skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes, that's my point: we understand how LLMs work (for example, we know ChatGPT is token-based, not character based), which is what allows us to predict where they'll fail.
are there any plausible efforts out there (eg rough equivalent of an activist investor) attempting to convince universities to curb their addiction to hiring armies of administrative employees who (often) do nothing and (often) are paid several X what a phd candidate receives as a stipend

are there any meaningful ways to change the incentives to something other than raise as much money as possible to hire more administrative employees to raise as much money as possible?

(also if my premise is flawed and there are other things that contribute significantly to the burn of universities lmk)
>some colleges started raising tuition and then offering more financial aid and discount packages.

This isn't necessarily a nefarious thing. For example, Harvard is famous for its goal of tuition never being a blocker for someone attending. Therefore an increase in the sticker price doesn't affect many people outside high income and net worth individuals and families. This just shifts a higher percentage of the costs to the people who can actually afford it which is generally good. If you want me to be concerned about the tuition costs of these elite private schools, at least tell me the median tuition paid and not the amount paid by the ultra affluent.
I was mostly referring to this project, which has some 1-click installers: https://github.com/oobabooga/text-generation-webui#alternati...

Though I have not tried those 1-click installers, instead I have been manually running it.

That project is based on the concept of this Stable Diffusion project: https://github.com/AUTOMATIC1111/stable-diffusion-webui

Which is a few months ahead (because the Stable Diffusion tech happened a few months earlier) and is definitely at a point where anyone can easily run it, locally or on a hosted environment.

I expect this "text-generation-webui" (or something like it) will be just as easy to use in the near, near future.
Something from peer to peer world for example (or postgres embedded in the same process perhaps)
Nah, Excel was a huge product long before Microsoft was The Dominator.
I am right now visiting McGill University in Canada with my son. He's applying to all the top universities in US, but McGill is a breath of fresh air:

A)They admit by strict gpa and SAT criteria. No essays needed! Got top scores, you are in!

B) they are cheap. For international, it's $32k Canadian tuition. This is almost roughly equivalent to in state tuition at U Michigan. For Quebecers, the tuition and fees are around $5k Canadian!

C) it's huge. 40k kids. And they are all the top kids. Canada builds big schools and just gets shit done.

The US system is just such BS. On our tour, the entire group was American, half of whom we're waiting on decisions from Ivy's which are released this week. It's crazy that the US is essentially inviting top students to leave the country for a great but much cheaper education.
Pioneering stylistic trends is influential. Certainly people talk about The Sopranos, The West Wing, The Wire, Mad Men, and Breaking Bad as incredibly influential as well, even if none of them reached the raw audience numbers of a mega-blockbuster cultural phenomenon like Game of Thrones. (Not to mention others with even fewer viewers, but still high craftsmanship in the vein of modern prestige- Oz, Deadwood, and Rome).

You are talking quantity of viewers when this article is talking about quality, or at least quantity of qualities. You're also responding facilely to an article's title without actually engaging in its substance.
I think a lot of these types of tools have a high initial investment, but also a high initial return on investment.

The first couple of runs everything breaks, then code is added to NOT catastrophically fail, then you are pretty good.

(or move into lots of false failures)

Sort of like -Werror or linting/static analysis type tools, or code coverage, or similar...
To their defense, if even Apple gets away with it...
What is the odd statement here? You know very well what I'm talking about, and yet you want to play dumb? The value of gold as financial backing does not come from its electrochemical properties. You know this. So why keep pushing that issue?
U.S. Regulators Are Choking Crypto
Apple Card has Mint integration now as a way to get bulk CSV. Mint being an Intuit product in 2023 is problematic in its own ways, but the Mint <=> Apple Card OAuth flow suggests it may be an API others can (eventually, with effort) request access to.
China isn't going to launch missiles at Japan.

But they have the capability to launch missiles at a US Carrier Strike Group who has retreated towards Japan. That means that our Navy will be within Chinese missile range during Taiwanese defense operations.

