skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Many (most?) state schools don't do significantly competitive admissions, and many have state mandates in the vein of "Anyone who graduated in the top half of their in-state high school gets admitted with the following terms." For most students and employers, they are largely interchangeable except for in-state tuition being cheaper (and to be clear, I think that is a good thing).

It's actually a bit of a problem in other ways though. The school I teach at gets an alarming number of students coming in as pre-engineering who have dramatic math or literacy deficits and would be better served with a year or two at a cheaper-for-everyone community college (or a not-broken highschool, but that's way harder to fix) instead of slamming into their first couple technical classes and failing because they don't understand variables and/or don't have the reading comprehension for the course materials unless/until they finish a pile of remediation. Universities have a profit motive to encourage this, since having a student take two years of high-margin large service classes while paying for room and board, then never consume any lower-margin resources, is a financial win for the university.
Feels like a quicker way to get fired tbh.
A breakdown of the theory maybe, but not of gravity itself. There is a difference between "Gravity Breaking Down" and "The Theory of Gravity Breaking Down".
Interesting. I get higher speeds on cloudflare in chrome.

603Mbps Cloudflare chrome vs. 600 Mbps Cloudflare firefox

But on fast.com (netflix) it's the opposite:

440 Mbps fast.com Chrome vs. 590 Mbps fast.com firefox.
Still can't see it as a good thing.
The university racket is pretty good, but you do have to put in work at the beginning to get accredited. Then you fill the moat and bleed the government.

1. (hard part) Establish a new university

2. Charge high prices for worthless degrees

3. Government provides the loans

4. People die in debt or just keep paying (they're out of your hands at this point so you don't care that much)

Net result is that you can get a taxpayer subsidy which you can roll into a non-profit. An interesting side effect is that because you're teaching junk like Divinity at Columbia and stuff, the people don't really learn any reasoning skills and so they'll go out there and say that the government should forgive student debt and pay for college for people. I don't think that part was planned. That was just accidental and beneficial.

Honestly, that step 1 is really hard, and I think there's some trouble with step 2 as well, but you can get there. I think, if things don't change in the next 10 years, I'll try a startup that does this. I think there's a way to organize the spending such that you benefit a VC's portfolio through the non-profit university's spending thereby making it a strong investment even if it won't actually get you an exit.

Essentially you just tax arbitrage government dollars into hiring your for-profit companies as vendors.
thanks, Ernie!
Are you building prompt alignment model alignment models so I can objectively see how well what your prompt alignment model is judging SDXL’s interpretation of my prompt against aligns with my prompt?

Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?
I'm afraid GPT-4 has more common sense than a typical HN commenter:

> How do you define edible in context of making recipes?

> In the context of making recipes, "edible" typically refers to food items that are safe to consume without causing harm or discomfort. However, the definition can be more nuanced based on culinary, cultural, nutritional, and individual considerations. Here's a breakdown:

> Safety: The most basic definition of edible is that something can be eaten without causing immediate harm or long-term health risks. For instance, certain mushrooms are toxic and not edible, while others are safe and delicious.

> Digestibility: Even if a food isn't toxic, it might be hard for humans to digest. Some foods can be edible when cooked but not when raw, like certain beans which contain harmful compounds when uncooked.

...
Hope you don't have to enter your Spotify account/password on the car screen to just listen music. I already have in my phone all my service and account, I don't want to relogin on everything on TV or car screen. I don't care about smart TV since a have a Chromecast.
> Nothing prevents you from processing an array in order in parallel.

100% correct if you remove processing time from the equation.

In reality, Nvidia Cuda calculations run much faster if you let it schedule the order of floating points operations itself. This makes the ordering different from run to run.

This in turn causes the results to be non-deterministic.
how did you manage to raise 50k in 15 minutes of meeting someone? i never managed to do that despite having a real business with customers and revenue
Effective Model for LK-99: Potential Avenue for New Superconductivity Research
But "inconsistent experience" basically applies to everywhere these days. I could complain about Amazon's delivery, just like I could complain about USPS, UPS, and Fedex - each doing their own different but still craptastic thing.

