skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Automated search engines that rely on keyword matching usually return too many low quality matches.
To make matters worse, some advertisers attempt to gain people’s attention by taking measures meant to
mislead automated search engines. We have built a large-scale search engine which addresses many of
the problems of existing systems. It makes especially heavy use of the additional structure present in
hypertext to provide much higher quality search results. We chose our system name, Google, because it
is a common spelling of googol"
True, my comment was really for them: What's wrong with stopping the breeding of a species, especially one we bred to exploit.
I personally am finding it difficult to find a tangible difference int he quality of output produced by GPT-4 vs GPT-3.5 in what I’ve been using it for recently. Might just be me and perhaps my prompts are not very good quality, but nonetheless, I feel like the difference isn’t nearly as significant as has been stated, at least, not anymore.
Given the rampant nepotism in Stanford admissions, the whole school needs to shut down.
XMP comes with no guarantees. If you are unlucky in terms of CPU silicon, or your motherboard has suboptimal ram signal quality, you will need to turn down from the XMP speed to achieve stability. You can improve your odds of stability at high freq buying motherboards known for good ram speeds but for the CPU it's always a lottery.

The 9700k I had was one of those unlucky chips that just couldn't do faster than 3200mhz RAM without occasional issues.
So be sure to network when you get there. Socialize! Attend the parties! It's not just for fun's sake.
Depends on where you draw the line of what a parser is:

- If the parser is "the thing that comes after the lexer" then all of this is abstracted away by the lexer and you can just treat it as a span of bytes;

- If the parser is "everything that needs to be implemented to correctly transduce the input sequence into a tree", then you need to implement this yourself or have a lexer that handles this for you, usually done by having a tiny UTF-8 codepoint recognizing FSM in your lexer (UTF-8 is a self-synchronizing code, which makes this part easier) and ignoring the existence of graphemes.

Most people, however, shy away from implementing a parser "all the way down to the bytes" and properly handling UTF-8 as a formal language. Most lean on a lexer abstracting this away. Ditto for context-sensitivity.

Recently Rust's regex engine underwent a major overhaul, and burntsushi wrote a blog post[0] about doing the "all the way to the bytes" thing in the new regex engine, I highly recommend the read:

[0] https://blog.burntsushi.net/regex-internals/#nfa-optimizatio...
This is a great insight.

In Enterprise sales, the speed of sales at a given price often varies by pay grade.

If you want individual teams at large companies to be able to purchase the software, it needs to be at a certain price point.

If the software only makes sense at levels higher up, the price point increases accordingly.

Also, the higher you go up in the company, the longer a deal can take. Thus, price should reflect this as well.

For example, if your software is of the nature that it requires approval of CEOs at large companies, your pricing will need to reflect the extra overhead -- e.g. the time and hand holding it takes to close the deal.

That's why lower prices and faster onboarding is so valuable.

Ideally you want your software to be adoptable at grassroots levels within a company.

This reduces sales overhead and makes lower prices feasible. It's a feedback loop in both directions.
Here's a list if you scroll down and also the altered images with annotations. The photoshopping is pretty brazen.

https://stanforddaily.com/2022/11/29/stanford-presidents-res...
Vox had an article about college lotteries earlier this year you might find interesting:

https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/2023/4/19/23689402/colleg...
One use of -A, namely using the ssh server as a jumphost, is covered by -J. The general use of -A, namely doing operations on the ssh server that require keys from the ssh client, is not.

If I'm on machine foo and I want to connect to bar.example.org and clone a git repo there from baz.example.org, and baz.example.org requires an identity key that is in foo's ssh agent, then -A is the only option.
> Most people wouldn’t argue against considering artists’ portfolios and musicians’ performances in admissions.

I would, unless it was an arts college.

