skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It wasn't worded in the clearest way but I believe the author is talking about AA in the context of Ivy leagues specifically, and that AA at those institutions has done nothing to offset the % of (mostly white) elites who gain access through athletics/legacy admissions, etc. How this benefits those same elites is that by having universities push AA as a part of their public image (i.e., we're doing our part in fixing the damage done by our slave-owning founder) it draws attention away from the privileged forms of admission that actually impact who attends Ivy Leagues. Basically AA at those schools is a smokescreen that does very little while allowing those schools to pretend like they're helping fight for anti-racism, social equity, and so on.
Where did I say this was crap?
The problem is 16:10 22” at 1680x1050 nas been always the sweet spot for me. No zooming, everything visible perfectly, ideal font size for coding and etc.

I’m at 16:9 (nearly impossible to get 16:10 today :/) 4k 32” and honestly this is freaking small. What’s the point of all the space if it all looks really good without zooming at maybe 2500-ish pixels wide. I’d gladly get a good 42” display at 4k, would be perfect.
Yeah, for that reason it can probably do many things that aren't actually intended when you want to discuss your code with ChatGPT, like it can make private repos public and things along those lines...

https://embracethered.com/blog/posts/2023/chatgpt-plugin-vul...
Has...the person who wrote this designed large scale systems?
We started in 2016 with just an idea, and we probably encountered every problem you can think of !

- hard to raise funds for large deeptech projects (thank you YC and Wefunder for unlocking that one!)

- a corrosion issue in 2019 that nearly killed us (we found a way around it after months of brainstorming and completely got rid of corrosion issues)

- we had to build our own physics algorithm for very specific problems, and ended up selling the software we use internally to DENSO (a large japanese company) which funded the development. See https://tanatloc.com

- tackling a market that doesnt exist yet with a seasonal energy storage solution (a change of engine architecture allowed us to use the same engine but for industrial heat pumps, an existing market much easier to tackle)

- finding the right industrial space,

and so on :)
Because the US has plenty of free water that's growing alfalfa in the desert. Subsidies are unnecessary.
If you can count on every printable ascii character being not-mangled, you can use ascii85/base85/Z85 (5 "ascii characters" to 4 bytes) instead of base64.
>And by the way, what other country made a neo-Nazi brigade a part of its army?

Literally all of them, including Russia of course(which has multiple).
Hmm, maybe it's time to take another look at Waterfox.
What you say is extremely unscientific. If you believe science and logic go hand in hand then:

A) We are developing AI right now and itnisngetting better

B) we do not know how exactly these things work because most of them are black boxer

C) we do not know if something goes wrong how to stop it.

The above 3 things are factual truth.

Now your only argument here could be that there is 0 risk whatsoever. This claim is totally unscientific because you are predicting 0 risk in an unknown system that is evolving.

It's religious yes. But vice versa. The Cult of venevolent AI god is religious not the other way around. There is some kind of inner mysterious working in people like you and Marc Andersen that pipularized these ideas but pmarca is clearly money biased here.
Thanks! I've just looked at each of them and tested some. I think peco is the best one (and better than mine). Way bigger code base, but probably worth it.
> But a classical education ignores a lot of important things that we now know students need.

Who suggested they have to be mutually exclusive?
"Can you give an example of where the bunch of numbers is copyrightable when it's not just a numeric encoding of something that was already copyrightable?"

Sure, there are "poems" that consist of just a groups of numbers that are copyrighted. They are not encodings, it's just a string of numbers. It's indistinguishable from a bunch of numbers. This is just one example, there are lots.

They are enforceable to the degree it's creative, and to the degree the infringing use is also creative.

So you would not be able to sue me for using those numbers in a math equation. You would be able to sue me for reproducing your poem in a book of poems :)

As feist says, the creativity required for copyright is quite minimal.
But it's still only as protectable as it is creative.

Look - AI is not the first thing to have this "issue". The answer remains the same as it always was - it's mostly about the process not the output.

