skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
this is what happens when the solution to unaffordability is to subsidize demand and credit.

see also: Biden’s suggested plan to give thousands to every new home buyer to help address affordability
It's zero now. But if they ever find themselves in distinct nations then the odds will change.
I don't think it's hindsight where the problems could be seen.

It's econ 101 that markets can produce rational allocation of resources but only if they are involve people with the information and time to determine the outcome and those people are working with their own money. A system where the state "gives"/"loans" your customers money and then forces them to spend that money on you produces a industry that has neither the discipline of skin-in-the-game markets nor the discipline of state regulation.
Haven't installed CrossLine recently, maybe file a github issue for docs/faq? Drag-and-drop might have OS-specific quirks.

2018 comment by the developer suggests pasting, https://www.outlinersoftware.com/topics/viewt/8438/0/crossli...

> if the outline is in the same repository, CrossLine supports live transclusion, i.e. the transcluded items immediately update when the source is changed; if the outline is in a different repository, the item is pasted as a static link, i.e. the text is pasted and doesn’t change unless you manually change it (CTRL+SHIFT+L). Live transclusion links have a blue background color while static links have normal background, blue font and are underlined.

> Note that there are two ways of transcluding: either as alias items or inlined items. You can create the former by selecting one or more items, then clicking on the handle of the item under which you want the alias, then CTRL+SHIFT+V; the latter are simply created instead by pasting into the text of another item.
Let's not write software and especially programming languages which assume or depend on users having access to advanced tools that require a monthly subscription.
150k is plenty for getting into Harvard
Omg. This is so fucking awesome.

Ive worked at jobs where we had to setup kube clusters. It is so fucking hard to do this for nontrivial setups. You frequently don’t have access to abstractions that are taken for granted by kube users.

This blog has made me genuinely want to look at a part of my career that I never thought I would want to revisit.
> If you understand that this is primarily an exercise in marketing and not tech, then you'll be on your way

A solid gold insight right there. I graduated into a bad economy as well (Millennial into the 08 recession) and what got me hired was not my honors GPA or dual major or any other academic achievement. I got hired because of my side project hosting a JSON API that offered some very simple data. I was able to talk about it during an interview and pretty much my passion for it got me hired.

Another alternative is to get into an open source project and offer to do some "developer evangelism" type work. Code up examples, documentation, write up blog posts - great way to get your name out there.
The main issue with this approach is that it doesn't help people who struggle financially or come from disfavorable backgrounds -- whom federal student loans aimed to help.

Some sets of circumstances don't favor score maximization on such tests, whereas being in a high income family favors prior access to education that help get those scores for instance. Ergo you'd not solve a better access to education that way.

Similarly, means testing for those slots also has negatives incentives. It's a hard issue to solve.
The drinking culture is also pretty weird.
https://fsapartners.ed.gov/knowledge-center/fsa-handbook/202...
> That’s one version of events, and the “made it product priority” part is not supported by evidence. What I think is more likely: they hired a voice actress that sounds like a “California woman of indeterminate age” and when the resulting model came out someone noticed that this sounds sort of like Johansson with a lot less vocal fry and decided to try and pay her off so she doesn’t raise hell.

What are you talking about? The facts are:

(1) OpenAI reached out to ScarJo initially and she declined. (2) They then reached out again a second time 2 days before ChatGPT-4o launched and she didn't respond. (3) OpenAI proceeded with the launch anyway.
We already have free primary and secondary education. Perhaps we should be asking how we can improve those institutions so people don't feel compelled to pursue post-secondary studies for career tracks that could be addressed by those institutions.

As for loans, they are a poor tool to improve accessibility to higher education and will agree that tuition (as well as many education related expenses) should be free for those who need it.
i am curious how much borrowing against parents wishes actually occurs
I was trying to minimize my YouTube watch time. It was a failure.
The problem is that they will also lose all legitimacy if they only give decisions against the enemies of the USA. They then end up looking as a propaganda arm of the USA, which is, in my opinion, even worse than being an ineffectual but respected international organization.
It's the same argument.

Someone invested money in a phone. They didn't invest money in a camera.

Ergo, an argument needs to be constructed where their phone needs to be better than a camera.

"Yeah, the thing I bought isn't as good as the thing you bought, at the thing we're talking about" shouldn't be verboten.
In a sense, both student loans and health insurance target the wrong thing: How to preserve established institutions by making sure that they get their money, not how to deliver education (and research) and health care to people. I think in 100 years we'll look back on subsidized private universities, and subsidized private hospitals, as obviously bad ideas.

