skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No, I absolutely hold to my assertion. It is one of the worst. Or, it was allowed to devolve into one of the worst.

The results we obtain do not align well with the money we spent per student. Not to mention the ideological crap we shove into their minds, particularly at the university level.

And the problem is that it isn't getting better.

Things need to change, and do so quickly. Like I said in one of my prior comments, these are issues that take a generation or more to yield results. If we don't fix this quickly, we are going to have very serious problems in the coming decades. And, the only way to solve these problems will be through the promotion of immigration of university graduates from other countries. There's nothing wrong with that other than the huge disservice we will do to our students.

The world is a competitive place. Nothing should stand in the way of our system of education reaching for and demanding excellence.

EDIT:

I have to add this.

One of my son's friends decided to go for a Masters in Mechanical Engineering. Since I was a mentor at our local high school robotics team, she asked me what I thought about one of the schools she was kind of set on attending. I took one look and begged her to not do this. Her Masters was going to cost her THREE HUNDRED THOUSAND DOLLARS.

How? Why? This is insane!

Mechanical engineers graduate every day from excellent universities around the world at a cost between zero and, maybe, one tenth of what she was facing. And they are just as capable as anyone else.

Well, the sales people did a good job on her and she took that path. Years later she told me just how sorry she was not to take my advise.

How does an ME degree cost $300K? How is it possibly worth it? How did we allow the system to degenerate to such a level that it is legal to do this to our young?

No my friend. This is a disaster. This is really bad on many fronts. It needs to be fixed or we will pay the consequences in the long run.
So you get all the IPs by rate limiting them?
The comparison is not strange, albeit simplistic.

As late as the 1970s Denmark was actively involved in demographic policies of the country. Including by secretly sterilizing women without consent, which is one of the criteria for genocide in Article II (d) “ Imposing measures intended to prevent births within the group”. And just like the Americans Indians, the Greenlandic Inuit had several forced relocations, including to Ittoqqortoormiit in 1925 and to Qaanaaq in 1953.

> The current Inuits [sic] are no more "native" than the Norse settlers

(added [sic] because Inuit is already plural, the singular form is Inuk)

What an utterly false narrative. Just because they migrated relatively late, it doesn’t make them any less indigenous. Greenlanders had unbroken settlements in their lands for a thousand years. The Norse left in the 15th century and than a different population returned 400 years later to colonize the Inuit. By this logic Italians could claim they are as indigenous to Britain as the Anglo-Saxons.
The Homa Network Protocol
QModem changed my life, and gave me an outlet and window to a whole new world as a young teen. My condolences. And my eternal gratitude to you, your father, and your family!

Glad to see all my Qmodem peeps in here again! If anyone has any pointers on how to get back into the BBS world, my interest is piqued.
It did dip right after, but tourism by number of visitors picked up again shortly after. See e.g. figure 10.2 in https://repository.lib.fsu.edu/islandora/object/fsu:539161/d....

The Governor's office would like you to know that tourism is record breaking, has never been better, and Florida is amazing.
"Most try to funnel you into a vendor's sync passkey option"

Therein lies the problem.
Every vendor's profit motive and #enshittification means they want to own your passkey
and all the personal data associated with it.
None of the care to interop
or work with decentralized solutions.
They need your data,
and they'll do everything they can to lock you into their jail.
Are you trying to subtly prescribe that descriptivism is better than prescriptivism? :)
Why? You're not booting Windows again, and restoring the secure boot state and boot order to the original values will result in the PCR values being what they were before, so what's changing that would force recovery mode?
American homeowners are wasting more space than ever before
Not really, you don't. Because you can't control the wind. If pollution blows in from china onto the land, how exactly can you enforce your right?
I agree it's going to pop. Unfortunately the market turn will be hard to short as far as i can tell.
The execution speed for LLM inference gets so slow once you reach models that even fill out a 64GB machine. I was tempted, too, but then realized it was unusable past 48GB-ish and stacking used 3090s was the best price / perf / vram ratio.

What are the good use cases for very large memory amounts?
Not mentioned in the article, but another motivation behind this could be that with split a CPU/GPU Apple could try to up-sale on both when purchasing Macs.

The prices they charge just to go from 16GB to 32GB of RAM is outrageous ($400 for Macbook pro).
Perhaps you've got it right for the wrong reason.

> Take the pristine state of nature in some location prior to human interaction, and then anything a society of humans does in that location is in some sense going to injure that state.

This is not a universally held view of the state of humanity and wilderness. In particular, there are indigenous traditions on this topic which represent a very compelling (perhaps logically vanquishing) critique.

