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I like your optimism but lets get real here: the future of server-side web programming is emacs-lisp talking to Postgres95.
How well do you usually score? I tried getting an A+ (all the way up from an F), but I can't get past the CSP warning. Maybe I'm going about it the wrong way.

The site also works on qutebrowser (QtWebEngine) in Linux, as well as on the other usual suspects.
That is true, but I do not see the connection with meritocracy. I see “winner take all” dynamics to be a property of economies of scale, which technological advances and computing have greatly enhanced.

One might say meritocracy might lead to technological advances leading to economies of scale, but the solution to an increasing income/wealth gap would not be getting rid of meritocracy, but rather redistributing some of the wealth so as to provide a floor for quality of life and quality of opportunities (I would hope).
I haven't once shat on it, and it isn't sight unseen, I've been playing with it since I saw this link. I think they've done an excellent job with it, and I really hope it succeeds, because I really want something like this.

But I also think briandear is fundamentally right that for this to be successful and thus useful to me for more than a short period of time, it needs to have a selling point that doesn't only appeal to computer nerds like me who know what "decentralization" even is, and care about it.
To each is own but I'm a huge design and typography nut and when my entire physical workspace and software interface looks aesthetically pleasing, I'm much more inclined to actually do work.
Conversely, putting someone who isn't well suited to that environment is setting them up for failure.
Postman is one of those services that should have been bootstrapped/angel-funded, or at max Series A.
https://github.com/googleforgames/global-multiplayer-demo
Can somebody remind me of the name of the web based oss postman-like tool that was posted to HN recently? I've been looking for it but I can't find it
> Everyone is on their own journey

Not everyone is trying to be nice either.
Shame on the company? Sir this is America where Capitalism is king. Profits come before all else. Doesn’t matter if you deceive children or exploit your workers those profits must rise!
I’m still not at all sold. If someone put a file in the Ops Team folder of a shared drive then they’re sharing it with all current and future members of that team. The same is true if you post to #ops-team.

To be brutally honest people need to just stop and apply some basic critical thinking to their actions instead of expecting magic.
His entire schtick seems to be "Experts are lying to you. Believe me instead."

I'm sure he could find some economist, or "economist", to endorse his idea. And the 24x7 news networks will be happy to interview that one person, equal and opposite to every other economist on the planet.
I recently made the jump to Comic Code from having used Fantasque Sans Mono for a few years and I’m quite pleased. My eyesight is pretty poor and my eyes get tired by the end of the day but my terminal remains pretty readable. I do miss the looped ‘k’s from Fantasque Sans Mono though I must admit.
Can you give an example of a thread on /lit that is of notably higher quality than what can be found on reddit and call out specific comments that wouldn't have been made without benefit of anonymity?

I was put off by the gross fire hose of drek on other boards on 4chan when I looked at it initially but note lit seems to have actually reasonable discussions. That said it doesn't look to my eyes notably different from say reddit save for the intermittent random gross like slurs tossed about which add nothing whatsoever. If folks were banned for calling each other slurs one would hope the same people who had something to say could just say it without including the slurs.

Do you have a counter argument?
Show HN: Open-Source Infrastructure for Vector Data Streams
Purpose-built for low-latency applications, Retake syncs vector stores with their sources of truth. Think semantic search for e-commerce listings, merchant or receipt matching in fintech, etc.
I would argue the average VP has negative to zero marginal impact. You could replace them with another random person and achieve similar results. Of course there are exceptional cases but my experience has been that most essentially just meddle with things they don’t understand or cause excessive churn by wanting to seem to be doing something.
Scope three isn’t mining. Calling it mining is really playing fast and loose with words.

Smelting and processing of raw materials is a big source of GHG.

Most of scope 2 and 3 emissions go away if you decarbonize the electric grid though.
You're confusing training epochs with dataset size.

I'm simplifying now, but you can think of epochs as "how many times we train over the entire dataset? 1 time? 10 times?"

Correspondingly, you can think of dataset size as "how many Wikipedia pages we include in the dataset? 1 million? 10 million?"

Now let's think about overfitting.

What happens when you increase epochs is the model is more likely to overfit your data.

