skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> ‘my trust fund is already paying me more than your median graduate’s full-time job’

that'd be a good argument too. why go to college if you have income security? go do something infinitely more interesting and fulfilling
Can you educate me what the idea of the SACKLER act was?

If the Sackler family committed a felony, then surely no type of bankruptcy (corporate or personal) can shield them from that, so that's not what the act is about.

If not, then is it trying to pierce through the limited liability of a limited liability corporation? That sounds to me as potentially having huge implications. Did the Democrats really want that? Or did they just want to score some political points, and secretly did not intend to act to pass?
Also, in my country minimal salary this year is 180$/month. So I can realistically find a person to change newspapers full time every workday for a year, for those money. I rather think there will be a a queue of candidates for this, as compared to loading cargo or or giving out flyers on the street for the same sum. :)
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It depends, how much stolen loot did he bequeath to you?
I don't know where your actual problem is.

My point is that knowing which personal data you need to redact and under which circumstances is not always easy. Before you can build a system that does something you first need to identify exactly what something is required.
Also mantis shrimp and naked mole rats. These are all creatures that have evolved a reproducing queen and sterile workers. However, I don't like the definition of calling a colony of such creatures an "organism" because it implies the only purpose of an organism to reproduce. You then end up getting weird edge cases like fig trees and fig wasps being a "single organism." Also, male/female pairs of humans would be a strong angle organism.
I'm sorry to be callous but you just don't understand how any of this works.

You can't just "not post those things". If we are on good terms I can literally just post "Saw you working the bakery this morning, did you skip your morning jog?" and the system already knows where you work and that you are physically active, no input from you required at all.

Facebook already did this with shadow profiles. Facebook has information about me and I have never posted there, I don't even have an account there.
That isn't only more cryptic, it's also potentially a lot more efficient -- strlen takes time proportional to the length of the string, which of course you don't need to do if you only care whether or not the length is zero. You shouldn't use strlen for empty-string tests.
> For getting into top-ranked colleges, "the summer business I started in HS is already paying me more than your median graduate's full-time job" is a slam-dunk argument.

No. It's really not. As someone who has been involved in the system that admits you to top ranked universities and whose summer hustle also paid well in highschool. This is not a slam dunk. It's one small piece. And it could easily backfire and be a negative depending on how you write it. For example by writing it as if it's a slam dunk.

These sort of overt economic arguments tend to go over very poorly.
To expand on this question, I'm wondering how useful daily backups even are for a site like Facebook. I mean, of _course_ you need them, but also, something about reverting all of FB to a state 24 hours ago seems disastrous even if it works. I can't imagine that it's an acceptable thing in anything but an absolute emergency. Imagine every single facebook user got rewound in time to the previous day, every message sent over the past day was lost, etc.

It was a lifetime ago I ever did DB administration (postgres in my case), but the write-ahead-logs being replicated out independently was extremely important for point-in-time recovery, such that you could always take the latest backup, zip forward through the WAL, and recover to any arbitrary point in time you want, so long as the WALs were available. I wonder how much something like this would have been done at FB scale.
This comment ruined my day but I appreciate it nonetheless. This wasn't on my radar at all.
FWIW, with a 42% admission rate, donor-related applicants are 7 times more likely to be admitted to Harvard than other applicants. Based on this, I would say they tend to want to be associated with people who already have money, regardless of what they may say.
You really don't need AI to do this. Collect enough data points and you can fingerprint basically anyone using very old fashioned techniques. AI doesn't really bring anything new to the table.
I use jupytext paired with ipynb files. Only store the .py files in git. The ipynb files act as a local cache of outputs. Outputs are loaded from the ipynb even if you open the .py notebook.
This is going to cause problems as many Mechanical Turk tasks are being used to train AI models...
Maybe also the higher OM-3 intake offset the effects of the mercury.
The headline is corrected in the 4th paragraph:

> President Emmanuel Macron has mostly blamed social media for the devastation, but he has also claimed that video games have inspired copycat violence and vandalism.

Kudos to NPR for using ~60% of their article to call "BS" on Macron. Though they probably should have opened the history book, too - France experienced a number of similar situations ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_incidents_of_civil_unr... ) before social media existed, or modern-ish video games were seriously available.

My reaction: Macron is delusional, and needs to be shown the door.
> How are you going to "fix" that "design flaw" when the personal data in question is the result of legally required customer age checks? Evidence needed to support your tax filings?

