skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The article is just paraphrasing what is reported on the census.gov page.

As such, we are being told (mislead) by an HN commenter that the Census Bureau is incapable of summarising their own data.

From census.gov:

https://www.census.gov/library/stories/2021/06/does-majoring...

"Among the 50 million employed college graduates ages 25 to 64 in 2019, 37% reported a bachelor's degree in science or engineering but only 14% worked in a STEM occupation, according to the Census Bureau's 2019 American Community Survey 1-year estimates.

This translates into less than a third (28%) of STEM-educated workers actually working in a STEM job.

The vast majority (62%) of college-educated workers who majored in a STEM field were employed in non-STEM fields such as non-STEM management, law, education, social work, accounting or counseling."

The graduates who did not major in science were more likely to end up in a STEM job. (The term "science" as used here, by me, excludes "computer science".)

"About half of workers who majored in engineering (52%) or computer, mathematics, and statistics majors (51%) worked in STEM."

Why don't more "S" grads work in "TEM" jobs.

Perhaps there are actually less "TEM" jobs than some folks believe.
Prompt Engineering with Llama2
I do this already for my apps, as stated in my other comment upthread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39035814
iirc all of those already account for inflation
I don't care what order it is done in.

Ideally, it would be done all at once- for each professor in the US who wrote a technical thesis, identify all sections which can reliably be considered plagiarism (direct copying without attribution, for example) and publish a national report.

That would then expose the base rate of plagiarism, which I believe is extremely high (I could not say, for certain, whether I did it in my thesis, although I worked extremely hard to follow every academic rule associated with technical writing, and would be surprised if there was any text, other than from the papers I had already published, that was directly copied).

Once the base rate had been exposed and people kind of see just how much of this occurred, we can start to have the discussion of "what are the consequences"?

The consequences to Neri are just reputational- she already left her professor role and it's unlikely she needs her reputation to continue to be wealthy/successful/attend the hot parties.
> Maybe I think the model author should have used a deeper CNN layer in the middle of the model. Without the inputs I can’t do a comparison.

You can fine tune into a different model architecture.

You’re right on not being able to retrain the model from scratch on half its data without that data but that’s likely pointless.
I worked at Facebook for five years, and I think most would say that Facebook would not be nearly as successful without her. She’s an incredibly skilled operator, and her departure is a big loss for Meta.
As far as I can tell, most of the "major" universities offer one CS course (sometimes two) on software engineering but no degrees (e.g. Berkeley, Stanford, MIT, Princeton, UIUC, Cornell).

CMU, UT, and UW are the few prestigious schools that I could find that explicitly offer a Master's in Software Engineering (but no undergrad degrees, certainly).

Other than that, Georgia Tech offers an undergrad certificate (3 classes). Berkeley apparently has an online program for a Master of Molecular Science and Software Engineering, wherein you mostly take chemistry classes along with one data science course and one CS course.
Me too, one of my favorite pieces of software (I've been using Obsidian for a few years now). The fact that there are courses is hilarious, but anyways. I found it enjoyable to start from the absolute bare install and add notes like a regular to-do. Eventually adding up additional plugins that you need. My use case is daily software engineering notes, and I have a simple button/command that creates a new note for the day in a specific format. I love that there isn't so much extra junk that came along with the big note taking apps.

Other than that, I have vim mode and a few other things, but not much. Themed it to match the rest of my setup and terminal, it feels like an easy extension to the workflow. I have a few folders broken out for commands and constants I like to refer back to (and can search for!) Maybe a neat one-liner. Plenty of code snippets.
It costs about $100k to deal with each unhoused person up here in Seattle. Pretty competitive with incarceration costs.
Source Material – study aims to reveal the devastation of global supply networks
> The close votes are misguided. The question is about English. That the most likely answer is a Swedish word does not change the fact that the question is about English.

FFS. Wherever people can put their own words on someone else's website, you'll find this guy.
Researcher uncovers one of the biggest password breaches in recent history
> one has a perfect right to be angry at them, and generalize that as "being angry at Google".

People who climb their way to Director usually don't tilt at windmills and shake their fists at clouds.
Apple isn't forced to host anything.

Console manufacturers shouldn't be allowed to extract those fees either.
Idk man; I think our values and the enforcement of those values should have some moral self-consistency to them on a cultural level too.
I don't think stock buybacks is the slam dunk you seem to be implying it is. Plenty of companies are too subject to the vagiaries of the stock market. Taking a larger percentage of your company private means you are less subject to that.

Now, it might well be true that moving a key department offshore is worth less to the company than a buyback. But I don't think it's been demonstrated that that's the case for these 100 employees at YouTube.
Thank you for your feedback. It is still in beta and I'll try to enhance continuously.
I don’t really believe your long time practitioning is aligned to the kind of models being discussed
The tools to manipulate SQL aren't that bad, no.

