skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
the antitrust behavior is two of the largest players in the gaming space combining. how is that going to promote competition? it's just going to make it easier for them to outspend and outlast and eventually ingest it's competition

Sony's gaming revenue is ~26 B

8 % of MSFT's revenue is from gaming = ~15 B

Nintendo 12 B

ABK 8 B

EA 7.5 B

( and that isn't including tencent and netease. i didn't bother trying to find figures for them but they are in the running here too )
My parents have just bought a new car, and every time it starts there's a consent screen, rather like a cookie banner, with the option to accept or reject. What happens if you're driving and tap "reject" is unclear, and what is being agreed to is unclear, not what I would call informed and meaningful consent.
Okay, that's a shame. The most interesting part of the product is the part the article didn't even touch on!

Thank you for finding this!
I think it says they dry it at night
KPT was a slice of my late teen years, and a staple of the psychedelic trance scene. From party flyers to pretty much anything psychedelic.
When I was a grad student (back in the Old Stone Age), the minimum passing grade in graduate courses was an A. (This was based upon the theory that we were cherry-picked from the set of applicants.) This may be Harvard's premise (the people I've known who went to Harvard were generally outstanding), or maybe not. I would be interested in seeing the correlation between legacy students (the ones who got in because a parent attended) and grades.

In 30 years of teaching first- and second-year computer science courses, I always saw a bimodal distribution, with one mode around a C and the second at a B+/A- level. (In first year, it often was trimodal, with the third mode at an F-, students who gave up early in the course and didn't withdraw). I would be astonished if there were not something like that going on in Harvard's first year CS.

Mr Turley quotes William F Buckley on preferring the first 400 names in the Boston phone book to Harvard faculty. I would prefer to listen to a conspiracy theorist explaining why the lepton samurai of Jupiter were about to invade the earth than to listen to Mr Buckley, even if he were still alive.
Because the person you responded to just answered that question?

It is because Microsoft isn't anywhere close to being a monopoly in games.

You could have just read the comment to get the answer to your question.
I'd say that Windows and Office are the two areas that Satya didn't really touch or influence in much of any way and mostly let continue on autopilot as he focused on every other area of Microsoft.
you may wish to use certbot instead:

https://github.com/acmesh-official/acme.sh/issues/4659
Was interview for cordyceps fungus researcher?
How next gen semiconductor factories kicked up a fight over environmental review
These guys' classic argument isn't that you'll be kept alive and tortured, but that the AI overlord will scan your brain/otherwise reconstruct a simulation of you and torture that, maybe in parallel billions worth.

Personally I'm not clear on why that should bother this instance of me, but believing it ought to does kind of unlock mind transfer and Star Trek teleportation, so swings and roundabouts.
I can churn out 20-100k images/day from Stable Diffusion on budget of $7/day, and I am training my own LoRAs on my own photography. I can run nearly any LLM on a similar budget. Self-hosted AI is here to stay, and once the technology is advanced enough, and the hardware cheap enough, people will very likely prefer their own private AI that they can trust over a big corporate AI that is inevitably going to be built to extract information out of people.
I wish that willful false copyright claims carried the same $250,000 penalty that copyright infringement does.
> not very practical compared to alternatives

Compared to alternatives today but in 1998 there wasn't much experience in this space. So it was very much worth experimenting at the time.
Not sure you always want people that are good at ranking. The way we rank software dev could lead to some fun effects.
In Windows 10 i lost a lot of time because of UI bugs: double click registered on single mouse clicks, UI elements dissapearing when connecting monitors, no scrollbars, no window border, no titlebar.
> * Minus the legacies and the atheletic admissions I guess.

Well the other 20% needs to come from somewhere!
There is also a strong selection for students who will fight to be the best, especially in ways that are easily quantified.