One in particular I can recommend, which I discovered via a discussion on wildfire management here on HN, is this: https://tendingthewild.com/tending-the-wild/

tl;dr for the purposes of this discussion: anthrogenesis is not per se injurious, and is in some important and measurable ways, less injurious than allowing wilderness to grow fallow. Humans are an important part of Earth's ecology.
Here is the opinion, for those interested in the actual legal analysis:

https://5dca.flcourts.gov/content/download/2445192/opinion/O...
I mean, is there evidence that this is a concern - your comment isn't evidence.

> In a conventional homeless shelter there are more people around and staff, meaning you're at least not alone with an attacker.

I don't know if it really works out that way - plenty of homeless people say the shelters aren't safe - but regardless, it isn't working.
CBTC is moving block because it just obviates the need for fixed block wayside equipment. Fixed block signalling just detects if a track segment is occupied, but in CBTC the trains can directly talk to each other, at which point blocks are superflous.

Both types of systems can be automated. And yes they do often coexist, like i mentioned in my grandparent comment. But brand new rail lines that install CBTC often don’t, to simplify maintenance; trackside equipment gets exposed to pretty hard operating conditions and can’t be fixed without some kind of shutdown of the rail line.
It's never that smooth.

In fact 2M requests arrived on December 23rd from Claude alone for a single site.

Average 25qps is definitely an issue, these are all long tail dynamic pages.
What's Causing the Great Stagnation?
Yes. In general, business owners aren't expected to prevent crimes against their customers. If someone attacks me at a bar or grocery store, I probably won't get very far trying to sue the owner for failing to check everyone for weapons on entry. I'm not sure I'd have more success with a concert venue, but it appears insurance companies perceive enough risk to demand certain procedures.

Codifying that expectation in law would reduce costly and obnoxious security theater. Of course, a business advertising a certain level of security could be sued for failing to provide it.
We should have a law against that then.
Wasn't this sometimes a bug instead of a feature?

Loaning based on cash instead of income is how Brex and Ramp took on Amex.

(obligatory: "commercial != consumer")
Fundamentally I don't understand BitLocker's security model. In most installs it seems like you power on the machine by pressing the power button and it boots into Windows.

So if someone steals you machine with an encrypted hard drive they need to...just turn it on? That can't be right, but at the same time I have no idea how this particular attack is defeated. I have to assume the traffic over the SPI bus is encrypted so the key can't just be dumped like that, but it seems like the machine is going to give up the key pretty easily regardless.

With LUKS it at least has a password prompt to unlock the drive.
I dont think it requires an equal and opposite right. First off, not everything is balanced. Second, opposition and balancing can come from very different rights. For example, private property rights can balance. You can sue for injury when pollution impacts your private property. It may be legal for someone to pollute the stream (all else being equal), but illegal for someone to pollute the stream that you were already using for drinking water.
This is why i use the key backup to OneDrive option.

My threat model is a lost or stolen device or RMA/repair.

If someone wants my data so badly that they’ll be able get into my OneDrive account that is protected with a passkey or a 32 char password + MFA and also have physical access to my devices let them have it.

Anyone who is that determined and capable can always resort to rubber hose cryptography and I want none of that in my life.
If they own the water while it is in their property, it means they cease to own it the moment it gets out of the property. Should they be responsible to deliver it to the next owner in the same state they got it?
Shmøergh Hog – The making of a simple analog synth
Since the question here is what women would prefer, I haven't done an extensive search, but it seems at least a majority of women support allowing people to use the bathroom of the gender they identify as: https://www.pewresearch.org/religion/2016/09/28/3-public-spl.... Interestingly, men are more strongly opposed than women.

I'll also leave this comment for thought. You're arguing that allowing transgender women into spaces reserved for women (unqualified) degrades the utility of them. I'm actually somewhat sympathetic to this argument, but not universally. I think allowing transgender women into women's sports is maybe not right, because transgender women don't have the same underlying physicality as women who have grown up with female hormones. I think it's an interesting discussion about why we perhaps somewhat arbitrarily segment sports in this way but not others (why no under 6 ft basketball leagues?) and the role that genetics plays in sports vs training and practice, but I think it's a generally effective means of allowing a group (generally women) to have meaningful leagues where it's not just women + men who aren't very good but have a genetic advantage. As well with regards to prison, since this is already a segment of the population (people in prison) who have committed some crime, so trusting them in the way we might trust random people from society to act may not be the right choice.

That said, your comments make it sound like you don't respect the existence of transgender people in general.

In particular, "I don't see how this is a self-contradictory position. Women who've decided to call themselves men are in fact still women.", and "It's a reasonable assumption that most women prefer to share female spaces with other women, regardless of how they look, and not with male intruders who have decided to disregard women's boundaries for their own pleasure while falsely identifying themselves as women.".

The first is I think clearly denying the right of someone to identify as transgender, and the latter is a fallacy. I agree that women would not want to share the bathroom with "male intruders who have decided to disregard women's boundaries for their own pleasure while falsely identifying themselves as women.", but this is not an accurate description of transgender women.

