skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Net tuition

I actually applied for VT years ago and the only thing they offered was student loans making many private schools far more affordable. Further unless something changed they don’t let freshman figure out their own accommodation. So our hypothetical recent graduate has to actually spend roughly that much money even if they happen to live next to campus.

> Cost of living expenses will be incurred whether you go to college or not.

Again sure, but they impact how much money someone can save from a summer job. If you’re making 15$ an hour while living at home with free room and board then you can save quite a bit. However, that’s far from universal for most people trying to make it on with a high school diploma alone they simply don’t generate a significant surplus every week.
What (actually) are network effects?
I'm debating with my co-founder on network effects after we've both agreed we'd studied them on different sources each. She read Andrew Chen's The Cold Start Problem, while I did more research on nfx -> https://www.nfx.com/masterclass/network-effects
There's some conflicting views here and I was interested in your understandings of it. Thanks
Flubber? (From the original? haven't seen the remake)
> nutrients [...] only found in meat

Nutritional yeast is tasty and naturally has b12, and most cereals/grains are fortified with it.

> amino acids [...] only found in meat

This just isn't true, you can get all amino acids from plant-based sources like soybeans, lentils, and peanuts.

Source: I have been vegan for 5 years and I still have a healthy 6 minute mile, 25 consecutive pullups, V5-V7 range boulder problem climber, etc.
I think you're both talking about democracy. People in democratic systems can vote for socialist policies or not...
Snaps, flatpack, whatever, comes down to the core problem with linux, little binary compatibility between distro versions. The entire OS and all apps are recompiled on latest versions of compiler and libraries. Its a bandaid fix for a fundamental problem with the entire ecosystem of linux flavors.

This was the same issue that passed onto linux based android os, requiring updated blobs for drivers, held older android devices to older versions.

And same issue for ARM flavors.
LLMs for Investment Mangers and Hedge Funds
Why is this flagged? It's a good article.

I started working at 14 at my father's doctor's office filing and logging paper medical charts before electronic medical records were a thing. Lunch was free thanks to drug reps.

To get a youth working permit, I had to go to the school district office and fill out a form. If I recall correctly it limited my hours to 25 a week which was more than sufficient for a non driving teen. By 16 the permit was no longer needed.

I highly recommend all teenagers get a part-time job. Entirely to show what type of jobs you don't want to work.
Redesigned Flathub Site Launches for Flatpak Apps
hackaday.io/zxfan
In the article I’m assuming ideal conditions. So if you think a large effect size is important, throw that into the ideal conditions. I don’t think that changes anything I wrote. Maybe I’m missing something?
Why do you think most of the detainees are surely there for a reason?

There might actually be a terrorist in there, who knows, but it seems guantanamo prisoners mostly commited crimes like 'looking at an invading American in a funny way' or 'not being liked by their neighbours'.
It's only after these works that I've found "engineering" is worth a little gatekeeping:

* The New Plague
* Have Fun at Work
* Friends in High Places
* Design for Prevention

In short, some cynicism is warranted, but not complete and utter disillusionment.
I'm loving Robert Kennedy Jr.
> We've already jumped to assuming the birds are annoyed?

If our displays flicker to them, which is a highly probable, it is annoyance by any definition. It may be not annoying to spiders which have a tiny brain and live in a world of mechanical sense, but birds are smart and most of their brain is shaped for visual data.

> A hindrance, but better than what came before?

How can this statement be applied to birds? They neither expect nor desire all these technology and the only reason they are not scared of it is a professionalism of their caretakers.
sounds like a good time to switch over to the framework chromebooks (https://frame.work/products/laptop-chromebook-12-gen-intel)

sure they cost more but you can upgrade them en masse and replace components and screens. dunno how the math works out for cost savings vs cheap disposable devices but at least you'll have less E-waste.
Agree. I'm just in the process of copying my batocera save files to my retroid pocket and to scamper off on this fun Saturday night to replay my childhood... Again.