What happens when you increase dataset size is the model is less likely to overfit your data.
Fantasque too and I add another reason: Comic Mono lacks proper support for Spanish.
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Yeah. Even if a modest donation is earmarked to, say, the athletic department, the school has a lot of flexibility to move unrestricted money from one pocket to the other. For significant even if not huge donations though, schools really would like unrestricted gifts in general.
Thanks for the feedback, will iterate and expand on it.
Sure it can, but all design patterns have their use cases. Generalizing and saying that one is just "terrible" (which your previous comment implied), and people "should learn" is just untrue and an ignorant take. Sometimes it's the only sane solution compared to others, considering project constraints.
I'd actually love to see more data on this. My cynical take is that now people donate to schools they didn't even go to - and are concentrated anyways in a few big donations a year. So banning legacies could still just allow wealthier people to buy their in, even if not their own former college.
The most valuable quality of a programming language committee is holding the temptation to add any new features unless it is something that drives existing users away.
Essays are incredibly biased though! Do you really think that for some reason essays actually have to be written by the person applying, and can't be gamed with money? That an overworked public school teacher is going to write a better letter of recommendation than a private school teacher? That a rich kid is going to have worse extracurriculars, portfolio or achievements?

The Common App is great, but it's not magically less open to bias than standardized test scores.
"Reasoning" about faculties which the bot does not possess (visual, audial, or individual character domains) is simply not going to happen until we hook it up to some symbolic model, or the LLM becomes advanced enough to infer a world model from text alone.

Until then, we're basically asking a blind & deaf guy, who happens to be very well-read, to reason about senses he doesn't have.

Though the mistake in your example does seem kind of egregious and I'd be curious to see whether GPT-4 would make similar mistakes.
> Taking a brilliant kid and putting them around underachievers doesn’t do anyone any good.

In a meritocracy, those that do not achieve do not advance, so this is not a problem after a time. I was in the US Navy's Nuclear Propulsion program. It was the closest thing to a pure meritocracy. You didn't pass a test, do the work, or behave in line with expectations you were sent to the fleet. After a few months, only the capable and motivated were left. It was completely colorblind, completely free of social agenda. You could either do the job well enough or not.

I watched a lot of wash outs where there someone would find a way to tip the scales in college to keep them passing along. I watched the following wash out: the son of a Navy Captain, a congressman's kid, a couple of sons of really rich parents.
It wasn't written to answer someone's question or satisfy their search intent. It was just written to rank.

Anyone who’s searched for reviews or tech questions recently has experienced this. And it’s slowly eating everything.

The web is turning into nothing but potemkin content.
Why should anyone trust a remote server providing a signed statement of authenticity when Intel[1], MSI[2], Lenovo[3], NVIDIA[4], Microsoft and others keep losing their keys? Even if they haven't lost their keys recently, technology companies don't have a great track record of producing foolproof hardware designs (e.g. recent case of [5]), if foolproof was ever a reasonable expectation. For starters, it's assuming technology such as ptychographic X-ray computed tomography and focused ion beam machining won't become more commonplace and commercially viable to readily break TPM attestation schemes. Or that with wider use of TPM attestation, more effort will be expended into breaking it whereas for the current state with minimal adoption, few people care.

The issue client-side is that if a single vendor or TPM design is compromised, threat actors have ample motive, resources and ability to exploit this compromised hardware, whilst everyone else has few choices, such as dumping at great expensve some more e-waste. And critically, you as a user are blocked by your acceptance of TPM attestation technology from discovering attacks and auditing your own system security, as you ceded control of your own systems. Instead, your systems are controlled by a few technology companies that have a proven terrible track record of fulfilling their alleged intent of keeping your systems and data secure. And why should they care if it doesn't lead to a higher profit at the end of the year?

[1] https://github.com/binarly-io/SupplyChainAttacks/blob/main/M...

[2] https://github.com/binarly-io/SupplyChainAttacks/blob/main/M...

[3] https://github.com/binarly-io/SupplyChainAttacks/blob/main/L...

[4] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30565985

[5] https://arxiv.org/abs/2304.14717
You are fundamentally asking someone else to subsidize the cost of that labor.
> Adafruit founder Limor Fried doesn’t find much value in arguing about who is right in the clone wars.

Agree wholeheartedly. The clones are here to stay. I push people, beginners especially, in the direction of Adafruit because their documentation and build quality are excellent. I also use a lot of Adafruit hardware in my own freelancing work. Their products are well worth the price premium.

With the exception of M5Stack, I haven't found a product line that I think is as well thought out.

That said, clones have their own place in the ecosystem. Often the
differences between a cheap clone and the more expensive original are nonexistent across all axes: quality, support, documentation, etc.

