skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You can still export all your Goodreads activity to a .csv file. Amazon has so given up making any improvements to the website, that I don’t even expect them to remove functionality like that.

I don’t believe that Amazon considers users’ contributions to Goodreads valuable, it only bought the site to 1) stop paying Amazon Associates referral fees to the independent corporation that Goodreads was, and 2) to stop Goodreads from directing any book-sale traffic to its competitors.
What do you do for a living? Mind if people just take the fruits of your labor for free?

I’d have to be a sucker to compensate you for your labor.
Nepotism is how groups function everywhere. The race-based admissions was a weird new thing, from a hyper-focused conspiracy that appears to be losing its grip.
Honestly, relying on donations doesn't seem tenable without discrimination. The only way out is to treat it as a public good and fund it as one.
Ah, I only play multiplayer games, and so I have never really seen much of
anything that I can't do for free.
That way there's a financial incentive to make content easier to get by paying for it than by not paying for it.

E.g. Spotify.
I see the name of the device being printed in the log and what appears to be some attempt at initialization. No obvious failure messages. Curiously, I see references to the device appear in "wifi.log" also.

The old 3rd party driver stopped supporting the driver when macOS dropped "kernel extensions" or something like that, seems as though they have a totally new paradigm for drivers then they did in OSX 10.x
This is still a mostly circular argument though. An architecture is "good" if it's saving resources - compute, time, or labor. If your "good" architecture is slowing down development i.e. more time more labor, you'd better be able to point to significant compute gains or it's not actually good. Rust is, only sometimes, and marginally, better than other languages in this regard.

And your compute gains need to be something you can't just trade off against money for development time, i.e. it either needs to be a fundamental part of your problem, or you need to be planning for hyperscale. This is also only a small fraction of problems.
Stealing passwords from browser password vaults is trivial these days for most any malware, which is why password managers like BitWarden have become much more popular. And those can sync across browsers and systems much more reliably.
I think they're more looking at aggressively rotating available catalogue around so you can't just watch everything you want in one month
Credit cards are supported and available already!
i wouldn't compare digital piracy to real life robbery with a deadly weapon.

i would absolutely download a car
Making a distinction about the "private sector," but being vague for some reason about the country we're discussing?
They’re more contributing towards enormous endowments than subsidizing others education.
In my completely uneducated opinion I would not be surprised if prime ends up overtaking Netflix.

A prime membership has much more utility than just watching stuff and Amazon have buckets of money to throw at anything they like.
Digital 'immortality' is coming and we're not ready for it
Does history show things working out better when other groups make rules?
Yes, there are charitable ways.

You make an institution stronger (in fundraising, in love for the institution, in traditions, etc) by creating multigenerational relationships. When you're asked for money, it may be "eh, whatever it was my college" or it could be "Yes-- it's where my grandpa, pop, and I all went."

But there's a lot of negative consequences, too.
The premise behind nbdev isn’t that DS software should be a different set of tools - it’s that we should all consider using a different set of tools, based on literate and exploratory programming principles.

I build all my projects, including a SQL lib, an EC2 interface, http and fastcgi frameworks, various web apps, and a mail merge system in notebooks, in nbdev and it’s made me much more productive.

Amongst folks that have used nbdev for 1+ years that I’ve spoken to, all report a 3+ multiple of improvement in productivity (based on non rigorous self assessment). This could however be biased because these people also report enjoying coding much more, so it’s possible some of that effect is the time just doesn’t seem as long.

Personally, after coding previously for over 20 years in various IDEs and editors (and for instance being prolific enough in vim I often gave talks about it) I wouldn’t ever want to go back to that old pre-notebooks time.

