skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They also serve as an auditing service, of sorts. Instead of you having to gather a bunch of bank statements to verify income, Plaid pulls those numbers for the service provider. The service provider can trust Plaid as an intermediary whose reputation would be damaged if they helped people lie or were otherwise delivering unreliable information. In my experience Plaid is a huge UX improvement and if you use them in OAuth mode you literally have no reason to criticize because the entire argument falls apart (they don’t store your credentials and can only do what you authorize granularly, using the system as designed).

Anyway my bone to pick is with the “3rd party instantly bad” mentality. Your bank probably uses 1000 and 1 3rd parties too. Our banking regulations are focused on making sure money depositors aren’t taken advantage of and harmed by unhealthy or risky asset management practices. If you don’t find Plaid valuable then thats fine, you do you. I do wonder how you can know that without using them though…
> My cynical take is that modern billionaires are billionaires on paper only; not even paper, just rows in some bank database.

I was disturbed back when Donald Trump was elected that one of the strains of opposition was "he can't function as president because he owns businesses. He should just own stock like a real politician."

The supposed concern is that, if you have an actual business going, you may experience conflicts of interest between your business and your political decisions. But (1) categorically excluding anyone who does productive work from holding office is a really terrible (if historically common) idea; and (2) it's not like we never hear complaints about politicians getting into conflicts of interest between their political decisions and their stockholdings.
It fixes a lot for the people struggling with them right now.

We need to solve the bigger issue too, but that shouldn't preclude shorter term action to correct past mistakes.
There are plenty of universities - several in each state. We don't need more. Every flagship state school provides as good an education as any Ivy League. Harvard doesn't have any "secrete knowledge" that isn't taught somewhere else. So a wealthy person is better off contributing to their local public institutions, which happens a lot I think.
Define "us" in this question.
Interesting! And if they only based admission on the actual skills [test scores] of the students, it would likely look more like Stuyvesant.

- ~75% Asians

- ~20 White

- ~2% Hispanic

- ~1% Black

- ~2% Unknown/other

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stuyvesant_High_School#Demogra...
> Not really if you live in a high cost-of-living (HCOL) country. Vulnerability weaponization is a very globalized industry and sufficiently easy that there is a oversupply from LCOL countrys. The real money is in deployment and usage as that requires the much rarer and more local criminal and money laundering skill sets.

A single iOS or Android full chain still goes for between, 2-2.5 million USD.

https://zerodium.com/images/zerodium_prices_mobiles.png

https://zerodium.com/images/zerodium_prices.png

if someone was skilled they could easily live in a HCOL area making 1-1.25 million USD a year.
Legislative actions cannot be effective in this way. Any metric the government specifies can be worked around. Harvard can say outwardly they don't prefer legacy students but they can just pad any of the subjective measurements they use like "likability" or "personality" in their favor. As long as it's not something they blatant write to each other in subpoena-able communications it would be very difficult to notice and prove they are purposely favoring whatever trait they want in students.
For maximum tax optimization I normally recommend a Foundation or a Religion.
Could it be clipping is an artist's artistic choice?

I mean music is bigger than the set of rules rulemakers have made.
Rocky posted an update: https://rockylinux.org/news/keeping-open-source-open/
From the Bloomberg article on the same topic:

> Student loan payments are set to resume in late August after a three-year pause. Millions of people could fall behind on their debt.

So that is going to immediately hit the economy with some major headwinds.
I believe we are close to saturation of how many museums and universities one can have without them feeling empty.
? https://twrp.me/Devices/Google/ says there are official TWRP ports for pixel 4 and 5. I'm surprised at the lack of ports for newer versions; not sure what went wrong there. Yes, if you somehow get a phone without a working TWRP then you're going to have a bad time.
For myself, it’s much less about keeping track of what _I_ read, and much more more about seeing what my friends read. Perhaps it’s trite or mundane, but there are people from high school I haven’t seen in years whose reviews I look forward to because it brings me joy to read their voice again.

