skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thanks, to be fully accurate, it’s 6X 4K monitors normal orientation,, and 2x 2560p - 29 inch widescreen type monitors both rotated vertically , and touching each other (via one of those $60 or so floorstanding 40 inch tall dual monitor mounts from Amazon).

I love my set up, I work for myself, and from home, so purchased it myself.

The GPUs I use, used to be 2X Nvidia, P1000 Quadro. But as I was trying to troubleshoot this latency issue I was referring to I’ve upgraded to 2X Quadro, RTX 4000 GPUs. (Which actually made little difference/improvement to the issue).

By the way, set ups like mine aren’t as expensive as you might think, you can get a nvidia Quadro P1000 or P2000 GPU on eBay for very inexpensive, as in around maybe 200 or less, each.

I really don’t play games, the rare times I do it’s exclusively on my Xbox (so none of this is for gaming / gaming optimized)

Edit: also, the 4K monitors are 30 inch in physical size, one might be 32-inch. This is very important I have found over the years (and going through many different monitors and resolutions to finally find the optimal set up for myself.) - 30 or 32 inch I have found is the sweet spot for 4K resolution.

I don’t use any windows OS text size increase (or whatever the 100% 125% 150% thing is called, mine is set to 100%.)
Yeah! I was a "neopian hacker" as a young teen (my handle was "idiotproof"). It got me into the industry and taught me more about browser environments & PHP/SQL than I'd ever have learned from any book.
But they're specifically moving to Mastodon (infosec.exchange and defcon.social), which is not the same as moving to Lemmy, KBin, or PixelFed. For example, Lemmy federates with KBin, but not with Mastodon. Kbin federates both with Lemmy and Mastodon. Also, Mastodon has a Twitter-like UX, while Lemmy/Kbin have a Reddit-like UX. PixelFed has a Flickr-like UX.

It makes a difference, and insisting on calling them ActivityPub or Fediverse servers has strong GNU/Linux vibes, which we should probably avoid too.
Who gobbled up who?

Netflix market cap is $210B, Comcast is $178B, and Disney is $160B. All the other content sellers are far below.

Netflix is a perfectly viable business, and investors are betting it will continue to be a leader in selling video media.

> Turns out they created a technologic berm instead of a moat.

Unless Netflix had a plan to lobby legislators to enact laws coercing content makers to go through them, I do not see what chance they had at making a moat due to the way the internet works.

>Personally I think Amazon is next. They exist based solely on their first mover momentum.

Amazon actually has a moat. Creating all the warehouse and transportation infrastructure and managing the 1.5M employees they have is not a simple feat, certainly not relative to setting up a streaming service. Not to mention AWS.
I used the average freshman class size of colleges that have deep sports cultures (i.e. large student body, wins championships, spends a lot of resources on recruiting, etc). Notice the emphasis on “recruiting”.

MIT and Ivy League+ schools do not have such deep sports cultures.

You said you were speaking in general, right?

Then, it doesn’t make sense for you to keep harping about MIT or other Ivy League+ schools because your argument falls flat when schools with sports-heavy cultures are brought up. Admitting athletes at the average school really is negligible.

(Unless you edited your original comment to specifically mention these schools? I only read your reply to me that said you weren’t talking about MIT and that you were speaking in general)

Also, I only used a single sport (i.e football) as an example because you used a single sport (i.e football) as an example. I quoted you. I know you were speaking in general. But so was I.

If you have specific concerns with MIT or Ivy League+ admissions as it relates to sports, then just say that! Don’t try to generalize your argument because it’s not helping your point.