Gone are the days where individual employees went above and beyond to make sure every customer was taken care with the details making sense, because gone are the days where companies treated employees like humans rather than expendable cogs. I've had boxes of leaking oil paint left on my doorstep at 9PM - the package was able to be marked as delivered on the promised day, and therefore everything was right in their system.

Do I blame Home Depot (the vendor) for that, or Rustoleum (the actual shipper), or UPS (the delivery company)? All of them and none of them specifically - it's "nobody's fault". Instead I complained to Home Depot for a refund and 20% off the reship, cleaned up the mess myself, saved the remaining 3 gallons of paint that hadn't flowed out of the cans into a new bucket to use later, and didn't feel bad about getting that paint for free. That's the best I could make of the situation - screaming at the customer service drones wouldn't have gotten me a better outcome. That's life in the 2020's.

You can certainly eliminate the variability of delivery - go to a brick and mortar store with stock. But the same caveat emptor maxim applies. You'd still better inspect what you're buying, because otherwise there's a chance you'll get it home and it will be defective in some way and you'll have to return it and do the whole process over again.

As someone who used to only return things if there was a serious problem or if I earnestly changed my mind, this really bugged me at first. But now I've just accepted this is how things work. I'll even buy things on sale that I just might want, knowing I've got a month or three to actually decide (with my only cost being the work required to effect a return). Companies wanted this regime of no honor besides blindly their fully formalized procedures, and so I'll play my part.
The core is larger than expected, which helps it maintain heat/phase, hence dynamo effect. It is assumed this is because there was a donor.
Edited for typo.
Hrm. Just going to keep sticking with Debian and Ubuntu like I've been doing since ... wow, 1997.
You're missing the point; This guy has zero power over what Google does so publicly berating him is not going to accomplish anything.

And anyways, the sentence "Take responsibility for the results of your actions like an adult" actually does imply he has some personal responsibility here. It's not helpful to the discussion and it's rude.
> I refuse to use a cellphone

Like at all? That immediately puts you in a pretty niche category.
Seems like a good project, but I'm not sure why I would choose this over something like Debian Sid though?
Product Hunt.
However most early adopters are very enthusiastic about their vertical, which puts them on the long tail, so they’d be easier to find in highly specific groups or through direct (perhaps even in-person) outreach.
Maybe try to find someone bitching about the problem recently on reddit?
It is mostly better sleep, one of the better coping mechanisms available to humans.

It is also the transition going from sheer terror of creating life, to accepting that there is no perfect parenting.
Wow that’s disheartening, almost makes me think it’s not worth applying… I’m outside the USA doing a hard tech problem involving a difficult industry with high capital costs… I think my chances are basically zero, why would YCombinator think some random company from Australia can revolutionise space construction…

Really disheartening when you add the fact they added a special early AI around to deal with the thousands of AI startups ( most of which are probably just built on ChatGPT and don’t have a lot of long term value proposition as the real value is coming from OpenAI’s APIs and then adding a thin layer of prompt engineering, a dash of industry specific knowledge, and a bunch of marketing, doesn’t really seem like something that companies won’t be able to easily replicate )
thanks for mentioning connections
something that is often conveniently omitted
> If you are using a JS based browser, you don't deserve security in first place.

In some cases, that is true, but not all, and I suggest not even most. In many cases, I think people are just as culpable for being unwilling to use Whonix.

> If I had time I could set up a tutorial not to use SSH as a proxy, but as a client to a remote VPS/tilde to use the offpunk client there to browse web/gemini and gopher sites anonymously.

https://github.com/browsh-org/browsh can be pretty decent, too.

