skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Of course manufacturing is pretty much as efficient as possible at any given moment. But efficient in terms of cost, which sometimes does, but often does not correspond to emissions. At every step of the value chain, when a decision is made that involves a trade-off between cost and emissions, it is made to minimize cost.
Even this is not in any way related to the asymptotic time bounds discussed in the article.
Filtering Modulating means selecting relevant excerpts. Think "AI for Search", not conversational chat generation.
This is what LLM has been exceedingly good at, in the Alpha (DeepMind) series of projects.
https://web.archive.org/web/20240512104818/https://www.nytim...
What other, more honest endeavors are you talking about?

It's very easy to attack others when you don't need to defend yourself. I want to see you say these things when you have an alternative with its own share of problems.
Thanks for clarifying. That's not the claim that Rao is tweeting about though. Rao as far as I can tell is responding to a stream of papers that appeared in the last couple of years claiming that LLMs can plan right now, whether using CoT, or not. See the paper I linked to my reply to amenhotep (!) below for an example.

As to blocks world planning in particular, LLMs already have plenty of examples of block stacking problems - those are the standard motivational experiment in planning papers, like solving mazes is for Reinforcement Learning. Google returns 10 pages of results for "blocks world planning". If LLMs were capable of generalising as well as you expect they will one day, they should already be capable of solving block stacking problems without CoT and with no guidance.
In no place university education is “free”. There are different ways it’s funded, but someone pays for it one way or another.
Tesla FSD free trial conversion rate is ~2% so far
> reinstalling between versions

When did Debian require a reinstall between versions? I've been upgrading in place since around 1996. In those early years, sometimes upgrades had rough spots but that hasn't been the case for at least a couple decades.
How are they more resilient as someone without 100k debts ?
No, you're not a serious or professional person. And you don't use dashes in environment variable names, you use underscores.
Peer review is not the gold standard in science
Edgy take, citation needed
What RoI misses is that an available, stable income is far more important than getting paid more than it was worth to spend. A master's degree may not be an advantage in an employee's economy, but when the table turns and possible employers get hundreds of applications, you may have a better chance making it past their filter with a degree.

You can currently see this being the case. Among the people I know that were laid off, ex-bootcampers and self-thought developers have worse chances getting application replies than those with degrees.
> earnings disparities between (e.g.) genders and other groups

When people talk about the gender wage gap they're not usually talking about the overall average, but rather doing like for like comparisons.

It feels like you're suggesting your sister chose to give up sales for fiction because there were other factors at play such as quality of life, that that is a decision men would be less likely to make, save therefore her actions have tipped the scale towards "women earn less."

But when people are talking about the gender pay gap they usually mean within a specific field or job title. So the comparison would be made between your sister and other men in sales, or between her and other men who left that career to go into fiction writing. In most cases the woman still earns less despite doing the same work and having the same work life balance (in theory; in effect she'll almost certainly be doing more additional domestic and other unpaid labour).
There is certainly an economic utility to a more educated populous, but should that cost 30k+ in debt? If the ROI isn't there and the purpose is a general one for the economic benefit of the nation, shouldn't the taxpayer bear the cost of that?
Hmm how many years are you going back? ZIRP in the USA began around 2008 and "microservices" as a word didn't really start being used until several years after that:

https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=microservices&...

We can debate what DHH really means when he says microservices. Distributed systems are obviously a lot older than the term microservices. But I think he's talking about systems that compromise many services that don't obviously map to hardware or organizational boundaries, which was the original reason you'd split a program up across multiple independent servers. I have to admit I don't recall encountering that trend before 2011 or so. If you take an app written in the 2000-2010 era e.g. Jira, they're all going to be either monoliths or apps loaded into Java app servers.
Ahh... another Roger Corman, which is not the original author of Corman Lisp:

https://github.com/sharplispers/cormanlisp
GPT as Basic necessity!?!?!
>it really is that simple

It's really not that simple. You going to shut the country down and make everyone poorer overnight to try to do this? You don't foresee any unintended consequences?

And where do people get the idea that "the government" can just do whatever they want, in spite of the electorate?
> used internally

and that's why it's going to fail.

you cannot do something based on progressive enhancement and not repeat tons of html with web components.

but i guess that's why we have noscript tag. /shrugs
I just hope that one day we find the jerk who put the poor animal in the bag in the first place.

Sorry, I just had to. Hottest day of the year in the UK today and warm weather causes me to lose inhibition.
I explain it using clouds. Most people know that a clear sky at night means it cools off a lot more than when there are clouds.

