skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As someone who has resisted medication his entire life, I totally understand your sentiment. Medication definitely isn't for everyone and it comes with its own costs.

That said, I have decided more and more in my adult life that I am not going to struggle needlessly. If doing so only affected me, fine. But when I have a shitty day(s) at work because I didn't get anything done, my wife gets to hear about it. My family gets to experience me being less jolly. Etc.

My focus these days is on being the best person not only to myself but to those around me. That means if I need to take some stupid pill to enable robot-mode then that's what I need to do.

I've tried the "don't let your work output be your identity" approach. That ship sailed in elementary school man. Success & output are weaved into your psyche from a very young age. To truly divorce myself from that burden I would need to completely change my life and go live in a commune somewhere. Not realistic.

And for the record, I actually really don't like the feeling of being on medication. It turns me into a robot with slow reaction time. Great for reading a book or focussing on some boring work... But horrible for the things I love in life which are all fast-paced sports and video games. If I can avoid medication, I absolutely will.
25% of the current Ivy+ SCOTUS judges did not go to an Ivy+ for undergrad? With additional reforms of the graduate programs would you expect that future numbers would increase or decrease?

EDIT - for some reason it will not allow me to reply to your reply...

There are 8 current judges from Ivy+ law schools and 6 of them went to Ivy+ undergrad programs. That's how I got to 25%.

I guess I question why increasing the number of judges on the Supreme Court would change the percentage of (non-Ivy+ undergrad --> Ivy+ JD) justices. I would think that the only way to do that is to increase the number of non-Ivy+ undergrads admitted to the Ivy+ JD programs.

I mean, increasing the number of balls you randomly draw from a bag of balls increases the odds of getting one of the rare balls. But increasing the proportion of rare balls in the bag such that they aren't rare anymore increases the probability more, with the added benefit for every formerly rare ball that wasn't selected for the bench.
This isn't really "from seat-based", right? After reading the announcement, it seems they're _adding_ consumption-based pricing on top of the already seat-based pricing. If you're running over 20k models per month, it seems you're going to be paying more for the incremental runs.
It isn't. Services have limitations, it's nothing new. This isn't about the portion of the app running on Mac, or Linux for that matter, this is because the app is backed by a service that has a name limitation and that bubbles up through teams names.

In the end it's no different than if some service doesn't allow all numeric names or names to start with numerals or be too short, of which there are plenty of constraints on plenty of services.
Comfort and familiarity with a variety of languages is always a nice to have for a professional developer, but if the hypothetical oracle said the opposite, that focusing on JS would indeed limit OP's professional options, then that would be a much more compelling reason to go learn some Golang or whatever than just intellectual curiosity.
From what I can tell and what I've seen[1], _right now_ and maybe for a while longer[2], applying and not hearing anything is gonna be the norm, even for people with more than 10 years of experience, forget those with less than that much.

[1] Personal experience over 2 months, what I've seen others I know experience, and what I've found researching the current hiring market online (reddit, HN)

[2] At least until the current high interest rate economic situation changes
I had a friend in high school who owned her own music label. She was the most talented musician I had ever met in terms of performance, arrangement and overall songwriting. She released albums on an annual schedule, and even had a small fanbase of listeners that I was a part of.

The money she made off music was pitiful though. She didn't just own her own label, she toured and wrote music every weekday. She gave it everything, more than most people have to offer, and in the end she got a salary most people would call "unlivable". The recent recession and COVID situation pushed her into a Starbucks job to pay rent.

So... do what you want. I just want people to know that you could be one of the most talented self-made musicians in the world, and still go destitute despite owning your own label.
I mean you could just follow someone else out. Alternatively leave, stand outside to badge in and then never enter.
> People shit on it constantly and call it the backdoor, not-so-honest way to get associated with Harvard.

This sounds like it's not actually going to Harvard, and you'd only get the slimy Harvard benefits by pretending you did a different program at harvard
> This is a common misconception.
> The wages are slave wages to the first world economies, but not to the developing world.

I know of this rationalization, but I don't agree it makes things ok.

Look at the Foxconn debacle where employees were committing suicide and strikes for better conditions were met with violence. It doesn't matter if their wages are technically slightly higher than the prevailing local wages. If you look at their quality of life, it's deplorable. Health care? Clean water? Safe homes? Paid sick leave? Work-life balance? Disability protection? Retirement plans? Do workers in China not deserve those things?