But rather than having a self explanatory markdown & flat file, now I have to start learning about the schema & making specific tools (in my preferred language) for manipulating Joplin's schema.

Suddenly I'm digging through 20 different technic specs to decode what data is where, how it works, and what I can do to it. Want to edit history? This is the best help you'll get, pray it's adequately technical to expedite you to your purpose: https://github.com/laurent22/joplin/blob/dev/readme/dev/spec...

As I began with, I struggle to imagine anything that generates anywhere near as much user agency as flat files and markdown. Having boring common data & systems lets me apply portable skills I already have, rather than having to skill up in some particular product's own ecosystem.
A professor introduced me to Euclid's Elements a long time ago, and he had us derive the principles from the axioms one by one in order, as Euclid did. It's a fun exercise!
It's outsold every home console currently available and also all the consoles from the previous generation, which is pretty surprising for something which "ceded the traditional home console" and which, when not in a handheld configuration, looks and plays very much like a traditional console.

On the handheld question, Valve hasn't released numbers, but a Nov 2023 quote put Steam Deck sales at "multiple millions", so probably at the lower end of between 1 and 10. By contrast the Switch has sold 132 million units. That's somewhere between 1 and 2 orders of magnitude difference. It doesn't make much sense to make comparisons between them. I'm sure piracy of Nintendo games is far more common on PCs and laptops.

Nintendo has been "dying" for decades -- just like Apple.
I think what’s missing here is sideloading. The new terms apple set are ridiculous, but it’s their App Store, so whatever.

However, this iPhone is my device and I should be able to install whatever app I’d like on it. Without that freedom, Apple has no competition and can set their fees as high as they please.
You seem to have a very narrow view of what is a relevant or a valid comment. Just because a counterargument doesn't completely refute the original comment, or "introduces" new concepts, doesn't make it irrelevant or "misdirection".

Someone compared treatment of X 20 years ago to treatment of Y today -- seems pretty natural to bring up treatment of X more recently. You can't just say "the original comment didn't mention it so you can't mention it either".

I don't see how your accusations of bad faith are warranted.
Carta's scandal continues – Jerry Talton (Ex. CTO at Carta)
> numb the harsh realities of living on the street

not just the street; schizophrenia and schizo-affective disorder are substantially over-represented in the homeless population, and many of the people who suffer from these conditions are self-medicating to try to "cope" with them. This is of course a double or triple tragedy: first, we have quite effective drugs that they could use which be much more beneficial than alcohol, opiates and nicotine; secondly, it is much easier to treat these conditions if they are caught early, but the nature of the intersection between US healthcare and poverty means that it very often is not.

ps. I learnt all this last night at a training program for first responders.
Tabby does completion while continue is more chat from memory?

There is also refact
Google Chrome seems like a success as well.
I would bet that the Chinese manufacturer that cloned the design never had one of the original balls in their possession in the first place. They probably saw photos of the ball online, copied the design as closely as possible and googled some clipart to fill in the letters that weren't visible in the photos. That clipart was Swedish, maybe by coincidence but probably intentionally.
Pixel Physics
Thank you for the thoughtful response. I hope my comment wasn't too inflammatory. I just have a strong visceral reaction that something important and beautiful is lost if the west coast computer company that works hard, plays hard, treats their employees like professionals that can act independently and cares a lot about research and craft even at the expense of some reasonable amount of efficiency turns into mostly just a bunch of IBMs or Oracles.
I will risk an avalanche of downvotes and steel man Apple's argument. :)

Have you ever gotten stuck with a monthly fee for something that's hard to cancel? It's a real pain the butt, no?

But that never really happens on Apple devices, because Apple makes it incredibly easy to cancel subscriptions. You don't have to call anyone, you don't have to struggle with a bad website -- you just click cancel on your phone and it's done. And it's all in one place too -- no bank statement required.

They are also a check on other dark patterns, like silently increasing charges without a clear notification to customers. I don't even get spammed because Apple proxies my emails from app developers.

One of the main reasons I buy things from Apple (on my device) and Amazon (if it's a physical good) is so that I have a company I sorta trust to do the right thing if things go sideways (cancelations, returns, fraud, etc.).

Once every app developer is pushing me to enter my credit card on their website, that all goes out the window. Dark patterns common on the web and on Android will take over the iOS ecosystem too.

I also am going to take an unpopular opinion and say that Apple probably earns that fee. The fact that Android isn't that valuable to app developers proves that Apple's reputation and standards are what drives a lot of their app store revenue. App devs feel like they're providing all the value, but I suspect it's often not truly the case. I know this is an unpopular opinion amongst us devs.

