skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I saw a video the other day which pointed out a troubling statistic: Universities today have more gender bias than they had in the 70s. But the gender bias has reversed - instead of men differentials succeeding more than women, men are now much less likely to graduate from university than women are.

I think it’s pretty awful having one gender succeed at the expense of another, whichever way around that goes. For society to be healthy we need everyone to thrive.

https://youtu.be/DBG1Wgg32Ok
Distribution of Household Wealth in the U.S. since 1989
What percentage? Why should any be vacant?
I'm confused as to what exactly is wrong with the notion of _jobs_ and _files_? Scheduling is hard, but modern operating systems are definitely setup to do it. I think we could probably do a better job of using realtime features and maintaining update latency benchmarks, but so many of the cycles on my PCs/mobiles are wasted doing god damned animations and updating the screen without interaction that I don't think this is really the main issue.

Programming is basically always just a matter of loading data, transforming data, and then putting it somewhere. The simplest record keeping systems do that, and the fanciest search algorithms do that. Decode/encode/repeat.

EDIT: The beauty of UNIX to me is the interoperability of the text stream. Small components working together. Darwinesque survival of the fittest command.
Who knows. One thing is for certain though is that inventory is remaining low because people like myself can’t sell our homes due to interest rates.
Can you tell a field that either Ed Witten or Terrance Tao knows a significant amount about outside their field of specialization? And don't say math for Ed Witten because his field is mathematical physics.
The other thing that worries me is how integrated modern headunits are. It used to be that when your headunit broke or became obsolete, you could just whack a new one in for a few hundred dollars, prolonging the life of your vehicle. Now even basic cars have fully integrated headunits making upgrades impossible. Even if the headunit continues to function, the technology is going to become so obsolete that they’ll be virtually useless in 20 years. I doubt the iPhone 35 will connect to a 2023 car. I guess people who buy new cars couldn’t care less about what happens to them in 20 years, which is an easy win for car manufacturers looking for ways to reduce the effective lifespan of their vehicles.
While I was never able to remember Konstantin Tsiolkovsky's name, whenever I read it I almost immediately know it's about the rocket science pioneer. Strange how the mind works.

Glad to see him mentioned from time to time anyway.
I just followed a YouTube video whenever I was confused about something and did it from scratch
What’s most upsetting are the number of POSIX things that have been codified when there was likely little thought given to the original implementation. We have paved all the cow paths. Like, why can you still configure tar options without prefixing a hyphen?
How do you envision that happening? There’s no big database of people’s medical conditions out there that you can use to lookup their name and address, so it’s kind of like an impossible reverse lookup that would need to be done right? Unless you’re talking about a state level actor or something that is tailing someone’s movements around like Jason Bourne and cross referencing it with medical GPT queries, but in that case you’re gonna be compromised anyway in probably far easier ways.
Probably out of water. Florida and Arizona may have problems that are the exact opposite of the other. Florida, too much water, Arizona too little water.
You can get paid more, or the value can be passed on to shareholders. Depends.
Does anyone here know how much power is being generated by those solar panels and in turn what kind of equipment could be powered in this manner? In my field of work I've seen weather balloons, but this is a whole different ball game. Fascinating.
> Tbh that’s actually lower than I would have expected

What would you have expected exactly, and why?

For reference, there are around 4000 universities and colleges in the US.

I personally had no priors about this issue. If you had asked me, what % of US centimillionaires attended these 8 universities, I would have said, I have no idea. So I find it interesting that you already had an estimate.
Sigh.

https://wiki.lesswrong.com/wiki/Chesterton%27s_Fence
I'm childless so it may come across as arrogant to give any advise.

One thing I learned from observing the teenagers of my friends is that they don't want this either. We're adults and talking and a bunch of kids sit in a row on the couch, playing with their iPads. For hours on end.

And yet they hear everything you say. They're paying attention. And when you show a genuine interest them just by asking a few question, the iPad is quickly ignored.

That's a sign of hope. They want to engage and be engaged in something more meaningful. The iPad fills a void. This artificial divide of the situation between adults and children does not help. Sending them outside does not help either because nobody else is outside.

Engage with them. They have a bunch of free time on their hands but no meaning to fill it with. You can't stop the draw to the device unless that time is filled with things that makes them forget the device. It doesn't take much. A conversation, a board game, a small game of sports in the park, whatever possible for you.

I would admit though that the situation for girls is not this simple. They will be dragged into a games of thrones style social battle of self-image/worth.
Do people in the US just walk in the middle of the road ?
Right.

Historic average interest rates in the US are around 4%, with around 6% being about the average over the past 40 years or so. We can do fine with non-zero rates. https://advisor.visualcapitalist.com/us-interest-rates/
That's a pretty bizarre answer to what was a pretty reasonable question. I don't even see how the question and answer are related honestly. Surely the question is more about finding a better storage format for the initial ingestion or data storage and has little to nothing to do with POSIX.

