skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> My father was an accountant for a large corporation with a flimsy jr college degree. He had that job for 44 years. Impossible pulling off that feat today

Less than 10% of Americans had a 4 year degree at the end of WWII, and less than 50% of adults had a high school education. In the kingdom of the blind, the one eyed man in king, and all that.

Compare that to today, where over 35% have a bachelors (over 50% have “some college”), over 90% have a high school diploma, and nearly 10% have a PhD.
> I tell them- you're not going to college to get an education that is about knowledge out in the world. You are going to get an education about you. To learn about your person- your body, your brain, your own mental model of your self and other selves and the world.

You can do the same thing while on the job. Presumably, you could even learn faster, as you will be in a real-life environment, with real responsiblities, real people, real constraints etc. Whereas college is basically a bizarre form of retirement - a 4 year long "retirement" young people take before starting working. Yes, they learn some things there as well, but most of that knowledge is not needed and is just an excuse to spend time in college (for students) and to charge hefty fees (for universities).

Historically, US colleges were finishing schools for the wealthy - and now, most of us are wealthy enough to spend 4 years like this [1]. Unfortunately, since so many people finish college, a college degree is now a requirement for many fairly basic jobs - which means that not going to college closes many doors for people.

[1] Tragically, many people can only afford it through crippling student debt, which they take because they can't see the big picture at 19 yo. We don't allow 19 year old people to drink beer because they're too young to handle it, but we allow them to take on hundreds of thousands of dollars in debt... European (where I am from) solution is to just fully cover college from taxes. This way, we probably have even higher college attendance than in the US (i.e. even more wasted time and money in total), but at least the amenities are very basic and there's no parasitic admin overhead - so, I'm guessing we spend much less on higher ed per capita.
https://support.apple.com/en-ca/guide/certifications/apc37da...

https://www.bsi.bund.de/EN/Themen/Oeffentliche-Verwaltung/Zu...
this. same problem with noise pollution, but worse as you can't close your ears
Keeping drivers alert and paying attention to the road seems like a good idea, doesn't it?

You don't want them to drift off mentally and blindly trust the traffic light?
Traditional Careers from Schooling that will impress your parents the most:

Option X - Surgeon/Scientist:
Age 18-21: Caltech Undergrad
Age 22-29: Harvard/MIT MD-PhD (8 yr dual program with Harvard MD and MIT PhD)
Age 30-36: UCSF Neurosurgery Residency (#1 in US)
Age 37: NYU Langone Hospital Neurosurgeon Scientist (#1 in US)

Option Y - PE/VC/Lawyer:
Age 18-21: Harvard Undergrad
Age 22-24: Blackstone Private Equity Analyst (3 yr program fresh new grad, skipping investment banking)
Age 25-28: Stanford GSB JD/MBA (4 yr dual program JD and MBA program)
Age 29: SCOTUS Fellow (straight to SCOTUS, directly skipping appellate clerkships)
Age 30: Tiger Hedge Fund Manager or Sequoia Venture Capitalist or Wachtell Lawyer

Option Z - Software Engineer / AI Researcher:
Age 18-21: MIT SB/MEng (4 yr program combining Master's Degree with Bachelor's)
Summer after Sophomore Year: DeepMind internship
Summer after Junior Year: Hudson River Trading internship
Summer after graduating, before entering PhD: SpaceX internship
Age 22-24: Stanford CS PhD (3 yr program for Master's holders, skipping the intro 2 years before Qualifying Exams; Google Researcher during summers)
Age 25: OpenAI Research Scientist or Founder CEO (Unicorn/Decacorn before Age 30)
Looks like a screenshot from some sci-fi movie:

https://satellitemap.space/?constellation=starlink
This package allows you to find the words parasites. also known as "buzzwords" that your friend often uses in Telegram chat. BibaAndBoba can analyze the messages history, and even determine the probability that two people communicate with each other. I would be really delighted if you would leave a star on my GitHub. It's my inspiration: https://github.com/andylvua/BibaAndBoba
I propose Expasia as a name for the kind of Asia Westerners can usually relate to.
Sorry, I should have added /s in the end there
There are quite a few little language mistakes that I couldn't figure out if it was a language thing or just a typo.