We aren't going to support Taiwan from Japan or Korea. We're going to use our Supercarriers to sail closer and then support Taiwan in a more direct fashion. But that means our carriers have a high chance of being shot at, and possibly sunk, by these missiles. And we'll need to sail very far away (far in excess of Japan) before our CSG is safe from the Chinese missile range.

I absolutely expect our Carriers to be attacked, and possibly even sunk, in the upcoming fight.

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There's still a lot of ocean to hide in when our CSGs enter that missile range. It will be a matter of killing the Chinese sensors (ex: drones, spycraft, and avoiding satellites) which are looking for our carriers.

We're gonna need our Carriers to be closer so that there's a reasonable response time to scramble and defend Taiwan. If it takes 2-hours for our airplanes to launch from a Carrier and support Taiwan (because they're cowards and hiding in Japan), then our airplanes simply will be too late to help with the defense. I don't know how fast the Chinese can scramble and attack Taiwan, but they have gross advantages in terms of distance. Only a Carrier can even the odds, and that carrier needs to be physically close to Taiwan. That's just how the fight will go.
Having lawyers to bring about lawsuits is the leverage.

I'm really just shocked by this sentiment that being in a union somehow ops you into to getting illegally screwed around.
Good vibrations: Tokyo’s only private highway (2008)
Fair, but they probably link me back to the feed. I would like a service that copies/summarizes the data and sends it to me.
I don't think turning off for-profit news media is sticking my head in the sand. I still talk to the people I care about.

I wasn't asking for suggestions though. I was asking if you act upon the information that news media spits at you.

And it sounds like you don't, and are embarrassed about that.
Hard to suppress one when everyone has a gun and knows where you live (from the perspective of the police)
Is there anybody who's actually been convinced to switch to the 100% pure and ethical GNU/RMS lifestyle by these articles or is it just preaching to the choir?
Giggle.

If you want to get into Google, a degree from Stanford, Caltech, MIT, or school with similarly prestigious STEM programs will grease the skids. Matter of fact it's nearly a requirement unless you can elevate their ESG score (by being a visible and/or gender-identity or sexual-orientation minority).
Software is flexible which seems to result in our human rights being equally flexible.

Imagine the police regularly raiding your apartment without announcement. The post office opening all your mail. Storage box companies searching your unit.

You wouldn't be OK with that. You're innocent until proven guilty and a search requires a reasonable suspicion of wrongdoing and an approved warrant. Private communication is private and absolutely nobody else's business. It's a crime to open somebody's mail.

In the digital domain, we're fine with all of these illegal searches, either we don't even know they happen or we do know yet let it pass, as it feels "invisible" and not intrusive. Plus, you're a standup citizen so all is good.

And that's how one day you end up as a bankrupted outcast for having insulted the king.
The Decent machines sure are nice, and they definitely are pricey -- more than my admittedly absurd traditional machine, even -- but with so much "smarts" I just assume that they will eventually become a maintenance nightmare.

It's kind of a sad thing, but after 30 years in software I have come away with a strong bias that is best stated as "Stop putting software in things that don't need software." I'll cop to the fact that my R58 has a touchscreen controller hanging of the side, which is somewhat inelegant, but its job is limited and thus acceptable to me. (It keeps time, and has the machine ready for me in the two windows I know I like coffee while letting it sleep the rest of the time; it's also apparently the home of the smarts for the PID.)
I said there's one in America almost every day… There was one last week I'm pretty sure and definitely there was one in Nashville yesterday at a Christian school.

Iceland is indeed tiny, and that's a benefit… Too many people in America with too many conflicting views to ever make it safe like Iceland

I have never been out of the US and experience another culture… It was eye-opening
>"try again in 3 days"

That prompt never comes back for me in 3 days though. Just at the next major OS update about every ~3 months.
I don’t want a nanny company.

