skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> a lot of evidence that they're quite alien to us

It's an exact moral equivalent to learning. I wouldn't expect PyTorch to be running the citric acid cycle under the hood, and that shouldn't matter.

> Copilot reproducing `Q_rsqrt` verbatim, including the magic numbers, formatting and comments.

Humans can recite lots of things verbatim. Song lyrics, Shakespeare, digits of pi, Bible verses, you name it. We're so early, and the models are only one little engineering trick away from not doing this unless requested. We'll probably be able to tackle this at the level of the weights themselves.

> copyright law, which is designed to protect the human creative process only.

This is the point. Does AI contribute positively to the economy and the human condition? Does it outperform the old status quo? We're going to find out, and I'd expect for the law to fit to the outcome it views as optimal.

I'm betting that the law will view this similar to industrialization. That more people will be enabled through AI than inconvenienced, that more works will be created, and that more money will move and flow than before.
My go-to question is "Did Henry VIII have any grandchildren?"

Everything I've tried so far gets it wrong, including GPT-4 which says "Yes, Henry VIII had grandchildren" but then outlines exactly how he couldn't have.
I'm skeptical. Like Microsoft, Apple has a lot of money to throw at super large models. But the question is whether they are committed enough to AI to do it, and whether they have the required ML talent. The latter was actually a problem for Microsoft, otherwise they wouldn't cooperate with OpenAI. Regarding commitment: This also seems iffy to me. Generative AI doesn't fit very well into Apple's hardware centric philosophy.
I don't think I've ever seen ungetc() used in production code.

I appreciate the "do it yourself" thing - but in 2023 unless you're building a product for a known ascii system, you're setting yourself up for pain when your code is run in San José,
> Sports programs at university pay for themselves.

I don't see why this even matters (besides the fact that it's not really true except for the biggest sports at some of the biggest sport schools).

The debate is over whether it's fair that some students get the benefits that come with being an Ivy League grad without having the academic prowess to otherwise be admitted. Whether or not they are able to cover their costs is immaterial to that discussion.

I actually heard someone else make a similar argument for children of big donors, i.e. that schools rely on those big donors for their missions. And I'm like "You're just arguing that you're cool with nearly all forms of corruption and bribery as long as the money is put to a good use."
(2013)?
> I can do a LOT of advising and conduct a LOT of research with close to 0% overhead.

Spoken like someone whose never done research. I’d love to hear what kind of research you think you can do at 0% overhead. No one can do anything at 0% overhead, are you serious?
> I will write a parser for the “ini” file format in about 150 lines of pure and readable ISO C99

Sounds like overkill. Most often you don't need a full-fledged ini format, but just a list of "KEY=value" pairs that can be parsed with a single call to scanf.
Is this a need-blind or need-aware institution?

If need-aware, does the admitting class have enough full pay to cover the costs of those needing scholarships (wouldn't want to actually tap into that tax-free endowment)? If they need more full pay, then S1, if there are already enough full pay, then S2.
> You can also select variants for specific characters (there's 42 zeroes!)

Is there a browser that a page with a thousand .svg files will load in? because it ends up being a page of missing images and 'broken image' icons on every browser I've tried.

Really a bad decision to present the choices that way, IMO.
Some schools probably have a higher academic floor. The other thing that happens is that a fair number of good but not spectacular students who nonetheless want to get into the best school they can will put somewhere like Harvard on their list even though they know it's a long shot. If they have so-so SATs (especially in math) they won't even try for MIT--and probably wouldn't like it anyway.
Arguably a lot of categories would pay for themselves, but I'm assuming you don't have a Youtuber or pro gamer program at Carnegie Mellon for instance.
You are confused; evidence of absence is not absence of evidence. Unless you can point to a problem with the methodology, failure to discover a relationship between A and B is indeed evidence that A and B are not related. You're suggesting they would have to prove a negative for there to be evidence.

"Using annual panel data covering 1998 to 2008 for the top one hundred universities, we show that, after controlling for year, institution size, public/private status, income, and a proxy for alumni wealth, more than 70 percent of the variation in alumni giving across institutions and time can be explained. The coefficients all have the expected signs and there is no statistically significant evidence that legacy preferences impact total alumni giving."
I'd assume it's because academic ability and knowledge makes more sense for determining admissions in an academic context, and has a higher chance of being relevant after the student graduates. This is unlike athletics where unless you go pro, the skill becomes functionally useless once you enter the workforce.
Not as quick as you're asking for, but what I do, after running "git log" to jog my memory of what the commit message was, is this:

git commit --fixup=':/message regexp'