The point is, schools are institutions with a purpose. For most of them, that purpose is education, not playing games. Therefore, being able to play games shouldn't have any relevance in whether you're admitted to those schools.
While true, it would take a very very long time. There simply are not enough molecules of anything in "space" to effectively and efficiently transport heat, and we even struggle to keep craft in space cool because the only reliable source of heat transfer is black body radiation from your craft.

The heat capacity of space is nearly non-existent.
ground breaking novel analysis: china is going to collapse any day now. for real this time. maybe if we keep repeating it enough, it will happen.
Unbelievable, no wonder people don't trust the science!
Legacy is a weak proxy for rich, though. There's a separate entrance for rich-rich kids: donors are evaluated based on the size of their gifts and their ability to continue giving, and their kids are given preferential admission.
This is a private university.
Love the landing page - beautiful!
Is there any place that is safe from catastrophes like this? Anywhere near a river and a mountain with seasonal snowing is what I used to think but canada which has plenty of this is struggling with wildfires. I thought the wetness from the snow season is enough to prevent a wildfire
As a human, you have the context to understand the difference between the “Sum of all Fears” vs planning an attack or writing for a purpose beyond creative writing.

The model does not. If you ask ChatGPT about strategies for successful mass killing, that’s probably not good for society nor for the company.

In a military context, they may want a system where an LLM would provide guidance for how to most effectively kill people. Presumably such a system would have access controls to reduce risks and avoid providing aid to an enemy.
Consider two possible rights:

(1) The right to complete freedom of movement.

(2) The right to private personal space free of other people

On the face of things, neither of these require anybody to take actions. Nevertheless, one cannot fully exercise (1) without violating (2) and vice versa.
it also replies in pig latin and klingon. Sadly the results are completely wrong, but it tries.
Alternatively there is a baseline of fraudulent behavior in any human organization of 1-5% and since there are tens of thousands of high-profile researchers this sort of thing is inevitable. The question you should be asking is whether the field is able to correct and address its mistakes. Ironically cases like this one are the success stories: we don’t have enough data to know how many cases we’re missing.
This. I was late to trying it out but just started with it last week and love it. Right up there with Menlo for me.
As a really fast general typist (doubly so for CLI) and with all the fancy `fish` autocomplete plugins for kubectl installed, it's still annoying to type out/complete names of various resources / labels / whatever you need for kubectl.

And yeah I have `kubectl` abbreviated as `kc` in `fish`.
This person is in trouble for intensifying exactly the issues you're describing:

"The report ... identified a culture where Tessier-Lavigne “tended to reward the ‘winners’ (that is, postdocs who could generate favorable results) and marginalize or diminish the ‘losers’ (that is, postdocs who were unable or struggled to generate such data).”"
All good, these are very valid points. Thanks for feedback and definitely give highlight a try when you get a chance.
To be fair lots of other people just buy arduino brand boards directly or through Amazon, sparkfun, adafruit, etc.
What's a better solution if you want to be able to SSH across multiple machines? Do you need to always close the current connection to get back to localhost prior to a fresh SSH?

e.g. how would I ssh into foo, and then later into bar, or perhaps pull some code from github onto foo that is authenticated by my key?

localhost -> foo -> bar
localhost -> foo -> github access

It seems like the answer is either: a) ssh -A, or b) install my private key on foo.
Great system, Amazing founders!
add kubens to that list! Changing the namespace quickly for the current context also saves fingers.
I feel this trend taking root in academia is still a new-ish thing. The boundaries of academia and research, especially for computer science, really started blending 15-20 years ago as Big Tech took over Oil for the best paying job / grant.

The decay has been super fast though. Maybe some academics will find the courage to do a longitudinal study of this decay. Now that'll be an interesting paper to read.
Not necessarily true. The more prestigious schools have more budget to hire better professors, but more importantly, can fund top class research that costs ALOT of money.

Your random college probably can't afford a research nuclear reactor, but MIT sure as hell can if they want.

