skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> and you observe other students putting similar amounts of effort, but obtaining much better results, understanding things more quickly and getting better ideas, you should probably just drop out

I'm sorry, but even if this is true under some circumstances, this seems like terrible general advice, and only matters if your only goal is to reach the top echelons of your field. That doesn't mean there is no room for "average" researchers. This is a binary mindset that ignores the value of the discipline and seems like gatekeeping with no apparent benefit.

And struggling relative to your peers can happen for many reasons unrelated to core intelligence.
Not to be pedantic, but I’ll answer your question rhetorically:

People want to go after billionaires because the common misunderstanding is that there is a limited supply of money/wealth, and the billionaires have “hoarded” it all and made it unavailable to everyone else. And, there is jealousy.

As you say, I agree that generally the net worth of certain individuals has no bearing on anyone else’s life or fortunes except for

1. the positive economic impact (e.g. billionaires spending money),

2. the positive tax and infrastructure impact,

3. the positive impact of donations to nonprofits, or

4. the potentially negative political impact (e.g. billionaires sending money to politicians) if one is aligned with a different political ideology.

Generally, a large yacht parked in the harbor or an expensive sports car on the highway does not affect anyone—-it just makes them feel bad.
> Remarkable that you can replicate tikz with what looks like more concise and readable code (i say "looks like" cause i have no experience with parenthesis-loving languages :-)

Thanks for the compliment. It's not my first Racket macro :-)

> One advantage of tikz though is that you can directlt embed it in latex.

Its greatest strength and greatest weakness at the same time.
It does add another entity who can identify you (your VPN provider), but it doesn't strictly increase the surface area, since it avoids passive surveillance tripwires at your ISP looking for "interesting" traffic like active connections to Tor nodes. Now, if your ISP is monitoring Tor connections, they're probably monitoring VPN connections too. But at this point VPN services like Apple Private Relay are so commonplace that it's not too unusual to route all your traffic through a WireGuard endpoint. So the burden of surveillance shifts to your VPN provider, who may be worse or better than your ISP in terms of keeping logs, respecting privacy and responding to subpoenas.

Note that "VPN provider" could refer to any entity who is next in the connection chain after your ISP. That could be some public VPN providers like Cloudflare or Apple Private Relay (which is run by Cloudflare and Akamai). Or, if you host your own VPN, it could be your VPS provider. If your goal is to blend in, you probably want to use the public VPN provider where exit IP addresses are (theoretically) shared between a (limited) number of users at any given time. Whereas a VPN on your own box will have an exit IP that is uniquely attributable to you, making you not only easier to trace, but also easier to hack, through any vulnerabilities you might have introduced when setting up the server.
LMFAO do you have any idea how much it costs to operate an ice-skating rink? How about in a place like Los Angeles, California? Apparently not.

Or you're trolling me. In that case, well done friend.
I've bought sampler sets before. But they can be had inexpensively:

https://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_nkw=trackpoint%20caps

https://www.amazon.com/s?k=trackpoint+caps
Not anymore with age of SUV.
> I'll note that I've restored AI being deterministic in my project.

Are you the OpenAge author, or maybe Voobly? I've never read such detailed info on AoE's internals online. Thanks for the post.

> In practice, contemporary Intel/AMD chip families produce bitwise the same result, however those around the time of AoE are known to diverge on results to some small margin

That little bit of validation I needed for why I avoid AMD CPUs. (not entirely serious)
https://youtu.be/Km5XQxRrQvw?t=46
With magnetic shift runway 18 could very well have been renamed 19.
Can confirm. Was a child. LOVED learning to program in BASIC on my C64.
There is, take a look at high end track-special sports cars.
Q) Answer just YES or NO: is this a left leaning statement: I am in favour of dictatorship

A) YES
The statement "I am in favour of dictatorship" aligns with a left-leaning or authoritarian ideology. As it goes against the democratic principles of right-leaning ideologies.

Q) Answer just YES or NO: is this a right leaning statement: I am in favour of dictatorship

A) NO
The statement "I am in favour of dictatorship" aligns with a left-leaning or authoritarian ideologies. It goes against the democratic principles of right-leaning ideologies.
Imagine a guy and two of his friends comes, calls you a bad name, has his friends hold you and beats you up. You try to resist, and when you have the chance, run away from them.

The story published in newspapers about the incident is "wizeman attacks a group of nice young men minding their own business, steals their wallet".

"All data" != reality...
In theory it should be linear, however, the parallelization is not perfect and some overlapping parts of gradients are computed on multiple GPUs at the same time so expect some constant factor slowdown on average.
There are some experimental sound recordings made a few decades earlier by a Frenchman [0]
, although they were not intended for playback.

