skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Wait why was the Miata even there? Yeah it's a sports car but that is not its sport.
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> College degrees don’t seem to have done anything to make the police less abusive

Sorry, but can we try to talk in facts?

In Canada, since 2000, there have been 704 police-involved deaths [0].

Let's take a conservative population of 30M for Canada (which will inflate this stat) - then we get:
704 / 22 / 30M => 1 in 1 million Canadians die at the hands of police per year

On the other hand, in the US, there were 1022 police shootings in 2022 alone [1].

1022 / 331M => 3 in 1 million Americans are SHOT by police per year.

There's already a >3x discrepancy while using only US police shootings vs all Canadian police-involved deaths, and I'm sure the police killed plenty of people with tasers, beatings, and negligence in the US in 2022 too.

So, in general, I disagree with your claim that university education hasn't done anything to make Canadian police better than US police, and it's unlikely you'll change that opinion unless you bring some statistics into this conversation.

[0]: https://newsroom.carleton.ca/story/police-involved-deaths-ca...
[1]: https://www.statista.com/statistics/585152/people-shot-to-de...
Most of the recently laid off engineers that want jobs are finding them, just not necessarily at software companies, and not necessarily at the same ridiculously inflated salaries.

The engineers that I know that were recently laid off and are unemployed have huge savings cushions and are being tremendously picky.

It might not be sexy to take a job building software for an insurance company, and it might be quite painful to take a 30% pay cut, but jobs are there for those that want them. In an actual nation-wide recession, they are not.
I think Intel missed the boat when they refused to accept third party fabbing back when they were process node leaders. So instead that business went to TSMC and other competitors and made so much money that those companies were able to overtake Intel and are far more diversified so they don't live and die on the PC market.

At the time everybody was saying "of course Intel isn't going to fab AMD chips, that would be crazy", but in the end the crazy thing was giving up market dominance.
No code actually, I made it all in Twilio Studio which is their visual programming "no-code" tool for phone trees. Clunky to work with but trivial to set up and had enough functionality for this very simple application.

Obviously to make a real app out of it I would have redone it in a real programming language and made some frontends for web/Android/iOS.

Someone else pointed out https://freshbuzzer.com which looks like a real product that does the same thing.
As a doctor it's your job to give your patient something that will treat them. You can't tell someone "if you exercise an hour a day, your problem will go away" because at least 9/10 people won't do it.
> Support RETURNING clause on DELETE, INSERT, and UPDATE statements.

I really enjoyed this one due to the elegance. We converted a bunch of normal methods into expressions because we could write them like:

public long CreateCustomerRecord(string name, string email) =>
sql.ExecuteScalar<long>(@"INSERT INTO Customers (...)
VALUES (...)
RETURNING Id", new
{
//Param bindings
});
Any clue how powerful the "one IO pin" approach is compared to a dedicated FM transmitter?
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It’s True: The Typical Car Is Parked 95 Percent of the Time
ProTip: You can browse news.ycombinator.com/active for the topics that become "too popular for the front page." I visit /active at least once a day to see what interesting articles I missed because the algorithm immediately buried them.
Domestic disputes are one of the most likely calls to result in an injury to or death of an officer. I sure wouldn't want to show up to a couple fighting in a bad neighborhood without backup and guns because some suburbanite is squeamish about violence. Especially for like $50k a year or less.
I have received it, spoken to the team and they are looking at it.
I want you to find me a human who (a) has defined a loss function for social interaction and (b) consciously performs the statistical analysis involved in fitting that loss function in social settings.

LLMs do not have cognitive processes. They do not think. They do not choose to obey the requirements of a loss function; it is simply how they work, like any machine. Humans do not work this way, and the difference is fundamental.
My opinion is that the Supreme Court Case Griggs v. Duke Power Company helped make college education effectively a job requirement for anything other than very simple labor.

Before that, employers for any kind of professional job could offer some kind of IQ or other test so they could figure out if you had some basic level of competence and were capable of being trained to perform whatever task they needed.

Since it's now legally risky to use any kind of filter similar to that as a proxy for basic competence and trainability, college has become (an extremely expensive and time-consuming) proxy for measuring basic competence and ability to learn.

I think this Supreme Court Case had devastating effects on society in just some of these ways.

> People lose 4 of their prime income earning years.

> Not only that, but they start out life in mega-debt. Achieving something like the American dream gets delayed or put totally out of reach for many people.

> The combination of losing 4 years as well as being in debt means that many people, particularly society's most responsible, are going to be the ones delaying reproduction. This is bad news if you want to avoid something like Idiocracy, and has many other negative social consequences as well.