This kind of wilfully ignorant argument is extremely tedious and indicative of the fact that you do not understand the actual construction of the GDPR, or choose to misrepresent it.

Let’s put this nonsense to bed once and for all by quoting the Irish summary [1] of articles 17 and 19:

> You have the right to have your data erased, without undue delay, by the data controller, if one of the following grounds applies:

> - Where your personal data are no longer necessary in relation to the purpose for which it was collected or processed.

> - Where you withdraw your consent to the processing and there is no other lawful basis for processing the data.

Information pertinent to tax records is not collected on the basis of consent, and nor is anything else legally required.

Now please, just stop.

[1]: https://www.dataprotection.ie/en/individuals/know-your-right...
Finley (YC W21) is a financial software company hiring for sales and engineering
Good. I'm tired of apps suggesting stuff to me.
It's so tedious every time people ascribe some action of Fedora or Red Hat to IBM. This is nothing to do with IBM. Red Hat can and does make these decisions all by itself.
You have my condolences. My brother and I ended up hiring a lawyer to handle our dad's estate, and I'd recommend it to anyone. She did things like send the hospital a letter that said in essence "give me a single bill with a total for all services provided at your hospital. If it's not on this bill I'm not going to pay it."

(Although legal fees for estates are capped here in Ohio, not sure if that's true where you are.)
‘architect astronaut’ is a great phrase.
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If I read it correctly, your implementation might read beyond the end of the buffer, and if it crosses a page boundary into an unmapped page, it will segfault. That's one of the many evils of null terminated strings.
In my country higher edu institutions look at final exam scores, not grades.

Grades are terrible due to bias, difficulty when it comes to comparing them and lack of transparency.

At best they show effort (or "caring" parents)

>Good grades in college make it far, far easier to get jobs and can get you in the door to significantly better and higher

Thats why there should be fair and transparent exam after college :)

This way everything is up to your score, not school name or cool prof who inflates grades
This post makes big broad statements but doesn't consider the nuance. I think they are somewhat correct, and the reality is most people do have a "website", it's a page on a social media site where they post stuff. The accessibility for everyone to have a publishing space is one of the most incredible advances in civilisation.

However, the identity of the page, publishing under your own name is the thing that this post doesn't really cover. They mention not linking to their own old site as it has stuff that they did when they were a child. They really should have expanded on that.

Archive.org is both an incredible resource but also a risk to people publishing things that they later regret. We have a right to change our mind, grow up and become a different person. Under GDPR there is the "right to be forgotten", we are early in the societal development of such rights in relation to the internet, and they can be abused by people removing thing the public should have a right to know. However I believe this is an important right, and because of it I believe the right to publish online under a pseudonym is important.

So yes, almost everyone should have an online presence, and most do. But we should also have a right for it to disappear in time.

I write online for myself now and the communities I contribute to, not for my children or their theoretical children. Certainly not some random slooth in future.
That’s OK though right? As long as you know that going in you can decide if it’s worth it for you. Personally, I’d rather have something that works out of the box in exchange for a bit of money and risk that the company will go out of business one day than something that I have to spend time tinkering with to get and keep working.
The difference of heat pump an AC is pretty much just a reversing valve, so as others have noted this is probably not an equivalent unit.

One caveat to that is if you have a furnace, they may have wanted to install a full new air handler and run electric emergency heat vs just swapping the coil and condenser.

You can configure a heat pump coil with a furnace as the emergency heat but it might take some more thinking than an off the shelf AHU condenser pairing that maybe the contractor wasn't comfortable with doing that.
AVX512?

Also the original ARM 32 bit instruction sent had extensive predication.
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The traditional automation tools often require technical knowledge and development skills. Even though its low code and no-code it cannot be effectively used by a NON- RPA developer or a layman. This is true for all automation tools in the industry.

Neural flow addresses this issue by allowing people to create workflows with instructions in plain language. This way, anyone can use our tool as their productivity assistant, even without any technical expertise. Powered by Generative AI Neural Flow would be able to automate any tasks for humans on a computer based on simple instructions given in plain language.

To achieve this, we are developing our own Large Language Model (LLM) based on an existing Foundation model. This LLM will generate workflows that are compatible with our tool and can be instructed using plain English.

