skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's just a press release
What evidence is there that the distribution is bi-modal? I don’t believe that it is. It’s not bi-modal just because you imagined a threshold somewhere, it is only bi-modal if there’s a single large dip in the middle of the histogram.

The threshold you’re talking about, where college doesn’t pay off, might exist for a minority of people. Around 10% of people who take college loans go into default on them for example. But this threshold you’re talking about is not at the 50% line, it is much, much lower than that. The statistics do in fact show us that the majority of people who get a degree are better off. I’m surprised to be arguing this basic point, the stats from the Fed and from many other sources are very clear about this. Like just googling ‘is college worth it’ give you random blog posts that back this up, e.g., https://www.ramseysolutions.com/saving/is-college-worth-it. Here, “According to the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, the median income for a high school graduate is $30,000, while those with a bachelor’s degree make around $52,000.” Please pay special attention to the word “median”. The article I linked is from the St Louis Fed, and keep in mind that it is arguing that college is becoming less worth it! (If/when you read it, don’t forget to think about what the absolute dollar earnings/savings are. The paper’s comparisons are mostly ratios and they can be & are misleading in spots.)

I’m not arguing that some people don’t end up in debt, I am pointing out the fact that most people fare better with a degree than without.
Yes Russia invades a country but somehow it's a "proxy war"

I don't know why you question the Putin apologist moniker, the alternatives are way worse. At least own it up
I disagree that it’s a trade-off. Linux could match Apple’s out of the box battery performance. It’s just that nobody seems to care about Linux’s “out of the box” default configuration because, well, the user can futz with it! Things are slowly getting better though. But we still don’t have that distribution where things are already futzed for you and everything runs as well as it can.
Why car prices are still so high – and likely won't fall anytime soon
Long fasting is something trendy, but I don't believe in its long term benefits, because the goal is to lose weight and reach our own ideal weight (usually between 18 and 24 BMI depending on your body shape). Many ways to achieve this: vegetable super rich diet, eat less often, bike for commuting or for everything, minimalism (depend less on things & services)
Electronic supermarket checkout terminals (1978)
Love your YouTube. Need more late night snack povs!
I don't know what you've already checked, but the lowercase `get` in the error message seems suspicious. Are you sure you're sending a `GET` and not a `get`? HTTP verbs are case sensitive, after all.
Radiation doesn't need a temperature gradient anyway
I also miss the Snow Leopard era. Not a single crash under stress!
Do branches ever “unsplit”? I mean, if U1 splits into U2 and U3, U2 into U21 and U22, U3 into U31 and U32, is it possible that (say) U21 and U31 might be identical? In which case, couldn’t you say they are the same, and a case of U2 and U3 merging/converging?
I don't do my science by faith.
Indeed. The idea of flatpack is to change desktop linux culture by normalizing the installation of 3rd party software, particularly proprietary software that people otherwise wouldn't trust without some form of sandboxing.

Who does this benefit? I can think of two groups of people. 1. Commercial software vendors who want more Linux users to install their proprietary software. 2. 'Transplants', new Linux users who are already accustomed to the Windows/MacOS style of wantonly installing proprietary third party software they downloaded off random corners of the net, and don't want or know to change their habits.

The value proposition for experienced linux users who don't do that sort of thing in the first place is next to nil. The only applications that might benefit from such sandboxing are applications like browsers, which have large attack surfaces and might be compromised while browsing the net. But even this is mostly theoretical, not a realistic day-to-day concern for typical linux desktop users.
Some recent recruiter email subjects:

- Open to connecting about tech debt?

- What's the going rate on a tech debt loan these days?

- Tech Debt Loan Blue Whale Opportunity
You realize that Zuck founded the company in the first place.

You are free to create your own company just like he did.
The same machinery and MO that treacherously took down Jeremy Corbyn apparently.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=elp18OvnNV0
I think this means that a previous iteration of this effort had a value of £249,000. The article is mainly about the current iteration, which has some other total value that is presumably larger. It isn't clear how much the current iteration is worth, at least from the article alone.