This kind of realism is neat, and I'm sure has its use in VR and movies. But meh for gaming we reached good enough a few years back.
I don’t know.

To talk to other humans, we literally have a whole writing field, courses to teach how to open to write technical documentation or research grants and so much more.

There’s already a whole industry already on how to talk to the human language model and humans are currently way smarter.
For those as confused as I was, Nextdoor: some sort of social thing.

Not a feedlot nextdoor to OP.
Egan wrote a short story ("Seventh Sight", collected in "Instantiation") about a subculture of otherwise blind people that hack their optic protheses to see ultraviolet.

Excellent as usual, if you like Egan.
More than halfway through the story mode, and there are some really annoying issues around and I can't find a way to provide feedback, so I'll leave them here:

1. There should be a way to inspect the schema. As one commenter mentioned, `show create table` doesn't work, and you'll have to `select *` which will count as incorrect answer, making the error counter almost meaningless. I know there are hints and most of the times they works, but there are situations that you would want to directly look at column names (see below).

2. You can't edit the previous steps in multi-step chapters, and the answer checker is not catching some errors. For example, the step 1 of chapter 19 has the hint "watch out for column ordering", but because of point 1, there is no way to know the table structure beforehand, and I decided to just do it blindly without adjusting the order to see how it goes. The answer is obviously incorrect, but the game accepted it as the correct answer and made the textarea readonly. Now I can't fix that and have to fix it again after all the steps are completed, but some intermediate steps will be using the wrong answer.

3. (slight spoiler?) There is a logic error in step 5 of chapter 19: considering the lifts are denoted by unique names (as you are asked to group by it), the answer checker expected lifts with inoperable malfunctions to be "usable", while the hint indicates otherwise.

4. The TV effect consumes a lot of CPU power, at least on Firefox (didn't test on other browsers).

Still a great one overall, looking forward to try the challenge mode after I finish the story.
> That's like designing your sprinkler system while the building burns down

Aptly, that's how this application was built over several years. And it's in the best shape out of all the old flagships at work.

> I've also never found a query that I can reduce from 10 hrs to 10 seconds. Maybe one that never finishes to actually running, but not the kind of magnitude improvement you reference.

And you never should, if you understand a bit about efficient SQL. This doesn't stop other people from having one or two levels of dependent subqueries in reporting code which passed test, as test doesn't contain reporting relevant data.

And yes, from this point it takes 1-2 questions or comments and we will go from "Your SQL query sucks" all the way to more or less bad development processes and how to do this better, CI, test data, test data management, reviews, reviews of database schemas and so on.

Obviously on top of all the other tasks and duties. Hence: Don't know SQL well, at least officially.
On the other hand the United States has a lot of overseas colonies which are nearer to the equator. Puerto Rico, US Virgin Islands in the Caribbean, a lot of atolls in the pacific, Guam. Even Hawaii is more southern.

I assume shipping to the launch pads is a major issue, especially for the Apollo, Space Shuttle and SLS programs which were/are build all over the place in the continental US.
I'm more worried about untracked CH4 leaks from coal mines and LNG projects. Which dwarf farm emissions. Cow's are just part of the problem. The real threat is the LNG industry.
Mantis shrimp eyes, it turns out, aren't as extraordinary as you might think. Yes, they have twelve different color receptors... which means they can see twelve different colors. Near as I can tell they can't integrate all the input from their compound eyes into a single, cohesive image. Rather, different sections of their visual system are tied directly to ganglia that recognize features or movement characteristic of predators, prey, or other mantis shrimp.[0]

It really is the simplest possible visual system that could work for a mantis shrimp. It's like the first engineer from Do-While Jones's story about the breakfast food cooker[1] designed the mantis shrimp's visual system, and the second engineer from that story designed ours. (Of course as far as Do-While Jones is concerned, both animals had the same designer.)

