skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Honestly, I'll say this as someone who goes to Harvard. If you go to schools very prestigious schools like Harvard, MIT, there's no reason why you shouldn't be able to get a decent job after graduation.

The market is tough, and Harvard and MIT grads might be getting jobs at FAANG and Quant left and right like they did a couple of years ago, but if you do a lot of leetcode and prepare for interviews properly, you should be able to find something decent.

The fact is there's still a good number of companies that will give any Harvard or MIT student an interview as long as they have some experience on their resume. Prestigous internships or not; the school name still gives you an advantage.

The fact that you're getting interviews and not passing means that there's something you could probably be doing.

All we know is that you've built side projects. But especially in the new grad market, companies are working for work experience, not some toy apps that you just built for your friends.

How many leetcode problems did you do? A lot of people are struggling to just even get interviews. If you're getting interviews, and not passing, that likely means there's something you could be doing.

But let me tell you a story. There's a guy I know from a top school (one of Harvard, Princeton, MIT, Stanford) who didn't get their junior internship until May last year. Their internship wasn't prestigious, and none of their internships or jobs during their college career were prestigious. He almost ended up with no internship.

For new grad applications, he didn't even apply with referrals. He didn't get as many interviews as others who did internships at Big Tech/FAANG, but he did get some interviews.

He did 500+ Leetcode problems throughout the summer and fall, and got an offer from Amazon and a unicorn startup. He also got an offer from another big tech company and make the hiring manager round at another big tech company (didn't move forward because he already accepted another offer), which many other students, who had more prestigious internships, failed.

The point is at a school like MIT, you and your friends should be able to get a job. You have access to any new grad job; not just FAANG, but also exclusive startups.

Luck does play a part, but we have to be real.
BE isn’t technically dead buts it’s practically dead for almost all projects. You can static_assert byte order and then never think about BE ever again.

All of my custom network serialization formats use LE because there’s literally no reason to use BE for network byte order. It’s pure legacy cruft.
https://jspaint.app/ (https://github.com/1j01/jspaint)
It's not on Github, but I do have schematic at the end of the blog post. vna2 is the previous version.
I perused the codebase but I'm unfamiliar with dart:

https://github.com/filiph/unsure/blob/master/lib/src/calcula...

I assume this is a montecarlo approach? (Not to start a flamewar, at least for us data scientists :) ).
> Even if the book is 100% right, there will be many passages you don't understand, and may even misinterpret.

Which is why no one reads only one book on a particular subject, especially if one is new to the domain. Often you bring in an alternate, but correct perspective from another book. The risks of hallucination with LLMs' responses outweighs the advantage of multiple perspectives (even if a broken clock is right twice a day, you still want a working one)
I don't follow you. Whatever you take temperature to mean, for an isolated system in equilibrium that intensive thermodynamic property will have the same value everywhere and the entropy of the system will thus be maximized given the constraints.

If you put two subsystems at different temperatures in thermal contact the combined system will be in equilibrium only when the cold one warms up and the hot one cools down. The increase in the entropy of the first is larger than the decrease in the entropy of the second (because ΔQ/T1 > ΔQ/T2 when T1<T2) and the total entropy increases.

No kinetic energies of molecules are involved in that phenomenological description of heat flowing from hot to cold.
Trump is a populist president. He is the right wing Bernie Sanders. Eliminating income tax for those making under $150k is right wing version of a "Billionaire Stipend" for everyone under $150k. Of course the republican guard is going to downplay the insanity he spews, but here we are with blanket tariffs and China virtually cut off.

Trump and Sanders aren't opposites, they're next door neighbors with a common goal and mostly superficial disagreements like whether tax cuts or stimulus checks are better hand out approaches. They both want to trash trade deals and both want tariffs. If you are perplexed as many where why so many Bernie bros voted Trump over Hillary in 2016, this is the answer.

They are both blue-collar presidents, and both want to inflict damage onto the elite. The problem is that the elite are the system, their health is a function of the economies health, so it's a "buckle-in" moment when someone comes in who wants to rough up the elite.
Foundation Models for Robotics Manipulation: SOTA Overview
it's like everyone who can afford something needs to have kids as the next logical step.
Well text generation is way ahead of video generation. Have we seen anyone create something like a best selling or high grossing novel with an LLM yet?
That's going to be a lot of work for a YouTube video though
I don’t think most people are denied based on any specific thing. Asians attend these elite schools at much higher rates than their population. If there was a school that admitted based on grades and test scores only they’d probably be even more highly represented.

