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> This is the root cause of the madness. Colleges insist on weighing these activities heavily in admissions decisions, so parents have no choice but to force their kids to jump through the hoops.

This matters pretty
much only at elite schools.

These schools are looking for ambition and the ability to get shit done. This is not a bad way to do it. Maybe not the most optimal, but it’s not bad.

Some folks think this is not fair or reasonable. The reality is that elite schools can’t just admit based on scores and grades (easy to inflate) due to that system not being selective enough for the number of available slots.

> Is my kid really going to be a better student because she volunteered at a hospital…

Hmmm…

1. Probably doesn’t matter for most schools.

2. Less likely to wash out of a pre-med major if s/he has done this. There is a very high percentage of pre-med washouts (that’s totally ok), but an applicant with a good why is more likely to stick to it, and that’s probably good for the school.

3. Elite schools, which are the pretty much the only ones where this is relevant, will want more than “volunteered at a hospital”. They want to see significant contributions and/or leadership.

> or played high school softball?

Probably not, but regarding elite schools (probably doesn’t matter elsewhere)…

There is a culture around sports and upper middle class / elite culture in the US. This is especially true for varsity athletics (I call it a totally-not-a-club-club).

Some folks may not like that this is true, but that doesn’t make it any less true.
I'm not sure what you mean:

- Their intent isn't small resolution, they're discussing increasing font size beyond the default on a standard premium smart phone[1]

- Retina displays came out when I was still in college...2010? At that point, resolution is meaningless, things like dp (Android parlance)/pts (iOS parlance)/points (Adobe or font parlance) rem are what you have to hang your hat on

- if you're making "someone else" (?) tell you what resolutions to support, are they technical enough to understand that?

- The invocation of "medium to big enterprise" is carrying a lot of weight, the big enterprises I've worked at certainly didn't do this, but it was Google

I think this is something more depressing that I saw constantly through the eyes of someone who started at SmallCo then went to Google: designers didn't know enough about view layout to explain this, engineers didn't care enough to explain because it was a "design thing", and if you were an engineer who cared enough, you were seen as troublesome / sticking your nose in the wrong place by your fellow engineers.

This isn't an idle observation: by sticking my nose in the wrong place continually, I learned enough about design to make a new dynamic design system that no one cared about until VPs needed one, and then it got in on the branding for Material You/Material 3.

[1] iPhone Mini is 5.4", the post you're replying to is recommending 5.8", that's a pretty de rigeur smart phone screen, even for premium smart phones in high income countries
Does anyone make a dumb screen these days? I have looked at so many options but I dread the day I have to buy a new TV.
Is this all that weird? The ICC is fairly Eurocentric. India and China aren't signatories either.

The "Hague Invasion Act" is performative silliness enacted in the immediate wake of September 11. The truth is that no major European country is going to arrest an American, Indian, Philipino or Israeli politician. There's kind of a deus ex machina thing happening with the ICC; you still have to do standard-issue diplomacy.
Only an idiot would actually lose hundreds of millions on something that should just be a PC server running in a closet somewhere, on a residential broadband connection.

It's probably a lie, for tax purposes. The fake loss can offset some real gain elsewhere.
It's remarkable how it's suddenly an issue when it's an incident with a bike, but all the deaths and injuries caused by cars are just treated as a fact of life.
That article about the golden ratio lost me with that horribly cropped image. It ignores all the things that actually matter when composing and cropping a shot, and gives some absurd advice that will actively lead people astray. The end result cuts off valuable content in favor of blurry background nonsense, leaving a random pencil end sticking up out of nowhere and a massively distracting board that is uncomfortably lined up with an outer edge. Learning some basic compositional techniques would be far more helpful both for the author and its readers.
Those are not the current best estimates. I think you are referring here to last week’s news about OCHA revising their figures and now only reporting half of previous figures. If so than you are talking about 24,686 confirmed dead and fully identified victims of the Israeli military as of April 30th 2024. Of which 14,600 are women, children, or the elderly. The 35,000+ figure is actually 35,562 confirmed dead as of May 20th 2024 (including 10,876 confirmed dead and not yet identified). Yet not included is the 10,000+ believed dead who are missing e.g. under the rubble or in undiscovered mass graves, or unreported burials, etc. This makes the believed total number of victims killed by Israeli aggression in Gaza around 45,000 of which we know 14,000 are woman, children and the elderly.

