skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The college bubble is popping. Enrollment is down 15% from its 2010 peak. My intuition is that the bigger state schools will be well insulated financially, but smaller independent colleges will have a bloodbath.
My favorites were the ones that intentionally defined terms in the most outrageous ways.

One time the topic was something about allowing pilots to be armed in the cockpit.

After the first couple rounds we realized our jokers were scheduled to face an equal opponent for what promised to be an epic showdown:

Pro: Yes pilots should armed, because it is hard to fly a plane with only their feet.

Con: Pilots have no business in a cock-pit. Cock fighting is a horrible sport, not to mention being illegal in many states.

Sadly the opposing coach pulled their team before the round started.
If it wasn't purchased from an authorized Dell retailer then Dell really has nothing to do with it. With the way 3rd party Amazon Marketplace sales works, who knows what happened here.
I've never heard of patching containers.

Our build pipelines rebuild container images for every deployment. All you need to upgrade some dependency is to set a version number in the Dockerfile.

There's no "too" because that's the only place we deal with that kind of version dependency. (Not counting dependencies internal to a service, like libraries.)
I've been coding 40+ years and I use it reasonably regularly, for things that are trivial time waster type stuff. Like I need some powershell command to automate something that I know will be automatable. Less so for coding, but I have a IDE AI code generator (Codeium) that is often good at predicting what you want to do next, especially for boilerplate type stuff. Then there's the times you are heading into unknown and just need a starting point, for instance I asked it to write a discord bot that did X Y and Z, and it pretty much gave me a good shell of a program. Didn't really have to refer to any other documentation. It's often good at finding ways to do obscure things. Quite often I find it most useful with TSQL stuff, not so much for basic queries, but there's lots of inbuilt toys I've just never come across nor care to spend the time researching. I can't see how it would replace a junior developer though. If anything, it makes it easier for junior developers to get up to speed.
don't you need a full parse even just for create and alter statements since you could always encounter an "as" followed by arbitrarily complex sql?
Random tripping was a mechanic added in Brawl. In Ultimate, they dialed it back and now it's only a triggered action (and, at a lower rate than Brawl).

If anything, it sounds like they took in some feedback from the community.
My understanding is that trademarks require enforcement (i.e. why we can 'xerox' a page) but copyright is more vague and does not require immediate action?
No kidding. It's a shame so many of that "old guard" are married to some...pretty outdated ideas of what being trans is, but they still had to fight a lot of shit we don't.
Non-profits essentially have to be the ones to push the limits of laws like this, because it's not profitable, so for-profit entities aren't going to do it. But someone has to do it or you can never get a precedent saying that something good is actually allowed.

The problem is the RIAA knows this, because they have expensive lawyers, and they try to avoid proceeding with a suit unless they think their victim has made a mistake. So you have to get close enough to the line to at least make them think that, but then there is the risk that the judge thinks that too. Yet what alternative is there?
thanks! that's what we are trying to achieve
Dell very rarely builds things like this. They just buy them and slap their name on it.
I'm a bit concerned over the framing "prove that AI isn't harmful", as you can't prove a negative.

Just for comparison, the FDA doesn't require that drugs be proven not harmful per-se, just that the (often anticipated) therapeutic benefit isn't exceeded by harmful side effects (an oversimplification, to be sure). The bar is higher for new food ingredients intended for general consumption, but even those aren't held to a strict "not harmful" standard.
All sound like great reasons to not license and flout the law.
Same works for JSON. Naming JSON keys works for adjusting what the output is nicely, and you can comment in your definitions (by defining them in a JSON Schema, or inserting placeholder text like `"someKeyWithClarifyingDetails": <some detailed instruction>`)

I'm actually partial to CSV these days though, it can really cut down on response times just not needing to return all the extra tokens for JSON/XML delimiters
Wright's Book of Poultry (1911)
As far as I can tell, in the United States you cannot lose your copyright, even if you don't defend it at all.

A cursory glance suggests that BYU asserts the opposite (see Myth #11) https://copyright.byu.edu/copyright-myths.
There's a common belief that education is being underfunded in the United States, that the problem with schools is that they lack the budget to improve their learning outcomes. Statistically speaking, total spending on education had increased year on year, accounting for inflation, per student, since the 1970s. Conversely, test scores have remained relatively stagnant (see https://slatestarcodex.com/2017/02/09/considerations-on-cost... points to the problem lying elsewhere.
would be really fun to hook this up to Stardew Valley!
> I believe GPT-4 is not available to everyone yet

I still don't have access, except through the regular ChatGPT interface, which is mildly annoying. It would be interesting to experiment with the API.
It’s worth understanding the trade offs countries like France make to offer near free university education: https://voices.uchicago.edu/euchicago/the-problem-with-frenc...
Recent and related:

Colleges spend like there’s no tomorrow - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37074472 - Aug 2023 (8 comments)
I'm going to point out one potential footgun with your library: circularly-linked Drops.