Most languages have a way to slurp a file into memory in a single function call, after all. The fact that files exist shouldn't be a barrier here.
such a thing would actually really help you to understand such theories...

hence it's not incentivized by the current "capital" run markets
They can expect more, but it might not be all that reasonable.

Right now, single women are earning more than single men (and have greater home ownership). Yet most women would prefer than men earn more than they do. Put those two things together and you create this untenable situation where women desire only a fairly small fraction of men. And that's just from an economic perspective and what people will admit to right now, nevermind anything else.
I dig this, a lot. Seems like theres an intentional selection bias here in attracting people that love distributed systems, and I think that's cool.

As an aside, I think a conversational version of these challenges work well as a middle ground for anyone that think the take home coding approach may be too heavy-handed or not time efficient. That's how I do it in my funnel (sharding a database from scratch) and it only takes about an hour of face-to-face time. Most of the time you don't even need a whiteboard.
My experience has been that I never fail to make progress whenever I encounter something I didn’t know or was weak in. The system offers you plenty of practice problems, at just the right level, to make sure you master the material before moving on to material that builds on the previous lesson.

Aggressively positive? Maybe. I have been a paying customer since october and very happy with the results.
You're getting downvoted but you're not wrong. This article also ignores the fact that we had rich data-structured storage systems and transparent resource sharing, both built into the VMS system. POSIX-style systems absolutely destroyed the market for them, because at the end of the day they're relatively inflexible and "open, read, write, close" is sufficient to build whatever else you need.

Speaking as a working data scientist, even well-structured data usually needs heavy manipulation before it's suitable for use, and modern datasets absolutely do not fit into the system memory of a typical workstation. Secondary storage is now just an nvme cache for what we might as well call "tertiary storage," which is in the cloud, and just as unreliable as the old pallet full of tapes (not because the vendor is screwing up, but because there's a lot of network between here and there).

The problems haven't meaningfully changed in practice, they've just sort of shifted around so that different ones loom large. Unless you win the lottery and find a consistent, reliable source of clean data, POSIX isn't ever going to be the bottleneck.

EDIT: HN won't let me reply, so I'm editing this post in response to haunter's question below:

For the filesystem stuff, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Files-11 and be sure to read the section about "Record Management Services" which sort of blurs the line between database and filesystem.

For resource sharing: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VMScluster and remember that thanks to record-based file storage, locking can happen on the record level -- imagine instead of having to lock a whole JSON document for writing, you could lock just the key/value pair you were updating, and other programs could read/write the rest of the file safely!
Thanks! I think...maybe I'll skip the ancient math books and rely on the modern ones.
Not even that, you can become the victim of a "noisy" neighbor if someone on the same IPv4 /24 sends too much spam (some of the common blacklist providers will do entire netblocks if they get enough complaints)
Reminds me how when people get criticized on Twitter now, they just assume it’s a bot
I prefer to work with the best people for the job.
The ungrounded breathless excitement of this piece is so grating.

> It's clear that prompting as the way to interact with AI models is here to stay. We wrote about it some months ago as something that might soon happen, and it became even more true than we thought.

Can we reel it in a bit? The jump from "true for some months" to "here to stay" is probably premature.

>Imagine a future where your browser's AI can actively change your experience of the internet entirely. For example, you may prompt this browser to display every website in dark-mode (even those that don't support the option),

Dark-mode browser extensions have been a thing for a while, and don't require any AI.

> If a website is completely malleable to the point that the data it holds can be re-shaped into something else, then you can almost see a website as an application programming interface (API).

... or you could open the developer tab and look at the API requests it's already making. API mashups were a buzzy thing more than a decade ago.

ML is doing new and exciting things right now, but this is acting like re-skinning something is a bold new frontier. 20+ years ago, custom skins for the media player app was fun. Don't try to sell it as a new landscape of possibilities in 2023.
ChatGPT, anyone? <ducks head>
Rich people wait things out all the time, they have options. If the couple thinks the estate in Atherton is worth $15m, but market says $10m, they can horse trade so whoever wants it keeps it, or put it in a trust, or whatever.

If someone holds that property and dies, they’ll have a trust setup for it already, and almost no one will be in a rush to lose $5m liquidating it right away.

Anyone owning a place in Atherton (who bought recently) doesn’t have a ‘job’ in any every day person sense, and certainly isn’t relying on a paycheck to pay the mortgage. You literally can’t even get a conforming mortgage for those places.

Someone can (and will!) go full Kanye eventually of course, if it’s a big enough area, but those are few and far between and there is a LOT of pressure to not screw up the neighbors comps.

They’re often weird, special places anyway, so many games can be played. A friend of a friend lives there and his neighbors include a member of the Saudi Royal family, and a prominent VC LP.

