MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by FirmwareBurner | 2025-05-07 14:26:24+00:00
Life in general is full of unfair advantages or disadvantages form birth. Nobody is ever equal, equality is a made up fiction, and in a competitive environment without strictly enforced rules, cheating is sometimes just the norm. If you don't cheat, you'll be outcompeted by those who do. Statistically, the more unscrupulous people behave, the more likely they are to get ahead in life. Look at politicians, CEOs, big business owners, etc.
by bombcar | 2025-05-07 14:26:28+00:00
My repeated experience has been that the teachers on the ground (actually teaching the classes) know exactly what they'd like to do to improve things, but they instead have to implement whatever new policy has flowed down from who knows where this year or decade.

(An actionable example of a policy that parents can implement today is "redshirting" where you hold a child with a late birthday back a year in pre-kindergarten)
by lolinder | 2025-05-07 14:27:12+00:00
> "Your children aren't just dumber, they're also poorer" feels like a very spicy way to elevate the status of a state to me.

Would this comment have been made if we were talking about The Bronx instead of Mississippi?

The author is saying that given the poverty status of the state it's remarkable how quickly they've been able to turn their education system around. A really good school in The Bronx will have lower scores than a mediocre school in Upper Manhattan, but that doesn't mean that we should all go out and emulate the mediocre school in Upper Manhattan. The really good school in The Bronx is obviously the better model.

The author's initial point is correct, though: because it's Mississippi we're talking about that intuition doesn't apply. It's okay to diss on Mississippi for being Mississippi.
by timr | 2025-05-07 14:27:12+00:00
> The idea that manufacturers wouldn’t just make energy and water hogging dishwashers now is naive at best. Making something run well using less resources costs more money up front, even though the total cost of ownership is lower.

Really? You sound like someone who would pay for such a thing. I bet there are more of you!

> If you don’t have to make them efficient and you don’t have to display how much energy or water they use and how much that would cost, then you can massively undercut anyone that does those things, even though the consumer would end up paying more over time.

Nobody said anything about getting rid of the stickers. We can still require stickers, just like we require food has labels on it. We don't need a sprawling certification system encompassing everything from telephones (sigh) to roofing materials and the government bureaucracy that defines it.
by PaulHoule | 2025-05-07 14:27:15+00:00
Here's the best evidence that they're delusional:

Elementl Power to date has not built any nuclear power projects. The company has said it is technology agnostic, and has not determined what type of reactor it would use to produce nuclear power, noting that it would choose the technology furthest along in development when it is ready to start construction.

The only reactor which anyone has built in the last 30 years is the AP1000. Construction started in 2009 and ended in 2024. That 15 years was particularly impacted by the problems of building an all-new design and the bankruptcy of the vendor. We should be able to do better if we could build reactors on an Nth-of-a-kind basis instead of a first-of-a-kind basis and the obvious path to that is standardize on a design and build a bunch of them despite high costs, something China can and will do, which could get to the place where Russia is where they can build VVER reactors very similar to our PWRs reliably in other countries.

4th generation reactors using molten salts or liquid metals or gaseous coolant might operate at higher temperatures and cut down the high capital costs of the powerset but they are not a bird in the hand -- here you are going to wait 10 years not to build from an existing plan, but 10 years for somebody to build a test reactor.

The times involved are so long that the only countermeasure is to "start early" and pick a ready design and start building now. "Technology agnostic" is often a polite way to say that you don't want to make any real investments at all.

It seems possible, if ambitious, to build 10 AP1000 reactors in the next 10 years and thus add 10GW of power by 2035. Any other LWR is going to add a few years to get regulatory approval. Any post-LWR reactor is going to take 10 years just to be ready to build.
by monkeyelite | 2025-05-07 14:27:19+00:00
> Handling thousands of concurrent processes is beyond most OS

It works fine on Linux - the operating system for the internet. Have you tried it?

> good fraction of the CPU being spent solely on context switching

I was waiting for this one. Threads and processes do the same amount of context switching. The overhead of processes switch is a little higher. The main cost is memory.
by aredox | 2025-05-07 14:28:06+00:00
You are strawmanning my argument as I didn't say anything like that. I said that if you are going to evaluate a policy with statistics, you need to compare apples to apples because statistics are easily biased.