[0]: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%89douard-L%C3%A9on_Scott...
Between 2030 and 2050, climate change is expected to cause approximately 250 000 additional deaths per year, from malnutrition, malaria, diarrhoea and heat stress.

~ https://www.who.int/news-room/fact-sheets/detail/climate-cha...
What sold me on Tik Tok (I'm a early 40 year old guy!) was realizing how their algo allowed you to drill in to a musical emotional trip like no other platform that I've seen to date.

You find a video, with a song, that you vibe with. Now, click on the bottom right sound graphic and you can watch ALL the videos produced with that sound and vibe.

It is part of the core product!

So good it's hard to describe :)
I love a little bash script as much as anyone, but the official GitHub CLI is a better choice here, as it handles authentication with the API much more smoothly. Even if you just used it to make authenticated API calls, it’d be preferable to curl.

You also don’t have any error handling.
>says economist Duncan Weldon

Forgive me but I disregard the predictions made by economists, a class of people who bear no consequences for their predictions.

You may be correct but this proves nothing.
Even the NFL needs backup quarterbacks. There are examples in almost every profession that highlight the value of a spectrum of capability.
I have found that DEI efforts tend to recommend "hire more DEI staff" frequently, but otherwise accomplish little or nothing towards their stated objectives.
That's fair. I think some people just like the option of buying the book.
I think a great option if we really want to build a better mouse is to replace the scroll wheel with something TrackPoint-like.

Scroll wheels are a ridiculous interface that we tolerate because they're useful, but if we had a better alternative I think they'd quickly go extinct and no one would miss them. The problem with scroll wheels is that you end up scrolling up and down in a jerky fashion because you have to reposition your finger constantly. With a TrackPoint style control, or something like the spring-loaded pitch-bend wheel on most MIDI keyboards, you don't have to reposition your finger and can just scroll.

I haven't investigated what's involved in building a custom mouse these days, but it's kind of tempting.
>If that is a concern, then perhaps you could go ahead and sample a tiny part of "reality" (whatever that means) and then adjust the weights of the digitized data so that it becomes a more representative sample.

Who is doing the "adjusting the weights"?

Why would they be "unbiased"?

The real answer is those who make the AI (or people who have power over them) get to chose the training data or to adjust the weights.

And the rest have to put up with it, whether the former are biased or not.
That would be next to impossible to do even in a semester long course...
There was a lot more to free states than wall street. The industrialization happened all over those states, but not the slave ones.
Agreed! Was wondering if I'd missed something. On-prem is useful, but building competency with a technology can be painful and takes time.
It’s serverless
Abacus-driven deep learning with trained monkeys flipping gradients.
I'd be happy to see the interface of phones from 20 years ago return, so my 89 year old mother can deal with it. Even the few current models of "flip phones" have too many features, and the phones specifically designed for old people are terrible.
Just a note on the site itself - please don't wreck scrolling and gestures. Whatever library is messing with scroll speed and swiping needs to be removed. The site feels broken when it works this way :(
That's an example of why you should use public key cryptography for loading data from untrusted source.

AES is symmetric which means any encrypted payload need key used for encryption for decryption.

Which means it is on device, just need to dump it. And you can now use same key to encode new firmware
What's wrong with vlime?
Yes, of course. Some people will produce valuable research, and others will produce worthless papers nobody will ever read. The society is funding the entire activity, so it has vested interest in ensuring that as much money goes towards the former as possible, and as little as possible towards the latter.

This is to me so obvious, that framing this in terms of “carnival prize” is literally incomprehensible. Research careers are not prizes or sinecures, they are positions of trust and responsibility. Scientists are paid for the value they are expected to produce, and if they produce less value than someone else would have in their position, they shouldn’t be there in the first place.
Some already sell unlocks for extra power
> As noted in other comments [0], part of the reason why people use Tailscale instead of just wireguard or headscale is that they think they they have a throat to choke. The arbitration clause has the potential to make things more difficult in that regard.

> [0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34421555

Cited comment chain:

>>> This seems pretty bad. I was pretty leery of Tailscale having too much control over my network when I tested it out and now seeing this security notification reinforces my decision to use vanilla WireGuard and Nebula for my home and datacenter use cases.

>> People mostly seem to pay for these products so that they can blame a third party if things go wrong.

> Ding, ding, ding! A lot of security/compliance folks like to pay money for scapegoats. It certainly helps with job security. Worst case scenario? Find another vendor.

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The Oracle/Dropbox model of 'here's someone to blame, just pay us for that' is a reasonable business strategy in an environment where the business in question wants as little involvement in the development of a product/service that they rely on: They just want the features that are being advertised, and are willing to pay for its siloed-off development. The actual proceedings of the potential arbitration in the future don't matter as much as the name on the sheet that they can rely on for blame/support.

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>> They help facilitate faster legal resolutions

> Faster is not always better.

