skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This article misses the simple fact that the type of fellow students you have will impact how well you do as a student. Humans are social creatures and will influence each other's behavior. That's not even getting into negative pressure from things like bullying.

edit: Also their point on the curriculum being similar misses the fact that the standard for doing well differs. Barely learning some material is different from understanding it well. I've had the experience of taking various college math classes from a variety of institutions. There is a very large difference in the effort I had to put in to do well at a top school versus a middling school. This is of course related to my first point on the quality of students mattering as you simply cannot have the same bar given such different student populations.
Oh, I absolutely agree with this. But I think many companies have a hard time with this.

The issue being that, of course, this exploration may end up badly. See all the supply chain issues which have made it to the HN front page. So some guardrails should absolutely be in place.

I don't know how practical that would be, but I keep thinking we (IT people and adjacent) should possibly have two computers. An "untrusted" one, on which we'd be free to tinker, test new things, etc. No issue with nuking it if anything goes wrong. No access to "important" data or networks. And another, "trusted" one, from which you'd do your admin work, deploy to prod, etc.
I was curious about how they were getting GPT to generate images, the prompting is so simple[1] that GPT still blows my mind:

async fetchImage(context) {
const messages = context || [
{ role: 'system', content: `You are a helpful assistant that generates SVG drawings. You respond only with SVG. You do not respond with text.` },
{ role: 'user', content: `Draw a unicorn in SVG format. Dimensions: 500x500. Respond ONLY with a single SVG string. Do not respond with conversation or codeblocks.` }
]

const response = await this.api.generateCompletion(messages)

if (!isSvg(response.content)) {
console.error('Generated image is not valid SVG:', response.content)
messages.push({ role: 'assistant', content: response.content })
messages.push({ role: 'user', content: `The generated image is not valid SVG. Please try again. Only respond with SVG code. No text.` })
return this.fetchImage(messages)
}

console.log('Generated image:', response.content)
return response
}

[1] https://github.com/adamkdean/gpt-unicorn/blob/master/src/lib...
I'm logged out and have adblockers on. I used to be able to see the posts that come after, but now I only see the first one. Maybe that's a new change.

Thanks for the nitter link.
I get that feeling in thrift stores, where those items show up sometimes. I always wonder what the history was. Was that some child's favorite plush and how did it end up in a thrift shop, or was it overlooked and unwanted and discarded? Either way it's a twinge of sadness, yeah.

Even as an adult, I still have my few favorite stuffies from childhood. I'd never part with them (it's not hoarding, just one box), but I have no idea what happens to them when I pass on. Can't bear to dispose of them or leave instructions for that, but for anyone else to keep them they'd just take up space forever.
> Java's problem/solution space assumes you can model everything as objects and classes and runs into complexity when we attempt to use it for problems that are actually better modeled by other means.

That's an old understanding by now. Just use interfaces and forget about inheritance.
> Liebeck's attorneys discovered that McDonald's required franchisees to hold coffee at 180–190 °F (82–88 °C). Liebeck's attorneys argued that coffee should never be served hotter than 140 °F (60 °C), and that a number of other establishments served coffee at a substantially lower temperature than McDonald's. The attorneys presented evidence that coffee they had tested all over the city was served at a temperature at least 20 °F (11 °C) lower than McDonald's coffee. They also presented the jury with expert testimony that 190 °F (88 °C) coffee may produce third-degree burns (where skin grafting is necessary) in about three seconds and 180 °F (82 °C) coffee may produce such burns in about twelve to fifteen seconds.[12] Lowering the temperature to 160 °F (71 °C) would increase the time for the coffee to produce such a burn to 20 seconds. Liebeck's attorneys argued that these extra seconds could provide adequate time to remove the coffee from exposed skin, thereby preventing many burns.

I don't know how hot the coffee you make at home is, but the whole process is probably less risky that being handed a cup while in a small space.
If a non-technical user notices something odd (fan running fast, slow boot, lots of network traffic) they’ll go straight to IT.