This will find the youngest commit where the message matches the "message regexp" pattern.
See also: https://git-scm.com/docs/gitrevisions
Not necessarily. That is like saying “when predictable engineering of bridges becomes possible, there will be no difficulty in creating a floating-in-air bridge”. Engineering challenges still exist. My point is whether going to a more standard body plan is an easier engineering problem than fixing the design flaws in the nonstandard human one.
I mean, we're getting into Star Trek episode ethical/moral dilemmas; is it better to live in a gilded cage, or be free but at risk of poverty? No right answer to this.
It's not helping that Apple - of all companies - is making banks off softcore porn lootbox games. They had war on gaming, and got lootbox gaming eat out the platform. Congratulations, Mr. Jobs.
I was referring to the current record-breaking temperatures over most of Southern Europe and North Africa, which is only expected to rise, not global averages.

https://public.wmo.int/en/media/news/simultaneous-heatwaves-...
Most universities have really messy financials. A lot of money gets spent on projects and programs that don't directly benefit the education students receive, or the research output of the university. Things like sports investments, ballooning administration staff, or flashy construction projects. At the same time, TAs, grad students, adjunct professors, and other staff are frequently underpaid and overworked.

There's a lot of room to debate on what colleges should spend their money on, and what they should be providing. But American universities are not strapped for cash, and should be spending more of it on things that directly benefit students and researchers.
> It's hard to build

The definition of a moat.
No, async functions still return an async Frame (the semantic equivalent of a Rust Future) which evaluates to the result, rather than the result itself. Zig's "colorless async" description comes from the implicit infectiousness by default rather than colors not "being there":

A function which contains a suspend point becomes implicitly async. An await is implicitly a suspend until the Frame completes, so it also makes the caller's function async. Calling a async function without the `async` keyword is implicitly `await (async f(args))` so same deal.

You ended up not needing to know if `f()` is async or not when you call it ("effectively colorless"). If it is, it just makes you async and bubbles up until the sync boundary (an `async f()` call, `main()`, or an `export fn` C API).

Zig's stdlib could handle the main() case and spin up an event loop if you requested via `io_mode = .evented`. Some stdlib stuff like net/fs would then use the event loop while others like os/Thread would stay the same if you still wanted to do sync stuff.

This was the common case, but async is a lang construct not an stdlib construct so it works for all targets. For example, you could use it in wasm, the kernel, etc. You would just need to write your own starting / scheduling of the frames, known generically as an "event loop".
Now we just need widely agreed, easily measurable, non game-able definition of "merit". :)
My experience has been that there is a certain type of developer who likes to flex by showing they have new/neat tools.

Not saying there is anything wrong with it, but for me it feels like to much of a distraction.
That’s not entirely true.

See https://www.quora.com/Why-does-the-same-note-played-on-a-dif...
That last sentence is pretty dismissive and unnecessary, maybe even outright mean. It's possible that the person you're replying to is simply not as deeply ingrained in the technical literature as you are, or has more demands on their time than you do.
Question: will the amount of moisture in the air remain at a net neutral balance? If so, will the precipitation fall elsewhere? What areas do we expect to get more precipitation? What borderline arable lands will become arable as a result of climate change, if any?
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The SEO world is gonna love AIGC. I'm sure it's already in wide usage there; it makes the convincing-but-fake review websites trivial to stand up in quantity.

It's the real content that's going to get disrupted/destroyed.
I think you're referring to small incremental donations while their person you're replying to is referring to the giant "you must name a building after me" ones.
Im kind of surprised how much media attention and outrage admissions to schools generates. one year of out school, the whole thing just is so irrelevant. Idk who really cares what these small subset of schools does. There are so many public schools that offer education and opportunities and even those are blown of proportion.
i don't think of it as faster or slower to read, it's just more aesthetically pleasing to me. i use cascadia code in vscode with ligatures enabled, it's really nice looking.
No, any value outside of what is owed to the bank.

If you take out a 300k mortgage and pay it down to 150k principle then default, the bank sells it for 250k and gives you 100k (minus associated costs).
>He pulls the squirrel out the squirrel and the squirrel would go "tsk tsk tsk"

I sorry, what did he squirrel this squirrel away in?
If it was an article written for fish, I'm sure it would matter
(2022)

Some discussion from dev's Show HN back then: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33241941
Especially since inflation should have been a self-solving problem. There were shocks to the system (Brexit, oil, Ukraine) that raised prices, but they should have priced in quickly. The government claimed last year to get inflation under 8% in 6 months, which was a trivial claim -- and they still failed.
> what people normally think

While we're doing Keynesian beauty contests, I think that 98% of the time when people say that a product is getting worse over time, they're referring to product decisions the development team has made, and how they have been implemented.
Which is doubly ironic, because (in the book at least) HAL-9000's murders/sociopathy were a result of a conflict between his superhuman ethics and direct commands (from humans!) to disregard those ethics. The result was a psychotic breakdown
Chinese practices poisoning the well for everybody, again?
Got to love used office equipment! I’m a big Optiplex fan and I use one as my daily personal pc for everything. I use ThinkCenters for most of my Homelab due to the fact that I’ve found them the cheapest, but I use Optiplexs when I need something stronger. But I’ve never used an Elite Desk in a homelab, how do they compare to Optiplexs and ThinkCenters?
Because it would grow if we didn’t?
"Smaller" models still require excessive RAM while not producing acceptable results for conversation. LLMs will probably always run in the cloud, anything else will just be too weak for most applications.
The contract testing is something I didn’t know about, I’ll have to look into it!

