skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Why on earth would this be remotely noteworthy to Tyler Cowen, an economist? Set aside the cultural stuff -- it's obviously just market dynamics at its core. Humanities degrees are -- rightly or wrongly -- not considered to benefit one's future livelihood, so a priori, they are not seen as being as valuable as others in a financial sense, which drives down enrollments in humanities classes. When enrollments go down, it becomes more difficult to make the case to resource-constrained universities that the department deserves the funding used to recruit and retain faculty and graduate students, etc. (It's already a hard case given that humanities departments are less likely to bring in lucrative outside grants than STEM departments.) So, the faculty sing a song, they do a dance -- that is, they make the class as fun and entertaining as possible -- and they give everyone A's afterward. Word gets out (sometimes in a very structured way, via student social network groups), and students enroll (sometimes whole sports teams will swarm a single humanities class). The classes don't get cancelled, and more sections are created, which creates jobs for the grad students as TAs. Some professors are extra eager to inflate grades, because they like the attention and/or they want a following, which boosts their prestige (merit being more subjective in the humanities than STEM, too), and who knows, maybe one day they'll get a book deal or an NPR interview because they taught a famously big class. Some professors don't really want to do it, but the department chair really needs to keep that enrollment up so the provost doesn't axe the whole department in next year's budget, and the grad students have to eat, and what they study is important, so they bear up and do it anyway, and just feel guilty afterward.

It's a real phenomenon, and not good, but c'mon -- let's not pretend to be so shocked.

(EDIT: And the students will be extra disappointed if they don't get that A that was all but advertised to them, so it's all the harder to ever right the ship. And at prestigious institutions, there's always that facile argument that "If you're smart enough to get into this school, of course you're going to be smart enough to get A's at this school!" And all universities want to keep their future alumni donors happy...)
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Lead pipes are disproportionately located in old cities, which are disproportionately Democratic. Chicago (Democratic stronghold, origin of Obama) installed new lead plumbing until at least the 1980s at the behest of the unions, many decades after every other city had given them up (https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/sep/22/us-lead-indu...). So if it's delayed, it will be by Democrats.
Eh, if you acknowledge that person A and person B can have different morals, your argument doesn’t hold up.
Sounds like Lotus Notes.
The tweet only breaks it into 2 buckets (<500 and >500 enrollment), but the the number of students enrolled in Econ, Biology (MCDB or MB&B at Yale), History and Computer Science is about 10-50x more than the ones towards the bottom like Gender Studies or History of Science. So technically, these subjects contribute the most to grade inflation/deflation at Yale
I've always thought people simply copied the style of “Robot Chicken”, “12 oz. Mouse” and other shows of that era because it was considered “HiLaRiOuS!!!!” by some crowd, and did not require complex work in the video editor.
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sounds like garbage data, but if they hire L3 and promote to L4, new hires will often make more than old-hands promoted up.
> What part of Salad Fingers could the author possibly be referring to that "looks and feels like a children's show"?

Between the Hays Code (1968) and the Simpsons (1989), most Americans had no exposure to adult animation. So even in 2004, for a subsantial number of adults, animation meant children's television.

Also, a lot of 90s kids' television played with the boundaries of what is and isn't disturbing.
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Mostly working jobs in the off-season and sponsorships like 'ghaff mentions.

It's not _that_ expensive of a hobby. Maybe $5k of gear a piece plus travel expenses for a minimal expedition like this.
How do I know this name? Oh, Palmer Luckey is the one who made the Oculus Rift.
I don't really think that's remotely comparable. The Roadrunner is around the size of a person and can launch unsupported from the ground (i.e. sit it upright and press a button on a tablet).

The roadrunner nest installations are marginally larger, containing just enough space for a fuel tank (to refuel unsuccessful or cancelled intercept attempts) and power to keep them operating.

So in the space that you can fit a Gepard, you can fit lets say 20 roadrunner nests. You can take those in a truck, drive around and scatter them around the site with some camouflaging. If you are only expecting occasional missile/rocket attacks, you can build a net for intercepts that is far wider than you can realistically with stationary or even mobile AA guns.