If you have values A and B, both instances of T that implement Drop and hold a Gc<T> to one another, then either A sees a dropped B or B sees a dropped A, and you get UB. Technically this isn't a problem because you already marked it as an unsafe trait, but your documentation should also mention this problem.

You have a safe derive macro for Collectable, however, so it needs to reject Drop. This is possible with some weird macro magic[0].

For those wondering, while Python doesn't have UB, it used to enforce the same rules until PEP 442[1]. Circularly linked garbage that implemented __del__ would instead get stored in sys.gc.garbage and you'd have to go in there and break references on __del__ types. However, native code objects will actually still trigger this behavior[2] presumably to avoid UB.

I have no clue if Java finalizers need to worry about this.

[0] In Ruffle we use gc_arena as our garbage collector. It enforces no_drop in it's Collect derive macro. See: https://github.com/kyren/gc-arena/blob/master/src/gc-arena-d...

Actually, I lied: no_drop is one of two safe constraints you can use Collect with. The alternative is require_static, which only works because gc_arena treats the entire GC heap as a data structure that is owned and has a lifetime that all Gc pointers borrow. This doesn't work for dumpster, though, so ignore it.

[1] https://peps.python.org/pep-0442/

[2] https://docs.python.org/3/library/gc.html#gc.garbage
Sadly this bodes ill for the people suffering hearing loss from COVID vaccines. And STILL you have lowlives trying to bury this information (there's one in this thread). Why?

Try living with a 9 kHz tone in your ear 24/7. Tell National Geographic, NBC, hearing experts, vaccine researchers, and thousands of victims that it's "made up."

Hurry and "flag" this. Bury the information as fast as you can, so more people get hurt.

https://www.nationalgeographic.com/magazine/article/covid-va...

https://www.abc15.com/news/local-news/investigations/can-the...

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8443418/

https://www.news-medical.net/news/20220523/Pfizer-COVID-19-v...

https://www.nbcnews.com/health/health-news/tinnitus-rare-sid...

Facebook group for victims, with several thousand members: https://www.facebook.com/groups/265035901879921/

Don't try to pretend this is "anti-vax," because if the afflicted people hadn't gotten the vaccine, they wouldn't have discovered this side effect. In my case, it was a nearly useless second booster, which I never would have gotten if I had access to the information to weigh the risks and benefits. THAT is the huge crime in covering this up, and yes, it has been covered up. People could have opted to use N95 masks more diligently, for example, and skipped mostly-ineffectual boosters.
See: https://doc.rust-lang.org/cargo/reference/build-scripts.html
I was thinking the same thing. Back in the 70s we were promised jet packs by now…so far, bupkis. I am starting to think the bastards lied to us.
> This alternative system where the only folks allowed to own property are those who are born there is something I hear a lot of anti-housing people advocate and it's disturbingly similar to the hukou[1] system, which we probably don't want to emulate.

In many cities you can own land if you don't have hukou, or even Chinese citizenship. It was only in 2012 or so that Beijing instituted a residency requirement (but not a hukou requirement) for buying a house in the city (other cities have similar but still slightly different rules, so you have to do your research). Wenzhou housewives were the scourge of non-Wenzhou Chinese real estate markets before they started investing in real estate abroad.
People have been knowingly coming to work sick at my office now sadly. Same as it was pre pandemic. Thankfully I’m not required to go in. Very thankfully.
Why are all the other replies so mysterious and LARPy?

https://discord.io/ has been replaced with a termination notice, and they directly mention where the credentials are being sold. Google the name, it's the top result.

Leaked credentials are sold on the open internet, on sites indexed by search engines. This isn't some quadruple proxy Anonymous hacker TOR exclusive club.

Edit: One better - any time you hear Microsoft, or Google, or Crebs, talking about some new "advanced" "Russian" "APT", 9 times out of 10 it's a kid posting on one of these forums, reselling stale credentials, or a fork of Mirai, or some other totally non-credible threat.

This stuff is WAY less cool than people make it seem.
claude-1.2-instant came out last week and is doing extremely well at following schemas.

I'd say it's reached 3.5 turbo with the format following skills of GPT-4, which is powerful once you give it chain-of-thought
I'm not saying it's true or not true, but this is definitely the same story the school administrators are telling themselves.
Don't be cheap. Weddings are a special event. I would hate to receive an invite to a wedding in the exact same way I get assaulted with impersonal spam for penis enlargement pills and Bitcoin scams. Up your game and stay classy.
Stories rather frequently seem to exaggerate the novelty of ideas. They care more about readership than accuracy.
If there's no math requirement for major X, you can be assured that there are no jobs in X that pay more than minimum wage.

