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> Except for medical students, who require a teaching hospital and all its equipment.for their education

They're not really students in the normal sense, they fit more into the PhD category that I mentioned, since they need actual personal help.

> Except for EE and other engineering students, who require lab and other equipment for their education

I have an engineering master's from a world famous university where the lab work was pretty pointless. It didn't count for much if at all, and was more or less just entertainment.

If you were doing a PhD, you would do experiments where the outcomes were not a foregone conclusion. In undergrad, it's not any different from baking a cake, it ain't gonna go any differently than expected.

I suspect you'll learn more watching a video of someone doing the experiment, that way you are not concerned with trivialities like converting units and wearing safety goggles. Something like what NileRed does for chemistry.

> Even for fields that require no specialized facilities, frankly, I don't see any Fields Medal or Turing Award winners that are self-taught nor do I have any reason to expect to see any in my lifetime.

Well, that level of work requires a personal contact, like a PhD advisor. I am addressing undergrad work, which is fairly ordinary material that has already been well digested.
> And if you want vertical tabs, be sure to install Sidebery until Mozilla get around to implementing native vertical tabs. (You know, like Chromium-based browsers including Edge and Vivaldi already have.)

I've been using vertical tabs in Firefox ever since Mozilla implemented it back in 2016 as "Tab Center" long before any Chromium-based browser decided to do so too. Of course the official feature has been discontinued long time ago, but I've been a happy user of its webext-based replacement ever since. Just a bit of CSS goes a long way in making it compact and well-integrated, unlike stuff like Sidebery or Tree Style Tabs that always felt big, clunky and filled with stuff I never use. For the past 8 years, my Firefox looked like this: https://dosowisko.net/firefox-tabcenter.gif and I never stumbled upon a reasonable alternative, including the native implementation Mozilla recently added back into Firefox (though it's a step in the right direction).
And in the US, bankruptcy doesn't help with the student debt, so if the majority of your debt is student loans, there's really nothing that can be done other than die to get rid of them. And I'm 100% certain that if the student loan - industrial complex could saddle relatives and kids with that debt after death, they'd sure go after that too.
But it’s not the same as K-12. I can’t send my kids to an expensive private boarding school and expect taxes to pay for it.
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I wonder how Canadian Tax will affect this. IIRC, in the US, I think the first 1 Million is tax free. After that I do not know what happens.
Well people aren't paying them $30,000 for the love of the game
Where are you that pedestrian injuries in auto accidents is of greater concern or more prevalent than passenger and driver injuries?

Seems to me that if the bulk of the injuries encountered during a vehicle accident occur to passengers by an order of magnitude greater than pedestrians, it would make sense that design elements that protect passengers even at the expense of pedestrian safety would be a positive overall safety impact.
Anything in this story that wasn't news 2-6 months ago?

Craig Wright Lied About Creating Bitcoin and Faked Evidence, Judge Rules

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40416629

Judge rules Craig Wright is not Satoshi Nakamoto

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39704116

Bitcoin Creator Isn't Craig Wright, London Judge Rules

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39705642
> We do disruptive stuff with unintended consequences for millions of people as a matter of policy all the time

And many, many of the outcomes of that are bad
Reinforces my belief that there must be evolutionary pressure forcing apps and shells to be just buttery sluggish.
Heh, if you had included "by studying htmx" in the post title it'd be #5 on the front page in no time
Same reason we have TurboTax instead of a government website to type our taxable income numbers into.
The same amount of compute will cost ~$1500 after 16 doublings. In 24 years or less.
I think you'd have more problems with battery range than with navigation in that specific case, although certainly a cheap, reliable navigation system that works in GPS denied environments would be a huge boon for Ukraine right now.

Perhaps the same tricks that are currently done to neuter civilian GPS could be applied. Although as I understand it, those are mainly intended to prevent you from making a cruise or ballistic missile from a box of parts by preventing high speed and high altitude service. Those are likely becoming insufficient in the era of drones, where you don't really need to go outside of civilian GPS approved envelope.

Or maybe it will be like cheap IR cameras. The best cheap IR cameras are currently imported from China, because US companies are prevented from creating anything comparable for the civilian market by ITAR.
In the USA, the government also pays for education. That’s part of the problem, in fact. Since the loan to the college is always paid for by the government, the college is effectively handed a blank check. Said check, now filled in with an arbitrarily high amount, is handed to the student as a bill to pay back to the government. The same is done in your system, in fact, except that the entire country suffers that burden, regardless of if that degree actually amounts to any meaningful contribution.
Isn’t hallucination just the result of speaking out loud the first possible answer to the question you’ve been asked?

A human does not do this.

First of all, most questions we have been asked before. We have made mistakes in answering them before, and we remember these, so we don’t repeat them.