The effect of CO2 in the atmosphere is less than that, but it's always there. You just don't see the cloud because CO2 is transparent.
Reasonable: "Let's therefore reduce the cost of education."
Stupid: "Let's stop educating people."
I’ve heard this before, but would like evidence.
While I agree that education helps for I don’t want to live in a simple hunter gatherer society, does having everyone trained in worthless degrees like a feminist perspective on underwater basket weaving really make for a more robust and flexible society? One thing I saw during the pandemic was appeals to authority. Seems like as we get more and more degrees, we box out what people are allowed to say because it’s in the wrong thing. This doesn’t seem more flexible.
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That's true. I feel like the important bit is covering the essentials. 2x more is not 2x better, but you need to get above a certain threshold.

Incidentally this also holds for some engineering metrics. Some error metrics stop making sense after a certain threshold. E.g. if a certain error becomes disqualifying, doubling the error changes nothing.
Working archive: https://archive.ph/E21ml
I’m curious for countries like mine (Netherlands) where a bachelor cost you €12k inc. books etc. (if you pay the maximum without studyfunding) As some vocational education profession is high in demand right now compared to some bachelor degrees.
Overbite Project: Why still use Gopher? What makes Gopher relevant?
The snark here is unnecessary and completely disconnected from how people use these systems in the real world.

Deferring to “it’s in the notes!” means nothing if you have more than a handful of packages on your machine.

You should also clarify the assertion that packaging affecting testing target won’t eventually hit stable, because that would be a major change that I haven’t heard about.

An end user will get impacted by this eventually.
Clearly it wasn't enough to make them stop being assholes.
It's not abundant enough. When it was more scarce - more people starved. Starvation was common even in Europe till the end of WW2 (because after WW2 cheap artificial fertillizers were introduced).

And that starvation happened mostly in unindustrialized countries (meaning - 90%+ of population worked in agriculture).
they wouldn't know how since it would be based on chrome and lie in the user agent string. the irony.
At least the version I hear most often about is a gross disparity between the genders without taking anything into account.

IIRC if you look into it it's mostly a maternity penalty anyway.
I explain it using clouds. Most people know that a clear sky at night means it cools off a lot more than when there are clouds.

The effect of CO2 in the atmosphere is less than that, but it's always there. The amount can be measured with CO2 meters, and it's going up. You just don't see the cloud because CO2 is transparent.
Seems a bit harsh. Playing video games has no particular ROI (unless you want to go into creative arguments), but they cost money and take up time. Fulfillment, joy, wisdom, those are valuable even if you can't exchange them for cash.

The issue is probably rather the insane costs of education in some countries. If I had to go into debt for a big chunk of my life to study, I'm not sure I would have done it without a clear path towards paying that off.
I wouldn't expect a site like phys.org to try this (and I appreciate the coverage here) but I sometimes wonder if similar articles elsewhere expect to achieve a goal of changing minds of those holding the positions they express are problematic, rather than just providing some news and talking points for an audience expected to already understand and agree with a publication's positions.

Since the audience that would benefit the most from actually having their minds changed are (in my experience) already used to hearing the 'normal' positions on these things but have decided to trust a different position more, though various means including familiarity and those who connect more with their state of mind at the time. It's not that such people are necessarily even 'so far gone' to be impenetrable either.

I find many publications that do anything from casual to more robust debunking don't appear to be attempting to communicate with the audience who believe these things, so they write in a voice that is already beginning from a typically condescending place in the assumption their audience is already aligned with their position. I suppose the expectation is those people will then be the horizontal conduits.

I've debunked various things on more personal levels with people but not by linking debunking articles as I haven't found disdain helps at all but rather understanding and then bridging what led to their position and more context that may clarify certain things (also tbf this is more a comment about many other articles I see, rather than phys' quite reasonable tone).
Maybe, but paying your taxes doesn't put you in debt for decades.
Opus is worse than Haiku and sonnet in terms for functional calling
> in well designed cities

Very few cities are designed to begin with, let alone designed well.

Brasília (Brazil's capital city) is one that IMO is designed, and well designed at that.

Living in Brasília (I have never lived there but I have family and have visited many times) feels a bit like living in a small village with plenty of green and living spaces, where everybody knows each other but at the same time you have everything a big city has to offer just a short-to-medium car trip away. Unfortunately it wasn't designed with public transit in mind, but traffic there is mostly kept away from living and working spaces, so noise and air pollution is kept down anyway.