It's an all-around waste to incentivize a college degree as the standard proxy for demonstrating competence. And truth be told, outside of pretty specialized roles, college is completely unnecessary for average people. Most normal people have the capacity to be trained in a short amount of time for pretty much any typical office job.
don't forget airline points! Also don't forget credit card points. I'm not treating you to dinner, I got his gift card through my discover card and now I got to use it
Only in the US. A macbook air is much, much more expensive in most of the rest of the world.

E.g. m2 air with bare minimum upgrades is 2000€. That is much more than double. So sure it is good, but at that price point that is the bare minimum.
> In all of these products (and lab grown meat) you take low-value starter materials and make them food through microbial processes.

You are missing the key point. Not all "microbial processes" are the same: they can have massively different characteristics. Lab grown meat 1) uses exceedingly fragile microbes and 2) makes extensive modifications to the food (complete transformation). Making beer 3) uses much more robust microbes and 4) makes less extensive modifications to the food (i.e. metabolize a fraction of the carbs into a microbially-toxic substance called alcohol).

If your understanding can't make these significant distinctions, it's too fuzzy to be very good.
100K a year for a child (And possibly an additional dependent, not sure if you’ve already got the other half or want it) is a hell of a lot more than most people have for an entire family.

If you’re really able to just hold on to that money and squirrel it away without spending it frivolously then it’s hard to imagine it not being enough.
That isn't entirely correct. The mint changes coin composition to reduce the intrinsic value of a coin to be less than face value. It is classic debasement. Gold was removed from coins in 1933, silver in 1965, and most of the copper in 1983. In all cases the coin composition was changed because the intrinsic value was greater than the face value.

Paper and ink do have a marginal intrinsic value. It just isn't that much. In areas with rampant counterfitting, the value of a printed bill settles to the market value of the paper and ink.
I made a wagon with an electric motor to carry my things to the park and at music festivals. It has a 1000W brushless DC motor and a drive train for a go cart. It’s controlled by an ESP32 that is attached to a hand throttle on the handle for the wagon. This ESP32 also has a temperature sensor attached to the batteries in the wagon to make sure they don’t overheat. It controls a relay that powers another ESP32 that controls the Neopixels I’ve attached to the wagon using LED channels with a milky white diffuser.

It was a very fun project and I learned a lot about electricity, batteries and the pitfalls of aliexpress.
Yours picks the local Home Depot? Such luxury! It's not uncommon for Siri to navigate my to the other side of the country, even when I speak the entire address.
Pretty sure that a big reason tech employers push for increasing the H1B visa cap is because they know there's no way tech workers will ever unionize if the majority of them are on "complain and you're fired" visas.
The USDA has a better chart on it. TL;DR: Frozen foods remain safe indefinitely.

https://www.fsis.usda.gov/food-safety/safe-food-handling-and...
WinBox is a modern HTML5 window manager for the web
My friends with 10X less money can't afford to eat out, so yeah, I offer to take them out if I want to go out with them.
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I agree.

The point of my comment was that wording of survey questions can result in biased results.
> If education is expensive, then making it less expensive seems to be the natural solution than eliminating its requirement.

One of the reasons college is expensive is that a degree is required for most jobs. This creates artificial demand, which drives up prices.

Eliminating these requirements where they're not necessary is, in fact, a way to make college less expensive.

And I'd argue that any time you see a requirement for a college degree that doesn't specify what field the degree is in, it's a pretty good sign the degree is unnecessary.
Right, everybody wants the change, but nobody wants it to affect them. As is tradition.
No real world analogy applies when the service is publicly accessible via the internet.
I don't think so.

Considering my experience with Saleforce, I'm quite sure the comment is entirely earnest.
i wish the original title could be abit more neutral; i would like to bring up, the idea that to some extent, 4chan, and similar postings did not decay to 404, but were preserved, in a "scrape".

just what pecadillos [and worse] are in there, who knows, and how much effort is required to de-anon, who knows.
Has anyone asked young people how they would reform the system? Or created a tree of who the money funnels to for analysis?

In my experience, workers know exactly what to do to improve their situations, but are denied that agency over their lives. And that's what poverty is - having no agency over your life. The smallest step above slavery.

My experience has been one of endless struggle over a lifetime, starting in the late 90s when the Clinton administration lifted the separation between savings and investment banking with the Gramm–Leach–Bliley Act, turning the US into a giant game of Monopoly again like it was in the 1920s. The Dot Bomb, Housing Bubble popping, Great Recession, even our descent into global authoritarianism, is all theater. The real kicker is that it was by design, to rein in Gen X and the hippies before them to prop up moneyed elites in the capitalist class. Hurt people hurt people, down people stay down. Exploited people vote against their own self-interest.

