skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think this is because it is more nuanced that you, or most people, are giving credit to. Privacy is not a binary option of private vs public but rather a continuum. This is where "reasonable expectation" falls and tries to create a division, a third option. But I think we need more since the environment has changed. As an example, if in a public place you pull yourself and your friend to a dark corner that's obscured you have increased your expectation of privacy. Because you're literally "hiding." The extreme of this might be a public bathroom where you definitely do have a legal expectation of privacy despite being a public place.

So the problem here is that we're trying to make clear cut discriminators when the world has gotten a lot messier. Unfortunately legal systems require discretization, because it is easier to legislate clear boundaries (laws are piecewise functions -- if-then-else). But the world is messy and it needs to be recognized that those discrete boundaries are fuzzy too (i.e. they are guides, not hard fixed and objective boundaries). Probably also coupled with human propensity to discretize continuous variables due to the compression effects. This really is why we have many "know it when I see it" definitions rather than hard rules and you may notice that as complexity is increasing (making this more common) and so is the disagreement with said loose definitions. Then we have a core problem of communication breaking down because everyone is working off a different set of assumptions, assuming everyone else has the same assumptions, and unwilling to accept other bases because our assumptions are objectively generated ;)
That's to be expected, the global variation over the last 2 decades has been about .2-.3 celsius. That's very difficult to notice, and basically completely swamped by local variations (what is called weather, not climate).

The thing is climate change is an almost perfect example of the boiling frog parable. It occurs over several decades, just enough to cause skepticism or feelings of "it's not changing so quickly".

See NASA's graph: https://climate.nasa.gov/vital-signs/global-temperature/

This rate however is probably almost without precedents geologically, save for extreme events like giant eruptions or something. It's hard for life to adapt this quickly, on top of the many other habitat pressures we've introduced. Also, there will be significant consequences for humans (which could be catastrophic and hard to predict if we don't limit warming to say 2C).

What frustrates me is that there's still significant resistance to not destroying our own home...
> Conformists do what they’re told and don’t look for ways to skirt the rules. They’re more likely to assimilate into corporate culture and are easier to monitor, motivate, and predict in a wide variety of circumstances. When it comes right down to it, you can probably pay them less for doing the same amount of work.

> But while Caplanites readily assert this point to explain why the signal from education can’t easily be replaced by market alternatives, they conspicuously neglect the challenge it poses to their broader assault on schooling’s societal worth: so long as otherwise useless and arbitrary curricula succeed at teaching students to conform, they still contribute to human capital formation.

A counter argument - schools do not teach students to play by the rules (even if they want to), they teach students how to cheat and not get caught. A business doesn't want employees who can hit KPIs by gaming the system, a business wants employees who will earnestly do their jobs in a way that improves their numbers (and unless you're in sales, there's very rarely a good KPI).

The anti-Caplan article then explains that cheating can be rampant. I don't think this is the type of conformity most businesses want (even if they might end up rewarding it).

I agree with the argument against Fadeout though - students might forget everything they learnt at college because they never really need it, but retain what they learnt in high school because they needed to use it in college.

There could be an argument to make college shorter. Would a 2 year degree be any worse than a 4 year degree, assuming the students are aiming for a career where don't need any of the more specialised skills a professional degree would require? Australia does fine with 3 year degrees, and I don't think anyone would advocate for 5 year generalist degrees (with a straight face) so what's so magic about 4 year degrees?
Right? Isn’t this the same France that just mentioned blacking out internet access?? Wtf guys.
Many career paths include a steady increase in future earning potential. As for entitlement, they are entitled to a share of the value they bring to their employer. Or at least, if Stanford doesn’t think so, it can fire them.
Don't squash. If you insist on it, I can't imagine why you wouldn't squash the commit messages

You're not supposed to change commit messages.

The correct lines to blame are the ones right there, not exactly rocket science
Yes at public and private universities graduate students receiving stipends, most assistants are employees covered by the national labor relations act. They get a W2 and pay taxes on the income, except for qualified educational expenses. The law protects their right to collectively bargain.

But not all students are employees. https://web.archive.org/web/20180307211117/https://www.nlrb....
More discussion here: https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2023/07/musk-and-zuck-ma...
The purpose of the comment break was to add comedic timing, but I see how it could look like fake additional support for my view. I will stick to one comment going forward.
Sure.

However you specifically asked about Flat Earthers .. and while I won't deny there are some genuine believers in a flat earth out there my experience is that most self described flat earthers with actual university engineering degrees from modern western culture are glorious LARP'ers keeping a straight face and pulling legs.

