skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Lots of people have lots of reasons why they think universities overweight on one test relative to other measures that are more representative of the whole person or whatever. This clashes with the reality though that the SAT/ACT are actually pretty effective at predicting academic outcomes, probably especially with respect to math.
Using Proton for email means it is. Why use Proton otherwise?
Some humans aren't even up to the standard of inference-based reasoning; it's quite a spectrum. But there's little reason to believe that carbon based reasoning, is fundamentally superior to silicon based reasoning, in the long term.
Oh my god. This is amazing. I was thinking of building such thing myself. Thank you!
This looks amazing, like a modern take on Dreamweaver or something. The low code IDE may soon return! The ability to switch between no-code/code is great for teaching people to code. Dreamweaver (and MySpace profiles) basically taught me CSS.
Don't get it twisted man. At least in China, they kill party leadership too. In fact, just to make sure no one is holding out on them, they'll take out your wife and mistress too.

In China, the party is almighty, but it won't hesitate to eat it's young, it's parents, or even it's mate.
Harvard won't admit it, but I think it's likely that when schools like Dartmouth and Yale reinstated the SAT or ACT for admissions, Harvard did not want to look less academically selective than them.
I've had a book on Lulu for almost 5 years, and that hasn't happened yet.
weird, this thread no longer appears on the front page...so i guess we won't hear anymore insider comments like this on Vietnam
The implied purpose of taxing airline tickets is to collect taxes on flights. As you noted, baggage fees for all bags was not standard practice at the time, nor for decades later. (I wouldn't know where to start with researching the original intent of this carve-out of the law.)

The loophole's theoretical existence and the loophole's widespread usage needn't correspond temporarily for it to be a loophole. If I find a loophole in "don't murder" laws that've been around for 200 years, it's still a loophole if I start offing people with impunity.

(For example: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zone_of_Death_(Yellowstone) is a potential loophole that existed since 1890, but discovered in 2005, that clearly conflicts with the intent of the Sixth Amendment)

Some airline might try "free ticket if you pay for a bag" style setups at some point, if they're daring enough to risk its being closed as a response.
> I wonder how much the source content is the cause of hallucinations rather than anything inherent to LLMs

I mean, it's inherent to LLMs to be unable to answer "I don't know" as a result of not knowing the answer. An LLM never "doesn't know" the answer. But they'll gladly answer "I don't know" if that's statistically the most likely response, right? (Although current public offerings are probably trained against ever saying that.)
> Death penalty for corruption? That seems barbaric.

I find this a 'curious' pov. If financial fraud is affecting savings of many thousands of people, where savings = lifetime spent toiling, a view one may dare take is that there is little difference in killing someone (essentially robbing them of the leftover lifetime).

In a country like Vietnam, where about 13% of people pay into pensions at all [1], loosing your savings literally will shorten your life. Even if you're in those 13% btw, as you can't live off state-pensions[2].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pensions_in_Vietnam#Funding

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pensions_in_Vietnam#State_non-...

EDIT: I like to add that I am against death penalty under any circumstances.

But if you're in the US and are ok with death penalty there, I'd argue you should be, too, in the case at hand.
If someone is interested how the message actually looks like, a user on reddit posted it and a previous version from 2023 (although it doesn't include everything): https://www.reddit.com/r/iphone/comments/1c10jai/i_have_rece...
I didn't read this patent before making a sister comment, but looking through it, this one is actually really clear on exactly what is happening (which makes sense with everyone here saying "it's just DNS for data" - everything is obvious in hindsight) and relatively low on patent jargon.

A lot of patents give you a bunch of alternative implementations and component definitions, which can muddy the waters a bit. On the other hand, the figures can help you a lot.
That makes sense, though the first paragraph of that page talks about how web components depend on client-side javascript.

