skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Is that what the data shows, though? I've read summaries of papers describing the exact opposite and linked them here before.

Here's one such example, with a followup comment describing a study that contradicts the argument you lead with. (I'm merely saying it contradicts it; I'm not vouching that the contradiction is correct.)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30748063 , summarized as:

> For most students, the salary boost from going to a super-selective school is “generally indistinguishable from zero” after adjusting for student characteristics, such as test scores. In other words, if Mike and Drew have the same SAT scores and apply to the same colleges, but Mike gets into Harvard and Drew doesn’t, they can still expect to earn the same income throughout their careers. Despite Harvard’s international fame and energetic alumni outreach, somebody like Mike would not experience an observable “Harvard effect.” Dale and Krueger even found that the average SAT scores of all the schools a student applies to is a more powerful predictor of success than the school that student actually attends.

The link to the article and the followup is in the only 2-deep chain linked above.
For this explanation to make sense the sample would have to be attracted to the bottom magnet when flipped over.
Why does it matter if your kids go to "elite" colleges or not? They're probably going to be successful in their own way anyway with those stats. shouldn't your concern be the objective success they achieve, not their attendance of an "elite" institution?

I know people who want to say University of Virginia who have had better outcomes than some folks I know who went to Harvard College - just to cherry pick a single set.
The gentrification argument has always felt a little off to me. Like it's missing the point somehow. It's less about billionaires moving in next door, and more about billionaires buying up thousands of "investment properties" that they never intend to live in and being rent-seekers and causing negative externalities that affect the local neighborhood that they never even go to. It's less about local businesses jacking up their prices because they "smell money" in the neighborhood, and more about local businesses getting fucked by the lack of anti-trust enforcement and by local government on the take from billionaires. It's less about the billionaires themselves being the source of the problem, and more about the winners-keep-winning systems that allow people to accumulate so much wealth in the first place.

I guess the reason I make these distinctions is that many reactions that seem like they could be solutions to "gentrification", like running those rich boys outta town, or even something like rent control ... they just don't feel like they're really solving anything. It's an entrenched systemic problem, and the system is huge and interconnected. You can't fix it locally. We need to actually tax the rich. We need to actually enforce anti-trust and consumer protection laws. We need big taxes on properties number 3 through N that go toward subsidizing affordable housing ... or something to that effect. I'm sure others have better ideas than this too. But what we don't need is neighborhood signs that say "no rich people".
I’m not saying they do, just that you can’t know from the code alone.
Equality is one value out of many important values of a society. Looking for ways to over-optimize society for this one thing leads to many silly conclusions.
Hobbies, relationships, religion.

Jobs can effectively squeeze your time and energy such that the above are hard to come by, making career self-definement a default path for many people.
For example: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-56280898 .
She lives in Russia now.
Congrats! You're in for a trip. It's not one big epiphany but lots of little ones.
My WireGuard was not working during 1.5 days. Today it also works fine.
Sometimes round balls, sometimes https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mini%C3%A9_ball
I never understood why the "at reasonable scale" is presumed.

What happens if I reject that presumption? Why do we assume "millions of people" operating in the same social order is a good thing? Because iphones? Is that reason enough? Do we presume that having millions of people under the same social order is required to make advancements in medicine? It didn't take millions to build Linux or wikipedia, just a couple hundred to a couple thousand absurdly dedicated people.

Anyway, there are many counter examples of egalitarian and fluid societies throughout our many thousands of years of being speaking humans. David Graber's final book, I believe "Origin of everything," explores some of these. No, they didn't have iphones, but some of them lived so well that early American colonials would abandon everything they know to join the alien cultures. Must have been doing something right!
Are there any resources for an absolute newbie to learn music production from? I really want to get into it but the dense UIs are intimidating and there doesn't seem to be a simple easy starting point.

Are video tutorials the way to go? Or should I start with music theory first? I checked out some videos but they seem to assume some music theory knowledge but I'm not sure if that's needed if all I want to do is make chiptune music.
Ferromagnetic half levitation of LK-99-like synthetic samples

https://arxiv.org/abs/2308.03110
It’s a similar problem to the scientific journals that extort scientists.

The elite universities are not primarily selling education they’re selling prestige. In academia it’s worse because prestige is the metric for getting grants and status since the pay is bad.

It’s also not great in private companies since institutional prestige is used to filter inbound interest, but it’s better because at least there are other ways to prove ability - it’s just harder to get the opportunity.

The prestige is also available for direct sale - I think you could pay $5M for a building or something and your kid could go to Stanford (I was told this off the record by a student that worked in admissions) That was the irony with the whole “famous people cheating their way in” news cycle, the schools were angry they were getting a discount on the fee (and probably that this hurt their prestige).

