skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It turns out kids at top schools are still just kids. They might have been more successful academically in high school if they’re at an Ivy, but they’re not a different species. They struggle, succeed, and fail like anybody else. Even if you’re a legacy, most legacies aren’t in that super elite tier where you can bumble through life and wind up a CEO or politician. The ones I knew were mostly middle class or upper middle class with parents who were working professionals and were not well-connected enough to get their kid a job they weren’t qualified for, if they could help them get a job at all.
I understand your position and sorry if I have caused offense.

I guess we just see things differently. To me a "good relationship with my parents" involves mutual respect of boundaries. It shouldn't even get to the point of threats.

I understand that for some and maybe even yourself this may be an unlikely outcome or you might just think it not worth the effort on this particular issue given how pervasive social media already is.
These things don't win on engineering merits. Markdown wasn't better than others. It was like a bunch of others. It's just natural that one form of communication becomes a monopoly because people want to be able to talk to as many people as possible.

You only need to be good enough to enter this kind of competition... and win. The reasons you might win can be many arbitrary things, like someone deciding to adopt a practice in a large organization, or dedicating efforts to writing parsers in many languages etc.
I'd not mind frying some meats on a grill and celebrating, if anyone in Bay Area is interested. Having some Oxide folks would be awesome.
And that is how you end up in an echo chamber where it looks as if your ideas are the only ideas and everyone obviously agrees with you.
Now I'm curious if that holds for 4d shapes. Maybe someone with a better understanding of calculus or 4d geometry can answer

Edit: apparently it does for pyramids, so it should for cones as well. General formula for volume of n-dimensional pyramid is A*h/n where A is the volume of the base.
Ah, finally a way to turn the output of nodejs programmers into something less hateful! All it took was the early days of the singularity ;)
If unlimited doesn't mean unlimited, maybe all doesn't really mean all anymore either.
I think there may be a disconnect between what Musk says and the reality on the ground. Enough so that I, given such a situation, would wait around a little bit to see how things played out before jumping ship. But as I said in my original comment, I’ve sprinted away from toxicity before, and will do so again if it becomes obvious.
Please do. I’m curious to see what this looks like in production repos.
If the US were a liveable place, I'd consider it as well.
As far as I have tried, at least chatgpt basically cannot do brainfuck. I think it might just be too far from natural language. It basically just gives you hello worlds with randomly injected characters.
I’m curious how ATProto codifies these algorithms? Is it just left to the clients to implement on the firehouse?
That may be it, under-supply of schools. What's required there besides perfect, or near perfect SAT scores?

Also, I've always wondered why so few Americans decide to study in Europe. I understand some might not be able to afford the remote study, but this doesn't explain everything. Language is not a problem, every top university offers all, or almost all master's level courses also in English.
The DOD can’t even tell you what is made in which country.

That’s how completely mismanaged the defense industry is in the US.
I don’t understand the problem. The Fediverse already solved this. I can log into my Lemmy instance from any Lemmy app, same with Mastodon. There are also PWAs that do this.

Yes, I can’t log in from another instance’s website/frontend, but does it really matter?

The real problem is that my identity/account is coupled to the instance. If the instance disappears, so does my account and I lose everything.
Whoa, thats quite arrogant statement. So, are you PR person from Harvard?
It's so sad to hear stories like this. I think there's a real danger with gifted young people to start to see success as the default and by extension for education to only offer modes for failure.
We weren't talking about twitter. We were talking about one Mastodon server defederating another for hate speech. That's not 'some topics'. That's hate speech.

If they're talking about some other kind of speech that I might actually care about, they should have mentioned it. Because the next bad one I can think of is even worse than hate speech.
Also that you can't very effectively model a composite materiál the way you can a solid single material.
> Imagine cars makers asking to get rid of ABS, airbags, safety belts...

But cars with all those safety features are still much more risky then nuclear plants. Cars can kill you. Practically speaking nuclear plants cannot. They force people to move. If you are going to complain about preventable deaths, what is your plan to make cars safe? We haven't done all we can do. If we bought the speed limits down to walking pace and banned reversing we'd save a huge number of lives (including small toddlers, it remains a tear jerker every time someone reverses over their own toddler).

Why are you accepting high risks from cars but raising an eyebrow at nuclear plants? It isn't rational. You know people, right now, who will be killed by cars. Why isn't something being done [0]?

> in the page 5 you can see that regulatory costs are minimal

Nuclear is the only technology that gets more expensive the more is built. And I'll give you a hint. That anomaly is 100% caused by the regulatory framework.

The report is obviously misjudging something. They're probably doing something like assuming only things that the regulators explicitly ask for count as regulatory costs. We should see a learning effect in the nuclear industry where technology gets cheaper over time.