I don't even know if I truly buy these arguments, but I thought it'd be more interesting here if there was at least one comment defending Apple.
They do have competition. Most phones aren't iPhones.
Use aamath and gramscii.

https://github.com/gchudnov/aamath
> Game assets will soon dominate the costs of any game.

I'm not even so sure! I don't know which costs will trend towards zero.

If I had to make another prediction, though, it's that all the centuries of engineering that went into Unreal Engine will wind up being revealed as just solving for a local optima. Signs point to neural rendering and neural engines possibly being a thing, and if so, everything we've built so far is just legacy tech.
> I promise you that the entire world will be in awe of these next 12 months

People were saying the same thing 12 months ago.
If that was supposed to be clever it just sounds naive. There’s a ton of work going on fine tuning open source models
The courts specifically took this issue off the table. It sounds shocking and unfair, but if you read what they said they point out that this is a pretty standard practice among similar industries. The App Store isn’t just a payment processor. It’s giving you access to Apple IP (e.g., development tools, standard libraries, etc). Apple wrote libraries like SwiftUI and UIKit that are all proprietary code. That SDK saves you the effort of writing all that code yourself as the app developer.

The court from the start basically declared that this is what everyone else does. Epic themselves operate this way - check out the licensing model for Unreal Engine.

There was no antitrust issue being litigated here. We can all believe that there should be, but there isn’t, and this isn’t the right type of court for that issue.

Technically, the court granted Epic’s wish, Apple is now giving you the freedom to choose a different payment processor and deducting the market rate cost of doing so. The only bit left to resolve is whether Epic’s argument that Apple’s compliance is not in good faith sticks.
Really?!

She is one of the people most directly responsible for building Facebook into a massive surveillance / influence / control monstrosity and monetizing their abuses of their user base; and your problem with her is that she is an unabashed feminist?!
This is depressing, but of even more concern is the fact that this data (and other, perhaps more "important" data) is available to essentially anyone with enough money to pay for it. This obviously includes most governments. I'm fairly sure the data brokers are not too picky about how they get paid.

There has to be regulation at the federal level to stop such practices. Nothing else will do.
It's great to see vendors doing the right thing.

Still, my main ask is upstreamed support. Users should be able to maintain their own devices if they want to. From the start of ownership to beyond the products end of life. That means I should be able to build my own kernel and send them to the device, and I shouldn't need some vendor fork that will someday rot out to do it.
No one is forced to sell on Apple either, if that's your logic.
I'm sure Louis XVI also thought that he had the proper resources to ensure his security before 1789.
Simple App for Habit-Tracking
Presumably they clean it the same way people clean dentures. The electronic parts make it more difficult, but with wireless charging and Bluetooth it seems like it'd be possible.
> All of these problems are downstream of California cities refusing to build enough housing to meet demand.

California has been a magnet for the poor/downcast/hobos (using the term with its original meaning)/etc... since the late 19th century. California will never be able to build enough to meet demand on minimum wage, simply because if they did...there would be even more demand.

> The inflow rate of people entering homelessness is a regional problem; once you're homeless it's hard to go very far.

This is flat out wrong. I rode a Greyhound from Vicksburg to Seattle via LA once, and the bus stopped at each prison along the way, almost everyone getting off in LA and nowhere else to go. It isn't a regional problem, if it was just a regional problem it would be easy enough to solve as the demand would be bound. But it isn't: the more housing and services you offer, the more demand you are going to get.

If you build free housing for 45k homeless, you will wind up with 45k homeless housed and 45k more arriving in the hopes of being housed. You didn't solve your problem at all.
> Personally, I am on the record wishing that Apple would allow some sort of “expert” or “developer” mode — chock full of warnings

Next morning Facebook removes its app from Apple Store and directs users to sideload the app, because it needs those sweet permissions that were denied before.
I second Roblox. They now have "magic generative AI" which can generate Lua code from comments. You can use it as a tool to learn as you go :)
It's not rent seeking.
I know life is hard and shit happens, but I refuse to believe that, except for very few edge cases, people who are staring down homelessness just decide to stay in one of the most expensive places in the world and live on the street rather than move somewhere cheaper And find a cheap apartment. It makes absolutely no sense.

I think if you do decide to stay in Los Angeles, when you have no job, no prospects, no family, no money and no place to live, you should be declared as someone who is unable to care for themselves.
> creating factual statements about the work

All digital content is statements about the work. Pictures are pixels with facts about colours. Books are characters describing the words.

AI models are compressed versions of those.

Downloading, ingesting into models, and redistributing them is copyright infringement.

Even if they weren’t compressed; downloading them without permission is not permitted. Every now and then you can read about ai criminals discussing techniques for illegally acquiring books, images and other protected content even here on HN. It wouldnt be an issue if it were licensed content, or a dudette training her local ai. These are companies that want to monetise people’s work. Somehow, just like thieves, they feel they are entitled to snatching someone else’s property.
50% is already too large.

