skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's as if the racial preferences issue/controversy shielded the legacy preferences injustice. It was always well-known that the children of connected, rich people got preference. But focus on the pros and cons of affirmative action, and the arguments about historical racism, and no one pays attention.

It's a debate or policy distraction that I think extends outside of the university and throughout the United States. It's as if the conversation around class inequality takes a back seat to the racial ones, and that the privileged take a very strong stance that it is the singular most important topic to address.
They are fundamental truths to systems based on certain assumptions we are taking for granted, e.g. binary logic (and not e.g. quantum logic), Turing-like computing model etc. Not that deep learning has anything to do with those, but it excels in human-like properties where simple formula-derived math descriptions fail all the time.
The goal of a university degree is not to get a job. It's to create a person who is well rounded enough to drop into almost any field but very specialized in one field. Universities becoming trade schools is the reason bloated administrative staff exists.

As for your particular example that is also what I've heard. Except that the BSc is more business-oriented (not humanities). That being said, if you think something like nursing could be a vocation degree I don't think you understand how much even nursing relies on Chemistry, Biology, and Math. My nurse friends are regularly in charge of compounding drugs before administration for example. Loosening requirements will not stop the nursing shortage because it's caused by the same thing the doctor shortage is caused by. Long, thankless hours, low pay, high stress, and the nurses unions keeping headcounts in check. On one hand dumping the nurses union will likely see pay rise. On the other hand the unions are often the only reason nurse/patient ratios are kept inside of safe bounds.

The division you're talking about is why in CS they offer an ASc, BA, and BSc. You can pick just how deep you wish to go. Most people get a BSc because it's the most flexible. What people do not understand is pedigree matters very little. I paid ~$25,000 all-in for my CS degree from a decent (top 50) school. I am just as good as the MIT kids I work with through the magic of ABET accreditation enforcing a standard. Standards are good for everyone and people should be excluded from just calling themselves something.
"So what would the perfect Linux distribution for new users look like?"

My answer would be macOS. I realize that's based on Unix but it should be the template for how to make an easy-to-use Linux desktop. However, the ability to infinitely swap out parts of the OS means that, practically speaking, unless a very large entity came out with a standard desktop distribution that was macOS-simple but a full Linux distribution and enforced commonality I don't think it will happen.

An example: if you get two or three "gun people" together and ask them what the best AR-15 is you'll get a fierce debate of bands, parts, customizations, etc. Like Linux, the AR-15 is a platform where every single piece of the gun except for the "stripped lower" can be swapped and replaced (not unlike the Linux kernel). Go to a civilian gun range and it would unlikely to find two AR-15s build identically. However, if you visited a military gun range every single M-4 will be built with identical parts.

Bringing this back to Linux: in my opinion, it would take a large, inflexible bureaucracy, like the US Government, to issue, mandate use of, and enforce uniformity to get a large-scale adoption of a Linux operating system that has a hope of being popular enough to warrant making it as easy as Windows or macOS to use.
I believe the real subtext was "it was easier to force 'diversity admissions' than it was to tell donors their idiot kids had to get in line like everybody else".

There are a bunch of other issues that affirmative action was meant to solve as well, but it did exist explicitly as a counterbalance to the fact that the universities felt they needed legacy admissions to attract donors. Its just also the case that, going back to Jim Crow, grandfathering people in was a great way to fortify racial disparity whilst not having any explicitly racist policies on the books.
I dont think it's demeaning. Uber (and others) are not very upfront about the longterm costs and risks, causing (often) desparate people to make serious decisions without critical information. This mostly affects people who drive for these companies as their full time job.

They make it seem like it's a job you can do at your own convenience, but you can't actually do it like that and expect to make consistent money. All of them start penalizing you (by giving you fewer jobs in the future) if you turn down jobs for any reason, driving down their profitibility. It also looks like youre making more money than you are because you have to do all your own taxes (which is mostly just a hassle, but did blindside my poor friend who didnt know anything about taxes and had to go into debt to pay his taxes since he was living paycheck to paycheck).

And its very easy to not make the connection that driving all day for Uber et al increases chances of getting in a car accident, which will increase monthly insurance costs, not to mention car repairs and car maintainance from driving 8-12 hours a day most days of the week. And if your car ever needs to go into the mechanic for repairs (a famously slow process often times) thats lost wages every day youre without your car. It's like being a truck driver; Uber et al just move all the costs of fleet maintainance to the drivers, which really eats into what looks like a decent wage on the surface level.

Of course, there are going to be some people who do all the research and are ok with these risks, or game the system someone. But most people who do these driving jobs full time do it because they dont have a lot of other options, and dont bother to do all the in-depth research because "it looks easy" and they didnt have another readily available choice anyway. This isnt Uber's fault per se, but they benefit from it and do nothing to inform drivers of these risks.