I’ve always seen GoodReads as more of a social network than just a list of what one’s read because you’re right, the latter is well replaced by a document.
Forget using a real web browser over an SSH proxy. What using elinks on a remote host with ssh? I bet somebody using elinks across ssh is virtually indistinguishable from somebody using a text editor.

Not much good for images or video, but you could easily read https://text.npr.org/
The rhetorical pivot here is really stunning. Seemingly the same people who 24 hours ago held that Elite Universities are Drowning Themselves in a Toxic Woke Culture...

... are now, without irony or introspection, arguing that, no, Elite Universities are Cloistered Hives of In-Group Kleptocracy.

Which is it?
Wow, somehow I have never heard about this before. In one sense, this makes LLMs even more impressive - the time it takes to consume a large amount of input seems very small.
Ruling classes are always very concerned about appearing to be "moral", because a large part of what legitimize their domination overs us peons depends on it.
Um, yes? If our goal was to strongly persuade any animal to behave some way we have a myriad of techniques for that based on our understanding of their animal psychology.

And failing that, force is always an option.
Would that not be a total writeoff, given that it's a timber building?
Are we continuously told in our courses to flush() the file so that it gets written to disk?
Who wants to deal with all the controversy surrounding admissions and race and freedom of speech and sexism and sexual harrasment, politics and politicians? It's far easier to buy a sports team or fire rockets into space.
I've never seen this word until the past few days, where I keep seeing it. Is there an interesting etymology behind it?

/added
never mind, seen the post below!
I'm seeing the same behavior, wasn't like this yesterday. Also, yesterday I noticed they removed the search feature in the top-right corner for logged-out users. Previously I could search for a specific person, click their profile, and view their feed. Instead of search, there were "New to Twitter?" prompts to sign up or sign in, no search was visible.

I've never had a Twitter account and I really don't want one. But I do check the NWS (National Weather Service) local accounts for updates on severe weather, and now those accounts are behind an auth wall and I can't see anything at all. I wish they'd make an exception for public service accounts (NWS, fire, police, government) and make them visible to everyone.
>It took decades for DirectX to be dethroned as the leading 3D raster graphics library, and even today it isn't technically fully replaced. And that's one of the easier ones.

You could easily argue that DirectX still hasn't been dethroned and that D3D12 has been leading the way in pretty much every case. The current Agility SDK has things that Vulkan and Metal could only dream of.
umount will block until the writes are finished, though
It is likely that using an "illegal" browser would be a thing? What, you use this thing called "curl"? Must be an illegal tool.

I've talked a bit too much about Stallman's "The Right to Read", but this paragraph seems prescient, except that the "root password" he talks about would be some form of hardware-assisted cryptographic attestation today.

> It was also possible to bypass the copyright monitors by installing a modified system kernel. Dan would eventually find out about the free kernels, even entire free operating systems, that had existed around the turn of the century. But not only were they illegal, like debuggers—you could not install one if you had one, without knowing your computer's root password. And neither the FBI nor Microsoft Support would tell you that.
It was really sad seeing all the bookstores close.
Do you store any milk in the fridge or freezer? I've been trying to find good glass containers for that and coming up pretty short.
What I don't understand is why the Republicans don't just respond by supporting student debt cancellation combined with a tax on university endowments. The obstinate "pay back your debts" position is such an obvious political loser for them that turns out voters against them and also prevents people from buying homes and having children (things that, statistically speaking, make people more conservative). Taxing the universities would solve the "it costs too much" problem and would tax an entity that conservatives see as an enemy. They could even combine it with the DeSantis campaign's proposal to make universities responsible for defaulted debt[0].

I think part of it is that the Republican Party is largely dominated by elderly people who aren't aware just how exorbitant the cost of college is these days because it wasn't when they were young. You don't see the same hostility to Biden's student debt relief proposal or obsession with tax cuts for the wealthy among younger Republicans whose concerns tend to be more about what's happening in the culture (the "parents rights" messaging clearly isn't targeted towards elderly conservatives who presumably don't have children in K-12 school).