(Also, if percentages don’t matter as much as you think, then why were they brought up in the recent Supreme Court case?)
Unless the law changes with mandatory licensing like for radio, tv and movies will never all be available on one platform
The readability is much better compared to other fonts, apparently it's also great for people with dyslexia. Personally I'm happy to trade readability for density with Iosevka
I have 3 kids with various sensory issues and have ASD, ADHD and Dyslexia myself. Focus on the child's experience, they are behaving in a way that makes sense to them. Take note of what sensory experience they seek out or avoid. Strong sensory inputs such as being upside down or deep pressure can help reset an overwhelmed system. Sensory experience is non-linear and also be hypo/hypersensitive for the same or different senses. Total exposure time can be as important as intensity.

A weighted blanket for sleeping made a very noticeable difference in how quickly my middle child woke up in the morning instead of being groggy. The difference was surprising and a bit hard to believe. You will need to try many things to find what works. Don't get stuck on other peoples typical expectations, especially in how difficult simple activities may be at times. We still use melatonin frequently, consider risks but sleep is so important to get consistently.

Try to reduce the demand on the child when possible. To soften transitions to events, arrive early while it's less busy to allow them to adapt to the surroundings. Mealtime can be contentious if you demand too much non-preferred foods. Challenge with new/non-preferred foods later in the meal when risk is lower.

Predictability is important and know when you are demanding more from your child. Watch how they respond and understand their experience, it all starts with "seeing" them as they are right now.
SOSML: The Online Interpreter for Standard ML
That said, this article and paper don't really seem to provide any kind of solution, they just identify a problem.

As a non-native English speaking scientist, I don't think this is a problem that can or should be "solved" (as by, I don't know, switching to Esperanto or something like that); but awareness is important. For example, reviewers not being jerks about papers by non-native speakers would already be helpful. In this sense, I think articles like this are useful because many native speakers greatly underestimate the extra effort required.

Another example: in my particular research community, there was discussion about forbidding ChatGPT as a paper writing assistant. But every person I saw taking that position was a native English speaker. No non-native would ever defend that, because for us it's obvious that it's probably the single best technological advance of all time to bridge the paper writing gap. Native speakers were all fussed about writing being "fake", soulless, etc. whereas the main worry of many non-native is being able to express their ideas in a fluent enough form to not cause the paper to be rejected.
> Why do you think that would be the case? So long as there is value to be had from delivering a result faster, I would expect a correct solution delivered faster to be better than the same correct solution delivered more slowly.

It depends on the problem being solved and the probability that quicker solution could fail. A recent article posted on YC about solving puzzles [0] (I'll have to find the post), described a normal chess player with that of a grandmaster in how they thought about a single move. That move had a ratio of ways the move could backfire to it succeeding. A normal chess player has a ratio of 0.5:1. Where as the grandmaster's ratio floats around 5:1.
'Tatemae' and 'Honne' – White Lies and Honesty in Japanese Society (2002)
The jet stream would normally wiggle a bit more and that would spread the weather about instead of letting stagnant hotspots form.
There are many multiplayer games, especially on mobile, where the more you spend, the more powerful you are. One of the more infamous recent examples was Activision-Blizzard's Diablo: Immortal, where the most powerful items were locked behind either significant monetary investments (think tens to hundreds of dollars) or unfathomable amounts of grinding (literal decades for a >80% chance at some of the top-tier items, or something crazy like that). And these items were very much usable in PvP combat, where any non-paying player has about 0 chance of ever winning.
Thank you, that was great :)
Yeah, I think I'm easily worth $85/hour, maybe even $115/hour. But I don't want to try to negotiate until I have another $10k of savings and I have a couple of leads elsewhere so that I have a bit more bargaining power.
In the case of fine tuning, you can end up with catastrophic forgetting. Architecture can influence how data scales, and adding data doesn’t always improve performance
They do not have an outsized impact to admissions. What has an outsized impact is the connections a person has with the university. And those connections can come from significant contributions.
Bafang is even more popular than Bosch in the Netherlands. Many popular brands like VanMoof and Veloretti prefer them due to lower prices, more power and better repairability.
I am waiting for the era when SEO world is totally disrupted or destroyed by AIGC
I enjoy comparing new fonts to Consolas, and then going right back to Consolas. It helps me feel justified!