[0] https://ryanblakeley.net/p/mantis-shrimp-eyes

[1] http://www.scienceagainstevolution.info/dwj/toaster.htm
I really don’t understand the criticism of duolingo. No one who uses it thinks of it as teaching fluency but the criticisms always seems to frame it that way. It’s an enjoyable app to help you get the basics of a new language. I’ve seen it work with my partner. We don’t have to compare it to full immersion to think of it as useful
I would not bet my money on it. In some areas fishes can score higher than many other vertebrates for sure, including big apes

Anybody keeping an aquarium knows that many fishes are surprisingly smart. Specially predatory fishes. They have a good long term memory and can recognize individual caretaker humans.

The brain/bodyweight ratio of some species is bigger than humans. This mean that they have a bigger brain that most birds, lizards and rodents of the same size. Sharks are pretty clever for example.
I'll take both. I like fun games and I also like seeing how far developers and artists can push graphics given cutting edge hardware, budget and time. It doesn't have to be an "either or" situation (nor are they mutually exclusive necessarily).
FWIW I was unaware of the Philip Cross thing, but after digging into it it appears that Wikipedia's arbitration committee imposed an indefinite ban on him from editing any page regarding modern British politics [1] and that after he was found repeatedly violating it, that was upgraded to an indefinite block [2]. Not exculpatory, but at the very least evidence that Wikipedia is capable of taking issues of editor bias seriously and not sweeping it under the rug.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests...

[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Philip_Cross#Blocked...
> But most developers do none of these things

When they should, failure cost time/money
That was a bold vision. May Vic's legacy rest in peace w/ G+.
Current handling in space-constrained situations is what drives me from LDOs. Ie, if space-limited, linear regs top out at 500mA for sot23-5. So, then you need to go switching, along with the slew of accompanying passives.
Adopting injured animals sometimes leaves them dependent. We have an aviary of deceive pigeons. They each have a different issue. Is letting them die kinder?

I’d say that it is sometimes, but it gets complicated fast.
I grinned when I saw "biomedical". For some reason my mind always connects to grand old Gregor Mendel, and the Mendel Fisher controversy. I thought you might be subtly trolling, in a really clever way. I believe your comment was made in earnest.

Trusting results it tough, and only tougher with scale. Regardless, brilliant comment even if the link was unintentional.
Mass-produced PV panels contain hardly any heavy metal. Some of them contain lead in the solder but this is avoidable. Most of the noise is about cadmium, but you will note that CdTe thin film panels enjoyed brief market success before being stomped again by the irresistible decline of the price of Plain Old Silicon. Even CdTe panels are basically inert, coming from the factory as a stable, insoluble glass. If you read the research papers about the possibility of cadmium pollution in soil from CdTe panels, their methodology is to grind the panel into a fine powder and scatter that on the ground. Why would anyone do that? Look at the funding for the papers. The "research" was designed as anti-renewable propaganda.
First came across this word in Godel, Escher, Bach.
Some people seem to have a real talent for languages. Others less so.

I had 4 years of high school French many years ago and was a pretty good student overall.

But I never really used it much afterwards. I've forgotten a lot and was never really any good at understanding spoken French. Mostly I could get a sense for a French newspaper.

On the other hand, I travelled to Paris with a friend a few years backwho had zero exposure to French and the amount I know was actually at least somewhat helpful.

If I were looking to spend some extended time in France at some point, I'd look to do a refresher with some of the modern language study courses.
Carl Hewitt: The only question is: who's going to do it (2019)
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That doesn't make much sense at all. This is not like being a lawyer or a doctor where the meaning is "you've completed a degree". The term "engineer" is meaningless. It's more like being a writer or a musician. There is no objective criteria to fulfill.

Furthermore, I don't understand why some people have the need to regulate everything. That's not how the real world works.
That kind of true for every human activity. Anything is dangerous if incompetent / malevolent actors are in charge.

