skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Some of this article reads like a criticism of people's second-hand impressions of the books. Their poverty and Pa's poor decisions that made it worse are right there in the books, they're just told from the perspective of a child who loves her father and doesn't know a different life.

Whether the real-life Laura is like the one in the book is kind of interesting, I guess, but anyone who didn't pick up on how poor they were and how little success they had at farming from the books was reading them superficially.
This is no different from finding the solutions on wikipedia, or any of a thousand other websites. People that want to cheat will do so, and they might even be correct in a completely selfish sense.
> is the purpose of the course to measure the student or to teach the student?

The very basis of the scientific method is measurement. If you can not measure your learning progress, how are you to know if your training methods are adequate or failing?

I really don't understand this idea that testing and measuring students is a problem. Even the dreaded "teaching to the test", sounds like a good idea. If doing so would somehow exclude important learning, that just identifies an area where the testing needs to be improved.
Nominal versus Actual: A History of the 2x4
No one can explain why AGI is impossible because you can't prove a negative. But so far there is still no clear path to a solution. We can't be confident that we're on the right track towards human-level intelligence until we can build something roughly equivalent to, let's say, a reptile brain (or pick some other similar target if you prefer).

If you have an idea for a technical approach then go ahead and build it. See what happens.
And they take all the rights to your ideas if you upload stuff there so you get 0 if it's produced.
The reaction is always bigger than the original action. The physics of culture.

I sometimes wonder if we're hard wired to overreact to heterodoxy. Like maybe that's how early humans managed to have social groups larger than a dozen. Chaos ensues if everyone's running off in different directions.
I agree somewhat that the article seems more structured around “managing risk is important”, rather than talking about concrete actions.

But the idea of paying people more to work on issues to mitigate risk is very valid. Lots of people are working on climate change, it’s true, but it’s not hard to imagine a world where we subsidize that sort of work (assuming a reasonable qualification process), and the result is more people working on the solution.

To put another way - if fewer people were working on it, would it take less, more, or the same amount of time? Presumably there is some optimal range where enough smart people are working on a problem to speed things up, but not enough to where there’s a lot of wasted make-work.

To the last point, there are always going to be risks that we, individually or collectively, can’t do anything about- nuclear war over Taiwan being one of those. Our inability to influence those risks does not obviate the opportunity to mitigate others.
> Proof of Stake systems (of which they are many in the market already like Solana, Avalanche, etc) are considered more secure because the likelihood of a 51% attack is much lower. I don’t plan to lay out the argument here, but suffice it to say that Ethereum is moving to a consensus mechanism that many consider to be more resistant to attack, making it even more secure than it has been.

I don't think so. At best, we can say that the attack surface will have changed. How it has changed will unfold. But to claim that POS is "more resistant to attack" is complete rubbish and a sign the author is clueless about the technological ramifications.

It's kind of like saying that traveling 2 miles below the ocean's surface by submarine is safer than traveling by car because you can't get hit by a drunk driver.
Well, most of my recent computers don't have an option for keyboards that's not USB. But a system with no inputs is probably the most secure you can get.

You can also hotglue unused ports and physically prevent unplugging the intended devices. But that's not realistic for most systems.
You Americans, as opposed to blaming logicalmonster for all the misery. And while there are differences between states, none of them have anything close to western European countries.

As for homeless people, you can't tell that someone is homeless just by looking at them. Your personal statistic include only those very visible people who in addition to being homeless have tattered clothes and are incapable of personal hygiene. The majority look like ordinary people.
can you say more about that?
Until recently, learning Haskell for solving "real-world" problems is not at all easy. But there are now a lot more resources that one can consult.

I think it is highly rewarding to learn to program in Haskell. It offers you another perspective of approaching a computational problem and has a great ecosystem for many applications. And if you ever want to get into theorem-proving with Coq or Agda, knowing Haskell is a huge bonus.

My suggested learning path is as follows:
1. Read Get Programming with Haskell and do the Haskell MOOC at https://haskell.mooc.fi/ at the same time.
2. Read sections in Haskell Programming from First Principles not covered in 1.
3. Read Haskell in Depth.

Many years ago, I tried to learn Haskell from Haskell Programming from First Principles but couldn't get to the point I could write meaningful applications. I gave up after about a year. Early this year, I completed the Haskell MOOC and read most of Haskell in Depth and now I have a much better command of the language. And doing exercises on CodeWars, Hackerrank, and Exercism really help.