In general I agree that this might not be significant, unless the total value of the current contract is large or there are notable research or engineering results.
I wonder what straightening it provides.

Like when the brick of cheese comes out of the freezer with an obvious bend?

Or like when I don’t make a nice square cut and my sandwich is cheesier in some spots than others?
I'll clarify because that was perhaps too flippant on my part. There are episodes from the 2020 protests which match the intensity of past American riots at times. But for how widespread and recurring the protests were, they had a lower density of and a lower conversion to violence.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_incidents_of_civil_u...
Your code is certainly “beholden” to most of the system security changes, and your app is effectively sandboxes regardless of your wishes.

Source: Self after working on anti-theft software for macOS, for a few years now.
Plugged-in performance while unplugged without torpedoing battery life is what is really special about M-series laptops for me. It’s such a stark contrast with my ThinkPad which becomes noticeably more sluggish the moment it’s untethered in “balanced” mode and eating through battery like candy with “Performance”.
> We should be making a stink [...] Not just throwing up our hands and saying fuck security I’ll just use Linux.

I'm not sure what you're asking for, here. People have protested OS changes from Apple and Microsoft for decades, but it's never worked. Your only viable method of protest is using an OS where you control the featureset, which (as you've pointed out) is an unrealistic and bad habit.
AI will make some CS jobs obsolete, but it will do so at a very slow pace. The main reason being that companies suck at structuring information in a way AI could parse it. Whenever I work on some feature I have to dig into some chaotic Notion page and a bunch of unlinked tickets written in broken English.

There's no way an AI could do my job because it requires a deep understanding of the human psyche, i.e. figuring out what the guy that wrote it actually wants me to do, possibly by discussing it with him.

I'm pretty sure most engineers go through the same thing every day. As long as humans suck at describing tasks, AI won't be able to make them obsolete.
Instagram’s API tokens constantly expire for me regardless of whether they’re supposed to be “long-lived” or not. They last like 90 days which is super annoying.
I'd struggle to mention a bank which hasn't done some seriously questionable stuff just in the last 15 years, this is nothing unique.
Whilst not strictly for power settings, NixOS has a repository where users can contribute general optimized settings for their hardware.

https://github.com/NixOS/nixos-hardware
if GPT or copilot make developer 5-50x more productive then you need just 2 good programmers instead of team of 10-100 person, so out of window goes all formalized agile processes, safes etc so you don't need anymore those managers who are doing communicating, process planning and other big business stuff. Of course this will also affect for developers but I bet less because there is huge need for software developers and mid-size business did not have money to hire team huge team of developers but this will change when you need only two people instead of 40.
Can we stop spamming this website here on HN for a bit please? I see three links to this domain on HN currently, all for different things. Yeah it's great to build your tools and showcase the process; don't need 3-4 articles of it at the same time.
How do you turn it off?
I didn't say no Russians have died. There have been horrible deaths on both sides. No one is winning in this war.
> buy all bonds in the market at a distressed level and make a hefty return.

How? They can't sell the bonds. And holding the bonds to maturity is questionable since CS may likely default. If it doesn't default, it would be thanks to a lifeline thrown by...SNB. So yeah, no idea what you're on about there.
It’s used all the time in the freshwater aquarium hobby, which still kinda blows my mind. I use it to attach certain species of live plants to rock and driftwood
Yeah, OP should have used nitter.net instead.
There are a few places where the post says things like “had some problems” or “don’t love it”. I would love to know exactly what issues they hit.
Gpt4 is on another level but still very far from being able to do work on anything larger than a medium sized class
His usage requirements is using it only once when he sets up his computer, which is probably a good thing for a preferences app. It works well for him, why shouldn't be able to say so? So we can keep this thread strictly about complaining?

