skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In 2024 you are not getting into Waterloo CS with anything less than a 99% in your top6. And that's the entry level. If you really want to get in, you have to grind math competitions, clubs, etc.

I go to a mid-tier university (Toronto Metropolitan University) and the admissions average for CS was 97% last year.

The admissions process for universities in Ontario is a joke at this point. Imagine if students going to Harvard instead of SUNY Plattsburgh differed by 2 percentage points in their high school averages.

This means you must be absolutely perfect to have a shot of getting into a good school. In reality, teachers overlook mistakes and just give you the marks needed to get into top school if they think you deserve it. But because everyone does that, you also need to farm extracurriculars.

Maybe I'll write a blog post about this since it sounds like people are interested.
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Ousted aquarium boss says he tried to expose Disney shark blood pact
This thread is a good example of one of the perhaps overlooked reasons it can be hard to discuss education in our societies - any attempt at making a general point, or a meta-observation of some kind, quickly gets swallowed in a massive influx of personal anecdotes about things that happened to people during their education.

Maybe there are other topics where the same phemonen exists. I'm not sure if off the top of my head I can think of one where it gets so intense so quickly - long, detailed, emotionally charged anecdotes immediately when school comes up! [I love a good yarn, and am not judging or belittling people for expressing themselves here, I must stress].

I have speculated in my comfy armchair as to why our education structures seem to make venting such a need for people. Anecdotally, there does seem to be a suggestion of some sort of lingering and powerful malaise around the whole thing, in any case.

I wonder if it's like an abusive relationship - the emotional work required to move on and have better relationships (i.e., different educational structures) gets so large at some stage that all you can focus on is "coping". And you're sort of stuck, and the cycle more or less continues.

EDIT: may I just add - I read that whole article, and am very fond of Ramanujan. He made university much harder for me when I learned about his existence, as my maths classes seemed so far removed from whatever it was he was doing.
Do you have a reference for that $17.2 billion cost? I've seen figures between 24-30 billion USD for the whole project -- solar farm, batteries, local infrastructure to supply Darwin and the subsea cable to Singapore. That would make the economics of this look merely stupid rather than insane.
Would zeromq be an alternative here?
> Haven't heard of this happening with later models. Baseband sourcecode firmware is really rare.

You know what they say. "If you have nothing to hide, you have nothing to fear"

So I wonder what they're trying to hide from all of us. Probably all the backdoors and glaring security issues.
Reminds me of a dev team I once encountered where they stated they wanted to be expert C programmers and that they didn't understand pointers, so they avoided them.

I told them it was hard to become a C expert without understanding and using pointers and they didn't like that answer. https://daedtech.com/how-developers-stop-learning-rise-of-th...
Right there you have 8%. But it is worse because it says they're able to "read to varying level", which includes 2nd grade level, or barely at all.
'Fundamentals' by Frank Wilczek explores this: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/554034/fundamentals...
We still really should not be confident. We have seen this time and time again that the output cannot be relied on.

People keep trying to downplay the problem as "not a big deal" or that it happens rarely, but that is kinda the problem. It is right enough times that people get confident in it and we stop double checking the work. When it is manipulating data that makes it even more problematic.

Now if what is happening here is the AI is generating the code that makes the visualizations and that code is still working in a traditional way (accessing the data directly), than I think its fine. Sure maybe some of the code may be wrong, but at least it is not manipulating the data and coming up with wild conclusions.
Tested several downloaders.

Seems the cloudflare interrupts this youtube directvid link...

https://dl253.filemate13.shop/?file=M3...

So it's not the downloaders. My mistake.
You should put the copyright notice back and (optionally) add a license. Removing the notice from your code changes nothing, that does not waive or remove your copyright. You still have the copyrights to your code by default, and you should. Don’t react to silly comments on the internet by feeding them.