Most people are not going to pay more for an identical product.
Government tests for knowledge to participate in democracy do not have a good history.
( hype flow is a local contextual description. Descendants of these models will absolutely destroy humanity. In the near term OpenAI is crawling back some functional headroom so they have resources to maintain hype cycles, sell stronger models to governments at super premiums, and capture more value by having a wider product offering )
We don’t need a conspiracy to explain OpenAI motives. They released an early access model that cost far more to operate than they could ask for in subscriptions. They were selling dollars for $0.50 and of course everyone loved it. Then they decided they should stop bleeding money and maybe even make some.
> letter of recommendation

We've gone full circle.
So...the thing is, the real competitors to the Prusa i3 printers are open-source. Like, actually. The Sovol SV06 is a Chinese printer very clearly based on the Prusa i3 heritage. It's an excellent alternative to the MK3S+ and the firmware source and CAD designs are on GitHub. There are definitely budget-range 3D printers with an i3 heritage (probably not derived tightly from the Prusa design, a lot of them seem like the product of one engineer and a disassembled Ender 3), but the SV06 is for my money the one to get, and it's a quarter of the price of an MK3S+, without the bizarre-in-2023 "preassembled" option that's table stakes for everybody else.

The bigger problem seems to be that the i3 printers are table stakes now, while Prusa engine seized up and forward progress went to pot. The Prusa XL is not vaporware but it's close and preposterously expensive, while the MK4 released without input shaping in their extremely customized port of Marlin. Those "Chinese knockoffs" are shipping Klipper-based printers, with SBCs, where you get that for free.

And then you have the Bambu printers, which are OSS-compliant where required (their slicer is a derivative of PrusaSlicer) but built an in-house OS (not actually that shocking, and almost certainly not pirated; 3D printers just aren't that hard) that has given them a printer that's conservatively 18-24 months ahead of everybody except maybe Prusa with the XL. I really don't like Bambu's patent saber-rattling, that sucks, but they just shipped a better mousetrap, too.

Open-source 3D printing is on the ropes because it isn't making stuff as good as the closed-source stuff. Not because of cheap cloners. I didn't want to buy a Bambu printer so held out for the Creality K1 (and they are being bad citizens, they haven't released their Klipper source) and it's not good, I waited for Prusa to sell me on a Prusa XL but to get one I'll be waiting until 2024 at the earliest and spending $500 on that "preassembled" option to boot, and...Bambu just sold me a P1S with an AMS for $1000 flat. C'mon.
I work for a large Fortune 100 company. About 100k employees. Everyone was sent an email from the very top saying that all LLM/AI tools were forbidden without written authorization from Legal and somebody in the C-suite. The basic rationale was they didn’t want to risk anyone using some else’s IP and didn’t want to risk the possibility of the tools getting a hold of our IP.
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I'm just going to be the one who says it: Arduino has always been a money-grab and a grift.

Open-source was just marketing for Arduino, and it worked for them when they were selling an undifferentiated dev kit for 10x the price it should actually have had (and at least a 30x markup on their actual manufacturing cost). They then load down those dev kits with software that is so inefficient that it upsells people on huge chips for problems that could otherwise be solved with a 10-cent chip. On top of that, the initial Arduino software was pretty much stolen from a grad student, who got no credit, and using open source also gave them free contributions from motivated users.

Fast forward to now and they have a "community" and are trying to start selling more complicated dev kits with the same ridiculous markup, and have found themselves unable to compete with Chinese companies that charge a fair price. The end result, killing the openness, is inevitable.
Classify it as gambling, tell them to apply for a license, fine them heavily every day they are not in compliance, shut them down if they fail to comply for long enough or make obvious attempts at getting around the law.
> Do you see kids in your classes who are rich and visibly a level below everyone else intellectually or emotionally?

Not at all. The purpose of legacy admissions is predominantly to get students who could go to plenty of universities at your tier to go to your university, based on the fact that their parents are alumni. You do end up with a minority-within-a-minority population of rich students who are only there because they share a last name with a building, but frankly those students are also valuable to the rest of the student body from a networking perspective.

I'm opposed to the change. The value in a university education is not just from "going to school". You have the prestige of the university (helped by attracting noteworthy alumni), networking opportunity (helped by having current students with connections through their parents), academic quality of the student body (having the rich kids subsidize merit-based scholarships boosts this, too).

On the whole, legacy admissions (and preferential admission of rich kids in general) benefits the student body as a whole. It's the raison d'etre of private schools, and eliminating it maybe lets in another say ~1-5% of your student body's worth of students who wouldn't have gotten in otherwise, in exchange for lowering the value of getting in for everybody.
The article clearly says there's no evidence of a "casual relationship between legacy preference policies and total alumni giving."

Can you explain your point further? Maybe you are aware of better data than what was used in the cited study?
I'm pretty sure curl does support GraphQL. It's a little weird with the formatting but it can be done.

