skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There is often a very technology and IT centric viewpoint on this website.
This is often the case anyway with technology positions, but for other things like accounting, medicine, law, etc formal education is more required.
Because the people best placed to assess a candidate for a role are those who know the duties of that role in detail. Much of what's taught at university has marginal benefits beyond a core, much smaller, cirriculum.

Take something fairly complex like game development, say. Now: do some linear algebra, geometry, programming, etc. assessment in a wholistic way. Maybe a quick quiz for initial filter, then a hackathon with applicants (or w/e).

People filtered by the quiz can be directed to the now many resources for self-study (you can easily do an entire degree via MIT lectures, etc. -- i know i did, i barely attended lectures and just watched stanford/MIT classes; gilbert strang's LA course several times).

If you really want to be a game dev, and can't self-study after a failed attempt and a year or so of reflection then go to university. Now you know it's for you, that it really will help, etc. They're providing a service you actually need.
That, too, as well as making unseen connections, analogies, and bridges between fields.
The kind of people who work in HR (which is why these schemes get set up)
it's also targeting just rv64g
How is it affecting Google's profits?
Seems like you could do the same in Sql with CTEs or views, with the benefit of the query optimizer finding the fastest way to execute your pipeline on a large dataset.
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Lots of former British colonies have posh enclaves surrounded by poverty. Singapore’s GDP per capita in 1960 was similar to Guatemala: https://cepr.net/documents/publications/econ_growth_2005_11_.... And as the article noted, 20% of that was British military spending which went away with independence in 1965. The UK’s per capita gdp was more than 5 times higher.
I’m well aware. I was in charge of designing and synthesizing the entire gene set, optimized for E.coli, in order for scientists to easily try to discover the function of these genes https://stanford.freegenes.org/collections/gene-sets/product...

Out of the 100 or so unknown genes we had/have, only like 3 unknowns were actually used for research. Such is science sometimes.
Not sure if this is a complete explanation, but people tend to ascribe more value to physical objects and perhaps, because the general price of books is bounded within a known range that is fairly stable, don’t question the price as hard as they might. That is, if a book is roughly the same price of other books in the category you’ll tend to view the price as “fair.”

The value of a podcast seems more nebulous to me, and perhaps this raises more questions. Unless you already subscribe to a lot of podcasts you may not have the equivalent comparison point, so more questions arise.

On top of that, subscriptions create another barrier to entry and raise even more questions.
AML/KYC regulations are, well, as the name suggests, anti-money laundering regulations, they aren't about the customers defrauding the bank. The bank presumably doesn't need to have regulations to incent it to keep its customers from defrauding the bank itself.
I'm not sure what you mean when you say different implications existing is subjective, since they clearly aren't, but regardless of who has more say in general terms, the author of a work can decide how to publish it, and no one has more say than them on that subject.
Do you have any studies or sources to show outcomes of homeschooled children? I've since met many outside of college, they all seem far better off than the average high schooler I knew as a kid.
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> it was always as much about 'keeping the rifraff out' as it was in selecting good candidates.

The proposal moves this phase to the university system, like it used to be.
Best thing to do is to search for widely used in linux community laptop to be sure that all it's features supported by linux or at least every problem well documented on sites like archwiki, even if it has Windows pre-installed.
Maybe in the future, to entice people to become public teachers, or at least to stem the bleeding of current teachers, they'll allow teachers to work less.

Instead of one teacher teaching a class/subject (like math) 5 days a week, two teachers will rotate, one teaching math 3 days per week, and the other teaching 2 days per week.

But then, that would require them to double their supply of teachers, which seems unlikely to happen.
- "Allowing young people with darker skin to grow up in a society that celebrates, rather than disparages blackness."

The link you're making here is something I don't understand. If I'm black, and I'm at a funeral and everyone is wearing the color black, am I being disparaged? Or if I'm reading some code and the comment's talking about "blacklists"? Is that subjectively disparaging? Is that something I'd even notice at all, consciously or not?

I'm unreasonably confident the answer is a universal "no". For the same reason that as I'm writing this HN comment, at no point has imagery of mothers and fathers crossed my mind—even though the word "parent" is right there in the commenting toolbar*. Is it different for other people?

*( parent | context | edit | delete, etc.)
This just sounds like an argument that degrees are not good proof of qualification, but it assumes that a certification would be. Might certifications not fall prey to the same decline in quality as degrees, which used to act as an imprimatur?
If you wont pass an accountancy exam without formal education, and i'd say most wouldnt, then they'll get one.

The number of applicants who succeed in such cases, at getting through without formal education, will be very small. And i'd be 90% of those cases, that applicant is way above their peers in performance -- ie., worth having let it
DuckDuckGo no. Kagi, yes.
I somehow expected more density for a custom arrangement like this. One eviscerated mini per sled, ten sleds per rackmount chassis, six chassis per rack: sixty minis in 42-48U.