College is no more a reward for school academic achievement as a basketball scholarship is for HS basketball achievement. They’re correlated but a lot more go into both.
but evidence doesn't matter because I am morally right!
These replies make it clear that y'all really want to make it okay for shitty men to take credit for other people's work. You must all work on generative AI.

https://www.kcl.ac.uk/the-story-behind-photograph-51

tl;dr: Franklin's mastery of X-ray crystallography made the discovery of the structure of DNA possible; if Crick and Watson were honest, they would have made her a co-author and given her credit

> The enigmatically named “Photograph 51” (Fig.1) is an X-ray diffraction image of DNA taken by Rosalind Franklin, together with her PhD student Raymond Gosling, at King’s College London in May 1952. In fact, the camera was set up to take the photograph on Friday 2 May and it was developed on Tuesday 6 May: as Franklin reported in her lab notebook, the DNA was exposed to X-rays for a total of 62 hours to take Photograph 51.

# ....

> Such a pattern of spots is highly suggestive of a helical structure, and so when James Watson saw Photograph 51 in January 1953, it spurred both him and Francis Crick to attempt to build a model. The photograph was shown to him by Wilkins, who had a copy because he was soon to take over the work; Franklin was shortly to leave King’s for Birkbeck College. However, Franklin was unaware that the photograph had been shown to Watson, and Wilkins had assumed that Watson had seen earlier “helix cross” diffraction patterns taken by Franklin.

> But Photograph 51 was so much clearer than any of the earlier images. Moreover, it contained further information: the vertical separation between the spots of the helix cross is one tenth of the distance from the centre of the pattern to the large, diffuse diffraction “spots” at the top and bottom of Photograph 51, which arise from the regular stacking of the bases in the middle of the double helix. From this one can conclude that there are ten stacked bases per turn of helix.

> Franklin had always resisted model building, believing that it should be possible to calculate the structure from the diffraction patterns, particularly using her A-form photographs. But this approach proved unfruitful. Unaware that Watson and Crick were building their model, Franklin returned to Photograph 51 in early 1953 and in March drafted a manuscript proposing that a “helical structure [was] highly probable”, most likely a double helix with ten bases per turn with the bases on the inside and phosphate groups on the outside.

> She even deduced from the absence of the fourth spot in each arm of the helix cross (counting outwards from the centre of the pattern, Fig.1), that the two chains would be separated by 3/8 of the pitch of the double helix, as indeed they are (Fig.2). She was so close to the answer, but only days later, Watson and Crick announced their model of the double helix.

> And thus, seventy years ago, when Franklin and Gosling’s paper appeared alongside that by Watson and Crick in Nature, her work, and in particular Photograph 51, appeared merely to confirm their model, whereas in fact it had played a crucial role in its construction.
> The "real" point of an argument is not to persuade the other side (though that is what you aspire to nonetheless) but to exchange views.

Maybe this is just a matter of definitions, but for me the point of an argument is to convince or be convinced. When two incompatible views exist on a subject, at least one of them must be wrong. Some topics of conversation allow for diverging views or values, but then we are just talking or sharing experiences, not arguing.

That said, it is my experience as well that actually changing someone's (or my own) mind on an important issue is unlikely. Especially on complex topics with partial and uncertain information, like political issues, our life experience and cumulative knowledge significantly influences our selection of sources and interpretation of the facts, so converging on a common point of view may require the exchange of a prohibitive amount of information, even among rational arguers.

Productive argument usually occurs in a sort of semi-echo chamber, with people who mostly agree with us on the context, and are only arguing about the top layer, so to say. But when trying to argue about the deep stuff, we are mostly just "exchanging views", in the end.
We are right in the technological middle ages in our administration or banks.

The national post is there too, except for a few things like these.

And yes we still use cheques, and this actually hinders evolution in banking.
I've edited my post to add "doing the same things (and much worse)" which I should have put originally because I think it's true that the current administration is coming up with "all-new and improved" ways to bring pressure.

To be fair, a defender of the current administration (which I'm obviously not) might point out that "the other guy" administration was pushing an agenda bias on people who broadly agreed with the direction, while the current administration is pushing against strong bias the other direction - so more pressure is justified. While I agree any moves away from the preferred extreme and back toward the middle (and beyond), will meet with resistance from the institution's partisan majority and encounter 'malicious compliance' at best, that still doesn't morally justify bias in the other direction. Eventually, someone needs to have the courage to step up and not play the "Retaliate and Escalate" move on their turn with Power Boost (that's the two years where one party holds control of the executive and congress, which, lately, each side gets approximately every 6-8 years (there is one "Lose Turn" card in the deck but it's rare).

Missing in all that is, of course, the best long-term strategy would be to reverse only to a relatively neutral position and take the moral high-ground of saying that the government shouldn't push agenda positions and try to get the center to rally around you. Basically, really try to be neutral. Protect all viewpoints equally and favor none. No negative biases but also no affirmative action. Previous jihads against one direction don't justify crusades in response. That kind of reasoning was how we got 'affirmative action' in response to OG institutional racism. Now the current administration is justifying going to extremes with the same flawed reasoning of "correcting sins of the past".