[0] That was rhetorical. The answer is because it'd be damn silly and the costs would far outweight the benefits. Everyone can see that because the costs are obvious and felt personally. It is unfortunate the the costs of lacking energy are going to be felt before people accept that there aren't alternatives to building new powerplants.
> give more credit to SpaceX rather than the Euclid team

Credit for what? For launching or for doing the dark matter & energy research?

While I think is appropriately and accurately attributed, I just don’t think it is relevant to the scientific story what rocket launched the apparatus. But I don’t know that space.com is the paragon of scientific reporting either.
Yeah.. same.. :<
If you had more invites to spare I would appreciate one too. cliche.finest.0k@icloud.com -- Thank you.
> Pre-Elon the bot count was something like 5% of active users

Is there a reliable source for that figure? Also, are we talking about 5% of accounts (active accounts/total accounts?) or 5% of pageviews or some other metric?

I'm struggling to see any incentive for platforms to be honest about how many bots they get.
Touche.

Alas, an inherent risk to the UX surrounding adoption of new technology is we tend to become so engrossed with realizing (P_success * Benefit) that we often dismiss the inevitable consequences of (P_failure * Cost).
In a rare case, the cavalier founder faces natural consequences for their attitudes.
You're ignoring the fact that humans generally do not think in terms of expected value, nor should they. An improbable outcome of widespread catastrophe (irradiating a million people) is and should be treated as something worse than a more-probable outcome of localized catastrophe (plane crash). You can't just do "loss x probability = cost".
> but I think what you’re missing is people are using lambda functions not just to run some image resizing function, but as their entire backend.

Sometimes it makes sense. I see people criticizing stuff they know nothing about.

I worked on a project where I had to put together a REST API for an internal project. After considering the traffic projections, we noticed a API Gateway + lambdas fitted quite neatly in the AWS free tier, and we did everything in lambdas. We also did a proof of concept in ECS and everything was far more complex and convoluted. With lambdas, the whole project consisted of a single CDK package which included also the nodejs code for the handlers.

In another project, we even skipped the API gateway and instead had a NLB invoke a couple of lambdas. It worked flawlessly, and in the free tier.

I'm seeing comments about the need to do engineering, but these same comments are outright clueless and fail to do the faintest cursory research. It's just people commenting on stuff they know nothing about with a demeaning tone. Not cool, not smart.
The visa is a contract between the government and an employer where the employee is not a relevant party. The employee is tied to the employer and has limited rights or mobility. It is often difficult to transition out of the visa towards permanent residency. And even in order to transition to permanent residency, the employer needs to sponsor it in most cases. It's just a very exploitative model.
The comments in there gloating over somebody else's mistakes is exactly why I don't use Twitter - except it's apparently the same on Mastodon.
A big problem with this is that certain kinds of content are illegal both to host but also to link to, in many parts of the world (including the USA). Your solution works well for legal-but-reprehensible-to-the-admin content such as nazi or tankie content (or porn or [...]). But if you end up linking to illegal pornography, or to drug selling, or even to gambling etc, then you're likely still liable and the fact that you're not directly hosting the content is not going to protect you that much (look at torrent trackers to see how well that defense worked).
A Proto-Pizza Emerges from a Fresco on a Pompeii Wall
> I do occasionally bother to leave a review for a product I have bought and I always specify it.

Thank you! There is no way of knowing otherwise. This is also true for genuine listings where multiple versions are offered.

There is also a more general problem with this because this is also true for OEMs using the same name for fastly different products (i.e. router with different SoC, TVs with different panel technologies, SSDs with different controller and/or cache). And in that case it's just hard to even leave a proper review because you might not know that other versions exist and how to distinguish.

The issue is mostly the same and the intention is often also the same (but not necessarily).
In the hypothetical situation where Tokyo needed to be evacuated, or a large enough portion of the population there feared for their health and wanted to leave, i wonder if in the long term, the redistribution of population back into regional Japan would not be a good thing over all.
How does a user choose to block content without seeing it, say in order to avoid seeing gore videos from war zones or such?
> Underlining is an emphasis hack for mechanical typewriters or in handwriting. There's no reason to use it typographically in something which has all the layout possibilities of a modern computer or printer.

The argument presented by that link is valid for paragraphs and valid for printed content.

On a website, underlining single words or short phrases doesn't make them less unreadable, it draws attention to them.

Like with hyperlinks; the displayed form of `[See here](http://here.com) for more inform` is undeniably better than simply `see here for more info` and leave the reader guessing which of those words is the text and which is a hyperlink.

The problem is exacerbated on mobile where the reader cannot hover a mouse over the words to determine which words are a link and which are not.