And I hate ligatures as much as I hate table aliases, so Consolas suits me just fine. Although, DSM is a close second. I just wish its "<=>" were more distinguishable.
Good point. I've edited my comment.
It doesn't even have to be large sums, but the existence of legacy admissions creates goodwill between the university and its alums that broadly motivates consistent, modest donations.

Legacy admissions are also a way to increase yield (percentage of students enrolled versus accepted) which is one of the many ranking-driven stat games.
Continuous training is the holy grail. Yes you can just retrain with the updated dataset but guess what, you will run into catastrophic forgetting or end up in a different local minima.
Anthro / Geo. Hydro view would be “97% of water is saline” and Ethno “4 religions account for over 77% of the world's population”

Please correct me if I’m wrong.
Why should athletics be uniquely disadvantaged among activities that aren't exclusively academic? Perhaps you think that a test result is all that should count though in which case we'll have to agree to disagree.
That website shows that there's more ice than in 2012, 2019, 2020 and 2021.

Only other data available on that chart is 2022 and 1981-2010 median.

edit: I was reading the Arctic chart and I was corrected below
They WERE, essentially, letting people buy their kid's admission. Maybe not directly, but if you're a rich alumnus, you have to suspect that your donation history will figure into your kid's admission or not.

Even if the school says it doesn't, they could be lying.
Seasonal heat differences are not really a good explanation for "hottest temperatures ever measured".
My gut feeling is that EU wouldn't cave and would be OK on running on outdated Linux. There is really no citizen influence on block wide policies so I doubt a protests would work or that any majority of non-technical people would care.
I mean he's speaking about the past - so he's saying perhaps sometime in the past it was maybe needed, but he's saying that it's not needed anymore.

It's just a way to not have to specifically say something negative about the college, even if it's about the college's past. He's not preserving bigotry, he's just trying to not tarnish the brand.
Status quo, maybe, not not explicitly bigoted. Building a culture through generations, a sense of loyalty to an institution and a lifelong interest in seeing that institution flourish (and be funded) is a reasonable goal of a University.
Beyond introvert vs. extrovert
You're morally and ethically correct, but not technically correct in regards to bankruptcy. As another commenter mentioned, all parties involved must examine the information available and agree that you actually own the property. Otherwise the bankrupt company could fraudulently give away assets by saying someone else owns them.

If the company's records are incomplete, you may need to file a claim because the people chopping up the company may not have sufficient information available otherwise.
The Spotify model doesn’t work for video content. A movie or even a TV show is way more expensive to produce than a song.
In the article:
> “The pros are certainly fundraising development. I think people like to think that if they give a lot of money to a university, their children will get special preference,” he said. “I can sort of understand the other side saying it’s unfair to other applicants.”

The quoted person doesn't deny it helps, but people like to think it helps.

Also, please don't donate to your university. You paid them for an education, food and housing. You don't owe them anything else. Compound interest on their takings is your contribution.
Is this a joke?

Larian Studios makes good games, but by no means are they a "gold" standard.

The Divinity series has a very interesting take on the RPG genre that's not to everyone's liking. And their world-building chops so far are somewhat lacking, compared to the original Baldur's Gate series.

It's also going to be interesting how faithful it is to the mechanics of D&D, and whether Larian again will make a game where you have to scrape by every right, rather than feeling like a powerful RPG character.
Maybe, but I seem to have fun with plenty of free games.

DotA 2, Call of Duty Warzone 2.0, PUBG, etc.

I am looking forward to Embark Studio's 2 free-to-play games (Arc Raiders, and THE FINALS)
I think the question is whether the donations create more resources than what is used up by a legacy admission.

For example, imagine I donate $1B to the university, with two stipulations. First, they admit my child to the CS program. Second, they use the money to perpetually expand the size of every incoming CS class by 10 students.