I think the way to solve both is to let the state own both systems. Publicly funded research and education can occur at state universities. The private colleges can do whatever they want with their own money, until they're small enough to drown in a bathtub, or they can go back to primarily serving as seminaries.
I like this no-Nonsense view of real estate loans:

https://assetindexer.com/en/pages/pro-trader.html
Although these days there's an alternate - and more modern looking - view of most of these stats:

https://grid.iamkate.com/
> Unfortunately companies can chose who they want to do business with but it shouldn't be like this.

If you have a contract with them then they can't arbitrarily choose who they do business with. OP would presumably have a chance at a lawsuit against cloudflare here, the success of which would depend on how well cloudflare argued the ToS violation. A lawsuit might not be worth pursuing here, but this isn't a case of "it can't be helped".
https://servo.org/ is seeing new development alongside https://tauri.app/ which seems like it could replace Electron, getting them a little closer to native speed and memory usage.

It'd be nice to see more and more of Servo integrated into Firefox. Web pages rendered at 120fps and fewer memory leaks in long-lived many-tabbed browser sessions would be lovely.
Undergraduate dependents of parents can only borrow $31,000 across their entire tenure. First year cap is $5,500.

Independent student loan limit is $57,500 total. First year cap $9,500.

https://studentaid.gov/understand-aid/types/loans/subsidized...
saying the problem is capitalism is basically a non-answer to me.

anything that exists today can be called capitalism, nobody has a clear definition of what is constitutive and it is not a useful diagnosis for offering prescriptions on how to make it better
I think the point is less ownership and more remote access.
CyberArk makes bold move with $1.54B acquisition of Venafi
I agree with you we do not only want "very wide SIMD", and it seems to me that 2x512-bit (Intel) or 4x256 (AMD) are actually a good middle ground.

Sure, it's https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40465090.
"Tuition should be free to those that achieve admission to a public school"

Sounds like a recipe for gaming the admission standards or setting caps on admissions. It might not be a bad idea with the right safeguards in place, but it would be a mess if we just threw that into the current system.

Of course there are other options that exist today. Scholarships are essentially the same model you are proposing, only with higher standards. Plus, almost anyone who wants free tuition (including to private schools) can enlist in the military.
[dupe]

More discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40468436 (Actual article https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40415846)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40448074

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40461580
Diffie-hellman key exchange and then encrypting it with the generated key?
This isn't an area where simplicity wins. Zoom is targeted more towards professional use whereas Meet is more for casual or social use. It doesn't really support multiple displays, like I can't watch screen sharing on one display while moving the chat and video windows off to another display. Scaling options for screen sharing are inadequate and it doesn't even support real full screen display. Meet lacks advanced audio options that make it unusable for things like music lessons. Zoom has more third party integrations available.
Slandering a Greek Cat
Definitely McMaster-Carr!
Such a high information density, but perfectly legible.
Not an easy questions as it depends what's popular in the local market, you need to be where the users are even if you don't like it in cases like this. Telegram also has a great bot API, which makes it a harder sell to use alternatives (Signal, WhatsApp) or open technology like Matrix, where it's only useful for people that like to play around with technology and not regular people.
The market was/is responding to the environment that was created by the department of education.

It’s quite weird that you blame solely ‘the market’ but totally ignore the role the federal gov has had in this. I read somewhere about 90% of student loan debt is from federally backed loans ?

You think getting rid of competition the market provides and making the gov the sole issuer, creditor, and policemen of student loans would create cheaper education? Lol
thanks for sharing. I didn't even know this was a thing! Comparing to 4 or 5 others, this definitely looks more like a step function into obscurity unlike the other lol
Because UN approved it.
Is it possible to use Google Meet without telling Google your phone number?

I know that it's possible to use Zoom and Teams anonymously. But for Google Meet, I assume providing a (verified) phone number is required.
And based on your prospective future income.

Borrowing $200K for medical school has a completely different cost/benefit calculus than borrowing $200K to get a BA in English or History.
Am I the only one surprised that they keep using this blog style as it was 2005?
Yes looking for some inspiration! These are great examples, exactly the kind of thing I was looking for. thanks!
The biggest problem is the fundamental inability of two higher education camps: "education should be free" and "education should be market priced" to agree on anything.

What does that mean? The two camps disagree fundamentally - so "the problem is they don't agree"? Why should they be expected to agree something? Perhaps they could agree that "Paris is the Capital France" (see Kids In The Hall's Brain Candy).
Sanctions work on the timescale of decades. They cut your GDP growth by 1-2 percent points. After 50 years you become North Korea.

Let's see if Russia is a problem in 50 years :)
The problem is that there is not one correct pronunciation of English but myriads of dialects.

While some Languages do have a standard like High-German, for English there isn't one that feels neutral and that most English speakers would agree one. Received Pronunciation? Yeah, that is going to piss off a lot of people. Try to create some form of "accent free" American English? Maybe go back to using Transatlantic accent? That one was one fun!

