skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>>So closing the gap to make universities free to the public would involve (in most cases) more than doubling the current level of state/federal funding.

Or, a mix of increasing the level of state/federal funding and closing down a portion of the roughly 1900 public colleges[1] around the country. Unfortunatley, as soon as this approach is used, then the "access" problem rears its head since public colleges that are shutdown require more students to commute/reside further away from their home towns.

[1] https://nces.ed.gov/fastfacts/display.asp?id=1122
I had just been looking at open source status pages this morning, and this was not in the list I was looking at.

OP, you might want to d a PR here: https://github.com/ivbeg/awesome-status-pages

Everyone else might be interested in that list of similar projects.
That's easily possible, but wouldn't it still be in the Ukrainians' interest to let Uralvagonzavod think that for as long as possible whilst obtaining manuals, diagrams and other assistance? I certainly wouldn't be tipping-off the press about my tactics for misleading Russian armaments suppliers if I was a Ukrainian.
Yes, Small modular reactor (SMR) nuclear technology is the way to go in the future.
Having only read the abstract, I'm probably way off the mark here, but my first thought was: LLM + LSTM.
X Corp is now suing a sublessee for unpaid rent
well, if i am the one pushing for free education then i hope that those who did receive free education will recognize the benefit they received from that education and continue to vote for me, or for anyone else pushing in the same direction
He sounds a bit paranoid to be honest.
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It's really hard to get good info on it, from trying to find sources previously most tend to hide their funding sources, but the best I've found tend to be that even in the US counties with the dirtiest power generation you're breaking even on carbon footprint after a couple years of average use and given how recyclable the batteries are (we really need to ramp up on how much we're actually doing that though) unless there's a fire even if a car is totalled before it breaks even the bulk of the carbon footprint (the battery) can be recycled at a much lower footprint than the initial mining.
I dunno... it's expensive in the short term but you end up with an energy infrastructure that makes you energy independent and where costs will only go down over time since solar/wind/batteries are all on a Moore's law like cost trajectory.

Fossil fuels meanwhile will on average only get more expensive over time because they are being depleted, and this isn't considering other externalities besides CO2 emissions.

There are reasons besides climate change to get off fossil fuel.
This is not really remote
what an asinine article. If these were non-rechargeable batteries sure yeah that would be bad. But shocking as it may be to the authors, it’s possible to car batters are not single use like gas and gasp gasp are often owned by people with sole panels on their roof, at least in California

Even going by their own likely biased metrics, the break even is only 25% of the average car lifetime mileage. Or about 50% of the battery warranty lifetime.
i'm jealous. and i know exactly what you mean.
No no, consume! Think of the shareholders!
I always say this, but again, thank you to everyone that submitted the the issues that have also been addressed.
The view that "you have _your_ money and then the government takes it away from you" ignores that without the society that you are inserted in, the very concept of money would be meaningless. More accurate to say is that part of the social contract for participating in a society that enables you to """make""" that money is that you have a pay a "fee", i.e. taxes (among other things, e.g. abiding by laws which are democratically decided, etc).

Society is a mutually beneficial arrangement. I agree that you should be able to "opt out" and live in a homestead way out in the forest, and that if you do so you should be exempt of taxes. But unless you live in a Kazynscki cabin, that view makes no sense.
Toronto's Airbnb regulations are unenforced
> "Holding that $5" means invested in ownership of the busines, investing in its future (including better machines, more locations, more employees), and incentives all around to keep it productive and healthy.

1) That's not what the parent meant by "holding that $5." They didn't mean investing it, they meant electing not to spend it. It isn't used to buy coffee, not is it put in the bank, it is put under the mattress (per say).

2) That is not how modern investing works. If you invest $5 into a company, that company does not get $5 to grow their business. Modern investing is quite different than the idea many of us were taught as a kid. Angel and seed investing are more related to this concept you are implying, but not the type of investing most people do: i.e. buying something on the NYSE. That kind of investing has extremely different metrics for success that do not necessarily rely on generating better products or even a "better business." (different metrics are often used to define this -- state yours and you'll start a hot thread -- so quotes)
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> My parents couldn't afford anything…

Not saying its the right way, but grew up without a lot of financial resources, no money specifically to pay for college, and I went to a private 4 year engineering program starting in 1999 by taking out boat-loads of loans. Going into school I had nothing and needed 100% of my tuition covered by loans, grants, or scholarships.