The output mostly matters is if the output is not intended to be creative (or it's de minimis or ...).

Copyright as it currently exists is weird.

Like if you go to the copyright office and try to register your ssh public key and say "this was generated by ssh-keygen i had nothing to do with it" you may get a different result than if you said "this is my new visually stunning masterpiece, my ssh public key, which was generated with computer help but I used 37 precisely timed keyboard smashes to do it. Prints are available from my gallery for $500"
But the notice attached to any library-produced copy should therefore presumably refer to the rights of the reader (ie. the member of the public), rather than the library.
Demand for exclusive institutions by the elite won't go away if you ban legacy admissions. Expect some new unaccredited institution to open up, and that's where they'll attend.
Alternative trajectory:

1. Meta conditionally federates with Mastodon instances that sign the deal (allow ads to be pushed, data to be collected, etc)

2. Small/vocal instances reject the deal and defederate.

3. Some large instances do take the deal.

4. Small/vocal instances defederate from the large ones.

5. Large Mastodon instances become pointless as they're isolated from the rest of Mastodon and have no real value over simply using Threads.

6. Large Mastodon instances implode, and the Mastodon fediverse becomes even smaller than it already is.
If you cannot remember the last time you experienced awe

I experienced it earlier today, browsing the demo's linked from this story: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36597460
But some things are obvious once you build up scar tissue from previous experience.

And scaling could mean “it might work on a developers PC with 50 rows of data. But it won’t work with our current production load because he didn’t index a table”.
The government can put ads on the packages of cigarettes them self for free. Without the moral defeat of benefiting from spyware.

Why would you want to waste tax money on Zuckerberg's mansions.

Etc.
You need to understand the scope of what you are working on. For example, right now I am "just" getting another field from an entity in a 3rd party API. That field is a reference.

Immediately I have questions like:
1. Do I get this in one call or several? If former, will this cause issues with the cache? If latter, will it decrease performance?
2. At what level do I want to do the filtering, at the query or higher level?
3. How will this affect existing calls, etc?

Breaking this down into questions is called "chunking" - grouping multi-parameter unknowns until they are simple. The problem is that if you can only keep 5 things in mind, you may outright miss questions to ask, or, at the very least, you will spend more time on a task than a person with a higher WM.
ah, that makes sense. Thanks!
Yeah, i think we also have to be wary of defeatism when it comes to things like this as well. Of course they could just kidnap and torture you, they've always been able to do that. But this is about their ability to get information on millions of people simultaneously. It would be pretty unrealistic for the FBI to simultaneously kidnap and torture every member of an ethnic or political group. But if that data is all online then that information becomes easy and instant to get. So yeah, 1 person could be captured, that's not what this is about. This is about the simultaneous capture of _everyone_, which is wholly something outside the realm of possibility currently.

We shouldn't give up just because a bad thing already exists.
late to the party, but

https://sigwait.org/~alex/blog/

topics: linux (usually in some sort of critique), javascript, emacs, & random quotes from books I'm reading
We're building hydrofoiling electric boats. It's important because it's pretty much the only way to for electric boats to satisfy the range requirements of recreational and commercial vessels, at higher speeds.

Check us out at Candela.com
Nex: A little internet protocol inspired by Gemini and Gopher
Awesome game!

Found a bug:
https://ibb.co/WD6RF8f
Generally, the focus here should be on:
1) Not bombing any classes (i.e. A/A- in all, maybe a B+ in one; a B or below is failing)
2) Doing very good work and trying to write an original paper for professors that you want to work with while doing just enough to get by in other classes [this is in part how you figure out who you want to work with]
3) Being good enough with the literature to pass the comprehensive exams (or, as another comment points out, have some kind of protection from a sponsor; it is not uncommon to have profs use comps as a chance to take out students they don't like for various reasons, even as small as "they do X field, which I don't like" or "they work with Y, who really gets on my nerves).