We are continuously working on enhancing our Generative AI model to automate a wide range of tasks. Our aim is to enable people to automate the most common tasks that they perform on their computers daily – with or without any technical knowledge. We are also going to support other languages like Spanish and Hindi.
> Getting money that way isn't impressive, though.

Depending on how big the trust fund is, I think you'll find it will open more doors than a summer lawncare initiative.
"Only 5% of users use this feature, so we will remove it to save development efforts."

As seen in Firefox..
If you could wave a magic wand and give someone a day to do whatever they want to do no one would be choosing chips and TikTok.

I don't think many people really enjoy it. It's just less painful than other things, or they don't have the resources to do what they actually want to do, or their choice requires something that's not possible right now... Chips and TikTok is the fallback, not the first choice.
Thanks for sharing! I often call myself a flat bar, because I'm missing the one specialization for the T-shape. This description of the 'paint drip person' hit really close to home, so I think that that's what I'll call myself in the future.
You aren’t holding raw transaction data on the basis of consent, so it doesn’t matter.
I had a pci shop try to make us turn _off_ 2fa because it’s not required for our certification level.
You’re making a claim about how mercury should be impacting people that eat salmon that I wouldn’t grant.

It might just be the case that salmon consumption under some threshold confers benefits that outweigh suspected detriments especially when a population tends to replace salmon with worse food.
My source is an Emacs Chat with Sacha Chua, and the guest mentioned that they heard it from the developer of Ruby.

So the source here is a tad removed, but it sounded right to me!
Because management can impose these new data collection policies more easily than fixing known issues. It then gives them the potential to find new easier work to have the engineers implement thus making it seem like they are being effective. Meanwhile, it can be unclear how these metrics relate to overall software quality.

Some metrics like startup time and crash counts lead to clear improvement, while others like pointer heatmaps and even more invasive focus tracking are highly dubious in my opinion.

On a related note, I’m coming to the opinion that A/B testing is harder to pull off than many think. And serving a single user both A and B at any point can confuse them and get in the way of their trusting the consistency of the software. Much like how when you search for something twice and get different results in Apple Maps. OK, now I’m just ranting…
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I had Test Car 8865, which was quite a bit more primitive but still fairly complete (a 4 cylinder reciprocating engine in a V configuration, a 3 speed transmission, a working rear differential, working front and rear double wishbone suspension, rack and pinion steering, retractable headlights, and adjustable and reclining seats)

http://www.technicopedia.com/8865.html

The evolution history of such cars, beautifully presented on SE, is fascinating:

https://bricks.stackexchange.com/a/14539
Or just eat all those pancakes, as long as we don’t make a habit of deciding to do so every day.
I think he had a strategy - utilizing the massively parallel computation of GPUs for more general purpose compute as Moore's law tailed off - and he noticed that Intel couldn't see the lights of this in the rear view mirror.

Everybody's known that Moore's law was on its way out, for speed increases at least, since the mid 2000s - the seminal article was by Herb Sutter [1]. So hardware needed to get more parallel. But multicore is a distinctly different paradigm to CUDA, which is closer to SIMD but on a completely different order of magnitude. So Intel was never going to get to where the puck was skating.

[1] http://www.gotw.ca/publications/concurrency-ddj.htm
Are the MT's paid by the hour, or by completed tasks? The latter would obviously incentivize people to use AI. But then again, so would the former, if it means that they can just let some script/program do the work, while they're going on with their day.
Apologies I didn't mean to imply there was some nefarious purpose behind this!
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I always seemed to switch languages, frameworks, projects, operating systems...seldom making something.

From an interviewers perspective, it can be nice to see someone with varied experience across an array of tech. But just one or two demonstratable projects can seal the deal.

At this point I'd be happy with three person listing one language/framework and one good project.
> But a notebook in the attic definitely will

Unless you move and lose it... or there is a house fire... or someone finds it and burns it... etc.
> But a notebook in the attic definitely will.

A notebook in the attic is probably the least persistent medium you could choose. Fire? Gone. Water? Gone. 20 years of heat. Probably unreadable.
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If it didn’t cost as much as a car I’d be interested in that
You may have answered your own question. Perhaps centralization is the point as we move closer to the “extinguish” phase of open source as we have known it.
It is unfortunate that the mainline Mastodon server doesn't support proper multi-domain hosting/multi-tenancy, but that is just implementation detail rather than protocol issue. There are alternative servers that support multiple domains[1] and multi-domain support has been discussed also for Mastodon server[2]

[1] for example https://jointakahe.org/

[2] https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/issues/2668
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Ah yes, always hunting for reasons to remove functionality from GNOME. I wonder if they would try to collect data on how many users enable options for accessible from the GUI or use extensions to add back basic functionality?
If we go by the absolute strictest interpretation of the C standard, yes, the above is UB.