My confusion is that a web component by definition has to run client-side javascript. You're either (a) using javascript to port content from a template into your custom element, or (b) using javascript to attach a shadow dom to a custom element. I could be wrong about this, but I don't believe there's a way to send down a working web component from the server without accompanying client-side logic.
security made to look like obscurity

security by bamboozlement
For someone not from the US: From the second point I understand that the SAT is not the only thing used to decide who gets in? So, it's not "we have 100 slots this year, the 100 best get in"? What else is used?
Absolutely not. There are some ISPs left in the country that aren't blocking access to those very sites. I mean, I was accessing them no problem until I switched providers. That's precisely how I found out they were blocking them.
The whole differentiator between firefly, the adobe image generator, is that it's trained on their licensed stock image library and commercially safe. Besides that, even openai is licensing some proprietary high quality content from proprietary sources. Even if the open Internet is deemed fair use, there's still a lot of content locked away to license
I can't speak for Harvard, but I can address my own university: The pressure to resume using test scores came from the faculty, because we observed that there were an unusually high number of students admitted who were failing the math (and math-y) courses. We want people to succeed in our classes, not enter and fail out. No donors involved.

It doesn't seem like a bad experiment to have tried, but the results were negative and bad for the students, so time to back it out.
Let’s make sure they use little to no lead first before we deploy them to homes all around the world.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9860350/
I wouldn't have to search for apps, if they'd just show a handful of the most recently used apps. This is what boggles my mind, that they don't monitor which apps are being launched, how often, and promote those to the top of the start menu interface.
There is a demo that can be downloaded at the top of the page and no requirements to sign up.
Note that "mercenary spyware" is the politically correct term Apple chose for "state-sponsored attacker" because Modi complained that Apple was exposing them for using illegal NSO Group spyware.
"A few years" may be rather generous...
And yet pointer compression is turned off by default.
I built one using GPT-4[1]. It's not perfect but is working quite well and is now being used by hundreds of users, apart from me, to work on real, non-toy tasks. For example, I used it to build most of a production-ready AWS infrastructure (and accompanying deploy script) with the AWS CDK.

I want to add Mistral support soon, probably via together.ai or a similar service.

1 - https://github.com/plandex-ai/plandex
Suno Explore – roll the dice for random genres
OpenTofu Response to HashiCorp's Cease and Desist Letter
I had no idea AI audio generation had made so much progress lately. Was there some recent model/architecture innovation that enabled this or just refinement with existing tools?
That person already got targeted last summer. I doubt they are as uninteresting as they believe/claim to be.
OpenEQA: From word models to world models
Why reliable AI requires a paradigm shift
The central thesis of this article is that although hallucinations can be reduced or mitigated with a variety of practical approaches, the core issue is a fundamental flaw in the assumptions about the nature of language and truth that are intrinsic to the prevalent language modeling paradigms used today. If this thesis is correct, we won't be able to solve AI hallucinations entirely with incremental improvements to current tech; we will need a new machine learning paradigm altogether.
I suppose this is an alternative to security... Real 'Scroll to the bottom of the terms and click accept" vibes..

Is there any company as big as Apple with so many major security issues?
A lot of LLM hallucination is because of the internal conflict between alignment for helpfulness and lack of a clear answer. It's much like when someone gets out of their depth in a conversation and dissembles their way through to try and maintain their illusion of competence. In these cases, if you give the LLM explicit permission to tell you that it doesn't know in cases where it's not sure, that will significantly reduce hallucinations.

A lot more of LLM hallucination is it getting the context confused. I was able to get GPT4 to hallucinate easily with questions related to the distance from one planet to another, since most distances on the internet are from the sun to individual planets, and the distances between planets varies significantly based on their locations in cycle. These are probably slightly harder to fix.
> DjVu - PDF alternative

Only if you don't care about quality.
DJVU documents all look like a very compressed jpeg. (a lot of compression artifacts and pixelation).
Redis <> RQScheduler <> Celery in Django Back End for Scheduling and Concurrency
Once upon a time, back when things were better I was at roughly 200k a year in NYC all cash. This might of also been when everyone was remote meaning maybe I didn't even live in NYC.

