skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think the first task in this sort of convo is to convince the audience (client) that we are necessarily profoundly ignorant. You cannot predict prices, you cannot predict interest rates, and so on --- its still always a little suprising to see the shock in their eyes.

No, indeed, the thing you've been asked to do is an exercise in risk management -- there is no statistical reality to the predictions here; ignore them.

So, i'd still say that opener is vital. I try to move on to ensemble scenario modelling prose-style by several experts, etc. then, eventually, i tell them about geometric brownian motion -- only when i'm convinced they're absolutey certain it's smoke-and-mirrors

And that therefore they are aware that their job is primarily to manage risk, and a statistical model is only one minor (often blinding) tool in that box

If you need a point estimate, so be it, but claw it from my cold dead fingers. Most of the world isnt knowable, sorry to disappoint. Now go actually manage your damn responsibilities
RaspberryPi can host Wireguard VPN... Not sure if they are available again though
Where and when I went to school, there was also a bell-curve to the classes that have a natural semester for students to take them (e.g. if most students take a class in the Fall, the Spring semester class will tend to have poorer students).
I admit you have a point. You could say in a sense it's not that type of book where plot matters lots, maybe it's just how I read it as a child... though I still don't get why someone would describe straight up what happened in the book.

Thanks for not spoiling btw, I should add 6th sense to the list, heard the title before but didn't know it's by Shyalaman
its got 'for k in list {}' (https://nature-lang.org/docs/the-basics/control-flow#iterati...) though array.for_each(lambda) is a better way to go, imho.
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At Harvard, "A" is for "Average."
You can usually do a three finger tap for middle mouse which isn’t as convenient but it works
Exactly. A relative of mine works for a fine furniture company in the Midwest, they have a production line making high-quality items with traditional joinery and actual hardwood and hardwood veneers. We were shopping for furniture for our house and needed a big dresser, I reached out and their version cost $8,000. That would support American jobs and my relative directly, but $8,000! We ended up with a West Elm one in a similar style for $1,800. A Walmart one with cheap particle board could be had for $800. Even if the Walmart one only lasted 5-years, you could buy 50-years worth for the same price as the US-made one.

Weighing "Value" means you need to consider many dimensions and people have different weights, priorities and abilities to service those dimensions.

At some level, a dresser is just a box for my t-shirts and socks. Similarly a link-shortening website probably doesn't need a typesafe, fully commented code base.
Why not regular ascorbic acid?
It looks like the 23k year old human footprints at White Sands are solid
> Could be wrong but don’t think you can upgrade with a command like Debian. Have to save config and reflash again. Hope not.

I think most people upgrade via reflashing through the admin interface (GUI). Read [1], "Can you keep settings?"

My experience is old, so I won't comment on the rest of the points.

[1]: https://openwrt.org/docs/guide-user/installation/generic.sys...
You don’t even need unsafe to reproduce unsafe behaviour on Linux.
You can just read and write to `/proc/self` and modify memory arbitrarily.
If you have `std::fs`, then you have `unsafe`, then you’ve got everything.

In general, sandboxes don’t work well at the language level. You really need to go at the system level.
Been dealing with the same stuff across multiple very popular repositories for years now. I've lost most faith in the CVE system and overall tend to take reports significantly less seriously than when I first started receiving them.

Most other maintainers I've talked to feel very similarly. I just had an interview with a research group a few days ago who said this wasn't an unpopular opinion, either.

This approach to security is extremely harmful overall, and I'm glad Daniel is speaking frankly about it. He's spot on.
Emergency Denial of Service. There was so much requests to police that everything just froze up. Complete impotency by government. Sad.
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laziness and productivity are intertwined, no? They are both relative, but I find it hard to say someone is "lazy" if they only put 30 hours in but outperform the rest of their team by a decent margin. That only works if you think you can get 33% more productivity out of them personally if you pushed harder.

I think it's a notion worth considering in such a conversation.
It always surprises me how some people are shocked a plot of P(student learned the class material well) is starkly different from P(student learned the class material well | student was hard-working enough to secure admission through one of the most selective* processes).

* Minus the legacies and the atheletic admissions I guess.
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If you write it "LORA" then people won't know if you mean "LoRA" or "LoRa".

Microsoft already created this huge confusion, so I'd recommend you help not make it worse by using the relevant capitalization.
No reference I know of. I'm just struggling to balance on the one hand each field's demand to be taken seriously (and since the public doesn't take them seriously, experts appeal to legislators for validation), and on the other hand the Brandeisian push against Bigness that arises after decades of regulatory capture.