Getting a position as a undergrad on those research projects is incredibly competitive.
Crimea voted overwhelmingly to join Russia. ~98% Nearly a decade ago now. This is ancient history. Crimea is not in the Ukraine.

Are you suggesting to forcibly overrule that?

It sounds like Russophobia is leading you to come to some seriously flawed logical conclusions.

I also love how you completely ignored the fact that the Crimean bridge is in fact civilian infrastructure used by thousands daily.
> Doesn't it seem like this kind of fraud should result in prison sentences?

It depends on the nature of the fraud.

I'm no fan of academia (see my post history), but this has to be close to the bottom of my list of priorities. The last car salesman I interacted with probably deserves more jail time than even the most unscrupulous academic (and the car salesman actually did commit a crime, but prosecution would be highly surprising). Medical and drug insurance is another case where there is systematic, intentional, and legal fraud literally killing people every day. The insurance case in particular is pernicious and full of literally deadly Catch-22 "tricks". See also all the obviously criminal web3 stuff that will definitely hit statute of limitations before any LE/prosecutor finds the time to investigate and prosecute.

Most fraudsters don't see any legal punishment because LE and prosecutor time is so limited relative to the amount of fraud. And in the worst cases because the fraudsters have so much money and power that even obvious bullshit is at least de facto not criminal (see insurance).

So, anyways. Should it be criminal? Yes. Is it criminal? IDK. Probably somehow. Is it where finite resources should be spent? Not usually; IMO there are far worse types of fraud where the people's LE+legal+legislative resources should be spent.

> Also: "will resign effective August 31"??? Shouldn't this guy be locked out of his office, have his laptop confiscated, and be banned from campus immediately?

Conjecture: there is probably a lot of "hand-off" work to be done. Excluding my first two jobs, where I was a junior/mid-level IC, I have always been asked to stay a least a month longer than the typical 2 weeks to handle hand-offs.

I guess the best we can hope for is that the last month of employment is living hell as he has to attend a bunch of hand-off meetings as a totally disgraced academic/leader.
It doesn't need to be debunked.

I think everyone here knows (including me OP) more or less how algorithms manipulate people.

So did people manipulate others into buying things that they don't need for centuries without technology too.

It doesn't have anything to do with algorithms, it's just automating an existing process.

With the same logic we should practically ban every commercial and ad, as they are trying to manipulate us to buy something to some extent.
Exactly, this will likely increase donations.
I see a lot of folks in this thread lamenting the usage of ligatures, but note that the downloaded set of font files includes a "JetBrainsMonoNL" version of all variants, which does not include ligatures ("NL", as in, "No Ligatures").

I do not like ligatures either, yet this is my favorite monospaced font. I use JetBrainsMonoNL in all the places.
How do these skimmers work with chip&pin? I understand how magstripe skimmers work, but my understanding is that chip&pin is an active challenge response protocol. I’d love to hear more.
Agreed. I used to produce a custom product that was used an Arduino Nano clone as a component on a PCB because the clone cost less than I could buy its component parts for (yay economies of scale!). I'd generally buy 10 at a time for about $25 total.
I’m not a huge fan of the NCAA system myself. A lot of universities don’t have major sports programs, and that’s a respectable choice on their part. But NCAA sports are tremendously profitable for the universities that invest in them. No Division I school would actually save money, in the long run, by defunding their football and basketball teams.

And when it comes to side businesses, sports pale in comparison to endowments.

Edit: Just to clarify, my only point here is that criticizing these Division I schools for how much they spend on their sports programs is fallacious. If you have a different criticism of college sports, that's fine but I'm not sure why you're addressing it to me.
Envy Code R is another favorite of mine
No because I've lived very frugally over the years and my partner also works in tech. For years we had no car and only recently bought one for the family. We stay well within our means and save most of what we earn. We have a small mortgage on a cozy townhome. Nothing we can't comfortably pay off on a non Big Tech TC.
Personally, I turn those down. When I'm freelancing, I'm doing it specifically to maintain a high degree of flexibility. Non-scoped jobs take flexibility away.