We have lots of unit, integration, and live canary testing, the postman usage was only during oncall/operations, so we weren’t using any of those neat features.
Only if its license is explicitly irrevocable. Llama 2's license is the opposite, explicitly detailing Meta's ability to revoke it at any time.
Don't lump me or the other skeptical voices in with those zealots.
There are a lot of code fonts on HN today. Rather than make a new post I will talk about some of my favorite that are a little less common. None of these are free I don't think.

Cartograph CF - The one I've been using for code for years. Very readable, almost "comic mono"-like choices of some of the lower case glyphs but in a good way. All the character is in the italic which you will either love or hate.

Quadraat sans mono - The entire quadraat family is a collection of masterpieces imo, but are generally too distinctive to be appropriate for most public-facing work. But it's your computer so who cares. I use the mono sans one for my terminal. The lowercase f seems so out of place there but you learn to love it.

Alegreya sans - Not a mono font, but it almost is so if you've ever flirted with proportional fonts for code this is a fun one to try. There is a lot of careful line width variation that gives a lot of the appearance and readability advantages of serifs but keeps most of the visual coherence of sans.

I like all of these because they feel more like normal fonts rather than code fonts. They have careful variation that adds character and improves readability for me. I've switched to an almost-no-color code theme that uses font weight instead, and the details like this become more important that way.

And then only kind of related but if you want to use unusual fonts in your terminal but you have a complex prompt setup, install font forge and learn to use something like https://github.com/ryanoasis/nerd-fonts/blob/master/font-pat... to patch in the extra characters. This can also solve your "I love this font but want a dotted zero" type problems as well. Small skill investment for a small return over a long period of time. You'll always be using fonts.
I don't get the fuss about the JB typeface. I tried it, couldn't get used to the ligatures, and in the end, stopped using it after a few days.
But schools will also take into account things like being a concert pianist, volunteer activities, etc. You can argue that they should just admit the "smartest" students as well as they're able to determine same but basically no university does that. Selective schools do obviously look at academics; it's just not the only thing they look at.
https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/matician/56979df7-cb5e-45c3-baa9-3e...
My experience is the same. It was OK but flaky in 2020 and I un-fairly blamed the React native and JS for the subpar experience. Improved considerably by mid-2023 though I still wish it took lesser system resources. Probably will never happen.
I think it is a devils advocate because there are plenty of people who think the state should disallow gambling by consenting adults.

As for when coercion is used... I don't think it's useful to play devils advocate for coercion. That one is settled, everyone already agrees that coercion is bad.
I designed and implemented LiveConnect.
Previous comment here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1894374
Not sure where „here“ is, but that is also expected from a more stationary jet streams. You get cold and hot spots. If global temperatures were rising 1.5C uniformaly around the globe, it would maybe not be so bad. But the extremes are also getting extremer.
It's funny to me how cynical and skeptical HN is about diversity-related admissions, but how quickly everyone jumps to point out the positives of legacy admissions.

These aren't people who are being objective. We are now mask-off with regard to how this is simply an emotional matter centered around what is most advantageous to whatever group. The least we could do is be open about the role of self-interest here.
We should be super concerned if there were a heat wave on the south end this time of year :-)
Not a fan of the ligatures, it's a pleasant looking garnish that requires translating to its underlying parts. So it would probably work for one person but butb not so great when sharing screen time with others, then it just becomes a distraction.
But they might have a warehouse full of bicycle frames, wheels, batteries, etc.

If, in an ideal world, these were marked as mine the moment I paid, then they would belong to me, also in case of an bankruptcy.
> I think Hoyoverse (formerly Mihoyo) has the formula down. You don't have to spend money on their games. They play just fine without

That only makes it more tempting to start playing. You can't get hooked on these games if you never play them in the first place, so making it 'easier' to start playing is a big part of the problem.
For me nothing can dethrone Inconsolata[0], there's just something elegant about it that I haven't found in other fonts I've tried. Been using it for almost ten years now. Also I don't like ligatures...