But in practice no one has page boundaries that cross word boundaries, and I align to a word boundary before doing the word-by-word loop.
The amount that can be proven to criminal trial standards (beyond a reasonable doubt) is exactly zero. In that case, am I guilty of his crime?
Hm. Dr Pavlo comments here sometimes, maybe he can provide some illumination.
Threads looks like absolute genius as a brand name next to "Bluesky" although Bluesky also looks genius next to "Mastodon", like how many people picked randomly on the street could even spell that one.
WTF is wrong with these companies? Don't they understand that the only reason they are in business is because they do not do such things?
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I think the point is to own what you write and post on internet.
You've either never spoken to people in development or didn't understand what they do.

For one, they aren't involved in admissions at all.

Their goal is to make long term relationships so that both sides, the donors and the university get something out of it. Not to judge people based on where their money or connections come from.
I’m going to go out on a limb here and assume that you’re making this statement because it feels like they should have some intellectual property rights in this case. Independently of whether that feeling corresponds to legal reality (the original question) I would also encourage you to question the source of this feeling. I believe it is rooted in an ideology where information is restricted as property by default. This is a dangerous ideology that constantly threatens to encroach on intellectual freedom e.g. software patents, gene patents. We have a wonderful tradition in the US that information is free by default. It has been much eroded by this ideology but I believe freedom is still legally the default unless the information falls under the criteria of trademark, copyright or patent. I think it’s important to recognize how this ideology of non-freedom has perniciously warped people’s default expectation around information sharing.
Moreover it's "opt-out" and not "opt-in":

> A new metrics collection setting will be added to the privacy page in
gnome-initial-setup and also to the privacy page in
gnome-control-center. This setting will be a toggle that will enable
or disable metrics collection for the entire system. We want to ensure
that metrics are never submitted to Fedora without the user's
knowledge and consent, so the underlying setting will be off by
default in order to ensure metrics upload is not unexpectedly turned
on when upgrading from an older version of Fedora. However, we also
want to ensure that the data we collect is meaningful, so
gnome-initial-setup will default to displaying the toggle as enabled,
even though the underlying setting will initially be disabled. (The
underlying setting will not actually be enabled until the user
finishes the privacy page, to ensure users have the opportunity to
disable the setting before any data is uploaded.) This is to ensure
the system is opt-out, not opt-in. This is essential because we know
that opt-in metrics are not very useful. Few users would opt in, and
these users would not be representative of Fedora users as a whole. We
are not interested in opt-in metrics.

Those last three lines are essentially adding insult to injury. I have no problem with telemetry, I do have a problem with telemetry being on "by default" as it puts the burden of safeguarding privacy squarely with the user. As an individual you have to make sure the toggle is set to "off" yourself, and assume that telemetry really is switched off.

Back in february, the Go project proposed to add opt-out telemetry in the Go toolchain and they were almost torn in half over a weekend.
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This is pretty funny. Rail against browser boss Brendan Eich on HN for his anti gay marriage donations - all good. Rail against LGBTQ writer Samuel Delany on HN for his child rape advocacy - not good. Separation of art and artist, don't throw out the baby with the bathwater, downvotes, etc.
> Life can’t be “won” by intelligence

Humans being the dominant life form on Earth may suggest otherwise.

> I honestly don’t see what changes here — super-human intelligence has limited benefits as it scales. Would you suddenly have more power in life, were you twice as smart? If so, we would have math professors as world leaders.

Intelligent humans by definition do not have super human intelligence.
> If the airline refunds your ticket within 7 days, our service is free of charge.

I think they know that just never happens.
La Quadrature du Net, always fighting the stupidest fights.
It's getting off topic, but the irony of a browser with a 2-4% user base pulling this shit can't be overstated.
Most of the time I agree, but if you want to e.g present a tutorial as a webpage, having an ipynb with both inputs and outputs becomes a feature. You can even bundle into docs e.g. https://moj-analytical-services.github.io/splink/demos/02_Ex...