skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Well then I guess all the humans in this thread would come to the exact same conclusion, because according to some expectations we are perfectly consistent and capable of logical reasoning.

You've missed the point (hopefully not intentionally).

Neither I nor anybody else suggested that all humans must arrive at identical conclusions as one another for the process to be considered "reasoning".

But any individual human should be self-consistent, which is what I would expect of a chatbot that "reasons". Because, allegedly, the bot keeps all of the prompts in the same context, suggesting a single continuous conversation with one "entity" rather than treating each response as a separate instance. So when the chatbot suddenly cannot back up its own prior conclusion, it's demonstrating a lack of self-consistency, which shows that it is not "reasoning" for any typical definition of the term. It has no self-awareness (nor can it, though AI proponents seem to claim otherwise).
I just meant things like couldn’t afford tuition, don’t know how or can’t get loans, or couldn’t move from family, or w/e - someone who was accepted but didn’t go due to stuff unrelated to getting in (my dad was also in this category). Some large percentage of people think they’re middle class so it’s hard to know what that means without specifics.

A lot of elite schools do cover tuition now if your parents are below a certain income, but it’s imperfect and doesn’t scale with number of siblings etc.
Thanks for the anecdote that was interesting. I think the Erie gauge war demonstrates that people feel entitled to any advantage of circumstances that they have profited from in the past as if such were their property even when the actual matter are issue is in fact others property.
Actual article: https://www.gosecure.net/blog/2023/08/09/how-unparalleled-rd...
According to François Hollande (who served as President of France from 2012 to 2017), the West has been pumping Ukraine with weapons since 2014. From my point of view, this is a provocation. If it's not for you, please explain why.
> Most electric utilities have programs designed to reduce load because they don't want to expand capacity. Programs like replacing your inefficient old fridge, or incandescent to LED bulbs and such.

I don't think there's anything wrong with going for the cheaper option first (reducing demand via consumer incentives), before building more infrastructure when it's truly needed.

Re: EV adoption - I think smart charging will play a large role. E.g. if you come home from work at 1800, do you need to start charging immediately if you're going to leave the house at 0830 the next day? Spreading out EV charging demand over the evening and early morning could reduce the need to add more capacity.
> but they backed down from that eventually

Only because they were started to hit MAX_PATH there:

C:\Users\Johnathan Aparecido da Silva\AppData\Local\ASUS\ASUS System Control Interface\AsusSoftwareManager
C:\Documents and Settings\Johnathan Aparecido da Silva\AppData\Local\ASUS\ASUS System Control Interface\AsusSoftwareManager
This is hilarious, and a fun exercise to try out if you want to learn how attacks are pulled off. It's worth having a few 'honey credentials' sitting in plaintext on the honeypot HDD and watch as the threat actors try to use them. Also worth enabling SSH and watch for login attempts like in this: https://brute.fail/
Precisely my observation. My google fu seems to be failing me as well.
It is not uncommon to have an attendant posted at badge in locations. Such that... this wouldn't really be hard to put a stop to. And that is assuming you couldn't just spot it in the data.

As I said in other response, I have no doubt these things can and will get gamed. I don't like the seeming escalation that is implied by this, though. Why start down that slope, if we can avoid it? (Valid to argue that the start down that pat was the badge readers, I think. But at some point, the last step has to stop being justification for the next.)
Zulip is great - I used to work there, even. If I could ever convince $dayjob to move over, I'd be fine with that over IRC, sure!
Main problem with "emojis" is that they live outside the basic multilingual plane, and so make bad utf-16 handling really obvious. This is a blessing in disguise, because it acts as a no-brown-m&ms thing, since it's more unarguably broken than not being able to use cuneiform, or musical symbols.
It may sound insane, but for folks that are operating gigabit or multi-gigabit fiber connections (certainly not the standard, but definitely becoming more available), the amount of CPU needed to route at gigabit+ speed, the switch chips that need juice, the WiFi radios that have 4+ antennae all needing amplification having a baseline power requirement, there's a surprising amount of juice required. If you're running one of those combo cable "modem" + router + WiFi access point jobbies, that's even more radios that need juice.