I have no stake in a11y, but I hear the same appeal re software correctness and statistical significance and many other individually reasonable asks, that nevertheless add up to a gridlock of regulations.
Its certainly a common-enough phenomenon, what makes it specific to the topic is the specific factual disagreement relevant to this issue that people just assume a side on.
How does this differ from stoplight.io?

Is it just another theme (not that we can’t use another theme)?
The article linked doesn't add much but if you read the original report[1] it shows the percent of A's going from 60% in 2011 to 70% in 2019 and then 79% in 21. The report is about the rate of change, not so much the actual value.

The original article is more interesting as well in that it talks about the anxiety that grades bring and if abolishing grades altogether something to consider.

1: https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2023/10/5/faculty-debate-...
It can be labeled, but this does not stop the thief from moving it. Otherwise, the network would need to fork, which will never happen for somethign like this. Even if it did fork, he would still be left with pre-forked coins, which would be worth something. In the case of the Ethereum Dao hacker, the thief still got Ethereum Classic coins worth millions.
The reverse of that is the 4-in-one replacement remote with it's bazillion buttons.

It's like a 747 cockpit.
that was it! i had to make my profile public (not my shelf)
That place that rejected me on GPA post-interview actually asked for my transcript after hearing my GPA to see if they could justify hiring me based on which classes I passed or failed. I was a rather equal-opportunity poor student, so that was not a success.
That doesn't solve the problem of a monopoly whatsoever. And monopoly by definition (even in the fantasy world of Econ 101) is a market failure.
You're not necessarily wrong, but you may also be throwing stones from a glass (Substack) house. Barely made it past the fold before I was nagged with a Substack popup.
My takeaway from the original article was "how dare Meta release model weights when the safety could be removed so easily", which is evidence that Meta doesn't really care. They are being asked to do the impossible, but without any teeth (there are no "AI safety" laws), so they didn't do the impossible. I think that's fine and society is better off for it. People are doing neat things with Llama-2, quickly.

As for safety of the brand, I'm guessing that people don't know that Meta is Facebook and Instagram, so even if an AI safety incident somehow blew up (which my limited imagination cannot even comprehend, perhaps I should ask an AI), people would probably keep using Instagram.
Could be worse. Remember the crypto / blockchain hype of 2 weeks ago?
SHA was withdrawn after publication and replaced with a stronger version[0].

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SHA-1#Development
That strikes me as incredibly confident that humanity (and developed countries), will avoid even some of the pessimistic consequences of climate change, let alone some of the potentially dire scenarios. Please share why you are so confident.
I could use a mood boost on this friday... :)
Having a REST API client for experimenting in a documentation turns out to be wishful thinking. Its a toy compared to full-blown testing client such as thunder or bruno. Its probably for the best to save the effort and just make documentation itself better and more customizable.
It also never would have been released without gamepass, so we have some evidence that Microsoft acquisitions don't all end terribly
Is there a way that a non-– aircraft actor could measure this?

That is to say: could I establish a fixed ground station that measured these events and somehow augment this data from airplanes?
Be sure to check out the videos in the Supplemental Material section.
There's an interesting new paper about this problem: https://arxiv.org/abs/2310.02226

"Think before you speak: Training Language Models With Pause Tokens"

Basic idea is to teach the LLM to occasionally insert a "pause" token, which outputs nothing but gives it a chance to perform another round of operations on the way to the answer.
I didn't. What broke was now embedded videos (at least in iOS Safari) no longer work and I have to click to see them in the app.
The author of that paper, an economics professor, agrees with my definition: https://twitter.com/ole_b_peters/status/1450761675049734144
Oh come on. Why even have a title bar at that point. Why not just stick a little tab on the side and get rid of the title bar entirely.
It's honestly so short sighted. From a corporate liability standpoint, I get that hosted services need to avoid giving out harmful information, but trying to coral that from a software perspective is going to be impossible.

Pandora's box has been opened, and nobody is capable of closing it. Even if the corporate models exceed the FOSS models right now, the FOSS models we'll have even a year from now will put all of the corporate models to shame.
I wonder if a lot of the hostility was the result of cost cutting to prepare the company for sale?
I mean curves apply artificial scaling to data of course how one decides to apply them. In some contexts it means that there's always someone failing because in the pool of data you're fitting to, they performed the worst (relatively speaking) but perhaps only in that pool.

Overall the worst performer could be excellent in a bigger/wider context. There's no standard "curving" procedure which leaves a lot of ambiguity and potential variation in the results. Often someone just means fitting it to a normal distribution and scaling accordingly. Not everything makes sense in a normal distribution even though people like to default to it in the absence of a known distribution.