Students like this aren't always shy about demanding a formulaic way to get an A. You can try to fight it, grade on a curve, etc, but there's only so much time in a day and in the end it's much easier to come up with a formula that they can follow, and to let them follow it.
It's not missing a finger? If you're referring to the left-hand (for the viewer) pinky, it's curled and partially obscured by bijoux and by the ring finger, but the nail of that finger is visible pointing inwards toward the crystal ball.
Both this article and Microsoft are referring to the same thing (low-rank adaptation, LoRA, which I have lazily miscapitalized). What is the confusion that you think will be addressed by my fixing that?
Yes direkt a 1:1 mapping of an analog (button/knob) would work better than what you describe.

Multifunction buttons… that never existed in the analog world? Or is that what is called “mode”? Send vs receive etc. Does anyone have a concrete example?

I’m not a remote control designer but I would think it would be fun to give it a try! Maybe I will :)
>Being CEO, Sam would have the authority to take the money himself.

I don't think a CEO can just take money from the company without some form of approval. Isn't that embezzlement?
It's definitely somewhat annoying when they don't exist. For example I had to build a relatively simple feature that required a user scroll down, and its not completely obvious sometimes that you should do so due to the lack of scroll bars. So I had to force them on.
I don't know anyone in tech who is impressed with traditional IVY schools. It's not a negative signal, but I don't really think they have rigorous CS or EE programs.

MIT, Stanford, and CMU do stick out to me as a positive signal but I could care less about anything else, including Harvard.
Hey, that’s a neat story! Genuinely, I’m not trying to be sarcastic with that- but you didn’t answer his question at all.

What’s the point? Your goal is an “MVP stage”- what is your MVP? What are the minimum requisite features that are the core features of the language, and why are they important / better than any other languages, and in what specific ways?

If the answer is just “because I like these syntax/feature choices and i just want to make a language, that’s okay- you’re allowed to do whatever you want on the internet lol- but answer the original question directly and specify it as such.

The goals “get an MVP”, “stand on the shoulders of giants” and “innovate”, mean and say literally nothing- it’s just a smash of buzzwords that says nothing about your intents. They translate literally to “I want to make my thing work”, “i vaguely want recognition for being like xyz things”, and “I want to make it have more things”

What does “make it work” mean? Why does “be popular like rust and go” matter to anyone/what does it mean for your product? Why are you talking about innovating more things when you haven’t even told us what the first thing is?

These questions aren’t meant to be mean / dismissive- you made a programming language, and that’s cool (to me at least!) I wanna know!! If you want to stand on the shoulders of giants, you have to know what you’re doing- or if you do, be able to explain it lol.
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Agreed. It was actually another national moving truck rental brand (not U-haul, I was just using it as a generic descriptor). I don't know why I'm not mentioning it since it seems like there's only a few national brands, but it's not their fault they have to use DEF and the truck was really great otherwise.
Nice work!

Would be great to see not only the episode title but also the podcast name when you click on a topic.

The site is kinda fast though, I enjoy that!
> At a large corporation, that's the manager.

Not necessarily. The manager just above the employee usually has almost 0 say in the hiring and compensation process. The hiring manager does have some say in it, but the decision to open up the position in the first place may have been made above the hiring manager by a director level position.

And the director that's made that decision is not necessarily the one that is in charge of paying for it.

In other words, it's usually more complicated.
Finance as Alchemy
Age of Empires 4 is the best yet, so is flight simulator.
For those of you already set up to receive or send WSPR, FT8, or CW (Morse code), make sure you’re receiving and sending reports tomorrow during and around the eclipse (1200-2200 UTC)

More info here: https://hamsci.org/eclipse
Linked directly in the article! Now we are looped!
Is there enough margin in a laptop so that these don't end up like Fairphone, with many new generations instead of partial upgrades over the years?
It is common for employers to use GPA to screen candidates for intern and entry level positions. As a practical matter employers receive so many applications that they just don't have the resources to interview everyone, so they need a quick way of filtering down to a reasonable number. Using a GPA cutoff is unfair and leads to the unintended consequence of students and schools both optimizing for that metric instead of for real learning. But at the same time there doesn't seem to be a good alternative that works better at scale.
> I have read SBF doesn't "feel things" like compassion, remorse, or respect for authority and government.