Sonnet's RackMac mini[1] puts two unmolested minis in a short 1U enclosure: sixty minis in 30U. A web search turns up the Apple Mac Mini Relay Rack Shelf[2] from RackSolutions, which has four minis in a full 1U enclosure.

I'm willing to believe that there are cooling and airflow advantages to the sleds, although those two small fans at the back of the sled don't look too exciting. The biggest advantage seems to be cable management and the ease of sliding out a single mini at a time.

One comment on the video points to another video[3] about MacStadium, which mounts minis sideways on what look like library shelves.

[1] https://www.sonnettech.com/product/rackmacmini.html

[2] https://www.racksolutions.com/mac-mini-shelf.html

[3] https://youtu.be/0b46E4mp_V8
Presumably there is a similar difference between the average non-homeschooled student and the population that made it to college.
The article omits the "natural join". A natural join automatically joins tables on columns having the same name, and the columns in the resulting output appear exactly once. Natural joins often simplify queries, and they automatically adapt to schema changes in source tables. Natural joins also encourage standardized naming conventions, which has longer-term benefits.
Generally in the US you need a bachelors degree and a teaching certificate.

But requirements are set individually by the states and vary widely.
Amazon had one of their buildings in California shut down a few months ago by the fire department when a generator started smoking. It was probably due to a bad fuse they bought off Amazon. https://signalscv.com/2023/07/fire-breaks-out-at-amazon/ That's how blinded by their avarice Amazon has become; they can't even protect their own house. Notice how the Nilight fuses (https://amzn.to/3S06G2n) are still listed, even after a YouTube video with 300,000 views demonstrated that their 2 ampere fuse takes 10 amps to blow. I even had an electrical fire in my house recently, due to components that I purchased off Amazon. I know Amazon monitors Hacker News PR closely, since they took down those ChatGPT generated listings within minutes of us posting them here. Yet they do nothing about product listings that put our lives, and their own lives, in critical danger.
Im no particular Tesla fan, but I do suspect that if 3 ICE cars were stranded with no heat and 1 Tesla was, you’d hear about the Tesla story.

In some way, this is actually useful as people need to know the differences and possible new risks with an EV. On the other hand, it’s still biased.
But it would be so draconian to not increase spending insanely every year!
I don't get it at all.

> No ads, thanks to the use of public & free Spotify and YT Music APIs¹

There's zero permission to use Spotify's APIs in this way. So what does "thanks" mean in this context?

I don't like projects like this that potentially ruin it for the rest of us.
The materials were also forbidden in the UK, but the enforcement of the regulations was very poor.

(The materials are produced for use on 1-2 storey buildings, which is fine.)
how much is an H100 GPU?
mine goes to 11
Why do you think Amazon published an AI model for detecting nudity? :)

Joke aside, probably the same way Roomba employees posted pictures of people in the bathroom or Apple partner leaking recording of people having sex: horny employees + zero oversight from mgmt.
I think there is no way you are being honest with yourself. there are a truckload of entities that do far more and more objective evil than Joe Rogan and being serious about this issue requires prioritizing attention in such a way that paying any to Joe Rogan is madness, especially when it's not even boycotting Joe Rogan himself but a whole different company that has thousands of contracts just because this one specific guy Do you even boycott other companies that also platform him (and way worse!) like Youtube, Twitter, Reddit?
> In this paper, Pelli and colleagues show that when reading words that have been distorted by presenting each letter in visual noise (like an out of tune television), readers do not perform as well as an 'ideal observer' who can recognise words based on their shape alone

I said being able to see the word shape is very helpful. I did not say that you can read based on the word shape alone.
Their media is real complicated and expensive (plus difficult to prepare: can’t just throw everything in an autoclave), and they don’t grow very fast, and they don’t grow to a high concentration. Basically that means that you can easily get contamination (like you would growing human cells), and even when you do get growth, it’s dilute.
Thanks. For now my VPN is still working, and Tor as well. But it is nice to have one more alternative.
Spoke with folks in Brazil, Switzerland and Minnesota. So much fun.
A hit and run is detectable by accelerometer, and a half-dozen other sensors on the Tesla. There is no need to upload video unless an event like that is detected, and that scenario should be opt-in.
You could also pirate new games too if that’s the route you want to go.
> intellectually

intellectually piracy is still not stealing

it's causing hypothetical financial damages

I say hypothetical because they are actually only there if you would have bought the game/sub/etc. if you couldn't have pirated the game. But in many case that's not the case (and in many others it is). Most commonly the actual damages are much smaller then whatever companies get away with claiming they are. And there had been studies showing that for some games piracy actually increased their sells long term. Through definitely not all games.