But I also want a trustworthy place to get apps….
Wild animals stop the spread of socially transmitted misinformation
Religious groups like GNU use outrageous evangelism like this to build their faith. Spreading absurd messages causes outsiders to shun members of the group, so that they can only find social/emotional support within the group.
At this point the user will discover that easy to type unambiguously encoded filenames have value, and may opt to save the Á's for when they actually are writing a letter to grandma.

"But that's subjecting the user to limitations of the system!" you might object, and while you'd be right we should also ponder whether a filesystem is a word processor or a system for locating data using filenames as identifiers, and consequently, what sound handling of identifiers is.

And let's be realistic. Most users will choose the file to open from a file picker dialog. fopen() is not their interface, their interface is a file picker.

The intersection of people for whom fopen() is their interface (no file pickers) but for whom learning lessons on the value of using unambiguous identifiers is somehow out of reach, would be exceedingly small.
You don’t seriously believe that cancel culture is being asked not to make discriminatory statements at work, do you?
> He will stop fishing as soon as everyone has plenty of fish to eat because there is no way to liquidate his assets.

Sounds like his problem is lack of demand, not currency liquidity.

> But if the island became connected to a trading route he could trade excess fish for gold or another non perishable asset, he could store up those assets. But he would only do that if he believed that those assets had liquidity.

Ok, but that kind of breaks the island economy experiment, given that he was already trading fish in a closed system for some other good or currency.
In my limited experience with VMs, I have found that it's easier to skip it if you disconnect your internet before booting windows. It doesn't remove it completely, but it can save a few clicks. The page where they try to force you to connect a Windows account can be very hard to bypass sometimes with internet access.
Windy: can confirm. It's not that cold, like, it gets just as cold in a lot of countries a lot further south, but the wind is what kills you if you don't wear enough layers. One of the things I also didn't like about Amsterdam: always windy.

Desolated: I wouldn't say that, but then we went at a time where the F-roads were closed so we didn't go into the interior. When driving around, it was very rare not to see another soul for so much as an hour even in late autumn. For the country with iirc the lowest population density of Europe, this surprised me a lot. I thought that it was a Dutch and Rhine-area feature not to be able to get away from other humans.

Bare nature and ice features (cold): that is what you go to Iceland for! If you aren't into that, either you picked the wrong place or you've picked an expensive place to pick up on that! I can definitely accept the wind for how cool the nature is in Iceland.

Southern Europe, on the other hand, is where I'd not want to go, at least not outside of winter! Heard of the first forest fire in Spain last week already, no thank you.
Moreover, it's not just about "me" and "now". In my opionion that's myopic and selfish. It's also about "we" and the future. What "I" do could be used against my family, friends, neighbors, society, etc in the future.

We already see something similar happening all the time. Totalitarian dictatorships coercing foreign citizens by threatening the wellbeing of family still in the motherland.
Define "boring" and "scale", because in my experience you can vertically scale hardware to an almost unbelievable number of concurrently logged-in users.

With most services, until you go over a few million users concurrent users, you really don't need to horizontally scale.
Indeed. My school charged something like that 10 years ago for out-of-state but I (my parents, actually) paid $10k and that included room and board.
See also: the housing market. Just another of life's necessities the usurers have got in on so that they can leech of the productive members of society by introducing limitless competitive expenditure, for their own gain.
Every college basketball fan knows Wake Forest because Tim Duncan played there.
Microsoft has 95% of the desktop OS market, they can abuse their users with impunity until that number starts to go down.
Maybe consider https://generative.ink/posts/simulators/ for the Philosophy of GPT section I think that one is by far the most insightful take.
Here we…
Well, I clearly had to try it even though I don't know my verilog from my veri-println. Can someone who does know, rank this?

