skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Am I wrong in thinking that "not completed" is often vastly closer to "having a degree" than "never started"? Obviously some people fail out of degrees completely, but many start a degree because they're capable and simply find out they dislike the content.
This mirrors my experience exactly - it took me an embarrassingly long time to learn about http and what it means to be stateless.

It also took learning other languages to understand how PHP is so unique in how tied to HTTP it is (rebuilding its entire universe every request).

(these learnings happened when moving beyond the PHP-based CMS style of development - agency style work on my case - to make more custom software).
I wonder if the Hamming distance between the DNA sequences would be useful or even good enough. Maybe there's a threshold where over a certain distance, two organisms wouldn't be able to reproduce.
What is this reasoning? A scientific hypothesis can fit in one sentence on the back of a napkin, certainly it can in a youtube short too.
I can't get hired at my current gig because I don't have a degree (but they'll let me be a contractor...).

The joke is the PhD fellows and principals don't want some Linux hacker that never went to college fixing all their code that doesn't work.

Edit: shit/code
I agree that they were in a stronger political position before the war. Even if they win they probably lose, just by having exposed so much about their military strength, way of operating, internal politics etc. I would say they've ceded global influence to China.

I don't see any of the comments discussing the reason I think they felt the need to do this, even though my opinion is not unique it does seem minority. It was only partially about NATO expansion into Ukraine, and not the defence side of that, it was more about EU membership, and it was even more about Ukrainian politics and society. Ukraine has slowly been moving from a corrupt Russian like state to more resemble an eastern European EU member. Long way to go but the direction was clear from 2014 when Russia first rumbled, and it has accelerated since.

With that in mind, Ukraine presents a clear threat to Putin's regime. The potential of Russians seeing the country next door, of similar people with shared heritage and lots of social cross over, transition to a less corrupt, more democratic, western influenced nation. And if Ukraine had managed to join the EU there would have been a flood of investment, which while bringing its own problems I'm sure, would have improved the lives of Ukrainians. A demonstration of "throw out your corrupt leaders and see what you can have".

So the war is to nullify that, and even if it did not pan out in the way Putin had hoped, it's still succeeded in pushing away that particular threat. Even if the west now gives proper support to Ukraine defence, and follows it up with a rebuild, the war has split Ukrainian and Russian social linkage.
This looks like a bullet journal (with the transfers to next day & from calendar), but without the journal. I, too, find the approach very natural.
Are there alternatives to demonstrate those qualities to the equivelance of a degree to you? Just wondering if all else is equal what could people without a degree look to add to their resume to benefit from in these situations.
Beyond the usual (i.e. loading ones own code on something one owns), is "because it's there" not sufficient?
Somewhat tangential, but RustConf last year had a talk[1] about a guy picking up Rust to get better times at Battle Snake[2].

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-I1BfSpoWM0

[2] https://play.battlesnake.com/
Tell HN: Idea for a Movie Plot
NASA scientists acquire materials from asteroids which turns out to be gold but instead of studying it to determine the origins of the universe; they're actually secretly selling it on the black market so they can retire early and live a lavish lifestyle.
This company is older than Elon's
This is such a great site, and game!

Thanks to whoever made this - the game oozes 90s / 00s and you've captured it perfectly!
Blue light just before entry - very likely Cherenkov radiation.

Apparently some phosphorescent materials or just electron-induced heating on the cart in front.

White speckles are electrons !
It's more nuanced than that. A large share of software bloat is tied to awkward combinations of device convergence and modularity. I'll give an analogy with pens:

* Dip pens and brushes, the original inking tools, rely on the user having a pot of ink available and some fine-pointed object capable of holding the ink. It's very simple, but this two-piece design limits situational use and requires the tip to be scrubbed off like used silverware. But you are relatively unlimited in what you put in the ink and the style of the nib, making it one of the best artist's tools even today.

* Fountain pens innovated by creating a reservoir inside the pen, and a feed mechanism. This creates a modular pen body, allowing the user to customize a body with different inks, reservoir mechanisms(cartridge, piston, etc.) and nibs. However, the ink has to be liquid enough to gravity feed, and cleaning the pen and fixing feed issues is a more involved process, making fountain pens reputed as a temperamental platform with many tradeoffs for portability.

Disposable ballpoints and markers devised a one-size-fits-all solution: make refills be the "whole pen", comprising tip and reservoir, and leaving the body as just a shell. This has allowed the designs to become very intensively engineered, with customized gel ink formulas, rubberized marker tips, etc. However, most of these designs are not made for longevity in some dimension - gel refills dry up, oil-based refills fade, marker tips get smashed. As well, there is a limited range of line styles achievable from a ball or marker.