Secondly, we (at least some of us) think before we speak. We have an initial reaction to the question, and before expressing it, we relate that thought to other things we know. We may do “sanity checks“ internally, often habitually without even realizing it.

Therefore, we should not expect an LLM to generate the correct answer immediately without giving it space for reflection.

In fact, if you observe your thinking, you might notice that your thought process often takes on different roles and personas. Rarely do you answer a question from just one persona. Instead, most of your answers are the result of internal discussion and compromise.

We also create additional context, such as imagining the consequences of saying the answer we have in mind. Thoughts like that are only possible once an initial “draft” answer is formed in your head.

So, to evaluate the intelligence of an LLM based on its first “gut reaction” to a prompt is probably misguided.

Let me know if you need any further revisions!
I would imagine in Europe they select more carefully the students whom will go to College. Here in the US we've told students that everyone must go to College. We now have too many people in College and many of them aren't going to be successful once they are in. It's not sustainable. In many of our public universities, the graduation rate is well below 50%
> Make student loans dischargeable in bankruptcy again.

I would like to see the author back this up with more considerations.

Bankruptcy disappears from all credit reports after seven years. The average age of first time home buyers is 35.

So if a new grad’s credit is trashed from the age of 23-30, it makes no difference to them - they are not planning on using credit for anything substantial anyways.

What is going to stop every single student from declaring bankruptcy immediately after graduation?
Oh dear - that makes sense to me

Area of operations
Concept of operations
Joint operational command
Measurement intelligence
common operational picture
Explosive ordnance disposal
Techniques tactics and processes
Battle damage assessment

Etc etc
> want it to be an automation technology

They want it to be a wage reduction technology. Everything else you've noticed is a direct consequence of this, and only this, so the analysis doesn't actually need to be any deeper than that.
If the operations are getting cheaper over time, doesn't that leave more room for AI to get better as time goes on?
In my experience, once people see how sidebar/vertical tabs work, they're a lot more interested. Most folks I've talked about this with have not even known there was an alternative. After someone has been shown how to change between tab layouts, they mostly stick to sidebar/vertical tabs.
It's not that building a sustainable business is frowned upon. But if you raise money from investors using a traditional note or equity purchase, then you have created the need for an exit. There are royalty-based options for raising money: you take money in return for an annual royalty payment for a fixed number of years plus repayment. It's similar to debt.
> Why is os and phone model so tightly integrated and locked together, when in the pc world you can generally install any os on any computer?

Qualcomm is the reason. Qualcomm wants OEMs to buy new chips every year, and for that to happen, consumers have to buy new phones every year. To upgrade Android (across kernel versions), OEMs need Qualcomm to provide updated drivers, which Qualcomm has been reluctant to do, because their sales will be undercut by chips they sold years ago. Android phones are closer to Mac than PCs, as there's one hardware-maker who determines which models become obsolete, and when, based on the software they choose to update (or not).
I'm not sure how remasters with issues have anything to do with this.

You're assuming based on my specific example that the tones would need to be in a range that a microphone on a device could hear. I was thinking that the extra data would be part of the broadcast signal vs the content signal where an antenna would pick it up vs a microphone. My original comment didn't really attempt to explain that though. After sleeping on it, I realize, this isn't an analog broadcast anymore so doubtful it could work with extra frequencies in the FM signal
But approximately nobody actually bought them, which comes back to the point about all that compute power being a solution in search of a problem. People don't want to play AAA games on a phone.

https://mobilegamer.biz/under-2000-people-have-paid-to-play-...
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And then on other side universities started as vocational schools for clergy. Who then also had time on the side to do at least some research or muse about things.
> It's obscene for a basic messaging

That's an insult to basic messaging, I've seen better UX in tutorials on writing a chat application/website than the sorry excuse Instagram has. Same goes for their comments.
Just power, not unplugged. It's simply

0 2 * * * /usr/sbin/rtcwake -m off -s 28800 # off from 2am to 10am

"and unplugged" was referring to OP's setup, not mine
I don't like this type of comment because it's makes it seem like that this was all planned like this on purpose (by some cabal of evil schemers, I suppose?), but without the need to provide any evidence that that's indeed how it went, because nothing of the kind of is explicitly claimed.

Things can go wrong without people scheming to do evil. It's not helpful to twist "these and these circumstances combined to produce a bad outcome" into a plan description unless you bring at least some evidence that it was, in fact, planned to go like that.
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They didn’t go far enough back or broad enough.