There's no money for workers because you invest and expect a return for doing nothing other than having money. Neither a borrower nor a lender be. The really sadistic part is that there's infinite money available for construction, or giving tax breaks to companies moving to a new city, pork barrel projects, etc. But no small business loans for 2 person startups. No Uber-like system for industry roles so that people can work at-will. No affordable health insurance, no retirement provided for jobs under about $50k, no affordable college, few worker-owned co-ops, etc etc etc.

The answer is the same as it has always been: tax the rich. All other answers are platitudes.
Regardless of the draft law, why not just sync the data locally via P2P anyway? They already have apps. We all used to use offline encyclopedias in the '90s.

The entirety of Wikipedia's text is only 21.23GB. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia%3ASize_of_Wikipedia

Maybe they'd need to raise less in donations if people kept a copy locally or it shipped on their device in the first place?
Lean.
Rejection Bias
To be honest, it was. It still is, and it's getting more and more integral and inseparable as time passes.

It just didn't need to be their browser. But the more important thing, they were fighting the trend, and making sure their browser didn't work. That is what broke the Netscape plan.
Most Bitcoin energy contracts in Texas are structured as long-term pre-purchase agreements.

They incentivize the build out of green energy projects such as wind and solar. Projects that in many cases would never have happened without subsidies from Bitcoin miners.

When you say we have to pay them to shut down what you are really saying is that we have to pay them back for energy they already purchased.

The fact that this excess energy is available on demand to utilities ensures we have a more stable energy grid by serving as an energy storage system that we only pay for in times of severe demand.
In this case, it is really GitHub’s company policy which is being applied, right? They aren’t required to host anything in general, and they have a policy of taking down repos based on their interpretation of the DMCA, or some similar law (which might be a misinterpretation).
I think it speaks to the fact that Rust's original/ideal usecase (writing a web browser) is slightly higher-level than actual kernel-level OS work (just like C++'s is). It's expanded into kernel territory, and done a good job of it, but there are places like this where a choice was made that creates some dissonance

If you're writing a high-performance userspace application, there's a good chance you don't want to deal with handling an error in every single place where your code allocates. I think Rust made the right choice, even though it means some growing pains as it starts being used in kernels
> I've never heard any justification for having "college education" as a job requirement.

In many cases, it’s just an easy way to thin the applicant pool.

Given EEO requirements (which have their place), having an easy way to thin the pool (often by a lot) is seen as convenient.
"Cars are a very inefficient transportation technology for too many reasons to count. They take up huge amounts of space but get driven around mostly empty — the average private car in the U.S. carries only 1.6 people. A lot of the time, people drive distances that are short enough to easily walk or bike — 28 percent of car trips are a mile or less, according to the Governors Highway Safety Association."
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Since the title is only meaningful in the AI context for people in the know: 'The "Grokking Paper" is one of the most head-scratching papers to come out in the neural network space...' [training increases accuracy, but more training leads to overfitting, but miraculously, still more training leads to generalization]
Something being accessible does not mean you're authorized to access it. Someones house being unlocked doesn't mean it's okay for you to enter. Authorization is the key part here and you likely can be convicted under the CFAA[1].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_Fraud_and_Abuse_Act
I think it's unsettled and we'll see some clever things which combine approaches. On the surface it seems like preprocessing a corpus in clever ways will be useful.
Yes - and with better results I think :)

doas(1)

- doas(1) - portable version has about 500 lines of code

- doas(1) man pages - 157 lines long

- doas(1) had 2 CVEs

sudo(8)

- sudo(8) - about 120,000 lines of code (100x more)

- sudo(8) man pages - 10 000 lines long

- sudo(8) had 140 CVEs

The CVEs comparison is from 'all time' and as sudo(8) has longer history then doas(1) - it will (at least statistically) have more of these ... I expect doas(1) to have about 5-10 CVEs when they would have the same life span.

Regards,

vermaden
This is a fair point but if what we're looking for is consistent behavior I think we'd have to consider events that don't result in damage or even rise to being accidents (but that could have, if fortune had frowned) like being cut off in a merge or someone running a no-turn-on-red. Which is of course difficult to really measure.
No, I'm using this in my car just for a very short range (< 200mm)
> But if the instantaneous request rate is the problem, you should be able to filter on that, no?

Again, not every website is the same, and not every website has a huge team behind it to deal with this stuff. Spending 30-something developer hours implementing custom rate limiting and throttling, distributed caching, gateways, etc is absurd for probably 99% of websites.

You can pay Cloudflare $0.00 and get good enough protection without spending a second thinking about the problem. That is why you see it commonly...