See this example of a paradox that applies a lot in educational settings: you can raise the average level of two classes just by shuffling students from one to another:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Will_Rogers_phenomenon
by nappsec | 2025-05-07 14:28:19+00:00
If you're going into a field where you need a solid technical foundation the knowledge is what matters. But if you're going into an unrelated domain like most college grads who enter non-technical, white-collar jobs the diploma is the return because the coursework has no direct relevance to the profession, but employers will filter out applicants without degrees.

Someone with a bachelors in history has a much higher likelihood of being hired for an entry level sales role for example, than someone without one. But that bachelors isn't conferring any unique knowledge about sales.
by ben_w | 2025-05-07 14:28:24+00:00
> Agents can operate in narrow domains too though, so to fit the G part of AGI the agent needs to be non-domain specific.

"Can", but not "must". The difference between an LLM being harnessed to be a customer service agent, or a code review agent, or a garden planning agent, can be as little as the prompt.

And in any case, the point was that the concept of "completely autonomous agentic intelligence capable of operating on long-term planning horizons" is better described by "agentic AI" than by "AGI".

> It's kind of a simple enough concept... it's really just something that functions on par with how we do.

"On par with us" is binary thinking — humans aren't at the same level as each other.

The problem we have with LLMs is the "I"*, not the "G". The problem we have with AlphaGo and AlphaFold is the "G", not the ultimate performance (which is super-human, an interesting situation given AlphaFold is a mix of Transformer and Diffusion models).

For many domains, getting a degree (or passing some equivalent professional exam) is just the first step, and we have a long way to go from there to being trusted to act competently, let alone independently. Someone who started a 3-year degree just before ChatGPT was released, will now be doing their final exams, and quite a lot of LLMs operate like they have just about scraped through degrees in almost everything — making them wildly superhuman with the G.

The G-ness of an LLM only looks bad when compared to all of humanity collectively; they are wildly more general in their capabilities than any single one of us — there are very few humans who can even name as many languages as ChatGPT speaks, let alone speak them.

* they need too many examples, only some of that can be made up for by the speed difference that lets machines read approximately everything
by mattstir | 2025-05-07 14:28:34+00:00
Is it actually copyright infringement to state the lyrics of a song, though? How has Google / Genius etc gotten away with it for years if that were the case?

I suppose a difference would be that the lyric data is baked into the model. Maybe the argument would be that the model is infringing on copyright if it uses those lyrics in a derivative work later on, like if you ask it to help make a song? But even that seems more innocuous than say sampling a popular song in your own. Weird.
by alephnerd | 2025-05-07 14:28:34+00:00
Historically yes, but the new head of the ISI (Asim Malik) is a close confidant of Asim Munir.

The Balochistan Corp is quasi-independent as well, as they are the primary stakeholder in CPEC.

The Pakistani Armed Forces and Civilian Government have too many veto players, which means any attempt at normalization gets undermined by one of these players trying to maximize their own benefit.

It doesn't help that the Pakistani Armed Forces plays an outsized role in the economy, so individual services and even corps can become business competitors, making internal competition even fiercer.

A similar issue plagued the PLA before Xi era reforms began in 2012, and continue to plague the VPA (but was partially dulled by the SK and UK FTAs) .
by samtheprogram | 2025-05-07 14:29:01+00:00
You should report an issue with your specs, not just say “other applications don’t have this problem” — especially as a Linux user.

For one, not all applications are GPU accelerated.

Two, their UX may need to be improved for a specific hardware configuration. I have used Zed with good performance on Intel dGPU, AMD dGPU, and Intel iGPU without issue — my guess is a missing dependency?
by simonw | 2025-05-07 14:29:08+00:00
Which country are you talking about? I believe it's legal to pay donors on the USA.

Presumably a European county given you quoted euros?

Looks like the EU encourages member states to encourage unpaid donations:

> Furthermore, Member States should take measures to promote Community self-sufficiency in human blood or blood components and to encourage voluntary unpaid donations of blood and blood components.

From https://eur-lex.europa.eu/eli/dir/2002/98/oj/eng
by wqtz | 2025-05-07 14:29:32+00:00
The pricing page: https://zed.dev/pricing

The pricing page was not linked on the homepage. Maybe it was, maybe it wasn't but it surely was not obvious to me.

Regardless of how good of a software it is or pretends to be I just do not care about landing pages anymore. Pricing page essentially tells me what I am actually dealing with. I knew about Zed when it was being advertised as "written in rust because it makes us better than everyone" trend everyone was doing. Now, it is LLM based.