I didn't start getting a reasonable understanding until I started watching ServeTheHome videos, where they usually toss each device on some sort of Kill-a-Watt style meter, and then start putting the device under load to see how it changes.
And his cup backwards
jknutson was right about what I meant by kinship, in that there's relatively strong concentration of Aussies who come here for the mountains, presumably as sort of a right of a passage and end up staying if they can (easy PR I think), but also that B.C people tend to want to visit Australia for no other reason than it seems like a bit of a different world and most of us probably know some Aussies, but also don't tend to digest much if any Aussie media. I'd expect the desire to come here is the result more of word of mouth than advertising, but that's just a hunch.
Space is the final frontier, not the last frontier, because we must make giant steps in biology to become a spacefaring species.
My kid is only in middle school and I recently been readjusting my opinion towards 'elite' colleges. Being from the Bay Area we have friends and family who graduated from Stanford and Cal and up until recently I thought those were good schools for my kid to set their sights on.

What I've seen in the last year or so is making me reconsider. I see the profiles of the top graduating seniors in our newsletters and they read like parodies. 4.9 GPA - check. Sports teams - check. Competitive academic club - check. Social clubs - check. Musical instrument competitions - check. Leadership roles - check. Volunteer roles- check. It's just so cynical after a while. You know some consultant has been hired with a todo list and they've dutifully filled in every box.

Then the kids I know who've gotten in and gone to these elite schools are really struggling. Struggling in ways that I didn't see when my peers and I were going to these schools. There's been a sea change in expectations and requirements.

In the meantime it's the kids I know who got into the "second-tier" schools who are doing well. They aren't under such high expectations, they aren't surrounded by classmates under such high expectations. If some day they don't get hired by a FAANG or a some Wall Street firm than maybe that's for the best too.

I was talking to a couple of high school seniors from Germany recently and it all sounded so sane. All the state colleges are free and all are good. You fill out one application, rank the ones you want to get into, and wait for your letter.

I can make guesses as to how it all got so insane in the US but it doesn't matter much. I don't want to play. I don't want my kid to play.
640x400 71Hz
There must have been some large impact in Earth's past. That huge asteroid belt field between Mars and Jupiter had to come from a planet collision.

Who knows what else from Theia merged with proto-Earth.
I could have used a clearer definition of "mimetic desire" as well as a better linkage to the "scapegoat" outcome. Maybe I just need to read the original book, but as described here it felt super wooly.
This recipe is toxic to Bender as well:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dIJDfNO3d5E
Dupe of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37076968. Also, as the article mentions this was clearly not written by Dynomight but their evil twin Tyromight ;)
Iterator is a very narrow API that needs to remain compatible with a lot of third party code, but streams rely on spliterators for concurrency. You can sort of get a stream from any collection (or a spliterator from any iterable and make a stream), but it will probably do all work sequentially.
If we truly consider children's consent, then we would need to actually ask them what they want before bothering with any adult-born ideas. Otherwise, they're still trapped in a system they never designed, only being given the options chosen for them.
Let me guess, you're autistic too?
Mypy 1.5 Released
Harvard is obviously a problem. Does any institution work against the interests of the people that fund it? Rich people fund Harvard. Harvard will work in the interests of rich people. Meritocracy is not in the in the interests of rich people.

Harvard is just a pay to play gated community.
> I mean that intuitively I couldn't imagine replacing 1 experienced professional with 1, 2, 10, 100 or even 1000 intelligent high school graduates

This analogy doesn't make sense, because the professional is presumably also a high school graduate. This case is more like leveraging a team of specialists with expertise in different domains.
Even a hyper-rational mind with infinite computation capacity will draw the wrong conclusions if it is fed incorrect observations. LLMs aren't magic, they're pattern-matching engines. Even if the relationship between input and output is opaque, that doesn't mean they're omniscient.
For this reason there's a pretty good argument to be made that legacy and donation status shouldn't be taken into account when determining admissions. Ditching standardized testing, however, is going in the wrong direction.
> Suddenly, 10 millionaires move in. Housing prices start to rise a little bit, grocery stores get a little more upscale and more expensive, car dealers see $$$ and jack up their prices

Except that no; prices would almost not budge at all. Each millionaire will buy 2, maybe 3 houses. But they will target the nice and expensive home; the price/demand for middle/low class houses will not change at all.