If your website does not directly generate money for you or your business, then sinking a bunch of resources into it is silly. You will likely never experience this sort of challenge on an ecommerce site, for instance... but a blog or forum? Absolutely.
Maybe he fell for the lie upthread where someone else's words were attributed to me. That got this subtree flagged and cut off, thanks to dang.
Also there maybe many individuals who are not pro immigration.
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> It's just laziness towards doing it the right way.

Just because "least privilege" is "the right way" from a (some?) technical perspective, doesn't mean that it's the right way from a business perspective. There is a real, and significant, business cost to needing to wait for access and not being able to discover data (and thus not even knowing that you need to ask for access).
Lots of apps aren't cross platform, at least on mobile. Things 3 is a good example that's only on Apple platforms.
This is absolutely what happens when bean counters are promoted to CEO...they killed Intel a long time ago. Finally put an engineering guy in charge, but he is blowing smoke up investors asses...you can't dump billions in new fabs and technology while also losing billions per quarter.

Their foundry business is dead...they won't compete with Samsung and TSMC. Even GF found that was a losing proposition and they had a lead on Intel and endless pockets of cash.
Ask HN: How has AI/ML affected the hardware/EE side of the industry?
I don’t understand your point. Are you saying you prefer we continue torturing cows for our benefit because otherwise we are putting too much effort?
No. In this context reverse engineering is looking at the assembly to understand what it does. Once you understand that, you can figure out how to exploit the code, by, sending a subtly malformed packet which will cause a server to write out of bounds of some array, and corrupt the servers memory. By very carefully corrupting the server's memory the attacker can hijack the server to do whatever they want.
I think you missed the memo of the comment.

They were referring to the fact that everything ChatGPT is built on is other peoples work. Beyond the actual building of the model details, there is nothing that ChatGPT owns. All the content they use to train, all of the art they use to train. Everything is stolen/used without permission. Obviously there is more to it than that, because you published it on the internet. But that's a different topic.
I suspect he means the southern parts of the US.

(Which are the most car oriented states, IIRC)
I'll add to your anecdotal evidence by saying I am a vegetarian and I am interested in this. So somebody does really want this, just not people "around" you.
Police need to be more highly trained -- I wouldn't equate that 1:1 with holding a degree.

U.S. training requirements for police are state-level matters sometimes augmented by local requirements; none of the state requirements, as I recall, are comparable to the more stringent standards required in many western European nations.
Many employers once used IQ tests, but the Supreme Court made this much costlier for employers under the "disparate impact" theory.[0] That is, employers had a burden of showing that their tests were sufficiently related to the posted job if the test results were any different among different ethnic groups, e.g. blacks scored lower than whites. Making a degree a literal requirement for the job is a low-cost proxy for IQ (or was in the past), and since it is earned, it can be listed as a job requirement, unlike IQ.

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Griggs_v._Duke_Power_Co.
Why not just use doas(1) instead?

doas(1)

- doas(1) - portable version has about 500 lines of code

- doas(1) man pages - 157 lines long

- doas(1) had 2 CVEs

sudo(8)

- sudo(8) - about 120,000 lines of code (100x more)

- sudo(8) man pages - 10 000 lines long

- sudo(8) had 140 CVEs

The CVEs comparison is from 'all time' and as sudo(8) has longer history then doas(1) - it will (at least statistically) have more of these ... I expect doas(1) to have about 5-10 CVEs when they would have the same life span.

Regards,

vermaden
It's time to recognize that legal or organizational requirements for certain professions and government jobs to hold a college degree is a burden not only to talented people who are otherwise qualified to do the job, but leads to numerous burdens on society. These requirements have led to for-profit diploma mills, "nonprofit" universities charging $80k per year leading to billions in student debt that may never be paid off, and people who play the system to pad their salaries for no real benefit to the organizations or the people they serve.

For instance, in my state, billions in additional salary and pensions have been paid out over the past 50+ years to corrections and police officers who get a graduate degree. It's part of the "Quinn Bill" (https://www.mass.edu/osfa/initiatives/pcipp.asp) which dates to the Johnson Administration!

In 1967, the President’s Commission on Law Enforcement and Criminal Justice (the Johnson Crime Commission) released a report recommending more education for police officers. It said in order for the quality and effectiveness of American criminal justice to improve, its practitioners needed better training.

A friend who's a cop says the graduate degree programs that have sprung up to serve the Quinn Bill market are a complete joke, but everyone with a college degree completes them to boost their salaries, which carries over to their pensions. Note that police already get rigorous training outside of these programs in areas such as accident reconstruction, de-escalation techniques, forensics, etc.

Moreover, you don't even need a degree to become a police officer or corrections officer. In New England states are dropping age requirements to 18 or 19, because there is such a big shortage of staff: https://www.wbur.org/news/2023/02/27/essex-county-sheriff-lo...