That kind of wealth means there is no rush to lock in losses, and plenty of reason to pretend they haven’t happened - as usually, prices go back up.

It’s going to be easier to rent too than a terrible place in a terrible part of town.

If you’re poor? No one has those luxuries. Hell, many times no one can even afford lawyers!

Trying to buy into Palo Alto in ‘09-11 was impossible. No price drops, even less inventory, almost no volume at all. Atherton was laughable, there was even some price increases.

Sunnyvale? Near 101 (the ‘bad part’), prices literally halved. I know, I bought one. Most of San Jose was similar.

The closer you got to Los Altos/Campbell, the more frozen and ridiculous it got.

Most of sunnyvale had movement. A LOT of San Jose turned over.

I’ve seen the same thing play out in other markets of course, and know professional real estate investors.

The writing has been on the wall for YEARS pre-pandemic. Hell, good luck finding anything that would even cashflow for renting in the entire state of CAlifornia even by ‘18.
Let me say it: HN would be a better place without the obligatory downvotes for MS-critical posts. The other large companies' employees somehow avoid doing this, why can't you? Are you really that insecure?

('you' here not meaning the poster I just commented, but, well, you know who.)
Were they planning on grabbing the guns back before or after they were used to execute Brian Terry?

Seems like the criticism of this operation may be justified.
Well, if no homes were vacant, it would be incredibly difficult to move into or within a city.
Women can't all "marry up" unless you systematically disadvantage all women, such that for F1, there is a M1 who is of higher whatever (status, income, looks), and so on for F2 and M2, F3 and M3, and so on.

Given the stats on enrollment in colleges, on who is preferred for tenure track in academia, and so on and so forth, well ... that's just not gonna work out.
The problem that I have with Codex (code-davinci-002) is that it sometimes just starts repeating the last X tokens infinitely. And I have tried using the parameter for frequency penalty but that seems to make it eventually "run out" of newlines sometimes. Because of that and the fact that it doesn't follow directions as well, I am trying to just use text-davinci-003 even for coding tasks. Its not as good at programming but usually good enough. Sometimes you need to give it hints about basic things. I mean the other issue is that code-davinci-002 has been in limited beta forever and Microsoft Azure won't acknowledge my request for AI services.
It's just the better choose to wait it out, even if you get divorced, fired, etc. It's the more optimal financial play to treat housing as an asset, and because the US has proven historical to have a wildly fluctuating housing market. If you want to sell, and know waiting 4 years could net you a free $500,000 bonus, why wouldn't you
Google tried its glucose monitoring contact lens and failed, the program was discontinued in 2018.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Contact_Lens

For something that has to be monitored very closely, nothing beats an actual blood sample. And to get a blood sample, it can't be non-invasive.
Writing well is difficult for many, and I believe one of the reasons is because people don't read much anymore. Whether it's fiction, non-fiction, or poetry doesn't matter, as long as you read. But our attention spans have become so short that we need small, quick dopamine hits.

I used to read voraciously; the longer books the better. Every Stephen King book, Neal Stephenson series, I just loved to lose myself in a good book to the exclusion of everything else.

Now I find I have to focus before I can truly lose myself in a good book.

I'm a firm believer that you can learn to write by following style guides, quotes from Hemingway and King about 'killing your babies' etc. But to become a great writer you have to be a reader.
the line was that "woman" wasn't accurate enough, cis-man dilutes the number of people that would listen, male wasn't accurate enough either, and male presenting was closest but even more obscure regarding what I'm actually talking about it
Before marriage, I made sure my partner agreed with me that if we had kids, we would not act as if our kids owed us anything. I did not want to bring people into this world just so they can work for me.

If they want to, and we happen to live near, then great. If their goals take them elsewhere, then that is great also.
Neat. I'm interested in doing something similar, but involving PHI, so ChatGPT is out of the question. How would one self-host a LLM without a Web Scale™ GPU farm? Is FlexGen (recently featured on HN) the way?
Can you summarize Moon's sandboxing approach? I understand for phantom deps you want to delegate to pnp/pnpm. But how do you handle sources not declared explicitly as inputs to a build graph node?

If I have package A only list its own sources as inputs, how do you prevent the Node runtime from happily doing require('../B')? If you don't, how do you prevent differences in the state of B from poisoning the remote cache?
I was under the impressions that street lights promote safety by reducing chances of person to person crime. It’s harder to hide in the shadows and get away without people seeing you with streetlights. So a handheld flashlight doesn’t solve that problem.
As someone who years ago decided to never use Facebook, I can confirm that abstaining from social media is socially damaging. It’s a bit like the automobile. You can’t opt out of the technological society. I suppose the silver lining is that social media apps aren’t owned and controlled by totalitarian communist regimes, or at least not all of them.
I would filter out at least whitespaces and comma. Aside from catching typos this also protects against header injection or spam abusenby sending to multiple recipients.