Anyway causing financial damages != stealing, mainly on a per-case basis financial damages from actual stealing tend to hugely outweighs the ones from piracy.
Isn’t the stat about STEM grads not working in STEM largely people with degrees in fields like biology (with all of its vocationally limited subfields like evolutionary and population) or chemistry (where you might only be qualified to work as a low paid technician without graduate study)? It seems to me that the difference in employability between a BS in Biology and a BSEE is enormous, both in ease of finding a job as well as career earnings.
It seems to me that we've already gutted the requirements for a teaching degree -- it's one of the easiest college majors. The primary hurdle is surviving the first couple of years in the classroom.
> Does that mean larger wallets get larger votes and smaller wallets smaller ones…?

If it is something that can purchased multiple times from the same wallet, then sure, why not. But in most cases of purchases, one is all someone wants/needs. This would mean that the smaller wallet has the same voting power as the larger wallets.
I don't get trivializing forcing someone to have to stand trial. Have you ever been through the process? I don't know how custody works over there, but in the USA generally when dealing with a criminal proceeding you have to either spend the pre-trial and trial period in jail until you are acquitted or you have put up a bond for release which is a substantial amount of money.
I would buy CDs and rip them up until about 5 years ago at which point the stuff I liked vanished

> For what it's worth, iTunes is apparently DRM-free these days.

I'll try this!
Mostly agree, but I think that people have a reasonable desire to "own" the pieces of culture that are important to them. Especially with movies and TV, your access to the content, even if you "bought" it, is temporary. Where there is a fair way to purchase your own copy (e.g. Bandcamp for music, at the moment), that's great.
Teacher pay is too low for anyone to want to take a teaching job when they have professional qualifications that would allow them to work a much better-paid job. (Especially when getting those skills also involved paying hundreds of thousands in student loans to a university. You need to earn your way out of that hole, and not working the best-paying job you can would be prolonging that debt!)

But I think the article is suggesting something different: that teachers could and should be hired fresh out of high school, when they don’t yet have any of those other professional skills — or the debt involved in acquiring them — and then simply given on-the-job training. Quote:

> Another recent study, out of Oakland, California, backs up this theory. Parents with high school diplomas who were given 10 weeks of training on a structured literacy program helped students produce strong early literacy gains, roughly on par with those made under fully credentialed teachers.
Yeah, unless the hit and run is performed by an excavator or something, that use case doesn't really require automatic uploading.
Yeah it’s not even spam that concerns me, i can filter those websites out. Literarily searching for one term and getting results for a different term is what bothers me. Shows that there is a fundamental flaw lurking deep in there.
I was completely unschooled prior to college and while I did fine in school I was generally very poorly adjusted. I actually don't know a single homeschooled person who came of age nearly as prepared for the world as anyone I know who went to primary school.
Instead of creating extra value for an extra price, they want to take away the normal benefits of a transaction. Wrong way of doing business. They are enemies of the gaming community
Human beings and LLMs are essentially equivalent, and their processes of "learning" are essentially equivalent, yet human artists are not affected by tools like Nightshade. Odd.
I had the same thing happen on a flight last year so when I got home I tested every streaming app I could think of and a bunch of them removed their download feature from the last time I used it or they put it behind a connection requirement like you said.

I forget if there's a second one, I know Netflix says you can download on its ad but I don't have netflix to test. The one I know for sure that you can download and watch offline is Prime.

You MIGHT be able to download and watch offline with HBOgo. I know at one point I could. But that might also be one of the ones that took that feature away.

I also don't know about any of the disney/paramount/apple ones. I think I tested Prime, HBOgo, Crunchyroll (iirc this can do it but theyre always missing episodes its annoying), Youtube (requires connection) and hulu.
This isn’t a realistic worry. Someone about to plunk down hundreds of thousands or millions for a bridge will exercise more due diligence than random selection.
But the flexibility during the summer beats many other jobs.
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I am very close to obtaining an elementary school teaching degree (46 of 49 credits completed), and as of this year I am a full time teacher at a private school (which doesn't have to care whether I officially have a license). My masters program is considered among the best in the state.

Unfortunately, I don't have many good things to say about my masters program. The majority of my classes have been interesting but useless in a real classroom. Teaching is just one of those things that you largely learn by doing.

Teaching does take a lot of skill and practice—I am surrounded at work by more experienced colleagues, and watching them always leaves me impressed—but I don't think it's something you can learn from a textbook.

Similarly, the licensure exams are just awful, at least in New York. I will leave you with a real practice test question from the official preparation materials. This is for the content knowledge test on "Science and Technology".