Same for car; the demand for Rolls Royce will increase and the price there might increase as well if they were being discounted because nobody was buying them. But they will not even look at the Toyota Prius and I don't see the car dealer there saying thinking "This billionaire will definitely buy all my Prisues, so I will increase their price". He will just shrug it off and keep selling his cars to the middle class whose purchasing power didn't move by an inch. The main difference he will see is that maybe the Rolls Royce dealer who could not afford a car himself because he was not selling anything will now be able to buy a Prius. So it's one more customer.
Could be someone taking DRY a bit too seriously, using validation code that is shared with places where the names do matter.
I think it depends on where you live and what you do. In high school, I considered the Ivies priggish and didn't apply. My high school colleagues who went didn't disabuse me of my prejudice, and looking back after 20 years on Facebook, they aren't especially more accomplished than the rest of us. (Our most famous alum went to NYU and made it in Hollywood.) That said, in DC, Boston, and parts of NY, going to an Ivy is an unwritten requirement for a lot of jobs, so it generates a lot of ill will from those who didn't go. I think the solution is to just not live on the Northeast Corridor, and you can totally ignore it.
What. The. Fuck!? I’m actually speechless.
Yeah, there is definitely irony that I'm trying to push my own definition of an extra-terrestrial word, complaining that someone is ruining it.

If anyone wants to come up with their own definition, read Robert Heinlein's 'Stranger in a Strange Land'. There is no definition in there, but you build an intuition of the meaning by its use.

One of the issues I have w/ the use in AI is that using the word 'grok' suggests that the machine understands (that's a common interpretation of the word grok, that it is an understanding greater than normal understanding).

By using an alien word, we are both suggesting something that probably isn't technically true, while simultaneously giving ourselves a slimy out. If you are going to suggest that AI understands, just have the courage to say it with common english, and be ready for argument.

Redefining a word that already exists to make the argument technical feels dishonest.
A few years back, after I left my old employer I went on the local IT subreddit to find a question from somebody about another company from the same building. First comment was that he should accept the offer if he is open to go to the toilet in the Starbucks/McDonalds across the road. I felt vindicated :))

Every day in that building people would queue before and after lunch at the toilets. We are not speaking about a no-name company, it is one of the biggest financial software vendors in the world. Funnily enough, the old building, where they had fewer people, had x2 toilets. They moved us to a more dense floor with half the toilets.
Doesn't generate enough clicks.
Question: what’s a use case for generating so many images in a batch at scale?
Yes I agree, timbre and clojure.spec are great and I used them a lot, nowadays I move to μ/log and Malli for instance. My comment was to provide some guidance for someone outside of the Clojure community to navigate in the library ecosystem.
I updated my comment to reflect that it's an opinionated take and just that.
They're just defining grokking in a different way.
It's reasonable to me though - grokking suggests elements of intuitive understanding, and a sudden, large increase in understanding. These mirror what happens to the loss.
Or perhaps more likely: Giving users a more prominent way to filter by time didn’t improve ad clicks and was thus A/B tested out of the product.