Why aren't first world business paying first world wages no matter where their workers are? They know they extract profits at the cost of human dignity for their workers. They know that offshoring jobs allows them to ignore American labor laws. It's not ethical. But as long as it happens somewhere else we can pretend it's not our problem.
I can’t be the only person who doesn’t know what ‘at the edge’ means in this context. Any useful links to educate myself?
Langlands Program, one if many examples, illustrates (ha!) that nearly all math is geometrical. Math doesn't care about silly human distinctions like "Algebra", "Analysis", and "Geometry"
I've heard that in mountain country narrow tracks allow tighter curves to be laid, so that twisting paths can be taken, whereas on the plains wide tracks are laid to let lots of goods travel fast.

The nature of the country indirectly defines the required track gauge.
The big short basically painted it as a naked cash grab by cackling Wall Street traders. My experience was it was fairly prosaic at the banks, essentially trying to construct products our customers wanted to buy. There was a lot of stuff that was going wrong, a lot of it was at:

At the micro level:

* local and regional banks stuffing mortgage pipelines with garbage, colluding with appraisers and others to make outrageous loans with fabricated or otherwise fraudulent docs

* loan officers effectively tricking ill equipped borrowers into unsuitable products against suitability requirements

At the macro level:

* rating agencies were ill equipped and were rating structured products AAA despite them paying junk bond returns - we tried to show them models demonstrating their ratings were too rosy but they kept us at arms length - as they should - but we felt it was really important they reassess. They wouldn’t.

* Large institutional investors seeking juiced returns but were restricted to AAA investments were eager for the junk returns, and were aware that these products were very risky despite the rating

The banks weren’t angels in this, but it’s been sold as a Wall Street issue. It was far greater than the street.

Also, “the big short” was taken on because Goldman stopped using theoretic models for valuing CDO’s and used fundamental models that showed they were extremely long subprime mortgage risk. As market makers they have risk limits on their books by internal policy and were required by their risk officers to short subprime to bring them within neutral risk with respect to their subprime mortgage exposure. It wasn’t a nefarious plot to screw the American mortgage holder - it was the bank functioning properly with proper risk management, the problem wasn’t the “big short” - it was the “big long.” Market makers are not speculators - their whole purpose is to stay neutral in the market and facilitate anyone who wants to trade long or short by quoting both sides.
Your chief complaints (eco friendly everything in new construction, AC restrictions) are likely due to compliance with local laws.

More likely that these are cost-cutting measures being labeled as "eco-friendly" to avoid push back.
> we have spent 20+ years teaching people to accept that computers is generally trustworthy

I really doubt we did. People seem prone to assume the computer is trustworthy since the very beginning (maybe extending it from calculators?) and blatantly refuse to question this assumption.

The general assertion of computers' trustworthiness has been causing problems due to bad data or bad algorithms for decades already, there are entire movies about it, and almost everybody has had problem with it already.
We can give you a girlfriend
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Properties in London? :)
Where I live this was mostly a voluntary thing. I do not have a problem with it happening, I have a problem with the implementation. The lights thing is just nonsensical. Having them completely off during the day would have been better on both counts, but nobody thought about it.
The depth of the subject is much too great for an article. But, there's certainly some interesting discussion to be had around the relationship between people's general work outcomes and a strong gating mechanism evaluated earlier in life.

I really hope we soon see innovation around education. When the entire corpus of human knowledge became available freely - surely we would've seen changes in higher education by now (if they were/are ever going to happen).
Yes, exactly, though I did appreciate their elaboration on the sort of media Australians at-large are exposed to.

I'd say also that B.C people are fairly likely to want to pursue visiting Australia, despite not really digesting any substantial amount of Aussie media.
It's not weird revisionism... MacOS was lacking quality apps and was barely hanging on until 1997.

Adobe creative apps and Microsoft Office kept MacOS from becoming a toy OS, like Amiga.
The male astronaut with coffee [1] (that I believe you're using as a "verified" example) has an extra finger on his right hand

[1] https://www.rubbrband.com/static/media/astronaut_with_coffee...
> I've seen dozens of theories on how to interview and triage people, but few approaches beat the cost-benefit of supporting decisions based on a degree from a solid institution.