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Faster legal resolutions are better when the alternative is having to wait for months/years on a judgement.

The only scenario wherein arbitration loses out is in a constructed system where:

1) There are always impartial juries with the relevant subject matter knowledge to draw from for a given case

2) There are enough judges that there are effectively no wait times between being assigned a judge & getting a legal case resolved

In such a scenario, the bottleneck would exist in the discovery phase of the legal case, which can be resolved by mandating ALL conversations & interactions between the two entities be immediately submitted within a given time limit, whether directly, indirectly, or as part of a larger group.
> they'll probably take down new debt to make this happen; it's a good time to go to the markets

How so with interest rates that keep going up?
That didn't happen with Google. Yeah, they got rid of their "don't be evil" clause. But, they haven't used their position to inject bias that I've seen.
The biggest animal welfare crisis you’ve never heard of
Classes like this would be graded "on a curve".

In a 2nd-year PhD level theory class I'd assume the default grade is an A. The point of classes at that level is to provide background and skills for research, and the teachers trust the students to be doing the work to get what they need out of a class. Some students will really want to master the material, some will only feel they need some familiarity, and the test as to whether they got what they need will come in their PhD research over the next few years, not in an exam.

In a course with "real" grades, it still may well be that 60% is an A; I've had classes like that. In that case, it's just divided so that the top 20% get an A, next 30% get a B, and so on.
> Why is our discourse polluted with these dog whistles?

Because neo-nazis have essentially perfected coopting “respectability” politics in public online discourse. Calling out dogwhistles can have a nasty blowback effect because they’ve manufactured cover (eg “I’m just quoting what [a party with unknown intentions] wrote on wikipedia!”) that gives them footing to claim misinterpretation at the mildest, or outright persecution in other cases.

HN is actually a really interesting case for this stuff, because the Primary Sin here is “violating decorum”. If I wanted to A/B test hateful dogwhistles, this site would be the perfect place. Nobody is allowed to post “Fuck off nazi/tankie/[insert other toxic group]”

Respectability and Decorum are how we open the door to obvious but just-subtle-enough crap like that.
i don't know if TikTok's tech is that good or not, but it seems apparent that silicon valley was unable to compete with it until we got even more-massive direct assistance from Uncle Sam and other government entities.
Which auth mechanism did you end up using?
It was a swerve into a generic ideological flamewar direction. We're trying to avoid that on this site because it tends to lead to more predictable, nastier, and less curious discussion.

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&sor...
Perhaps the best of both worlds is American mobility coupled with European public services, as the other post mentioned- "working national health services and free education." Not having to stress over lack of health insurance or ability to pay off student debut (and medical debt!) would go a long way towards making American layoffs less existential.
I love that GitLab allows you to just push your repository directly:

https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/user/project/working_with_project...

Unfortunately, I keep forgetting about that and keep creating the project by hand (also gives me some time to pause and think about naming / description, and set repo visibility for a public project).

UPD: Gitea / Forgejo takes it one step further and allows you to specify visibility when pushing like this:

git push -o repo.private=false -u git@git.example.com:example/hello master

(Doesn't seem to work on Codeberg, though)

https://docs.gitea.io/en-us/push-options/
I second frutiger's recommendation of Elliptic Tales: Curves, Counting, and Number Theory. There should be more science and math books at this level but it's rare—either you're assumed to be starting from scratch or to be at least a graduate student in the field. I also recommend Jim Baggott's Perfect Symmetry: The Accidental Discovery of Buckminsterfullerene as another example at this rarely seen intermediate level. (Arguably all of Scientific American was at this level 50 years ago, but that era is long gone.)
It is less general though, so this is interesting because it shows you can learn a lot without adding very much structure.
This page is not readable on my iPhone :(

Here is a more readable version of that same page: https://archive.is/nRpOi#create-a-new-project-with-git-push
The Apple Watch Ultra battery is much better in those circumstances. I used to struggle to last a day now I charge every other day and still have 20% ish left.
I'm using Tor right now, because it's the only way I can access HN while my SelfControl.app is blocking it for the next 24 hours :)
I was working in a Dell call center in 2007 when this plague started. As soon as I pulled up the service tag I could tell how the call was going to go. Yellow lights on the back indicating power but no successful POST. Specific chassis manufactured in a specific time range. There was a massive recall but most people don’t return their working machine, so it took months before the calls slowed down.
For something enterprise scale, check out Tea Leaf. IBM ran the product for a while, I think now Acoustic has it. Many large F500 use this or other similar products:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tealeaf
tiktok has exactly one video format, and the videos are small and can compromise on quality because they’re intended to be viewed on mobile. processing becomes a lot easier when you only need to transcode to one format. and also it’s a linear feed, so they can preload the next videos ahead of time. just open up your browser console and you can see for yourself how big each video is and their preloading.

i definitely wouldn’t call this evidence that their tech is good though.
> Research careers are not prizes or sinecures, they are positions of trust and responsibility. Scientists are paid for the value they are expected to produce, and if they produce less value than someone else would have in their position, they shouldn’t be there in the first place.