(cite: have a friend who worked for all the delivery and ride share apps before losing his car and being too poor to buy a new one.)
Yet we have seen that reducing disease, improving mortality rates, increasing life expectancy and quality of life leads to lower fertility rates. When people don’t have to put their children to work in the fields and factories, and children don’t die all the time from disease, people have less kids and focus more effort on them. Those were/are life extension breakthroughs that, while introducing their own societal problems and changes, were a huge benefit to society as a whole.

Living in a rich country vs a poor country is living with life extension breakthroughs. Living now vs 200 years ago is living with life extension breakthroughs. Saying that the breakthroughs up to this point were ok, but any more would be some sort of unnatural abomination feels myopic and short sighted. Plus the idea that it is better to let people die rather than figure out how to adapt our society feels grotesque. How is the right answer “don’t research this life saving thing because if we save people’s lives then they will keep hanging around existing”?
Amazon announces ‘fastest Prime speeds ever’ last quarter
> "Believe me Tesla has had plenty of recalls"

Lol
> For each tag, I have to learn the whole history of its development and make an inquiry about what's the right way to do it nowadays.

That you have to learn the semantics of the tags is inherent in any semantic tagging system. If you don't like that idea then you fundamentally disagree with the idea of the semantic web.

Of course, with any publishing system -- or any system at all -- you're going to need to learn how to use the primitives it provides to use it effectively, so this isn't really about the semantic web.
Portugal also forces people into treatment if they can’t function as a member if society. Oregon will never do that. The treatment is there but people won’t voluntarily go to it. If they continue this policy they’ll see the same degradation of public spaces that I’ve seen living in Portland since this was enacted.
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Well, one glaringly obvious problem is that you're using GNOME.
They have to trust it once and then their money is under their control thereafter, whereas with these companies, they hold everyone’s money. Like FTX. Or Banks. They can freeze customer funds, too, btw, or rehypothecate them as we’ve seen. Crypto doesn’t. When it comes to trust, crypto wins. And as time goes on, the ecosystem of fiat on-ramps and off-ramps would only get better and more recognizable. There’s no reason the gateways can’t be regulated as money transmitters or broker-dealers. But what would you rather do, keep ALL your money with third party black boxes who may misuse it or cut you off from spending (if you live in China, Canada, Sweden etc) or put SOME of your money into wallets under your direct control?
Look like it's MS way to shoo people away from this version (Which contain no bloatware)
for a computer guy, "end of line", surely?
Thanks for the replies, everyone! With all the price comments, I took a look at the Pinecil v2 and apparently it's in the plug-in unregulated iron price range, so I can definitely see why some people are choosing that over an unregulated iron for the toolbox.

There must be some generational gap where older hackers are used to the mindset of having to buy industrial castoffs and fixing/refurbing to get something decent, whereas a lot of folks getting going now can buy something like the Pinecil and start out way ahead of the Rat Shack plug-in tip melters, heh.
There will be Crickets
USD being a desirable currency to do business in is a function of the trust people have in the US’s long term economic productivity. And being able to apply force to anyone who messes with the currency such as counterfeiting it.
That just isn't true in the context of higher education which is what's discussed here. You can still get free higher education in the best universities in Russia regardless of where you were born and raised in the country. There are a lot of problems in Russia and the system of education in Russia, but extreme elitism and exclusivity are not at the top of the list
There's no guarantees on path during a trace; after all, a connection could drop or come up during a trace, and routing may change as a result. We're packet switched, not circuit switched, so there's nothing out of spec if you route differently.

However, tcp is sensitive to getting packets out of order, and most multipacket udp applications aren't a big fan either. So it's common to ensure a packet with a given 5-tuple {ip dest, ip source, protocol, protocol port dest, port source} will route the same, including traveling over the same port in a multi-port bundle, unless that next hop goes down or a better next hop comes up.

That said, many traceroute implementations default to using a new port for each probe, and depending on the networks between you and what you're probing, you might see a variety of paths in a single short probe. When that happens, you really don't get much information.

Of course, the return path for the packets is likely to be different and isn't easy to know; if you control both ends, you obviously can; and if the destination network has a good looking glass, you can get some idea, but detailed traces aren't going to happen.

All that said, parts of the rant are accurate. Routers and hosts don't have to participate and many don't or are rate limited. Intermediate latency is often not very helpful. Where a trace ends only tells you were the trace ends, not where the packets left the network (possibly at the destination). Having useful diagnostic information doesn't help if you can't get in touch with someone who will use the information to fix the problem.

Being able to trace from multiple vantage points helps make sense of things.

If you're experiencing intermittent behavior like some tcp connections between two hosts work great and some don't, and most of the network involved participates in tracing and you have a good contact, you can do specific tracing and narrow down the routers they need to check to find the problem; sometimes that helps time to resolution a lot.