If you want a close relationship between your writing system and the pronunciation you ever either have to pick or create a standard of pronunciation or allow for words to be written depending on the dialect. Both options suck very much.

I think that it is fine for there to not be a complete 1 to 1 relationship between writing and speaking. It is also nice when the way a word is written gives you clues about it's history and the culture it is coming from. Also pronunciation is constantly shifting. So you need to do regular spelling reforms. Meaning older text becomes harder to read for future generations and you add a lot of churn as things need to be constantly be updated for the new spelling.

In short, there is not easy way to fix English orthography. It is all about trade-offs.
“In today’s regulatory environment, it’s virtually impossible to violate rules.”

— Bernard Madoff in New York on Oct 20, 2007

“It’s a proprietary strategy. I can’t go into it in great detail.”

— Bernard Madoff to Barron’s, May 7, 2001
There is a project called papaja that is relatively mature.
I agree with that intuition. In our experience, it's easiest to see gains over other optimization techniques when the program is "branch-wise smooth and non-constant". Then, we get the full benefits of exact autodiff gradients "per branch", and our smoothing approach handles the branches. For SAT solving and other purely combinatorial problems, sufficiently accurate smoothing may indeed be too expensive. Also, in such problems, the average local minimum found via gradient descent may not always be that great. That said, we're still exploring where the limits really are.
Well yeah, one is something you actually experienced, the other is just the false impression that you experienced something you didn't.
Show HN: App for expecting moms to know more about when their baby will be born
No, it's not. And we haven't mentioned cameras in the lobbies.
Sometimes in passing a driver acting dangerously it pays to get passed them as quickly as possible.

Or perhaps getting away from a natural disaster.
Memory is the personalization feature that learns about you.
> Tuition is free for a lot of low income students.

That's not what was said. Tuition should be free. That's it.

I'm not sure why people are opposed to something we've done successfully in the past. I mean, the current situation is a result of Reagan not wanting the "wrong type of people" going to college. Why do we want to hold on to this and hurt Americans? Why?
Offering loans to those who struggle financially is a problem.

Offer them scholarships if they have potential, not loans for everyone.
I just exited my startup and now work for a much bigger company. I'm going from a Google-based productivity stack to a Microsoft one, and so far Teams is the worst and best change. Google Meet was fantastic for "just working" especially for less sophisticated meeting guests. The only time Meet didn't work is when corporate IT departments at customers actively blocked Meet so their minions used the "approved meeting solution".

As far as Teams vs. Meet, it seems like Teams is great when you are working with people that have climbed it's learning curve. Teams is also filled with UX paths where it takes one or two extra clicks (and thoughts) to do simple things like share a file.
You can disparage the idea without the person.

> see also: *the* suggested plan to give thousands to every new home buyer to help address affordability

Would still get the idea and issue across without the need to mention the 'who'. It does not change the meaning or the concern by adding in the 'who'. If that part was changed to any other name, would it still be a problem?
It's a great site when you need to buy this sort of thing. However, given how lauded it is for functional usability, I noticed I need to rage click the back button in order to get to the site I came from after clicking one of their links.
>Putting old concrete into roads loses almost all of its value

Because roads can be made from something cleaner? If so, what, and why aren't we already using that something?

Value wasn't really the question. Environmental care costs more. It typically means doing something that is in opposition to monetary value in order to make gain towards an environmental goal. Although, rarely, those are also in alignment to be mutually beneficial.

Is this such a rare case? I'm skeptical.
A registered taxi should cost you between $55 and $96, depends on the time you arrive (night shift, weekend, holiday).

A train much cheaper.

Gett is the taxi app you should use
Train tickets can be purchase online or on the spot at the airport
> Oh, completely ignoring anything anyone from Google ever writes again? This is akin to the cancel culture which we all know is how society should work. /s

Maybe if Google focused on doing actual work instead of writing feel good engineering pieces, they wouldn’t have the Google graveyard and an unstable cloud offering that may spontaneously delete multi-billion dollar accounts.
Even "spent only on wikipedia" is a bit complicated -- bawolff's example was grants to Wikimedia Deutschland for work on wikidata, which sounds like it's some separate project. But really wikidata is used pretty extensively inside wikipedia, particularly for keeping facts synched up between the various project languages. Or money spent on Wikimedia Commons sounds like another random project, but actually it's the infrastructure for all the images you see on wikipedia.