Of course there's plenty of additional ways to derail this as well, including advisor moving, advisor getting into a fight with the rest of the department, advisor giving poor advice, advisor deciding that they don't like you, etc.
absolutely not lol
In case you haven't already, you might want to check out the McKusick courses (available as videos). They're not cheap though, maybe you can find pirated copies.

I was fortunate enough to see some back in the VHS days when someone in a local LUG convinced their employer to buy them as a way to support FreeBSD and give the team something to watch together (and recruit from the LUGs via hosted viewings no doubt).

https://www.mckusick.com/courses/
you had to do that at home, or in a specific location that would allow you to do that (bar, cyber cafe, friends house, etc.)

now you can do it anywhere, such as in the middle of a work call, or in class.
I've been incredibly happy with Meta's decision to open source so much of their work. When US Senators Josh Hawley and Richard Blumenthal attacked Meta for open sourcing LLaMA I was worried they would retreat.

Yann LeCun has greatly increased my understanding of AI by being so open with his work and thoughts.

(https://www.hawley.senate.gov/hawley-and-blumenthal-demand-a...)
The iconic patrol boat river[1] used in Vietnam took just seven days to create a prototype from the civilian boat maker Hatteras Yachts. It used Jacuzzi jets.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patrol_Boat,_River
Its not exponential. In fact its estimated to level off over the next century: https://ourworldindata.org/world-population-growth
Your argument is mostly how about you don't like them and no substance. What is it exactly that doesn't convince you? A company that made a huge leap saying they will probably make another and getting ready to safeguard? Many people really do not like Sam and then make up their arguments around that IMO
I'd also be interested in picking your brain. If you happen to have time, send me an email.
Lots of things happened fast during WWII.

One of the big reasons, was that regulatory hurdles were removed.

The result:

Long Island is one big Superfund site, and our cancer rates are through the roof. I know of at least six women, in my immediate orbit, that are currently being, or have recently been, treated for breast cancer.

Before I moved here, thirty-two years ago, I had never met anyone that had cancer. Since moving here, I have known at least one person per year (often more), that had/have cancer.

Part of that is probably age, as I've gotten older, so too, has my peer group, but I wasn't that old, in 1990, when I moved here.

The difference is that they died a lot more frequently, back then.
That's an expectation that hasn't been sensible for a decade...
As a new programmer? Nothing. Fear of inadequacy was a constant companion.

Over the years, though, as I saw more and more code written by programmers I respect and from companies I respect, I noticed that mine was no worse than theirs -- and I realized that my skills were, at the minimum, just fine. Warts and all.

(Edited to swap "mine" and "theirs" to be what I meant to say)
Duplicate this
You're right, thanks for the hint! I have now submitted it to Google to be released in Canada as well. Usually that is approved pretty quickly.
parlaient is like “par-lay” and therefore 3 silent letters no?
Oh hey, I can see this tweet.

How is that possible? I still can't see this person's profile.
Now apply the same to fusion and many other technologies that turned our to be duds.

For every success story you have 10 (or whatever) failures that nobody remembers.

> the cost will trend towards zero.

Why not just use batteries then? All processes that can be used to make hydrogen now are very inefficient, so unless energy literally costs zero hydrogen won’t still make much sense for cars.
I've scraped what I could from the list and exported and opml here: https://gist.github.com/Josh-Tucker/030b8cba6557927a27f1c7e6...
if your family is wealthy and money is not something you need to ever think about then, sure, go for it.
Yeah I am slowly working on it. I think even custom alphabets wouldn't work for me. I'm trying to build something so this works:

let is_even = |x: &i32| *x % 2 == 0;
let is_odd = |x: &i32| *x % 2 == 0;
let pattern = sequence(&[
is_even,
is_odd,
repeat(or(is_even, is_odd), 2, 4),
]);
let mut matcher = Matcher::compile(pattern);
let elements = [4, 1, 23, 5, 6];
for element in elements {
matcher.step(element);
}
assert!(matcher.matches());

I'll get there one day.

Amazing work on the Regex crate by the way!
Yeah, the site-specific blocking seems... mostly dubious, possibly decent as a "this is a banking website - extensions are disabled by default, but you can click to enable them" thing. Right now it looks much more dubious than anything though.