But it’s a huge investment and requires a lot of relearning - to get the most out of it you have to rethink just about everything. So it might be better for those earlier in their careers that haven’t got as many habits to change.
C Unleashed by Heathfield etc and Modern C by Jens Gustedt are two am aware of. Oh and also Expert C Programming by Peter van der Linden
I'm not sure I agree that a feral chicken has a better life than a domestic chicken being humanely raised for meat/eggs. The feral chicken probably lives in a state of borderline starvation and is at risk from disease and predators; the domestic chicken gets to walk around in a protected area and has a good supply of nutritious food and water and a place to get inside at night and when the weather is bad.

Sure the big factory chicken farms are something else, but you can buy ethically sourced chickens (or raise them yourself if you have the space) if that bothers you.
You're assuming that everyone is on an equal starting point. Wealthy people will be able to favor their kids.
For me the biggest unsung hero is the _stability_

There's something so liberating about finding code samples or documentation from 5-10 years ago and it is still the correct way to solve a problem. The lack of churn in the ecosystem means you can learn the language and then focus on actually building stuff rather than focusing on the rat race of learning the latest hotness and restructuring your app constantly to account for dependencies that break things.
Of course the cause is global warming. This is one effect, but another is the Rocky Mountain rain shadow over the midwestern US:

https://news.climate.columbia.edu/2018/04/11/the-100th-merid...

For decades most of us have assumed that the warm zone over the tropics would get wider, driving desertification towards the poles. But what's more likely is that the rain shadow effect will work along the east-west axis with the prevailing winds over each region of the world.

So the US will lose the Dakotas, Nebraska and Kansas as they acquire the precipitation level of Wyoming. Arguably Oklahoma and Texas are on the cusp now. The Ogallala aquifer will get pumped dry even faster as the breadbasket states reach harder for irrigation in desperation. Basically the drought that states like Nebraska are experiencing now is going to be the new normal on a long enough timescale (a few decades at most).
This is clever but obfuscation at the rendering layer is a thing that has bitten me enough that I can't get behind it or recommend it to anyone. Clever though. I think maybe some thought could be put into the font beyond the ligatures too. Keep up the good work though, people should be making more experimental fonts. Typography is so foundational to everything we understand as humans in this post post-modern world but also... you know.... since cuneiform. So while practically I think this idea is problematic, I think it's important work and it sparked some thoughts in me.
It's not about profit. It's about controlling the experience. It's about collecting the usage data.

Netflix was a first mover. Turns out they created a technologic berm instead of a moat.

My question is what other industries are going to end up gobbling up their first movers.

Personally I think Amazon is next. They exist based solely on their first mover momentum.
Wesleyan as well: https://www.nytimes.com/2023/07/19/us/wesleyan-university-en...

I'm guessing ivy leagues won't let go that easily.
Andrew Kelley (Zig creator) – How do you open a file in C++? (2008)
I don't think this is nepotism, strictly speaking. The applicants aren't related or necessarily personally known to the people making the decision, they're merely related to prior graduates.

It may be reflective of corruption and produce inequitable and undesirable outcomes, but nepotism is something else.
Same with cheap shoes - I get to buy new cheap shoes every month, subsidized by child slave labor in some far away place.

Or, perhaps I should feel some moral qualms about riding on the suffering of others. And make no mistake: most F2P games are subsidized not by some million people each spending $2 dollars to get a Candy Crush hammer or some nicer-looking toy, they are subsidized by some hundred people each spending $2000 to fuel their addiction to seeing the numbers go up.
I want a new or more terms for this. Open source hardware kinda implies it's a legal catagory. It's a dream, and way to be social, not a legal thing. I am begining to like "DIY" better. As "This is hardware that is standard and easy to copy." Because it's so easy to copy and everybody does, it's easy to live in this world. I need to process this thought more. Also I am using the word hardware to imply mecanical design. I think it's easier to have open source hardware if you are taking about pcb boards.
When I was a kid with no money and no game stores nearby, I “collected” Pokémon cards by pasting JPEGs from the web into Corel Wordperfect documents stored on my stack of 3.5″ floppies.
>If democracy is about individual rights (justice for individuals), then social justice is about group rights (justice for groups). –Lynn Lemisko (in Educator to Educator, p. 193)

What a strange statement. Democracy is the rule of the majority, and therefore, it'd be justice for groups, rather than individuals. Am I wrong in understanding social justice as the movement to have equal treatment among individuals? I don't know who Lynn Lemisko is, but it sounds like she has these ideas backwards.

