or in the US (although I frequently work in or with USAians) and it's just astonishing how much of the US Federalist | Conservative pieces lack any kind of policy substance -- the media from that side of the aisle seems almost entirely focused on raising dust in the air over trite matters of near zero import.

I like fiscal responsibility and a lot of principles that these groups supposedly stand for - but the culture war obsession of the US right is just performative.
A bearing failure is probably the most common failure mode, would probably result in an unignorable insanely loud noise, and render the unit inoperable once they actually seize.
I had one of the fork ends break off a steel fork. Fortunately I was going at less than a walking pace, navigating out of a store parking lot. I was 2 miles from home, and just walked the bike while planning its replacement.

It was a break that I would have noticed much sooner, had I regularly inspected it, because the other side was half broken off.

The funny thing is, I play in a band, and when I told my story that night, 3 guys in the band offered to weld it.
Importantly this makes it easier to port to embedded systems, FPGA and shaders.
They could encode just the intro with bespoke settings and concatenate that to the bitstream of their other content if they really cared about making it look good.
Similarly whenever I take photos in the forest they come out looking like complete garbage. It occurred to me it’s the image compression completely falling apart. Color gets totally desaturated too.
i have my vim extension for the purpose of keeping some private notes: https://github.com/MoserMichael/vimcrypt2

You don't have to re-enter the key during each save, the plugin keeps the key during the vim session in an encrypted form (encrypted with a temp key).

The vim extension is using openssl for aes encryption (using aes-256-ecb - so if a part of the file gets damaged then you won't loose the whole file)

(oh, vim -x seems to be doing something similar, they use blowfish as the default. I am not hashing the text in order to verify its authenticity, probably should add that to my vim extension)
Yes it is — the fact that the later computations got the same result is evidence that the earlier ones weren’t flukes.

My comment above didn’t even mention randomization. That’s not necessary. All that’s necessary is that the tests be independent. Randomization is one way to achieve that but not a hard requirement.

Even so, it seems you do see the connection, you just dispute one element that you think is critical.
According to whom were people less censorious? You? Where's your data on this point? What eras of the internet have you lived through?

Because I've gone through the whole IRC and early forums era of 20+ years ago. People got banned, formed their own IRC channels or forums colloquially called treehouses and life went on. Blogs were no different and if a blog was particularly bad it would get banned and the user would go and host their own blog elsewhere. Hell, you can go further back and see Usenet banning stuff related to white power groups.
There are countless applications where anything other than plastic really makes no sense, or is quite impractical or even impossible. The idea of eliminating plastics is pure fantasy.

Even reducing them doesn't make that much sense. The amount of energy needed to recycle metals is generally much higher.
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More than half of Houten residents use a car to buy groceries? That seems absurd. One of the things I love about living in Europe is that I can walk to small grocery shops within a block of where I live, so I can do many small trips during the week rather than a big weekly trip, and that way I eat fresher food every day.
I was at a Christmas church service on Monday and the quartet of singers was making two classic errors in a particular piece, one in the first measure and the other in the second measure of the refrain:

The first was singing a triplet rhythm (even quarter note triplets) as a dot-dot-whole (dotted eighth, dotted eighth, eighth).

The second was singing a dotted rhythm (dotted quarter note, eighth) as a triplet (i.e. swung eighths).

It was amusing
We have other vehicles we could actually probably get cross checks from. Plus, that'd require some serious level of knowledge to fake a foreign species computational responses from little more than non-invasive scans of chips.

...Unless they are that good... and everything we've been sent is a cleverly constructed ruse.