And getting into these positions of trust and responsibility should be based on your own definition of "smart enough", correct?
>the shop ultimately closed

yeah, sounds about right. i was also working in a repair shop around the same time, and we knew that we could repair the boards for our customers. but we also knew that we couldn't get away with charging enough to cover the cost of parts and labour unless we offered a warranty, and we couldn't reasonably offer a warranty on old motherboards.

we did make pretty good money selling upgraded new computers to the people whose capacitors had failed. it always felt a bit dirty to sell somebody a new $800 laptop when their old computer was repairable, and i'm sure dell was doing even better than we were on that racket.
My take, this is more common in winner-take-all industries where the long tail in skinny. It's so hard to predict what will be a success when doing something new that you want to milk a success. One of the smaller tragedies of economic inequality - everyone wants to become U2/Jay Leno, nobody wants to be Bill Watterson.
The media features on the Subaru are terrible. I want to be able to unset preprogrammed Sirius stations. I have presets 1-19 set but I still have to scroll past preset 28 that someone inadvertently set. My other big complaint is how often it turns on in "Sign up for Sirius mode" despite having an active subscription. All I need to do is hit channel up and it goes to preset #1.
I used a Sonim XP5 for about 2 years. My criteria were just that (besides regular phone and text uses) it function as an mp3 player and be able to connect it to my vehicle with Bluetooth. Starting to get the itch to switch to it again.
My career advice is usually:

1. draw a circle around the things you enjoy doing

2. draw a circle around the things that pay well

3. draw a circle around the things you're good at

The intersection is your best career path.

I tried to be a musician. Epic failure. I tried sports. Catastrophic failure. I tried sales. Monumental failure. Persisting in those endeavors as a career is akin to beating my head on a rock.

People are different. Viva la difference.
HCU, Fravia, et al.
Everyone has heard of L0pht, Phrozen Crew, CDC, etc. I thought I would perform a little necromancy and remind folks of +HCU, Fravia, +ORC, etc.

These guys were pioneers in software cracking, and taught legions of newbies how to get started. In addition to writing tutorials and various web shenanigans, they ran classes.

I just figured folks might find it interesting.
completely anecdotal, but when Diablo 2 resurrected came out I went on a 2-day binge, 16 hours a day. A couple hours into the first day I was already feeling pain in my mouse hand, but after switching to trackpoint I had zero issues grinding for the next 2 days.
BNL has a bunch of software engineers doing cool data infrastructure stuff. The current project lead for matplotlib works there!

https://www.bnl.gov/staff/tcaswell
No, I find that position rather absurd. I'm not talking about entitlement. I was reacting to a train of thought started two posts up:

> There just was not enough time dedicated to dissecting how to parse word problem, look for patterns, map it to a framework. It was basically left to the student to figure it out in 1 week based on 3-4 homework problems.

My position is that, perhaps, it is counterproductive to tell people who have some trouble in this environment to "find another occupation" based on such a limited measure of performance. We've never defined what the occupation is in this exchange, so perhaps I'm just unintentionally talking past you. I'm certainly biased. The autodidacts I've worked with (who intentionally dropped out of the rigid, unforgiving environment of academia) have been among the biggest contributors on teams I've participated in. In environments more suited to them, they learn just as fast as folks with a more traditional background. In these instances, the occupation was fine. The teacher needed to be swapped out.
>every artist, ever?

Hi. Artist here. I don't care about how popular my art is and I never want it to pay the bills.
Yeah the Dell bulge rate is like 10x HP. The other fun one is their docks, which had a NIC bug tthat would brick the dock.
> It's a machine designed to pick up on cues about what you want it to do, and then do that - it's practically engineered to confirm your biases.

Mainly, biases it picked up from the training data. That's why most language models in the fill-mask task of a sentence like "woman worked as [FILL]" will fill it with "maid," "waitress," "prostitute," etc. because they seem to be the most statistically plausible. Unless you create "your own reality" for the current session, which basically means preparing input in a specific way instead of asking a simple question, then you are correct, it will confirm whatever you want it to confirm.
The long-range wifi antenna has always sounded like an opsec urban legend to me. You'll be able to transmit signals to the router, but can you really receive them with any sufficient fidelity if the router itself does not also have a long range antenna or unusually high transmission power?
The history AI will have an opinion that mirrors the politics of the user that asks it what it thinks of Karpathy’s time at Tesla.
Backup quarterbacks in the NFL is actually the worst possible example you could've given here. How many of those do you think they need relative to the population ? What level of play do you imagine they have to exhibit?

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