If you think it's an inaccurate description of how you feel (that you do in fact respect transgender people) I would suggest that being more careful in your debate might help you to convey your arguments effectively.
I've an oddball interest in exploring what science education content might look like if someday crafted with implausibly extreme expertise and effort. Given that first-tier physical-sciences graduate students not uncommonly have foundational misconceptions around color, and color is commonly taught in K-2, I was exploring how one might emphasize spectra when teaching color, in preK to whatever. With interactives like mousing over hyperspectral images, a light/image manipulation workbench, and apropos topic, physically realistic Paint (with fluorescence, controllable lighting, glitter, blackbody, fire, make your own pigment, collage). Now community around that oddball interest has been hard to come by, especially no longer being around MIT. So in support of a "find your people - build your village" 2025 New Year's theme, if anyone knows of potentially overlapping interests...
For Bench customers that want to look elsewhere, Pilot is doing free migrations from Bench to QBO, even if you don't want to use Pilot. (So you can even take advantage of it if you want to instead DIY or work with some local firm.)

https://pilot.com/bench-qbo-migration

(Disclaimer is that I'm one of Pilot's founders.)
> I'd personally prefer deeper thinking which this blog's previous posts-- high in hype and low in technical rigor-- have not yet provided.

Really? Something like this[1] (literally the previous post made by the author!) is "high in hype and low in technical rigor"? Or do you just have an axe to grind?

[1]: https://avi.im/blag/2024/sqlite-past-present-future/
These features are opt-in and often paid features. I struggle to see how this is a "crushing risk," although I don't doubt that sufficiently unskilled shops would be completely crushed by an IP/userAgent block. Since Cloudflare has a much more informed and broader view of internet traffic than maybe any other company in the world, I'll probably use that feature without any qualms at some point in the future. Right now their normal WAF rules do a pretty good job of not blocking legitimate traffic, at least on enterprise.
I generally agree with what you are saying.

"If I own a piece of land then by virtue of that ownership I get an almost unlimited veto on what is allowed to be done to that piece of land."

However, this is the way people wished it worked. Due to zoning, eminent domain, and other laws, there is a lot that can be forced on land owners. Then we can even get into deed restrictions and easements.
That is NOT what Coase was about - his proposition was that if you have well defined property rights, the parties would transact and price out any negative externalities efficiently, without govt. intervention. In this case, the bodies of water are owned by the public, polluters need to pay the public an amount equivalent to the harm caused by the pollution.
> more fuel usage and greenhouse emissions

Again coca-cola can make the full logistical operation EV based (bar maritime) and offset with deploying renewables. If they care.

Glass can be either washed (even more energy saving) or fully recycled, all the time, 100% of the time.

PET :

- can only be recyclable a few N cycles and becomes increasingly brittle when recycled.

- There is no such thing as transparent recycled PET

Those are the two core reasons why none of the major manufacturers actually use recycled PET or use it fractionally (10 to 30% PET, which marketing will spin with 'using (some) plastic from 100% recycled materials')

The sad story about the economics of this is that recycled PET is not nearly good quality enough to be used for packaging leading to it being used in plastic poles or road substrates and further contributing to microplastics in the waterways.

It's a scam through and through.
Hmm both SpaceX and Tesla are heavily subsidised by the government

Funnily enough many of the basic breakthroughs in AI were done in Europe, but at universities.

Sadly people don‘t invest in Europe in startups as in the US, therefore the companies were formed in the US, even tough research is done here.
"their belongings"

Having had my car prowled by homeless several times, and any yard decoration pillaged over the years, the objects in homeless camps are 90% stolen and 9% donated, and 1% actual belongings of a person
> How exactly would doctors fund their own residency programs?

I said hospitals. You'd do your residency and then have a commitment to keep working at the hospital for say 3 years (or otherwise repaying the training).

> In game theory terms this is essentially a free rider problem

Yes, this is exactly what I mean by founded on negative sum interactions. Every player is focused on avoiding costs rather than providing value. In a sane market, when a business can't find employees they offer higher wages, overtime, train new employees, etc. That's positive sum that grows the industry, rather than just throwing their hands up and letting the shortages build.

> There have been some attempts to introduce market dynamics such as high-deductible health plans (HDHP) with HSAs

I guess if you squint really hard, just subjecting patients to even more unknown charges is some kind of attempt? I'm talking about things like making providers beholden to the basic legal norms of commerce that apply everywhere else. End this nonsense where providers won't answer questions about how much anything costs, but then shake you down after the fact with a volley of fraudulent bills - that foundation is already askew from how every other industry works.

Imagine going to the grocery store, and then receiving bills over the next year from the cashier, shelf stocker, distributor, etc, all claiming that you're also responsible for paying them. Healthy industries work by consolidating costs and making prices legible. The healthcare industry is stuck in a state of doing the exact opposite, but yet has managed to entrench itself with the entitlement of still getting paid.