[0]: https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/campaigns/desantis-p...
Somewhat sadly, the Pixel 5 takes flawless photos of faces—fast forward to my Pixel 7 and it does a poor job.
Fascinating. Can you cite a link from the Conservative Council of Evil Affairs website? I'm sure they've got "we're evil and hate you" in the mission statement somewhere.
The British seem to have a well-established culture of "taking the piss" out of one's superiors, whereas the US seems to have zero tolerance for biting the hands of the corporate overlords who feed us.

I'm saying that as a Canadian who is exposed to both cultures. Also sorry.
You're not wrong.

Harvard wouldn't be Harvard without its legacy admits. It's how universities perpetuate their status.

Graduate becomes wealthy, their children become powerful, get into the school, make friends in their graduating class, help vault new graduates to the same circle. Rinse and repeat.

The real answer is taking some of their $$ and expanding seats. With how low acceptance rates are now, they could double their class size and still be very exclusive.
High-tech sensors sniff out potential wildfires before they ignite
When Will AI Generate a Hollywood Blockbuster? “Give It About Three Years.”
I don’t understand the sentiment. I paid off my student loans and I hope others get forgiveness. I don’t see how their gain is my loss. I am happy when bad situations get rectified even when I don’t benefit.
Don't fixate on Harvard. People forget that the UT endowment (among other schools) is very nearly as high.

https://nces.ed.gov/fastfacts/display.asp?id=73
"We shouldn't give starving people food, instead we should embark on a multi-decade effort to reform farming so that food prices will begin to decline in the late 2030s".

There are multiple ways to attack and ease the problem, its not an either/or approach. We could help people now, while tackling the long term issues.
You realize we can do both right? Forgive the loans AND tackle the rising cost of tuition by nationalizing? I swear it’s this same myopic response everyone, no one can ever imagine there’s a step two.
I don't need a mechanic to repair my car, either. I could spend hours doing the research, risk maybe being wrong and fix the thing myself. Or I could hire a professional.
"Everything I shacked" sounds much better though.
Why don't you tell us, because it just seems like hand waving at the moment.
It's sad that the entire discussion around college admission policies starts and ends at Harvard. Harvard (and the rest of the ivies in general) are a special case in the education system. It is private, has possibly the strongest brand in the world and a $50B+ war chest. It also graduates a few thousand students every year. It is a university by the rich and for the rich. Harvard is really not what we should be using as the barometer for education for the masses.

The conversation should instead be focused on admissions and funding for the hundreds of public universities in the country. It's the responsibility of your state's university system to educate you, not Harvard. If you have a problem, knock on the doors of your state legislature instead. Why exactly does a university fully funded by taxpayer dollars have a system of legacy admissions?
What are ivfflat indexes in pgvector and how they work?
Plumber and electricians don't work in cube farms or horrible corporate campuses.
That's fair, but I don't think either Google or Microsoft (being the two alternatives proposed) are terribly forward with their downtime notifications either.
I'm not talking about macOS kernel programming, though.
Instead: Linux, BSD, or any other open source OS...
This kind of idealism is nice, but the truth is that the American government isn’t a computer we can program with just and elegant code. It’s a vending machine we have to pound on and shake until it dispenses not the just outcome we asked for, but whatever imperfect scraps it will give us.

Affirmative action may not have been an elegant way to counterbalance legacy admissions or compensate people who had been wronged, but it was the only thing that came out when we shook the vending machine, and now people have thrown it in the trash and are acting like something better is going to happen.
This year seems to be an extreme outlier but I wouldn't bet that this won't look pretty normal 10 years from now.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/wildfires-outlook-forecast-...
Really? Pretty much every school I've ever seen has a special office of tutors that takes care of the various affirmative action admits. And also athletes. Definitely athletes. I don't think I've ever seen any such office for legacy students. Ever. Or even heard about some covert version.