Anyways, the author makes a decent point about critical theory potentially being more destructive than constructive.
pivoting to a productive, merit-based approach

For the right definitions of "merit", yes. I'm not confident we've figured that part out yet.
Indeed I was merely describing how it behaves within the context of future + ioloop with tokio. I didn't take a stance on future vs actor.

In Rust my instinct tells me the difference between actor and future is negligible. Because it compiles down to almost the same thing. But I wouldn't bet my life on it.

Note that my understanding of what an actor is might be wrong. I assume an actor is a sort of thread with a main ioloop receiving and sending messages. Which is basically what a tokio ioloop thread is. Atop of which the futures give you an abstractions to compose IO functions more easily.
Has this sarcastic rejoinder actually held up, though?

"Dropbox’s stock falls as it struggles to squeeze more revenue from existing customers" - https://siliconangle.com/2023/02/16/dropboxs-stock-falls-str...
How do we revoke Fortnite's gambling license?
Would you use funded keys for your SaaS Apps?
Hello everyone, I wanted to gather some feedback on a new authentication strategy called Funded Keys that I have recently implemented in my SaaS app. Funded Keys deviate from traditional authentication methods by allowing users to fund a key, similar to developer API keys, which enables usage tracking and monetization. This approach is particularly suitable for straightforward apps that necessitate user tracking while bypassing the need to build a complete authentication flow. What are your thoughts and opinions on this approach.
If nepotism were illegal, we would have a 100% inheritance tax across the board.

There tend to be more laws pro-family than anti- for some reason . . .
I hate to burst your bubble but unfortunately this just kicks the can down the road. How do you measure merit? Because [EDIT] many measures of "merit" (was: standardized testing) can be (and often are) biased by race, cultural background, and economic status. For example:

Student 1 has built a fully automated chip manufacturing line in his basement.

Student 2 has build a robot that solves a maze in fifteen minutes (against the current state of the art which is a few seconds).

Which one would you admit?

Student 1 is the child of billionaires, and it's not clear how much of the work was actually done by him/her and how much was done by employees hired by the kid's parents.

Student 2 lives in Sudan and built their robot out of locally available materials, in the process inventing a new kind of motor built out of coconut fronds.

Now which one would you admit?
At least in the American context, it’s far from clear the lockdowns reduced mortality [1].

Adjusting for age/health Florida had similar mortality to California’s.

[1] https://www.mercurynews.com/2023/04/02/why-major-study-argue...
Both should flow to a sign up/demo request form! The tool is up, but we are still working on multiple connectors, so we always request a meeting first to ensure we have everything to set you up, or communicate timelines!
> El Niño is more a pacific thing

I think this is correct [1]. Whether they are separate names for the same or related phenomenon, or separate (but analogous) phenomena, I don't know.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/El_Niño–Southern_Oscillation
Carnegie Mellon is a private university, and obviously there's already a strong public commitment to college education through subsidizing the student directly.
> I've sometimes had this happen and for me it seems to be related to systemd-resolved deciding to stop responding to queries and the only solution I've found so far that actually works is to restart the system.