But the real value of it for the customer (special operations) is that you can realistically have 2-4 people carry one in a box by hand or in the back of a jeep and in a matter of minutes, set it up, and shoot down an aircraft (or any other moving target).
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It's hilarious that Anduril is proposing "more affordable" defense gear.

They are a prime wrapped in VC funding, and like most defense contractors, they are egregiously overpriced compared to the cost of materials.

I can see them capturing US DOD budgets, but predict that much more cost effective competitors emerge internationally.
> Even though most hackers worship the government as a god, I can assure you that tax returns or property data won't even be close to accurate for getting the net worth of billionaires.

I know, that is why I wrote “might” be credible, but most celebrities are not at that level, so tax returns and property ownership information might work.

> The nature of this information is that it will always be unverifiable,

>you shouldn't disregard it completely.

How you are squaring the above 2 thoughts is beyond me. I am going to continue disregarding it completely, because as you wrote, it is unverifiable, therefore the website is pulling the numbers out of their ass.
I'm not familiar with the AoC problem. You might be able to. But RegexSet doesn't give you match offsets.

You can drop down to regex-automata, which does let you do multi-regex search and it will tell you which patterns match[1]. The docs have an example of a simple lexer[2]. But... that will only give you non-overlapping matches.

You can drop down to an even lower level of abstraction and get multi-pattern overlapping matches[3], but it's awkward. The comment there explains that I had initially tried to provide a higher level API for it, but was unsure of what the semantics should be. Getting the starting position in particular is a bit of a wrinkle.

[1]: https://docs.rs/regex-automata/latest/regex_automata/meta/in...

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Was the development of those JS frameworks funded with federal tax dollars?
If machines are still Turing tape machines at their heart that follow instructions as in assembly.

Or we're all encoding behaviours as activations of vectors in English language prompting
It must be exhausting keeping up with the context and who's who from day to day. Assuming they handle a ton of convos at the same time.
> knows this space extremely well

If nothing else, they sure do know the VC space: Using AI powered technology, fake virus pop-ups are identified and a warning message will be displayed. https://archive.is/5uG3f
Well, you never know... The current explanation of this (and of the original) effect uses the classical interpretation of the field involved.
Is Ford a non profit?
Something running on every animation frame to check if the build is complete maybe?
Combination of everything, including requests for donations. I gave a bit to help a friend climb Everest. He also got free gear and food from suppliers.
Not really. There is a very fast LCM model preset now, but its still going to be painful.

SDXL in particular isn't one of those "compute light, bandwidth bound" models like llama (or Fooocus's own mini prompt expansion llm that in fact runs on the CPU).

There is a repo focused on CPU-only SD 1.5.
Numerous x/Twitter accounts DDOSD'd in coordinated attack
Abuse of X's abuse reporting system was used today to lock accounts of about 10 popular users.
DiffusionBee: AGPL-3.0 license (Native app)

InvokeAI: Apache license 2.0 (web-browser UI)

automatic1111: AGPL-3.0 license (web-browser UI)

ComfyUI:GPL-3.0 license (web-browser UI)

There's more, but I don't pay enough attention to it
Because Google and Googlers are a culture of shipping things to ship things, and the idea of maintenance and long term customer support does not exist at Google or in Googler's minds.
The problem is that politics very rapidly drives its way into the conversation, and discussions about mental health, what is healthy for society, etc get pushed aside.

This model fundamentally changes the structure of human society, and the trend will likely accelerate, not decelerate, over the coming years. And yet the conversation usually immediately gets divided into the feminist camps and the conservative Christian/Muslim camps.

I also think the trendiness of the phenomenon makes it seem more widespread than it is, however I've noticed a scary trend in the younger generation of general unsuitability to healthy relationships, and I just recently learned that a friend has an OnlyFans, so the phenomenon is becoming more widespread.
What a waste of money on Blue Origin. Bezos could have paid a living wave to all its employees, especially the most menial ones.