If you really don’t want the copyrights, you can use the CC0 license from Creative Commons. That would allow people to use your code any way they want with no restrictions (which means they are legally allowed to use it commercially, remove the author notice, re-license modified versions, redistribute the code, etc.). However, you do not need to waive your copyrights entirely in order to license your code as open source. You can choose between a variety of licensing terms, while still being very open and liberal about sharing. Try the Creative Commons license chooser https://chooser-beta.creativecommons.org/. Or look through open source licenses. Standardized SPDX IDs are gaining popularity since it helps with some automation workflows.
https://opensource.org/licenses
https://spdx.org/licenses/

Since you left the author note, maybe you would like an attribution license like one of these popular choices (both available with SPDX IDs):
https://opensource.org/license/bsd-3-clause
https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/

If you don’t add a license, then your code remains under strict copyright and people are not legally allowed to use it in their own projects, regardless of whether you have a copyright notice in the comments. Leaving out the copyright notice might be confusing, especially given this thread. The recommended practice is to include both the copyright notice and the license in comments or a license file.
Loss of 12 Starlink Satellites Due to the Extreme Geomagnetic Storm of May 2024
The article isn't really about any particular model. It's about product development, in general.

> ...But then you plan a version...

Yeah, but these are painful. I know of which I speak, as I worked for decades in Waterfall companies.

Rapid iteration at High Quality is really difficult, but it's also the only way that I've found, that delivers truly useful software (the products that I write). It's a great deal more difficult to do this with hardware, though.

I worked for hardware companies, for most of my career, and suffered hardware development methodologies forced upon software. It was painful.

Since working on my own, I have developed what I call "Evolutionary Design" techniques, and they seem to be working, but I also work at a much more humble scale, than I used to.
Thanks – fixed it.
No but it typically gives seniority in the organization which means more credibility which can foreclose anyone looking too carefully.
We use ZeroMQ for this purpose. No broker needed.
That is what high school is, for families where parents want their kids to learn to learn and are well-resourced enough to teach the kids themselves or pay someone to teach.
For those who didn't know and read comments first:

Raku was originally known as Perl 6.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raku_(programming_language)#Hi...

The main implementation is called Rakudo:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rakudo

"Raku" is Japanese for "camel" which is named after the O'Reilly book cover.
Empire of the Sun AI Generated Music Video
In https://rosettacode.org/wiki/FizzBuzz there's a nice Raku implementation, with ever-more-compact varieties following.

It seems like a really nice language but which niche should it occupy?

Edited to add, now that I'm at a computer:

for 1 .. 100 {
when $_ %% (3 & 5) { say 'FizzBuzz'; }
when $_ %% 3 { say 'Fizz'; }
when $_ %% 5 { say 'Buzz'; }
default { .say; }
}

The multi sub version is interesting. I'm not quite sure what multi subs are, they seem to be performing a pre-function-call validation to choose which sub to use?

multi sub fizzbuzz(Int $ where * %% 15) { 'FizzBuzz' }
multi sub fizzbuzz(Int $ where * %% 5) { 'Buzz' }
multi sub fizzbuzz(Int $ where * %% 3) { 'Fizz' }
multi sub fizzbuzz(Int $number ) { $number }
(1 .. 100)».&fizzbuzz.say;
It's a book. You read it. You are helped by the words and insights in it. Its tagline is "If you or someone you love is affected by mental illness, it might change your life." It is a more accessible format of the scientific papers it uses as sources. That's some definitions of a self-help book, no?
Hostages – about the 1979 Iranian revolution and the 1979–81 Iran hostage crisis. I knew a bit about the American side of this, but seeing Iranian history and context was the most interesting part. Absolutely relevant to current events.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hostages_(2022_TV_series)
HBOMax
The lie of our society is that the alternative to work is to "sit idle".

That's more time with your family, your friends, your loved ones. More time smiling, more time laughing, more time being creative. This is the "good" time - the part of life you actually care about. The parts of life you will remember when you're close to death. You won't remember meetings, or a commute, or even a project you did really good on at work.
I can understand the concept of conservation of complexity -- that you can reduce steps ("complexity") for the user by automating those steps in the software and making the software more complex.