I hit this all the time on my Arch laptop and was a major impetus to switch to Void.
I think piracy will go up now that everyone is fighting. My friends all subscribed to crunchy roll because it has all the anime, like old Netflix. But disney+ bought the rights to the new bleach series. None of my friends bought disney+, they just pirated bleach. I expect that to continue. If crunchy roll keeps loosing the good shows it will just be dropped and back to pirating everything, the result won't be everyone subscribed to 7 different services.
I think another aspect that my friends and I talk about, seeing the evolution of micro transactions over the past decade or two, is the fact that gambling or making transactions for what is essentially an artificially scarce thing that can be duplicated ad infinitum without much cost.
I'm actually surprised it handles two videos without issue... It's a good option a lot of the time. When the scalping got bad, I started using the cheaper intel boxes, smaller than NUC but more powerful than rpi and included a case and enough storage.
The problem is 'weird stuff' on chai included suicide, which sadly showed it needed better/more guardrails.
When you were a kid your N64 wasn't hooked up to the internet with an app-store to which a credit card was already provided to pay for your monthly multiplayer-access subscription.
I'm pretty sure that hallowed time when intellectually property "worked" before everything went bad is a myth.

There are plenty of countries that didnt enforce it for a time though and experienced a kind of mini renaissance.

I dont think it was ever really intended to "protect" the rights of inventors nor was it ever good at doing so.
And yet there are (substantiated) rumors that Disney plans to shut down D+ and license that content or possibly even sell D+ as a whole.
For a long time, there were not parental controls on purchases, and some platforms would force you to lie about age, and give access to the family card to allow children to play games (that were clearly not adult content). Some may still have that antipattern. Parent friendliness by app store: Amazon(best), Apple(meh), Google(beware yer wallet)
In looking at the paper's continuous mention of "ChatGPT" and the repo README's statement that "You don't need API keys to get started" .. are we sure they weren't using type of tools to talk to the ChatGPT API (via a session token, etc) vs the OpenAI API? I do agree they talk about the API in the paper a lot but I don't see an exact methods statement that they directly accessed the non-ChatGPT API anywhere, unless I'm missing it,
I've completely stopped paying for streaming services (apart from Apple Music and TV+, because of Apple One). I pay $5 a month for Mullvad, and "acquire" everything I could ever want and play it using Plex on an old HP Elitedesk with OpenMediaVault installed on it. It's all automatic, so I request what I want using Overseerr, and it does the rest for me.

Do I feel a little bit bad for stealing content? Maybe. But I'm not paying for 4+ streaming services just so I can occasionally watch shows a few times a year.
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How is that an example of standardized testing?
Well thats... a take. Do you believe you have any agency at all in your life? Or is everything controlled by the puppet master?
> Except the hospitals really couldn't do anything to help these people anyway and in some cases actually sped up their death with use of ventilators. Even more frustrating, they could have been giving things like monoclonal antibodies right away but they didn't.

Uninformed and wrong. ICU staff worked through extreme conditions to save many. Ask a few how much better their patients would have fared at home instead.

> Additionally, hospitals had years to figure out a better way of expanding their ICU's for emergency use. They also tend to operate on lowest required beds to save costs and began to quickly get overwhelmed due to their unpreparedness.

Expanding ICUs is not a matter of furnishing rooms, it's a matter of finding people with the requisite skills and experience. A localized need can be met by moving people around, but when every hospital in the country needs to grow its staff there is no way to conjure up more of this sort of person.
There is great synergy in having the two complementary language using (almost) the same syntax. E.g. Both use ‘this’ to refer to the current object, ‘new’ to create a new object, ‘==‘ to compare values, both use the same Date library which is throughly tested and future proof, both have wrappers to turn primitives into objects etc.

Surely this will avoid a lot of mistakes when switcing between the two languages.
I used it for writing assistance and Plot development. Specifically, a novel re: the conquest of Mexico in the 16th cent. It was great at spitting out ideas re: action scenes and even character development. In the past month or so, it has become so cluttered with caveats and tripe regarding the political aspects of the conquest, that it is useless. I can’t replicate the work I was doing before. Actually cancelled my $20 subscription for GPT4. Pity. It had such great promise for scripts and plots, but something changed.
The alignment problem hasn't been solved for politicians.
The cuda cores of Nvidia GPUs are closer to fp32 units in vector ALUs than CPU cores capable of operating independently in parallel. Following that definition a modern CPU core would have dozens of "cuda cores" as well (although far fewer than GPUs optimized for that kind of workload)

More comparable would be the ~130 streaming Multiprocessors of a H100.
Thank you! That's a super helpful place to start. I've never messed with PAM before but it does make sense that might be a good place to implement things. I mainly use Fedora but the Arch wiki has tons of overlap, so is very helpful.
Princeton can and does do this because of their donors:

https://admission.princeton.edu/how-princetons-aid-program-w...
>I do wonder if this will have any impact on alumni donations.