If you're writing a full paragraph like this:

"Our previous stories of FooBarFactory Inc were well-received by our readers. Investigative Journalism has always been a core principle of PotatoNews. The images and video that our beloved readers shared on Twitter are only a single component in the fight against big corps polluting our environment."

In the above paragraph, "previous stories" is a link, "FooBarFactory" is a link, "well-received" is a link, "images and video" is a link, "Twitter" is a link and "Polluting out environment" is a link.

The advice from Practical Typography would render that entire paragraph free of any indication that there's more for the user to read.
Using topology to close a rubber band bracelet [video]
I have been trying to research my way out of having to write a markdown parser that doesn't allow inline html because I don't want to be a markdown author, but I categorically don't want people being able to inject things into the wiki(s) I need to create. In some languages it's a flag. In others, there's no flag.

This is like not using bind variables on your sql library. I just don't understand it. I'm looking at you, Crockford.
yeah its correlated with getting deported from the US if you lose your employer
How does it work in the EU for you? In my experience it's the same bullshit
I once used a job offer to 1.2x my current salary. I had no intention to pick the other job, as they had a pretty poor work culture, and I liked where I was. I stayed another 1.5 years and there was no bitterness from my employer’s side. My boss’es comment was “I guess we started you on a too low salary, our mistake.”
These tools exist at least between activity pub and RSS. I suspect similar will exist for bluesky if it takes off. https://github.com/dariusk/rss-to-activitypub
You are correct that Fedora is mainly community driven and currently receives a large part of its funding from Red Hat. I could have phrased my initial post better, I am currently not concerned that their actions could negatively affect the long term success of Fedora (as I highly doubt they'd take contributors away from their own upstream), it was more about giving credit where it's due to an organization that I view critically overall.
I imagine this is a generalisation, some of the elite universities in Europe require 2 year prep programs before you can even apply (e.g. France) which doesn't sound easier than top American ivies?
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I can’t believe the author doesn’t allow conversion to JavaScript

It’s the most popular language for heavens sakes. Developers really need to stop bringing their religion into open source.
Hiring processes are a cakewalk compared to company in death spiral. Damn, even compared to a company with a bad period of high pressure.

It’s a mistake to stay.
So report it.
So what should people be learning from then? What are some better resources?
If I get lost in code or something seems wrong, I comment it out and re-write the logic. I might clean it up later or just leave it in.
Reads like an AI generated essay.
Famous Encounters – Locklin on Science
I can see a scenario where you do accept the golden handcuffs during a critical period of your life. Of course provided that it really is a very high salary. I.e.: simply doing it for the money for a couple of years to move the personal finances along.
How does running it locally make a difference to copyright?

If I run an OCR software 100% locally, do I get the copyright on the scanned result of Harry Potter?

Don't understand: using a giant LLM locally negates all the copyrights contained in the LLM? In which country is that a law?
Fediverse Governance
and your personal experience shows what?
just go to any job anncouncment website and see how many specifically say that Visa Support is not available (thus requiring US Residence) and how many say it is.
the Ratio from a glance is maybe 1/100 has a Visa Program.
I had to laugh here:

> The Winkelvoss Entity: one of them is actually bigger than the other.
> scientists who were either outside their discipline or among the outliers who were unconcerned with the anthropogenic portion of CO2 buildup, advising those executives that no action was currently warranted. They were wrong, make no mistake; but that's what they were saying, and that's the information the oil companies were acting upon, at least through the end of the 20th century.

Except that's way too convenient to be a coincidence.

You mean to tell me that for decades all of the top scientists at all the major oil companies just so happened to be heterodox or hold highly conservative opinions about climate change? And all important decision-making executives just so happened to take them at their word, and never heard a contrary opinion? And if only they weren't so incredibly unlucky as to get consistently bad advice all consistently and conveniently giving them the answer they wanted to hear, they'd have acted on climate change sooner?

That's an utterly absurd hypothesis, particularly coming from a "skeptical" source. It ignores the obvious incentive for oil executives to deliberately and exclusively seek out such scientists.

This article is far far too accepting and apologetic, beyond the point of credible gullibility.
So you don't have an answer, but that is not surprising because it's not in the Bible.

Lemme know when you find some religious basis for what you're saying, way I see it you're just a bigot trying to find an excuse to make someone else feel small.
> I believe I would be admitted to an Ivy school if I were American, based on my professional experience with people that studied there.

The admission rates are very, very low. I have no problem believing you could follow the studies there, but so could most people who applied. In the US the advertised admission rates are in the single digit percents, and that is after people who have a leg up from having parents who attended the school and various others.

So you end up with a bunch of kids who need to have absolutely top grades, with ridiculous extracurricular activities like publishing research or starting a business. You end up having to give up your entire childhood to do things to have a chance at one of these schools.