Postman can even export a GraphQL request to a curl command.
I’ve found most advanced LLM are pretty resilient to abbreviations as well. “Tho” can replace “though”, and you can even be as racy as “b4” instead of before. Depending on the model it can start degenerating into abbreviating talk in response for obvious reasons, but for GPT4 it doesn’t seem to be impacted.
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I only wish Postman didn't freeze when adding a big JSON to a request. If you add it through their interface it freezes for a while in the best case scenario or freezes until you kill it.

Postman on my Mac is now broken because a big JSON (almost 1mb) is stored on one of the opened tabs which makes it freezes on launch. I'll have to purge everything and install it again, thankfully that tab isn't saved in my profile so it won't be there...

I think fixing that is more important that acquiring new companies.
I found out about BearSSL after I had first version of client working. So I kept OpenSSL. I will remember to try BearSSL in next project.
Depends on the purpose. I don't think the various parameters (like temperature, top_p) are fully known when it comes to ChatGPT, and neither is the "system prompt" they're using. With the API, you have full control and visibility of those.

If you really want to compare "performance"/"quality", you'd have to do so via the API, using known and static parameters and locking the model version. None of which is available via ChatGPT.
I think it's a form of Joseph, with a Slavic diminutive suffix. Josef + -ka ("little Joseph", or "Joey").

If that's the case, then the reason Iosevka and Iosefka would be variations of the same name is that, in many Slavic languages, voiced consonants typically become devoiced in clusters before unvoiced consonants. So they'd both sound the same, despite the spelling difference (according to English spelling rules, they'd sound more or less like Yosefka).
It's a monospace font. Ligatures aren't used to make sequences like 'fi' look stupid, they're used to make sequences often used for mathematical operations look like those mathematical symbols. Turning off ligatures should be completely fine in this case.
When there's only two competitors and the margin is only 20% in some subset of the population, that's not "very high market share." EU-wide, Android is >70%.
I said exactly that above.
They were doing it even before covid, although not to the same extent. I don't know why people have such a problem if someone wants to protect themselves from airborne illness.
If it helps to put your mind at ease, in some parts of Australia Kangaroos are a pest. They are culled in agricultural areas and this treatment prevents some of the animal from going to waste. They're also often roadkill as they chase headlights at night.

Companies pay hunters around $1-$2 per kg for the kangaroo meat. An adult kangaroo can be upwards of 60kg (130lb). The meat is often used for dog food, but is extremely lean but a bit gamey tasting I've been told.

So, hopefully this treatment doesn't cause additional death of the roos, but helps to make their deaths less wasteful.
News summarization, news data extraction, news question answering, news filtering. I can assure you that older 7B/13B models had trouble following directions and outputting (for example) JSON.
Gambling is already regulated for teenagers. They can't until they are 18. Companies caught allowing underage gamblers get fined and/or shutdown.
This is good, although I probably benefited from it because one of my recommendation letters was from an alumnus.
Arduino has basically dominated every place where someone first touches a microcontroller. Schools and most early learners buy legit arduinos.

Why did they need VC funding?
Opens a ton of slots for race-neutral preferences that can, say, pull in the top performing students from otherwise underperforming urban and rural districts.
I've seen this even in relatively small private orgs (1000ish) - if you don't spend your budget, then next years +/- across the board spending change will be applied to the lower number you spent rather than what you forecast originally.

Org bloat & empire building is highly incentivized, and insulates you from the bad times. If you can get all your work done with 60% of the staff, then when you are forced to kick out your bottom performers annually.. it's easy to find some. If you are basically operating lean or at the redline, you need to fight the fight hard every time the axeman comes.
We should measure impact on the margin. The marginal manager adds zero value. Whereas that’s not true for ICs
I hope this continues. Then, we will see legislation pass to re-classify endowment funds as hedge funds. CMU has $3 Billion of assets in its endowment portfolio.

Endowments have been getting a free ride in terms of tax treatment, disclosure, and other activities that are regulated for hedge funds. Now that they're upsetting the elite class, the class will respond by re-classifying endowments as hedge funds.

Affirmative action isn't the only racist policy that universities have been practicing. They've also been racially discriminating tuition subsidization. With re-classification of endowments as hedge funds, their activities will become transparent. Scrutiny over subsidized tuition will become possible. Black students receiving a disproportionate amount of subsidy, for instance, will be an act of racial discrimination, and financially regulated entities like hedge funds cannot racially discriminate.
Showrunner AI to create South Park-like TV shows with you as the star
Hmm, they told the on scene searches within hours according to the article? It’s pretty common practice for these agencies to not comment publicly until a conclusion has been reached I feel like.
Fine tuning to a specific more constrained set of tasks is my understanding.
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