But even in the very best case, it's yet another custom "premium support" feature either way, like the Public Suffix List. They should push for standards instead, these kinds of things are always leaky and sometimes dangerous.

Anyway. I just meant that extensions are not trustworthy just because they're installed. Malicious vectors exist, and protecting people from themselves / them understandably not being an up-to-date expert in all things tech by the millions-to-billions is largely a good thing.
It's something I battle against every day.

I'm constantly told that whisky shouldn't be served in a stemmed glass. Honestly, I think half of my job is education.

The masculinity of the marketing message towards spirits is deeply embedded in American culture, which is why big tumblers are commonplace even though they don't do spirits justice. You don't see those stigmas in wine. The community is definitely way more gender friendly now though which is great. If my glassware can play even the tiniest part in making spirits more accessible, I'd consider this business a success.
That's how I made a bash backdoor once. It was just a script somewhere on the FS, until it unpacked itself and executed the rest of the rootkit.

Long story but trust me that I had good intentions.
Finding that everyone else was fumbling around and googling answers just as much as I was. Also, the first time I saw a big production code base for what I thought was high-level project and seeing how messy it was. Instead of feeling like I was actually good enough, I felt like nobody was actually that much better than me.
They claim tracing overhead is <10%. This is very believable, and actually frankly seems kind of high. You can do a full execution trace of a C program for a similar low double digit percent overhead and Python is usually on the order of 10x slower, so naively you would assume like 1% overhead.

I assume the hooks Python makes available are probably just kind of bad for this use case and they do not have access to a proper high speed log.
Love this, have been reading random blogs for the last 30minuts already
Sorry, but they really remotely can (and will) disable any "not approved" extension on any website that they want.

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1832791

Upd:

> We need to have ability to set the list of quarantined domains remotely.
Depending on where you draw the lines, maybe Oculus. I think from the formation of the company to shipping dev kits was less than a year, but there was obviously research and prototypes that happened prior to that, and it was a while before they were shipping consumer devices.

Redis barely misses the decade cut I think, with an early 2009 start to a production launch and rapid adoption starting around mid-2009.
That’s not a specific example question I can answer… and if it is I don’t understand it?

If the question is just “what is truth?” then that’s something that’s something that’s pretty heavily in the training corpus and also something an LLM can pretty easily define.
This post is incredibly accurate.
??? My kid loves it to this day. It's a major hobby. Never heard about anyone who would hate Scratch. Maybe it was a really poor presentation by the teacher.
Well, given that blogs are public and the whole point is for others to read them, I think that's okay.
Other examples(in the real world) you might find interesting.

https://tidybot.cs.princeton.edu/
https://innermonologue.github.io/

https://palm-e.github.io/

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/group/autonomous-sy...
I'm at https://www.jvt.me blogging about software, IndieWeb, things I've learned and doing Week Notes looking back at the week I've just had
He answered that question in interviews many times.

1. AGI has a huge upside. If it's properly aligned, it will bring about a de facto utopia.
2. OpenAI stopping development won't make others to stop development. It's better if OpenAI creates AGI first because their founders set up this organization with the goal to benefit all humanity.
That's not true I use mine only with Firefox. And done small companies like Google, Apple, PayPal fully supports Yubikey.
You’re entitled alright!
oh i left it out of the example to keep it simple but there is:

https://github.com/andrewarrow/a-table-that-looks-good-on-mo...

{{ $wrap := "whitespace-nowrap" }}

and I set:

colAttributes := map[int]string{}
colAttributes[0] = "w-1/2"

https://github.com/andrewarrow/a-table-that-looks-good-on-mo...

to make tailwind handle a column that needs to wrap.
I really should have tested before commenting. You can't define a macro within a macro, so it doesn't work.
I think we ended up with the law we have today because over time people agreed there are more than two types of crimes.