Wonder not. "[T]here is no statistically significant evidence that legacy
preferences impact total alumni giving."

https://production-tcf.imgix.net/app/uploads/2016/03/0820191...
>IMO OpenAI is just backtracking on what it released to resegment their product into multiple offerings.

I think this is it, but also it is pulling back on the value of products if it reduces their compute costs.

I'm hoping competition will be so fierce in this market that quality and opaque changes to priced LLM experiences won't be a thing for very long.
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I'm responsible for multiple LLM apps with hundreds of thousands of DAU total. I have built and am using promptfoo to iterate: https://github.com/promptfoo/promptfoo

My workflow is based on testing: start by defining a set of representative test cases and using them to guide prompting. I tend to prefer programmatic test cases over LLM-based evals, but LLM evals seem popular these days. Then, I create a hypothesis, run an eval, and if the results show improvement I share them with the team. In some of my projects, this is integrated with CI.

The next step is closing the feedback loop and gathering real-world examples for your evals. This can be difficult to do if you respect the privacy of your users, which is why I prefer a local, open-source CLI. You'll have to set up the appropriate opt-ins etc. to gather this data, if at all.
> it is "incompatible" with firefox

Somehow, everything works, except for starting and receiving calls. Meetings work just fine, so it's not lack of some browser functionality.
Looks like a significant amount of work is being done in private since there is almost no activity for the public org repos, so it's hard to say how long they've been working at it.

https://devboard.gitsense.com/akitasoftware

The org has had 304 contributors over the course of the org's history though.

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Depends on your needs, I've been using a Minisforum HX90 for a couple years now. AMD 5900HX, 32gb ram, 2tb nvme drive. Runs great, relatively low power in standby.
I fundamentally do not understand why merit is something you should focus on when it comes to admission into a university. The entire point of an education is to learn, may be you need the bare minimum to enroll but universities shouldn't be chasing the brightest students, they need an education the least.

Just because thats how it should work in some people's heads as the ideal doesn't mean it makes any actual sense if you really interrogate the idea. Meritocracy makes sense after you have an education, it doesn't make sense before it.
How should I do floating point comparison? (2021)
at least the US patent office takes a pretty weak "let the courts figure it out" approach, and I think customs enforcement is pretty similar in that it has to be prompted to act (actually checking every shipment for every possible violation seems impossible anyway)
So... get rid of private universities entirely?

I'm sympathetic to your position, but that doesn't quite seem like the wisest course of action to me.
I doubt merit based approach is the only way of conducting admissions. Merits don’t count for as much as people think they do. A narrow pool of candidates come because of merit.

A more reasonable selection system wouldn’t just rely on the individual but also the support network. For example, I often hear “it takes a village to raise a _____ doctor”. And that truth speaks volumes.
Sports programs at university pay for themselves. They pay for themselves because people buy tickets to games, which they do to see exceptional athletes.
I play multiple free online shooters. But I have never spent a penny on one and never plan to.

They also don't affect my health as I just play a normal and reasonable amount of time and it doesn't seem to interfere with my life or sleep or heath in any other way that I or anyone around me has seen or said.

Maybe it helps that don't care about loot boxes and battle passes and such? The battle pass (if free) levels up, but I rarely even look at what it does for me.

I just play and enjoy these games for what they are like I did 20 years ago (quake, counter strike, call of duty 1/2, bf1942, unreal tournament, etc). No unlocks, no progression, etc.
Nope they wouldn't pay. No big deal