Someone with the attitude of “it’s my job [to not mess up]” will mess up subtly, try to fix the problem, and not mention it to IT.

As annoying as IT can be, one of those options is a lot better for operational security.
You can buy blood pudding in any supermarket in Sweden. It reminds you a bit of blood sausage. It's quite different from this kind of hard bread though.
If you want to experience zero G you can do it in any general-aviation aircraft, you just have to do it in 5-10 second bursts rather than three contiguous minutes.

There is another alternative:

https://www.gozerog.com/

This is a specially outfitted 727 similar to the one NASA uses for training. It gives you ~30 seconds of weightlessness at a time, but they do it multiple times so you actually log more total zero G time than on a sub-orbital flight at about 1-2% of the cost. Well worth the splurge IMHO.
It sounds nice in theory, but the data itself could be problematic. There is no temporal nature to it. You can have duplicate data points, many data points that are closely related but describe the same thing/event/etc.. So while only showing the model each data point once ensures you do not introduce any extra weight on a data point, if the dataset itself is skewed it doesn't help you at all.

Just by trying to make the dataset diverse you could skew things to not reflect reality. I just don't think enough attention has been paid to the data, and too much the model. But I could be very wrong.

There is a natural temporality to the data humans receive. You can't relive the same moment twice. That said, human intelligence is on a scale too and may be affected in the same way.
I was serious. PPC 604 and Dylan, the language.

By mentioning a.b.m.a. I took you for an old school Mac user, like me.
Does it look like a unicorn to you ? It looks more like a cat with a spaghetti on his head...

image-2023-04-25 looks more like an unicorn to me (although more a cow based unicorn than a horse based unicorn).

Which leads me to this genuine question: : how close do the images resemble a unicorn? I mean how can one track resemblance and how to draw a line saying GPT has drawn an unicorn?
> GDPR does have some carveouts for workplaces

Can you point me to any? IMHO it does not have any explicit clauses mentioning more lax conditions for consent in case of employment relationships, and there have been multiple cases of GDPR enforcement re-asserting that anything that you require from all employees doesn't count as consent. An employer might assert a "legitimate need" basis for processing (in which case you need to only inform the employee, not their consent), but that is inherently limited and there have been large fines assessed for employees trying to push constant monitoring with this justification; the employer has a duty to minimize the invasiveness of achieving that legitimate need (e.g. surveillance for theft prevention can monitor only places relevant for that, and doesn't permit using the same videos for any other purpose e.g. measuring employee activity).
Um. That's how TCP works.
How would they connect search results to an individual? Surely, a simple VPN, which is a basic internet hygene these days, prevents that.
This is how representative democracies generally work. Direct democracy, referendums and the like, are an exception to the rule.
Thanks, these are good points. I think we even could "fetch" the positive facts of their writing and combine it with the real features/facts of our product for this response blog post.
A meta question for y'all if you're willing to share. I've seen y'all launch what I think is now 5 different ideas under the same name? I want to say that I remember a platform for musicians, and a platform to automatically convert a codebase into hostable inference servers, among a few other things.

Asking for myself as someone who has a hard time sticking to one idea to explore: are the pivots coming from finding it in hard to land customers? Is it hard to stay motivated with a single product? The pivots look pretty drastic as an external observer but maybe they've all been very organic from the inside.
> completely skew the demographic

By 'twitter brigades trying to smear your name'. Great success!
It's showing for me now, so apparently there was some kind of temporary problem, maybe busy servers indeed.
Partay like it’s 1789! My month living strictlay by the US Constitution
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37075688 links https://web.archive.org/web/20230810094255/groups.google.com... which seems to load for me without JS
Brevity forces thought, which I prefer to "Putting a Sentence in a File Name.docx".

FORTRAN originally had the same limitation for function names, and that lead to some classics such as GEMM and SAXPY.
I keep a couple of m-discs in my gun safe encrypted with a password most of my family knows, but they don't know the safe combination. If I kick the bucket they can cut the hinges off in a few minutes with my angle grinder. They could also use my corpse's finger to unlock my phone but that's a bit morbid.
Oh yes, I have shelves of Sterilite boxes. I keep several empty boxes at all times so I can reorganize and categorize new items. I label all of them with the Brother label maker.

