skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The title is pretty misleading.

"Pew asked, 'Here are some factors colleges and universities may consider when making decisions about student admissions. Do you think each of the following should be a major factor, minor factor, or not a factor in college admissions?'"

- Respondents most supported the use of high school grades, with 61 percent saying they should be a major factor and 32 percent a minor factor.

- Scores on standardized tests were second. Thirty-nine percent said they should be a major factor, down from 47 percent three years ago.

The rest, under 20% included: Community service, First in family to go to college, Athletic ability, Race or ethnicity, Whether a relative attended the college, Gender.

They authors concluded that these results means the 74% of the US doesn't support affirmative action? That's an absurd conclusion.

Think of it this way, "Should you consider race when hiring for a job?" Yes: you're a racist because you want to hire white people. No: you're a racist because you don't support affirmative action.
Stalinists were trying to create economies of scale by centralizing agriculture to large conglomerates but weren't smart enough to avoid supply disruption that together with dry years, optimistic communication/lies and foreign export led to massive famines throughout the whole USSR.

One can see the same pattern in large corps where the front falls suddenly off.
It’s also fair to say that a lot of this carefulness has probably made life difficult for the developers of wine, but they wanted to avoid Microsoft’s legal team. So they respected the copyright laws.

Here is Microsoft doing as Microsoft does…
On Aliexpress I found out some alternative lego compatible brick sets that take advantage of the Tensegrity principle. Here's a picture of the house from Up and a mini millenium falcon. [1][2] They were not the easiest sets to build and keeping the balance in the correct position is hard, but it's fun.

The tolerance for the lengths to maintain the correct tension is a lot tighter than I expected. I imagine it would be a little more forgiving if everything is scaled up. I saw some space related sets and floating boats from the anime One Piece as well on there. What is in and out of stock is not very consistent, and I haven't seen some of the sets I own in a while. I did not have to use glue but I did have to get creative in terms of wrapping things in a certain way, or connecting the things to an alternate hole. The manual was optimisitc.

There are some really interesting user created designs you can buy instructions for, but not every set from aliexpress is there.

https://rebrickable.com/mocs/?q=tensegrity

[1]
https://twitter.com/Knaikk/status/1487889972816453635

[2]
https://twitter.com/Knaikk/status/1655580332341489673
Yeah, I wrote this comment before I knew that Apple was dropping attestation. Them dropping attestation kind of renders the entire conversation moot, practically no one is going to require it if it means cutting off the entire Apple userbase. It's good news.

It's honestly kind of the best possible situation short of attestation being outright removed from the spec. My bank doesn't understand "I should be able to use real 2FA instead of a text message", but they will understand "I should be able to log in from a Mac."
It's kind of a strange comparison... FFMPeg is a library for everything and anything video, audio and image transcoding.

The API this post writes about is basically a single decoder... without even (de)muxing ability.
The Lies We Tell Ourselves About Multitasking
This might be the thing that makes me go to a zero google experience.

I have mostly been off search for a while. Gmail is the stickiest thing by far.

enshittification indeed.
If only there were some kind of distinction we could draw between health and toxicity regulation versus "which charger for your phone is better." I just can't think of what it could be.
We're the first animal that can form a computational model of the climate. We're also the only chance for terran life to survive the death of our sun.
neat - are all the food images ai generated?
Savoring Complexity: Embracing the Infinite
In this blog post, the exploration of embracing complexity and the infinite aspects of the universe is presented through various disciplines, including mathematics, philosophy, and psychology. By demonstrating the value of engaging with complexity, readers are encouraged to ponder the vastness of existence.
These models don't have a frame of reference to ground themselves in reality with, so they don't really have a base "truth". Everything is equally valid if it is likely.

A human in a hallucinogenic state could hallucinate a lot of things that are true. The hallucination can feature real characters and places, and could happen to follow the normal rules of physics, but they are not guaranteed to do so. And since the individual has essentially become detached from reality, they have no way of knowing which is which.

It's not a perfect analogy, but it helps with understanding that the model "writing things that aren't true" is not some statistical quirk or bug that can be solved with a bandaid, but rather is fundamental to the models themselves. In fact, it might be more truthful to say that the models are always making things up, but that often the things they are making up happen to be true and/or useful.
Open-source alternatives to ChatGPT (AirTable database)
I have collected LLMs that have Chat version (originally or through fine tuning) into a single database. AirTable provides model name, link to HuggingFace weights, online demo etc. I am continuously updating it.
links out to a better article and writeup at-least, techradar is a bottom of the barrel content regurgitation outlet

