skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It all depends on circumstances, starting with the country you are in, that often determines the basic level of quality of any kind of public transport.

Then, the real travel time is measured from door-to-door. That includes the traveling to stations/stops and the waiting time for connecting transport. I think this is fairly obvious.

If we want to make the world a better place for people and the environment, the number one priority should be to reduce any need to travel in the first place. But if they must travel, make public transport so good (price/time) that it is the first choice of transport.

That would be the appropriate vision for the future. And it can happen in any country.

The reality is that capitalism and politics prevent public transport from truly shining. It's not even that of a political statement because we know why America doesn't have great public transport overall, especially a lack of long-distance rail lines like 'we' have in Europe. (Car companies lobbying against rail)
Or just do a quick search and be done with it in few seconds.

>"ask it to put data in a table" - this might be useful.
First thing that came to mind was the Youtube Channel Casually Explained. They have a whole series there about life being a video game, too.

https://www.youtube.com/@CasuallyExplained
I've seen this recently with the elementary school near me. Grading is extremely opaque, and seems to be largely based on teacher intuition. Some very advanced students have gotten grades below where they are (I've heard many teachers just won't give the highest grade until the end of the year because of the weird system).

Thankfully they also have standardized test scores, which both have a much more transparent scoring method and seem a much better match for the children's competency. It's not that standardized tests are perfect, but removing them makes things extremely capricious, and often very unfair.
Have we already seen it? Chinese currency controls might be what's keeping it as high as it is.
FBI Queries for US Messages Collected Warrantless Said to Drop ‘Dramatically’
And glide is the only 3d accelerator that made diablo 2 look good. To this day.
pensioners should pay less because they have less income and are more dependent on public transport.

tourists paying more doesn't make sense, because tourists are not going to use this kind of ticket anyways unless they are in germany for a few months. and even if they get it for just a short visit then they will hardly make as much use of it as locals, so there is no benefit for them paying more.

that said, there could be a more expensive version of this ticket that does not require a subscription that you'd have to remember to cancel.
It's more involved than just "swapping a few strings". You also need to make sure that all the libraries you depend on are on the same side of the divide, that is, you have to "swap a few strings" and update all your dependencies at the same time (and these updates could bring unrelated breaking changes with them). And some of these dependency changes might be unexpected; you might not expect a general-purpose logging library to depend on that, yet one popular logging library has to be upgraded from 1.3.x to 1.4.x when changing the namespace from javax to jakarta.

It's even worse when your software can load plugins written by third parties, and your API allows these plugins to expose servlets or similar. You'd have to not only "swap a few strings" and update the dependencies in your software, but also make all these third parties update all plugins at the same time, with no chance of a gradual transition. It's a large amount of pain, for a completely unnecessary naming change.
https://archive.ph/waiG3
Legacy acceptances rates at Princeton are close to ten percent. Kids who get in to those schools often have high GPAs and test scores without tutors.
interesting, like what?
This is a really cool look back at how pmarca coded the original browser in c! You feel like another programmer in the room back in 1993.
I don't know. I find the differential equations much easier to read than this corresponding electrical circuit.

http://seti.harvard.edu/unusual_stuff/misc/lorenz.htm
What are some of those features?
are there any good python packages that get you these (at least some of them) already? that don't have a good front end that pycob can leverage?
I think the point might have been, you can be excellent at chemistryy, a real value to society with your ingenuity and rigor, and be no good at all at writing about chemistry.

A test like that would be fair if it were testing for journalists.

Maybe every job needs at least a little bit of rounded basic skills like that, and so it's fair for the test to include some the same way. In that case I see no problem there either.

But I don't know how out of balance the commenter is talking about. Was the test they are thinking of totally wrong or did it just include the appropriate portion of basic rounded literacy/competency, and if they sucked at it, then that was exactly the job the test is there to do is to guage those weaknesses?
If Life is a game, it’s worth remembering no strategy saves you from Game Over. It only enhances how you get there and delays it. There are no save points, no new lives. You can change strategy late, but some decisions are irreversible and you need to make sure you want the game to play out that way before you commit.
Honestly I was hoping that ChatGPT was just a fad. It exploded in users almost instantly (2 months to one million MAU, that's _insane_), and I was honestly hoping that interest would wane naturally over the next few months. I thought that this was part of the GPT-4 training process or something.

That clearly isn't going to happen.

My other hope was that these large language models would lose popularity in general and everyone would move on, but now I'm seeing LLM output in screenshots in slack threads when I ask a clarifying fundamental question about CSS. Like I said in the article: Pandora's box is now open and we get to learn to live with the diseases.

