skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Only an elite sliver[1] of students get the "well rounded unicorn" training experience. The vast majority attend slightly to severely underfunded public universities where they aren't allowed to take more than a cursory set of electives.

Of course there's a tremendous amount of value in more clear and more beautiful communication, but it's hard to measure directly so when the state wants to cut your operating costs, they're the first to go. Never mind that humanities classes are cheap as hell to run, and thus give a fantastic ROI.

Very good programmers aren't able to read prose well enough to identify the absolute dreck that AI tools generate. They aren't able to think critically about media well enough to identify the bullshit that they're surrounded by. I'm all for improved math education, but a few hours per week with a great teacher and a cart won't patch those gaps.

1) Ivy Plus institutions have about 100k undergraduate students. There are 15 million undergraduate students in the US. More than 99% of undergraduate students are not at an Ivy League or similar institution.

tl;dr: “You will read it for the same reason your parents waste their money on your piano lessons. So you won’t be a boring little shite the rest of your life.” -Frank McCourt
> But I feel that in general given that the new license is IMHO good for almost every user

That is the nub of the sticking point.

The new is OK for people who only care about getting things done. But for people interested in building and being part of a community, giving as well as taking, not so much

This:

You may not make the functionality of the Software or a Modified version
available to third parties as a service or distribute the Software or a
Modified version in a manner that makes the functionality of the
Software available to third parties.
This quickly gets into the details of definitions, but I think by most people's definitions of 'open source', something that is 'public domain' qualifies as such (see also 'source available' or 'copyleft/free software', one of which is not quite open source and the other is a more restrictive kind of open source. 'permissive' licenses like MIT and similar are closer to public domain but are different to varying degrees of technicality: one of the main problems with 'public domain' is that it's not universally accepted that there's any means to deliberately place a copyrightable work into it, so something like sqlite where the authors are not long dead is not actually public domain according to many jusrisdictions)
> his own investors at Black Rock

Blackrock does not at all operate the same as a private equity and it's a huge pet peeve of mine when people lump them in together. Usually they are confusing Blackrock with Blackstone.

All Blackrock does is manage wealth and investments on behalf of individual clients. One of the ways they do this is by sticking private assets into funds for their clients. It's more akin to Vanguard than anything to do with private equity. There's no reason to believe BlackRock would be breathing down their necks when all they do is broker the funds on behalf of their clients.

Automattic DOES have private equity backers though like Tiger Global, Insight, ICONIQ, and more.
I would say, negative ROI at this point.
I've done TDD-like changes (not full blown TDD methodology) on legacy code bases.

The main idea of writing a test which fails and then fixing it with the code change applies almost anywhere.

E.g. when fixing a bug, write a test case that fails because of the bug, and passes due to the bugfix.

You don't necessarily need the refactor step, though. The continuous refactoring is the greenfield aspect, perhaps.

Refactoring can leave a trail of TDD tests that used to be independent, but are now tied together and redundant.
This seems like a physicist with no philosophical background spontaneously (heh) discovering our epistemic hard-dependency on sensory perception.

In terms of philosophy, what's here that can't be found in, say, Descartes or Hume?
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He's probably thinking of this graph of car sales:

https://www.statista.com/statistics/199974/us-car-sales-sinc...

But, buyers are moving from cars to SUV's.
Pro-tip: add an embarrassing story of yourself to force you to work on the idea before it expires (you can prevent an idea from expiring, right?)
Matt has claimed[1] before to be "post-economic", i.e. has enough money that it doesn't matter to him anymore. It's hard not to see this as personal, not financial.

[1] https://x.com/sereedmedia/status/1839394786622722432
We spend more on education that practically anyone else, and we spend more on it that we had in the past, with very little difference between now and then.
Also good starting places (but still, only understood a tiny bit of what was there).

https://podcast.clearerthinking.org/episode/208/scott-aarons...

https://quantum.country
IBKR just pays you like 4-5% on idle cash, so do a few other brokerages. Don't even have to buy anything.
As an autistic that brute-forced the "witty social banter" skill early on and has recently turned 40... I kinda wish I'd learned quantum computing instead tbh.
The Greatest Books https://thegreatestbooks.org

I created it in 2008 and have maintained and improved it over the years. I am trying to figure out how to monetize it more. I currently make around $2k a month. I just use adsense and have a paid membership feature through buymeacoffee. I get massive traffic and I'm pretty much the #1 result for anything related to best/greatest books.

It's built with Rails and Postgresql and hosted on 3 linode servers. I get around 250k page visits a day.
Built https://violinist.io, a PHP / composer update service in 2017 and it passed that figure probably something like 2021?
I wasn't able to get many decent results after playing with the demo for some time. I guess my question is...what exactly is this for? I was able to get substantially better results about 2 years ago running SD 2 locally on a gaming laptop. Sure, the images took 30 seconds or so each, but the quality was better than I could get in the demo. Not sure what the point of instantly generating a ton of bad quality images is.