Even pig farms cause runoff of manure and fertiliser into rivers, where they cause Eutrophication - massive algae blooms that consume all oxygen in the water, killing all the local fish and fauna and producing massive swaths of hte ocean where the only living thing is Jellyfish.
Not really. AC literally stands for alternating current, meaning the current flows the other direction in the conductors as well. That's not what happens in most DC-DC converters. Instead the current is switched on or off (or this way and that way if you prefer).

As a visualization, the hydraulic ram pump[1] is the water equivalent of a DC boost converter[2]. At no point in the cycle does the water flow in reverse. Same with the DC boost converter.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hydraulic_ram

[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boost_converter
I guess all the flags come from people opposed to sick capitalist dystopian agenda.
What I learned in a year on Duolingo I picked up in a month of in-person non-native tutor sessions. What I learned in a year of non-native tutor sessions I picked up in a month of conversations with natives through apps like preply/italki. I wish I would've just started with preply/italki and been thrown to the wolves. Likely would've been speaking (not fluently) the languages I've learned in months instead of years.
Fair on the wording I suppose but

First of all, the dataset used for evaluation was created by those researchers, weighing it in their favor.

Second, GPT-4 still performs better in 6 of those. Hardly 1 or 2. And when it doesn't, it's usually very close.

All of this is to say that GPT-4 will smoke any bespoke NLP model/API which is the main point.
100% correct. Cantonese speakers write in Chinese just as Mandarin speakers do (though they pronounce the characters differently). Written Cantonese, as it were, is cobbled together from certain Chinese characters and, of all things, a few English letters: perhaps mostly used nowadays to portray Cantonese dialogue in comic books.
Translation, GPT-4 put to dust other translation tools like DeepL or Google Translate. At a much higher cost, of course.
It does vary a bit. One exception is that current consoles guarantee fast SSDs and DMA to GPU, which can't be said of PCs.
If you replace the diode in a boost or buck converter with a second switch that is turned on and off complementary to the other one, they are the same circuit run in opposite directions. Just an observation.
Personally I hoped people could make strong arguments and not weaken their own stance with pettiness. It's real food. You can eat it.
I should have said that no successful copyright case is going to hinge on that.

Oracle's position on that was legally incorrect, for the reason I was alluding to: the relevant standard requires that illegal copying involve the core of the creative expression of the original work, which a generic range check function clearly doesn't do.
It doesn't give you long to reply. I think this site is fake and the other side is always a bot.
Please note that what's called SUV in Europe is quite different from the average SUV on US roads. A vehicle in the sub-compact segment consuming less than 5.5 liters of gasoline per 100 km is something else than a Grand Cherokee.
Transformers are turing complete: https://arxiv.org/abs/1901.03429

Additionally, Transformers are RNNs: https://arxiv.org/abs/2006.16236

Transformers are turing complete RNNs, as are the Neocortex.

There are differences like spiking vs non-spiking neurons, universal vs non-universal activation, the effects of brain waves, bicameralism, etc. But these differences may or may not be important depending on the topic of discussion. Additionally, the differences increasingly disappear as transformers are increasingly augmented with functionally equivalent systems.
I call myself a programmer. Nothing more, nothing less. While I don't necessarily go out of my way to gatekeep, I find 'engineer' pretty cringy, and 'architect' makes my eyes roll out of my head.

What's next, Software Physician?
Whoever built the old bridges in my city is lost to history. There was probably no regulation then, and yet, they haven't collapsed.
But sensory input is also reversed. If you're touched on the right side of your body, it projects to the left side of your brain, which then projects back to the right side of your body again. If the goal were to minimize wire length, everything would stay on the right side.
A few points:

1) LM317 and LM7805 are not LDOs. LM317 is a series regulator, which is way more flexible and has some infrequent but difficult-to-emulate use cases. LM7805 is a linear regulator but has substantial voltage drop relative to a modern LDO. Enthusiast/hobbyist space would do well to consider alternatives to the LM317/LM7805 if they're designing PCBs with surface mount components and very simple power rail needs, but for quick and dirty through hole designs there's few well-known alternatives that are truly LDOs - maybe MCP1700?