This gets even more complicated when you start talking about arbitrarily curving across different work, perhaps different courses, across different semesters and so on. Overall you may end up with some weird weighted distribution of your actual performance that's a bit nonsensical. I'm not here to say tests are great metrics but consistency in metrics is usually a good thing or at least a consistent process for attaining them.
I see the potential in D, what I think it needs is a batteries included web framework maybe built on top of Vibe.d or forked from Vibe.d that means you don't have to piece together all the missing pieces. The more you can get done OOTB in a language, the more likely you are to use a language / framework.
Or change your monitor's colour temperature setting. It probably defaults to 6500K, and you want something in the 5000K–6000K range.
My recollection is that asking for undergrad GPA used to be pretty common--and maybe even transcript (though I don't really remember and certainly don't remember discussions about specific class grades). Though I got a Master's directly after undergrad so I may not have had the standard post-undergrad interview experience.
They are those that disable HTTP.

Like it was not enough to make HTTPS default, they need to eradicate the opposition.

The list is too long to enumerate but they all have one thing in common; they profit from root certificates.

The web is not faster, it's bloated. It's only open if you can understand it and implement it.

HTTP/1.1 is the fastest, most open, web you'll ever have; because it is small.
true, I wonder what will happen co COD
Well, my N+1 anecdata is that Lightning is a poor choice for most devices. For example: I own a Magic Trackpad, a Mac peripheral I use with my Linux desktop. As Mac hardware, it should connect to the Mac connector, USB-C. Curiously though, you need a Lightning-to-USB cable in order to facilitate that. Their desktop peripheral uses a mobile connector... it's almost baffling. If I didn't know any better, I'd accuse them of using their vertical control to force licensed IP down their user's throats like they do with the App Store.

Apple might as well have announced Lightning would last 20 years, for how little it evolved in the past 10 years. For the first half of it's life it was a welcome replacement to the godawful 30-pin connector, and for the last half of it's life it was a sluggish ecosystem liability. Everyone I've known who is a casual Apple customer shares the same sentiment, the only people I've known who defend Lightning are fully "bought in" anyways. Again though, just my own anecdote; reflect on that however you please =)
It's completely possible to build an EV that isn't connected. The idea that electric power means networked spying is an invented fiction. Due to the privacy-conscious background of one automaker, a vote by the board mandated that all their cars be able to function in a completely disconnected, non-reporting mode:

https://www.wsj.com/articles/porsche-rolls-out-board-approve...

And they all do, even their EV. I voted with my wallet.
It was very common for on campus recruiting. And, really, there it makes some sense? Even if you disagree with the idea that people can be ranked, at large, if everyone is aware of the ranking and working with it, you are almost certainly best served getting the people that are excelling at what they are trying to get ranked at.

As soon as you open up your search to things across rankings, or in areas without rankings, though, I can't but imagine the utility of it drops off?
The desiccant is salt so that may help. Legionaires also likes a very specific temperature range, so raising it above a certain tempreture for a short period is enough to remove it.
The information is about the 2020-2021 grades, which is to say the height of Covid in the US. I would not generalize.
[...] One could conclude that the abuse centre could thus easily spot the malicious entry in its database after a few of these reports all concerned with the same image, and delete the corresponding fingerprint from the database. If that were the case, this avenue of attack would not be a problem in practice. This assumes, however, that the abuse centre keeps track of such false positives over time to detect such maliciously uploaded fingerprints. This may or may not be the case.

Why would it not be the case, unless the abuse center wanted to waste time and resources and have unreliable records? This essay is technically sophisticated and socially naive. Tech people keep spinning up the most unlikely and hard-to-explain reasons for why leveraging technology to interfere with the spread of CSAM is bad, instead of working toward any kind of privacy-respecting solution to target CSAM itself.

Constantly emphasizing the scope for government intrusion and privacy violation (legit but at the same time overblown to the point of paranoia) and constantly minimizing or dismissing the real harms of CSAM is a great way to alienate the normal non-technical people you need to have on side.
RapiDoc is quite nice and built with Lit so it sets up as just a custom web component.

Very customizable in my experience (working with it with .NET SwaggerGen tooling).
WFH jobs are now only a tiny percentage of job listings. Remote work seems to be going away for the most part, unless you're in the upper echelon of devs at FAANG
That’s not what a hash collision is.

Uploading popular (public domain) music and claiming you own it is just fraud
Well seeing as Microsoft has signed and has offered to sign 10 year deals on not making certain games exclusive, then nobody has to "trust" Microsoft to do anything.

Also, you can just look at all the non exclusive games Microsoft has.
The main problem is that there is no dark or light mode. It is light gray on white or dark gray on black (and the white and black are also gray). It is just sick.
I get people's opinions of law enforcement are low, but do you really think that no one would question why a huge number of people have a single CSAM image on their device especially when the hash for that image was just added to the database? Do you think that no one would question that maybe there is something wrong with that hash? Do you think that no one would look at the flagged image on any of those devices?