The key is that occasionally I go through and toss obsolete items. Recent casualties: all Micro USB, when the last Micro USB device died. RCA audio patch cables: all the speakers are smart now and don’t hook up to old-school receivers. Nearly all telephone wires. USB chargers less than 5 watts. Miscellaneous video cables, like VGA, DVI, composite video, component video.
Surprised the tomatoes isn’t rubbish.
Not sure why the downvotes. It was not sarcastic.
FWIW you can use Neovim like Vim with your existing config, without any of the other stuff. That made the switch easy for me. Of course this means you'd rely on Neovim maintainers honoring that compatibility in future...
My wife and I have four kids and for each of them is a personal savings account, a savings account we keep for them to accumulate over time to avoid a taxable lump sump “gift”, and a tax advantaged educational savings account. For ourselves we have brokerage, savings, checking, and each have pretax and post-tax advantaged retirement accounts and health savings accounts. Many tech employees would also have 401k and possibly equity compensation accounts. And then any credit or debt (mortgage) accounts on top of that.

Our family is big, and the number of accounts scales with the number of people, but that’s about 25 without getting into anything moderately interesting.
I don't think there exist any book qualified as "textbook" except this one. Discrete Math by Oscar Levin.

https://discrete.openmathbooks.org/dmoi3/

No left as exercise bullshit, no prove yourself bullshit, etc. Everything is explained thoughtfully and multiple times in the book, to ensure the readers really get the idea of the subject.
Many (most?) London based roles are hybrid now , train occupancy seems back to pre-covid levels
A Chinese company sells to Iran. America says they can't and asks (Tells) Canada to arrest Meng. This seems more than a little illogical.
tale it is

https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/railroad-gauge-chariots/
You're framing it wrong. They _care_ very much. They even have a word for it!

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kompromat
There is always a ruling class. It's an emergent phenomenon which always reasserts itself after any upset. Basically a law of nature.
It has fallen out of favor but I am a massive proponent for graduated drivers licenses. Free toll roads would be silly but higher/removed speed limits seem 100% ok to me as long as it's coupled with an actual assessment of driving ability, semi-frequent required reassessment, and stiffer penalties for things such as DUI when driving in the graduated speed limit range.
Every tech company I’ve worked at has been run by Ivy people but all the actual code is written by Cal State graduates and high school dropouts.
Honest question, why do you find it scary?

I agree that some people take it too far, but most seem to be using metaphor to abstract away the underlying complexities and facilitate conversation. I did the same thing back in college, anthropomorphizing cells and even molecules when I was learning about microbiology and biophysics (e.g., kinesins[1] are a family of postal workers who work hard to deliver packages to their clients in a timely manner, and they spend their free time going for strolls and practicing on their favorite tightropes). I now do it in my day-to-day work at an AI/ML shop to communicate not just what the entire pipeline is doing, but what individuals layers or encoders are doing, or even what variables in an equation are doing. I find that my colleagues and I are better able to understand and remember concepts and ideas when they're communicated as part of an anthropomorphic story, but we scarcely forget that the things we're dealing with aren't human.

But maybe I'm missing the point, and you're really worried about that first, smaller group of people who have really swallowed the Kool aid. To that, I can say that I don't think their behavior exceeds the baseline craziness/weirdness that I've come to expect from humanity. I'm sure there are far more people who believe in astrology than who believe that we've achieved true humanlike artificial general intelligence, for example.