It's clear, there is only one option. Who's up for an expedition?
Yeah, I'm kind of flabbergasted to be honest, total failures like that are rare for metal tubing.
Please don't post personal attacks to HN. You may not owe 18-FAANG-interview-offer-receivers better, but you owe this community better if you're participating in it.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
You should still try it. It's a pretty decent language that builds fast and runs fast. I think of it as a slightly better Go.
Browsers are de-facto windows managers in the unfortunate world we've created where everything is a webapp with 5% of the perf that it'd have as a native app.
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You can have roads where motor vehicles aren't allowed, but have exceptions for ambulances in emergencies. They turn the sirens and lights on and everyone pulls over to make way.
"On their face, the benefits of using exceptions outweigh the costs, especially
in new projects. However, for existing code, the introduction of exceptions has
implications on all dependent code. If exceptions can be propagated beyond a
new project, it also becomes problematic to integrate the new project into
existing exception-free code. Because most existing C++ code at Google is not
prepared to deal with exceptions, it is comparatively difficult to adopt new
code that generates exceptions." (https://google.github.io/styleguide/cppguide.html#Exceptions)

So, basically, Google forbids exceptions for historical reasons, not because of performance.

But, sadly, countless companies parroted this section of Google's style guide for all the wrong reasons (mostly just cargo culting Google) leading to unfortunate fragmentation of error handling in the C++ library ecosystem.
The basic thrust of this comment is correct. Coastal elites can't stomach the fact that people are different. Some are smart, some are not. And there are observable regularities in who's smart and who's not. That's just how it is.
I might even disagree with 'less rent' (although better finance for sure, yes).

Living somewhere nice, that isn't old and moldy, that doesn't leak, that isn't cold in winter and hot in summer, that is close to amenities, is a massive quality of life improvement.

Things might be relatively cheap as single items, but the cost of them all adds up. And I'd still say, question every purchase. I mean don't agonise over it, but if you can get in to the habit of generally not just buying shit all the time, I think you'll be better for it.
In music, many engineers add "color" (artifacts like tape noise and analog "warmth" (subtle saturation/distortion which were undesirable side-effects of the original circuitry)).
The thing some people don't seem to get is, it's not that there will be losers, it's that the losers are a liability to society, so we need to minimize "losing" as much as possible.

Certainly not by gifting people stuff, but buy gifting them education.
Don't crow some kind of victory until the show is over.
Early guitar amplifiers were expected to be used that way. There was a polarity switch, and you flipped it to the position where the neutral was "connected" to the chassis via a capacitor. This arrangement is now known as the "suicide cap."

There's a general agreement among players, that having a tech install a proper grounded cord doesn't spoil the "vintage value" of an old amp.

Example here:

http://www.thevintagesound.com/ffg/schem/deluxe_5e3_schem.gi...
That’s awesome that someone put the data together. It makes total sense to me, since the slower the tempo, the more blunted the impact (less emotional, less jarring) of a low-ratio
They are. This article is literally hyperbolic about parents being slow to get emails that their kid is special
I went to TJ and grew up in northern VA. When I was there the announcement was made publicly and distributed to everyone. I’m not sure if we had a school district email account back then but that’s not how it was communicated, nor was it communicated by private letter.

Yes this is part of the culture war, but that’s not a reason to dismiss it out of hand. Everyone in this story was a democrat until 2015. Around then a subset of mostly white Democrats discovered racism still exists and completely lost their minds about it. My parents think what’s happening at TJ is nuts and I couldn’t even get them to vote for Larry Hogan.
Because there's no market for ads targeting one guy fifteen years from now. We've built a web that actively discourages the kind of depth you're after.
several hours later: yep, i did, in fact, just move my account! it wasn’t exactly easy. not something i would expect a novice to be able to do by themselves. but anyone who is reasonably technical can do it.
> How are all these guys not being arrested?

This article is about precisely the process in which that happens.

They now have cooperating witnesses with significant internal visbility into what went on, and more importantly, people who can speak to the intention behind what went on.
Not audio recordings, they were screenshots of a twitter conversation
Ok, let's go with that. Thanks!

None of us will have heard of Klinefelter syndrome before, but maybe that's a good thing.
That's not what I was trying to communicate.

I know I can't win the argument you'd like to start about the absolute risk and whether it's tolerable.

I don't want to!

My point was about the variance, and false confidence that two small rates are truly different. Even when one is zero, so the other is infinity percent larger.

It's not that 1/1000 is "low" or "high" in terms of human cost - that is in the eye of the beholder.

The point is that the frequency of rare events is highly sensitive to random chance, and so even with hypothetical perfect records you can't pretend different numbers are necessarily different rates.