You could copy paste your comment to everyone here, "have you considered that other people use it differently".
Does Homebrew still have those issues on newer Macs with the /opt/homebrew prefix? I don’t use either at the moment but last time I looked at Homebrew it looked like they had changed the way it installed, at least on Apple silicon Macs.
It certainly does sometimes.
GPT can ask you follow up questions. Just tell it that it's job is to interview you. It will do it. If you have trouble try the Playground or API or GPT-4. But ChatGPT will do it if you tell it that's what it's supposed to do.
As an Apple user since the early days of OS X, I remember watching that part of the presentation thinking to myself "he knows he doesn't need to elaborate on that."

I think many of us watching Apple for the past two decades have seen the OS move slowly towards closed standards and tighter control instead of openness and functionality. Each time I boot my PowerBook G4 running Leopard for a nostalgia kick, I'm reminded of how great OS X once was.

But as Ken pointed out, they've been doing it over a long period of time, so it's OK (i.e., it's given us plenty of time to move to other alternatives).
I went to a public honors college / small state school, and arranged my schedule such that I only had 3 days of classes, so I could go home and take care of my sick mom and work a part time weekend job. Even then the schedule was not what I would consider punishing; significantly LESS academic work than I'd needed to do in high school taking APs, even with the reading load.

That school definitely is not in danger of losing its accreditation any time soon. It also didn't have any frats/sororities, and there weren't any bars within a 15 minute drive.
Strange how you automatically feel the need to support one side and can't see the horrible outcome this has been for all parties. This could have been resolved through diplomacy. You never see the term even mentioned anymore.
But do we need unattended reactors for the moon? Adding a "nuclear reactor tech" person to the mission control room in Houston sounds cheap compared to R&D costs, latency to the moon is small, and for any hands-on tasks you can presumably train the astronauts (or train a couple experts as astronauts if you want to vindicate the plot of Armageddon). After all, just like a submarine a moon base would be staffed by trained specialists.
I'm a simple man. I upvote any eInk/ePaper project I see on HN. Love this.
And the workers are the one that made the company work and earn any money in the first place.

All the value Facebook ever made was made by its workers.
The FBI must have warned them about some upcoming Russian propaganda /s
What implications did you have in mind?

In languages with null and type inference, `var x = null` is probably not going to infer the type you want. In languages with function overloading (which is essentially the case for Go `len`), `f(null)` is going to be a compile-time error if multiple overloads are potentially null.
I remember when Perl cgi-bins blew my mind. A webpage wasn't just static HTML and images anymore, it could be a program that did arbitrary things! Nothing new under the Sun.
The bank is worthless though? If anything it's an additional obligation to the taxpayer that they have to underwrite.

Really puzzles me the logic of underpinning a market economy to the extent it's no longer functioning. No lessons learned from 2008 whatsoever.
I'm the author of The Friendly Orange Glow. I agree the book skips across the surface.

Some backstory: I originally proposed three volumes, each 1000 pages, to the publisher. They laughed and told me absolutely no. My thinking was, PLATO as a topic needs to be approached the way Robert Caro approached Lyndon Johnson. It's going to need multiple 1000-page books.

The publisher's reaction to my proposal was laughter. Their deal was, one book, 150,000 words, take it or leave it. So I took it: I'd spent 30+ years working on the project, had accumulated some 7 million words of interview transcripts, and had to get it out. In the end I delivered 229,000 words to the publisher which even then was the result of painful and severe chopping out of not only major sections but even entire chapters--all kinds of history got removed from the manuscript. (By the way, the final book came out to 209,000 words. Publisher was pissed that it wasn't 150,000. Editor, god bless him, stood by me, and we shipped 209,000 words. Publisher, I firmly believe, punished me by listing the book at a $40.00 list price, which is instant market death for a hardcover book in 2017. Powell's refused to let me do a book event because they don't allow $40 books to be presented by authors. It was sabotage, in my opinion. The publisher did atrocious, half-hearted work at publicity. They sent seven copies to people at the New York Times, which did nothing and never reviewed it. Nor did WPost. Nor did LA Times. Or SF Chronicle. Or Boston Globe, etc, etc. Only Wall Street Journal reviewed it, and they gave it a glowing review.