[1] https://youtu.be/y-uuk4Pr2i8
Isn't pre-agricultural society supposed to have been fairly egalitarian in comparison?
Not quite. Vim is vi compatible by default. You have to explicitly opt in for the newer behavior.
Though I don't keep obvious trash like pizza boxes or rags, I'm loathe to throw out anything functional, which I no joke attribute to playing too many adventure games as a kid (from LucasArts, Sierra, et al.) I can't escape the gnawing thought in the back of my mind that I will face a complex task where I will need to cleverly combine objects I found long ago in a novel way to complete it.
And what happens when you sync sharepoint to your windows files?
Doesn't that enhance the effect of the gate rather than detract from it? If, ceteris paribus, being around the shiniest of gold stars helps you shimmer a little brighter, that seems likely to make the gating-function effect more pronounced, not less.

My criticism of the article is that there's no alternative solution given. You want to abolish all admissions? That's cool. What do we replace it with? A lottery seems like a lead balloon and anything else seems to have an effective gatekeeping function . . .
My friend lives in a small neighborhood north of SF in Marin County, but down a small road that frequently washes out. They were constantly losing power and would be down for days if not longer during big storms that drop a lot of limbs and wash the road out. Rather than deal with the urgency of restoring power to them and all that entailed, PG&E just installed a Powerwall in every house. Many of the houses already had solar so now when the main power line is cut, they can go for days/weeks and live relatively normally. Batteries are going to make a lot of things much easier.
Haiku? (if finished)
GPT-4 is not comparable to a high school graduate.

It will happily hallucinate facts and claim they are true.
Well, ok, maybe it is ;)

The issue they seem to tackle is trying to minimize hallucinations by injecting some human expertise into the pipeline. They do this by more strictly defining the roles and tasks a step in that pipeline needs to accomplish.
This has actually changed a bit in the last few years. In Windows 11 writing to `.\CON` will write to the file but writing to `CON` will still write to the console.
your family & friends should not be around when you get into shortage of buttermilk :-)
Did they get the email?
This. I'm not a single parent and I'm a high earner but my wife has chronic medical issues. I spend a lot more of my time on home things now because I have a kid and it's demanding. When our kid is school, I can focus. When they're not, I struggle to perform. If I had enough spare money to have a full time nanny/housekeeper, my live would be much easier and my kid would probably be happier because our time with them would be higher value. I can absolutely see why people would opt out. It's hard.
I find the Harvard angst interesting. I’ve never once felt someone else going to Harvard impacted my life in any way whatsoever. I’ve advanced further than everyone I know that went to Harvard in my career and not once did someone wink at the Harvard guy and pass me over.

I’m sure it happens, and I’m sure there are secret clubs I don’t get invited to (well the Harvard club is pretty nice and I was invited there by a great uncle who went to Harvard - they have these really great puffy dinner rolls). But it’s never caused me a moment of anxiety, suffering, doubt, or jealousy.

The fascination has never made sense to me.
> Almost 10 percent of American households are renting at least one storage space, often for an overflow of stuff, according to a 2015-16 Self Storage Industry Fact Sheet. It is now possible for every American to stand comfortably, at the same time, under the total canopy of self-storage roofing.

I was just reading an article about America's booming storage industry, and now I wonder how much of the boom comes from storage "addicts," similar to how a substantial portion of gambling and alcohol industry revenue comes from a relatively small subset of addicts.
https://saveymeal-bot.co.nz/recipe/bmxMAZQF7hO0APhr6xY11deR

It just generates nonsense. I said I had ants, celery and chocolate. It assumed I had chocolate bread (???) and tells me to grill the celery and bread
they blocked QUIC a long time ago
> But we agree on the ideal, right? In dreamworld, every kid would follow their own path. There would be no “advanced classes” or “tracks” because those concepts wouldn’t exist.

Aren’t “path” and “track” essentially synonyms? And why wouldn’t there be advanced classes? Somebody who wants to become a tradesperson needs to know math, but doesn’t need the same level of advanced math that somebody who is interested in particle physics would need.
One man's API stability is another man's perpetual nightmare, especially if the API is bad. Things have to change to get better, and if systems are designed in a way which prevents API improvements, then you will just have perma-crap software.
their dropouts impact your life tho.
Stratification is inevitable but efforts to disintermediate lifetime quality of life from status (Ivy) is warranted (depending upon your viewpoint on merit).
No the problem goes thusly.