The problem is that if that dominant player does something (like raise prices), you cannot escape them. The rest of the market does not have the ability to absorb all the people who would like to flee the dominant player.

The problem is Always Late(tm) inventory combined with process optimization. No competitor has significant inventory or excess capacity, so nobody can respond to sudden consumer changes. Covid toilet paper shortages were a great example: industrial toilet paper suppliers were unable to deal with the shift to consumer and consumer toilet paper suppliers were unable to deal with the demand shock.

What the number should be is up to some interpretation, but I suspect that no market should ever allow a player with more than 25% market share no matter how you define "market".
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Yes, I do prefer choosing new team members from among people who got hired into level by a team-neutral process, because I have seen too many instances of a hiring manager throwing out all the standards to hire a person they want into a particular role, which can be detrimental to companies because hiring people who don't really meet your standards is one of the worst things you can do as a company.
I'm going to have to concur with the ban, sorry.
Apple's fees are too high, and I also don't find this particularly persuasive.

- Apple charges a ~30% fee to publish on their store. It's a high fee! I also understand people make money there (more than on stores with lower fees).

- Apple also has a pretty sophisticated set of financial products you can use through your account with them. It makes sense you wouldn't be able to use those in the same with with another payment processor.

- Apple also doesn't want this to be an avenue for leaking personal details.

My read of the support link[1] are that you owe apple 0% of any purchased that are not made "...after a link out (i.e., they tap “Continue” on the system disclosure sheet)...". Presumably, if your app is on multiple platforms, users can use another platform to buy things. It doesn't appear that you would owe apple money for those purchases[2] though of course you must still charge the same price to every platform.

Fundamentally I disagree with how apple runs their iOS platform so I don't own any devices that on it. Choosing not to own iOS devices is occasionally annoying but it doesn't seem like a real disadvantage to me. However I also think that the concerns Apple has about their user experience (information leaks, compromises, etc) are real and that they genuinely do better than most other players.

I think the case that Apple must allow side-loading is much stronger than the case that all of this behavior is somehow wrong in essence. As pointed out elsewhere in this thread, Epic takes 5% of all revenue (over $1m). Would they drop all their objections if Apple just dropped their fees?

[1] https://developer.apple.com/support/storekit-external-entitl...

[2] I am not a lawyer
Just download the Godot engine[0] it's free and there are lots of tutorials on Youtube.
The documentation[1] also has a tutorial that shows you how to create a small 2D and 3D game. To learn programming with gdscript there is this free course by gdquest.[2]

[0] https://godotengine.org/showcase/

[1] https://docs.godotengine.org/en/stable/getting_started/intro...

[2] https://gdquest.github.io/learn-gdscript/
By that logic, it might as well be "A."
> Anger at the Kafkaesque ministrations of the neo-feudal lords is a valid emotion.

I mean, yes. And it'll make Mr Angry feel worse, make the people around him feel worse, and make the world worse. So the recommendation is don't do that. If someone is going to do something productive after being sacked, learning to do it out of a place of love is a skill well worth picking up. Makes the world better and all that.
This argument has been repeatedly made over the past 24 hours with a lot of emotion but little justification.

The judge forced Apple to unbundle their payments. Apple's solution to that is probably overly restrictive. And I suspect that you're right that 27% is too large a cut to survive.

With both of those points granted, though, your argument seems to be that Apple should be obliged to host, distribute, and market apps (including the burden of moderation and malware prevention) for free. That any commission is too much of a commission.

Can I ask you to elaborate on why you believe that Apple should be singled out and mandated to perform a service for free?
Russia has a shrinking population. Their demographic distribution is among the worst. Their higher education system is a mess, and in most ways has actually declined since the collapse of the USSR.

On the military side, their ICBMs can still destroy cities. But their ability to take out a carrier strike force no longer exists at a credible level: some of the key links in the kill chain barely exist any more. They have no real expeditionary capability and can't project power much beyond their immediate borders.
The cost is subject to market forces if you believe that other phones exist.
https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2024/01/03/christophe...

There’s a sort of nazi propagandist that just openly tweets out his plans to bamboozle people into supporting his agenda. When it works out he gets interviewed and praised. We’re way, way, way past good faith on a lot of issues
Tax revenues are so obscenely misallocated that I am not convinced that raising them further will fix anything. We spend more on education than any other country and have worse outcomes. If I had any reasonable confidence that if taxes went up every city will be made beautiful, the homeless would stop doing drugs and go live in government provided housing, and high speed rail would be built between all major metros I'd be first on board. As it stands, a third of my taxes would be used to pay off interest on debt and another third would be used to blow something up.
Well, good thing it's BSD licensed! Open Source for the yummy win!