Much as I believe in a hyperbolic inverted universe within a hollow earth.

I mean, the math checks out, right?

https://inis.iaea.org/search/search.aspx?orig_q=RN:14770298

( Christian engineers are a whole other ball of wax .. but flat earthers that passed kinematics with varying mass from fuel loss to achieve escape velocity ... c'mon now )
I remember when the worst thing you could be called was a “sellout”. Now it’s a virtue.
wow i cannot believe i missed this for so long. thanks!
> Additionally, because Sega bumped their launch up by months WITHOUT telling many partners, they pissed a bunch of them off. Huge important retailers like KB Toys who didn’t get early stock not only refused to carry the console, they pulled all existing Sega stuff off the shelves too. Game developers were caught flat-footed too and didn’t have their games ready.

This vaguely reminds me of the Nintendo Switch, which launched without really having any games going for it. Mario Kart 8 and Breath of the Wild were both available on release, ported from the Wii U. You could also get Rayman Legends (ported from the Wii U, four years old) or Disgaea 5 (two years old, but ported from PS4, so new to a Nintendo console). Super Mario Odyssey (original to the Switch!) didn't come out until 8 months after the Switch released. They never have done a Mario Kart for the Switch. Donkey Kong Country: Tropical Freeze (ported from the Wii U) released for the Switch 15 months after the Switch released.

But everyone loved the Switch anyway; the fact that on release there were zero new games (and maybe up to two old games that were to your taste) available didn't seem to hurt anything.
Putin is shuttering the internet agency, probably because ChatGPT can do cheaper propaganda.

Recalibrate where you think AI provides "real" value
I've seen operating on unauthenticated plaintext enough times to list it as my own pet peeve with AES-GCM. But it's a problem for chunked messages too. A few years ago we released a SCRAM mode that makes very minimal changes to AES-GCM so that it mathematically can't operate on unauthenticated plaintext. https://github.com/aws/s2n-tls/tree/main/scram
It would be a bit like recommending he read Finnegan’s Wake. I don’t think he’d get very much out of it without a lot of context and he is unlikely to find it an enjoyable experience. I think Delany can fairly be described as an acquired taste.

I’d strongly recommend you look into Lois McMaster Bujold’s work. Her books have some complex themes and he’s likely to enjoy them a lot more.
Get into credit card churning and use the points to fly business class.
I have not used it and it may not be exactly what you want. But I seem to remember hearing PayPal offers a virtual card that can be used online.
Kings Quest IV was my first computer game as well on an LCII. There was just something different about the pace of those games.
When given the opportunity, few people will vote against something that gives them more money. But whether their self-interest is in the broader interest is rarely solved for by such a mechanism.

What will happen is that given a finite pot of money, fewer grad students will be taken on by the university's PhD programs, so that the ones who voted for this can get paid more.

I'm not sure that's the right choice.
Another thing a different thread reminded me off: linear equation handling in Metafont (and derivatives like Metapost).
It depends on the source of the funds and the nature of the postdoc’s duties. If the postdoc is on a “fellowship”, either paid by the university or by something like an NIH trainee fellowship, then they are not employees. If the employee is hired to do work for a project, on the other hand, which is typical when funded on an NSF or DARPA grant, then they are employees. This is MIT’s info page, which I believe is reasonably representative: https://postdocs.mit.edu/postdoctoral-position/defining-post...

Science had an article on that in 2002 that went into more detail on how this system came about (basically, vague laws that have ended up interpreted through a series of IRS rulings). I think but am not 100% sure that even though this article is about 20 years old, the current situation is still similar. https://www.science.org/content/article/postdocs-and-law-par...
They both need to get this 1000% better stat. I think it's probably the best ROI the CEO of AMD can get - put a team of engineers on Linux drivers full time, increase your AI market share... and triple your market cap.
They're working to transition Godot out of the SFC to its own Foundation.
Okay, fair, I hallucinated bits into the statement.
> The goal of fines is to discourage ... When the goal becomes ... collect more fines,... the entire system is just fundamentally broken.

Your assumption is that fines discourage. If fines discourage, and the goal is to maximize discouragement, that will occur when fines are maximized.

...unless you think the fines are so large that we've gone past the peak discouragement point, where people are so scared of the fines that they no longer maximize their misbehavior. In this case, if we decrease fines, revenue to the city will increase! the Laffer parking curve!