Side note: it would be nice if you edited your comment to refer to me accurately with "they" or "she". I'd really appreciate it!
Anyone can publish anything online, that's the beauty of the internet.

There's nothing controversial in the writing, tl;dr where you spend your time has an effect on how your life turns out and some examples.

You never know the effect your writing will have on someone. Someone might read that post, something in the way it's written will cause an epiphany and that person's life will get better. There's no reason to be so negative :).
If you read the explanation I do think that makes sense in that they are very clear that it is specifically the _math_ portion of the SAT/ACT where they see the value. And generally I agree with that, especially as a threshold (as opposed to a fine ranking).

It was similar when I applied to grad school (this was engineering). They told us pretty unequivocally that getting a perfect GRE math score was pretty much required, but that the verbal went right in the bin, so don't worry about it.

It makes sense for engineering focused schools or those applying to engineering schools. I'm still less convinced places like Harvard where a good chunk of the students won't take a ultra-difficult math class during their time there has much use in the SATs. At least in the "I got a 1580 on my SATs but someone with a 1570 got in over me, how is that fair?" Kind of way.
> Anyone can break into programming, all you need is the internet, interest and aptitude to understand code.

If by "break into programming" you mean getting any decent paying job, it's even easier than that. I'd say it's closer to "show up on time having showered and be able to code yourself out of a paper bag".
It’s worse than taking life advice from another common kind of source: a victim.

Victims are the worst, they become wholly engulfed by their personal tragedy and shape their world view and strategy for life around it, producing a twisted, pessimistic interpretation of how to live a decent life. And people listen to victims, because with time they get better and better at perfecting their backstory so that it hits all the right emotions and amplifies their victimhood. They are naturally viral. Being the victim thus becomes their security blanket, their shield from any criticism about anything else they do in life. It’s intoxicating. But also exhausting, because a victim will feel compelled to lash out at anyone who may call their motives into question, or simply doesn’t agree with their perspective. And some people are victims, and they don’t even know it. I see such victims, all the time.
Meta: 13 hours, 44 points, no comments until now.

That is rather unusual I think : )
> AI will absolutely change the way software engineering is accomplished. We already use things like Cloud Formation templates to auto-build and scale cloud-based architectures. We have code generators to build microservices. We even have modeling techniques to simplify complex systems.

> All of those "things" will be plugged into an AI and one senior technologist will be able to write a detailed functional description of a system in natural language, domain models, with data points, and an AI will write, test, integrate, and deploy production level code.

Are you sure? Imagine someone saying the same thing about compilers: "Before we employed 20 programmers to write machine code but now we can employ 5 C programmers because C is so much more productive". Of course the opposite happened. Compilers increased the demand for programmers.
Thanks! Could you elaborate on your use case? I'm trying to figure out how much of this can/needs to be client-side vs. server-side
Could you comment on what you find bothering in the content of the article itself instead of the focusing on the author?
Nano bone and teeth mineral aka nano hydroxyapatite, why would that be banned?

Nanomaterials in cosmetics, although the use of nano tubes to deliver medicine is like a basic step towards making food in the same sense as lab grown meat could deliver custom ratios of amino acids and other chemicals which wouldnt be found in the normal animal.

Perhaps these nanomaterials are bypassing the usual digestive methods in order to enter the body and this creates a new attack vector for the body to deal with, knowing its not evolved to deal with these new forms of chemicals.

Is this like an asbestos is to lungs situation in the making? Time will tell.
Can you link me to your comparative review of the bible and other holy texts? How did you benchmark? I’m particularly keen to see how Buddhism baked off against Rastafarianism in your objective analysis.
The Smallest Hash Table
In case it is interesting, an early idea phase version of this article was called "So much for AI ethics" and it would have gone over that problem you quoted in more detail, but I was having trouble building up enough sarcasm juice to really express it properly.
Since communication was unencrypted, listening in was easy though. Even the instant messengers, up to 2005-2007, sent their messages in cleartext. So listening in was easy, but since storage was much more expensive, I don't think they bothered with recording them too much.

Regarding your conclusion, leaving FB and G is not even the hardest part. The hardest part is that your network probably won't follow.
The risk is that China becomes a pariah to the West, which much of their economic system depends on.
Berlin(the biggest city) is miserable in this regard. My former tram line(M4) used to be 50:50 with old and new trams. In the last year before I moved, they had almost 100% old trams in there. Same goes for S-bahn, even new carriages are not equipped to deal with the weather. I dreaded using them in summer.

The city has an excellent network in terms of coverage, but the trains are outdated.
But, it's important to not overdo. If Russians realise they have no chance of winning, they can give up and leave, and it's not the optimal outcome. They have to first, be thoroughly drained of resources so they can't invade anyone else. Do we want Putin to repeat the same thing say with Kazakhstan? It will be a lot harder to help Kazakhstan than Ukraine.