Given his complete lack of life experience and rather sheltered existence, I strongly doubt this type of shallow self analysis. He's purposefully lived a life where he gets to avoid those responsibilities, instead, preferring to live with payrolled groupies in a mansion doing drugs and stealing money all day.
Sony?? Tencent?
Apple TV remotes have always been so awful.

I remember when Front Row for the Mac was announced. I loved Front Row (although the supported content was far too limited).

But despite Fromt Row’s limited functionality and simplistic interface, the Apple Remote still didn’t feel adequate.
The lack of granularity in CVE's alongside their accepted authority enables clumsy, brute-force compliance procedures and gives them teeth. The two are tied together.
If you think deeper about it, the general concept of property is similarly ridiculous too. An arbitrary piece of land being ‘owned’ is similarly arbitrary human social concept, enforced by law and a registry
> It's an excellent signal for some critical amount of intelligence, conscientiousness, and conformity, where each one can be traded off for some of the others - but only up to a point.

No amount of conformity and intelligence can explain 80% A's if there is a curve that mandates otherwise. This grading distribution can only occur if the faculty permit it to, both at an individual level and at a policy level.
Presumably there are a number of fixed costs in the $750m. That means the extra money might have disproportionate benefit.
Shouldn’t you want a bigger/more relevant range? They are already in Harvard, now I want to see who is any good at Harvard level.
> she may have been one of the 300 or more executed. The Privy Council in Edinburgh granted a commission to try her, but there is no record of her death.

They may have killed her. It sounds like they probably did.
Looking forward to revisiting this quote in 5 years.
By all accounts the sale agreement came together rapidly in the light of dark revelations about the state of Blizzard's work culture. I think the company has just been authentically bad without that pressure
2023/2024 HamSCI Festivals of Eclipse Ionospheric Science (FoEIS)
It's also a good selector for having parents who got into Harvard

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legacy_preferences
Yeah, there's definitely been grade inflation over time (which has been known for many selective schools generally for a long time).

You've also had some long-standing anomalies like MIT using a 5.0 GPA scale rather than 4.0. (And at least used to be Pass/Fail Freshman year.)

I do get that grades aren't an unalloyed good.
Following the opening link to the report it shows the year was not an anomaly in the trend, rather the last (and somewhat naturally the most extreme of the trend) in the dataset.
The best thing you can do for privacy in your vehicle is to not connect it to the internet and pull the fuse to the GPS. Good luck with license plate scanners though, there's no telling who they sell that info to (or will, in the future).
Curves were per teacher were I was, pretty sure you cannot stop the subtle bumps that happen based on effort
but thats not an example of disinformation. you gave an example of something that did happen but hard to watch
My phone's lowest brightness is way too high for night use (yes even with a blue light filter), it's super annoying.
My anecdata is that my mother tried to charge my son’s Nintendo Switch (usb-c) by jamming in a lightning connector. She made it fit! Between that and the alt-mode compatibility and cable differences I think I’m in for a painful transition.
> full-screen applications with tiling capability (think emacs) are much better

That's just a tiling window manager that's crippled by only being able to show windows from one program.
At least everything is in a designated place!

That’s another thing I like about the analog world.
last I checked neither of those would touch GPLv3 either.
US intelligence warned of potential for Gaza clash in days before attack
LoRa is a LOng RAnge radio system https://lora-alliance.org/

LoRA is LOw Rank Adaptation, the LLM tuning technique
According to Liz Elting, graduates of the Ivy League had literally peaked in school. They lacked the hunger and ambition she needed in her company.

The case against hiring people from Ivy League schools: https://bigthink.com/business/case-against-hiring-ivy-league...
Oh, for sure. You should continue to do extra searching at that level. But I think it is mostly fair to assume that the high end of one ranking is a safer bet on finding talent than any other location.