But I think this is a personal call sort of thing, and may be right for you, depending.
The most useful definition I've found personally is basing it on which of the modes provides rather than costs energy (mental/emotional/physiological)
In other words, intellectual property does not work. That era ended a while ago, and the west is still playing pretend.
The rot goes SUPER deep team
I've been using Notion.so for a couple years now and am mostly really happy with it. Easy to collaborate with others and access everything from any device. Have had annoying issues logging in on Android though.

If I wanted more control over my data, the next thing I'd try is obsidian
The public makes a huge investment in Harvard, both directly through grants and indirectly through waived taxes. Is subsidizing social networking with and among the privileged a good use of public dollars?
Yes, definitely! If you're injecting secrets as environment variables into your apps, then you can just use the Infisical CLI (https://infisical.com/docs/cli/usage), it will automatically inject your secrets during local development, in CI/CD, some production envs, etc.
"China did actual lockdowns."
Yes, they did, and literally made prisoners out of their own people. Which had the unfortunate consequence of killing people for lack of care, food and social contact.

"Herd immunity? Never happened because infection isn't preventing reinfection with a different strain."
This is exactly wrong. Once you get covid you may contract a different strain, and if you are a normal healthy individual it will be like a bad cold, if you have symptoms.
No, 'gamed' as in mass blocking one's competitor's results. If you think ads are bad you should take a peep into the world of 'negative seo'.

I can assure you that any solution you can think of that will improve web search will be used in the exact opposite way you imagine.
If you make sure who is doing the skimming rotates so that there is a constant stream of new people checking it would be really hard to stop detection in a timely manner. It's also insanely fast to install a skimmer (like 2 seconds fast) so you don't necessarily need insider help. Until wireless skimmers with a decent range become available this tool could bring skimming down to effectively zero (and reduce it to just the customer who rang through the till before it was discovered when they are available). It's a pretty epic addition to the retail security landscape
> the west has been "doing something" about it for hundreds of years. various tactics, strategies, wars, colonialism, both pro- and anti- whatever regime is in power. none of it works long term.

Come on, China was pretty irrelevant to the outside world until the US started pumping money into it in the 70s. That's exactly what the West should stop doing.
Not spending any public funds?
Skimmer can be installed in seconds, just glued-on when the skimmer-guy is at the check-out.
you should ask before making that statement -- I suspect you will be surprised at the answers
And the alleged misconduct happened before he joined the university.
Totally. The internet is full of blog sites explaining how to do things that are impossible. Like how to cast from vlc to dlna on Android. They'll have a whole page with bullet points and everything that ultimately involves using a Chromecast. I once ended up at a page about an emulator that was hallucinating in GPT3 levels. Something like playing Gran Turismo on an xbox emulator or something. They have no shame.
> Today, the Stanford board’s special committee released the law firm’s and scientific panels’ findings, which are based on more than 50,000 documents, interviews with over 50 people, and input from forensic science experts. Its report finds that for seven papers on which Tessier-Lavigne was a middle, or secondary, author, he bears no responsibility for any data manipulation. The primary authors have taken responsibility and in many cases are issuing corrections.

> But the 22-page report (plus appendices) found “serious flaws” in all five papers on which Tessier-Lavigne is corresponding or senior author: the 1999 Cell paper, the two 2001 Science papers, a 2004 Nature paper, and the 2009 Nature paper from Genentech. In four of these studies, the investigation found “apparent manipulation of research data by others.” For example, in one case, a single blot from the 2009 Cell paper was used in three different experiments, and a blot from that paper was reused in one of the 2001 Science papers.

> The 2004 Nature paper also contains manipulated images, the report found. Although the report says the allegations of fraud and a cover-up at Genentech involving the 2009 Nature paper were “mistaken”—people likely conflated the fraudulent paper a year earlier, and Genentech scientists’ problems replicating the work, it suggests—that paper showed “a lack of rigor” that falls below standards.

https://www.science.org/content/article/stanford-president-t...