The beatings will stop when morale improves.
Legal writing is mostly pattern matching. Unfortunately, you're still gonna need to guard against hallucinations.
I am picturing a mob of dirty peasants demanding more rights from their feudal lord and they are somehow Stanford grad students. I don't hate unions but I feel like something has changed where whatever made Stanford prestigious has gone away and now the people associated with it are coasting off its old reputation. I don't know what is the new one that will be as prestigious in the future. Maybe an institution at Shenzhen or something.

It's interesting to me that the Shenzhen logo seems to be modeled on the Stanford logo https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanford_University https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shenzhen_University and also that the Stanford logo has some English and German writing on it. Stanford University was was founded before WWI and German was the dominant language of science. Similarly the Shenzhen University logo has some Chinese and English writing on it, and at the time of its founding English was the dominant language of science.
Bing GPT-4 is a much smaller and less capable model than regular GPT-4.
I feel like a lot of the criticisms made here could be goal-factored out. I think Caplan would agree with them. But I think a lot of the things that are suggested would be missed out on (teaching conformity, peer groups, etc) could be replaced by significantly better alternatives than schooling.
The benchmark you linked was to "programming performance", not generic LLM "intelligence".

The situation for the little guy is wildly better than most people imagine.
Especially Caplan argues that the signalling works just as well for employers, if we give less (or no) subsidies to education.

If anything, you can argue that the signalling works even if we severely tax education. And as the signalling arms race is a negative externality on society, we _should_ tax education. (Or rather, we should tax capital-E Education that is useful for signalling, like university degrees. Libraries and Wikipedia don't need to be taxed.)
Yes, that was very much a factor for me. DVD players were still very expensive. A PS2 gave you games and DVDs for around the same price or less.
> French lawmakers have given French police the legal authority to spy on suspects by remotely activating cameras, microphones, and GPS location functionality on a person’s smartphone and other connected devices

And, technically, how are they going to do that? Oh, wait, maybe the tech already exists, is already operational and is already used by other nation states? It may be a "feature" of all our Android and iOS smartphones.

BTW if it's not I don't know how France actually plans to implement that.
If that's the case, you have bigger problems than documentation
human level is about 50 and as long as they don't allow to craft paperclips i think it's ok
Thank you for the book. I posted the article under a less inflammatory title, but it got changed to the actual pastebin title :c I appreciate C's use case, and the problems it is trying to solve. However, I find it interesting that the reason why C is still so widespread is partly due to a historical accident akin to what Javascript has been to the web.
...often, here on HN, whose members pride themselves on rational thinking and scientific prowess.
It still isn't tho, this will work for testing, maybe, but each lambda will be it's own connection and that will exhaust db resources real fast, you're supposed to have a pooling proxy between lambdas and RDS.
I disagree. You are entitled to what you can negotiate as your market value and what you accept in exchange for your labor and talents. If grad students are lined up the door willing to work for less because a PhD from Stanford gives them a ticket for the rest of their life, why should Stanford or any employer have to give them a share of value? That's not how most employment works. Or at least not O(n) proportional to the value they create.
Ah, the confident condescension of a grad student. Don't miss that at all.
I was booking an Air Canada flight once and the website wasn't working. Called in to book and they added on a $30 call center booking fee. I explained I called because the website wasn't working, and they told me I should have called in to technical support for that. I swore at them and hung up, I think I eventually found a way to book online. The depths of depravity these airlines will go to to screw customers know no bounds.
Congrats. I'm waiting for my early retirement maybe 15 years from now.
This reminds me of their Opinion Rewards program but with way broader data collection.
This is perhaps the most creditable argument.

But still, I doubt you would have found many grad students who were independently wealthy before unionization. Or at least, in the field where they were lobbying the hardest for unionization, is probably where the most independently wealthy students were.
A big reason that Nvidia keeps winning is that AMD doesn’t bother to compete.

Competition means giving customers exciting, fast, low cost GPUs.

Nvidia, as #1, no longer needs to compete and has stopped winning via low cost, high performance GPUs. This opened a giant opportunity for AMD GPUs to give those things to consumers and start winning against Nvidia.

But instead AMD has just followed Nvidia into making slow, uncompetitive GPUs at high prices.

So in a real way AMD is keeping Nvidia at #1.
This framework reminds me of Bud[1], which is also inspired by Laravel.

[1] https://github.com/livebud/bud
My elementary school science class in the early 2000s was mostly earth and plant science, with a unit on viruses too. This seems pretty normal. And in my case, the teacher said that climate change isn't caused by humans.