How do you feel when you are all "the end justify the means" and the end is never reached?
The preferred nomenclature is Big, Beautiful Language Model
A Prolog Definite Clause Grammar (DCG) solution:

https://github.com/emiruz/adventofcode2023/blob/main/day01/p...
It's meant to attract talent and investors.
They're certainly using the current period of human-produced responses as training data.
You say things like "X is pretty dumb" and then go on saying stuff I don't understand. Pretty annoying if you ask me.

And that's despite me having worked with Cassandra, Kafka, Postgres and a variety of programming languages, DevOps tools, having worked with Vuejs and React.
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They should at least address the actual points raised by the article (which does already touch on the trade offs involved in doing what the commenter suggests, none of which were addressed by their comment). As it stands it sounds like they’re responding to nothing more than the title of the post.

It’s a shallow criticism by HN standards.
I developed extensively for IE6 back in the day and never actually used that underscore hack - found it too confusing in codebases. We'd use the asterisk html selector path instead. IE7 had a similar hack for marking off CSS using some first-child trickery, e.g:

* html #myDiv { /* IE6 stuff */ }
*:first-child + html #myDiv { /* IE7 stuff */ }

One could also trick IE6/7 into loading base64-encoded images in CSS by shoving in an mhtml boundary in CSS files.

Also love that the article called out sIFR - cannot believe I'd actually forgotten about that one.
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It does seem morally gray, but I was just amazed by how one of those workers makes better money than in his last job as a web developer in the Philippines.
It fails because it hardcodes the path to certain binaries instead of looking in PATH: `line 60: /bin/mkdir: No such file or directory`
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There is a parallel issue in the world of sugar relationships. I know a few "sugar daddies," and one common theme for all of them is the number of "sugar babies" who lead them on and emotionally manipulate them. It's sad that the SDs fall for it, and it's cruel and pathetic that the SBs do it. It's common enough that there's a sort of meme in the gay twink community about it, even.
“Burninatin”… and telling my toddler off for throwing a light switch rave.
What is BL5? Google doesn't yield anything.
Fireside Chat with Jeremy Howard: Making Large Language Models Uncool Again
I'm really curious if someone will go ask Joe The Plumber what he thinks. Internets say 30% of plumbers are unionized, so maybe that could be spun as the motivation.
And weeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee
"Mount Jannu" and "The Jannu" ... neither heard of these phrases used to describe Jannu before - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kumbhakarna_Mountain.
Life expectancy rose to a multi decade (all time at that time?) record peak during the great depression in US and starvation was exceedingly rare. Even at one of its worst the outcome was remarkably robust against starvation.
Your comment reminds me of https://joearms.github.io/published/2014-06-25-minimal-viabl...
I am hoping that the extra time will mean that they get Custom GPTs to work even better.
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That makes it simple. It doesn’t make it elegant. And I certainly wouldn’t be getting anyone non-technical to run a FreeBSD/macOS hybrid that doesn’t support either platform fully.

Not taking anything away from this project, it’s looks really interesting. But it’s definitely not a mom and pop friendly platform.

Besides, since when have app stores been difficult to use? Package management doesn’t have to be CLI based.
“I said consummate v's! Consummate!”
Ask this to the USA, to Canada or to the UK, not to me or Venezuela.
the azure neural tts voices in chinese are the best i’ve heard, specifically the “xiaochen” voice. i use it in anki daily to generate sentences for my mandarin decks with an api key/plugin. it’s not something you run locally of course, but they have a decent enough free tier.

i’m hoping a voice as realistic as this becomes a local app soon, but i’ve not found anything that’s nearly as natural sounding yet. (also, honorable mention to chatgpt’s “sky.” she pronounces mandarin with a funnily american accent, but it sounds natural and not as robotic as the open-source alternatives i’ve tried)
https://en.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/distribute

Roughly, literally, "to give apart", i.e., to break up a resource from fewer to more owners.