I would advise ignoring both the glowing praises and scathing criticisms. Learn it well enough and form your own judgement, assuming of course that you have time to do so.
I learned about this at Homestar Runner's totally not cult-like Life Cleanse seminar! https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=WFu-GaktLu8
> Just in time for the state to declare bankruptcy again!

The state has not declared bankruptcy (because it legally can't), not has it repudiated it's debts without bankruptcy (which it also legally can't), so I'm not sure what your point is.
As a former moderator of r/unixporn (I went by u/fps_co1ncidence) and a longtime ricer of all types of Linux WMs/DEs, I can most confidentially assure you that there is nothing futuristic about what goes on there, just a lot of pointless tinkering and dotfile copy pasting.

The macOS experience is exponentially more polished and Apple will have to screw up phenomenally even from their current position to feel any threat from the FOSS community.
I wasn't allowed to have a calculator until I was around 10 or 12 years old. I didn't like it at the time but now I'm quite happy about it.
If you want pioneer stories without any Ayn Rand sprinkled on top, try Willa Cather.
> The point was never to make capital gains on the Bitcoin investment.

If your personal assertion was true then why did they picked Bitcoin over any of the myriad of better options already available in crypto?
I was just thinking about this yesterday. Humans get stuff wrong way more than right. Our savior is being able to (most of the time) see when we are wrong and how to find out why. I think that is an important part of AGI.
Please, no more electric crap in Lego sets. Let today's kids use their imagination like we did.
cake: C23 compiler frond end written from scratch in C
> Among them, there is evidence that Laura often exhibited a quick temper.

> Laura hated wearing sunbonnets and yearned keenly for beautiful, stylish dresses.

Oh no! What a monster! Cancel her NOW.

> Neither Charles and Caroline Ingalls, nor Almanzo and Laura Wilder, could manage to make the promise of free land come true. Never did they ever make a living wage solely from farming.

Even worse! She sold lots of innocent little girls a dream they could never have. The criminal.

Farming is a dream. Sometimes it works out; sometimes it doesn't. I'd rather have a population of dreamers than a population of soulless drones.
Art is that deep, and moreso in some areas than others. Star Wars and centuries of faith based paintings have rich meaning imbued into the end product. All the star wars clones that dropped the meaningful parts didn't succeed.

There's a whole class of landscape and still life paintings which have mundane subjects that express geometry in deep, layered technique. The clues in how it was constructed and are there if you look for them. The appreciation of which can change a painting you thought was 10% interesting on first glance into 110% interesting with a deeper insight.

I agree though, painting what you see is a great way to suceed now.
Instapaper, once read I can put articles into archive or delete.
I can imagine that this could be a way to adjust the effect as needed.

Windows has built-in color filters already but to my knowledge it does not allow to customize them, though. Open this in the run dialog (Win+R) to directly open to the appropriate settings page: ms-settings:easeofaccess-colorfilter
Quick question, for personal file storage, such as family photos, would zstd be preferable now to, say, tar.gz?
You're an admin. No one's going to take a second look at your
toe-stepping pet project.
Too bad the flag doesn't come with detection for this environmental condition and then coordinate accordingly across processes.
Are comments supposed to be funny?
I don’t work at Lego. I have no beef with Lego. I enjoy Lego.

I’m talking more about the origination of companies.

An acquisition of one engineer to go lead a new program at a major company is just not realistic.
… until you put a sticker on it.

Lego structures are largely composed of general-purpose blocks, but many kits also includes some special-purpose ones as well (or specialization through stickers)
Another one also related to that:

https://unherd.com/2022/06/the-myth-of-american-conservatism...
he meant the loader, not the linker.
ld.so is the most famous example, esp. for ldd
The browser is the pipe between enterprises and users on the web.

You might want an advertising company to have unilateral control over the shape of that pipe, but some of us feel more comfortable knowing there’s a viable alternative with competing priorities.
> this is information that you're going to need if you actually want to go into the field and if you're using copilot here you are damaging yourself in the long run

When you say into the field, do you mean academia or industry?

Because the things copilot does for you are absolutely not the things you need to know yourself to be in industry. They're, for the most part, things we tried to put in libraries (or more ideally language standard libraries for a lot of things).

The fact that is solves a lot of interview questions just means our interview process was absolutely garbage.