Besides, there's no excuse for not googling "starting salaries for X" before committing to it.
I think you are confusing Black Holes with Hawking Radiation . The later's status is basically exactly as you describe.
One problem is those cheap, generic sysadmins usually can't deliver a fully-automated end-to-end SDLC with IaC and automated deployment out of source control. And asking devs to do that without depending on managed services is slow and expensive.
> It generally worked better than [...] MS Teams in my experience

That's a very very very low bar to cross.
It depends. There aren't many multi-player games that weren't designed to be exports that get any traction these days.

The first few (Quake, Starcraft, CS1.6) were definitely more organically designed, but it's also more a product of the time and the budgets.
If I had to pick one it'd probably be proper support for score instructions that appear over multiple staves. I was involved in trying to design the feature and was supposed to help implement it but a change of circumstances at the time meant I didn't have time to dedicate to it, so a very-much-simplified version was developed separately. I gather basically it requires editing the template files to customise. I do remember there was significant debate over what such a feature should be called, and that the proposed name didn't really make sense to me (I think it was "system text" or something similar).
> Amazing how the carrying capacity of every location just happens to be exactly the number of people who live there at this moment in time

Not so surprising at all if you've studied game theory and equilibrium pricing.
The pyramids, as suggested by evidence, was NOT built by slaves, but by craftsmen. Which makes sense. You don’t get someone who you captured at war or pillaging or what have you, to build an intricate construct that requires a lot of skill and knowledge.
Until companies ditch the stupid degree requirement for jobs that obviously do not require a degree, everybody is going to suffer.

Fewer colleges mean:

1) People out of jobs. Teachers will lose their main income and the remaining colleges will have no incentive to increase their payroll because where are they gonna go?

2) Getting into a college will be even more competitive. As companies will still look for people with degrees, colleges can charge even more and candidates to study there will have less choices.

This will only change when NOT studying at a college has no impact in your future income. Or the impact is lesser than today.
I think it may be even more fun the other way, players need to rat out other players, do they have to pretend to be an AI.

It makes it easier for the AI mods to do the part and it puts the burden on the players.
Why. It just maintain them well, instead of building new structures every quarter?
I wonder if/when they’ll be desperate enough to hire people who solve their leetcode problems, but sub-optimally (eg O(N^2))
LED lights will change the world as incandescent bulbs phase out
Even more fine-grained, https://perldoc.perl.org/functions/use#use-VERSION

> ... Later use of use VERSION will override all behavior of a previous use VERSION,

> possibly removing the strict, warnings, and feature added by it ...
>Soros-type supervillain

As in, someone who survived the Holocaust and uses his money to promote democracy around the world?
The hypothetical series of events is like this:

1. PG&E adds a monthly surcharge that disproportionately affects those with high incomes

2. This makes those with high incomes switch to off-grid to avoid the surcharge

3. Assuming that high-income is a decent proxy for politically influential, now nobody who is politically influential cares if the grid is properly maintained

4. The poor now have an unreliable grid, while the wealthy are off-grid.
Another Dell tomfoolery: their laptops advertised with 100w usb-c charging actually does only 60w charging, unless you buy Dell's superduper usb-c charger. Regardless if you have usb p.d 3.0 or higher.
from https://www.nextavenue.org/determining-the-best-care-for-her...:

"Hope Lanter, lead audiologist for Hear.com, says that because people with congenital deafness don't have access to sound, "the dementia risk is not strongly correlated due to the brain not encountering a change in stimulation that occurs with late deafened adults."

However, congenitally deaf people do wear hearing aids and have access to some, or many, sounds. But there is apparently little to no research that has assessed the dementia risk for this marginalized group.

"There are no studies that I know of that confirm a higher risk of dementia for Deaf individuals," said Melissa Karp, a doctor of audiology with the Audiology & Hearing Services of Charlotte, located in Charlotte, North Carolina. "Members of the Deaf community have their own language with structure, syntax and interactions with others. You would also have to tease out other factors like genetics and socioeconomic status before making that determination.""
It's all about risk. Currently the loans don't factor in the associated risks, and therefore are unlimited streams of funny money.

The expected value of the degree, the cost of the degree program, chance of graduation, chance of employment, student risk factors (grades, attendance), etc. are important, yet not considered.

When pricing is artificially kept independent of the underlying risk model, it leads to the kind of huge distortion we see today.

All of this is immediately obvious, of course. But the counter argument has weight too -- that putting risk into the equation isn't equitable. Poor and underserved students won't receive the same access.