If you don't have a cooperative network, it's better to invest in making multiple connections and using the best one as measured; because that gives you agency to 'fix' network problems.
Well I'm not too familiar with Rust so I can't gauge correctness, but I do have the Llama 2 13B NewHope fine tune loaded (which is afaik tuned for python coding), so I gave it and 3.5-turbo the same random post request question.

3.5's result: https://chat.openai.com/share/9e1aafd3-631c-4c13-80f6-f99c88...

NewHope's result: https://i.imgur.com/dfACQC3.png

If you have any ideas for a more comprehensive test let me know and I'll try to run it. Giving it some existing code to fix up or change is usually more of a typical use case for me anyway.
Trust matters and Elon is the face of Tesla’s brand. If he’s not trusted, then all those weird coincidences in quality control slippage and deadline slippage suddenly look like a pattern promoted by Elon himself and his style of leadership. Promises for future products also don’t matter anymore. Also you’re not correct that selling the car doesn’t hurt Tesla. New car sales compete with secondhand sales. and the opinions people have of the car they’re selling also matters for new buyers.
It is probably less strict than a century ago, but it is still the case that if you never started or fell off the academic track somewhere, it is very hard or almost impossible to get from the technical track back to the academic track.
Turning the browser into a foreign entity on your own PC. From the company that went from “Making the worlds knowledge accessible’ to ‘rentseeking on the collected knowledge and the trying to lock everyone else out from it’
> CSS is so useful it is almost ridiculous to say HTML never needed it

I didn't mean CSS is useless, I meant it is not necessary for every website to define their own CSS to look nice and not ugly. The problem is almost no ordinary user knows they can define their own defaults (fonts, background - in browser settings, more complex - in user CSS).
It's awful that this is the only way to get the attention of companies these days

I hope you are able to resolve this issue!
Also see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36970679
Why must I care about any of those things besides maybe a long tail of natural at-will refinement?

I don't, and as far as I can tell that's fine. This seems somehow unbalanced.

If someone started sending companywide emails summarizing their random projects I would start sending companywide emails saying how I cleaned the microwave in the break room.
You use the academic term "we" when it should be "you" or "you can". This immediately signals to the reader that unless they are a researcher the product is not for them.
Stripe needs me to have a Paypal business account. It's a bit much for a donation button.
How would the government reduce house prices? Easy:

1) Massively build out social housing

2) Stop tax incentives, part ownership and other house buying incentives

3) Tax empty houses like in Switzerland, Germany etc etc

4) Crackdown on use of house purchases for money laundering by Saudi princes,
Russian oligarchs, corrupt Chinese Communist Party officials,
South American drug cartel bosses etc etc

The sub-replacement birthrate is a reason Britain sucks in immigrants like a vacuum cleaner. The English don't make babies, and when they do, they murder them in the womb. The immigration is the only thing stopping Britain turning into one big ghost town.
I legitimately don't buy that. Legacy seems like really a mechanism for nepotism and reinforcing elite networks. While due to their origin they probably have racial skews, but I really don't buy that is their driving force. After all, legacy are such a small percentage overall they can't sway the overall campus demographics much.

Not saying they should or shouldn't be dismantled, just bothers me to see likely misattributed motivations.
> Most of this monitoring is only going on for about 20 years.

Ah yes, 2003, the year the thermometer was invented.
to paraphrase a former boss:

"Everybody [all countries] plays the Great Game. You don't get to not play. Choosing to not play just means when you play you always lose."

Same is true for office politics, market research, academic publishing, etc.; "publish or perish" -- you play the game or you're not an academic.
Worrying. I see too many of these complaints about Stripe on HN. It makes me really question my company's decision to integrate with Stripe. We may have to re-think our integration.
Most people don’t think about data backup. At all.
Yes, but the Windows one isn't great. Something about codec licenses and having to install extra stuff from the Windows store make it sub par now.
Hi Luca, I'd get in touch with your account manager. They'll be interested in solving this for you, they want your business, and assuming everything is above board, they'll be able to sort it.

If you don't have an account manager, as it sounds like maybe you don't... why? Payments are a critical part of most businesses, so I would advise against just putting a few details into a web form, getting an API key, and then depending on it in production, as that behaviour looks dodgy – there's little trust in the relationship on either side, and understandably companies with a reputation to uphold will be eager to cut off potentially bad actors at the earliest sign.
So your answer is that they aren’t well-knowj enough, and the ecosystem isn’t consumer-friendly enough, kind of like decades of personal computers and tech enthusiasts like the Homebrew Club, which preceded the Personal Computer going mainstream, and then the corporate-produced Mobile Phone explosion based on software that was developed originally for personal computers? Yeah sure, these things take time.
China to ban non-adult mobile use from 10 PM to 6 AM
> The Stripe team is ignoring the fact that we fall under the same category as our competitor,