Just like it was A/B tested that the best background color to contrast the ad area against the organic results’ #ffffff is #fffffe.
Speedy Web Compiler: Rust-Based Platform for the Web
"Luck favors the prepared mind"
Endowments are not meritocratic. While I can't quote data, I imagine that wealthy students provide much more growth for endowments, which in turn contribute not only to reputation, but also research, and ratio boosting hiring capacity. While Princeton and other Ivies, do have aggressive financial aid programs, https://www.princeton.edu/news/2022/09/08/princeton-will-enh..., it is important for the elite schools to admit the wealthy, particularly students whose families will donate generously initially upon admission, and also throughout the student's life. Less wealthy students are less attractive fiscally, but reputation is influenced by a schools willingness to admit lower income students.
This was confusing to me too at face value. Based on the article this is what sounds like happened:

1. Penn acquires Barstool (the whole business) for $550M

2. Penn decides ESPN Bet is a better brand for what they just bought

3. Portnoy wants the name back now that Penn doesn't need it

4. Penn sells him the brand for $1 on the condition that if he sells it to someone else they get 50%.

So Portnoy gets a bunch of cash (from before) and the ability to restart Barstool's business and tech, Penn gets a turnkey app to call whatever they want, and gets a cut of future sales which at this point is just upside for them. Sounds like both parties came out ahead in their own way.
I’d challenge that the person as an individual is more important than where they went to school. Perhaps there are others who were excluded due to not having gone to Harvard along the way, and in some abstract sense that’s unfair, but in a very real sense your school doesn’t make the person, the person is the person and they went to a school. I am curious if any of the justices are legacy students or if all were admitted via a standard merit based selection process. It so, and given Harvard law and Yale law are regarded top law schools on their own merit, what is specifically the issue? I would definitely expect a statistical weighting to the top schools in any field for the top positions in that field, no?

What becomes concerning is when legacy students dominate the court. That is categorically unfair by structure, and it would speak to a hereditary elite in power. This was, as I’m sure you remember, the distinguishing factors of GWB vs Obama. Obama walked in those circles by earning his chair. GWB… well…
NPR had a short piece on the "broken market" aspect:

https://www.npr.org/2023/07/06/1186154271/why-parents-daycar...
Don't worry, all your political leaders went to Harvard and the Kennedy School. :-)
Technically, all of them do, that's what axioms are.
Maybe states are paying them for locals so there is more graduates staying in the state and paying good taxes?
CIQ, Oracle, SUSE Create Open Enterprise Linux Association
I just learned that several mathematical notations exist for Braille:

https://chezdom.net/mathematicalbraillecodes/
Sometimes I think the reason human memory in some sense is so amazing, is what we lack in storage capacity that machines have, we makeup for in our ability to create patterns that compress the amount of information stored dramatically, and then it is like we compress those patterns together with other patterns and are able to extract things from it. Like it is an incredibly lossy compression, but it gets the job done.
You can never make dysfunctional families with awful parents more equal unless you rip all children from families.
Embodies the most amazing part about vim well. From text-objects to macros to registers, vim is a dynamic programming environment where we are capturing state and invoking little scripts.

Vim is spellcasting in the fly. Not puzzling out complex rotes to perform dutifully, but building a potent ether around us & then applying a little twist just so to alter the universe around us.
That was my favorite part of the article:

> We should have a Marxist version of Goodhart’s law, something like:

>> When a measure becomes a target, the privileged always find a way to win.
Can PENN be sued? Clearly they could have sold this for more than $1. Did they fumble their fiduciary duty to shareholders?
> built for focus

Slack ≠ Focus
You could base a society on randomly selecting people at a young age to be elite. It would still have advantages over a society with no elites at all.

The goal of having an elite class is to make better collective decisions about how society should organize itself. Decisions are best made by people with the best information, and elites (regardless of any intrinsic merit) have better information. By virtue of being elite, they get better educations and more inside access to new information.

The classical way of doing this was through inherited privilege. Whatever intrinsic merit first-generation aristocrats may have had to win their position is mostly gone after a few generations, so for example 19th century English aristocrats had little genetic advantage over the average population. But they were selected at birth to receive the best educations and inside access to each other, so they made better decisions than if you chose random citizens in adulthood to put in charge.

Part of what Harvard does is to say "You are now an elite. You will shape the future of society." Most students take that seriously and try to become worthy of the challenge.