Aside, it's a shame that it's not common practice to provide resource gleanings in the form of such access to random others from one's VPS. An easily reproduced NixOS environment in VM with locked down containers proxying through a local tor instance(s) would scale up alright and significantly limit risks for the donor. I find very few people take up the offer to even use another's VPS though.
The RDP interception tool used by the researchers: https://github.com/gosecure/pyrdp

I wonder if an "enterprise" version of this might exist so that companies can audit what their administrators do on high-impact systems.
Unless everyone feels exactly the same way, natural selection will dominate and behavior will change.

In 50 years, the childless people will be dead, and the children of breeders will be alive with children of their own. Rinse and repeat every 50 years.

Unless every person on earth is in agreement to not have children, the problem solves itself.
>I'm 27 and make ~$300k a year. When or even how can I make up for it? I'm clearly behind the people at Ivy+ schools right now.

I'd like to believe this is sarcasm but it probably isn't.
Authors from MIT: "Based on the band structure calculations we propose an effective model which could potentially harbor unconventional superconductivity, making this system a worthy one to study, regardless of whether the claim of room temperature SC will gain wide acceptance."
Thank you for answering. Best of luck with this idea!
Slightly related but sparsity-inducing activation function Relu is often used in neural networks
I think the actual issue is nuanced and complicated. I think it's fairly clear the tool in question that was non-generative AI is the kind of thing we want to allow under fair use. Whether we want to allow generative AI is more complex, I'd lean towards requiring a license because of non-deterministic duplication. Fair use is an important part of copyright law and we should be very cautious about eroding it. For example, I like Green Day's transformation of the scream icon and think it was substantially different enough that it should be allowed. The courts agreed under current transformation laws but if we weaken protection against transformation we likely reverse the ruling of cases like that as well.
It is demonstrably not the same audience, but I do agree that one is a subset of the other.

Also, notice that the usual line about "it's the merch, touring, etc that really makes money" is only true because of streaming. It's precisely because you make essentially nothing from "the music" anymore that the revenue stream from other things now matters more than ever. But with systems like Bandcamp, where the artist is collecting 85% of the gross per digital album download (which could be on the order of $4.50-$11.00 per sale) the balance between these things can shift quite a bit.

Of course, if you've got dedicated merch buyers, cooking up new merch is generally easier and faster than another album (though for some, maybe not).
AOL chat would bluescreen a Win95 box if someone sent a chat message like “}s\con\con” - }s was the directive to play a sound
It is probably mostly a reporting bias. Almost all new mathematical discoveries don't have simple pictures to draw and are about highly abstract concepts which are difficult to write about for a general audience.

Analysis is an extremely active field, PDEs have almost endless amounts of open research questions. Usually they are not very flashy and can be very non-geometrical.

Algebra is extremely hard to write about for a general audience. Trying to communicate any result which does not have a simple visual interpretation seems like a nightmare.

Numerics are often things where advances are hard to relay to an audience, as it usually is about incremental improvements instead of breakthroughs.
> The ad companies being able to know things about you without actually listening to you is even more scary.

This has been true for years to the extent that the nature of your purchases can tell a lot about you. https://www.forbes.com/sites/kashmirhill/2012/02/16/how-targ...
With so much pent up demand there must be new properties getting built all over these holiday spots, no?
It's not something I would ever use, so I don't want to have to pay for it. Its presence also implies that there are other things present that I actively object to, such as a touch screen interface and internet connectivity.
Vanilla OS is great too: https://vanillaos.org/

The unique selling point is its immutability as described here:

https://documentation.vanillaos.org/docs/almost/

> Immutability is meant to be used as a safety measure to prevent accidental changes to the system, so it should be kept enabled most of the time.
Does OnStar have that many paying subscribers? I know the cars come with X years of free service but are they really getting that many takers for years X+1 and beyond?
Hello,

I would be interested to learn more and potentially apply for this role. But do you have an email address to reach directly out to? Thanks
I just got a Rivian R1S and lack of CarPlay is by far the worst thing about the car. The built in Spotify app is janky, podcasts and music can’t continue where it left off, built in map seems to only direct me to busy roads. It’s so annoying I’m thinking of selling (for a profit).