I was reasonably confident that having an engineering degree would allow me to pay back the loans (it did, but it didn't go as smoothly for all of my classmates).

Based on my experience, I don't really understand the idea of not being able to afford college (at least for degrees which will put you in reasonably paying positions). Am I an outlier? I doubt it. I didn't go to a particularly well known school, but was able to figure out employment and self-sufficiency. Now I have the pride of finishing a relatively difficult program and paying for it through my own labor.

Medical professionals, engineers, and the like have so many opportunities that it's not clear why we should subsidize their education. Educators, on the other hand, have to pay the same price for a degree, have to have continuing education, and then get paid crappy wages. While I'd rather reward them on the back end with better benefits, if there is a program worth subsidizing, it's probably educators.
> Which is why working at the office is important.

I'm so glad you opened up this avenue for follow-up. Even when working at the office, people are not at their desks 100% of the time. People are still human beings and are out of the office for any number of legit reasons that have nothing to do with remote working: dental appointments, work travel, interviewing candidates, vacation, sick leave, etc. Regardless of how you organize your workplace or what mandates you set, people are going to be out all the time. So your knowledge sharing is among the best who are available right now, not necessarily the best sources.

> Somewhat true, but this is completely unavoidable. I know of zero cases where all institutional knowledge is recorded and not siloed in humans. Of course there are degrees.

The key again is the degrees. An organization can choose to bias toward using modern tools or not. "Modern tools" here also broadly includes "writing" because it provides so many advantages over synchronous conversations for knowledge sharing.

> This is why teams exist, why hierarchical organizations exist throughout history, and proper separation of work is crucial.

Here I call your attention to geography. There are any number of reasons for staff to be located where they are, and staff don't typically work on a single project over their careers. This means they will change teams from time to time. Combine these facts and you're going to end up with teams composed of people who live in different places, where it might not make sense to relocate staff (e.g. project only lasts a year).

An example might be: implementation consultants for a software company based in Chicago working onsite at a client in Germany. I suppose you could move the whole software company to Germany, but that only scales to one client. Which also highlights that people are often on multiple teams at the same time.

These concerns are most salient in the most hierarchical organizations, which tend to be the largest and have the largest geographic footprints.
Thank you for mentioning this! I tend to open a lot of tabs all at once and then read them one at a time. I got hit with the 403s suddenly the other day (when setting up a new laptop, terrible timing) and it flabbergasted me for about 45 minutes. When I got to the office it all worked just fine, so I never had closure.
Why Silicon Valley Falls for Frauds
Dotenv Is Dead
macOS Sonoma can be installed on 83 unsupported Macs with this tool
This is like agreeing with a judicial that treats people as guilty until they're proven innocent.

Bad things happening in some cases is not justification for treating everyone as a criminal. That's how totalitarianism starts.
Also been really enjoying Kagi, just converted to the $10/mo unlimited searches plan even before my trial ran out because it's such a breath of fresh air!
> Video conf still sucks.

I agree it sucked Pre-Covid, but now it just works. We mostly use Teams. We are RTO 2 days a week, but most work meetings are still in Teams. Demoing is way easier because you can simply share your screen rather than carrying your laptop to the various meeting rooms.
Right, this is new hype for an old concept. It's mostly load management, with some batteries.

Calling this "virtual power plants" is deceptive. It doesn't generate power. It just moves the load around in time a bit. There are limits to how much benefit that can yield. At some point, customers will want to heat their water or charge their car.

Much of this is a attempt to deal with the problem of intermittent wind power. Wind power varies about 4:1 over the course of a day. Here's today's graph for CAISO, for the West Coast.[1] And for PJM, for the East Coast[2]. Both had about a 4:1 range today, and for both, it bottomed out about now, in late morning. A huge tie line from California to Pennsylvania would not have helped. Peak wind output today was before dawn, which is the lowest period for load.

At least with solar you know when there's going to be output. But even that can vary about 2:1 from day to day in PJM's area.[3]

The important question to ask is, if the grid has N hours of storage, how often is there a power shortage? What should N be? A few hours? A few days?