In that respect, the legacy admission is a net good. Yes, for four years there's a spot that's used up by my kid, but even during those four years there are 10 additional people got into the program who wouldn't have otherwise.

I realize it's not that easy, it doesn't work like that, and the size of classes at places like Harvard are not limited by the how much money Harvard has. But it seems like there could be ways to keep some kind of legacy admission program which also create a net good.

Maybe every legacy admission should be required to fund a perpetual scholarship for one financially disadvantaged student? That's both expensive enough to be rare and beneficial enough to be hard to argue with.
On Having Survived the Academic Moral Philosophy of the 20th Century
We can't even define the purpose of college. E.g., is it only graduating and Bill Gates, Paul Allen, Steve Jobs, ..., Mark Zuckerberg are all failures?

Meritocracy works best if you have something to measure against.
I'm a huge fan of k9s and we use it quite a bit at Argonaut.

I'm unaffiliated with the tool except as a user and a tiny sponsor, and I'd encourage users who are willing and able to sponsor this amazing tool as well.
https://kristoff.it/blog/zig-colorblind-async-await/
To be fair Twitter was never designed to be used by news sites, it just was when it happened to be good at it.
PostgreSQL 16 Beta 2 Release Notes
When downloading Berkeley Mono, you can choose some configurations and I love the slashed 7 (as well as zero). Something feels off to me with the line but overall it’s fun to have in a font.
> If your "good" architecture is slowing down development i.e. more time more labor [...]

The argument is that it isn't slowing down development in the long run. Because it is a fundamental part of your architecture anyway.

(And my argument has nothing to do with Rust per se)
Anecdote: a company I used to work for was growing rapidly by acquisition, which ended up being the motivation to go ipv6 internally. With IPv4 every new company was basically guaranteed to have an internal network that conflicted with one of our existing subnets, so we either had to re-ip them, which was brutal or put crazy NATs on our VPNs alongside dns insanity. Going IPv6 meant that getting them on our mesh was simple. Just enable IPv6 on their network (which was far easier than most network admins fear it will be), then join their IPv6 network to the mesh, let their IPv4 be whatever it was. Update all DNS servers to have AAAA records. No more conflicts!
More discussion over here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36787886
Maybe at schools with big football/basketball programs. At a school like MIT which was being discussed yesterday, sports certainly do not directly pay for themselves.
I think its more than money and time. Getting supply chains right (both hardware and software) is really hard at scale. Additionally there’s network effects of their proprietary ecosystem that thousands of developers and millions of users have invested in. Thats very very sticky. Unless Apple fucks up majorly I don’t see that changing.
Making Peak Electricity Pricing Make Sense
Allow me to play devils advocate. If a consenting adult wants to blow their whole paycheck at the casino, who are you to stop them? The casino did not trick or coerce the gambler. The rules are known and unchanging. According to the principles of freedom, you can't interfere with what two consenting parties agree to on their own. Why do you get to insert yourself in this transaction?
Well, they actually paid me now. I didn't honestly see this starting to come through.
Is there a proposed/hypothesized method by which GPT-4 _could_ be getting worse? THey won't have done a new training run, because that's hugely expensive, and they aren't going to be futzing with the model weights at random. If they wanted to save money, they could run it _slower_ but that shouldn't (as I understand it) change the quality of responses, just the speed.

So, it seems to me that the model is very likely literally the exact same model it was at launch, so how is it supposed to have gotten worse?
Now that's some hyperbole, government regulations are some of the best tools we have in creating a reasonable society that is desirable to live in.

For example, your nanny state comment could easily be modified to describe chemical waste dumping.

"What's insane is that some want to replace the irresponsible CEO's and C-suite execs of those workers with a nanny state."

Well fucking hell yes I do, I want the government to have to power to ruin companies if they negligently damaged or destroyed the environment we all share, for profit, stupidity or laziness.