2) Enthusiast/hobbyist market isn't too sensitive to bulk pricing. Case in point: LM317 is about a dollar in hobbyist/enthusiast quantities, and LM7805 is comparable. TI lists 1ku TO-220 pricing at $0.65. You're definitely right for real products with mass manufacturing, but hobbyists don't generally haggle over pennies.
As long as the site never goes down...
I'm not claiming that teenagers don't drink; I drank (a lot) as a teenager. Read the comment again.
True, it's missing a call to (finish-output), I'll take a closer look later.
Similary cramming meat down our gullets morning day and night is a recent change too. And entire cultures do fine without dairy. "imitation" would make sense but "fake" doesn't.
lol it may well have changed the outcome of the election and it was a real story by any objective measure. if trumps children had photographic and documented evidence of federal crimes and picking up money from corrupt regimes around the world, we all know the coverage would have been different.
Maybe it should not support something as progressive as letters as well? Let it be some analog of MS Paint instead of text editor, a rock painting simulator. Fits greatly to a modern smartphone.
> It’s true that some shortsighted corporations would be happy to do the same work they do now but with fewer people.

It is called "automation" and it is exactly what corporations have been doing for decades:

"Job-replacing tech has directly driven the income gap since the late 1980s, economists report."

https://news.mit.edu/2020/study-inks-automation-inequality-0...
Different activists have different goals. Assuming societal death is a goal is extremely uncharitable and wrong for the majority of activists.

For example, I believe that carbon emissions and the resulting climate change is the biggest climate issue we face.

I live in California, many people here are against damming because it will damage the natural environment where the reservoirs form. I think the reservoir damage is worth the “carbon cleanliness” of hydro power. Other people care more about preserving untouched nature more than the climate. They have different goals.

Still others think we should reduce consumption of resources like plastics because of their environmental impact. They may prefer more expensive or energy intense production methods and recycling methods.

Most activists won’t say something else is bad. Eg I think recycling is good, but I would prefer lower greenhouse emissions over lower trash. FWIW I don’t eat meat. It’s better for the environment, because it’s reduce emissions. It’s also less wasteful of water which is environmentally expensive. I don’t eat almonds for the same reasons. But I’d rather expend water if it reduced emissions, but I’m not sure of any examples where those are opposed, maybe with certain fabrics and their cost of production?

My jobs is also to reduce methane emissions at natural gas facilities, because in 2023 we need gas so let’s try to make it less polluting.
I just learned about HTML redirects (2020)
Normally Amazon doesn't reuse returned items, they are sent straight to specialist recovery firms that bid for cratefuls of returned items by weight in the hope of finding some gold in the dross.

https://www.wired.co.uk/article/amazon-returns-liquidation-w...

Most likely your problem is linked to Amazon's "stickerless commingled inventory" program, where inventory from third-party merchants, including crooked ones, is mixed with Amazon's own, so even if you order "sold and shipped by Amazon" you might still get counterfeit goods or worse.

Frankly, Amazon has reached a level of untrustworthiness you really want to shop anywhere else, specially for electricals and other items that potentially pose a safety hazard. I go to B&H Photo for all my electronics.
Very cool! Found this from 9 years ago, deprecated now however. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8304409
Yes because the majority are working on nothing useful and they know it
>I'm not exaggerating when I say that designing a new technology node for mass production is like a moon program.

It's insane. I had a friend tell me about what goes on in these asml machines. Essentially the targeting system that moves the wafer around cannot have any vibration so I kid you not the platform is floating and controlled by magnets. And this is just the etching machine.
This section.

https://docs.cozodb.org/en/latest/releases/v0.6.html#knowled...
As someone that works with low noise systems but on the firmware/software side, is it possible to design a low noise power supply with a switcher, without some kind of linear stage (like a final LDO regulator)? The hardware engineers are good, but I'd like to understand this a bit myself.
Spreadsheets have been teaching the fundamentals of functional programming to the unwashed masses for decades.

Couldn't be a better story.