Absolutely not complaining about them. Zed did position themselves well to take the crown of the multi billion dollar industry AI code editors has become. I had to write this wall of text of because I just want to just drop the pricing page link and help make people make their own decision, but I have to reply to "whats your point" comments and this should demonstrate I have no point aside from dropping a link.
by duxup | 2025-05-07 14:29:44+00:00
My understanding of Boeing is it started with pushing cost cutting and such efforts from the top down without any engineering / real understanding about how things work and that created room for some serious failures.

It seems plausible to argue that Tesla's efforts have been misaligned as far as the truck goes, abandoning making their vehicles more affordable and so on ... but I agree that I'm not sure that is the same as Boeing exactly.
by criddell | 2025-05-07 14:29:53+00:00
Have you actually looked up what how much a blood bank CEO makes? Is it a lot?

Edit: I just did a bit of research and didn't come up with a lot. I found this example [1] where the CEO's total compensation is $414k. That doesn't seem all that high...

[1]:https://givefreely.com/charity-directory/nonprofit/ein-57066...
by pc86 | 2025-05-07 14:30:14+00:00
As far as I can tell this article uses the exact same statistical analysis that every other educational achievement article in the world does. What are they doing that is statistically unsound? How does this article "reek" of it other than the fact that you don't seem to like the implication that a deeply conservative state is making positive strides in educational policy?

Mississippi's kids are doing 1.5 grade levels better in reading than they were 20 years ago. That's an objectively good thing. Maine's kids are doing 1.5 grade levels worse than they were 20 years ago. That's an objectively bad thing.

It makes sense to look at why.
by voxic11 | 2025-05-07 14:30:39+00:00
It doesn't strictly require it to be dynamically linked but does place additional requirements on applications which are statically linked to LGPLed libraries.

> If you statically link against an LGPLed library, you must also provide your application in an object (not necessarily source) format, so that a user has the opportunity to modify the library and relink the application.
by imglorp | 2025-05-07 14:30:40+00:00
EV's with regen braking and manual transmission vehicles are in the same boat: unless they light up when slowing, following drivers will be surprised. The bare standard IMO for all vehicles should not be to light up when brakes are applied but instead any time the vehicle begins decelerating. Adding flashing for a strong stop ~~ >0.75g would be a bonus. Given all the sensors and compute hardware on vehicles -- even bikes -- these days it should just be a software touch.

The Technology Connections YT guy has a whole piece analyzing tail lights and I agree with him.
by jimmydddd | 2025-05-07 14:30:42+00:00
Re: Cold water requirement. It's not as ridiculous as it may seem. --In the 70's, we were told (in the US) to not flush the toilet after peeing. --We also were told that driving at 55mph was the optimum, most fuel efficient speed for all vehicles under all circumstances. --In the 2000's, my kids were urged to watchdog our family so that we didn't leave the tap on for more than 10 seconds while brushing our teeth. --In the 2010's, light bulbs that emit warm tones of light were apparently outlawed to save energy. I could see cold water becoming a thing.
by KronisLV | 2025-05-07 14:30:57+00:00
Compared to most UI dark patterns and scummy tactics to get you to "consent" (actually tricking you into agreeing, because nobody can't be bothered to jump through like a bunch of legalese and dialogs), them just giving you that choice of straight up paying feels better.

Not really interested in their services, but at least that sort of payment would let me expect less trickery in the future.

> Critics of this consent model have called it "pay-or-okay", claiming that the monthly fee is disproportional and that users are not able to withdraw their consent to tracking as easily as it is given, which the GDPR requires. Massimiliano Gelmi, a data protection lawyer at NOYB, has stated that "The law is clear, withdrawing consent must be as easy as giving it in the first place. It is painfully obvious that paying €251,88 per year to withdraw consent is not as easy as clicking an 'Okay' button to accept the tracking."

Under this model, you'd just have to refuse service to everyone who doesn't pay (killing your platform) or let people partake in your platform with no revenue off of them (killing your platform). Neither seems reasonable from the perspective of that business? Are they just supposed to find other ways of monetizing their users or perish then?
by arp242 | 2025-05-07 14:31:01+00:00
But businesses aren't run that way, so whatever some abstract theorist like Walter Block may say is not really relevant for the day-to-day reality of things.