> Of course, it also limits to the tools that I use to program: they cannot much about the type I am going to have in practice within the count function.

I think dropping the 'me' is often a feature of those whose native language is eastern European/Russian. The second (possibly) missing 'know' seems to support just editing mistakes. The structure of both makes me think of Portuguese for some reason!

To avoid going off topic on HN, something... something... ChatGPT
Those ones aren't made with machine learning or statistics. They are made more symbolically maybe more like Wolfram Alpha. CyC can probably be cleverly integrated with LLMs in a similar way that they have integrated Wolfram Alpha!
The results are impressive, but also serious nightmare fuel.
I suppose that's a good example of the "uncanny valley": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uncanny_valley
The end of the Silicon Valley dream
Tides coming in is normal, but there are rivers that change direction for other reasons. The Chicago River and the Mississippi can change direction due to storm surges, for example (for the Chicago River, that temporarily returns it to its flow direction, into Lake Michigan (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicago_River#Course))

A better example is https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tonl%C3%A9_Sap#Geography:

“As the monsoon rain begins, the water level of the river begins to rise. As the water level continues to rise, the flow of the river reverses. The water level of the Tonlé Sap increases by about 10 metres (33 ft), the flow of the Mekong gradually decreases at the end of the rainy season, and the flow of the Tonlé Sap then reverses and began to replenish the flow of the Mekong.”
A lot of the early AI community was using lisp or lisp derivatives. I remember playing with expert systems and Bayesian believe networks in university in the mid nineties. Bayesian believe networks were basically about assigning probabilities to correlations between facts. Early ML became about trying to learn the probabilities.

I also did a Prolog course and I got to teach programming as a teaching assistant in Java to philosophy students that had Prolog as their only programming experience. So, they understood logic but not loops or assignments.
That's a pretty cynical take but there are some truly old businesses in the world where generations of families have worked and enjoyed a good life. Work can uplift people and be a centre of the community. Or it can be like most are today where you work away for some faceless shareholders who fire you when they need a stock price boost.
Thanks for the source paper.
Interesting use of imagery, with 13 frequency bands from near infrared to UV.

https://lumiere-technology.com/technique-multispectrale/

https://lumiere-technology.com/imagerie-multispectrale/
Nitrokey, Solokey, OnlyKey.
Depends. Are you referring to the rotation of the wheel or of the car? While I've never heard it used before, the post to which you're replying avoids that ambiguity.
Just a note that for us non-purist-Prolog-curious there is Picat

http://picat-lang.org/
> GPT-4 didn't bother answering.

Honestly, a real sign of intelligence :D
Dracula isn't even Latin. It's Slavic declension. His father was Dracul (Dragon), from Emperor Sigismund's Order of the Dragon and he's son of Dracul - syn Dracula.
I'm on the camp that it's depressing, devoid of meaning, I'm human, I want to care. It's definitely not freeing to me to feel this jaded, this "whatever" feeling... I'd love to actually care more deeply about my employer if I knew there was a counterpart to it, the feeling of being a cog is life-sucking, why does it matter I work except for the money I'm paid for it?

Typing this out made me realise that it's exactly the kind of metric that is hidden, all the bean-counting and MBAs cannot put a value into the engagement of an individual towards their employer when they feel safe and cared for. It does not have value on the next quarter or next year, it has value over 10-20 years, and given climate change and other issues that devolve over a long term it seems that late-stage capitalism simply does not care about 10-20 years spans, at all. There's no incentive and no punishment for caring or not caring, it's all in the now.

This immeadiatism will be the bane of the whole system, it's not sustainable.
I would argue Java interfaces are very different from Go interfaces and C++ concepts, because the former is nominally typed and the latter are structural.
Also democratic backsliding, which I think "new" Labour really set into motion starting all the way back in 1997.