--

Prompt: verilog code for 4 bit binary adder

[I'm skipping the English description of the code, this is just the code part of free ChatGPT's response, no cherry picking]

module binary_adder(A, B, Cin, S, Cout);
input [3:0] A, B;
input Cin;
output [3:0] S;
output Cout;

wire C0, C1, C2;

// Full adder for bit 0
full_adder FA0(A[0], B[0], Cin, S[0], C0);

// Full adder for bit 1
full_adder FA1(A[1], B[1], C0, S[1], C1);

// Full adder for bit 2
full_adder FA2(A[2], B[2], C1, S[2], C2);

// Full adder for bit 3
full_adder FA3(A[3], B[3], C2, S[3], Cout);

endmodule

module full_adder(A, B, Cin, S, Cout);
input A, B, Cin;
output S, Cout;

assign S = A ^ B ^ Cin;
assign Cout = (A & B) | (A & Cin) | (B & Cin);

endmodule
There is a fairly straightforward path for a poor working class person to get some experience in the skilled trades and then start their own contracting business. This will usually leave them better off than your ”poor middle class person". Enlisting in the military is also a straightforward path into the middle class, and outside of combat arms it's not even particularly dangerous.

With the current level of elite overproduction, a college degree is hardly a guarantee of entry into the professional-managerial class. It's just an opportunity to compete for entry, nothing more.

(Education does have other benefits beyond class mobility and career training.)
I don't know what the point of this comment is. She was rich or made poor life choices?
Happily these are consultants who appreciate the value of mass layoffs, so I'm sure they'll appreciate the opportunity to improve their executive's bonuses.
The government hasn't created a list of no-no words, they've created a list of entities with whom US Persons cannot conduct financial transactions. I don't know what "ALEP" is but you can be sure it refers to some organization designated by the Office of Foreign Asset Control. PayPal's crappy system is PayPal's crappy system; their implementation wasn't directed by USG.
fwiw im much more down for my filter to have false negatives than read a pointless article
How an endless round-the-world voyage stole my childhood
That's why the numeric kernels, where all the speed-sensitive array and vector processing is done, are written in C++ or Fortran.
Does the demo show the AI with the prompt to "Schedule standup tomorrow at 10am. Invite david@taxy.ai" scheduling a meeting at 10am TODAY, which also was already five hours in the past?

Makes me worried about AI with internet access...
Work at a F/G (not just “faang” because some companies like Amazon are not picky about pedigree at all) or in “hot” startups and you might disagree. A lot of people come from Ivy League schools and similar schools.

The value has never been about the actual teaching, it’s about the signaling. While many higher “ranked” schools are able to have more difficult courses due to being able to ask more of their students, it’s not so much that which adds value. Really companies just want the traits we associate with having gone to these schools: being well socialized, able to jump through hoops, having connections, a solid education and likely to be generally intelligent.

Of course you can have most of those traits without having ever heard of Dartmouth or Pickelball but the density of those traits coming out of Ivy leagues is high, and it’s reflected in industry (especially in finance, consulting, and academia). Just not so much generic SWE right now since even companies like F/G cannot meet hiring goals by limiting their candidate pool to these schools.
Looks like llama 7b was trained on 4 times more tokens.
I think you might confusing psychiatry/clinical psychology and behavioral psychology, which is understandable.

Psychiatry and clinical psychology (including cognitive behavioral therapy) is indeed the most evidence based part of psychology, understandably so since it deals with our health care system, and the correct treatment does save lives.

Personality psychology however doesn’t deal with psychological disorders focusing instead on the science of explaining behavior. The quality of the science in question is about finding a good model is, and evidence in question is not how effective a certain treatment is, but how well it justifies and backs up the model. I see this sentiment a lot here on HN that psychology is poor science, I disagree with that. Yes if you include psychoanalysis you will see a lot of bad science, however psychoanalysis has been on the fringe for almost a century at this point, and is not at all representative of the field as it is currently practiced.