What am I missing?
And you are not alone either.

There is general discontent in the population, who would have expected that a CEO being assassinated would be the strongest point of unity for the American people maybe since 9-11.

As more average people get pushed to the margins it will accelerate change. People will realize that it isn’t about left vs right, or race, or creed. It is about class, and those in the higher class echelons don’t want you to know that.
> Because I don't want to live in a society where we think that violence is an acceptable solution to injustice.

Personally, I'm with you. I absolutely don't want justice delivered via a mob or a vigilante without due process or the other protections that a fair justice system is supposed to provide us with.

This is why it's so important that congress, police, prosecutors, judges, and even juries do their jobs. If the people have no legal, accessible, and effective means to get justice they might resort to illegal means to get it. The longer people are denied justice, the more likely it is they'll take it into their own hands.
Note there's a caveat: problems in CS can be reduced to other problems in CS. If we solved SAT, well, no one cares about SAT, but traveling salesman obviously reduces to that.

(disclaimer: I don't think that's what is going on here, I'd have to dig into it more)
I’m not sure anyone involved in this space seriously believed in the physical attack resistance TDX/SNP. At least not yet. The attack surface is just so vast.

This reads like yet another overhyped named vulnerability.

These tools are a fence. The fence started out pretty short with AMD’s original SEV and has been getting taller since.

Taking the software operators out of the trust boundary is still (comparatively) viable despite this type of attack. And, if the cloud provider sends you attestations proving your workload is in their Real Deal data center with actual guards, cameras, and compliance operations, I’d expect this specific attack to be irrelevant.

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Only had a quick skim at the paper. Looks like they are mucking with the DDR sticks to make aliasing possible, which lets them circumvent integrity protection.

I thought circumventing integrity was already possible-ish with rowhammer and SNP? SNP doesn’t store integrity bits anywhere so it can’t even pretend to catch changes in dram.
Fair enough. /at Black Rock/d
Having read the article:

Amazon isn't selling anything here at all; local car dealerships are.

In a world where car dealerships are things that are licensed and regulated, that's about as far from being "official" as possible on Amazon's part as possible.
Both can have impact. It doesn't have to be "or".
> whereas Tesla does

LOL, no. Tesla has a gimmicky car that is supposed to be a taxi, with zero planning for the infrastructure (so far).
The recent 7.0 at the southern edge of the CSZ is a good excuse to review earthquake preparedness. A lot of people don't thing of the PNW and 'the big one' but the reality is that this earthquake will eventually happen and when it does its impacts will be devastating.
This would be super useful as a training set for automatically identifying ads in podcasts that contain non-ad content.
"The study found that participants who consumed at least five ounces of any type of chocolate per week had a 10% lower risk of T2D compared to those who never or rarely consumed chocolate. Dark chocolate had an even bigger impact: Participants who consumed at least five servings of this chocolate per week showed a 21% lower risk of T2D. The researchers also observed a 3% reduction in risk for every serving of dark chocolate consumed per week. Consumption of milk chocolate, meanwhile, was not associated with reduced T2D risk. Increased consumption of milk chocolate, but not dark chocolate, was associated with long-term weight gain, a potential contributor to the development of T2D."

First, the writer says that consumption of any type of chocolate results in 10% lower risk of T2D, then later on they say that consumption of milk chocolate was not associated with reduced risk.
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TDD is applicable to anything. C, C++, Java, Rust, ...

If you're touching the code in any way, there must be a way of writing a test which fails if you don't touch it in that way and then passes if you do.

It's not necessarily just about ensuring correctness of new changes.

What if you're wasting your time with that change? I.e. the test you want to pass after your change, maybe it passes already, so the change is useless. If you write it first, you will know.

The TDD test is itself compiled, and so the language features/checks help write the test. Then, if the proposed change doesn't compile, that's a fail? The compiler is helping again.
I’d like an answer to this question as well.
> The tragedy of American slavery is that it erased any links of slaves to Africa, so modern black Americans have barely any relationship to Africa, still carrying the pain but losing any cultural or ancestral connections.

I don't know why you deny genetics.
Would love it if you could go into more detail about those two weeks. Had you already played around with tone.js beforehand? Did you have an idea or a draft written up for that initial lesson so you knew what was gonna be in it, and was it your initial vision to have a picture of each waveform accompanied by the sound, and buttons for each note in the scale? Did you have to change part of your design (even small details) when you discovered that it was hard to build something a certain way and that another way would be easier?
Matt went on a Youtube channel last week to partake in a Wordpress speed building challenge, and he got frustrated several times using his own product: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EqY5bje8D2o

He spent years squashing anyone who complained about Gutenberg, and then he calls WPEngine a cancer and accuses them of offering an inferior version. All to find out that he's not even familiar!
I agree with the others that ES5 is likely where it came from, but my mind also jumped to The Jackson 5.
WordPress parent company must stop blocking WP Engine, judge rules
ChatGPT Isn't a Decompiler Yet
For one, we could just start simulating quantum chemistry, though at that point it's more like "actually running quantum chemistry" rather than simulating.
Why would you hope that?