[1] https://www.caiso.com/TodaysOutlook/Pages/supply.html

[2] https://dataviewer.pjm.com/dataviewer/pages/public/wind.jsf

[3] https://dataviewer.pjm.com/dataviewer/pages/public/solar.jsf
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The Unlikely World Leader Who Just Dispelled Musk’s Utopian AI Dreams
Sorry, I was referring more to sense of entitlement vs what people actually have to do for their job. To me, coming into the office twice a week for the salary I get just isn’t that big of an ask.
The author is a furry. Being a furry is pretty common and I bet even more people would be willing to engage with it if it weren't for comments like this.
There was an entire subreddit about it.
The ads on this page make it unreadable on a mobile device.
This company cannot die fast enough. Lets all hope OpenAI makes Google Search obsolete.
What benefit do I have with using zstd over the rest? Is there any?
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Quotes in here are gold:

“When the Mac came out, I was the only developer who said it was a piece of shit.”

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I'm not sure that's true, generally. I've set up Win11 several times in the past few months. My first step is always to run Edge and use that to search for and download Firefox, and I've never had problems.
I don't know how someone can look at this and not conclude that it's very probable the human brain follows a very similar sequence of steps when we use our own imagination to picture, say, a certain shirt being worn by a cat.

It's either that, or else there are multiple totally-unrelated methods of achieving essentially the same outcome.
> Windows has become fairly good over the years at keeping the core UI responsive even when the system is under heavy load.

I would say that's debatable. There are fewer complete freezes that require a restart, but things like the task manager (can't get much more core than that), which used to be instantly available and responsive if the machine was recoverable at all, now can take tens of seconds to show up and and respond to interactions under heavy load.
The thing the article talks about is: not charging for tuition, ever. It's not some kind of loan program or pay later program. Those programs have been discussed, are in place in certain places (australia for example), but is not what people are talking about here.

Unless you are saying "if everyone goes, and everyone pays taxes, it's a wash"? In which case, that's not close to the reality of the situation. As a percentage of the population, attendees of in state public universities is low and always has been. If you don't think that some subset is being subsidized by the general population is good, that's a reasonable argument, but to suggest it's a wash just isn't accurate.
My seven year old grandson was given a new Chromebook on his first day of second grade in Upper St. Clair, Pa., along with each of his classmates. It stopped working after two weeks and he came home the next day with a new one.
Have you ever read with other people, like in school or a book club, or been somewhere that there were other people around? It's an interesting move by the author; the loneliness epidemic hasn't gone unnoticed.

eg https://www.npr.org/2023/05/02/1173418268/loneliness-connect...
You don't seem to understand what a conditional is.

_Given_ that I want to study React in the woods, how should I do it?

Whether or not to study React in the woods is completely irrelevant.
I've never seen that happen. Are you sure that is a common experience?
Imagine all the schools with Chromebooks deployed, suddenly there's an option for their own IT staff to easily replace broken parts instead of buying new Chromebooks or sending them elsewhere to repair. Decent market for that.
Sure, I agree that they will require unique solutions, but the general trend of economies of scale providing efficiency benefits suggests to me that the biggest problems are political rather than logistical.
Browsing with a Pihole really is eye-opening for the "drives up advertiser expenses" bit; I'll Google a thing, click the (very subtle) ad, get a Pihole block, then go down to the actual first result to get to the same spot.
This isn't surprising, frankly. AVs have a history of accidentally removing other software. That a browser that does really sketchy things (ie: things malware does) was flagged is not news, it's just an unfortunate bug.

I see no malice here.
The best Google alternative I’ve tried yet
tl;dr it’s Kagi
>The people on the assembly line would look at you like the most spoilt people in the world.

Sure, then have then design a database schema with a half ass business spec, and the'll realize why.
Increased documentation is a cost you pay no matter what, you just pay it later in other formats when in-office - when the SME you treat as a guru finds a better-paying gig you have to scramble to rebuild their expertise from nothing or hope they are nice enough to do a thorough knowledge transfer. That kills productivity far worse and for longer than taking 30m at the end of your day updating some shared wiki.

All this to say, the trade-off you're proposing doesn't exist. You're arguing for paying twice instead of paying once - twice in the sense that you lose productivity now via random interrupts, and in the future when your siloed knowledge leaves you high and dry. Hope the "other things" you got done instead of documenting were worth it in that scenario.
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Huggingface tutorials are a decent starting point.

The HF toolchain is pretty mature and most llm finetuning projects are a wrapper around HF models, HF Trainer and some config templates.