No society has tried selecting random people in adulthood to put in charge. The closest natural experiment is societies that select leaders based on physical strength and courage. They seem to make fairly bad decisions.
The claimed maximum altitude on previous flights was 87.2 km.

There are arguments for and against calling that "space", especially since the vehicle isn't designed for orbit. Either way it's an achievement, and I don't see value in belittling it. Why not express excitement for one day going higher?
To this date one needs to be careful with executing applications and spaces in the path.

For example:

D:\test>dir
...
08/10/2023 09:29 AM <DIR> .
08/10/2023 09:30 AM <DIR> Foo Bar
08/10/2023 09:35 AM 79 Foo.bat
...

D:\test>dir "Foo Bar"
...
08/10/2023 09:30 AM <DIR> .
08/10/2023 09:29 AM <DIR> ..
08/10/2023 09:35 AM 79 Foo.bat
...

D:\test>type Foo.bat
@echo off
echo Executable: %0
echo Path to executable: %~dp0
echo Params: %*

D:\test>type "Foo Bar\Foo.bat"
@echo off
echo Executable: %0
echo Path to executable: %~dp0
echo Params: %*

D:\test>Foo.bat hello
Executable: Foo.bat
Path to executable: D:\test\
Params: hello

D:\test>Foo Bar\Foo.bat hello
Executable: Foo
Path to executable: D:\test\
Params: Bar\Foo.bat hello

D:\test>"Foo Bar\Foo.bat" hello
Executable: "Foo Bar\Foo.bat"
Path to executable: D:\test\Foo Bar\
Params: hello

D:\test>

Mess up the quotes and you're executing something one level up.
Thank you! That was bugging me, but now that you mentioned FrontPage I clearly recall all of the _vti stuff.
Nice. Every speed test should have a "latency under load" graph, because we can't fight bufferbloat if we can't see it.

DSLReports had the first bufferbloat test I'm aware of, but it's broken now. Another example is https://www.waveform.com/tools/bufferbloat

Ideally this problem should be fixed by ISPs and modem manufacturers, but individuals can use OpenWrt with luci-app-sqm, at least when the connection has a predictable speed limit.

An option to choose between IPv4/IPv6 (or test both) would probably be useful.
Some way to keep a count of the number of people in the building can be useful. I've seen occasions where someone checks to see if anyone else is still in the building, misses the one other person who is still there, and so arms the security system when they leave.
yeah "better programmer overall" seems rather vague. The OP seems to be asking specifically "is it even worth it to stay in JS anymore", not "how do i become a well-rounded individual".

I personally prefer to hedge my bets by doing both backend and frontend work. If you join a smaller place/startup, you may end up having to push both. Saying, "I can build anything and I can help across the entire stack where needed" and showing history to back that up i think is a positive. Yes, a github project in a different stack might come in handy at an interview.
Conformity is not scientific, using a university to stealth filter for obedience to (data) authority is both lazy and a fancy dressed deceitful gang mentality on display.
OceanGate in the making. Or would that be Blue Origin?
Well, first off there is no "link". They call it an "association" in the paper, which after reading[1] I'm not at all convinced isn't just showing a correlation between economic activity and antibiotic resistance. The paper doesn't so much as propose a mechanism. I wish science media would engage with the paper instead of just breathlessly interpreting it in the most click bait fashion.

[1] https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lanplh/article/PIIS2542-5...
I’ve never written code, but I just passed a Google system design interview
Yep, they didn't develop a new booster or stage 2 for Crew Dragon. No new launch vehicle.

Starship is likely to be similar. Super-Heavy (the launch portion of the combined vehicle) isn't likely to be scrapped for the crew version after the cargo Starship is ready.
Google search is terrible these days. I find myself using other engines even yandex to find things these days. It has been in a decline now for at least the last 3-5 years.

All this SEO garbage may be responsible but I still think google could do a much better job.

Feels like Google is just over monetizing it’s search at this point and the quality of product is in a free fall.