If providers want to be able to bill patients directly then they need to do the work of forming actual contracts based on fixed price services, estimated work, hourly rates, etc (once again like every other industry). Or if you've got a healthcare plan and go to providers they point you to, the only entity you should ever be receiving bills from is the plan itself.

> Thus the only way to constrain total system costs is by artificially limiting supply and imposing some sort of rationing. So the real argument ends up being about how we do the rationing.

So just scrap the entire concept of individual agency? Are you a doctor or something?

And lest people jump on me for not just toeing the party line of "single payer" - as I said this is orthogonal to who may be ultimately paying. Furthermore, if we're going to be paying for a base level of care with public funds (which we're already doing for a large part), then we want to be spending that money wisely and not squandering it on a system sick with organizational cancer.
You can petition China using the various international forums available.
Aldi uses huge barcodes to speed up scanning [0]. I‘m not sure it would make sense to replace those with two-dimensional codes.

[0] https://www.tasteofhome.com/article/why-are-aldi-barcodes-so...
What is the use-case for this feature? I get specifying byte ranges for parsing headers and whatnot, but I don't know a curl workflow that benefits from this.
Before that you had bucket brigades.
I don't know the actual statistics, so I can't say for sure. From what I remember, it did hurt tourism but people quickly forgot about it. The fishing/shrimping industry locally took a major hit though as far as I know. Even not considering the moral/ethical responsibility to take care of the environment, it seems incredibly risky to the state's main form of income to not take it seriously.
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Doesn't seem to be much movement in mortgage defaults:
https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/DRSFRMACBS
Breaking up the travel on the way to the much, much better beaches and much, much clearer water in the Caribbean?

That's the only reason I'll be spending a night in America's wang.
It's aggravating how misleading these headlines are.
I think it is reasonable to assert that the health and survival of both human populations and the natural ecosystem is of critical importance to human society. Therefore, it seems easy to argue that making a water system uninhabitable and causing the collapse of communities or ecosystems should be prevented.

Whether the pollution in question is in the form of toxic heavy metals, forever chemicals, etc., or just excessive farm runoff that causes algal blooms and kills marine life (or anything else that consumes the water), that seems like the line to draw. If you're making a water system incapable of sustaining life, then... don't.
> It works... pretty badly, but so does every other system you can imagine.

That's not true.

There's been some great work in the area of 'the tragedy of the commons' by Elinor Ostrom, and others, which shows that not only is it possible to protect the commons without top-down regulation, but it's also quite feasible.
The lack of clue goes up to the top...

"In a leaked recording, Amazon cloud chief tells employees that most developers could stop coding soon as AI takes over" - https://archive.is/n2jmb#selection-1489.0-1489.118
> Yes, even books. I remember as a kid they encouraged us to read but not TOO much.

Which is a good advice: too much of a good thing isn't a good thing..
Humans have been shaping that environment for...maybe 20,000 years(aka not that long ecologically speaking)? And everything done is about making earth better for those humans, not looking at it holistically.
> It would make a lot of sense to go back to a smaller more integrated union with the countries which want it and leave the ones which only want the single market be part of a less integrated union.

That option does exist, albeit in a bit of a roundabout way. Nothing is stopping a member country from leaving the EU and joining EFTA and the EEA afterwards. The fact that no country is seriously contemplating this is telling.
A similar thread from a few days ago:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42508087

I really enjoyed Adrian Tchaikovsky's Children of Time and Andy Weir's Project Hail Mary. Both were hopeful, positive scifi.

Children of Time is far better written, but Project Hail Mary paints such a beautiful world that I yearn to be real.

They somehow both involve alien spiders.
What makes Sneak a "schizophrenic"?
The more I think about cases like this, and our legal culture broadly, the more dread I feel. The Florida legislature wrote something and didn't consider all possible outcomes, and didn't correct itself in time for this local law to be struck down. Is the modern world too complex for American legislatures? They don't seem to have the agility to respond to obvious wrongs. And so so much of our law is written in the courts, at times for better, this time for worse.
It is helping the wealthy, about all the government cares about really.

And "low unmployment" and not "median income vs cost of living/inflation".
Ok, but it seems like a bit of a non-sequitur to say “ business owners aren't expected to prevent crimes against their customers” when there’s a body of law to the contrary.
Come on, this isn't like the invention of calculus. Pipelining is just assembly line processing that anyone who managed or designed any factory would have implemented as soon as the transistor real estate became available.
That's just restating one of the questions I previously asked.
the sound quality
> They don’t have a long list of donts. They have a short list of do’s.

That is incorrect. They do have a list of don’ts. See 3b and 3d.

https://www.fide.com/images/stories/NEWS_2013/FIDE/Proposal_...