“We” decided that cheap college was too socialist and his people cooked up a scheme to make it more expensive and push the underclass and PoC into the GI bill. “You people” only get an education once you survive the military. But it made things worse for the middle class as well, as almost every5ing from Reaganomics has, and things have only snowballed from there.
Show HN: Package to parse SEC 10Ks into JSON and other fun things
Features:
* parse textual filings into simplified html, interactive html, or structured json.
* download sec filings quickly and easily

Datasets:
* 2024 Management Discussion and Analysis
* 2024 10Ks in json format

Datasets can be downloaded using the package, or here https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fo/byxiish8jmdtj4zitxfjn/AAaiwwu...

All APIs are free and do not require auth, so you can use them directly :)

e.g. I'm currently using the parser api with js to run my filing viewer demo: https://datamule.xyz/filings_viewer
But if it were to happen, what are the chances a fork of Bitcoin (that doesn’t respect this ruling) becomes more mainstream than Bitcoin?

Less than 10%, and that’s generous.
Well, the entry barrier is higher than simply installing an extension. You also need to change the userChrome.ccs (if I remember the file correctly), to get rid of the horizontal tabs.

For a base/intermediate user, that's not a simple thing to do.
softfalcon says> "I have found a lot of people I know (who have excellent English, but aren't native English speakers) despise metaphors."

Language is impossible without metaphor. You might suggest this to your acquaintances.
> What is going to stop every single student from declaring bankruptcy immediately after graduation?

The long and arduous process of going through bankruptcy proceedings. Have you or do you know someone who has gone through that? It's not fun nor is it a guaranteed ticket out of your debt.
I think it's fair to count at least a subset of Arc users in the "wants vertical tabs" camp. I have several friends and co-workers who use it now, and most of them mentioned vertical tabs at least once.

I agree that it's probably still an 'enthusiast' feature, but it's one that I think is starting to catch the road and has a pretty solid future trajectory.
To tire a comparison to human thinking, you can conceive of it as hallucinations too, we just have another layer behind the hallucinations that evaluates each one and tries to integrate them with what we believe to be true. You can observe this when you're about to fall asleep or are snoozing, sometimes you go down wild thought paths until the critical thinking part of your brain kicks in with "everything you've been thinking about these past 10 seconds is total incoherent nonsense". Dream logic.

In that sense, a hallucinating system seems like a promising step towards stronger AI. AI systems simply are lacking a way to test their beliefs against a real world in the way we can, so natural laws, historical information, art and fiction exist on the same epistemological level. This is a problem when integrating them into a useful theory because there is no cost to getting the fundamentals wrong.
Edge and Safari have had vertical tabs for years; when the default browsers on Windows and macOS offer that affordance, it becomes more of a mainstream parity issue. Which is thankfully, finally, being addressed.
I don’t support stupidly applied AI generated code either, but this isn’t a new thing at all, before it was code pasted from Stackoverflow and hammered at until it sort of worked.
The problem here is the time value of money. If the world is based on a production function of compound interest then in a world of finite resources what becomes cheaper over time are cell phones and what becomes more expensive are people's time, because the per unit cost of clean water and housing goes up and technology makes virtualizable goods cheaper.

This also has the added benefit of screwing with the Gini coefficient as returns to capital are always compounded where worker productivity at best goes up linearly.

So people mortgage their future in a bad Nash equilibrium in a competition to increase their productivity at a slightly faster linear rate than other workers, by taking money from financiers. The same financiers that see an exponential return and are incentivized to shrink labor costs to keep maximizing compound returns. So students are stuck in a system in which they're borrowing from their ideological competition.

It's not that universities are inherently evil or administrators are bad. It's a natural extension of how returns to investment work.

Now I'm not a Marxist, but that's the way the math works. The only solution I can see is a social system in which the wealthy form investment vehicles that run as cooperatives owned by the workers and flatten the Gini coefficient as much as possible. If students bought shares in a university that they then owned for life similar to bonds, then the university system itself would self correct.

Say you go to graduate school or had tenure - then you would have a higher share of bonds. You would no longer be paid in a linear way, but a compound one. If the returns didn't align with expected earnings the university would fail. Linear payments are essentially just an admittance of failure to believe that inflation won't destroy someone's earning potential unless they're able to become a shareholder faster than someone else. Which causes intergenerational disequilibria as we've seen where the old are incredibly wealthy and the young are too poor to start families.

Unless economics is willing to confront the social problem of compound interest in a finite world accelerationist capitalism will end up destroying society.

No, the solution is not to burn down academia. Ask the Cambodians how killing everyone with glasses worked out for them.
Which is bad too because if you turn your hobby into your career, you end up not having a hobby anymore. In order to have a happy life, you have to have a vocation and an avocation that are separate from each other.
I agree. At least in my country degrees are commonly used to filter applicants for jobs that could easily be done by someone with way lower level of education. That's not a healthy system. A degree should teach you skills that you need and can actually utilize in the work you will do.
But but before that we need to achieve what we call "AGI" first.