https://9to5google.com/2023/05/05/gmail-ads-increase-2023/
While it's not an excuse, I guess I'll just say that the Apple Music app is not a necessary part of the OS.
On related note. Julia [1] announced their v1.9 release.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35861288
Right, that's what I thought. So at a high level helper methods are equivalent in some sense to 'unsafe' code in rust and require manual validation for security (i.e. the verifier ignores them other than to check they are in some helper method whitelist for the program type)?
KeePassXC is one of those old style applications that are fast, small, does not change UI every quarter and does well what it was built for. It does not offer "cloud integration", does not send email asking you if you are happy with it and if you want to upgrade to Pro Plan that let you share your passwords with your grandma. Or mine cryptocurrency, ok, this crypto is passe now, nowadays, it would be integration with ChatGPT that would invent better passwords for you...

You put the file on Google Drive, Drop Box, etc. and now you have simple, "distributed" password manager that works on every reasonable platform.
I switched to fastmail.com a few years ago. It's not expensive and so far seems to work quite well for me.
>nowhere near as convenient as having no cable at all.

AIUI the tech just isn't there for this.

There's latency and packet loss to deal with, whenever there's a radio in the path.
Does Facebook have rules that are consistently applied to every country? AFAIK, Facebook complies with the local governments' requirements everywhere it operates even though they will occasionally publicize some resistance.
How does this compare with the data you get from Airdata?

When I was working on an aerial georeferencing project[1] I found that the on-device flight logs didn’t contain all the info in the serverside logs (eg heading, gimbal orientation, GPS coords, altitude)

[1] https://github.com/roboflow/dji-aerial-georeferencing
I don’t see the link. YC are not giving out tips. They are expecting a return.
The answer to that should not be to become the shady seller.
Is eliminating jobs an unintended consequence, or is it the fundamental purpose of software development?

Personally, I see job elimination as my goal and my purpose as a developer. Whenever my company is able to lay people off as a result of my work, that means I am doing a good job. I always try to keep track of how many people my software can replace and how much my company pays these people, so that I can take credit for these cost savings and claim a portion of their salaries for myself during salary negotiations.
At the Ferry Building in SF there is a grocery store that also has a cofee shop counter. They use the same POS system for checkout as for coffee/pastries.

The grocery side asks for tip on checkout. You bring the groceries, they ring you up, you have to bag them yourself. Then they ask for tip. Makes me furious.

“If you could just answer the quick question on screen …”

And of course the default options are 15, 20, 25. I’m even starting to see 17, 21, 30 in some places.
With one caveat: don't force a round peg into a square hole. If it works for 70% your use case but the last 30% is mission critical to your whole business and it doesn't really work for that, even with minor mods, be willing to find better ways.
To be honest, I think as it is, not providing attestation was the only way to not outright be in violation of the FIDO/WebAuthN specifications (which at the moment requires specifying whether a key is "stored inside secure hardware", for which there is no good answer for synchronized credentials), but I don't think we're in the clear yet:

Nothing prevents the big platform players (who are major contributors to the WebAuthN specification) from introducing a new form of attestation that specifically allows expressing that a credential is synced. I could absolutely imagine this happening in WebAuthn Level 3, FIDO CTAP 2.2 etc.
Just put down your phone. Or better yet, just use the smolnet sites that already exist. If you pine for the days of a small, nerdy and exclusive internet then just go there it’s just a few clicks away.
How long does it take you to consume a half cow? I can't fathom buying that much beef at one time. Aside from storage, it would take us years to eat it all, even if we switched all our animal protein consumption to beef.
In what Bizarro-world morality am I obligated to care about supporting their business model?

When I think about such things at all, my train of thought tends towards pursuing only two ideas:

1. That advertising in general is either the worst outcome in some prisoners' dilemma game theory game, in that it never seems to inform potential customers and business spend inordinately trying to outspend everyone else.

2. That advertising may not actually meet the criteria to be considered speech/expression either in general, or when performed by corporations instead of individuals.
This story is about anhingas. I immediately assumed it would be about grackles.
I see these takes a lot, but I struggle to take them seriously.

As a trivial example: LLMs don't learn new skills on the fly. A key aspect of human behavior--implicit memory--simply doesn't exist for these models.