PubPeer alsoshows which papers they've been involved with that has "Errata" or "Expression of Concern": https://pubpeer.com/search?q=authors%3A+%22tessier-lavigne%2...
I wasn’t sure how to articulate this exact thought, but I wholeheartedly feel the same. Some of the quote characters (' vs ` for example) have been problematic for me in the past too, and even though more common special characters like ;:., are almost always distinct enough, it’s nice when designers pay special attention to the core concerns of the target audience.
That's exactly what I thought when it happened.
Unless they used those blocklist to influence their normal search results, there is no way to game it. That choice was up to Google.
AI Completes “A Song of Ice and Fire” in 1.2M Words
FYI: The company that built this is a heavyweight in the Ruby on Rails domain. They ship some quality Rails blogs which I enjoy reading. Being a Rails developer myself, it really helps to get to know about the new Rails features. https://www.bigbinary.com/blog/rails-7-1-adds-activejob-perf... was one such blog. I was about to do some monkey patching to add this to an application I was working on. Highly recommend their blogs - https://www.bigbinary.com/blog.
And it's a bad proposal. To wit: "Concretely, after a paper has been thoroughly discussed, any paper that still has at least one advocate for acceptance should normally be accepted."

This is a terrible idea. People will have friends who get their papers in, in return for the favor of the same.

Agree with your general point though. No easy answers though.
I bet that for every case of scientific fraud that is obvious from the published paper (like this one), there are 10 cases of scientific fraud which are never detected.

Think about it - a domain expert will do a far better job of faking data than a random joe, and will be aware of most statistical tests that could find out.
I didn't read your comment as a defense, only as an explanation. And as an explanation, you're right: The pressure is getting to way too many people. But how can you fix it? I'm afraid good answers need very deep change. Society lets a few 'winners' (whether by cheating, effort, good luck, or anything else) reap too much of our collective rewards.
You can't attack another user like this here, regardless of how wrong they are or you feel they are. Instead, please make your substantive points thoughtfully.

We've had to warn you about this at least once before (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30591654). We have to ban accounts that keep doing this. I don't want to ban you, so if you'd please review https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and take the intended spirit of the site more to heart, we'd be grateful.
Like Usenet News?
In the NVIDIA peculiar language, which seems to have been chosen with the only purpose of causing confusion, because all the names invented by NVIDIA are applied to things that already had traditional names for many decades, warp means thread and thread means SIMD lane.

NVIDIA has never given a good explanation about what they mean by the "instruction pointer" that belongs to each NVIDIA "thread". It certainly does not mean what in means normally, i.e. a special register that contains the address from where the next instruction will be fetched for execution. I believe that this "instruction pointer" refers to a register where the actual instruction pointer is saved when a "thread" is stalled because it has diverged into two branches after a condition test and only one of the branches continues to be executed, while the other branch must be executed later, with the complementary predicate.

These saved instruction pointers are presumably used for scheduling the "threads" to be executed by the SIMD lanes provided by the hardware, in such a way as to satisfy the cross-lane dependencies.
What is concerning is there were even more allegations that weren't included because they could not offer anonymity to those providing them:

https://stanforddaily.com/2023/07/19/sources-refused-to-part...
Could be that introverts have one or both of the following characteristics:

1) They don't like politics as a mean to reach one's goals. Maybe for moral reasons or because they consider it cheating or because they deem it 'not close enough to the action'.

2) Social time spent with other people is like any other activity, maybe introverts need or want more time to feel satisfied, much like some people are satisfied riding a jetski while others need to be able to do tricks and acrobatics in order to be happy about the whole experience. Maybe introverts hold out in order to reach a higher level of experience?
Cats may not emote in human terms as well as dogs, but they are unusually good among the animal kingdom at reading human emotional expression.