I'm a big fan of poststructuralism but social spaces generally require that people understand each other. We can't just go redefining words on personal whims unless the people you're communicating with have consented to be a part of that metatextual process. This isn't that kind of space.
Agreed. The board's public note about all this basically read as, "Sam is not able to do his job." They made this public note during a time of generally high praise for OpenAI's success, so nobody believed it. I hate to side in either direction here, but the board really showed incompetence with public relations here. Having said that, I'm sure there's some poor PR person at OpenAI sweating over exactly this, and to them I say, it's not your fault, every single person in the board should have been involved in that public notice, and everyone apparently agreed this was a sufficient explanation for a bunch of people with no internal context.
What an awful idea. Sorry, but just no. Smearing cities out over large areas turns them into giant ponzi schemes that inevitably collapse. You're just turning nature into a giant parking lot because fuck you, that's why. And what are you smoking that you would look at soul-sucking traffic jams and say "Yes, I love misery. Let's do more of that!".
Best in what sense? Seems by description a whole lot less convenient (and more limited) if you want to use more than one model (and especially more than just models available as GGUFs) than oobabooga/text-generation-webui or other similar tools that do things like bundle multiple backends for different LLM architectures, support downloading models from huggingface, present a common web UI for LLM configuration, managing prompts, and actually doing inference (in chat, notebook, and other styles), and also supports presenting an OpenAI-compatible API endpoint backed with a local LLM to support other frontends.
I imagine little laser equipped bots that zoom up and down rows of crops on little rails, blasting caterpillars and other pests. When a military target shows up, they point at the sky instead. Sure, atmospheric abberation means that you can't hit easily hit a plane with a single beam, but I expect the situation changes when you've got millions of beams to command.

Of course this fails if you're the occupying force, rather than the defender, but maybe that's for the best.
holy fucking shit that hero photo of the climber on the verglas is totally nuts! i've done a fair bit of ice climbing myself, but easy, fat waterfall stuff. leading a pitch like that at altitude with that kind of exposure makes my stomach absolutely drop. alpinists are totally crazy! <3
Have you dealt with a rental agency in a population hub any time in the past 15 years? It's awful service and such a pain to do all the research anew on pricing every time you want to do a drive.

Much easier to manage your own predictable resources than try to shove your use-case into another organization's framework.
That's significantly less myopic than I pessimistically assumed. Thanks!
Ye well honestly I feel he was crushed. The "no need for Facebook login" and things. I don't think I had realized exactly how bad for humanity Google, Facebook et alii was in 2015, so I shouldn't be to judgemental about working for Facebook at the time.
It uses capture groups and puts them back in the replacement (the \1 ), so a match of "one" is replaced with (thematch)1(thematch). So eightwo would replace the two with two2two and end up like eightwo2two, so then the t is preserved and eight is found in a later step and then you end up with eight8eightwo2two, and can solve that using part1 only looking for numbers.
I am so happy princeton got rid of grade deflation lol. All this grades stuff is bullshit anyways.
Presumably yes.

Better question: Even if a woman was magically guaranteed to both be in the 1% of chess talent, and to be unaffected by sexism...would "work at becoming a competitive chess player" be a rational life choice for her to make?
Only requires a bit of creative thinking and being morally bankrupt to be good at something like this.
Ah, I see. I misread your previous comment.
Don't even need to be an engineer just go ride some nice bikes, it is an amazing and very tangible lesson in the cost of unsprung weight.
I have a recent year F-150 and I basically never get more than 20 MPG. Actually I almost always get nearly exactly 20 MPG, it's not a bad estimate in my subjective experience.
I love that penpot has prioritised making the API happen. Figma made design -> dev easier. But to complete the loop, we're looking to link our integration tests back into the design program with screenshots of how the screen(s) actually turned out. Ie dev -> design. And if they're insufficient, design can go back to dev and say "more!", or else update their own prototypes of what's in place, ready for the next feature to be designed

I feel like Penpot could become the dev favourite over figma for the API alone
Not necessarily. But it's complicated. See: https://docs.rs/regex/latest/regex/#untrusted-input

One of the key advantages of a regex engine based on finite automata is that it lets you make guarantees about the runtime performance of a search.
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That's impressively fast. Well done!
The best you can get with current pure ICEs is about 35/43/39 mpg city/highway/combined.

A non-plug-in Toyota Prius gets 57/56/57. A Hyundai Elantra hybrid gets 53/56/54.