Where does self-motivation go? Well if you already know you're going to be a programmer, your motivation is to code, that's how you get good at it. But you also need to be doing your other classes like literature and French plus running your charity. You'll be reminded of this by helpful teachers and parents.
Is Cavalieri's principle (two volumes are equal if every cross section has equal area) considered calculus or not?
A lot of instances have "themes" because they are a way to gather likeminded users. There are also general instances without as all-encompassing themes, and of course you can use say a tech-oriented instance to post your own art if that is permitted by it's rules.

You sign up for the moderation you want, and if it or you changes you can jump ship while being able to retain connections (trust me, I've seen several users having migrated instances).

What's great about the Fediverse is that you not only sign up for the network, but the point you start from inside it, and the moderation you want. On a fully decentralized platform you'd either be subject to some form of easily gameable group-moderation or be left to the task of filtering content all by yourself.

I don't care that I might be missing out on some maybe nice person on a instance defederated on my home instance. I care that I feel that I belong on my home instance and my feeds are full of people whose community I can feel like I belong to as well. One that has been very easy to grow organically without an algorithm telling me what I want.
Well technically I would say that people aren't "living in space" I would say they are living in a space station.
would be cool to see a loop of:

js ⇒ python ⇒ js

and then compare the output JS w/ the input JS. could get wilder too like:

js ⇒ rust ⇒ typescript ⇒ java ⇒ js
Why do they need to be profitable? There are plenty of instances that get enough funds to keep things online without any profit motive.
There is something to be said for, not editing your old posts, but applying a preface that references later iterations on the idea. I wish I were better about that myself.

"In this article from 2017, I talk about dinglehoppers, which have since been improved by research from these three papers [1][2][3]. Here is where I revisit this topic in 2021."
>For instance, smash melee used gfycat heavily.

I can assure you melee uses Youtube much more heavily. Anything not currently hosted on YouTube can be reupload fairly easily.
There is no reason you cannot do this with a monolith. We and many others do every day.
That... that way to handle leap years can't possibly be right, can it? It doesn't account that you don't need to add the leap day of the current year if the day is before Feb 29
> By that logic everything that has any positive externality at all would be legal.

It sounds like you’re arguing that products made by oil companies should be outlawed? So no more petroleum and petroleum products?

Or am I misconstruing the implication of your argument?
Do you know which amcrest camera products work with zoneminder/frigate/etc?
Yes, that is very much true. Even if, as some have commented, the people remaining at Twitter lack oversight over the entire codebase to predict that this specific change could have such a knock-on effect, not having testing and staging environments, pushing something straight to production, would give even an inexperienced person pause for thought.

As said, I don't want to speculate whether someone raised their voice on this being a likely outcome specifically, as not having testing prior to release is the much more obvious and significant issue here, driven by leadership.
Also this made me laugh out loud:

> Balaji: mentioned seasteading within a few minutes of meeting him, high energy to the point of tweakerdom, rich. Doesn’t need martial arts; filled with spirit of Kali.
Certainly your conclusions and observations are accurate for many. However you have to account for the extremely smart people (who are over represented in the Ivy League) who realize (or perceive, depending on your perspective) that "success" in life isn't measured by how much money you make, how prestigious a position you hold or how much "respected" people in society value how you choose to pass the time. I've befriended a lot of extremely smart people who got degrees from Ivy League schools, held very prestigious jobs, made a lot of money and were well-respected by the upper echelons of society. Many of them have worked from dawn until dusk since they left school, are now in their 50s, and are starting to realize that all the money in the world can't bring back the 30 years they wasted pushing the wheel. Who is to judge that living in a shack on the beach is a less fulfilling and happy existence than making $30 million dollars a year being the CEO of Raytheon and profiting off of destruction, sitting in a cubicle punching out code or working as some other functionary making a good salary?
Though cross-software usage of different formats of (social) media is unintuitive. Browsing Peertube or Lemmy you'd probably be better off with an account on such an instance.
> radical version of affirmative action where you don't have to be black as long as you identify as one

Look up Rachel Dolezal.
Breaking Up with SVG-in-JS in 2023
It's just another requirement.
I don't see anything terrible or even bad with the requirement itself. Rate limiting is the new normal, in a post ChatGPT world.
The implementation, of course, is atrocious and should be corrected.
You are putting your opinion over the requirements of the job, and basically guaranteeing a bad outcome and an atrocious implementation.
Maybe you can share your stories about real bad decisions, so we can judge properly, but so far this is not a good overview.
Okay, but I don't see it as bad as the source material being lost. You can always remake those clips. The reverse can't be done to go from clips to the original.
Eve (former Elgato) smartplugs are local-only Homekit devices.