Much less if you guess at numbers based on prejudices.

"How to Lie With Statistics" desperately needs a sequel.
The same question was asked in another thread, and there are some good responses.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34087462
I highly doubt programming will ever "end".

In the past "programmers" used to write raw assembly. Now the compilers do this, and programmers write source code for the compiler. In the future AI may write the source code, but we will still need to write higher-level specifications, which will likely be much more detailed than "develop a mail client app" or "develop an FPS".

Even today, business managers who have programmers to do all of the actual coding, need to write detailed specifications (and when they write bad specifications, they get bad products); those specifications are in a sense, "code". But even those specifications are not detailed enough: when refinement is fast and cheap (with AI doing the coding) you really want to be able to customize the UI, add various features, properly handle various edge cases, etc.
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110 years, fine of up to 2x the "pecuniary gain" of the fraud, and last but certainly not least, a "$100 mandatory special assessment" for each of the seven counts. Gotta pay for those Federal investigators somehow!

Also, I like how the they're very clear that restitution must be made as "a sum of money in United States currency", as opposed to, say, FTT tokens or Bored Ape NFTs. However, the section on forfeiting the proceeds of the crime does explicitly include "property including but not limited to" USD, meaning the Feds may end up with a pile of shitcoins and monkey JPGs after all!
Yup. About the only two complaints that might reasonably warrant asking the user to create a ticket themselves is the NAT one and the CPU spike doing nothing. For both of those though, rather than having the user create a bug report just to go back and forth over it asynchronously over months until the end user gets discouraged and drops it, a better situation works be diagnostic tools that could monitor and collect data that the devs could then analyze, ideally baked into the code where you just click a button to submit feedback and your code can code to open a bug report or just ingest metrics or something.
https://archive.ph/MUtOq

http://web.archive.org/web/20221222025052/https://www.nytime...
Typescript C?
They need to let their phone check in work with OTAs. I just stayed at a Hilton and couldn’t use my phone as a key because I booked through hotels.com and the front desk refused to add my hhonors info to set it up. I know you can call in but not something I want to deal with after traveling all day.
The Effective Altruists bought two castles. Why? The ambiance helps them think clearer and hold better events of course! Since they are the main character (ironically Rand-ish), the castles are a better use of donations than cheap mosquito nets, famine relief, etc.
So, do you really think these computational AI systems can reason and solve problems equivalently or in a manner superior to humans? If they aren’t matching patterns, which are I think the literature makes clear they are, why does ChatGPT fail at solving logic problems so badly? It is already performing impressive enough at tasks that people think it can replace all knowledge but yet if fails miserably at logic problems and even those that claim it replaces google do not really seems to realize it fails at providing answers to basic facts. I really don’t see any evidence that this type of AI, which is quite advanced for what it is, is type of AI that dissolves technical education / jobs. Another question, if this is on the road to being human intelligence, how is it someone like Ramanujan received no formal schooling and yet could create solutions that seem very far off from the capabilities of these systems which we are claiming will replace humans? Further, if it’s intelligence is so superior, why does it require so many watts of power produce so much thermal by-product when beings that actually do perform in a superior way currently require little more than a bowl of rice every few days to continue solving problems? Is there not sone profound, “emergent,” difference in sophistication?
> The idea that there is some agreement for say 5 years recommended is not on the table in this type of situation.

That is absolutely the situation. That’s why you take the deal. They got her to plead to seven counts! There’s almost certainly an agreed-upon recommended sentencing.
Yeah, this is internally self-contradictory. I quote:

But homeroom teachers didn’t distribute the awards until Monday, November 14, after the early-application deadlines had passed. Teachers dropped the certificates unceremoniously on students’ desks.

“Keeping these certificates from students is theft by the state,” says Yashar.

... so they did get distributed, albeit without much ceremony. Also, that's in plenty of time for scholarship applications, so "Recognition by National Merit opens the door to millions of dollars in college scholarships and 800 Special Scholarships from corporate sponsors" is a bit of a non-sequitur.
How should this be funded?

- more money from government grants?

- less money to professors?

- less money to administrators?

- higher fees for undergraduate students?

- fewer graduate students?