For example, "shutting down any programming related to diversity, equity and inclusion" is just as wrong as demanding all departments force everyone to sign DEI pledges or that all students take a DEI class. To me, the real enemy here is government compelling private universities to "always do" or "never do" (forbid or require) any specific thing about any of these culture war topics.

At some point, we need to learn from and remember the past but otherwise decide it's time to let the past go. The current moment would have been a good time to plant a bold flag for no systemic institutional biases for or against any culture war agenda-driven "correction". But the current administration seems set on continuing what looks to be a never-ending culture war. Perhaps the most stupid thing is both sides continue to act like anything which can be accomplished by presidential fiat can't just as easily be undone by presidential fiat. Day one of the next Democrat administration they'll undo most of this and when they get their next turn with Power Boost they'll undo all of it. If the past is any measure, they'll also use all the "New and Improved" methods this administration is coming up with to push in the other direction (just as Trump is using every technique for presidential expansion Obama 'innovated').
I've taken the liberty of fixing the formatting in your comment so the code reads like code. For HN formatting info, see https://news.ycombinator.com/formatdoc.

But can you please make your substantive points more thoughtfully, without name-calling or shallow dismissals? These things are in the site guidelines: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html.
I'm confused, because the person depicted by that tweet does not AT ALL resemble the person being interviewed here a year ago:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=grj328-hlhA

Please at least watch this and see if you see his sincerity. Maybe you will end up as confused as me?

We need to use a scalpel, and not a sword, when it comes to distinguishing actual bad-actors, from mere associations to ethnicities or origins. For one thing, why would a guy who converted to Buddhism even do what that tweet is claiming?
How about Google Orkut?

https://support.google.com/orkut/?hl=en
The USD just fell sharply relative to the euro; if anything you'd expect a small _spike_ in travel, not the massive sharp decrease shown on the graph.
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Not OP but of the same persuasion. Personally, I’m working on emigration plans. I don’t really want to live in an authoritarian state. And if I ever have kids, there’s no way I’d want to raise them in this environment.

I should point out, though, that authoritarianism doesn’t necessarily mean that QOL drops for the average person (if you’re not part of a targeted group). Many people live quite happily in Hungary, Turkey, Russia. Local government will chug along as before, stonks might still go up. But you have to internalize a certain resignation over things you can no longer change or talk about, unless you wish to become a dissident and put yourself in danger. I’m not brave enough for that, so I’m opting out of the whole thing.
waiting for the day when my iphone 11 will become vintage lol
Reminds me of a hang in the Settings UI that was because it would get stuck on an RPC call to some service.

Why was the service holding things up? Because it was waiting on acquiring a lock held by one of its other threads.

What was that other thread doing? It was deadlocked because it tried to recursively acquire an exclusive srwlock (exactly what the docs say will happen if you try).

Why was it even trying to reacquire said lock? Ultimately because of a buffer overrun that ended up overwriting some important structures.
It would be a tragic shame for life to inhabit such a vast universe only for faster than light travel to be impossible.
How soft is soft power really?
Everything is text-to-X because it's less friction and therefore more fun. It's more a marketing thing.

There are many workflows for using generative AI to adhere to specific functional requirements (the entire ComfyUI ecosystem, which includes tools such as LoRAs/ControlNet/InstantID for persistence) and there are many startups which abstract out generative AI pipelines for specific use cases. Those aren't fun, though.
LEON, used by the European Space Agency, is big endian.
That’s actually [the _last_ question](https://users.ece.cmu.edu/~gamvrosi/thelastq.html), not the first.

I liked the DS9 episode where the mutants realized that the universe was collapsing into the Big Crunch, so they demanded “antigravity generators, lots of them!” Their cosmology was wrong, but only because the show had the misfortune to be written in the past. Their enthusiasm was great :)
> What do churches have to do with this article or my comment?

I quoted "Hopefully this ends with colleges having their tax exempt status revoked." because I think the US would be better off if churches were not tax exempt.

There are good arguments that we would better off if no non-profits were tax exempt and charitable donations weren't tax deductible.

> Do churches receive billions of funding from the government?

I don't think so.
Will the AI itself never be a good content creator/director/artist?

People are always out there tying to convince others that AI is better than humans at X. How close is it to being better than humans at being a content creator itself? Or how long before that threshold is crossed?
"Race realism" is just a meaningless label Neo-Nazis use, because they are still trying to fly under the radar, or they are slightly embarrassed of being what their grand-parents fought. They might try to butter up their standing by (falsely) citing stuff like the Bell Curve, but it is still the same vile and evil ideology it was 80 years ago.