Can you really not think of anyone where it would be better if they were... not there anymore?
I have not implemented this (yet).

But every year around the holidays a bunch of folks request this. I tell them to buy the course, and then email me who they'd like to gift it to. Then I just manually create a new account and send an email saying so-and-so bought you this course with the login! nathan [at] lightnote.co
Is it fair to say that if you have a high read\low write service, you could use this as a sort of local cache (with the added benefit that it also handles staleness through the sync) on the service itself, to reduce latency from not just calls to Postgres but other caches like Redis?
> How would a brain form spontaneously without those random fluctuations tearing the constituent components apart?

>> Over a sufficiently long time
The difference between this concept and, let's say, Descarte's evil demon, is not the philosophical skepticism but its explicit grounding in physics and thermodynamics. It basically attempts to answer the question "Where would that evil demon come from?". It materializes Descarte's thought experiment and shows that it could actually happen within the confines of our scientific knowledge, unlike malicious demons.
>export rules restrict stacks of more than 128 layers. So countries subject to those restrictions get an end-around by simply stacking 128-layer modules

I'm interested in the story behind this.
Probably they're thinking "This person brought us something that is about to be extinct, our job is to keep things from going extinct."

The entirety of IA is the idea that culture and history are to be preserved for future generations. The job of these big companies like UMG is to make as much money as possible, and destroying history eliminates a core competitor, themselves. IA's existence is poking the bear (just look at how often the Web Archive's existence is used by others to show off back actors in companies). Compromise left a long time ago.
From 2022 stats:
Roughly 4 million students in each grade in the US.

8th,9th,10th,11th & 12th graders = 20 million.

So 20 million students are eligible for AMC10/AMC12

Of them, only 300K took the AMC10/AMC12

Of them, only 10K were invited to take the AIME

Of them, only 500 were invited to take the USAMO

Of them, only 50 went to the MOPs

Of them, only 6 went to the IMO & won.

The article is about 4th & 8th graders, of which we have 8 million.

Now, suppose those 4th graders get to 8th grade, then the 8th graders would be in 12. That makes both cohorts eligible for AMC10/12. At that point, they become 8 million out of the 20 million. So 120K of them take the AMCs, 4K take the AIME, 200 get into USAMO, 20 get invited into the MOPs, and best case 2 kids make it into the IMO.

So from this grand experiment, 2 kids will emerge the victor, and we are supposed to back-extrapolate that 8 million kids do ok. Aaalright then.../s
I built https://vpzen.io - dedicated VPN servers that are pay as you go. 79c per day and 10c per Gb. Great if you only need a VPN occasionally. Plus there's no VPN client to download... it works with the native VPN client on Windows, iOS, macOS and Android.
I’d guess this is at least half the features on my iPhone. I’m sure it can do things that I’m not even thinking a phone can do, but nobody set anything up, and it’s not very obvious or discoverable.
GM is is making 12 billion a year of profit though. It seems like madness to cut Cruise unless there is no hope of it ever working or making a profit… The only U.S. competitor besides Waymo that’s seemingly remotely in the ballpark is Zoox.
I hear you, but at the same time it was badly done. I’ve been referring to Redis as “a proprietary fork of Valkey,” and that message has clearly resonated.
Not really product related: The current trajectory of LLMs/Agents, what is your career advice to someone in school for Computer Science right now?
I agree completely with everything you've said, but it's worth keeping in mind that if legal/compliance requirements were to be loosened, a company could expand their offerings with a less robust safety record. And someone close to the incoming presidential administration would be in a position to influence what those requirements are.
Remember that Y Combinator frequently brags they don’t back ideas, they back founders. Meaning this is the type of asshole they think is a good bet. Another one whose best idea they could come up with was yet another shitty chatbot. Because that’s all Y Combinator seems to back these days: “something something AI”.
It all just sounds similar to claims that Donald Trump was being prosecuted for too many crimes at once, and that's how we can all tell that it's lawfare, and that none of those prosecutions were legitimate, rather than having to reconcile the possibility that Donald Trump is simply a prolific criminal.

You'd like us to view this purpose built Ames room from the singular vantage point that presents your side in the best light, rather than the other various angles which reveal a seedier reality.
That would require paying more than competitors and that’s unacceptable to anyone except for the successful companies that commonly do just this.