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A construction company is evaluating proposals for the creation of a new playground. They are using the following scale to assess the relevant criteria:

+--------------+------------------------+
| Scale number | Scale score assessment |
+--------------+------------------------+
| 1 | Far below standards |
| 2 | Below Standard |
| 3 | Meeting standard |
| 4 | Exceeding standard |
+--------------+------------------------+

Use the chart below to answer the question that follows:

+----------------+-----------+-----------+-----------+-----------+
| Criteria | Company 1 | Company 2 | Company 3 | Company 4 |
+----------------+-----------+-----------+-----------+-----------+
| Safety | 3 | 4 | 3 | 1 |
| Quality | 3 | 2 | 3 | 4 |
| Creativity | 4 | 3 | 3 | 4 |
| Sustainability | 3 | 2 | 2 | 4 |
| Utility | 3 | 3 | 4 | 4 |
+----------------+-----------+-----------+-----------+-----------+

According to the evaluation detailed in the chart, which company should be awarded the project?

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Ready for the answer? Take a moment to think about it before looking...

The answer key says it's company four, because they have "the highest overall score. We are not told any information about categories being weighted and therefore we cannot pay special attention to the low safety score."
When I was a teen, I wanted to grow up and become a game developer and one day perhaps work for Ubisoft. Prince of Persia (2003) was my favorite game as a kid.

Now, I cannot think of a more creatively bankrupt game studio. (Maybe Naughty Dog? They've been releasing the same games for like 12 years) I don't understand how they can fall so low and also remain in business. Who buys/plays their games?!

Watch this and remember the glory: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aOp_GM3ihrU
I feel like most consumers already have an intuitive notion of this by now
Sure, so assess for rigour.

A person who had studied mathematics and physics until 18 could then over two or three years easily, consume the relevant engineering curriculum from MIT/stanford/etc. if they wanted to avoid the fee's of a university education.

A business will never let some jnr hire actually design a bridge to be actually built. Most of the relevant education comes from years on the job, in almost all jobs.

All that applicants need have is enough prior conceptual foundations to cope during that on-the-job training.
I read the parent comment differently.

In a hypothetical future where there is no degree requirement, whatever they’re doing now to assess applicants is not relevant. In that scenario, the system has fundamentally changed, and I think this strongly implies that employers will now need to look for ways to screen candidates other than “has degree”.

As things stand now, there is an expectation that holding a degree is in itself valuable and that the holder has already been assessed by the educational institution that granted the degree.

Put another way, the lack of a reliable process now is the point. If I’m an employer, the reliability of the signal that is the degree the applicant holds is as variable as the standards of the various institutions granting those degrees. In a world where the degree is no longer a primary signal, employers must by necessity establish some other assessment criteria, and since that criteria is set by the employer, it’s at least more reliable than making decisions based on various other organization’s assessment criteria.
If it stopped being true in 1990, then it remains true for anybody over the age of 34, which is not exactly a small chunk of the population. (Though yes it's a good thing they stopped doing sequential numbers)

Edit: https://www.ssa.gov/employer/randomizationfaqs.html seems to say that the change was only implemented in 2011, which would mean that even more of the population is unaffected.
It's not the 10$ a month for Spotify: 10$ to Spotify, 10 to Netflix, another 10 to Disney+, to Now TV/SKY (in my country), to DAZN, to Prime Video, etc. If you sum all the services you have to pay you spend easily more than 100$ a month in streaming services, that is 1200$ a year that is for most person in my country a month of work! And the others would rather spend if for other things, such as a vacation.

Finally pirating is most of the time more convenient, for example using these proprietary services on Linux or Raspberry Pi etc is not possibile, also they require internet and you can't just for example save the files on an USB stick or CD to play on the car stereo.
I pay for Prime, and we're soon to have ads unless you pay more to remove them. I wouldn't feel bad taking to the high seas while keeping the prime subscription.

I'm at the point with other services where I will subscribe for a month or two in a given year, watch full seasons of what I want, and then cancel. Things like Max / Discovery / Whatever they call themselves this year are making this more difficult by removing content. In some cases, it's difficult to find a legit place to watch it, with Raised by Wolves and Westworld being prime examples.

Maybe I'll just read more books instead.
Nobody has ever been sued for copyright infringement for failing to buy a ticket.
A movie ticket is a one-time permission to watch the movie in that particular place and time - it has nothing to do with licensing.
This is actually great if true! Maybe companies will finally be incentivized to start fixing their bugs rather than cramming unwanted features and UI re-designs into their software products!

However I doubt they'd leave such an obvious loophole. Surely the IRS's definition of R&D includes all types of software development activity.
Can we please not get into the homeschool flame war here again? Every time it comes up it turns into a pointless war of anecdotes, because the data on outcomes simply isn't strong enough for it to be anything else (trust me, I've tried).