And I've seen "anything market-rational is also moral"-shaped argument many times: on HN, in newspapers, company responses to criticism, pretty much any time someone defends crypto's negative effects.
by getnormality | 2025-05-07 14:31:27+00:00
I think these points resonate most with a worldview where college is just a status competition, where it doesn't matter if you actually learn anything.

By analogy, we could replace the human players of a sport with identical robots and it would level the playing field, but it would also completely defeat the purpose of sport. It is an activity done by humans for the benefit and enjoyment of humans.

Rich students have long cheated themselves out of an education by using expensive tutors to do their homework. Now that's available to everyone, yes, and that somewhat levels the playing field, yes, but it's not a good thing if you care about education. It's more like, narcotics used to be only for rich people, but now we have powerful cheap ones that everyone can get easily.
by samuelklam | 2025-05-07 14:31:32+00:00
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by anuraj | 2025-05-07 14:31:36+00:00
Neither India nor Pakistan can sustain a conventional war for more than 2 weeks, as they do not have sufficient armaments. Both sides also lack an effective defence against short-range missiles and drones. If the situation deteriorates, it can quickly lead to nuclear war as nonrational actors are present on both sides. I hope this situation does not escalate further. Please note that in a conventional war, economic costs of India would far outweigh those of Pakistan, whose economy is much smaller.
by yogurt-male | 2025-05-07 14:31:40+00:00
Okay, let me be more clear. The contempt I display is not "ignorant contempt". It's rooted in years of experience. How could my comments possibly be interpreted as me thinking I'm being magnanimous? I very clearly expressed my sympathy with the liberal attitude toward the people in these states.

You're making quite a lot of assumptions about my experience, none of which is really correct. I wasn't openly hostile to these "antebellum plantation families", but I avoided them as much as possible. Most of my friends were from other liberal-leaning families.

Many of the people I spent time with were poor whites. I wasn't ever beat up by a poor white kid, and I wasn't afraid of any black kids. If I consider the political leanings of the white kids I knew, I didn't notice much difference in prejudice based on social class. So again, denying my experience just because you're mad (I assume?) that your segment of society is being painted with a certain brush. And imagining all sorts of things about my life to dismiss my attitude to boot.

Is what I wrote earlier unfair to you? Yes, probably (so are your replies to me). But I'm not talking about you. I'm talking about what I experienced, and that crosses boundaries of social class, despite your implication that it doesn't.
by evanjrowley | 2025-05-07 14:31:50+00:00
Multiple comments here state that AI eliminates the need for Semantic web tech, and I can understand that perspective, but it's also a narrow way of interpreting the question. While LLMs produce great results without relying on semantic relationships, they could also be used to build semantic relationships. There's probably applications there worth exploring. For example, if a general-purpose LLM can build a semantic dataset for solving specialized problems, then might that approach be more efficient versus training a specialized LLM?
by wisty | 2025-05-07 14:32:15+00:00
So the schools are doing their job properly, instead of relying on upper-middle-class native English speaking parents to do all the work. It is impressive.

I think it's partly because political conservatives are more often right when it comes to education, because they don't listen to the experts and just demand boring conservative things like phonics, learning the times tables, learning facts, and other stuff that "doesn't really teach you how to think".

Just have a look at what the Harvard Education Review thinks is important - https://meridian.allenpress.com/her - no that's not a parody site by someone who uses the word "woke" without scare quotes.

Progressives listen to experts, and the experts in education are often a bit ... scientifically lightweight. Teachers are not all brilliant at scientific research (nor do they need to be, and expecting every teacher to be a scientific researcher would drastically limit the talent pool, or require a very significant salary bump to get more candidates), so universities need to cater to the lowest common denominator, which makes teaching degrees mostly a course in using education jargon to write persuasive essays.

If you have scientifically lightweight uni courses, you tend to get a lot of scientifically lightweight researchers, who are far better at writing a persuasive essay than actually looking at evidence. And with a critical mass of lightweights, they don't really want education to move into a more scientific or evidence based footing, because then their own influence and maybe even careers will be harmed. Yes, there's good education researchers, but most of them work in Psychology departments, not Education departments. Or special education, which is a bastion of sound evidence based practice, for some reason, probably because like teachers in red states they actually need to do their jobs properly, and can't just rely on demographics to do all the hard work.