If you're fully remote it's on you if you live in a HCOL city. You can move to to Arkansas, etc
> LLMs will never reach human-level intelligence

For most values of human
> Books are fancy, but let's not mix up progress with being able to live off writing them.

Ok you can substitute this with any type of R&D done by individual or small to large companies.

> We see innovation in open source every day from small startups, from various sized communities, and from hobbyists.

Open source is only really successful in areas where it's a cost centre. Generally, companies mainly invest it into when using OS allows them to reduce their costs and they can focus on other ways of making money/differentiating their products. e.g. there would've been a lot less innovation in OS if Google/Meta/etc. didn't make billions from ads and other services.

> and you mentioned books,

Well yeah.. or any creative content.

> abso-fucking-lutely captured by the industry (with their ridiculous 100+ years of copyright

Yes, I also think that's excessive. To be fair though I don't really understand why do people care that much about being able to use Mickey Mouse in their content. In any case it's obviously preferable to not having any IP protection...
So glad it helped! Random bits: The preponderance of folks in art are really happy to answer questions and offer critique, so don’t feel weird about asking. To some extent, we’re all perpetually beginners if we’re doing it right because the human experience is perpetually changing and we’ll never have life figured out, and that’s the core medium we’re all working with, really. Any folks with the stack overflow “RTFM Noob” vibes, or tryhard “git gud“ vibes are just trying to externalize their fight against their own feelings of inadequacy, and you should probably ignore them. Their perspective will always be about juxtaposing their work above yours, even if they don’t explicitly say so, or even realize they’re doing it.

Crit can be tough to swallow but it’s often harder to give than receive, so don’t punish the other person by succumbing to the temptation of getting super defensive. When you find yourself going into that mode, just stop yourself if you can… disengage if you need to. You’ll regret not doing so. Good faith crit you completely disagree with can be incredibly valuable: knowing something lands differently with a non-zero sum of people is worth knowing. Either way, just politely thank them for their input and move on. When you get confident enough to start offering feedback, you’ll realize how important it is to give people leeway with their reactions! The criticism feels personal because it is: art is personal. It’s just going to feel awkward or contentious sometimes because we’re all human. It’s usually easier for the receiver to distinguish between someone nervous about giving negative feedback, and someone trying to insult you, than it is for the critic.

Really try to dig into the theoretical and conceptual side of things, too. The technical stuff is appealing because it’s easily defined and most laypeople don’t even consciously see beyond it… but being able to communicate things you might not even be able to put into words is the important part. If something is meaningful to you, or scratches some aesthetic itch, follow that thread. There’s a really good chance it will resonate with others. If not, knowing that it doesn’t is all part of getting good at art. You won’t develop that concentrating on technique alone, but you will develop your technique exploring the other stuff, though especially at first, the technical stuff about form, space, perception, and mark making are super important. Especially the very core stuff like mark quality are waaay more consequential being able to express yourself than being able to tell exactly for far this thing is from that thing and putting the line in the right place right away.

Good luck!!<3
As long as it doesn't have any links to click or try to force you to login to something, it just sounds like information to me.

If my bank sent me something about Credit Card fraud I would be very skeptical if it had a big "CLICK HERE TO LOGIN" type of thing.

But if it was just info, and maybe ended with "Contact your local branch to learn more", but no links, no phone numbers, etc. I would be less skeptical.
That’s how you weaponize it. Set things up to give endless/randomized/poisoned data to anybody that ignores robots.txt.
Show HN: I made a new sensor out of 3D printer filament for my PhD
Here's a "behind-the-scenes" look at my development of a cool sensor during my PhD (electrical engineering). This sensor is only about 1/3 of my total research for my degree and took about a year.