...are you sure?
What does your business do? Stripe might not have listed your business model explicitly but could still prefer to not have you as a customer if it is an edge case.
Good news but only it's only a retweet summary of an Arxiv paper from 2 days ago. And that was only a simulation.
The brain's ability to do "shadow removal" is really impressive. You can see it happening in the final example depicted in the article. I think this ability is what was used to explain "the dress". It also comes up in a classic optical illusion [0] where a checkerboard of light and dark gray squares has an object sitting on it and casting a shadow. The shadowed light gray squares are exactly the same shade as the unshadowed dark gray squares, but if you point this out to someone, they'll have a really hard time accepting it because they are so good at unconsciously accounting for shadows.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Checker_shadow_illusion
I remember the hype around XGBoost and Kaggle contests asking to solve problems in prime number theory.
A car is also a status symbol. Elon poisoned that for a fairly large segment of his customers.
One might even notice how such issues often conveniently form a smokescreen for class disagreements.
The reference to "every couple of years" was not to routine, non-dramatic votes. It was clearly about only "brinkmanship around the debt ceiling", which as stated only tends to happen with Republican majority in one or both parts of Congress and Democratic president.
Confirmed. I needed to purchase something from Amazon Spain and was put into Prime despite choosing "not now". I just cancelled (after hunting thousands of options) and now all the cancellation I have is that "my free period won't be renewed". So I actually have to wait until September 1st to verify I am actually out of the subscription and that no charge is made to my card. Extremely slimy and awful if you ask me.
Yes but as you can see by reading, this comment chain starts with someone linking to a xilinx product
Even if you are caught red-handed in fraud it's not the end. Dan Ariely, mentioned in the article, continues to be a professor at Duke.
is this for dipsway? did you take something other than stripe before?

anyway, I cant comment on your case, but I will say, as I have said before, using stripe is a gamble, DO NOT DO IT! when the problem hits, they are impressive in their ability to simply have totally nonexistant support. they will even go so far as to totally stop replying.

Use a competitor, if you dont want this huge risk.

Now you know, praise yourself lucky it was only 2 weeks worth.
definite Ig Nobel Prize candidate
Why is is this old story getting frontaged so many times in one month?

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=pastMonth&page=0&prefix=tr...
Every corporation is political. To pretend otherwise is … American.
HN is not a customer support forum.
How about Quantum Espresso [1] and CP2K [2]? They're both open source

[1] https://www.quantum-espresso.org/
[2] https://www.cp2k.org/
I do not see the need for the US to rise indefinitely. It just needs to stay the best option.
I switched to Stripe.com for a pair of non-profits for whom I do I/T work after the rate at which PayPal cancelled people without explanation or recourse went up.

Is there any chance that these "We're firing you and that's final" cases are prompted by some sort of regulation or legislation that also prohibits the fintech provider from telling the former client why they were cancelled?
I have had nothing but trouble with Linux and Nvidia drivers. I am willing to put up with it because I love Linux distros but I do not recommend Linux to anyone because it still hasn't got enough polish the average person can use it without loss of generality.

Windows has it's own set of problems. However, it's intuitive enough that Grandma can pick it up reasonably quickly. There's something to be said about that.
Show HN: Building a Tiny Web Dev LLM with Llama 2
Link to the livestream: https://www.youtube.com/live/J81h4NS64yQ?feature=share

This past year I’ve been obsessed with making the smallest web dev LLM possible (while still an “L”LM). Essentially being able to request a certain webpage design without using an expensive model. GPT4 is ok but is overkill and I think this can be done on a less than 10b param model

Last night I live coded myself building this tiny web dev LLM (fine tuning Llama 2 + web crawler from scratch). I’ve had this idea for a while the overall concept is I utilize a “compressed” html dataset. So I essentially embed the styles directly in the html and use a diffing algorithm to only use the styles that aren’t the default styles in the browser for that tag.

Next I’m going to build a “semantic” css framework on top of it to compress it further. Could convert it to tailwind or just make my own using the dataset. Also, with labeling the websites (the Question for the prediction) I am going to use GPT4 to describe each page. For now just using the page title (only temporary).

In this video I build the web crawler, style embedder, get a v0 dataset and fine tune Llama with Lora. Next video I want to actually get it working well and designing websites for us.
How are you cooking it? For years I had always been baking spaghetti squash cut side down, but recently I tried it cut side up and it was a night and day difference. I also brush the inside with a good amount of olive oil and then season with some salt and a lot of black pepper.

It came out way less watery and the consistency was more like actual pasta. I'd recommend trying that if you haven't before.
He was a work comp claim administrator - in the US, they are some of the worst people on the planet.

This was before doctors became incurably greedy - so a bit early for first party health insurance.