35,000 civilians is not an unreasonable estimate. I would personally put a lower bound at 60% of 35,000 = 21,000 civilians, which is the assuming every adult man is a combatant (which we know is not true; there are plenty of civilian adult men among the victims) and extrapolating the percentage of fully identified victims to the confirmed death count.

https://www.ochaopt.org/content/hostilities-gaza-strip-and-i...
Elite schools still offer far greater advantages than they should, let's not fool ourselves. A lot of hiring companies use elite college as a screen to run simple recruiting pipelines.

GOOG was notorious for only recruiting from a handful of elite tech schools with very high GPA requirements to filter out resumes.

In finance just about every single person I have met in a risk taking role came out of an Ivy program. If you went to top engineering school the best you could do is work for the Ivy guy writing algos for him. If you didn't go to a top engineering school, you probably got recruited for desktop support.

I'm sure every industry has a version of this, given the 2 I am familiar with most both do.
Which is …normal. Different types of data access have different SLA requirements. Any company that cares about cost will warehouse data after x time frame. It’s done even in banking. Uber has a much more lenient need to make this data instantly available.
> I nice feature would be to just loop back the error and get ChatGPT to correct the error.

For code generation this works well, though for command line some additional function calling infrastructure may necessary, e.g. if it gets a file path wrong, its only way to correct it might be to execute a bunch of 'ls' commands. It might need read access to the system, which is okay for some use cases where you can containerize everything and keep private files out, but but opens another can of worms :-/
And? It's not a vote. Pick a person from the world out at random; it's a coin flip whether they live in a country that has or hasn't ratified Rome.
its also worth noting unsupervised play as a mode of personal growth for kids

every team has a coach and is being told what to do, none of the kids are figuring it out for themselves, and they're always being watched
Not difficult to guess. Most probably, looking for possible connections with people that could (hypothetically) have reasons to have planned or pay them for a sabotage act. Places visited, times, conversations, a recent biography of the owners... Is all in the phones.

They may find that nothing is suspicious, and this would be in fact a valid result to include, but it will worth a try.

From the point of view of the phone owners, a problem is how to guarantee that the phones are not contaminated with fake data later. I assume that there are official protocols deployed to keep the chain of custody safe and clean.
> No, the old languages are not slow. It's the old hardware that's slow. But the old languages don't run on the new computers.

Which languages is this referring to?
Why do I feel like Sam's 'her' tweet pretty much gave Scarlett Johansson's legal counsel all the ammo they needed lol.
There is zero understanding of the cause of internal experience. We can't even strictly define what it is. My contention isn't that materialism doesn't appear to be a reasonable canditate for cognitive process, but that we still have no idea HOW any of that happens. We may never know.

People who claim that it is obvious that neural networks and LLMs replicate the functioning of a brain, any brain - let alone human, are just wrong. They are wrong to assume that it is obvious that just making bigger LLMs will somehow generate a being with the capacity of internal experience, whatever that may mean. They are wrong when they act like they have solved the problem of understanding cognition by just forgetting to mention the hard problem of conciousness. They are even wrong to simply assert that neurons and neural networks are "to do" with cognition. Hallucinogens and brain damage affect subjective experience, and both of those things are involved with the vascular system of the brain. Would I be right to say the vascular system produce cognition? Why doesn't anyone argue in favor of that view since it is not too far off from the same reasoning?