I’m serious about this point too. Eg. Intel pays less than half of what tsmc in Taiwan pays for similar jobs on a ppp basis after 20years of wage freezes and cuts at intel. They can’t poach any talent and investors want more layoffs and wage freezes next quarter to fix the decline they see. GM is similar. It’s not going to turn around and start competing in the high end labor market reasonably. It can’t. The big shareholders would sack the ceo in seconds. Think GM could ever compete with Google (Waymo) in a market where ai engineers can earn ) 1m/yr? Ha! The MBAs wouldn’t allow it for a second.
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How can you possibly know these things?
There was so much noise about autonomous vehicles in SF from first responders and other officials. There was a segment that dismissed this as histrionics about self-driving cars.

As soon as Cruise closed up shop, the complaints went way down.
https://ma.tt/2024/10/first-amendment/

The lawyer thing was hilarious. Someone actually claiming to be his lawyer was on the HN threads and anytime he was asked a question the response was a version of "Oh, I hadn't heard about this. I can't answer that."
Is Reviewing Wine Bad for My Health?
As I mentioned in a sibling comment, the entirety of IA's existence is a "critical failure of risk assessment" now. Their existence forces companies to deal with the one competitor they can't beat, their past selves. The question we begin to ask here is "This is the only place that was able and ready to accept and preserve these otherwise permanently lost works. Do we let copyright ensure the destruction of itself, or is culture and history more important?"
It’s wonderful to see that this community is still thriving after nearly 30 years.
If I have a dynamically typed add function and I test that add(2, 2) produces 4, then the type testing is rolled right into it trivially. 4 has a type. If an object comes out of add(2, 2) that isn't an integer, then it won't match 4.

Oftentimes, type is just a less specific match. It would be a waste of time to write a separate test case that add(2, 2) produces an integer, rather than just testing that it produces 4.

I've hardly ever seen Lisp test cases that look only at the type of an output, rather than a specific value. Even a function whose job is to operate on types actually has inputs and outputs that are values representing types; e.g. the symbol string representing string types or whatever.

However, there are tests which show that a function signals an error when given wrong types. Those would not be necessary in a static language; the function called with wrong types would not compile, and it goes without saying that all tests must compile, unless we are testing the compiler.
Yes, absolutely. My entire life I've watched this play out. Not once were we ever close to free healthcare for all citizens. For every human that demands this there are thousands of dollars of lobbying at the ready and lawmakers don't even cost that much. You can apparently buy off a house rep for as little as $20k.
I may be misunderstanding, but does this boil down to essentially a partial read replica?
The people who have not yet fallen into apathy are simply the people who have not yet realized the magnitude of the forces at work that we cannot stop or reverse.
I mostly like m1. But they don't have the broadest investment availability. Particularly for things like preferred shares and bonds.

I also think "index except" is a very nice feature they don't have.
More specifically: What kind of advice does GP have for Computer Science students in school right now?

I've been frankly terrified of the pace of LLM development since 2022.
Scream Hitler all you want. Your task is to defend cultures that condone slavery and the subjugation of women. Good luck.
The square root function might signal an error in that case. So you would be right in that in a static language, you would not have that as a test case because the test case would not compile. Such a test case would belong in the compiler test suite.
Well, no human blood. A Waymo has hit a dog in what seemed like an unavoidable accident.
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AI doesn’t need to be able to do the hardest parts of a job to absolutely rock a job market, just a good chunk of easy and mid. Then you’ve got the same number of people competing for fewer now more competitive and more difficult jobs and driving down pricing power of devs on top of it. For those that lose that fight AI did functionally take their job. That’s a bad time for everyone except shareholders.

I’d be absolutely shtting bricks if I was anywhere near the industries where it is making progress on the easy problems. Copy writing, translation, call center, driving, and yes front end.

It’s going to come for all jobs eventually but that category of people are the ones that will be hit before suitable social nets are in place. UBI or whatever.
https://www.bis.doc.gov/index.php/documents/about-bis/newsro...
This company is also guilty of some silly cable marketing: https://www.audiodesign.co.uk/styled-26/styled-21/index.html
How is that possible without producing an antiparticle pair?
VPN space has so many players. Did you use any advertising at the start to get first base of users?
Sure but be intellectually honest and acknowledge the vast, vast, vast majority of the learning decline was due to closing schools.

Blaming “covid” for learning loss in a group of people who was hardly at risk of any covid issues at all is… well… doing kids dirty. Which is par for course when it comes to the nonsense society enacted during the first half of this decade.
The whole purpose of TEEs and confidential computing is to prevent the people with your server from seeing what you're doing on it.
You’ve been able to buy prefabricated houses on Amazon for a while now.
What is there that we don't already understand? Sure there are probably higher level patterns in the weather that the model might be exploiting to make the claimed better predictions, but normal models are just based on physics and people rarely cared to try and improve them based on these patterns before. Mainly because they are too complex.

In short those patterns are only useful because of AI.