An LLM by default would be trained like in the example below, but it would take a lot of VRAM and time.

https://huggingface.co/docs/transformers/training

That’s where things like PEFT LoRa, gptq and accelerate contribute to make your training faster/require less VRAM so you could do it on a consumer GPU with 16-24GB.

For example: https://huggingface.co/docs/peft/quicktour

Then for the tips and tricks, either reddit as suggested by a sibling comment, or Discord communities. Huggingface, EleutherAI and LAION discord servers are all great and have super helpful, friendly and knowledgeable people.
The security agent wouldn't likely know that tho, the guy just opened his mouth in a way that made him look like a threat. Would you go through security and tell them you are a black belt in karate and know 7 different ways to kill them? That would be a stupid thing to say? This is no different.
Okay that makes more sense.
>>I don't follow the logic the author is using.

The article argues that public colleges being free "[...] will alleviate the student debt crisis and enable low-income students, particularly those of color, to go to college."

Your point about elite schools still existing can (and will) be true at the same time in this hypothetical universe where US public college tuition is free.
Fun fact: NTFS on C: is extra slow.

A Python script creating 10000 empty files takes 1.2s on C:, but only 0.5s on D:.
Both are NTFS partitions on the same SSD, both partitions are using the default settings. (but the defaults differ: on the system drive Windows enables compatibility features such as 8dot3names, on additional partitions it does not)
NPR is a demonstrably corrupt media org
Is the article saying "average" as in mean or median? It's hard for me to imagine that the mean would be particularly meaningful, since the wealthiest people not spending billions of dollars per year seems like it would offset an enormous chunk of people with no savings whatsoever, but it's also hard for me to imagine that a statistic from a publication not making the distinction explicit would be both competent enough to know which to use and unscrupulous enough not to try to exploit the ambiguity. If this is the median, I'd be similarly curious to you, but if it's the mean, I don't feel like I know the total sum of all incomes in the US with high enough precision to gauge whether 16% is more or less reasonable than 6% or 26%.
I agree with the 'stop arguing over elite schools' bit. To me, elite schools look like a huge waste of money and I urge anyone considering an elite school to study the law of diminishing returns. To other people, going to such a school is absolutely worth it and crucial to their life plan.

Let them charge what the market will bear and let them accept students within the same framework that any other business follows when determining what customers to work with.

Part of what makes so-called elite schools elite is scarcity, so even if you completely rewrote how they operate, the number of actual students affected would be too small to move the needle anyway.
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It is close to that in the US. In middle school you are put on an advanced/honors track and without it you won't get AP or other advanced classes in high-school. You can make all A's and won't be anywhere near the top of your class because A's in those advanced class are usually set up to count for more on your GPA.
I think HN has more than earned the benefit of the doubt here. I've been visiting this forum well over 10 years and have never noted heavy handed moderation[1]. When I've looked at banned users there is always a clear track record of abuse/violation of rules/spamminess. HN breaks sometimes but there's a big difference between intentional and unintentional DoS

[1] I don't like the shadow banning though
You describe what sounds like slow moving places. When rapid reactions are required then even just being able to hear commotion a few rows of seats away can be quite valuable. Doesn't mean people cannot write questions well, but sometimes forcing attention now matters.
I used to work on an anti malware team. There were two controversial issues that related to that work that I want to bring up here.

First, what is malware? It’s actually very hard to define in such a way that makes everyone happy. The line gets really blurry on the border of nuisance vs malicious, and on security tools, which might do things in the name of privacy that malicious software might do to hide its tracks.

The other issue is false positives. We tried really hard to avoid false positives; we ran tests with known good binaries to see if they were inappropriately detected, etc. We feared false positives more than false negatives.

I am sure that the MS antimalware team is having a bad day and not acting in bad faith.
Without any knowledge of what they're really doing: automated sandbox analysis is a common tool. They could also be doing reputation analysis of the submitter.
So let me get this straight. To improve team morale, individual morale has to suffer, is that what you are saying?
It was from a book recommended to me by a family member that I learnt that; I recall that I too breathed with my chest. Perhaps it is the instinctual or cultural tendency to "puff out one's chest" that leads people to get into the habit?

Upon learning this about five years ago, I've made a deliberate effort to breath with my diaphragm more, so it's certainly possible to learn the 'correct' habit!
more accurate to say that, while 500,000 people joined the discord by clicking a link, some much, much smaller number are actually active on any sort of a regular basis