[0]:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inconsolata
Switching entirely to notebooks for development just feels like requiring everyone to use your favorite IDE for software development. As it binds the underlying representation to ipynb files, which will become inscrutable to a lot of developers, and can create an additional barrier to entry.

I like the ideas of literate programming, but I think there should be a way to do it independent of the "editor" being used.
They optimized towards minimal server cycle costs at acceptable product quality while keeping the price stable?
The graph really makes it seem like the small practices are getting screwed on reimbursement rates, but once PE takes over, they are in a better negotiating position to get higher reimbursement rates from insurance companies.
Thanks, blame hackernews for supporting the back button poorly
standardized tests are not biased.
That's right, no serious work should be done with it. But programming is fine.

https://xkcd.com/2030/
Where is the weather improving?
What you are talking about is not code that is written at a "master" level, what you are talking about is code that is clever. An important part of mastery is understanding what kind of code to write, when. Mastery means writing code that is easy for others to read and modify, when writing code in a professional setting. Mastery can also be writing clever code with "aesthetic beauty", in a different setting like an academic or personal project. But people who write clever inaccessible code while working professionally with a team have a few more steps to walk toward mastery.
People don't want to donate to fixing something old, they want to donate to making something new, even when fixing something old is way more effective.
I want to get rid of letters of recommendation as well. I would personally like to go off of only a single nationwide standardized test.
Interviews, transcripts, (optional) test scores, letter of recommendation, a set of common essays across all schools, and an optional supplemental section or portfolio to showcase any personal achievements not covered by the other standard categories.

Oh wait! That exists — it’s called the Common App, and it’s what most private colleges today use, from the Ivies to elite tiny liberal arts colleges with the largest share of students from the 0.1% that you’ve never heard of, like Pomona College.
Just imagine how much worse it would be if global climate change wasn't a Chinese Communist Party hoax intended to sap 'merica of our precious bodily fluids!
No, for mostly organizational reasons this lives in a private repo that we can't easily grant access to. I'll take that on my list of things that we should consider, but we're pretty busy right now - so no promises.
https://component-party.dev/

Long-time Java dev by background, used more frameworks than I could possibly list. I won't touch React with a ten foot pole.

SvelteKit is the first web framework I ever used that I enjoy working with.
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> likely not because that’ll cause a big drop in gifts and donations.

This is a topic that I haven't had much interest in so sorry if I'm being dumb here, but I struggle to see how this could be a good thing?

I guess the way I'm seeing this is that if you're too not smart enough to get into these universities but are lucky enough to have parents with lots of money, you can basically bribe your way in.

While this seems unfair on the surface, and I suppose it is from certain lenses, it is surely also in effect acting as a "stupid rich person" tax for higher education?

I mean to your point here, if Ivy League universities receive a big drop in donations wouldn't that practically guarantee they'll either need to charge higher tuition fees to those less fortunate who get in on merit, or they'll need to lower the quality of their education?

Could someone help me out here? I'm aware I'm saying something stupid. I don't see how this could possibly be a good thing for those less well off who get in on merit? Are they not in favour of their education costs being partly offset by large donation from wealthy people?
Early stopping is just one way of regularization. You can use L2 or dropout and then you can train until your model converges.
How much of your time do you spend “playing the game”?
Or people are less emotional about wealth. (Or people are wealthy.)
When your history ensures that some groups are socioeconomically disadvantaged, every possible method will be biased. It's unavoidable.
Your argument sounds like "how can there be global hunger? I just ate lasagna".
I only know a little dirt about the one I worked in and it was pretty bad. The redirection of funds, the word games, and so on ... I would have a better chance of making improvements I desired by making little paper airplanes out of hundred dollar bills and trying to hit areas I though needed help.
I'm not sure it's deliberate, but I broadly agree with you that getting rid of tests favors class (despite the reasons purportedly being for equity). While you can buy small improvements in test scores, most things that have replaced tests in admissions decisions are easier to buy.

> MIT, Mellon & Pitt

MIT still requires SAT scores, so it's a non-factor there.
Making a distinction about the "private sector," but being vague for some reason about the country we're discussing?

I wrote "many governments" because I am not fully versed in the policies and laws of every nation on the planet. Perhaps you can fill us in?
To translate literature is the job of a professional translator or a machine. Period. The time of an expert is too much expensive to spent it on that, so this is an extremely dumb tradition.

In fact is so dumb that research is the only part of literature where the author is required to write also the translated edition.

Just imagine how much damage that would do to the literature if we would apply that rule to every piece of poetry or every written novel, and how many interesting authors and books we would lose. Do you imagine how much JK Rowling would struggle writing Harry Potter in Spanish, and how much extra time and effort would need to put on it? This is exactly the same (except that you give your novel for free instead to became rich).