It gets fuzzier as you go out to the promotion-of-free-knowledge stuff, for sure. You can argue its connection to keeping information being contributed to wikipedia, and the long term health of the community, but it's definitely less directly keep-the-lights-on.
with a banana for scale
The length between source and load must be 1/2 wavelength for the phenomena you have in mind.
> I spent 2022 learning to draw and was blindsided by the rise of AI art models like Stable Diffusion. Suddenly, the computer was a better artist than I could ever hope to be.

I hope the author stuck with it anyway. The more AI encroaches on creative work, the more I want to tear it all down.
Meet is nice and nicer than Teams and Zoom in my opinion, but for 1-on-1 pair programming I think Facebook Messenger actually has the best experience - when you're on the same screen resolution, the screen sharing is 100% zoom (unlike Meet which has padding around the edges), and you can move seamlessly between mobile and desktop (i.e. answer a video call on mobile, the other party sets up screen sharing, and you go to a laptop to continue the call). Too bad I'm not automatically Facebook friends with all my co-workers!
Reflections from the RAG Funeral: A Melting Pot of Minds and Misconceptions
just as ML engineers of 5 years ago generally knew nothing about SVMs, Gaussian Mixture Models, MLE vs MAP ...
ML engineers of today know little about VAEs, GANs, LSTMs, Reinforcement Learning.

Cold topics of yesteryear quickly fall off the map.

I would go further and claim that a 2024 ML Engineer may well be unaware of 2019 BERTology and GPT internals as well as 2020 fast Attention kernels and be today focused solely on:
a) Huggingface pipeline SFT, Diffusion, and Langchain RAG chunk GenAI orchestration.
b) the ever-prevalent mind-numbing drudgery of data munging that occupies 50% of a data scientist's time.

I mean, all that effort put into learning PyTorch / Tensorflow implementations of Transformer architectures - is it relevant without 10,000 TPU year resources, when big tech GPU hoarders expose simple GenAI REST APIs for mass consumption ?
An analogy: learning how CPUs are optimally engineered, when you dont have access to a fab, is completely irrelevant to app dev.
a complete bifurcation of skills between the laymen and the high priests.
OOTOH, if AGI ever takes off, it may be advantageous to have some idea of how it works.
it reads like the HN clickbait editor removed the "How" from it but in this case it's actually that the actual article is missing it.

The very first line contains a much better title:

> how activating the brain’s serotonin center affects behavior and motivation
> the browser will no longer need a reload button

I think this is skipping over some tricky UI issues regarding updates. For a text-heavy page, maybe you don't actually want a web page to jump around while you're reading it? Maybe there should be a live indicator to indicate that there are new updates, along with a reload button that lets you decide when you want to see them?

Browsers themselves do similar things - they let you know there's a new browser version, but you don't have to click "update" right away. You can finish what you're doing.

Contrast with video games where things are expected to move around. The visual design is different. There are animations so that you can track objects moving around.

Another example: recently I had been playing around with automatic syncing of a web form so that the user wouldn't be editing stale data, but I realized it was confusing so I took it out. For a form, a good time to inform the user that there is an edit conflict is when they press the "submit" button. People expect to see form errors at that point. But live edit indicators and a reload button might be good too?

Or what if you're reading a web forum, switch to another tab, then come back again. Should the page automatically refresh when it becomes active? Maybe, maybe not. It could be confusing. Maybe the new messages that appeared while you were away should be indicated somehow?

For these reasons, I'm skeptical of automatic browser syncing. I think the web app designer needs control over how to apply live updates.

Much like mobile apps were not just desktop apps scaled down, live web pages require different UI conventions. Maybe new HTML widgets?
It doesn't even provide the right method names for an API in my own codebase when it has access to the codebase via GitHub Copilot. It just shows how artificially unintelligent it really is.
> Edit: it is also a cool name, but I think maybe ‘unremarkable’ is exactly what many people are looking for in a PRNG.

Sure, but at that point you can pick a modern option (PCG, xoroshiro, whatever) which are implementable in four or five lines of straightforward C. They’re simple enough to memorize.

From a very reasonable perspective, MT is remarkable in terms of how large, slow, and complex it is. I think the most compact implementation I’ve seen is pushing 50 lines, with the only way to audit it being carefully walking through the spec and reference implementation.
Lookup how transformers work
I wonder if adding a bit of randomness to the lower-order digits would make pricing seem more deliberate than manipulative.

If a product in a store is $9.86, it suggests there’s a reason for the specificity. The same product at $9.99 feels like it’s priced at the maximum they can get away with.
I agree that lower level institutions need adjustments. I went to a state school and was genuinely surprised when I discovered how many of my peers struggled with reading books (short non-fiction, long classics, etc) or writing any sort of paper (creative, research, etc). This seems like straight gambling to me - people who are barely literate taking out loans to in the hopes of landing a good job. The schools don't care, they just want their money.