But then you don't need to build more features. The "conservation of complexity" obviously assumes that the feature set is static. Once you allow the feature set to grow, obviously complexity will increase.

So I still not only don't see the paradox, I continue to just see common sense. I don't see what's supposed to be new here.
It's a shame that they're so bad at (physically) delivering their products these days.
> For virtually all of human history, the human diet is mostly carbohydrates.

Which is rather a short time in our evolution, compared to virtually all of human pre-history. During which the human diet was most likely not mainly carbohydrates.
OpenSSL 3.4.0
Might as well chuck a full size engine on the side pointing in the yaw direction to be safe. I mean as long as you tie enough magical struts and cables to it I'm sure you are fine /s
> “Prevention of disease is obviously something we should strive for. But it’s not going to be cheap. We will have to pay for those who survive,”

That was the message they really went with, huh. Tobacco companies were culling old people to save money for pensions.
Cool. Learn something new every day eh? :)
I remember an xkcd, that was talking about releasing a version that fixes a keyboard mapping bug, and a user complaining, because they had learned to compensate for the mapping error.

You can't please everyone.
Looks like this offering is free for all classes. United has also announced they'll be equipping their entire fleet with Starlink and it will be free for all classes as well.

Still, when I'm traveling I set the expectation that I'm only sporadically available. Not that different from normal life, actually (especially outside of working hours).
Coalton
It would be a good first step for you stop being sneaky about this. Very hard to respect you as a moderator when you employ underhanded tactics like sneakily rate limiting accounts and trying to gaslight people into thinking this is an universal limit. I suppose it's a (small) step up from the shadowbanning you used to.

Perhaps change the message to something like: "Your account has been rate limited. For more information email [...]"

And honestly, having people beg via email is just gross power tripping behavior.
This seems like a good technique. What DNS software do you use?
I was pleasantly surprised with how well Copilot picked it up. Civet doesn't have that many truly new language features, most of them are from existing languages and used in a similar way. Copilot is really good at matching what you are doing near the completion so I was impressed with how well it did with a new language.
> Please inform yourself better - do not careless spread misinformation that can hurt other people.

Please inform yourself on ADHD research. When you downplay the role of genetics in mental illness you're preventing many people from having access to life-changing treatment. The irony of your last statement is quite something. https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC161723/

It's wonderful that ketogenic therapy has changed your life. That has absolutely no bearing on people with different a brain structure. Ketogenic diets can be beneficial, meditation is essential, but there are aspects of ADHD that simply cannot be fixed other than introducing more dopamine into your brain.
It is the way to get the platform linker, and so if you’re using a Windows native toolchain, that’s what you have to do.

IIRC there are slimmer packages to get it but you’re still talking a gigabyte, not tens of megs.
No, this is a wrong argument. We can specify arbitrarily low temperatures by hypothesis, obviating the objection. If you want to get pedantic you could note that measuring something that is, say, 10^-30m is unphysical - not even laser interferometry gets that small, or anywhere close. However, given that the argument uses a counter-factual, you'd have to extrapolate all the ways that would affect apparatuses.

Instead, my way is simpler by generating an absurd result that if you could build and measure a thing to arbitrary precision you can encode infinite information into it. This is enough for me to reject the counter-factual without going through the messiness of thinking through hypothetical realistic experiments.

The one interesting place to consider is at the Schwarzchild radius of a black hole, where presumably information accumulates to an absurd degree, monotonically over time. I don't really know enough about it to comment intelligently, so I won't except to note its existence.
> But so many people have to jump through the process just as a defensive act so they have a sliver of reassurance that using the novel thing they came up with will not lead to immediate cease-and-desist injunctions from IP-fortified competitors.

Having a patent is not a defense to an allegation of infringement and if that's what your legal counsel told you, then you should seek new counsel.
For me I seem to have noticed that if you have thicker body hair you sure get bit less. My gf says “they like me”. No babe, just like me they like your shaved legs.