A healthy medium might be to allow federal loans to continue for only programs with an expected value in four years that exceeds that of the degree program cost plus loan interest plus double the cost of living. Basically, just STEM, nursing, radiology, etc. at mostly community colleges and state universities. If you want an art school history major, you need a real loan.
> You can't "append compiled code into a module" when templates can completely change the code that would've been compiled.

Why can't you, I don't believe the standard says anything about the intermediary compiled unit of the module that would block it from doing so, I haven't dug into the implementations but I'd imagine they effectively create a static library analog of the compiled code and some analog of a header file for use in other compilation units, so say you're wanting to use std::vector<int> it can just look and see if that's already present in the module, if not instantiate it and then write it to the 'static library analog'
You know its funny. California lawmakers want to "make social media saferx, sounds good. Texas lawmakers want to protect children from pornography, oh no they're burning books!

To be clear, I think any and all government and corporate restrictions on the free flow of information should not happen. I'm opposed to both. Just pointing out the double standard.
Ok so:

- for what energy/processing cost per validation?

- how much of the input space was tested (unicode chars, escaped chars, newlines, etc)?

- are you doing this as a service? We've seen LLMs already evolve negatively in some capabilities over time, so do you have a constant "ping" test suite validating the LLM's performance?
Can we all just agree that colleges not the US government should be on the hook for unpaid loans? I’m all for loan forgiveness if it comes out of the universities’ coffers.

In fact let’s take this to the next level, automatic wage garnishing but still ensure former students have a livable income, but after 15 years if the loan isn’t paid off, the university is on the hook for the rest.
Is total spending per student really sufficient as a means of tracking whether enough is being spent though? I'd imagine that the costs per student have risen a greater rate since the 70s than spending has. Between things like needing to pay for computers and IT infrastructure, accommodation programs for those with special needs, and so on it seems to me that it's actually remarkable in someways that test scores have even managed stagnancy rather than a decline.
They should have just raised a series J.
People are obviously saying "DMCA takedown request" when they mean "generic takedown request" and arguing about whether the DMCA is the kind of takedown request to make in this case is missing the point.

If they don't want it there, did they ask to have it removed before going to court, or did they do the thing vexatious jerks do?
And the longevity, I feel (though we're staring down the barrel of TF2 still being played) - you just didn't have as many AAA games back then, and the ones that you did get you played hard; especially if nothing else really "caught your eye".

It felt like everyone who played games played all the big ones even if they weren't huge fans of a particular one; so everyone understood somewhat what was happening in a Starcraft match.
This doesn’t really make sense for state institutions. If I am a state institution, why do I need to compete for students?

If students have choice, then isn’t my job complete? I’d suspect that spending on premium faculty would have a better chance at business generation than saddling students with debt for stadiums.
The converse is definitely true: people move from Hawaii to the mainland USA all the time because they can't handle the costs and want to live in a SFH (or some other luxury they had to forgo for island life).
I don't think you fully understand your own point.
Scott Aaronson, also mentioned in the sibling comment, has pretty good lecture notes that take a similar approach: https://www.scottaaronson.com/qclec.pdf

This is very much becoming the "standard" way to teach quantum information science.
But the hedge fund that owns the record company that will own the rights to your song won’t earn any money! How can you live with that future moral tragedy after you die?
What coal and Jevons’ paradox tell us about AI and data
The problem, loosely, is that the US claims that the rules don’t apply to it.

Not a citizen of the US? No problem-actually, all the better since it doesn’t have to follow “…”.

The US pretends that its law extends and applies everywhere when it says so, damn the rules or consequences.
I think I've spent too much time on reddit, because in comparison all the comments here seem quite reasoned, calm, and insightful. And then there's YouTube, and comments on news sites... I guess it's all relative.
>where pagers from 12am to 5am were guaranteed, and you'd have to dig through thousands of lines of someone else’s SQL

Jfl … can’t find the words …
I must be weird, because I paid no attention to facilities, etc., when I looked for a university. I looked at the value of the engineering education they provided, and that was about it.
> It was kind of shady how everybody was rushing to get solar earlier this year so they could get grandfathered in before NEM 3 took effect, making all these complicated long-term ROI calculations, but this other new policy that would invalidate all those calculations was kept secret until after NEM 3 took effect.

Since this surcharge is independent of usage, this shouldn't affect the solar calculation, right? That is, if you don't install solar you pay $USAGE + $SURCHARGE, if you do install solar you pay $USAGE+$SURCHARGE-$SOLAR. The total dollars saved with solar should be identical, unless you were banking on a per-kWh increase.
recent, and inadvertently wrong: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37090403

I did archive the same story, but failed to include the URL. Duh.