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

Apparently there was Soviet influence on the Labour party and it was going on for decades, and may explain its particularly nasty authoritarian streak.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1225637/How-Kremlin...

From that Daily Mail article (2009):

" The unpalatable truth is that many ministers in Government today rose through the ranks of a British socialist movement that was heavily influenced - and even controlled - by the Kremlin in Moscow. "

" As the Spectator says: 'Indeed, New Labour, which has governed since 1997, cannot be understood unless these communist influences are taken into account.
'Many of New Labour's characteristics - its deep suspicion of outsiders, its structural hostility to democratic debate, its secrecy, its faith in bureaucracy, the embedded preference for striking deals out of the public eye, and its ruthless reliance on a small group of trusted activists, result from the lengthy detente with the Kremlin.' "

So russia is not only causing trouble in Ukraine, it also seriously affected politics here in the UK. And it might be why we are living in such a precarious situation, when it comes to our liberties, here in 2023.
it didnt, the twitter post is popular and thus surely inadverently part of the training set
I always just imagined that it was signs that tell a tale. And the online etymology dictionary seems to confirm that.

https://www.etymonline.com/word/telltale

>also tell-tale, "discloser of secrets," 1540s, from tell (v.) + tale. As an adjective from 1590s. Phrase tell a tale "relate a false or exaggerated story" is from late 13c.

Is it maybe that the nautical term comes from plain English?
Understanding is a purely artificial/subjective concept. "Understanding" only exists if there is a conscious observer, and "understanding" means whatever that observer wants it to mean. A lot of people have found full understanding in religion. It takes off a lot of the stress from not understanding.

You may call this understanding of understanding meta-understanding.
> This is true of most (all?) languages.

Well no, I’d go as far as to say that your average JS/Python dev will know very little about how their code is executed — and doesn’t need to know necessarily. SQL on the other hand is a different story . Noobs don’t know , but pros know and consider the execution graph of a query.

You don’t really have a choice in Prolog —- gotta know what the interpreter is doing from the beginning otherwise you can’t debug.
Damn, that’s the third time Zuck takes full responsibility.

It’s probably hard on him.
this is the kind of thing that makes me happy I'll be already dead (not that it's much better now if you need to eat...)
This very much tells me you need to change the name.

It might be difficult now, but it will only get more difficult as time passes.
What if the hardware token isn't where you left it?
Isn't the main problem that this change forces all software development, regardless of purpose, to be classified as R&E and therefore forced to be amortized?
The idea we could be living in the slow, idiot part of the galaxy is so fantastic
They get acquired by companies that have unused deductions. That is how monopolies form.
What do you think about the next-gen bookmarking tool?
Hey everyone,

Since the dawn of the internet, people have struggled to keep track of their sources, links, and articles when they intend on revisiting (including me). Therefore, my friend and I are working on a new PKM tool. We'd love to get some feedback from you guys!

Our app is a bit different from the current popular ones like Raindrop and Obsidian. Here are some of our unique features:

1/ You can store not just notes and web links, but also photos, videos, audio, PDFs and documents!

2/ The search function is more intuitive, so you can search for things like "A picture of dog drawing" or "A song mummy dont know daddy's getting hot", for example.

3/ We automatically generate key notes and mind maps for your bookmarked content to make your organization process easier.

4/ You can share your bookmarks easily with others.

We're really focused on making the process of storing information as simple and quick as possible. Can you suggest some features that you would like to have in a bookmarking product? Do you see any drawbacks in your fav bookmarking app right now? Can't wait to hear your thoughts and feedback on our ideas!

P/s: If you're interested in being one of the first users of our product when it launches, feel free to send me your email. I'd love to keep you in the loop!
It's true in any organisation given enough time and scale.
1. Leetcode and System Design
2. Software Engineer Google L3 New Grad
3. Promo to Senior Engineer Google L5 (4-5 years; 26-27 years old)
4. Hop from Unicorn to Unicorn or create your own startup
5. If you sell your startup to Big Tech, you'll have enough principal for retirement AND get promo'd to director since you were Founder CEO ($1m+ salary)
6. Early retirement in your 30s

Obviously harder than it looks
Freighters have right of way in constrained waters, but offshore they still need to make way for sailboats.