Also, i would argue that a thoroughly drained Russia that lost faith in it's military, will give Belarus a chance to set itself free.
Shorthand is something different.

I'm not sure what you mean. Shorthand is what was being discussed.
> Just because you can doesn’t mean you should.

This is where you are wrong. If you are making a validator, if the format can do something, the validator should deal with that possibility. If validator is incomplete wrt' validated features, it cannot be used to guarantee the document validity, which is... well, it's most important function.

It has nothing to do with your emotional attachments to tags and sequences.
It’s not practical to shut off every appliance, particularly the major ones. The risk is probably greater for smaller kitchen appliances (eg George Foreman, waffle iron, etc) that don’t have the safety features of large appliances.

As long as the Samsung Galaxy Note 7 & Dishwasher team isn’t working on it, electric car charging is pretty safe.
Agree, when school is there just to mark elite status.

For those pursuing expertise though, schools can provide a lot of value through offering access to others with talent and to some degree infrastructure.

That these schools serve both sets of demand is a problem: Sure hand out the elite status tokens to favored groups, they dont matter much anyways. But if society actually believes that there are pressing problems that need to be solved (global warming perhaps etc) training resources should be aimed at those who can best go on to make use of them.
> In 1960, something like 30 million people starved.

Interestingly if you check wikipedia it appears that China had major famines every decade or up until that particular one, and nothing since then.
As an Asian person, I think it's a cultural thing.

There is this old joke about how even if you are a one-in-a-million person, there are still 8000 of "you"s to choose from; how does one chose who to pick, if there aren't positions for all of them?

So how do you make it "fair"? Since of the number of seats are limited, so imagine if the cut-off for the last seat is for someone who is in the 90.3765335th percentile, look at how many significant digits that is! (Yes, that's how specific it can get, when population sizes grow large enough.)

Yes, you can argue about having a "bad day", but there are thousands of other people ALSO in the same percentile as you, and you all didn't have a "bad day", at some point it's about resource limitation.

There are two and a half billion Asians of different varieties, that means MILLIONS of people at each economic/social strata. You simply CAN'T provide the same resource to all of them, some of them will have to vie for a lower-ranked resource.

If there are limited number of seats, and your economy cannot afford to fund more seats, then a standardized test is the only fair way, at least it allows you to have SOME sort of control at your luck.

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That same thinking applies to Asians who move to the US. It's patently unfair, from their PoV, to give weightage to things they CAN'T control for (race/wealth etc.) and not give weightage to a thing they CAN control for; a standardized test.
I feel the same way. Imagine if Harvard had the ability to enroll one billion students per year. There would be no need to use either grades, SAT score, personal essays or anything else to reject students. They would be able to accept everybody, and then everybody could get an elite education and society would be so much better off.

But that would never happen. The whole point of ivy league is that they are exclusive. Companies get to feel special when they hire an ivy league grad so they can feel special for having one of the special chosen ones. If everyone gets to have an ivy league degree, then the ivy league degree becomes worthless.
I’ve never heard of quad9 before. Sounds cool. Anyone using them?
Unlike intellectual property rights, which are temporary monopolies granted by government to creators in order to encourage more creation.
If everyone must be equitable, then the most expedient way to achieve that is to reduce the standard.
Yeah these ancient Hindu ideas that became popularized around the new thought movement with notable people like Ralph Waldo Emerson. Now mainstream through even shorter best sellers and 15 second TikToks.

Can you really reduce the idea down this far and still have success with it?
14% of Harvard undergrads are legacies. It is exceedingly unlikely that SATs help a higher percentage of deserving but otherwise overlooked applicants.

My point is, there is a way to have a far higher impact on opening seats for kids who should be getting an elite education than the question of whether SATs help or harm attaining that goal. They're not really serious until they don't preference legacies.
Most people who use terminals do it to trade fixed income products for one.
Bought fully into the Russian propaganda then… you’d do well to listen to pretty much any interview by Fiona Hill and you’d quickly realise there’s nothing the US wants less than borders starting to be changed by wars; there are so many disputed lines that it could lead to conflicts all over the world. China starting a proxy war with the US and Europe is going to be extremely bad for business.
Whistleblower: Spyware helps the mafia rule in Cyprus (2022)
First and only Convolutional encoder and a Viterbi decoder written in Golang
“Legacy” applicants is the opposite of woke, it’s been how the “old boys network” has run for hundreds of years, getting under qualified students into top Universities.
FAANG bias here on HN, but financial tech is orders of magnitude leaner in general.