It feels like the "search where the lamp post is," but I think it is different. It is close to the "we have data, it must be useful."
To get to Harvard, you need to be a valedictorian or close to that. And not every valedictorian gets to go to to Harvard. It’s not a surprise then that Harvard is full of overachievers with straight A’s.
I don't believe that's true, my RSS feed has more than I can read. Just that the people behind those blogs aren't desperate for attention or trying to find clients.
> It's kind of sad that you seem to think that Windows and Android-as-supplied-by-the-phone-maker are the only alternatives to Apple.

Oh, I don't think that Windows and Android are the only alternatives. Android is pretty much the only smartphone alternative, though.

My primary machines run NetBSD :)
I've never understood why that idea didn't catch on.
Just from the top of my head, SKY (SNU, Korea, Yonsei) have pretty significant grade inflation -- probably not as bad as Harvard -- and a cursory Google search supports that.

Back to US schools, I'd like to see some analysis on the correlation between the proportion of # of GE courses for a program and that program's grade inflation levels. Also, compare public vs private schools' grade inflation. Schools in general have a strong incentive to send their students to internships and post-grad programs at prestigious IB firms, consulting firms, law schools, grad schools, and etc; and I wouldn't be surprised if private schools tend to have more lenient policies in relation to grade inflation to boost that goal.

(edit: grammar)
Citation Needed. I don't think anyone has ever thought "ooo, a Harvard grad, they must be really conscientious." They do, accurately, see a white Harvard grad and think "50/50 chance on whether they're brilliant or they come from money."
Ah lol somehow I totally missed the fact that you write it with JS. That is a neat approach.
> No amount of conformity and intelligence can explain 80% A's if there is a curve that mandates otherwise.

A curve requiring an entire class of people who all got 90% of the questions right on an exam to have a particular distribution of As, Bs, Cs, Ds, and Fs would be insane. Curves are supposed to account for "this test is quite difficult and has an expected range of passing scores that doesn't quite fit in the ten point scale" scenarios.

If you can get into Harvard, you're supposed to be an A student.
There's been a general trend of grade inflation in U.S. universities, accelerating in the 1960s (during the Vietnam war), and then again in the 1990s [0]. In some sense, this might be because the role of the student shifted more towards that of a consumer purchasing a product.

Harvard average GPA was a 3.0 in 1967, now it's a 3.45 [1].

There are some universities that have tried to actively prevent inflation (e.g. Purdue with a 2.73 average in 1986 to 3.09 in 2012 [2]).

[0] https://www.gradeinflation.com
[1] https://www.gradeinflation.com/Harvard.html
[2] https://www.gradeinflation.com/Purdue.html
This is probably what’s going to make me sell my current car. Every time it starts you have to acknowledge that the owner of the vehicle can track it. 50% of the time there’s another popup behind it telling you to install updates. I often don’t even listen to the radio or use the infotainment, just keep it in a “standby” mode where it shows an analog clock, but you can’t even see that until you click through several popups. I stopped bothering to click and just drive with the popups.
> If most students learn the material, then they deserve a good mark.

Yes, if you're trying to prepare your students for applying for jobs that will have GPA cutoffs, this makes sense. But if you're trying to help outsiders (and insiders, as the article notes — like award committees) discern which students are relatively stronger, this system complicates things.
So you are saying that in the context of an article about low-rank adaptation, where I was talking about applying this to ResNets, there was actually confusion that I was referring to long range radio?
For me it doesn't make any difference, because I disabled it a couple of years ago. I disabled it because it seemed to catch too many things that were obviously not spam and would and would let too many things through that were obvious spam. I just decided I would deal with it myself instead of constantly searching the spam folder for that "missing" email.
I'm near finishing my undergrad at Harvard extension school. Many of the courses (especially in CS) are taught alongside traditional Harvard students. Same assignments / tests / lectures, they just have to be physically in the lecture hall.
The work is rigorous, and the grading is usually harder than the state school I attended long ago. (I have taken a few non-math / non-CS courses that were easy A's).
Maybe grades have inflated, but overall the students are really good. Grading really harshly just to "separate the top" or whatever doesn't make sense. They all mastered the material in "Introduction to Computer Science" in the semester.
But then you have to “draw circles” with your mouse?
Mine says something to the effect of "Our terrible touchscreen controls we installed in this car are dangerous to use while driving this car, please agree this is your fault somehow."