And yes, those should be defended when constructing the mail, but checking early doesn't cost much.
This looks amazing, tbh.
Recent revisions to Microsoft filings show the company reconsidering AI risk
This ACM article sponsored by Red Hat and Microsoft!
A take home without actual feedback is a complete waste of everyone’s time. Who cares if you get a taste for the job in the process. You spend a weekend, the company spends 10 minutes.
Makeswift improved CI speed by 65% with Turborepo
not quite

the low distribution isn't distributed across every VC portfolio, its across ALL VCs. which means that for MOST VC's, it is absolutely a "no deal", so far.

we are completely aware that most of the decision makers don't consider themselves as racist and sexist in their hearts and minds, we are also completely aware that their reasoning lacks any meritocracy or quantitatively better investment outcomes, while also having outcomes that shut out demographics by race and sex.
You’re right it has rained a lot here in the last 2 weeks but I don’t think we’ll be underwater just yet.
Funny you should mention that, while we look both ways to preserve our survival due to understanding the dangers of cars, yet we will jaywalk at the same time.

A little rebellion is inevitable, just matters what it is. By acknowledging this inevitability, you have a much better chance of giving your family the tools to make smarter choices. Exactly like you said, demonstration is a fantastic tool to utilize.

It's the difference between rebelling against your friends peer pressure obsession with posting so much on social media because you knew how it made them miserable, as opposed to rebelling against your parents for banning social media when it looks like your friends are having so much fun without you.
Have you spent time around high school and jr high students? Barbarians is putting it nicely.
Maybe in the short term, but eventually, their vendors will need to lower prices. Specifically, the landowners. This would be expedited if we had a land value tax that made it more expensive for land owners to just sit on unproductive land.

Of course, due to prop 13, California has the exact opposite situation where landowners are rewarded for sitting on unproductive land.
Unlikely. Look at Japan.
is it microkernel written in rust?
Would Ruffle[1] help?

[1]: https://ruffle.rs/
Maybe you can ask their teachers to give them more homework? Then they will be too busy with homework to be depressed about being isolated from their peers.
This sounds exciting. I'll feature in the next issue of my newsletter -(https://AIBrews.com)
Watching The 8-Bit Guy's youtube channel I'm convinced the Tandy was probably the best DOS computer ever. A shame I never owned one; I went from an XT clone with monochrome graphics (the Hercules card had a charm of its own!) to an AT with a VGA videocard. I understand that the EGA emulation the VGA was capable of was similar but not exactly the same as Tandy color graphics.
U.S. Considers Releasing Intelligence on China's Potential Russian Arms Transfer
Andrew Huberman of Huberman Lab podcast discusses this in the first 4-5 episodes of the podcast. The takeaway is: it's late-night bright light, rather than blue light, that has effects on the circadian rhythm. It's an appeal to authority but I think I'll go with the professor of neurobiology and opthalmology on this one.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Shower_Head There was a Seinfeld about this
"I believe that using social media could actually have greater benefits for me, such as being able to record Tiktok dances with my friends"

It was believable until the agenda was revealed :)

See, dinosaur me would insist that young girls should enjoy dancing together. Without a camera and without sharing this with the entire world. I do not even want to think about the legions of creepy old men watching that.
We have a ton of filtering, but great question. I will ask someone from the team to respond as I'm not sure how well we do on this particular thing and/or what we are capturing today.
As I said:
"that AI will also master therapy, sales, supervising children, customer service etc, as it now has an strong understanding of human behaviour."

Novel writing is like the training ground for emotional intelligence in AIs. Fiction writing itself is not economically important, but the skills learnt from it is.

As a passionate hobby writer myself. I say you should actually go and try the writing tools, sudowrite/verb.ai are examples.
Once you start using them, you start realizing how much they suck at writing stories, and your worries will go away.
Unlike art AI, fiction writing AI has not really improved significantly. The core challenges are unsolved since the days of GPT-2.

There's also little research money coming in. Having a truthful, helpful, inoffensive AI is the polar opposite of what you want in a story AI, which should be deceitful, aggressive, and offensive.
“spam wouldn’t scale” - unconvinced on this: spammers already mostly use other people’s compromised machines to do the sending; there is no cost to them here.
First of all, great article!

>"By turning my typewriter into a computer, I was able to recreate the experience of using a teletype. Now I know what it was like to use Unix in the 1960s when it was originally being developed!"

Indeed! This is an experience that will NOT be had by most CS students or programmers in general! And yet, it is a fundamental understanding that the early computers did not have monitors, GUIs, mice -- or even monochrome text terminals and keyboards!

Nope!

You had a headless computer, DIP switches (of some sort), and something like a teletype (text printer/text typewriter) for output... and that's all you had...

Anyway, great article!