Can you explain a scenario where this might be the case? The only one I can imagine is assuming that legacy students are rich and so they can just toss around more money on private tutors. Perhaps. But then the right statement is to say that rich students have better access.
Midwits rationalize behavior or phenomena with “natural selection” or “survival of the fittest” especially when engaging in zero sum games in their lives.

Humanity as a whole will be in the darwin awards for failing to realize that species wide success (or success of anyone’s personal lineage) depends on not interpreting “anything goes in nature” to mean “we don’t have to try to cooperate to survive” as a species.

“Natural / Artificial” are useless words, as humans are inherently part of nature. Pretending as if we are somehow immune from tendencies and follies of “lesser” life forms is the first step towards being naturally selected out.

Human culture can learn from bacterial culture. We must choose ways of living that don’t result in destroying our host.
Even prions undergo evolution and they are just molecules bumping around into stuff. They clearly don't have feelings about whether or not they propagate, they just do.
Things like doorbells/thermostats/light switches I'm not too worried about because they don't have network effects -- I can build my own with very little time investment and it can have better features and more reliability than most other options. The boundary here is currently probably TV's, it's insane to me that I can't get an affordable high quality TV without tracking and ads. I can block the TV at the router, but something like Amazon Sidewalk could be used to get around my sandboxing.

Platforms which require network effects to function like YouTube, Twitter, Email (deliverability), etc have a different dynamic. They're very difficult to abandon once you've come to rely on them.
> free

Actually, per the meaning of its own name, is /daring/ ("per-ya", ex PIE for "to try, risk").
Wow, that logo is gorgeous. Who is the artist?
Politically this was an interesting ride for Biden. He held it out as a carrot to buy votes in 2022 and the SCOTUS bails him out of actually paying the bill (with our tax dollars...). For sure it'll be part of the 2024 campaign that they need total filibuster proof Democrat control of Congress to get it pushed through.

The entire nationalizing of the student loan program was a long con (as part of the Affordable Care Act no less!). It originated with a message of, "We'll save costs by cutting out the middle men!". That was a complete charade as the goal from day one was to take control of the debt so that it could be selectively discharged.

Thankfully Trump's 2016 win has cemented a conservative SCOTUS for the near future and they put a stop to this nonsense. Regardless of the outcome of 2024, that's going to his most lasting impact on the country.
New open-source model with 8k context runs on CPU, outperforms GPT-3
"MPT-30B...that is significantly more powerful than MPT-7B and outperforms the original GPT-3."

Source:
1. Original announcement: https://www.mosaicml.com/blog/mpt-30b
Also a subsidy to landlords that would simply raise rent by the forgiveness amounts.
Imagine paying for an ostensibly free service. It's like getting mugged and then offering to give the mugger even more money. Whose fault is it that YouTube isn't charging enough to cover hosting costs?
He left behind quite a legacy. I will always remember him as Dr. Oatman in Grosse Point Blank [1] despite that being a fairly small role.

[1] - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3HZM37HFxl0 [video][5 mins]
Couldn’t agree more. There seems to be some confusion in this thread about the product’s value preposition - it’s a social network, not an archiving system. Using GoodReads alone strikes me like using Facebook alone, there’s just not much value there without other users.
I wonder very much if Biden can instead mandate payments "going to zero" by mandating interest rate cuts to 0% and allowing borrowers by decree to just not pay. I've heard some trickles this is actually well within the rights of the Department Of Education to do.

I've also seen some people advocating for a general student loan payment strike, but that feels dicey. Everyone would need to do it, basically, and there's no way to prove solidarity, it'd be a legal mess IMO.

The 3rd, although more out there idea, has to do with setting up specialty bankruptcy support for student loans, allow them to be dismissed via proceedings, without it being reported negatively on a credit report.