But here's the thing... anyone who knew and used PLATO is going to have their pet topics and focus areas, and complain about topics the book did include that are not favorites to them personally. Trust me, I've heard from thousands of PLATO people and everybody's happy and unhappy at the same time with what is in, and what is not in, the book. But I didn't write the book for PLATO people. I wrote it for the 8 billion people on Earth who'd never heard of PLATO and who were likely to never hear of it and its significance if something didn't get published that triggered PLATO to finally enter the conversation.

And look what's happening: Y Combinator's Hacker News is talking about PLATO! Ars of all things is talking about PLATO! In the past 5 years, Slate and WIRED (who always hated PLATO and refused to mention it) talked about PLATO. Verge and Motherboard covered it. PLATO is now a part of the conversation. Mission accomplished.

Finally: If you want to get a copy and read The Friendly Orange Glow, you can buy a hardcover from me directly by going to the Amazon site's hardcover page for the book, and selecting a "New" copy from seller Birdrock Books. That's me. I'm selling new copies for $11.11. Brand new, out of the box from the publisher. They come from me, with my signature on it.
Literally everything written by Ted Chiang is worth reading because he is a hell of a story teller.
Ubuntu has spotlight?
To be clear, I'm not defending what they did. Only explaining why I think they thought they could get away with it. They were already accustomed to operating in a transgression gray-zone (and generally getting away with it), and when covid hit and the zeitgeist became "do something!", they felt they had extra license to push boundaries even further.
And yet only one belligerent invaded the other. There aren't two sides to this.
does that change anything with regard to this particular bank
I gather you haven't tried to use the Twitter Ads API lately. :) This is literally an API that makes it easier for people to give money to Twitter. And yet it's seemingly abandoned since the Musk takeover, with the old documentation taken down and the support forums ignored.
The title for this link seems way off. Carmack did not say he was concerned, some kid said they were concerned.

If anything Carmack’s response was unconcerned, saying how CS jobs may change.

@dang could we maybe change to “Carmack responds to student concerned AI will make CS jobs obsolete”?
The article talks about "full or partial" nationalization. I have no idea how a full nationalization would look like, but typically, a company is only partially nationalized. The state takes a large equity stake, diluting the ownership of previous shareholders.
Fine?
>> MechE are probably only 20% of what you'd earn studying CS

Maybe if you are a MechE working for facebook or twitter. But go to something like SpaceX or BMW and you will find the best MechEs paid way more than the software people. The insane paychecks in CS only exist at companies where software is the final product. Companies that produce physical products put CS into a support role. A department head at Boeing or LM is far more likely to be from an engineering background.
UBS is basically buying an abandoned storage locker at this stage. At this point Credit Suisse is mostly junk and may be worthless but UBS might be able to find a few things of value in there to make it worth their time and money.

Sad to see such a long-standing global company end like this. Credit Suisse suffered from years of terrible leadership and bad decisions so I suppose this is preferable to just an outright collapse.
> This could have been resolved through diplomacy.

Yes, by giving Ukraine to Russia.

We know how it works if you try to appease fascists, come on.
OP said “product manager” which is also wrong. Funny how these three very different roles constantly get mixed up by smart engineers.
Zstd already existed before Yann Collet joined Facebook.
Transcript:

— Hey John, I hope you are well. I am really passionate about CS (specifically Software Engineering) and I want to pursue a career in it. But I can't help but be a bit concerned about the future availability of coding jobs due to AI (chatgpt4 and stuff). I understand it's hard to predict how things will be in the next 10-15yrs, but my main concern is that I may be putting in all this hard work for nothing. I'm concerned Al will make my future job(s) obsolete before I even get it. Any thoughts on this?

— If you build full “product skills” and use the best tools for the job. which today might be hand coding, but later may be Al guiding, you will probably be fine.

— I see....by “product skills” do you mean hard and soft skills?