And I'm skeptical of the academic side of this as well. It sounds like professors from the early 60s being annoyed that students have compilers (another tool that saves a ton of work and repetition). Y'all are forgetting that this is the ultimate lazy man's field. This isn't the first time the basics have been swept away and replaced with something easier to work with (and hopefully won't be the last).
I hope you realize what you do is extremely uncommon and that "the people" don't want the web to be like that where there is no styling, no images, no videos, limited interactivity, etc.
You're right, that a pretty good approach anyway. Teach your whole course in a fake language or on a fake machine like MMIX.
Interesting, so this is a problem if 66% or more decide to reject a transaction. How many blocks are currently signed by solo miners in PoW? Almost all blocks are signed by pools which looks like the PoS committees in practice yo my naive eyes. A miner with 0.1% hash power would probably be a very long delay.

I do agree this is probably the most concerning thing that Tornado Cash sanctions have shown us. Still don’t think the energy cost of PoW is worth it, and would rather see PBS and crList solve this problem.

https://notes.ethereum.org/@fradamt/H1ZqdtrBF
personally I'm still most excited about numenta.
The reverse mode has famously been re-discovered (or re-applied) many times, for example as backpropagation in ML, and as AAD in finance (to compute "Greeks", ie partial derivatives of the value of a product wrt many inputs).

A few resources here:

An overview, with a bias towards finance:
https://informaconnect.com/a-brief-introduction-to-automatic...

On the history: Andreas Griewank, Who Invented the Reverse Mode of Differentiation? https://ftp.gwdg.de/pub/misc/EMIS/journals/DMJDMV/vol-ismp/5...

On the history of back propagation: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Backpropagation#History

The article that introduced it to finance: Michael Giles and Paul Glasserman, Smoking adjoints: fast Monte Carlo Greeks https://www0.gsb.columbia.edu/faculty/pglasserman/Other/Risk...

Survey of the application in finance: Cristian Homescu, Adjoints and Automatic (Algorithmic) Differentiation in Computational Finance https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1828503
As for the property, check your contract, your employer may own anything you do in your free time already. And also check with an attorney in your state, such contractual obligations may be invalid by local laws.

As for yourself, you have an important decision to make. Are you a wolf or a sheep?
Please open up a thread on ElixirForum about template inheritance and CC me. If you include Python examples, I can help translate them to function components. :)
Mass-produced education is like a train, once you fall off you'll get hurt trying to get back on. I've come to the realization that given the inhumane pace, difficult and poorly-taught curriculum, and ambiguous/out-of-scope homework assignments in a top-tier university's CS program, the majority of my university classes were either not worth taking, or I'd be better off self-studying if I found an intrinsically rewarding project (definitely less panic attacks and psychological trauma, sometimes even similar or deeper learning). Perhaps I'd have a better time in a less prestigious university that doesn't see its purpose as weeding out and breaking lesser students.
…a good answer from an odious twerp.
You present a problem with Proof of Stake as an inevitable run in with the law and/or some folly of the crypto community. That's not very sound logic.

I personally believe in apolitical decentralized money winning against fiat which is governed on the whims of central bankers and crony capitalism. Every system where technology brings fairness, power to all, and hard rules wins. This will not be an exception. It is the separation of money and state, not very dissimilar from church and state, monarchy and nationhood etc.
I5 doesn’t go through the Bay Area.
I don’t know. For me personally if I were building something like this for 50 years, I’d be thinking about its fate in 1000 years. Someone will dig this up long after it’s forgotten, and that person/group will experience this art anew, in a completely different way people experience it today. Perhaps that’s part of the intention?

We see how much delight people take in speculating about Nazca lines. As an artist creating a work like this, I might intend to cause that speculative delight for future generations. Maybe in 1000 years people will flock from around the world to see it because of how mysterious it is.
I can't see it as anything other than a top-down, epilepsy-inducing brawler with some pseudo-rpg elements.
Photos generally won't get much compression anyways since the image data is already compressed. However in general yes, zstd is almost always preferable to gzip these days.
It's specific to ELF.
> there most certainly were not different races

There are loads of counterexamples, see e.g. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/newsbeat-52939694

> and certainly no other religions.