Schools like Harvard also hold spots that help their own prestige, in Lisa Brennan-Jobs (great) book Small Fry she talks about her Harvard interview and the woman was basically an ass ignoring her until she mentioned her dad founded a computer company. When the interviewer realized her dad was Steve Jobs she literally got up and left for a moment, then came back with an entirely different demeanor. Lisa expected it to help (she was counting on it), but even she was surprised by the obviousness of it. She was accepted.

If you read the admissions content that came out in the affirmative action SCOTUS case you can see how messed up it is. [0] This kind of high status selective scarcity creates perverse incentives.

If the goal was actually educating smart people, the behavior of the institutions would be different (probably more ISAs and such), but that’s not the primary goal and the behavior reveals it.

[0]: https://colemanhughes.substack.com/p/10-notes-on-the-end-of-...
Can someone explain this to me? America won the Cold War and had an influence on Russia's (the successor state) transition to a market-based economy. Then how can “we“ at the same time be mad about how the transition was handled?
“If you must mark and sort young people, gross, but OK. But why do it at 18 rather than 22?"

Because success, outside entertainment, is oft detectable through cultural mores; well ingrained and detectable by 18 years of age.
I did the tweet. It is clearly not saying anything about the "average page rank" of your articles because those words don't appear in the tweet at all. And PageRank isn't the only factor we use in ranking pages. And it's not related to "gosh, we could crawl your page in X hours therefore you get more PageRank."
Yeah it’s a little too late for that. My lease is up at the end of the month, my savings have been battered from attrition and emergency expenses and the rental market is ridiculous here (not that that matters without income anyway).

I submitted plenty of applications, got few interviews, got passed up for most of the roles. I no longer have time to wait on onerous bureaucracies. Hell I was hoping for an offer this week, but both myself and the recruiter are at a loss as to what the company decided. I got another email the other day informing me that some job I applied to months ago was just straight up canceled.

The real problem was I didn’t quite understand how things had changed and was desperate to avoid moving. I should have just taken an on site role and moved a long time ago.
Follow the Recent Lawsuit against havard admissions for a clue ;)
you have to trust not just kagi: the server hosts kagi uses, kagi security policies, all kagi employees, the country kagi operates in, and kagi as a business in perpetuity (not getting bought or drastically changing just to survive).

I can't trust that forever. So it's really just simple that they should have a way to dissociate accounts with searches and payments properly
Nobody ever openly talks about it, but the East Coast Ivies are still heavily WASPy, and it's largely due to things like https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_Register

Basically, if your family name isn't in that list, you have a massive reduction in your probability of being accepted, regardless of merit. If your name is in that list, then you likely will be accepted regardless of merit.
This is way too generous.
Working class people are also more likely to have multiple roommates. So if one roommate leaves, maybe the others can no longer afford the full rent so they move too, now the landlord white washes the walls and jacks rent and it goes to a single high income individual who can afford three bedrooms themselves in manhattan.
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There are so many possible imperfections, where do you stop?
Not the same thing but ..

Our housing complex had a large entrance gate for cars and a smaller gate used by pedestrians (and two wheelers mostly just because they fit and people are lazy to wait for the security guard to open the large gate which used to be closed by default)

I used to drive a two wheeler regularly. Enter and exit through the smaller gate (3-4 feet wide).

One day I took my car to office. While coming back home, I almost ... mentally ... drove through the small gate and crashed. Some part of my brain took over at last moment and steered my car away from turning into that smaller entrance. Phew.
> The real issue with wealth inequality is the disproportionate amount of political influence the wealthy have. I have no problem with people being disgustingly rich as long as they don't use their money to influence laws.

Yea, I didn't even go down that path, but you're absolutely right--the fact that money and political power are trivially convertible (both ways) makes the problem even worse. Who doubts that the billionaire in my analogy and the town's mayor instantly become best buddies?
Right, but the intuition I am going for isn't "Are 10 high-school students who collaborate together smarter than 1 high-school student working on their own".

The intuition I am asking for is more like: "Are 10, 100, or 1000 GPT-3s capable of producing the equivalent intelligence of 1 GPT-4". That kind of reasoning expanded to GPT-N.

And further, if no number of GPT-3s can reach the level of intelligence of a GPT-4, then what set of problems can be solved by 100s of GPT-3s in a mixed model and what problems require the single GPT-4.
This is the same person who wrote https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36971851 which got a lot of discussion.
What an eye opening experience! Getting laid off can feel like an emotional rollercoaster and it's great that you were not only able to ride that wave but also, as you mentioned, reprioritize your life in such a way that you no longer tie your identity strictly to your career. I too recently, in the last year or so, come to the same terms; as a millenial, I'm now finding activities outside of "work" (behind the keyboard) enjoyable and guiding some of my long term goals.
> Russia has made themselves the enemy of the west

Well, either that or the west has decided that Russia is the enemy. I honestly don't buy the saying "Russia has made themselves the enemy of the west". Why would anybody want to be the enemy of the global superpower?
The problem is the commute, not the office. Mostly.
Interesting call out. I wonder what the parallels are.
Thanks for the book recommendation. I'll look for an ebook or audiobook, because you know, the whole having too much stuff thing haha.