This is my exact opposite experience. Degrees are meaningless unless you've literally just left college. Even then, it tells you their scores in particular subjects, it does not tell you their attitude, work ethic, general problem solving ability, etc.

I ignore qualifications unless you've just completed it. Experience is a better guide and, I know this is controversial, just talking to the candidate - it's amazing what people will expose once they feel comfortable that they're having a friendly chat.
That sounds crazy to me and I understand why Microsoft or any company wouldn't want to do that. It seems completely reasonable to me to set reasonable limits to avoid excessive resource usage or unforeseen/untested/unwanted performance limitations.
What are some examples of this type of decentralization scenario playing out before? What you’re saying makes sense to me, but my hope would be that the decentralization would serve more as a supplement than a replacement - therefore still requiring ongoing maintenance and investment to main infra. The alternative without these microgrids and other microinfra is almost guaranteed to result in the half or fully rotten systems you predict as the prevailing recent political climate doesn’t give much confidence in terms of getting such massive projects planned and completed successfully (US-centric response).
One of the things I really like about Vim is how it maintains compatibility with Vi. The manual obsessively points out features Not in vi. It retains some ill-advised things like :Print because Vi had them. Ancient platforms still work, supposedly.

I care about this not because I used Vi (I never have) but because it’s less likely that some new Vim with a newer distribution release will do something I don’t expect. Vim does want I need it to do. I don’t want it to change.

Neovim on the other hand exists entirely to change things. That’s all well and good. I just don’t want it. My editor is complete.
I was only talking about mass redirecting 404s to the homepage, which I've heard is not great, I think what you're saying is fine -- but that sounds like more of a well thought out strategy.
Steve Punter

One of the under-sung heroes of Commodore's salad days.

Not Butterfield-grade. But still not widely appreciated for his contribution to Commodore telecommunications.
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Our ideal candidate is an early career, highly proficient Software Engineer, who may not have experience in the tech that we use but is confident they can learn and contribute quickly. They will have strong CS fundamentals, know their way around a linux system, be curious about new tech, and be confident enough to teach us a few things. Though our group might have some of the deepest knowledge of football in the league, a love of football or understanding of the game is secondary to strong engineering skills.

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No doubt. But I have also seen what people thought were generalized models failing on outlier, but valid, data. Quite often.

Put another way, it isn't just how simple this task seems to be in the number of terms that are important, but isn't it also a rather dense function?

Probably better question to ask is how sensitive are models that are looking at less dense functions to this? (Or more dense.). I'm not trying to disavow the ideas.
>Yeah, this is one reason why I think the outliers at state schools are undervalued.

What I've always heard about the big state schools is that you can get in (probably relatively easily) and then you can either spend your days doing a lot of doing sports and partying (not that there's anything wrong with that in moderation) or you can get a pretty world-class STEM degree.
I am a nothing-to-no-one home experimenter with modular synthesis.

I have one album of my music on Bandcamp. From that album I've received a total of US$50.

On spotify that represents 15k streams. On apple music, 5k streams (*) These are numbers totally out of reach. But because 7 people liked the album enough, I still made enough for a modest meal out with my wife.

Fuck this streaming shit. So tired of young musicians telling me that streaming is where the audience is. If you really believe that somehow you're going to become a superstar, by all means keep playing that game. But if you want to make money without becoming a superstar, focusing on people who actually pay for music is where it's at.

(*) https://producerhive.com/music-marketing-tips/streaming-roya...
'Space'.
I think there is and should be a middle ground between "cutting edge" and "never update".

You should certainly lock semvar versions (I don't mean lock to major, I mean 100% lock to a specific version) but you should routinely audit and update. I've worked on both ends and they are honestly both terrible. If you don't update fast enough, you build up kludge where it becomes difficult to get onto LTS. If you update too fast, you are constantly putting out fires with everything being in scope as a possible problem.

I think every 6 months is fast enough without having it be breaking changes. It gives the version time to mature while you continue working on features. It's a lot easier to work off a stable platform where most of the time you can ignore pre-existing dependencies having breaking issues.