That seems like a pretty huge gap! Like, if ChatGPT is mediocre at your job today, it's going to be mediocre at it tomorrow and the next day, until a new model is trained!
Uncle Sam mulls dumping monolithic software stacks for modular blocks
It’s bold to claim that automation is only good, and I don’t think it’s really true historically. Speaking personally, I don’t think it’s good or accurate to use total economic output or economic growth as your sole metric, that’s a way to justify ignoring many small bad things. For example I would say that large scale farming is doing lots of bad things to local economies, lots of bad things for the environment, lots of bad things to our food supply, and creating a more precarious dependence on a more centralized distribution system that can fail more easily. Similar things are true about our total dependence on cars, despite the economic growth. I’d agree that work for the sake of work is not fulfilling or meaningful, but that doesn’t necessarily justify obliterating local economies as fast as we can just to make someone more dollars. We need time for the economy to adjust. I’d also counter that economy for the sake of economy is not meaningful either, we don’t need to have unending economic growth at all costs, and we probably can’t. If we expect to continue growing at recent historical rates, we’re more or less guaranteed to cause a large scale economic crash when we hit the wall.
What? This seems like a complete non-sequitur. How is VC investing in nascent companies - the primordial act of capital formation - comparable to tipping (or not) someone at a self-checkout?
Do I get to pay less if the service is crappy? If no, then why should I get pressurized to pay more, even when the service is just what I expected? My appreciation for the great service will be reflected in my repeat patronage. Obviously there can be exceptions e.g. if I don't have any plans to revisit, say when I am traveling or someone going wayyy above and beyond their role etc.

My company pays my bonus when I have done my job very well and they have turned a profit. Why aren't the service sector's employers doing the same for their employees?
> The internet used to be forests, rivers to ford, camps.

https://wiby.me
Security key backup was always the biggest obstacle. In principle you could create fungible keys flashed with the same private key, but in practice that isn't possible (outside of some obscure open-source implementations).

The second obstacle, of course, is the question: why do I need a separate microcontroller taking up a USB slot, when the host device is capable of running the same software? Passkeys do solve that (though so would soft-FIDO without resident keys), but the bait comes with the hook of vendor lock-in.
Gran Turismo 5 supported a triple monitor setup, but you needed three PS3s and three copies of the game.
Most people can do 32-bit binary addition using a pen and paper. And the point of using addition as an illustrative example is that the rules of addition are extremely simple, yet a binary addition problem can easily be scaled to N bits of entropy. This means it's very easy to show that the system fails to apply simple logic rules in such cases.
Maps, Photos, Drive will go after soon.

I just see Facebook somewhere. Ads everywhere even when people leaving it.
Can I have you’re credit card number, expiry and verification number please? Also your DNA ?

Since it’s data that should be cool right ?
I’d say it’s because of personal feelings and that the technologies didn’t get trained on their data and because of that, disassociation makes those other technologies easier to use.
The entire sync fabric would become the authenticator. Apple and Google could (but don't currently) issue attestation that the passkey ecosystem you're using is theirs for multi-device passkeys, and continue to use attestation for the specific hardware for DPK and single-device passkeys.
I've started favoring cash when buying take-out, if paying in person, for that reason. Damn "tip" field showing up all kinds of places tips were never expected before.

What the inappropriate tip screens could do to be a whole lot more like how the world operated just a few years ago, is to add a "round up to next dollar as tip" option and make that the most prominent.

However, are employers using the expanded presence of tip lines & prompts as an excuse to pay workers less, somehow? Seems possible, in which case now I am kinda a dick if I'm not tipping. Wish we'd get rid of the whole damn thing, the anti-tipping movement in the early 20th century had it right.

... OTOH I used the tip % buttons on the CC reader as a way to give my favorite struggling-but-excellent pastry shop extra money when the owner was having such a hard time that she had zero employees. The single time it's been kinda nice to have them.
What? On the official page it's still on 1.9-rc3
Are we still getting surprised by this? I feel like I've read a version of your comment on posts like this for the past couple of years.
And who says it?

A site that first try to trick me into letting them sell my data for ads, then displays up to 8 ads at the same time on a screen (there are more if I scroll), then wants to install a constant advertising script into my computer (allow notifications popup) and when I wanted just to close this thing it advertised me their newsletter.

And they have courage to reproach others for adding advertisements to their product, lol
Surely a tip at a self-checkout station comes in the form of a discount?
That's a good analogy.

I like technology and modern cities in the abstract. They provide people with easy access to certain things that were historically scarce. Some of those things are life saving, like cutting edge medicine.

But I can't live in a city. I hate the noise, the crowds, the people, the crime, the pollution and the vast majority of the time I'm not in any sort of immediate need for what they provide. Fine for the odd Saturday adventure one or twice a year. Any more than that and no thanks. I always come away feeling stressed out, anxious, tired and worse off for the experience.

Ironically, online shopping and remote work is what has made living in a city unnecessary.
Thanks for the reply. If I understand correctly, it would be a safer option to focus on data migrations between production and analytics systems?
Phys.org had an article on this a few weeks ago https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35606682
IDK seems like a situation where you have vested national interests/individuals that hold hostage the rest of the world with some significant ripple effects that we can't possible model. Even if they started out of goodwill I can't imagine it staying that route.