(Yes, I know colregs is a bit more nuanced than that, but I think this is a decent approximation)
That'll trip you up if you ever board Tally Ho, her front door is on the starboard[0].

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fpulXX1cros
I think you've highlighted the true issue. How do you know the model just doesn't have a glimpse of just about everything and looks that up when you ask about it?
I lived and worked (as a coder) on a boat for a number of years. I used long range wifi to steal internet from cafes, LTE, and for worst case, satellite internet (insanely expensive, just for emergencies, back in 2014-6).

A lot of my time was spent messing about keeping internet. Whenever the boat moved around I had to move the high gain wifi antenna. LTE at the time was great but small data caps.

For ~$6k a year it's a total game changer.

If I didn't have kids now I'd buy a boat again and do it in a heartbeat. Hell if I can afford it, maybe if my company exits, I'll jump at it with the kids.

It's the future folks, and it's freaking awesome
The codecs in WebCodecs also requires bandwidth to download. So they could do this by moving codec support out of the existing APIs, with an auto-fallback to a default WebAssembly module if you don't specify one when instantiating the API, thus de-privileging the renderer code and keeping things size equal whilst still allowing lower level API access.

That's kind of my point: they don't seem to act in a way that suggests WebAssembly is a way to implement features with competitive performance and overhead.
Microsoft wrote Java?
I don't know, when you're talking about "the right arm", it seems obvious that it's the patient's right arm and not the arm that you see on your right when you're looking at the patient. I don't think you need to go to medical school to understand that.
As far as sound is considering that’s how it’ll be in Hindi as well ;-)

Joota (shoe) — Joote (shoes)
In the title photo but missing from the list.
It seems that retirning the /doodles page is the intended function of the "I'm feeling lucky button" when the search string is empty.^1

Thank you for the correction. I learned something about that button I never knew.

What did the button do in the years before /doodles existed. The button has existed since the early days, but not /doodles.

1.

https://fossbytes.com/what-does-the-im-feeling-lucky-button-...

https://www.pcworld.com/article/460864/google_changes_im_fee...
I totally nuked my career in communications and networking as a result of Internet mass surveillance and the prosecution of Orwellian "thought crimes". It really is a modern day witch hunt. Had to do something else, and am so much happier now that it's gone.

Yes, I was so outraged and shocked from it, what the government was doing, specifically regarding Internet pornography, that I had "moral injury". A condition not dissimilar from PTSD.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moral_injury

We are living in the 21st Century and we are still behaving, on some level like it's 1692. The year when the Salem witch trials were carried out.

And few people speak up about what's going on. They consider it normal. Because of how the Overton window works. How the frog has boiled so slowly over the decades.
The standard I used to hear for copying library materials was "lower quality reproductions for personal use".
Agreed, but not seeing the difference between nihilism and atheism.

Restated: whatever meaning we do find in life seem theistic to me.
I think they sometimes call the thing that steers the nose wheel the tiller.
Terms and Conditions Apply: A mini-game about popups and deviousness of websites
The speed tests can also tell a different story than actual use, even if they are not gamed. I went a bit deep when my HTTPS/TCP downloads from my otherwise unloaded server and previously beefy CDNs were not reaching anywhere close to what they should. I could get full speed with multiple downloads in parallel. speedtest.net and other sites showed everything was fine. I could also hit the speeds via iperf UDP tests in both directions, but iperf TCP download (to my home) showed the same slow speed.

The issue was a very low packet loss which does not really concern UDP or quick/small TCP transfers, but screws up big TCP (multi GB) transfers as TCP of course assumes congestion and throttles back. I could see some TCP retransmissions and DUP ACKs which confirmed that guess. I assume the speedtests used either not-TCP (WebRTC?) or multiple connections, so they were papering over the issue. One could also argue they did their job and stated the raw (IP-)capacity of the connection, without worrying about details of a specific protocol (TCP in this case).