Seriously though. When they land on my hairy leg they are quickly detected and dispatched.
They're nearing apl density :)
I think with genAI specifically, a whole lot of the distrust comes from two things: the movement on this front is coming from SV, which has earned a lot of distrust from the general public, and the major players in genAI (particularly OpenAI) have themselves been very clear that they believe the tech is dangerous and they're intentionally gambling with the lives of everyone else.

That, and when people have expressed their natural fear that genAI and LLMs will adversely impact their abililty to make a living, a common response -- especially early on when the fear was much higher -- from the pro-AI crowd is (paraphrasing) "too bad, you can't stop progress". That's not a reasonable response, and it's one that effectively says "you don't matter, sucks to be you." It's not far from saying "AI is your enemy."
NYT on Microsoft Paint and AI Art
I found that I had to get over feeling like I was mocking a foreign accent, before I could become even passably-for-someone-bad-at-it good at an accent for the one other language I've ever tried to semi-seriously learn. In fact, leaning into "mocking" it was the fastest way to improve. I bet that it's easier to get past that perceived faux-pas when a few drinks in....
Yes, because those would describe, respectively, faith healing, spending money whenever you happen to have bills in your pocket, and levitation through Transcendental Meditation, rather than what we currently call "medicine", "accounting", and "flight schools".

"Software engineering" as currently practiced, and as promoted by the SWEBOK, is an attempt to use management practices to compensate for lacking the requisite technical knowledge to write working software. Analogs in other fields include the Great Leap Forward in agriculture and steelmaking, the Roman Inquisition in astronomy, dowsing in petroleum exploration, Project Huemul in nuclear energy, and in some cases your example of faith healing in medicine.
2024 FSD 1 Accident Per 7M Miles
Sure, I totally agree with you. That's why waterfall gets a bad name. It just seems like waterfall vs. agile is a totally separate topic from the article.
You realize that the Industrial Revolution was almost 100 years long, right?
Well, creation was made for one god, which happens to look just like us and never once mentions other peoples. To be a Christian astronomer you have to believe one of these:

1. God is wasting the vast, vast, vast majority of the universe on emptiness while he focuses on his fave planet.

2. The universe is full of humans, in which case Jesus is presumably getting re-crucified every few seconds to absolve new groups. Or I guess maybe he split up into a trillion copies that all got crucified at once? Or we’re the 1-in-a-trillion lucky ones that everyone else just gets to hear about?

3. The rest of the universe has aliens because god got bored/wanted things for us to play with, as his super special favorite species. The aliens don’t get to look like god, ofc.

No offense intended to anyone, but I don’t see how you could possibly accept Christian doctrine without necessarily thinking of earth as unfathomably special.
I'm an atheist, but why not take Ramanujan at his word when he says that god(s) gives him his equations?

I for one would ask him what we could do to make it easier for him to listen to the voice of god(s) rather than say "well akshually..."
Jesus. The biggest issue I see is who keeps these so called "trusted flaggers" in check? What accountability mechanism exists for them?

What prevents people working at those trusted flaggers from abusing the org's position and just banning stuff they don't personally like or for malicious actors to infiltrate the orgs to ban stuff? Kind of like a rogue Reddit/Discord mod on steroids. Since people who actively seek out power, are exactly the ones who shouldn't have it, according to Plato.

As all these orgs aren't elected like our politicians that we can change through votes yet they seem to have gotten the keys to online speech.
FYI, we're still not sure whether the scraped AI training datasets involve copyright infringement.
Oh you are by far not alone. You'll enjoy: https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/malcolm-gladwells-outl...
But that's just step 1 of enshittification, right? Get all the frogs possible in the pot before you turn up the heat?
A measure could up productivity by 1 bajillion percent, but if it grants employees more happiness, mobility, and control it's dead in the water.