I don't think there's any good alternatives to legislating it, if one wants to pursue relief here, except removing interest rates or something of that nature.

I myself am withholding my own opinions, other than to say I support student loan relief efforts. I'm just cataloging what I'm seeing in (anecdotally of course) large numbers online people talking about.
Earlier this month, the NY Times warned students and their families to "Expect Interest Rates on Federal Student Loans to Rise" to as high as 8.05% for new PLUS loans this fall. That news came as Apple, just days after a recent $90 billion share buyback, filed a prospectus with the SEC for a new $5 billion bond program with longer-term bonds expected to have a coupon rate of approximately 5%. The imbalance between loan rates for students and Apple shareholders was actually far more pronounced before the Fed fund rate hikes started last year in response to inflation. During the pandemic, Apple -- which reported around $166.3 billion in cash and investments on its balance sheet as of March 31 -- held a bond sale worth $14 billion for stock buybacks and dividends to benefit from borrowing rates as low as 0.70%. Direct PLUS student loan rates at that time were down to 5.30% for new loans but as high as 8.5% for existing loans (the U.S. Dept. of Education does not offer refinancing of its up-to-30-year fixed rate loans in times of much lower interest rates). Unlike the tax-deductible interest Apple pays, annual deductions on student loan interest are capped by the IRS at $2,500 (or lower, depending on the borrower's income).

https://news.slashdot.org/story/23/05/30/2132241/student-loa...
> hope students and former students don’t forget this in 2024

To be fair, the Congress could have enabled this via statute during its Democrat-controlled phase. But it didn't, so a legally-dubious administrative fix was attempted. This issue is likely to be as spicy at the primary level as it will be in the general.
As someone who uses Jira: don’t.
We have techniques like training the animal to associate certain behaviors with food or punishment. These techniques are primitive and have been around for thousands of years with little improvement. Few of the AI doomsday theorists propose that AIs will train us using pavlovian conditioning.
Raycast is free (unless you want cloud sync), and I prefer the UI/UX and menu system it uses. I also felt like many Alfred workflows required fiddling and/or were buggy. In general, Raycast's community ecosystem is a much more pleasant experience than Alfred's workflows (in my opinion).

The UX is just nice, and there's lots of little things to like. Result context menus, quick configuration changes, system control, window management, etc. I can type things into Raycast and can reasonably expect something nice to be suggested, e.g. "pi * 6", "1 month", "1 month from now", "sleep displays", "left half", "schedule", the list goes on.

I'd suggest trying it for a day. If you don't like it, switch back.
Niantic lays off 230 employees, cancels NBA and Marvel games
> but someone who spends a lot of time mastering a sport (and is gifted at it) isn’t that different from someone gifted at math and working at it.

Except in the stuff that actually matters in the context of going to school -- your schoolwork.

> I feel like HN may disagree, but not all athletes are 2.0 GPA students

Yeah it's not all of them but you might want to take a gander at football/basketball players at the P5 level. There are a huge number of them that are, shall we say, not exactly college material. The schools shove them in basket weaving majors and assign an army of tutors to keep them academically eligible.
Not raised in US, but live in US now (with my European master education).

Took me a while to read it "Harvard Legacy" and not "Hogwarts Legacy".
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36517238
They arguably never did. Android updates are all-encompassing, unlike Windows. You still depend on manufacturers of your hardware (motherboard, CPU) to provide firmware updates (BIOS, Microcode). How old is your Motherboard's firmware? You probably don't even know, because most people don't consider these things important, which is a mistake. On Android, generally, firmware updates are included.
Welcome to bugmenot.com.
Unfortunately everyone monitors these now and bans these accounts in no time.
telling you to type in "sync" multiple times was the old-timers way of ensuring that the first sync completed (maybe about a second) before you turned the power off, even if you were a newbie SA.
I kind of understand many of the books in the front page, but is there a message for example in harry potter or game of thrones that I do not get?