That is, at least the parts that were in the original city design. It grew though, and that growth was organic and disordered like any other city.
I don't know your sister so I won't comment on her particular case. One thing I've noticed is that a lot of these "quality of life" career choices often involve a partner - men, more often than not - swallowing the trash in a corporate job.
The problem is that when you teach society that a certain “kind” of person needs to be culled, that is a stigma about people in that group.

IME such strong feelings don’t don’t stay relegated to your personal choices, they get reflected at a broader policy level.

People say “well it was your choice to have such broken people, we gave you a pill that would make that not possible. Therefore we las a society will not support them (you’ll hear rhetoric along the lines of “why should we spend my hard-earned tax dollars on social programs for autistic people, that’s a you problem, why people demand I pay for their choices is beyond me”)

Of course that’s when the government offers a “compassionate” final solution to the autist problem. Since autistic people can’t seem to stop reproducing despite the “cure”, we should sterilize them. Or we should make it mandatory because otherwise they are a drain. Then of course for the ones who are “too autistic” (I.e. who are nonverbal or who otherwise cannot be productive), we can euthanize them.

No thanks we have been down that road before as a society. It doesn’t end well.
This argument is old and outdated, In the US we pay high taxes similar to places with "free" services.

The US just spends it on foreign governments as opposed to its own citizens like Europe does.
> Here's the first of my bucket list projects I'm completing which I've intermittently worked on for literally two decades.

This one hell of a bucket list you must have. Respect.
The government should make it illegal to require degrees to apply IMHO. If an employer can’t create a sufficiently good screening process that would select those who would have degrees anyways, then maybe they aren’t necessary.

They also need to stop gate keeping. Jobs like being an attorney inherently require some certification, which is fair. Some governments in the USA made it illegal to take the bar exam and become an attorney without going to law school. Same thing with doctors and Step 1/2.

If someone can pass without going to school, good for them. Massachusetts in particular is in clear collusion with schools, requiring school teachers to have masters degrees in education.
But the cost to the service user is what has bearing on the ROI calculation for those individuals. Different organisational funding systems have different interests.
I can’t imagine a more tedious definition of freedom
Which is also why a lot of the latest policies are to provide equal maternity and paternity leave. Which is pretty good anyways, why shouldn’t fathers be able to take as much time off?
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It’s both actually, and you can’t be sure which measure someone is talking about unless you ask them. It’s quite common to hear people suggest that the gender pay gap is due to the fields women enter, rather than a disparity between pay within the same field. As with anything, there are different ways to measure societal issues, both macro and micro. I would argue that both are valuable for understanding the context and scope of the issue.
Everyone understands this. People say free, as in "free at the point of use/consumption"

I think it's somewhat disrespectful to assume other people don't understand a pretty elementary economic principle
Well of course. University degree requirements in most jobs outside of academia are nothing but a scam - employers save massively: way lower training costs, you weed out people that can't hold a deadline or work under insane stress even before they ever become a financial risk for your company, and you can get around anti-discrimination and disability protection laws because academia acts as a very effective proxy to weed such people out as well.

There used to be a time where "you have to pay upfront to work" was classified as a red flag for scams, it's time to do that again. Especially when your average academic degree can cost north of 100k $ these days - it's madness that we expect people not even old enough by law to chug a beer to take on debt that can't even be discharged in a bankruptcy that is larger than a fucking house costs outside of urban areas.
The easy thing to measure with it is how many accidents are attributed to the person in a given time period. If you have 5 accidents including totalling 3 cars in the last 2 years of high school, you shouldn't be driving.
and you won the prize. web components are being rushed because it's getting too easy to use the internet without JavaScript thanks to the SSR crazy. and no JS is not good for google business
At minimum we should center such people in these discussions rather than talk about them with pity or only when using them to advance a rhetorical point. I want to hear from people with the highest support needs on this issue the most.
I have no idea what pseudo-intellectual discourse this is trying to be but the phrase "X lives rent free in my head" means only that "I think of X a lot because I enjoy thinking about it". Nothing more.
Ironically, you could have proposed an argument had you taken your symposium-style philosphy classes. Instead, you find yourself on the wrong side of a “hot” take with no means to defend yourself.
Saw comments about education being worth more than the paid price, or guarding against economic troubles. All good points, assuming the education was not one of the largest new debts for thw buyer.
I think it's interesting that the post mentions a higher average ROI for "students who graduate on time". The reasons why that might be seem like something that quantitative data can't easily explain.
Or countries where education is actually cheap. Wasn't Germany doing that for a while?
Nice to see someone exploring from first principals and implementing interesting things. And referencing past work! Gives me hope actually. One nit; I disagree with “scary”, I think “interesting” and even “fun”!
This is actually the case where I live (the Netherlands). It has pros and cons of course, balancing of which has over time put some restrictions on the usage of the system (both subsidized college fees and separate study funding).
> However, where college students were enrolled also mattered when it came to ROI. For example, an English degree from the University of Virginia has a $581,925 positive return on investment—climbing to over $600,000 when only including students who graduated on time. In contrast, students at Virginia Commonwealth University—another public university—who majored in English have a negative $30,000 ROI, with just a $3,624 benefit for those who end up graduating on time.