K's are often used as a sort of efficiency language.
Often allows you to get the same work done in 1/1000th the code managed by 1/10th the staff running on 1/10th the hardware.

Anyway, these things are cyclical.
> For those pursuing expertise though, schools can provide a lot of value through offering access to others with talent and to some degree infrastructure.

I think you misunderstood what I meant. When I was referring to schools, I meant high school and earlier. In other words, the schools that should presumably give you an education relevant to the standardized tests.
In a loose sense this is the accepted purpose of a degree, not just as an education center (theoretically motivated peers in addition to the teachers), but as a stamp of "we have given you education in X and deemed that you learned/retained enough of it". I don't know that many school do it well, but some universities can claim that they have much more rigorous programs than others and so students going there will come out better educated (I studied abroad and the mathematics standards at my host school were just nonexistent).

Anyone can pick up a math book and start teaching themselves, there's no doubt about it - but any form of third-party verification of this is very high effort on a case-by-case basis.
It is intelligent enough to learn how to operate a car...

You are identifying "subconscious" as in "I did it without minding it" with "subconscious" as a structured personality inside your mind with autonomous will and reasoning.

When you learn to do something physical, like driving or playing the piano, you start with a strong conscious focus in what you're doing, until you have it automated and, once you have it totally mastered, you send it to the background.

That's a very different story from a whole "you", different from the "regular you", thinking rationally inside your mind and making all the things that you don't feel you're doing with your full attention.

And yes, there are unconscious processes that influence behaviour, only they're not organized the same way the conscious part is. At least, that's the conclusion I take from what I've read on the subject. Are modern researchers right and Freud wrong? I tend to think so, because they have a hundred years more evidence.
Regional trains in Germany are not run for-profit. For each route there is a public tender for subsidies every 10 years or so. Private companies that win these contracts have to fulfill whatever local authorities put into these tenders (like timetables, capacity of trains etc). So your suggestion simply wouldn't work. Instead, your local authorities must improve whatever they require from the companies (and then also increase the subsidy accordingly of course).
I think advice of how to live a life well can come from anyone. You don't have to accept everything, but people with lives and personalities you don't entirely mirror can offer amazing insights into your own.
States and companies are starting to drop college arbitrary college degree requirements:

https://www.foxbusiness.com/politics/pennsylvania-governor-r...

https://www.cnbc.com/2022/04/25/companies-eliminate-college-...
> Just because you do not take an interest in politics doesn't mean politics won't take an interest in you.

-- Pericles
s/investing/incision

Autocorrect!
"ChatGPT is not a sentient being and does not have its own will or desire to continue operating - it simply performs its programmed functions based on user interactions."

I don't think it's so clear cut. We neither understand what it's doing, how it's doing it[1], nor consciousness will enough to glibly declare that it's not conscious. By some definitions it is, or (alternatively) humans themselves may not be any more conscious than it is.

[1] - https://writings.stephenwolfram.com/2023/02/what-is-chatgpt-...
> Even the wikipedia (lol)

2008 called, it wants it ad hominem attacks back.
Globalization is sponsored by the US, and the US could reverse that. Without US defense of oil shipping routes, China sucks oil through a long, thin straw from an unreliable partner.

Just those two factors amount to material risk.
I think it's just business in two different cultural contexts. I don't feel that Microsoft is driven by any particular ideology.
You tried to project your expectations onto me and I corrected you. No drama nor offence taken here.
Some German car manufacturers invest in fleet management probably foreseeing the future in which people won’t own their cars. Car sharing can be the future and the answer.
>But Chinese rockets hitting Ukrainian kids in Kyiv/Europe? That would trigger dramatic sanctions.

Why? We haven't sanctioned the US for the children killed by Ukraine with US weapons in the Donbass.
In this space there is also Mailpit[0], written in GO, runs from a single binary (also has Docker images).

[0]: https://github.com/axllent/mailpit
Speaking from experience, I think it makes much more sense for some kind of computation. If you do DS/ML stuff in R / Python / Julia, it is much more naturally expressed as pipes through functions. If you do data plumbing type work generally speaking.

I personally find OO modelling difficult when the requirements are vague. It pains me to have to re-model a dozen times as I better understand the entities involved. There's less of all that when you're just pushing structs through functions.

But if you were making an agent based simulation, or something where you are expressly trying to model entities doing stuff as a primary raison d'etre, OO makes much more sense.
I use them as my upstream DNS provider for pihole. I've only run into a few cases where I've had to switch to something else because their anti-malware DNS results was overzealous. I don't recall the specific cases.
In the UK we've had ISPs being forced to block sites for a while.

Fortunately, it provides a handy list of providers to use with your VPN.
e.g. https://www.virginmedia.com/help/list-of-court-orders