The university was a place of learning, education, and becoming a better person. It was focused on the pursuit of knowledge for the sake of knowledge.

Then it became noticed that smart educated people went to college, and so the idea then became if you went to college you to must be smart and educated.

Then because that was accepted as true many people saw college as the path to a better life. Then after WW2 because college was seen as the path to a better life the US Govt. decided that everyone should get the chance to go to college with the GI Bill.

Then college morphed from a place you went to learn to study and to understand to a place you go so you could get a job.

Then because that is why people were going colleges started optimizing as places to get a job.

Harvard became optimized for getting certain types of jobs, namely CEO, politician, etc, essentially seen as the jobs of "the elite". But remember for every person who went to Harvard and is now an overqualified CEO there are also 10 Andy Bernards out there.

So the whole purpose of the university and higher education has been gutted, as thanks to the introduction of the Business and Communications degrees you can actually be college educated while learning nothing of real value, or of beauty or science or anything that the traditional colleges existed to teach us.

As a final though I leave this article against Tulip Subsidies. https://slatestarcodex.com/2015/06/06/against-tulip-subsidie...
> I've found Fast.com gamed sometimes … the ISP prioritizes Netflix traffic

The other side of this is why Netflix created Fast.com in the first place: ISPs throttling Netflix traffic (or just having poor peering arrangements that affected it) and blaming Netflix when customers complained about poor video quality (due to Netflix downgrading when experiencing congestion) because some speedtest (that likely the ISP prioritized, or at least knew it had better peering to) gave good numbers.

> With Cloudflare I'm guessing it's a more balanced measure.

Both serve the same purpose for their respective owners: to get good scores on fast.com an ISP can't throttle (or allowed to be throttled by avoidable congestion) Netflix traffic, to get good scores on speed.cloudflare.com they can't throttle (or allowed to be throttled by avoidable congestion) traffic to/from Cloudflair's topologically local DCs.

From a user's point of view using both, plus other tests, gives most meaningful results overall.
To be fair though, one of my hoardy friends just dropped by last week and returned a first edition AD&D dungeon masters guide book that he borrowed 30 years ago and I completely forgot about. I move a lot so tend to donate/sell/toss stuff quite frequently.

Oh, and I forgot about my uncle who is also a hoarder. I think I'm going to head over to his place and re-possess a Vic-20 computer that I gave him ~35 years ago. It would be very fun to refurb that thing (and then use it or sell it; ain't gonna become a hoarder myself!)
It looks like the best solution is for “westerners” to use Yandex and everyone else to use Google or Bing and this way they can search with less targeted censoring on their terms.
Isn't this what is suggested below the second picture?

> Really, it’s harder than this picture suggests, because many experiences are based on other students. If I want you as my project partner but you want to forget I exist, then something has to give.
You're talking about two totally different things.

GP is saying Vim users generally have muscle memory of their shortcuts (I might add, to the extent that some of them may not even be conscious which keys they are pressing). GP also mentioned that Vim takes less mental effort (due to muscle memory) and is faster.

The faster part is easy to argue even from a theory perspective. Your hands basically never leave the home position. The time saved from physically moving your hands to and from various keyboard/mouse positions are reduced. At least Vim can be faster in that sense.

You're saying you have a personal anecdote about a coworker (who from your description isn't necessarily using Vim). How is that relevant?
Hoarded items are in one or more of three categories: 1) tech, 2) aesthetic, 3)trash

Everything man-made is tech (books, old SCSI cables)

Things you find in nature are aesthetic (shells, rocks, driftwood)

The challenge knowing which of the first to should be moved into the third. Everyone fall somewhere on the hoarding spectrum. I am guilty of keeping things that may some day be useful. I have a pretty good track record of being correct. For my tech, I do a purge every few years or when I move. If I've not found something useful in over four years, and it doesn't have great sentimental or historical value, then it goes into the trash.

My opinions anyway