Obviously, it's reasonable to assume that neurons are somehow involved with subjective experience, most serious neuroscientists and other researchers would hold that same assumption. But you need to EXPLAIN how, preferably with evidence. It is the burden of the one claiming they have finally figured it all out to present a convincing theory, or at least conjecture the path to get there. Loudly and smugly asserting that your assumption is correcter than the other people who have spent decades working on the problem doesn't make the problem dissolve, but it is especially irritating when the incentive of the loudest people doing so is in the pockets of the shareholders they are indebted to.
There is no real way to identify if your kid is extra smart + motivated + lucky enough to "make it" without advantages, of which an ivy education is a big one.

The numbers say push them to the max because the best opportunities are given, in the highest numbers, to the kids with the most boxes checked.

America is still where you can come from less than nothing and make it, but your parents don't determine that -- You do.
My feeling is much of this client AI hardware push is to dodge the power cost. They're looking at spending $100B on a 5GW 'Stargate' datacenter for AI, and paying back that investment will go better without the ongoing (forever?) costs of running the resulting models centrally.
You can look at where a name is used, I say "escape analysis" here because that is the technique closest to what you would be doing. It gets the idea across quite well. At the fundamental level, you are analysing a program to see which parts of it access which values. In this case assessing if a piece code bound to a global variable "escapes" into the rest of the program as data. The objectives and techniques are similar. This is quite clearly possible.
Yep. It's a cycle where they select based on this, and those folks go on to do well due to network / opportunity. Not saying they don't have talent, but there isn't a lack of talent in the lower class either.
I'm thinking about the same thing but with an emulated NES.
Fair in that I doubt it is everyone. But, at large, people are rather happy with their phone. If a touch embarrassed that they use it so much. Though, really only if you confront them with a scenario that begs the question, as it were.
iPhone 13 mini does exist. But I haven't seen one since.
I wish papers could be accepted with negative results. There's a lot of value in not repeating the same mistakes specially in a field like deep learning, which is not an exact science and mostly just driven by intuition.
It's really not in Israel's interests to hamper any aid if it ever was. There's no need to coerce on this point. Biden could have gone 'Yay ICC!' and still got cooperation here.

Israel has three alternatives:

Option 1: Do a real siege (never tried. Gaza has less malnutrition deaths than Cali according to their own figures, and besides everything would have been over months ago if it did. That's the real weakness with the ICC case).

Option 2: Provide aid yourself (expensive).

Option 3: Let other people do it for you and not pay for it.

Obviously the optimal choice is the last one. The real differences between US and Israel are elsewhere (e.g. delusional postwar planning by both sides).
> The advantage is the network / badge that comes with it.

Vastly overrated except for a very small number of people who didn’t already have a network and do the right kind of hustle to develop it. It happens, but it’s rare.

Most of the folks at these schools already have a decent or good network. The badge rarely makes a difference for most people.
I, for one, realized quite soon that this is well out of International Color Consortium‘s jurisdiction and capacity (however non-compliant the color profile implementations in Gaza might be).
Hmm could you elaborate?
At many companies, tech or law firms, $770,500 is the revenue attributable to 1 employee or less
Why would you be embarrassed to tell people about your phone? For that matter, how often are you discussing your phone with anyone? Having lived on burner phones for a time, I can tell you that virtually nobody noticed. Or cared.

Edit: And apologies, I forgot to address your challenge. Amusingly, I don't have social media installed on my phone. I do what I can to not even look at email on my phone. Fairly successful at it, all told.
Docker is one of these tools for me.

The unspeakable amount of my time and headache it saved during my consulting career puts a smile on my face.

Docker allows me to quickly iterate over the steps required to run ancient projects.

Not having to install 5 different relational database servers on my host OS alone is worth the learning curve.