Why is this happening? Car executives aren’t stupid, and must realize software is not core to their business. Unless they plan to start selling phones down the line they can never ‘win’ this battle. It’s clearly a huge waste of internal effort.

Does Apple try and take a % of the car sale as a license fee? Even if the fee were $2000 per car… that could be passed on to the car buyer. I would pay $2000 today to get CarPlay into my Rivian.
Because in most enterprise environments it's a welcome property to keep security updates separate from feature updates, which is not something rolling distro's provide, as they just follow upstream as fast as possible.

Say my enterprise application is built upon the API (in an abstract sense, if you will) of package xyz, version 1.0. And then xyz, version 2.0 comes out.

I would have to rebuild my enterprise application to be compatible with API 2 and I don't have the resources nor the incentive for that because I don't need API 2. Then a vulnerability gets reported in both xyz version 1.0 and 2.0 but xyz's maintainers only patch 2.0 (as 2.0.1).

In that case I am very happy that non-rolling (enterprisey) distro's like Ubuntu, CentOS, Redhat etc backport that security patch so I can keep running xyz version 1 (or rather 1.0.0-1 or something like that). Where most rolling distro's would just 'force' you to upgrade to 2.0.1.

Hope my explanation makes sense.
Nonsense. As a parent of an 8 & 10 year old, I'll emphatically disagree with you here. It 100% gets better - every year, they're more fun and more independent. Talk to any parent who's kid has just left for college and the vast vast majority of them actually feel overwhelmingly sad when it happens.
I am certain there is a self-selection bias there; responsible/present landlords were probably not the majority who jumped on this bandwagon.
just go with it, this is what we do in linux distro land, it doesn't have to make sense. It just has to sound cool when i tell someone what distro i've moved to for the 3rd time this week
Goals of going green in the semiconductor industry
Def worth getting into, and if you can't secure an Android job, at least you know Java, which isn't going away anytime soon. Def try and have a portfolio of non-trivial apps you could share during the hiring process.
"These people do completely irrational things like set half-empty bottles of water beside the trash can, because there's no recycling bin nearby. Now it's somebody else's problem"

In Germany we do this because there's a 25c (for plastic) or 8c (for glass) deposit on those bottles, so we leave them next to a bin in a public place (street or train station) for a poor person to pick it up.
There's a part in the documentary where they're interviewing the record label owner and when they ask him about it he immediately flips out and ends the interview.
That does sound kind of like a missed opportunity. Not sure why it's not like that.

The closest neovim equivalent I can think of is :term <command>
Gave it a quick spin today, looks awesome. Thanks!
Nothing is more important for numerics than a veey good grasp of analysis.
Use CP/M device names instead, I guess.
The US always has always had to do this because people die for all kinds of reasons, so this fact alone isn’t very interesting.

This would be an interesting article if the headline included an actual dollar amount that pointed out the excess write off due to deaths. This would be trivial for any actuary to calculate.
Just got an Airbnb in San Francisco for the month for my parents to visit: $7k/mo . Pretty good deal, imho. I would have gone for a Blueground if there were availability.

Also, a friend of mine has a home in Palm Springs that he Airbnb'd out two years ago. Now he just has the same people pay the same rate for a month every year. Works out for all.

I think the situation on the ground is actually pretty good.
No. But it's also complicated, as Matt did thinks beyond web spam. Matt worked within the search quality team, and he communicated a lot from search quality to the outside world about how Search works. After Matt left, someone else took over web spam. Meanwhile, I'd retired from journalism writing about search. Google approached me about starting what became a new role of "public liaison of search," which I've done for about six years now. I work within the search quality team, just as Matt did, and that type of two-way communication role he had, I do. In addition, we have an amazing Search Relations team that also works within search quality, and they focus specifically on providing guidance to site owners and creators (my remit is a bit broader than that, so I deal with more than just creator issues).
Yup. The typical use case is e.g. if someone logs in to your e-commerce site with their email and looks at a product but doesn’t purchase, then you can show them an ad for that product to try to remind them to go back and buy it.