— Software is just a tool to help accomplish something for people — many programmers never understood that. Keep your eyes on the delivered value, and don't over focus on the specifics of the tools.

— Wow I’ve never looked at it from that perspective. I'll remember this. Thanks for you time. Much appreciated.
It's 100% doing reasoning.
> There exist many no-code tools that do exactly what you say is impossible.

> Do I program when I retouch photos in Photoshop? It's a no-code environment that an artist can easily learn and use with no programmers needed.

They're obviously not talking about all GUIs being impossible. The difference between Photoshop and a no code tool like what OP was referring to is that Photoshop doesn't attempt to be Turing complete.

> Does it matter whether programmers are 99% unemployed or 100%? Same deal.

AI completely replacing programmers is pretty much the definition of AGI. There's no point in worrying about your own joblessness in that scenario because the entire economy will either collapse or be transformed so as to be unrecognizable.

Until that point, I'm not personally worried about any efficiency gains putting me out of a job.
The silly thing is that Windows already has Windows Hello and its accompanying APIs which can be used to guard something like it with anti-hammering protections. Ditto for macOS and the Secure Enclave. I know it's not 100% of its market but using those two features could drastically improve security for the vast majority of people who pay no mind to things deep down in the weeds such as this.
Depends on your needs of course, but modern Linux is the least intrusive of the 3 for me.
Current Shareholders are a rounding error, as bond holders with over $60 billion at risk are at risk of being bailed in as shareholders.
There certainly are a lot! I was only living in an affected city during the '20 protests, so that's all I feel confident commenting on.
Overconfidence and Future-Proofing
Supply generally doesn't decrease cost fyi
We make amazing pizzas on a 3/8 inch baking steel in a 550 degree oven with convect bake and a 1 hour preheat. Switch to convect broil right before putting the pizza in. My friend said it was the best pizza he’d ever had. We make all styles of pizzas (Chicago deep dish, Detroit pizza, NY style, all sorts of stuff). I’ve made hundreds of pizzas and doughs.

We bought an ooni and I made probably 10-15 garbage pizzas. I read all the advice before, tried several recipes, tried metering the heat different ways and different rotation strategies. We returned it and I’m convinced now that it’s mostly hype. The pizzas never came out as good as the steel pizzas, and if you look at the pictures for the pizzas most people churn out, they’re overly burnt on top and the crust is barely done, even if you make it super windowpane to a ridiculous point.
It certainly does — and I expect anything in this space that gets successfully commercialized will likewise siphon all of your personal data into a large corporation. But then I am a pessimist about these matters.
51c / kWh?? I pay 20 in Spain even now with the energy crisis.

I think back in those days the price was around 10c

I know this is euro cents but the dollar exchange rate is not too big to make a huge difference.
The Fed’s Balance Sheet Looks Like SVB's
I’ve seen several TS users describe that approach as “branding” (or “flavoring” if it is optional).
Titles--bloody titles! The AI doesn't care what its title is.
In this case it seems very clear cut, the Russian army invaded and attacked the civilian populace.
Either you have found an amazing discount for NUCs or you're getting ripped off on your raspi accessories!
From the start, wikileaks was a partisan project masquerading as a righteous cause. Those of us old enough to remember their original releases (like “Collateral Murder”) remember that wikileaks was always about building a narrative rather than exposing the truth.

Suggesting that people started thinking negatively about wikileaks once it came for “their side” is painfully revisionist. Many people believe wikileaks is a net good but despise Assange. Assange failed wikileaks, the media did not fail Assange.
There's authoritarianism, where government knows what's best for everyone and keeps secrets to "protect" its citizens. Then there's democracy, where the government is open and honest so the people can make informed decisions on how best to run their government.

In my opinion, one of the best ways of identifying an authoritarian is to ask them their opinions on Snowden or Assange.
Using Nanoparticles as Vaccines
The connectors are beautiful
Applied Science is an amazing channel. I'd also recommend checking out Breaking Taps and Alpha Phoenix for similar content.