I understand people's concerns with this tech, but this seems like a rather silly hypothetical to me.
> LoRA (for Low Rank)

Pedantic, but it is actually for Low Rank Adaptation.
My brother graduated from MIT 20 years ago and I recall one summer when I stayed there one of his fraternity brothers quipping “the fastest way to get a girl in Boston is to tell her you go to Harvard, and the fastest way to lose her is to tell her you go to MIT, they don’t want nerds”. Amazing how things have changed but even then it was basically an accepted truth that Harvard massively inflated grades. At the time I was told perfect GPAs were basically unheard of at MIT (back then least).

Grade inflation is real and I think it leads to significant unintended consequences. I do find myself flip flopping however on whether there should be grades at all. If you’ve read zen and the art of motorcycle maintenance, you’ll recall there is a powerful case made to eliminate grades at the college level. I still lean toward having them currently.
Related article: The Whole of the Whole Earth Catalog Is Now Online - https://www.wired.com/story/whole-earth-catalog-now-online-i...

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I wonder if there's a torrent download of the entire archive.. Looks like this is pretty close:

The Internet Archive's Whole Earth collection (98.5 GB) - https://archive.org/details/wholeearth
Maryland's first local malaria case in 40 years initially duped doctors
Can anyone speculate on the timing? If it's something more than coincidence what could it be?
What does competition mean, if not differences in software? The console hardware between Sony and Microsoft isn't meaningfully differentiated. If the consoles had identical catalogs what would be left to differentiate them other than friends list lock-in? A few FPS or a home screen you happen to prefer aren't important things.
This statistic is useless without any comparison to other schools.

Maybe this is the same as the average across all of the top 20 schools?

It also raises an interesting question: should it be harder to get an A in a class at Harvard than at e.g. a third-tier school? Because the answer to that is not obviously yes.

E.g. if you take Calculus 101 and master it to some level of proficiency that is an A- at some third-tier school, should you also get an A- in Calc 101 at Harvard, or should that merely be a C there? (And if you think it should be a C, then why? Isn't calculus just calculus? Either you master the material or you don't. Why should you be graded differently depending on where you learn it?)

Because if you think grades should reflect some kind of absolute level of proficiency, then it's not surprising at all that 80% of grades at Harvard would be in the 'A' range, considering how many straight-A applicants Harvard accepts in the first place.
It's interesting when somebody lists A, B, and then comes to the exact opposite conclusion C that you would. What a different life you and I must have lead.
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Java is the best thing we have gotten since C in 1970.

That was 30 years ago. Since then everyone has been copying Java:

C#, WASM, Go, Rust... nothing even scratches the surface.

And it never was insecure, it was removed by the same people that leverages consume only devices and root certificates.

That said I'm actually a proponent of bringing back the MIDlet, J2ME was the best software platform ever created.
everybody seems to miss one of the arguments of this article: instead of being a tiny bet for a VC, you should be like your own VC and make tiny bets on yourself. that's sensible logic.
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sounds like you want to try VC partnership.
you need a good pitch, and good timing.
also it may help if it looks like your already capable of generating revenue.
There’s a big issue around censoring disinformation, but currently Facebook is actively promoting and pushing the video of hamas beheading a baby, and this video auto plays.

This is the result of facebook’s content promotion algorithm, and is clearly an unbelievably, and unambiguously traumatic video that has no valid “free speech” argument, especially when it’s just trolls and terrorists intentionally promoting it to cause trauma.

It is not too much to ask for Facebook to block that - they have no problem blocking media that violates copyright, so the only reason this is still happening is because they don’t actually care. Hell maybe it drives engagement.

Alternatively if they can’t guarantee they’re not good Ng to auto play a baby being beheaded, they can just turn off autoplay and blur all videos. That approach also means there’s no censorship threat, if that’s important to you.
Is that really a problem with the CVEs, though?

That sounds more like a problem with the compliance team in question having policies that are flawed in one or more ways.

One entity blindly/inflexibly/irrationally/wrongly reacting to some other entity's proclamation isn't the fault of the entity making the proclamation.
Normally the classes have harder tests at more prestigious schools, ensuring that most people doesn't reach an A. I've worked with people from Harvard, they weren't smart enough to consistently get A's in hard classes, so it seems to me like Harvard doesn't grade as harshly or have easier classes than most other prestigious universities.

I understand why they do it, they want their students to not have problems due to low grades, but that also means that a Harvard degree isn't as useful as a sorting mechanism because I can't tell the difference between top students and the rest.