For whatever reason the dialog disappears on its own without touching "I agree" once you start driving though.

I recall deciding to buy this car because the new model year was coming out soon and the touchscreen controls were even worse.
It's widely assumed the thief is someone at FTX.
You can use ML to do the visual inspection - https://www.macaulaylibrary.org/2021/06/22/behind-the-scenes... is for birdsong, but that's just a lower-frequency signal, right? :-)
Some context for the less-informed (like myself):

> The OpenAPI Specification, previously known as the Swagger Specification
is a specification for a machine-readable interface definition language for
describing, producing, consuming and visualizing web services.
I hope that the sophistication and cost required to proceed to the next step will gradually increase so the game will slow down.

I agree that the game may not end on a technological basis but it might settle into a stable equilibrium, similar to the dynamics of nuclear war.
> The bad practice is placing bad behaviours on the contract fine print like not allowing for feature parity after the exclusivity deal runs out, or suffering the risk of a lawsuit.

Are you suggesting that e.g. Square-Enix executives didn't know what they were signing?

They signed away exclusives in exchange for money. How is that worse than acquiring big studios with large IP portfolios and lock them to your own platforms?
>Someone skilled produces low volumes of medium-to-high effort work

So based on the table they are skilled, right? Are you suggesting that they are a savant in disguise and that they can produce high volumes of high effort work if they weren't "lazy"?

if the work is considered medium-to-high effort by the organization, your opinion on if it's avoiding "boring" work (which can still be low or high effort) is irrelevant.

>If someone is "undisciplined," more often they are just lazy and are engaging in avoidance behaviors.

IME it's because the employers don't trust nor want them to work on the high effort work. So either the business's most profitable software is the most boring, or the candidate is too junior (alternatively, the position and responsibility is simply filled or not valued)

>Humans with serious executive function issues are a tiny (super tiny) minority of the workforce.

Likewise, humans who can do "productive" creative work for 80 hours a week consistently, for years, is also a super tiny minority.

At the end of the day, "lazy" is relative and we haven't even established a baseline for what is/isn't lazy. So this conversation won't go anywhere. All we established in your lens is that taking breaks or doing non-technical work (meetings, even gossip depending on the line of work) is not productive in your eyes.
How much are you hoping to be earning from this?
This aligns with my sense of the culture of these orgs at this point.

Bethesda continues to ride on the ideas of talent hired-and-fired much more than a decade ago.
Thanks for letting me know. I looked into it, and apparently it's still even possible to activate on later versions of Windows with registry edits and helper software: https://github.com/valinet/ExplorerPatcher/discussions/167
This piece of advice hits me weird:

> For crates where you don’t need or want new features, bug fixes etc, you could consider pinning their versions.

It seems to me that you should _always_ pin your dependency versions. I'd go so far as to say that build tools shouldn't even have an option to automatically pull the latest - "version" should be a required field for all dependencies (and, ideally, that gets decorated with a hash after the first download).

Yes this means you might miss out on security fixes that you'd otherwise get automatically. But having the code that you run & ship change absent your intention just feels like a bizarre default approach.
I think suggesting that the human beings working at Facebook are so devoid of humanity that they'd readily leave that sort of content online to drive engagement or just flat out don't care is pretty unfair and unreasonable thing to suggest I think.

Sure yeah go ahead and demonise FAANGS for stuff you don't agree with, but suggesting "they" (the real human beings working there) are leaving baby beheading videos up to drive some engagement metric is just a demonisation too far IMO.