Getting a good (first) job is key for igniting upward progression, and, as they say, it is not what you know, it is who you know (maybe outside of college grads going straight to FAANG by grinding leetcode). Being unfamiliar with either institution, I'd suppose the former exposes one to a better network.

20 years ago, a kid I graduated with when I got my BS in business administration went straight to an $80/yr job through his network. I was not aware enough nor lucky enough to make a network and I barely broke $30k on my first job and it took ten years for me to make $80k, and that took me switching careers to software development, where I've double that a couple times.
>there's no denying that it's a very easily solveable problem.

Why don't you say what the solution is rather than vaguely gesturing at it? Is the solution to require "reusable " bags to be even thicker, so that they require even more resources to produce ?
No, that depends on the speaker. Some talk within a job but from my anecdotal experience most do not.
I wouldn't really call university part of education outside of a few specialized vocational degrees.

It's more a life experience, part of growing up (if you have the luxury of being able to afford it) - basically a half-way house between being at home and looked after by your parents, and being out in the job market having to be responsible for yourself.
10c per part is incredibly high depending on how low-cost we're talking.

If your chip needs very basic processing, and you're going to sell it for less than a cent per chip, you need your core to be basically free.

Sure RISC-V is very inexpensive, but for parts like these risc is massive overkill and as a modern core, you'll be spending a lot of die area on a core that should really be an ASIC, but designing an ASIC is expensive so you can just slap a 6502 in that bad boy and call it a day.

On the other end of the scale, you'd be surprised to learn that many chips you don't ever interface with as a user contain even ARM cores. These are usually ASICs in high-end products.
If we’re talking about an individual’s ROI ( as the article does ) without taking into account the overall economic benefits, then why isn’t it fair to call something free if an individual doesn’t have to pay for it themselves?
At a bare minimum it then should also not be about making if for profit
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ChatGPT and the like could free up coders to new heights of creativity
JWTs validated against the public component of asymmetrical keys (ECDSA or RSA) can work if you want something that is client-side only and where the license key contains all information about the license without having to look it up in a remote database.

It won’t be particularly tamper resistant, but it should be sufficient to ‘keep the honest honest’ and (IANAL) might help your case in court if need be. Arguably, you can spend millions and still be in that position — though probably having managed to make a more customer hostile solution without significantly bothering those looking to circumvent your DRM.
> This means a second channel to the server for periodically rotating session keys, terminating sessions, changing IP addresses, configuring new routes and repeating authentication if necessary.

So IPsec's IKE protocol? Why not just... use IPsec?
I believe it's a 4th grade level, specifically. I think that's part of the basis for the show Are You Smarter Than a 5th Grader.
And then lets the services like health care, prison and education be butchered for profit (that doesn't come back to the public good but feeds inequality)
Video games are leisure, and many are free in terms of money.
Some economists insist that everyone and every organization should only be prioritizing efficiency of gathering capital.
truth is much simpler. this region is like the Netherlands, it requires protection against back flood when rains change course of rivers. simple small dams.

this region have been governed by workers party since forever. zero floods. well, small ones that overridden the dams.

last extreme right elections put an extreme right government in that region since a long time. zero maintenance on "fake climate change" things. this is the result.

it's one hundred percent like Texas power grid. hence why the right wing sock puppet accounts are pushing flat earth level disinformation.

reality is always more boring.

and as always, if you even acknowledge the nonsense, the trolls win.
maybe ROI shouldn’t just be measured by salary? lol
Some degrees let you earn more money.

Some degrees let you have more fun.

As a teacher I would have made more money never going to college and working in cars instead, but I live teaching.

I hear that doctorates in particular are fun degrees, not money making degrees.

The problem is when a college can lie to students or cut staff. They usually lie.