Government regulations are the only reason we the workers have it as good as we do today. 5 day work week, EPA restrictions, etc.
We don’t make those kinds of comments here.
>There are many multiplayer games, especially on mobile, where the more you spend, the more powerful you are.

Sure, but none of the ones I play work like that. There are plenty that don't. Easy to simply avoid the ones that do.
I would argue that the changes you refer to around the turn of the millennium were not in fact all that rapid, but rather the more publicly visible phase of a more gradual change that started no later than 1969 (when ARPANET went live), perhaps well before that date.
Maybe, though I would have expected it to repeat a longer chunk of text instead of a single character if that was the case
Racism is bad and you should feel bad that you judge people based on their skin color.
I think Amazon exists because of AWS and the distribution/delivery vehicle they’ve built on the store side. There’s certainly value there beyond first-mover advantage.
We're not, we're heading towards tribalism. The concern about legacy admissions is more that the legacies may be disproportionately white more so than anything else. With limited data on other schools, Harvard recently reported that legacies actually had higher SAT scores than non-legacy admits.[1] That didn't stop people who wanted an alleged merit based admissions policy from continuing to call it a racist backdoor. Carnegie Mellon did not publish any stats on their legacy admits however.

Additionally, and perhaps most importantly, universities have promised to continue to look at race as a factor that still complies with the SC ruling which means a backdoor for race. FWIW white students are the most underrepresented on elite campuses so it would be hard to argue that there are admissions policies favoring them.

[1]: https://features.thecrimson.com/2021/freshman-survey/academi...

[2]: https://stanforddaily.com/2023/06/30/stanford-to-expand-outr...
Resources are finite. If college courses were recorded lessons or they just gave you a theory book and an exercises book, then of course we could automate everything. Just sign up, pay your fee and take the exams and once you're done you get the degree, even full remote. Your taxes will go towards professors and a fuck ton of TAs for questions and exercises and to keep the infrastructure running.

But we're not there yet
Yeah right. Just as schools are already working around affirmative action rulings to continue to effect actual institutional racism, they will find a way to continue to give legacies a leg up in the admissions process. With the size of endowments of top schools these days they effectively operate as for-profit hedge funds that happen to have educational institutions attached. Does anyone seriously think a school would say "thanks for that library you donated but your grand kid only has a 3.8 gpa so maybe look at state schools."
Yeah, what he said is pretty comical given Blizzard's resources and the rich history of Diablo franchise. What a clown.
"In production" is different from "for enterprise usage".
Lack of evidence is hardly evidence of lacking.
From the `learn-tachyons` project in the other comment: https://github.com/dwyl/learn-tachyons#functional-css-is
K9s is amazing.
I don’t get the appeal of Postman. Collections are great but I’ve always preferred plain old curl.
Does anyone have access to the questions/headlines they asked about COVID? Is it in the paper mentioned in the article (which is behind a paywall)?
I was just watching a podcast interview in which a British-German professor employed at an Ivy League university in the US, was talking about the elite universities in the US, and how there is no equivalent in Germany. [1] The interview is in German, but what he is basically saying is that the American attitude is to very openly and purposefully create and maintain this system of elitism and everyone is openly in competition with each other. All of this is alien to us here in Germany.

At first glance it seems like we got the better deal. But then you think more about it more. All the German elite send their kids to study in the US instead of studying in Germany, because there they get to network with the elite kids from all over the world. But this is not a very good thing for Germany. First of all, we have less say in how he next generation of elite in our country think. Secondly all the smart and talented people in Germany who cannot afford to emigrate get no chance to mingle with these elite kids.

So if we had a system of elite unis here in Germany it might on some level be better.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w4Y9SomH9Nc
AFAIK, legacy admission and donations are two separate "tracks", if you will.

Donations are when the "donation office" giving a list to the admissions office.

Legacy admission is when the student ticks a box on the application.

The former is to recognize past contributions, where the latter is more for future contribution (if your whole family went to Harvard, presumably you will be more likely to give money to Harvard)