I think fast.com is the right answer for some cases, because it is as close as you can get to "real" loads, if your intended use case is video streaming from Netflix.

(Sidenote: my issue magically resolved itself a few weeks later, before I could be bothered to haunt my ISP.)
Great info. So starboard is where the steering wheel is. Like in cars in England or Japan it's the right side. Now I know how to remember that.
Yes, the Murdoch owned newspapers use moral panic to get these draconian laws passed. And it's been going on for decades. That is how our civil liberties are destroyed here in the UK.

It's an almost symbiotic relationship with the government.
I think the crux of my issue is that, as a meta-ethical anti-realist, I don't see any reason for ethics to try to model anything objective. So failing at modelling the world is not a problem.

I don't even consider it a goal. Ethical rules demonstrably "fail" (as in the attached article) when they don't match someone's intuition about ethics (not about the world; the world at large doesn't care, unless you consider it a spiritual entity). So all ethics has to do is model someone's intuitions. Which is a completely different task than modelling the world.

This is why I am susprised at your line of thinking. There's no nonsense or foolishness in trying to model one's own intuitions about justice, virtue, etc.
The fact this is not only legal, but common practice baffles me ...
I'm not sure why any company, as large as these, gives two hoots about stories like these. Published one day for clicks, forgotten the next. Absolutely zero reputation damage.
There's nothing interesting in Rosslyn itself, however it's probably the closest subway stop to Georgetown. You can easily walk across the Key Bridge, which is a really nice walk when the weather is good. There's lots to see in Georgetown, especially restaurants, and also a nice waterfront area.

You can also walk from Rosslyn to the Mt. Vernon trail, and to the nearby Roosevelt Island where there's some nice hiking trails and a big monument to Teddy Roosevelt in the middle where people like to sit and relax. There's fountains there, running at some times during the year. Then you can continue walking on the Mt. Vernon trail to Gravelly Point next to DCA airport and watch airplanes take off. If you want to keep walking, you can go to Old Town Alexandria, or even farther to Mount Vernon, but it's a lot better to use a bicycle for these treks.
It’s funny but I only just had this thought: in the dark ages of text editing we would use ed to write commands that edited line by line, and then another command to show the changes.

What a chore! Enter vi where you can see a window into large parts of the file while editing it at the same time. It was a quantum leap in productivity for sure especially because I could work form a terminal (as opposed to jumping to a different system more geared towards word processing etc.)

But for SQLite databases I am somehow still fooled into thinking I am content, when in a terminal, to issue INSERT/UPDATE commands to make
changes and SELECT commands to see those changes is adequate.

If this is the equivalent of ed…

> sqlite3 my.db
UPDATE table …
SELECT …

…and if this post is linking to a GUI equivalent of Microsoft Word 6.0, then is there instead a vi equivalent for editing database tables, and what is it?
Nordic democratic debate in the age of Big Tech
He was a guest on an AI-related discussion panel [1]. I did not attend, but I would guess someone asked him “do you think models will have to continuing growing to even larger sizes,” or something like that, and this was his answer.

Honestly, that anyone thinks he has “ulterior motives” here is hilarious to me. Every day I think more and more that we can no longer think critically on the internet.

[1] https://www.imaginationinaction.co/
Spending 10-20% of you monthly income on on a single test does not seem like a good deal at all.
I’m doing a course on Alexander the Great at the moment and for a couple of seconds I thought we’d uncovered surviving versions of Ptolemy I Soter’s account (which Arrian used as a primary source). Nevertheless, that Ptolemy was a patron of Euclid, whose work on optics the later Ptolemy built upon. Small world, but with so many things lost to time.
I agree on the venv, 'which python', and packages and I would add Python V2/V3. I work on a few Macbooks and have to occasionally return to Python. It's constant firefighting on environments.
That's something I have been pondering for some time.

I believe it's a false dichotomy.

My thought is still that structural supersedes nominal.

A nominal interface is just another constraint added to the list of constraints of an underlying structural interface?