In software engineering, the goal is to solve problems not create them and I think a lot of engineers, especially the more junior, have their head too far into "must have best-i-est system evur w/ latest features" rather than "stable platform to solve problems from".
That was my point. Which is that Japan being cheap doesn't mitigate anything. Time is the critical factor there. Until they have more free time, no one is having more kids.
>Not a hoarder but I do feel a little twinge in my heart if I see someone throw away plush toys or other things with faces. :-)

Interesting, I get the same, but for electronics/anything mechanical. Also the longer I have some device the more attached I get to it.
You've hit the nail on the head for me. From my point of view, vim is simpler than neovim. I value that and wouldn't like to see neovim subsume it (although I'm sure people are happy with neovim for very good reasons)
What the difference between understanding and generalizing?

And what is the indicator for a machine understanding something?
> Prove it (or, defend it)

I’ll try: In English, words mean whatever it is they communicate. You determine meaning by paying attention to usage.

Calling an LLM an AI is expanding as more of the public learns about things like ChatGPT through news reports that refer to them as AI.

Now specific audiences may use words differently. What lawyers call copyright infringement the public might call piracy or theft. Likewise, in some circles, people may say an LLM is not an AI but more broadly it seems to be going the other way. Only time will tell.
> 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. The top schools can be pretty darn great, Harvard being just one of them.

What do you recommend those of us who didn't get into any top schools do then? If clearly we're destined to be inferior for life?
> Why would you run an interactive command with `:!` ?

Why wouldn't you? Vi's `:!` is simple and general.

If neovim has an equivalent, it must be obscure enough that no one has mentioned it yet, and it seems to me that the obvious thing to do would be to make `:!` do it by default, and put neovim's current `:!` behaviour behind a `compatible` flag for those who want it.
Inconsistent experience. I had bought other things with them that arrived in the expected deadline with no troubles. This is the kind of deal that I'm willing to make. I buy something from you, you tell me when you are going to delivery, i get the product.

Once there's delays and problems with the delivery (like giving my product to someone else) it makes me not to want to buy from you again; cause I'm not sure when I'll get my product or even if I'll get it.
This word choice surprised me as well. The average Big 10 tuition for nonresidents is approaching $40,000. It is better for in-state tuition, but locking students into wherever they happened to grow up also seems unfair.
Algebra and Calculus are more or less "solved." Unless by algebra, you mean abstract algebra... but the open questions there tend to be quite esoteric. That said, we did recently see a novel approach to solving quadratic equations ( https://www.sciencealert.com/math-genius-finally-discovers-e... ).

I'd say that HN posts a lot of quanta articles, and quanta has a "bias" towards results that can be explained to a semi-lay audience. You really don't want to know enough about modular elliptic curves to understand Wiles' proof of Fermat's conjecture. But sometimes number theory proofs come up here too.
Wouldn't equatorial land rise increase the rotational moment of inertia, and slow the the rotation, not increase it?
Two things I don't get from the articles:
1) How to make connections to the supercapacitor.
2) Does it work with rebar in the concrete?
Yeah, but it’s not nearly as good at playing chess as a basic chess algorithm. Why would I use GPT4 for chess when Chessmaster 2000 can beat it 100/100 times?
I have my own tale to tell here. A couple years ago, someone got hold of my credit card info and used it to order some expensive clothing from an online store in Italy. If I recall correctly, it was about 1800 euros. It was actually the bank that alerted me, as this was a complete break with my purchase habits. Anyway, I canceled the card, disputed the charges, and got the money back.

Several months later I got a letter in the (paper) mail from DHL regarding an unpaid bill for VAT that they had paid on a package I had received from them. Long story short, it turns out the thieves had got the expensive clothes shipped to an address about 500 km from where I live, with my name on it (I live in Norway, BTW). DHL had paid the VAT and delivered the package to “me” somehow. I disputed this, of course, and told them about the credit card issue. After a bit of back and forth, they told me I had to file a police report. I did so, sent them a copy, and they finally relented and did not pursue the issue further. But they also informed me that in the future, if a package came to me, I would have to pay the VAT/customs ahead of receiving the package. Which is fine with me.
>Following liftoff, Virgin Galactic’s carrier plane VMS Eve transported VSS Unity to an altitude of about 50,000ft. Eve then dropped Unity which then fired its own rocket motor and ascended to suborbital space. Passengers aboard experienced approximately 3Gs.

suborbital, would still be an amazing experience though.