The last time I really tried to declutter felt great. I had a big box of Goosebumps and Animorphs books that I loved as a kid. I loaded them up in my car and drove around to all the Little Free Libraries. I hope some kids had as much fun reading them as I did.
A rubber chicken with a pulley in the middle. What possible use could that have?
The upload speed numbers are highly suspect. I have cable that shows 32Mbps on every test I've ever run and yet CF is showing an absurd 221Mbps

[edit]

I saw the more detailed information below. The high speed comes entirely from 2 outliers on the 1MB upload test; all of the 10MB tests were clustered around 32Mbps

[edit2]

I reran and got similar results again with 3 1MB uploads over 200Mbps and all other uploads clustered around 32Mbps
The reason to develop a skillset in a different programming language is not because JS is such a widely popular ecosystem (on both the labor demand and labor supply sides), but because having a reasonable level of comfort in multiple languages makes you better as a programmer overall and therefore more likely to compete successfully in interviews and on the job (and, IMO, it's a damn lot of fun as well).

Even if you only ever wanted to work in JS and an infallible oracle told you that you'd never be out of work longer than a week at a time, I think you should still become reasonably familiar with a few other languages.
It doesn't matter if your guidance discourages it, your SEO algorithm is encouraging it. What you call "helpful" in your post is what is financially helpful to Google, not what's helpful to me.

There's no denying Google encourages long rambling nonsense over direct information
> redefining

It had to happen many times that I defined AI in this pages for the purpose of clarity; yesterday I had to and probably reached my briefest expressions yet:

-- AI: automation of intelligence. (Taking a task that required an intelligent entity for performance, we devise algorithms that can provide)

-- AGI: implementation of intelligence. (We take the process itself of intelligence and replicate it algorithmically)

> i wouldnt descibe a pocket calculator as capable of AI

Because that problem (arithmetic addition) is overly procedural, it does not need much creativity, the solution to the problem is within a single mechanical method. So, I think I get what you mean, but it should be «AI is ... about providing answers [as] non [previously] definite» /solutions/.
How to configure Supabase to send emails from your domain
> buy a bread at a bakery ;)

Pretty sure every bakery I've been to in the US has had good bread.
Problems, problems, problems. What about constructive ideas?
Moq adds nagware; Where’s the .NET Foundation in all this?
I think that’s fairly extreme. I don’t think structural racism and Harvard are analogous, I grew up in eastern Tennessee in a time of extreme racial strife and saw things with my own eyes and felt the reality of things you likely only saw on tv or read about. Comparing rich kids going to rich kid schools and living rich kid lives to people being terrorized in their homes for being born and watching their friends hung from trees isn’t the same thing at all.
>Having managed over 100+ people, I can say that on average the people from better institutions are better employees - even though I have managed amazing people without college degrees and bad people with amazing degrees.

There is a better method for selecting candidates: IQ testing. For better or worse, that's illegal. In fact college degrees are merely proxies for the lack of IQ data.
Highly recommend reading "The Grid: The Fraying Wires Between Americans and Our Energy Future" if this is your cup of tea.
> In fact, most high achievers are bad fits for most jobs, because their intention is to not be in that job for long.

citation needed. (plot twist, this is not true).
I hope so, even though I don't think I'll ever feel the need to perish on that hill, just to check if it's actually true.

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On Unix perhaps. Windows forced IT folks to deal with the issue by having folders like "Program Files". Even the user's folder used to be in "Documents and Settings" (but they backed down from that eventually and now it's just "Users").
some renoise tutorials will probably give you an idea whether you dig it enough to learn music composition
Why would any sane person want to be an enemy of the West?
It is much easier these days to interview for top jobs that would have excluded you 20 years ago, because you went to the wrong schools.

If you're a smart and ambitious student, don't let your alma mater be the deciding factor in your life. It is true, you may have to work much harder than those that can coast on their HYPS-pedigree, but as the saying goes: You can't keep a good man down.

The anxiety of not getting accepted into a top school is mostly a juvenile phenomena.
This is definitely current models' biggest issue. You're training a model against millions of books worth of data (which would take a human tens of thousands of lifetimes) to achieve a superficial level of conversational ability to match a human, which can consume at most 3 novels a day without compromising comprehension. Current models are terribly inefficient when it comes to learning from data.
Yes, the key is to implement clear roles, responsibilities, relationships, and communication channels, as the OP article explains.
> Not very different than an Apple product being generally better than a product from some random vendor from Amazon with names like "GREAT TECH" or "SUPER QUALITY PRO".