Also crucial for running concurrent, reproducible, Python environments in my laptop.
I have a hard time relating to this. My mom never had any pressure to do have me do any extracurriculars, and I didn't really do any. It was enough to just pass my classes and graduate. My local community college certainly didn't care.
> In Q1, the company recorded $311 million in non-cash expenses arising from the conversion of promissory notes, and the associated elimination of prior liabilities, immediately before the closing of TMTG’s merger with DWAC

SPAC promoters are harsh mistresses.

Hopefully Trump can get to the dumping of his shares soon, DJT share price has recovered from its lows.
No, apple maps definitely attempts to figure it out based on your location patterns. At one point when I was 100% remote it listed the bodega store across the street I visited daily for sodas/supplies as “Work.” It’s done this for every work place I’ve been in since (til i disabled it which isnt intuitive at all)
Also, it shows that today’s blog post was fiction.
Zoom is what you need. I have it at 150% on my 24 inch screen. The default size is ok for my phone as the distance is usually smaller.
Yes. In a nutshell, the problem is that (consp x) being true does not rule out (functionp x), which it should. (Unless consp is hacked in an unspeakable way.)

In a real implementation, you'd want a new kind of cons cell with a separate type tag so that it fails consp. It's okay if car and cdr like it.
The damning thing isn't the loss, it's the revenue. $770,500 in revenue. $300M in losses.

And there are people buying this stock.
"Causing death by dangerous driving" is on the statute books, "... by dangerous cycling" is not (yet).
> kids from disadvantaged socio-economic backgrounds have fewer opportunities to volunteer and to pursue expensive sports

This is very much factored in during admissions at elite schools.
You are free to live in the woods isolated from society. So are my kids, if that is a decision they make of their own volition once they are old enough to make a meaningful decision. Until then it's my job to make sure they are equipped for life to the most of their capability.
Show HN: I built a website to figure out how startups make money online
Hey HN,

I previously used to read a newspaper, where they every Sunday used to have a tiny section where they feature an entrepreneur.

I were obsessed about those sections and wanted to study what they were doing and how they launched their company. Therefore I have started RealNtrepreneur.

I will interview founders that are making up to 20k/month, so you can apply the same tactics to scale your startup.

//Fuad
am I wrong to think this was the plan all along?

mainstream adoption hasn't been that great - now there's drama
Making it a crime allows you to accumulate crime stats for it, which allows you to report on how bad the crime rate is, etc.
What are the chances that among 7 billion people in the world that there are always going to be 100 people that sound like you? If Sam Altman was going for a particular voice, there are probably 100 people that indistinguishably have that voice and it just becomes a question of a headhunt.
Since Microsoft has given up on her, they should hire Jen Taylor and do almost-Cortana.
Read the comment you replied again. You will be surprised.
I'm less sure. I think the most salient conflict in MENA is between the Arab states and Iran, not Israel and Palestine (look no further than the grim track record of the surrounding states at actually helping Palestinians for evidence).

It's hard to look at October 7th and its aftermath as anything but a setback for literally every party in the region. Even Iran seems to have been caught flat footed.
You've mixed up Celsius and Fahrenheit.
I am really not liking this Sam guy and how he does things. He has an attitude of “my way and only my way, and I don’t care what you think or do”
You can read that tweet?
Well, this confirms that OpenAI have been shooting from the hip, not that we needed much confirmation. The fact that they repeatedly tried to hire Johansson, then went ahead and made a soundalike while explicitly describing that they were trying to make it be like her voice in the movie … is pretty bad for them.
The former is the former armed wing of Fatah, the latter of Hamas. Fatah is a (notoriously corrupt) secular nationalist organization. The story goes that Netanyahu tacitly supported and helped fund Hamas for many years as a check against Fatah consolidating power into a coherent Palestinian state.
It's obviously dystopian to be in love with something that doesn't care about you at all. That is not, at all, what Her depicted. Sam clearly felt for Arthur deeply. Breaking up because their life paths were incompatible doesn't mean she didn't feel anything for him.
I used to search for a couple of lines of code in the getty.c program or its ancestors, which permitted ALL CAPS LOGIN because teletypes and early VDU terminals included models without a shift function. It made me ask myself how the password check was able to function (and how strong the crypt function was) if the case wasn't important.