I've been on HN for a while now and I've seen my fair share of posts about the woes of pursuing a PhD. Now that I'm done with mine I wanna share some anecdotal evidence that doing a PhD can actually be enjoyable (not necessarily easy) and also be doable in 3 years.

When I started I knew I didn't want to work on something that would never leave the lab or languish in a dissertation PDF no one will ever read. Thanks to an awesome advisor I think I managed to thread the needle between simplicity and functionality.

Looking back, the ideas and methods behind it are pretty straightforward, but getting there took some doing. It’s funny how things seem obvious once you've figured them out!

Oh, I love creating GUIs for sensor data and visualizations as you'll see -- it's such a game changer! pyqtgraph is my go-to at the moment - such a great library.
Also consider that tofu is edible both raw and cooked, while meat must be cooked. So meat adds energy and labor costs of cooking.

But in any case, even paying double meat price for tofu protein, $.05/g of protein, is still "too cheap to meter" in the context of an industrialized lifestyle.
You probably want to do some test prep but you can do that with a test prep book at your local library.

Years ago, in a grad course of some sort, we looked at some papers of predicting performance in school. Basically, even at the grad level, GMATs were far and away the best predictor of academic performance, followed by undergrad grades. Things like letters of recommendation were pretty worthless.
And AB wasn't playing flag football in college/HS. Certainly not the first big hit he took, either. But I agree, this one seemed to really mess him up.
At least the donkeys, and not the slaves, were on the other side of the wall from the banquet hall.

(Was the thin side passage storage, or for muzak?)
Wondering if anyone could help shore up my understanding or point out a resource to get me a better handle on this.

Using the solar maps from here[0], you can find the kWh/day/m2 for the US. If I am in a say 5.7 kWh/day/m2 region and I have 1 m2 of a 20% solar efficiency panel, does that mean I would get 1.14 kWh usable out the other end? Or is it 20% * X% horribly lossy conversion factor?

If I want to math out 11kWh/day in the 5.7 region, back calculating would put me at requiring 9.6 m2 of panels (11 / (5.7 * 0.2). Again, if there is a horrible lossy conversion factor, that would just go into my denominator, correct?

Or am I missing something entirely? I tried to use this calculator[1], but I could not recapitulate the numbers they were generating.

[0] https://www.nrel.gov/gis/solar-resource-maps.html

[1] https://pvwatts.nrel.gov/
Social Anxiety is a thing.
I think it is a bit different depending on you country. I believe it is comparable in the us with the steep Healthcare prices.

in Europe it usually makes sense to contract if you only have smaller projects.
Death penalty serves multiple purposes

1. Remove from society, with no additional cost to society.
2. Signaling to dissuade new offenders.

You can go one step further and punish the family, parents, and friends. Seems to be happening in the US for underage mass killers.

It’s a simple, effective, and low cost way to deal with crime of the highest magnitude. Why should it be off limits for corruption?
They’re still only marginally useful because the SAT is too easy. Harvard has enough applicants with 99 percentile scores to fill their incoming class multiple times over.
Maybe my thinking is a bit naive, but I would assume that the message signals that Apple found a new way to identify (and therefore maybe neutralize) Pegasus which is probably at least a medium annoyance to them.
If we're talking about https://huggingface.co/coqui/XTTS-v2 , that appears to be explicitly licensed only for non-commercial use, while this appears to be pure Apache 2.0; that's a good enough reason to prefer this for some people.
OpenCV for Android Distribution
The OpenCV.ai team, creators of the essential OpenCV library for computer vision, has launched version 4.9.0 in partnership with ARM Holdings. This update is a big step for Android developers, simplifying how OpenCV is used in Android apps and boosting performance on ARM devices.
Understanding why your job performance is changing is critical to both optimize costs and prevent crashes. In this post we show a new visualization timeline features to help engineers find root causes quickly
Not that we shouldn't be careful with any new technology, but do keep in mind that humans have been "genetically modifying organisms" for tens of thousands of years - that's how we ended up with many of the plants you see around, all of the food we eat, pets like dogs, etc.