I think "SUPER QUALITY PRO" almost certainly isn't as good of quality as Apple.

So I disagree with the analogy, when we're talking about people who went to big-name schools vs. everyone else.
Could anyone please explain what this would be used for? Does this project define NNs that are designed for datasets with a known structure?
I have a corollary about that: it's not open source if I can't build it

Now there's for sure a spectrum there, since "can't" could mean a lot of different things to different people, but a good straight-face test is whether they have a CI build specification in the public repo since building in CI and a newcomer trying to build the repo often have very overlapping concerns
ooh I like that one. Kinda emo looking.
Julian Assange says hello.
> I actually don't know about the legality of something like that.

Techdirt's analysis of the legality seems correct to me. TL;DR is that it seems legal.
Yep, and the world is now full of apps that read one WAL format and copy the data somewhere else. This app, Kafka, “data lake” replication to heterogeneous databases, several other flavors of database replication, on and on. And every bit of it is custom to the WAL format of the source database.
I agree with this {affinity} theory. I've been working 30+ years since my Physics degree. I learned programming on the job as there were no web sites or YouTube to learn from. I love meeting other Physics majors in the software industry because we can connect with similar stories. I noticed every hiring manager has bias towards candidates with their background. They will prefer people from their home country, their university, their social connections.
The engineers at Google do know how our algorithmic systems work because they write them. And the engineers I work with at Google looking at the article about this found it strange anyone believes this. It's not our advice. We don't somehow add up all the "old" pages on a site to decide a site is too "old" to rank. There's plenty of "old" content that ranks; plenty of sites that have "old" content that rank. If you or anyone wants our advice on what we do look for, this is a good starting page: https://developers.google.com/search/docs/fundamentals/creat...
This is not true of any FAANG and I've worked for all of them. Go to any of them and you will see that most of the SWEs are some combination of MIT, Cal, Stanford, and tier-1 public schools and top 20 (by US News Report) private schools.
Reddit alternative Lemmy needs SQL optimization help
The federated Reddit alternative Lemmy is being attacked[1] by bots abusing the lack of Postgres query optimization in what is still the early days of the platform. Any assistance with query analysis and optimization would be most appreciated <3

[1] https://lemmy.world/post/2923697
Since this is taking off, Confiant is hiring in engineering and security to work alongside Kaileigh on projects like this. jerome at confiant. Pardon the plug.
Or UADE[0].

0. https://zakalwe.fi/uade/
> unless you are streaming multiple 4K movies there is nothing faster about having more bandwidth

Well, having a good network card and frequently downloading large files (which I'm guessing lots of people do here, especially those in ML/AI and related fields), I'm not sure why the downloads wouldn't go faster if you didn't have more bandwidth... People use the internet for more than just watching movies you know.
Kosovo, Northern Ireland, Cyprus
Lithium mines in the Donbas region, perhaps?
"Grok" in AI doesn't quite describe generalization, it's more specific that that. It's more like "delayed and fairly sudden generalization" or something like that. There was some discussion of this in the comments of this post[1], which proposes calling the phenomenon "eventual recovery from overfitting" instead.

[1] https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/GpSzShaaf8po4rcmA/qapr-5-gro...
SDXL feels pretty close now. Have you spent much time with it?
It is likely that your broadband provider will look at the fact that your router is often "losing connection" and infer that your cabling is dodgy, then reduce your connection speed to try to "help". Also, 15-20W is a little high - my modem uses 3.9W.
Dude being a parent is the HARDEST thing anyone will ever do.

People that don't agree are either wealthy or full of shit with horrible children IME.

To anyone reading this: It is A-OK to feel what you feel (regret, guilt, fear, etc) its what you do with those feelings that matter.

The first year of parenthood is absolutely miserable with the lack of sleep and quick milestones changing (for the better, usually) the routines.

It. Gets. Better.

But its work and you gotta take care of you. Cant pour from an empty cup, etc etc.

Build a support network and use it.
> It gets better

One perspective that helped me was "little people, little problems". In few years they might be drinking your booze and stealing your car.

Mine are five and eight now. There's still rarely 15 minutes. Somebody's hungry, somebody's hitting somebody, somebody's having another meltdown.

On occasion though, they get interested in whatever I'm doing though, so that's nice.
The nature of the businesses also changed dramatically, and a lot of that working class work from the late 1800s and early 1900s simply doesn’t exist anymore in manhattan. The highline exists because the industry that brought that elevated freight rail line into the city in the first place no longer exists. It would probably be very worthwhile to redesign the entire transit system today, considering the bulk of it was designed 100 years ago to serve a working population that no longer exists on their commute to jobs that also no longer exist.
How did you get a diagnosis? Everywhere in my area has a 6 month+ waiting period.
Chris Lattner on Julia programming language [video]