They were removed from (at least) FreeBSD sometime in the 2.x series I believe.
They killed and raped kids at a concert. If calling that unprovoked terror is too far across the aisle, it’s hard to imagine an intellectually honest conversation, no?
Yeah, while things are much worse in India or South Korea due to the sheer number of students, the one benefit of entrance examinations is that they are meritocratic and allow everyone to focus on one common goal instead of this whackamole nonsense of activities where no matter how many you do there could be more.
The stock is a legal way to buy favors from Trump.
> 4. Naughtiness

> Though the most successful founders are usually good people, they tend to have a piratical gleam in their eye. They're not Goody Two-Shoes type good. Morally, they care about getting the big questions right, but not about observing proprieties. That's why I'd use the word naughty rather than evil. They delight in breaking rules, but not rules that matter. This quality may be redundant though; it may be implied by imagination.

> Sam Altman of Loopt is one of the most successful alumni, so we asked him what question we could put on the Y Combinator application that would help us discover more people like him. He said to ask about a time when they'd hacked something to their advantage—hacked in the sense of beating the system, not breaking into computers. It has become one of the questions we pay most attention to when judging applications.

"What We Look for in Founders", PG

https://paulgraham.com/founders.html

I think the more powerful you become, the less endearing this trait is.
Most of that is loss non-cash option-valuation dark magic. They’re losing about $9.3mm a quarter on their operations [1]. Given their $230mm cash pile, that’s over six years of runway.

The punch line is less than $1mm of quarterly revenue.

[1] https://www.sec.gov/ix?doc=/Archives/edgar/data/0001849635/0...
>Which got him thinking: What if, instead of guesswork, doctors could lean on generative AI to comb through a patient's medical records, along with those of millions of other patients? With such a massive database, doctors could spot the warning signs of disease faster, reduce the need for trial and error, and make better-informed decisions about treatment.

Wow, I'm sure nobody has ever been working on this before... /s

>That was the promise of Cerner, the medical-records company Oracle bought in 2021 for $28.3 billion — Oracle's biggest acquisition.

More than Sun Microsystems, seriously?
As a former Israeli, I cannot say this enough: please take Netanyahu, dig the deepest hole you can, throw him in there, lock it up and throw away the key.
There is no source; black text on a white background. How do we know this is real?
I'm a Yank so forgive me but I assume the UK already has laws like vehicular manslaughter and reckless driving so I don't think this is some kind of cycling bad driving good initiative.
“Shooting from the hip” is giving them too much credit. Actual knowing malice and dishonesty is more like it.
disagree. extra-curriculars can be faked, gamed, etc. you can take this to a crazy extreme and end up with burned-out kids. but, colleges weighing these activities for admissions? 100% the right thing to do.

> Is my kid really going to be a better student because she volunteered at a hospital[?]

as a sibling comment pointed out, certainly. because you'll know what your getting into vs. a romanticized fantasy or some salary-based-major selection.

> Is my kid really going to be a better student because she [...] played high school softball?

yes, 100% yes. of course it doesn't have to be sports, but it has to be something other than sitting on the couch. sports teaches teamwork and leadership skills. music does the same and more. other hobbies promote exploration and independent learning, and could be tied to developing interests. kids that have done stuff are going to be way better at college and life than those who never did anything outside of the limitations of public school.

- just don't take it to extremes (if one extra-curricular activity is good, 5-10 should be great!)

- just don't get focused on sports only. not everyone is an outdoor sportsman. anything should be fair game.
Yeah there's a nice load balancing paper called the power of two choices that shows sending two requests gives surprisingly good results.
The other two were not close to as urban conflicts, calling this apples to apples is not rooted in intellectual honesty.
Immutable data is always consistent. This is almost certainly an append-only ledger, a well-established solution for a simple problem.