It’s a really creepy feature though that can easily be abused.
It looks like grid cells!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grid_cell

If you plot a head map of a neuron in the hidden layer on a 2D chart where one axis is $a$ and the other is $b$, I think you might get a triangular lattice. If it's doing what I think it is, then looking at another hidden neuron would give a different lattice with another orientation + scale.

Also you could make a base 67 adding machine by chaining these together.

I also can't help the gut feeling that the relationship between W_in-proj's neurons compared to the relationship between W_out-proj's neurons looks like the same mapping as the one between the semitone circle and the circle of fifths

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/6f/Pi...
Its the standard nomenclature to use when you have graduated from Oxford with 7 years post matriculation https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Master_of_Arts_(Oxford,_Cambri...

I don't get the issue when this is a standard thing, was actually at Oxford same time as Mustafa Suleyman who dropped out and is doing just fine, as is Sam at OpenAI who also dropped out of Stanford.

So its not a qualification thing, nor is it a deliberate thing to mislead when that's how you're meant to identify your degree (still weird maths and computer science is an arts degree tbh there).
While I don't disagree with you, I also hope you don't live in the US and find yourself in a situation where you or a family member depend on your health insurance for survival.
News outlets demand new rules for AI training data
Gosh, I hope that Airbnb would burn in hell for all the market damage they've caused :-/
Arch is a very popular rolling release distro with a great community, which has (I think) really kicked off interest in the (superior, IMO) rolling release paradigm.

But, just like point release distros, people are going to want to try new things, and for some things they want to try, it’ll be easier to start a new project rather than somehow convincing the whole Arch community to try their thing. Arch is pretty conservative and sticks fairly close to upstream.

So, we’ll keep seeing new rolling release distros, and some of them will have good ideas, so they’ll stick around. Which is great, diversity is a sign of a strong ecosystem.
> people who can't figure out why their code can't produce the same result twice

It is well known that the Nvidia parallel processing optimizations cause non-deterministic results.

It's easy to get deterministic results as far as that goes. They've just elected not to do that, since it would run much slower.
Because it doesn't "just work" in the actual sense: namely, installing is an involved process. That's great for people who are into Linux, but that's not your audience if you're talking about growth.

Manjaro may have some hope: it's received a lot of criticism for the odd way the maintainers have set up some aspects of the distro, especially from Arch users. I've seen HN threads full of comments saying things like "why on earth would anyone use Manjaro when you can use Arch?". Those commenters miss the selling point of Manjaro: it's a rolling release for Ubuntu's target audience, and that target audience want one important thing Arch does not offer:

- an officially supported, opinionated installer of a fully configured Desktop environment
The big downside to me with CarPlay/Auto is that it doesn't leverage screen real estate properly. At least not yet. I end up with CarPlay/Auto on the main entertainment screen but with the manufacturer's system on the HUD and main cockpit screen - which I'd rather look at.
I think you're literally the only person on this thread making statements like that.
It is a good idea in SQL
The difference between an IRL hoarder and a digital hoarder is in the real world impacts.

Digital hoarding does not have the same consequences for those around you i.e family friends neighbors or your property. Real life hoarding destroys homes and can blight a neighborhood.

Here's a list of impacts one law firm posted regarding harmful "collection behaviors":

Mold growth

Pest infestations

Structural damage

Fire hazards

Tripping hazards

Respiratory diseases and infections

https://silverwrightlaw.com/impacts-of-hoarding-on-communiti...
Inside Russia's attempts to hack Ukrainian military operations