The business world is not rationale by any means. The people in positions of control to make these decisions made it there because they LOVE being in control. They will often hurt themselves purely to maintain a delusion of strength. This self-destructive nature is an inherent flaw of humanity. Very few people have the ability to even recognize their own self-destruction, let alone fix it.
You don't need to go to trial to invalidate a patent. It happens frequently at the motion to dismiss or summary judgment phases.
Replace “being on a plane” with “being outside of the house” and you’re describing the 1980s. I’d happily give wireless everything back.
Not sure if that actually holds true for all customers, but their public website says up to 220Mbps DL per Starlink terminal.
1+1=10 if math were invented before fingers.

Also:

١ + ٥ = ٦
Should there be a mandatory high school class about "grown-up thinking"? Stuff like "politicians telling us that they banned/stopped/outlawed Badness does not mean that anything actually changed in the Real World".

Or maybe kiddie cartoons with "smugglers" for villains should be required to have little public-service educational trailers on the subject of smuggling?
> To not be cherry-picking would mean that it's actually ready and works fine in all situations

A claim I never made in any of my posts. What a way to straw man and fail! ;)

Way to cherry pick yourself into the one cherry picked claim I never actually made!
Have studied and interfaced with EU partners. The ambition and the federal grants to do something the bureaucrats want does hold them back. Also, brain drain to the US due to higher pay.
I think I was flying with an active internet connection somewhere around 2012 (A380). So it's been like that for a good while.
Estonians rely on the muon to peer into Soviet sub reactors
From what I remember, the later years of English class (in Ontario) are more focused on literary criticism than effective communication. This was a frustration for me personally, and my lowest mark in High School. The high 80 dragged my average down enough that I didn't make the cut for Waterloo.
It'll take some time for cheaper, at least a few years until competitors arrive in force. SpaceX's investors need to see the return on those billions invested.

...but in general, it's amazing that something impossible 4 years ago is common today, both fast satellite internet and AI - feels like a whole another age.
It might be a necessary intermediate for advanced civilizations.
This is the same reason why STEM admission became so competitive in UCs in California.

UCs historically admitted using a mix of class rank, GPA, and test scores, but the number of seats at UCs didn't really increase in the past decade+ despite a small baby boom in the 2000s, and the growing prominence of STEM in the 2010s, so the average GPAs and SAT scores for UC admissions skyrocketed.

Plenty of Californians have anecdotes of getting rejected from mid-tier UCs but getting into MIT or Stanford. It's had a downstream impact out-of-state as well, as plenty of Californians now attend out-of-state STEM programs for that reason (played a major role in upleveling UT Austin/UW/UIUC/GT/UW Madison's reputations among STEM-targeting HSers ime) and make STEM admissions harder in out-of-state colleges as well.

That said, education quality for STEM majors is consistent across all UCs so the UC you go to doesn't matter as much academic quality wise.
Do Elephants Show Interspecific Social Long-Term Memory for Their Zoo Keepers?
I wish my home country could be as brutally honest with itself about its past and work as hard to make things right as Germany has been the last several decades.

The disturbing party coming up on the Right feels like Germany has blamed itself for too long. That “self-blame” is a lot of what has enabled modern Germany to be a much better place than it was before the war.

(I’m an American living in greater Nuremberg, and get to see monuments to Germany’s failures on a regular basis)
https://www.starlink.com/support/article/da6ca363-da23-c9dc-...

>Starlink delivers up to 40-220 Mbps download speed to each plane, enabling all passengers to access streaming-capable internet at the same time. With latency less than 99 ms, passengers can engage in activities previously not functional in flight, including video calls, online gaming, virtual private networks and other high data rate activities.

I'm guessing they will severely limit the bandwidth to maybe 1-2Mbps per ticket.

I doubt anyone can stream much of anything.
The test images look like they were written in Microsoft Word. Is this example fake?
I'm not a fan of Rust, but my God, just use Rust instead of this. This is unreadable.
value extraction 101 on MBA courses