Lastly, there is a recurring Kickstarter scam in which a "printer pen" is demonstrated, with selectable RGB color. Besides the fact that this product doesn't really exist, it would make the pen into something even more complex than a fountain pen.

So in solving technical problems, I think computing necessarily converges on answers similar to how pens are engineered: if you want it to be very simple and exacting, it's a dip pen, and you have to "plug it in" each time. If you want it to be easy-use, to last a while and to get out of the way, you want a pack of Bic ballpoints. If you want some mix of those things, you end up in the space of markers or fountain pens.

But software lets us make the RGB pen, actually have it work and be used by people. And that is a problem, because now our expectations are that nobody should have to use a dip pen ever again, when a large part of the population didn't even get exposed to them and lacks the agency to choose.
I love this calculation because it feels like it is somehow significant but is actually mathematical doggerel. So great, thanks!
I think you underestimate the efficiency of meat.
Ask HN: User Verification for Government Employees
Hi HN community, I'm building a web app where govt workers and citizens can interact with one another. If a citizen lives in a zipcode that the govt worker serves, they can interact.

It is important that neither group be impersonated.
- How can I verify the identity of both groups?
- How can I verify that the citizen lives in the zipcode they provided?

Any tools, libraries, methods, services are welcome!

Thank you in advance.
Good luck buying a mattress. The market is so intense that it is basically impossible to find honest information. Everything is affiliate links and the forums are flooded with shills.

I ended up building my own mattress because the community around it doesn't really have a product to push.
Even though the Oxford comma has fallen out of fashion, there are a few cases where you really need it. My favorite example is the old joke:

There are two hard problems in computer science: naming things, cache invalidation, and off by one errors.

Leave out the comma and it makes a mess of things:

There are two hard problems in computer science: naming things, cache invalidation and off by one errors.

Don't take my word for it. Read both versions out loud, pausing for each comma, and not pausing where the comma was removed.
There's no complaint here.

But for me, yes paying $132/yr to not own anything isn't attractive.
Temperaments are kind of nerd snipe for some people. My feeling is that with modern digital synthesis we could do away with temperaments altogether and just let thirds and fifths (etc) go their own way; we are not limited to fixed number of keys that need to fit in an octave. Admittedly composing for such a system would be probably ridiculously difficult (you have so many "notes" to choose from!).
> unidentified propaganda should be banned

Oh man, this sounds bad. Who gets to decide that something is the real, real truth and not propaganda? The US? China? Germany? a PAC? A company? Your neighbor?
$3M Annual Recurring Revenue from a simple GPT wrapper product
Being skilled is only part of being a good employee, I think it's fair to look at a degree as an indication that someone is able to commit to something long term etc but of course I have to assume there's a way for people without degrees to make up for that indication.
Last time I was in Death Valley the German car company Opel was filming a car ad for tv. My German wife thought it was hilarious.
People are pretty cagey about what they use in production, but yes, speculative sampling can offer massive speedups in inference
I haven't done it myself, but you can run Linux on Apple silicon.

https://asahilinux.org/fedora/#device-support
Yeah curious to hear what the Weissman score of this latest algorithm is going to be.
Groq Engineer here as well; we actually built our compiler to compile pytorch, TensorFlow, and Onnx natively, so a lot of the amazing work being done by y'all isn't building much of a moat. We got LLama2 working on our hardware in just a couple of days!
AI Determines Sex of Person from Brain Scans
But when biologists finds an insect type with different number of something they will call it a new species. That we don't do that for humans has to do with politics more than anything else, some believe we would discriminate against such humans if we said they weren't really the same species.
And yet, it made a simple mistake in some python code :'(
> particles = np.zeros((2, 3)) # position, velocity, and acceleration
particles[:, 0] = [0.0, 0.0, 0.0] # initial position
If your working on a distributed system, i think Erlang still has better tooling compared to Elixir. For example common test for integration/system testing and snabbkaffe for trace based testing.
It's like 100 usd/vial in some countries in Europe, more expensive in some others. Still ridiculously expensive.
It's not really that different though. Google is showing me a round trip flight between New York and Miami for $55. Amtrak wants more than four times that, and it's 27 hours each way instead of 3.

I feel like the premise of a train is that it costs less than a plane and uses less fuel per passenger, so it should be slower but have the countervailing advantage of being less expensive. That is not what I'm observing.
It’s funny how a lot of the practices at small scrappy software companies persist even at Temenos $X00m scale.

Sales guys selling stuff that doesn’t yet exist, doing funky deals to hit the quarters numbers, selling far too much bespoke work for a product, and very unpredictable and shoddy implementation projects once the license is sold.