As an example take the subfield neuroscience, which looks at brain trauma from various patients and is able to predict with some accuracy what kind of behavioral change the patient will experience (a good model), and then uses that to focus on best paths for rehabilitation (a good justification for that model). Personality psychology has not been as successful in creating a good model, nor in finding ways to justify their model. Personality psychology is at best a poor and limited predictor of behavior, with very limited justification for said models. Nothing about feelings here really, just evidence for models of behavior.
I definitely would recommend trying therapy before religion.
The pattern is there so that every username will look like a call sign. If you write me your username on the website and your real callsign i'll change it asap
Had exposure to poultry before falling ill... so no confirmed human-to-human spread.
> Half measures is what's feasible. The measures you're proposing are not.

Do you have evidence for those claims? Or are you reporting your hunch?

You didn't answer the individual level questions I asked you.
Now Google has one search result pointing to your comment :)
This projects demonstrates the death of UI. UIs were created for humans to interact with software not for bots to perform tasks. If all you need to provide is your text request then we don't need UIs. All softwares can just expose rest/text interfaces and LLM can perform the task for you.
EXACTLY this.

I rarely take Tylenol, since my aches are usually inflammation-related and thus better addressed with an NSAID, but after my hip replacement it was a GREAT aid to me. The experience was kind of revelatory about the effectiveness of the drug.

The notion that it's useless is patently absurd.
> On their own, these dynamic forces exerted by the rider’s legs barely affect anything about the distribution of the ground reaction forces – one can’t make oneself heavier by just pressing harder on the ground.

I'm not sure about this. Yes, static weight _is_ fixed, but a rider can vary their dynamic downforce considerably. Skilled off-road riders (i.e. mountain bikers) vary their dynamic downforce for various reasons, including traction.

As always, I'm up for a discussion on this; it is possible the conventional mountain bike wisdom is a butchered version of the physics.
> In the terminal, run ./start.sh (or bash start.sh)

smh.

well, very close! its interesting that they just got Mac M1/M2 support at all, 2 weeks ago.

for SD I've been using DiffusionBee since maybe October last year.

I expect LLMs to have something in a few weeks, just want to know about it so I can tell other people that need it that way.
I did the analysis for Princeton once - the average out of pocket cost was $15,000 per year. That has remained constant even as sticker prices (and the cost per student) has escalated.

What people don't appreciate is how much expense per student has skyrocketed in the last 20 years. Princeton has about 100 more student sports staffers, and spends about $45,000 per year per student in student services. Library expenses have also escalated far faster than inflation.
This is what the story should have been about! Not about glorifying more surveillance.
This from a lousy novel about the impossibility of divorce. The phrase you're uttering is from a flighty aristocrat who in the novel sees virtue in poverty. Perhaps in stead of pithy phrases we could engage with the topic at hand?
If you're even mildly aware of college sports you've heard of Wake Forest. And like many schools in the Southeast, the name means more locally. Also, not everyone has to become a developer.
Reddit removes support for compact mode
I can assure you that "runs Oracle" meant quite a lot during the .com wave.
Is the classical music industry dying?

I think people listen to classical a LOT, when watching movies.

could it be like "poetry" which is dying... but might just be off-stage doing song lyrics?
In geopolitical terms, the US has spent the last decade antagonising China for internal political gain. Resulting in the present situation where they've chosen not to align with the west on Russian sanctions. Not to say that China is entirely free from blame either.

As a European, I'm more likely to be extradited and tortured by the US than the CCP. I'm sure much of the world hasn't forgotten their penchant for assassinations, support for dictators, and destabilisation of democratically elected governments. Let's not forget the decades long mess that was the Iraq war.
Will the TikTok bill have a chilling effect on the tech sector? [pdf]
IANAL, but it looks to me like the unintended consequences of the "TikTok Bill" could open extensive liabilities for tech companies.
they don't necessarily get to see the travel accommodations before paying
Let me assure you, you are right. We would never do this as firstly, it is unethical and secondly we value our customers. Thanks for being one of them.
Reminds me of a property management company reaching out to verify some details from one of my guys, who had applied to rent one of their properties.

Did they call and ask to verify his listed employment? Naw. They sent me an email with a scan of his whole-ass rental application, complete with SSN and everything, unredacted.

I called them out on it and they completely brushed off my complaints.