But not all fascists are neo-nazis. Just because a subset of today's fascists describe themselves that way, doesn't mean they are fundamentally different from other fascists. Look at Steven Miller; he's jewish, and quite obviously a white supremacist. He's all about dehumanizing people he thinks of as leser, and he welcomes the new fascist America. AfD, the german far-right party, is both very pro-Israel and loves to play "tread the nazi line and extend it"-game. Anti-semitism is a common, but not necessary prerequesite to fascism.

When I was younger I also thought the opposite of good should be bad, and it is silly to describe things as evil. I disliked the religious connotation, but have changed my mind. There are people committing absolutely horrible things, and calling it anything but evil is underestimating the depravity of those characters. To quote Captain G. M. Gilbert:

“In my work with the defendants (at the Nuremberg Trails 1945-1949) I was searching for the nature of evil and I now think I have come close to defining it. A lack of empathy. It’s the one characteristic that connects all the defendants, a genuine incapacity to feel with their fellow men. Evil, I think, is the absence of empathy.”
The US has gotten insanely expensive for Europeans but that has been happening since 2008. https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/NY.GDP.PCAP.CD?location...

The arbitrary detentions of foreign visitors at the border make me feel it would be unwise for my parents to come visit us in the US at the moment - they're too old to risk weeks of immigration detention.

They are also now detaining US citizens at the border, though they seem to be focussing on immigration attorneys so hopefully we'll be ok on the way back. https://www.nbcboston.com/news/politics/treated-like-a-crimi...
Reminds me of a bug that would bluescreen windows if I stopped Visual Studio debugging if it was in the middle of calling the native Ping from C#
> the party that allowed you to download it committed copyright infringement by distributing it. the same restrictions apply to them as to you*. a copyright holder may well want that party to stop distributing it, which means no-one else can download it.

That's why every social media site in existence puts terms in its EULA demanding that users grant the site a blanket license to redistribute their content, over and above any separate licenses they may put on it. After it's been redistributed to third parties, the copyright holder has no more control (at least, not via copyright law) over how those copies are privately used.

E.g., on HN: "With respect to the content or other materials you upload through the Site or share with other users or recipients (collectively, 'User Content'), you represent and warrant that you own all right, title and interest in and to such User Content, including, without limitation, all copyrights and rights of publicity contained therein. By uploading any User Content you hereby grant and will grant Y Combinator and its affiliated companies a nonexclusive, worldwide, royalty free, fully paid up, transferable, sublicensable, perpetual, irrevocable license to copy, display, upload, perform, distribute, store, modify and otherwise use your User Content for any Y Combinator-related purpose in any form, medium or technology now known or later developed."
Yes, I think that’s the problem.

It’s not possible to, e.g., merely juxtapose a right wing opinion with a left wing opinion and then declare victory.

Even Wikipedia’s approach of searching for a neutral point of view has come under attack these past years, from multiple unhappy factions.

I don’t think there’s an obvious solution. It sucks.
Knockout was a huge leap in developer experience at the time. It's worth noting that Ryan Carniato, the creator of SolidJS, was a huge fan of Knockout. It's a major influence of SolidJS.
>makes $220k+ a year

>"i have no accomplishments"

give me a break
The country contains all of us, all the time.

The leadership is not the country.
This one also bad, stagnant last 15 years:

https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/OPHMFG

Labor Productivity (Output per Hour) for All Workers
It’s possible, depending upon the circumstances. If you are censoring a particular extract of text and it uses a proportional font, then only certain combinations of characters will fit in a given space. Most of those combinations will be gibberish, leaving few combinations – perhaps only one – that has both matching metrics and meaning.
The first Harvard one that comes to mind is Carole Hooven, an enocrinologist who was pilloried for speaking obvious truths:

https://www.mindingthecampus.org/2024/02/15/carole-hooven-wh...
I thought I’d comment but I guess you’ve sort of proved the videos point yourself.
Would you argue that the "kicking off" is more or less intense under Elon vs. the other guy?

My impression that the rate of censorship overall has plummeted. Pre-Elon, it was easy to get banned for wrongthing. People would gang up on wrongthinkers, mass-report them, etc.

I wonder what the rates of actual bans have been.
Notion seemed cool until finding out that getting information into/out of it was more of a painful, messy chore than I wanted it to be.

After trying Notion and experiencing the 'lock-in' for myself, I switched to Obsidian years ago - no regrets. Combined with Syncthing, it works surprisingly well - offering graceful/seamless editing of the same Notes across Windows desktop and multiple Macs, updating to the other devices in essentially real-time.
https://archive.ph/AtTLx
This reminds me of https://www.getguesstimate.com/ , a probabilistic spreadsheet.
Oh, there will be elections. After all, even USSR and Russia had/have elections of all kinds.