Ive seen it all at small software companies, but shouldn’t a core banking system vendor have a slightly more rigorous approach.
That's a fair analysis. It makes me wonder if there's any way to re-create that signal without forcing people to incur 6 figures in debt that can't be discharged in bankruptcy. As far as I can tell, many people learn very little in their college classes -- but it does still signal whether someone can shut up and do what they're told, turn in assignments on time, set a 4 year goal and accomplish it, etc.

"Bring back unpaid internships" is one obvious way to re-create the signal, assuming companies would be willing to take on ambitious 18 years olds and teach them. As a hiring manager, do you think there is any way to make this happen?
The pictures I see from iPhones look like a better photographer took them zoomed out but gross and make zoomed in because of all the weird filtering. Isn't that basically what AI upsampling does? It doesn't add information, so it's somehow imagining what an optimal image will look like. Personally I'd rather pass when it comes to video.
It’s tough, because a degree demonstrates perseverance and conformism. There’s no short-cut to either because a short-cut would be the choice of non-conformists & less perseverant people. There’s a great deal of work on this, known as the ‘signaling model of education’.
Or election meddling.
Here's mine:

https://www.stavros.io/posts/keyyyyyyyys/

Wildly impractical, but super easy to build.
It looks like we've hit a reply depth limit, which is maybe for the best, because I don't think we're making any progress here.

> You did use tautologies...

You seem to think calling something a tautology is a way to dismiss it. Almost everything in mathematics is a tautology-- most of what I say is a tautology. Any rigorous argument is tautological; it's the aspiration of literally all formal reasoning.

> Lots of uninteresting and bad music is also entropic.

And here, you seem to think someone is claiming that entropy is equivalent to music quality, not just a useful correlate or eg. indicator of something that might be more likely to show up in good music than bad music. I don't know of anyone making that claim; all the examples I gave require mild correlation.
In order to train an ANN to approximate the "human thinking" function, we would have to know that function well enough to give it examples and counterexamples. Currently we are only training LLMs to approximate the "human blabbing" function.
Help Us Build Our Roadmap – Pydantic
I use all the systems mixed together, a bit of text files, a bit of Obsidian, apple notes, notion..
"Don't Panic."
If you hire a person to change a spark plug, yes, you need a specific skill.

If you hire a person for a job - for something which you can't really narrowly define, and don't want to, for something which may need adaptation to unexpected tomorrow, then you need those specific skills of learning on the fly - something closely associated with prolonged education program. The program could be less formal or official, but you still want to see the ability to improve, possibly improve by oneself, and even sometimes to participate in generating ideas and decisions - and education is the process where you have good opportunities to flex these kind of muscles.
> Touch, feel its texture, feel its weight, get tactile feedback, organising physical objects in a spatial world. This is simply the natural behaviour of the human animal.

I would add that there was also joy to be had resulting from the effort, intent and commitment required to interact with tangible things. Nowadays it's just too easy to instruct your assistant to play a song, skip around, move on to something else, etc.

I used to get so much satisfaction from everything that went into listening to music for the most part. The excitement of a new song/album/artist. The time you had to wait for the release or finding a copy due to the initial demand. Going out to a store to buy it. Sometimes on public transportation that would only extend the excitement post-purchase while you sat on the bus waiting to get home so you could play it on the hi-fi. Struggling to get it free from the pesky plastic wrap. Popping in the cassette and fast-forwarding to the hit song, turning up the volume and sitting back to finally enjoy the fruits of you labor. Listening to the rest of the album only to discover an even better track! You get the point...

At the time, I was excited for a future where a lot, if not all of this "friction" would cease to exists. The Walkman was probably the first step in this direction. The CD was next removing the need to ff/rwd. Then mp3s and Napster, resulting in time spent burning/hoarding instead of actually listening. Now Spotify/YTMusic/etc...

These days I struggle to find any new music that gives me the same kind of sensation. A lot of it has to do with just the sheer amount of material available and ease to access it all, but I would also argue has to do with giving the material a chance and really taking the time and opportunity to appreciate it. This is especially challenging if you have trouble controlling your impulses.

Most of the time I just listen to music that I grew up with. I imagine this has a lot to do with trying to rekindle these sensations from long ago.
who cares anyway ?
I don't know a great answer (and I wish I did, because one of the high performers on my team is "undergrad equivalent of ABD" and I want people like them to succeed without unfair negative treatment).

I would say that it's hard to directly target an equivalent in an interview, because you don't want to needlessly draw attention to the fact that you don't have a degree. ("Hey interviewer, if you're worried about me not having a degree, think about the fact that I earned an Eagle Scout honor or trained for and completed a marathon or <XYZ>." Maybe the interviewer hadn't ever thought about the fact that you didn't have a degree and now you've soured them a bit.)