I appreciate that physically hurting is not appropriate in your law, but it should be your right to hurt others in any non-physical manner if you feel like it, no limits.
>People decide what they want to memorize.

Not exactly the case when you have ADHD.
https://ivymike.dev

Not very coherent, but I try to only post when I have something neat or interesting to say. Software engineering, neat gadgets, and 3d printing are some of the topics.
I commented, but mine got missed, somehow. Maybe because my phone auto-capitalized the "H" in "http" and the script didn't account for funny capitalization. Sad!
That might actually work for me. Will give it a try.
That's the first time I ever heard that explanation (open legs) -the most common is it is a sign of defiance from English archers to French who it was said would cut off the two right fingers from any captured archers.

That is pretty rigorously debunked but is still popular

I think ultimately it's an arbitrary rude gesture that became popular and stuck.

As my seven year old is delighted to learn, it's rude enough to shock but nowhere near as rude as a middle finger.
Moving fast, means breaking things. With more scale, more danger.
It's the "if done right" bit that's so tricky.

So often though the GoodThing doesn't have a clear payoff and another FastThing does.
I dialed in crazy on one single component of a large Open Source project, and at some point......I was the expert. I didn't understand everything in the project, and I didn't know near as much as most people, but for one tiny component, I couldn't find someone to answer my questions on and I became the one people went to for questions.

It kind of puts into perspective how software works.
It's very obvious that it is an issue. Everyone but a few denialists get it instantly "hey, would you like to build something smarter without knowing how to control it"?
Yes, but there will always be some necessary energy input.
PHP also has __halt_compiler() https://www.php.net/manual/en/function.halt-compiler.php
If I'm understanding this correctly you need to use Cargo to install part of this. That makes it a lot harder to start using as someone in the Python ecosystem (who is not also in the Rust ecosystem)
Cmon be nice to the car seat people :). Let’s say it cost $10 to develop this groundbreaking car seat technology, and $1 to make a car seat, so the company charges $1.50 to make up their investment in 20 sales. If they gave away their patent, then another company (who didn’t have to pay that initial cost) could sell the same seats for $1.

This is episode 1000 in our favorite series: why and how capitalism strangles innovation
I'm not sure the salaries are better. Most R1s are now offering 90-120k starting in my field, but regional teaching Us start around 50-60k, with liberal arts colleges in the 50-80k range.

The point about the lack of opportunities for advancement/moving due to the course preps and teaching taking up your time is very true. While your friends at R1s are on pre-tenure sabbaticals, getting course buyouts, and teaching a nice grad seminar for a semester, you might be doing 3-4 new preps a year and likely getting piled with service work.
You have that problem only if you decide to remove all the salt. You could decide to remove say 20% of the water and make that only H2O; effectively getting H20 and a higher concentration of salt water as outcomes.

I say this having recently read about the desalination plant in Dubai.
I've tried this strategy but often r/somecommunity is either never used by people who live there/is too small to be useful, but the bigger neighborhood/city is absolutely astroturfed by people who don't live there.
> Regardless of where promises come from, the fact is that they are locally resolved, not remotely resolved.

Idempotent operations are implicit promises at the protocol level. We're talking about distributed systems here where abstractions and semantics cross machine boundaries, so your local-only focus is not valid. I suggest reading up on the E language via the link I provided.

> Using promises in JavaScript is a hack around the fact that the platform has some pretty large deficiencies.

A single threaded event loop is not necessarily a deficiency.
That article seems incredibly hand wavy and useless.

> Suppose Erasmus Darwin had a genius-level IQ of 150.

Not really a strong basis for an argument if you ask me.
I’m going to train an LLM on all these blog posts, make a true HN AI.
Good! Everyone will know these new institutions are full of rich people instead of full of smart people, so the job market value of the diplomas they issue will be priced as such (~ 0).
How do I know if I want to join an existing instance or create my own? What will I see if I create an account on one instance? How do I discover instances? How does federation work, exactly? Can I federate with an instance because I want to or is there some application process? What happens if I create an account on an instance but I don’t like it?