Even before that we need to define it, first and the reality is no-one knows what "AGI" even is. Thus it could be anything.

The fact that Sam doesn't believe that AGI has been "achieved" yet even after GPT-3.5, ChatGPT, GPT-4 (multi-modal), and with o1 (Strawberry) suggests that what AGI really means is to capture the creation and work of billions, raise hundreds of billions of dollars and for everyone to be on their UBI based scheme, whilst they enrich themselves as the bubble continues.

Seems like the hallucinations are an excuse to say that AGI has not yet been achieved. So it time to raise billions more money on training, energy costs on inference all for it to continue to hallucinate.

Once all the value has been captured by OpenAI and the insiders cash out, THEN they would want the bubble to burst with 95% of AI startups disappearing (Except OpenAI).
Yes, exactly, it’s a post-facto value judgment, not a precise term. If I understand the meaning of the word, “hallucination” is all the model does. If it happens to hallucinate something we think is objectively true, we just decide not to call that a “hallucination”. But there’s literally no functional difference between that case and the case of the model saying something that’s objectively false, or something whose objective truth is unknown or undefinable.

I haven’t read the paper yet, but if they resolve this definition usefully, that would be a good contribution.
I get your point and I agree, but for me I perhaps inaccurately use processed as a proxy for calorie density.

Working at a restaurant in college, I saw that a single plate of pasta they made during a busy night when it was hard to keep up could easily wind up an entire stick of butter. That’s on top of the cream.

Soda - tons of sugar packed into 12 oz.

When you don’t eat restaurant/processed foods at home, it does shock you a bit just what a giant volume of good 2,000 calories can be.

This is all it means to me. I’m not out here trying to prove science, just trying to stay healthy.
Maybe I should have tried plain vertical tabs—I tried out tree-style tabs and kind of hated it, so I went back to horizontal.

Regardless, the question isn't really whether vertical tabs would be a useful feature, it's whether it would be the most useful thing Mozilla could be working on.

I'd much rather see them pour resources into making Firefox's devtools the best again. I'm pretty much the lone pure-Firefox holdout among my coworkers, with everyone else at least switching into Chrome for serious devtools work, and most now run it all the time. Make Firefox the best for devtools and you ensure it has reliable support across all browsers and put it back in the hands of the biggest browser-evangelists.
Most received the Fields Medal or Turing Award are not "the common student who is not going to be a PhD" so you and GP agree on the importance of universities in that regard. In general I read what they say as solely relating to what I'd categorize as "undergrad or non-specialized track students".

I agree with you there is a lot universities have to offer students though. Your examples of equipment are a great highlight. On the other hand I think when you weight the ever growing cost of attendance with the amount of unique values provided it has been shrinking quite a bit, in favor of the "not providing much value" side. This is especially true for the relative lack of unique values brought for the vast majority of students during the first ~2 years of general education. It's difficult or impossible to get many of these organizations to let you just jump in at that point though.

Overall I think, for many at least, the biggest value is an environment which helps guide them to doing the self learning. Many (most?) can't just sit down to write and then follow their own multi year study plan and end up with something comparable to what they'd get out of going to a university, even if they end up spending the majority of their time there self learning. GP may well not be part of that group but I'm not sure their conclusions apply to those who are.
Harvard's endowment is $50 billion, and its expenses in 2023 were $6.25 billion [1]. To fund that, the endowment will need 12.5% annual interest, which is impossible. Tuition revenue is not remotely suitable enough for Harvard's operational expenses.

Again, people don't understand how endowments work. When endows a specific program at Harvard, their money must be used for that program alone. The funds can't be sent to the general pool for the entire university.

There are many ways to criticize wealthy educational institutions, but calling them "hedge funds" makes no sense. Which hedge fund subsidizes their clients' expenses with donations?

1- https://projects.propublica.org/nonprofits/organizations/421...
I would rather see us switch to an income based repayment schedule with discharge at 30 years, seems fair to the student and society.
> I love a good market as much as anyone but there really are problems markets will never solve

The problem with student loans is that they are not driven by markets. If they were, absolutely nobody would give a loan to an 18 yo to spend 4 years and $160k to study psychology.
I don’t think tariffs will solve much, since people still want to buy those goods. USA just needs to start building ASAP - eat the initial losses, but put the effort in and make local manufacturing happen. Then it’s just classic capitalistic competition, which the USA claims to be the best at doing.
> real-world-class problem

The issue is that this notion is nonsense. There are just problems nothing about them makes them “world class” whatever that means.
Oh I agree, but the person who put them there must have had some sort of reason, even if it's a bad one.