For the concern I raised in the GP post, I would say anything that shows persistent and consistent dedicated effort, over a long (ideally multi-year) period of time resulting in a successful outcome would qualify and would be something that I'd tried to work into one of my answers.
Why not just git?
I feel like the moral equivalent of this on the Internet would be buying lapsed domain names and restoring the original contents, wiping away the grimey ads of the domain parking page.
seemingly look like some whistle blower complaining about Anxun's swindling Chinese tax payer with inferior product etc.. don't really see anything of substance in terms of actual data/tools mentioned etc
cute but nothing that isn't public knowledge; at least in terms of attack vector..
Wait you have an API now??? Is it open, is there a waitlist? I’m on a plane but going to try to find that on the site. Absolutely loved your demo, been showing it around for a few months.
(Groq Employee) Agreed, one should care, and especially since this particular service is very differentiated by its speed and has no competitors.

That being said, until there's another option at anywhere that speed.. That point is moot, isn't it :)

For now, Groq is the only option that can let you build an UX with near-instant response times. Or a live agents that help with a human-to-human interaction. I could go on and on about the product categories this opens.
Not completed shows that you were accepted to an institution, so it matters how selective the institution was. There’s a lot of research that shows there’s some (wage) benefit to the first year of college, then not so much for the second or third, but a lot more for the degree. Bryan Caplan’s book on the subject covers this ‘sheepskin effect’ very well.
Congrats on the great demo, been a fan of Groq since I learned about TSP.
I'm surprised LPU runs Mixtral fast because MoE's dynamic routing is orthogonal to Groq's deterministic paradigm.
Did Groq implement MegaBlocks-like kernels or other methods tailored for LPUs?
Personally, I feel that Todoist[1] has revolutionized how well I can track things. You can use it exactly like a text file, where each line / task is tracked individually. I'll often add tasks for my current day (that will fail over to tomorrow if I don't get to them). However it's real strength (compared to a text file) is in its features for repeating periodic tasks. Other products I've used struggle with irregular timing structures, but todoist simply understood (for example) "the first monday of every month" for street sweeping.

I still keep daily notes at times and track what I'm doing in other spots, but getting used to using Todoist to help me do periodic tasks at the proper rate has been one of the only productivity tools that felt like they "really worked." I pay for the app because not doing so would feel ungrateful, but I don't really use any of their premium features. The base app is more than good enough in my view.

[1] https://todoist.com/features
One of the only, if not the only, persons at my company without a degree. On the fast track to director, and currently in senior management. I'm not downplaying degrees, but not all fields need one.
The Oxford comma is a must, and here's why:

"The U.S. President, a racist, and a misogynist." (Barack Obama, David Duke, Andrew Tate)

"The U.S. President, a racist and a misogynist." (Donald Trump)
The moment the hack is public Sony will release an update to block it. And so the game of cat and mouse continues.
That is completely alien to my experience. I have a credit/debit card connected to my account, so I just enter the card number and that is all it takes.
I've got an RTX 3070 in my main box right now. Currently I choose not to run it for mining processes because I want the hardware to last longer and don't want to pay for 10x the idle power costs. 300w is a lot of wall power, a non-negligible amount of money and potentially a sustained 80c+ heater in my room until I turn it off.

That's just me. 100k downloads disagree apparently, but I do question how many people would stick with this in the long-run.
“as always”?
Its an engineering/cost problem. Yes, you can create spansive narrow but long building that go up N stories and have long corridors of apartments with only one wall of windows (and you can go back and front on that). But you need to be able to get the people down in case of fire (and not have them jam), so more stairs, and elevators to handle the amount of traffic. It isn't because people are dumb that they don't do this by default, they run cost benefit and realize building towers works out to about the same economy as building walls, people also want some green, so courtyard complexes are common (towers surrounding a central courtyard, this is a very chinese design).

> In any case, this is not an engineering problem, but a sociopolitical one.

It turns out they not only have to fund the construction of these buildings, but also sell them when they are completed.
My sister had the ALK variant of non-small cell lung cancer. The special treatment she got worked until it didn’t, about 16 months. One oncologist said the cancer had likely mutated and the ALK specific therapy was no long effective.
Exactly.

The NATO (and denazification) "arguments" are just bits of rhetorical flim-flam to soften and confuse the opposition, basically.
Ah, but you are be very wrong.
From my personal experience, this rings true but mostly when applying for junior level positions. I've found that both myself and others I know in similar situations have had a lot more success applying for medior to senior level positions (assuming you have the confidence and experience to back it up).
New study reveals diet link to PFAS 'forever chemicals' in human body
Why not just sell something like the Portal as open in the first place?

There are no Portal games to worry about protecting. What's the percentage in locking it down?
> many people learn very little in their college classes

Is this because the student doesn't pay attention, or the student already knew all the material?
> Building redundant and competitive production

You do realize these fabs already exist? There is no redundant or competitive production currently.