The engineering is becoming more exotic, that's for sure, but it's not new by any stretch
Your link 404s fyi
Map of activity from mobile devices during the eclipse
The map of activity from mobile phones lights up like a Christmas tree along the eclipse path
Sorry, just fixed it.
Create a crypto currency wallet controlled by a quorum of about 5 somewhat trustworthy online tech people. Allow everyone who has been wronged by HP to willingly chip in a few $ worth to the pot. Publicly state that the quorum will award the funds to the first person to crack the security and defeat the cartridge. Precisely define the terms and acceptable attack vectors. If no one has a total defeat within say 1 year award the bounty to partial hacks that e.g extend the cartridge beyond the original uses, etc.
I don't think this message is about "protecting the site's data" quite so much as "hey guys, you're wasting a ton of time and network connect to make your model worse. Might wanna do something 'bout that"
None of those use cases should involve a public keyserver if you don't want people to email you encrypted stuff. Keyservers are literally there to "broadcast to the world 'hey, email me encrypted stuff to keyid 0xABCD1234!'."
You can be better and nice.
I think this is the right step forward, again, but we should work very hard to make the tests as unbiased as they can be. They are not perfect but they are a reliable measurement, especially as the creators have gotten better at removing hidden biases.
An RTC really needs a battery, and even a smaller battery like a 1220 takes up a fair bit of board space -- space that could be used for another connector or more functionality. And even if you have an RTC, you still have to handle the edge case where the battery dies or is removed and the clock resets. Critical low-level internet services probably shouldn't require clients to already have the correct time.

I use an external RTC with a Raspberry Pi for some sensor systems I work with. Its purpose is to give a reasonable chance of having the correct time for recording data in remote locations where no internet connection is available at startup. For a Pi that only provides network services (and thus always needs a working internet connection), I probably wouldn't think to bother.
As I learn more about how this city operates, living here longer, I keep finding myself truly amazed at how corrupt this city is. Even if you try, you can't avoid it. It's truly everywhere.
Unfortunately, it's not likely to help with FOUC. Flash of unstyled content happens when CSS isn't parsed and applied before the DOM is loaded and displayed. Even if one applies classes directly to DOM elements, if the stylesheet is still loading, you're going to see that flash. The only way to deal with it, is block rendering until the styles are parsed. (put it in the HEAD of the doc, etc)
Nobody gets access to the money privately. The grant is paid out in salaries for work instead of capital gains. There's no capital investment for the grant.

Of course grants are an economic incentive to do something. But not all economic incentives are profit.

Edit: To be clear, universities as such don't generally apply for research grants. Researchers in universities do, and for getting a grant they get the luxury of working for a salary for a few years, or getting somebody else to be paid for their work. Universities do take a cut (overheads) from the grants to nominally pay for infra and admin etc, but in reality a lot of it is spent on all kinds of non-related things like teaching and alumni dinners and chauffeurs for the provost.
Readme.txt vs. README.txt (2015)
On the Apple Support page here:

https://support.apple.com/en-in/102174

In the screenshot it says the threat notification was sent "via email and iMessage", so it would not be displayed in any different way on your phone, which I also find surprising. I definitely wouldn't expect to receive something like this as an Email, and I have turned off iMessage.
Yes, they are public on IP ranges.
If the number of servers needed for service A is proportional to the number of servers needed for service B-Z, then your whole cluster scales up and down together and you have a situation where the max cluster size is hit regularly instead of almost never. For private servers that’s a big problem. But if you’re a large enough customer for a cloud provider it can still be a problem.

You save money still, but you don’t solve your capacity problems by doing so.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Story_of_Mel
didn't click through to the site, didja?
His site has a subdomain for every page, and the crawler is considering those each to be unique sites.