I have no idea what this little draft means in New Zealand. There's not much to extrapolate from.
That aligns closely with when AMD bought ATI. Before that ATI had a long history of egregiously buggy GPGPUs. I can't say what's gone wrong with Radeon, but I can say it's been going wrong for nearly my entire life.
Your perspective on taking 6 years to do a PhD is that you feel you should have paid for it?
> One thing I've been noticing more and more since Not Just Bikes pointed it out is the shape of truck hoods.

An M1A1 Abrams tank actually has better forward visibility than some pick-up trucks (and Peterbilt semi-tractors are about equivalent):

* https://old.reddit.com/r/fuckcars/comments/13r9x4w/semi_truc...

Also pick-up trucks are about as long as WW2 tanks (M4, Panzer IV, T-34):

* https://www.motorbiscuit.com/american-trucks-suvs-almost-big...
>> What's the ethics of a third party publishing alleged leaked documents like this?

> It varies by country

Does what is ethical vary by country? That would make it difficult to argue for changes to whatever is currently considered ethical.
Apple is not a company I would trust with long term product support, at least at the pro end. It has dropped several products. I used to use Aperture, for instance, which was a great pro photography product, but it was dropped with no real exit route.

Obsidian: also worth looking at DEVONthink for similar reasons, but with the advantage that you have a choice of sync services including running your own. The database is open, but a risk point is that it uses RTFD for notes with graphics. That's not supported off the Apple platform, but there are similar risks with any method of storing notes with graphics.
I'm doing the same, but I'm using a combination of:

https://webmention.io/ and https://brid.gy/

Webmention is a protocol for leaving comments on pages. Webmention.io is a free hosted version. Bridgy brings in replies from mastadon and other services.

I wrote a bit more about how I did it a few years ago: https://evertpot.com/bye-disqus-hello-webmention/
I think "foreign content" is still the weirdest state in HTML5. Outside of it, it's rather clear: Depending on the content type, you're either using the XML parser or the HTML5 parser which is just its own thing and entirely divorced from XML (and SGML).

But during embedded SVG sections, you're still using the HTML5 parser, only that it temporarily pretends to read XML. I have no idea what the rules are there and what kind of subsets or supersets of XML the parser is accepting here.
> working under more senior researchers who are able to attract grant money

An entire ecosystem based on pleasing arbitrary government committees doling out funds.
To solve the question embedding issue I prefer another approach, you store document embeddings as normal, then for searching you let LLM hallucinate an answer and use the wrongish answer embedding to do the vector search.
It’s the right choice. We need academia to be a competitive choice, to attract top talent, to not just be those with enough resources or enough passion to put up with awful pay and working conditions.
Beyond Camelot: The Story of PDF [video]
From Lunar Phases to Yank-Pop - Updates from Our Tiny Emacs Book Club
You can just make college more expensive, that should punish 'defecting' all by itself.

My favourite policy suggestion for that: make it so that student loans can be discharged in a bankruptcy like any other loan. (Or more precisely, new student loans taken on after the new policy takes effect. No retro-active loan forgiveness.)

It's my favourite policy suggestion, because it's a common populist complaint that student loans stay with you forever. So my suggestion looks like it's giving in to that populist sentiment.

What is actually does: most students have no assets just after graduation, so bankruptcy is 'free' for them. Thus lenders can't count on getting the loans repaid, and thus won't loan as freely. Cutting off the spigot of student loan money will bring down the price of education.
I don't use OneNote for long standing documentation (maybe one tab is a cheat sheet). I just make a tab for each ongoing work project/client/etc, and paste stuff in there. Text from emails as a todo list which I think write comments to, notes from a zoom call, screenshots of things I need to fix, that sort of thing. I go through and edit or add comments on what needs to be done then just delete it when it's finalised and I can stop thinking about it.

It's basically a cross between a messy desk and todo list. It works well enough for me. I've tried using stuff like Trello and that is a little too much friction for me, the way you can paste text and images together in OneNote and rearrange them visually just works for me. Sometimes it just feels right to have this item "off to the side" or that sort of thing.
By pointing to rational or moral failures, you already imply that we are supposed to act in a certain way. If there are people who are the worst, it begs the question of what a good human is, and who or what we should actually follow. Clearly, we don't think that raw power is what makes someone good, because otherwise these worst people on the pedestals would be by default good people, through all the power they have over their followers.

If it is irrational that history repeats itself, do you think that it would be rational if history progressed towards some goal, and if yes, what is that goal?