Look at the internet for anything that started good and has really degraded over time. Our environment is already pretty degraded - can't imagine politicians controlling the levers to bring any good value to the table here.

It is after all modeling weather which is one of the hardest challenges that we have yet to figure out.

What could possibly go wrong?
Were you able to make use of the fixpoint optimization ideas in Datafun? I thought it was a great idea but the project seems to have stalled.
> There are no other platforms though.

Sure there are. $5/month gets you email/contacts/calendar hosting at Fastmail (and several other similar alternatives). Linux desktops are healthier than ever and have no ads. (Including plenty of music players for playing your own MP3s!) There are countless Fediverse instances that won't advertise at you... there are plenty of options if you look beyond the big players.

Now, for phone OSes, your choices are more limited. GrapheneOS with F-Droid is alright for now, though I'd love to see mobile Linux get more usable again.
Great points. I think you're absolutely right – social media in particular has given most people good reason to (a) not maintain a personal website and (b) not follow other personal websites. Ultimately, I'm not sure that's a good thing, but that isn't to say that it doesn't present some signficant benefits, like the ability to follow topics, follow a much greater number of people, increase the speed of conversation, etc. Thanks for reading!
Molly-Guard
Getting to market so you can get the next found of funding or start making a profit is always in fashion.

Whether you did it perfectly right once you get there is the correct "technical debt" problem to have as a burden.
I thought Prez in Vietname is more or less powerless position. Real power lies in the Central Military Commision and Party General Secretary just like China.
If you're public you must grow, if you're private you can choose when and how to grow based on what makes sense for the business. The only thing really pushing you is competitors and inflation. There are no shareholders/investors breathing down your neck for returns.

When you're private you can actually say, "you know what, I'm content where we are being filthy rich."
Apple Sales Growth to Come from Emerging Markets Like India, UAE, Mexico
Numbers and Narrative: Modeling, Story Telling and Investing
The older I get, the more I understand my seniors.
I'm not american, and when I got to new york for some holidays I just found how bad is the tipping status here.

It's awful. It's basically a legalized bribe.
How much did/does a half cow cost you?
Because human rights are so well-protected in Afghanistan, Somalia or other such failed states. The alternative to a functioning state is not some techno-anarchist utopia, its warlordism and feudalism. Even the Taliban were seen as preferable to that (they got their initial political capital by rescuing boys kidnapped by warlords to be used as catamites).
So? The French had to try a few times before Democracy stuck around. Germany and Japan had some... unfortunate... experiences with elections as well, but arguably they're actual democracies now, too.
Roger Ebert: “A Machine That Generates Empathy” (2005)
The U.S. and the U.K., through their collective media empires, AKA Operation Mockingbird, control the most influential PSYOP armies in the world.
Depends on the game. My 5800x/3080 Ti doesn’t do much better at maintaining a stable 60fps in Jedi Survivor than the PS5 does. Recent triple-A PC releases have been super bad.
Technically, the President could very easily make gas prices go up. But that would require quite extraordinary means. Going down is a bit tougher.
You can embed a microKanren in whatever language you like.
Tips are for table service. That's it.

When you go to Starbucks, ask for a product, then make payment for that product, and the little POS machine basically says "hey, can we have extra money?" it's systematized panhandling.
I opted for Posteo @ €12/yr
Deliberate geoengineering will probably be designed to be faster effect then our accidental emissions. We’ve had generations to notice that we’re changing the atmosphere and that this may have noticeable affects. Geoengineering will probably leave less time for adapting to any its consequences.
Who said it has to be brand new to the end user? It might sit in a box for years getting sold back and forth as a commodity before anyone opens that box.
If you have Google Fi, it's surprising how good support it. Create a request and a real person calls you within 5 minutes to help out. They are actually helpful as well.

The best part is you don't go through 15 minutes of robo voice assistance debugging hell.
Just to be clear: Gmail is displaying ads for free use of Gmail.

If you pay for Gmail (Google Workspaces, previously known as G-Suite) then they do not serve ads.
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/
The $1 also includes iCloud Private Relay. It’s among the best deals (non-open source) in big tech.
Not a fan of how verbose and hedge-y the paper is, but I guess thats academia.

In plain English, the question is "Are beef middlemen ripping off customers? (On purpose or through asymmetric laziness)"

and the answer is "No! (Actually they try to, but people don't fall for it)."

Yeah?
> > “Stratospheric Aerosol Transport and Nucleation,” or SATAN for short

I'm sure there are 33 reason why this name is better than anything they could have thought up.