Martin Luther would disagree.
School assignments are so different from the dynamics of a real workplace that I find this point very moot. Always hated them with a passion, but otoh I always enjoyed team math and programming competitions, situations where you have to do stuff that's actually hard, work with people you actually respect and trust them to do their job.
Highly-paid jobs? Would be good to hear some examples.
2020 :(
Where Slack differentiated itself in practice is in eliminating separation of concerns in a manner which resolves moral hazard to the benefit of the platform provider. Granted, they've continued to pivot since then.

TLDR: Friction around a user having and controlling multiple identities.

In collaboration platforms (email, chat, web sites) the user typically controls and administers the client; crucially and inescapably the user may select a client which conforms to the underlying protocols, and this includes clients which support multiple personas and intermediation of the visibility of those personas to each other.

Utimately, through a variety of self-organizing mechanisms this gives rise to: work and personal email; chat personas; throwaway HN accounts. It also produces its own sorts of frictions / countermeasures: surveillance capitalism / surreptitious device tracking; the tension about work apps installed on personal devices; Uber spying on their competitors' businesses via drivers' phones.
You lose all leverage until you have market power.

E.g. https://brickset.com/article/47293/the-lego-group-acquires-b...
If I ask Siri what song is playing, it doesn't say "thanks to Shazam" or something. It's already folded in to Siri to quite the degree. As the personal assistant war heats up, the drive to make Shazam disappear and force users to use Siri will become too strong to ignore.

ERGO I am surprised that they put out a PR about it.
I really would like to learn Rota's thoughts on Arnold's book on ODEs. I love that book, but I cannot recommend it easily since it has little overlap with our undergraduate curriculum DE course (in a physics department).
This is a bit more complicated, it is not really metabolized but it does have a big impact because it is absorbed by the gut and also change bacterial populations... https://academic.oup.com/advances/article/10/suppl_1/S31/530...
"Just save it.
Artificial Intelligence
takes care of the rest."

I find this incredibly off-putting.
I'm temporally leaving my degree on Telco/EE due to this. I have passed and done well in all the subjects but those "memory-heavy" math, and that's what I have left.

We have to memorize a lot of information without the explanation about why is done in that way (due to the lack of time in those subjects), and also we are more encouraged to study how previous year's exam were made than the content itself. This one of the big reasons only 10% to 15% (IIRC) of the enrolled students pass those exams every year.

That scene, knowing that I have to do a task that is time consuming, pretty hard, artificial, and useless for the rest of my academic life, my work life, or my life in general, is what made me leaving this year. I don't have enough mental health to do such a big thing.

PS: Sorry for the rant. I'm having too much time at home due to COVID and maybe wrote too much.
The pro-homesteader propaganda of the day might reveal a lot. Also we might look at the alternatives to homesteading.

Today's crazy is yesterday's contextually-appropriate levelheadedness.
They all signal that you don’t belong to some group because you don’t behave according to some arbitrary norms the group made up for this very purpose.

Indeed, and we all do it. vi-vs-emacs or tabs-vs-spaces (or bsd-vs-linux, apple-vs-microsoft) aren't any less arbitrary than the other groups you mentioned.
> I mean, they're delusional, but I understand the mindset for cheating.

Parental (other similar) pressure can indeed be quite strong. Absent of that pressure they wouldn't be there in the first place, so perhaps it is not so much being delusional as a rational response to their environment? If they cheat their way through the parents are happy and then they can return to the life they otherwise would have lived. The time lost is unfortunate in some respects, but at the same time if you're cheating, the time investment likely isn't that great and an acceptable cost given the circumstances.

> the kind of shit that makes every faculty member angry

I find it curious that the customer using the product in an unintended way would be upsetting to the vendor. What drives such emotions? In my businesses, I couldn't care less how the customer uses my product. If they're happy, I'm happy.
People don’t need incentives to learn about technologies that solve real problems though. I saw the value in Macs, for example, without ever buying Apple shares, I use AWS without owning Amazon, I learned about Linux without profiting from its spread, etc.

Update: My point is simply that if “most knowledgeable people in the space probably have large holdings” as was claimed, this is arguably an indictment of the technology under discussion here. Useful technologies tend to have enthusiasts with no direct financial stake in their success. The fact that people happen to invest in tech companies and do well, or that many have indirect financial incentives to embrace tech, is orthogonal to my point. It is weird if a given tech is entirely or largely carried by people directly invested in it. It raises questions of whether it is generally useful. People who want Fred to front load his disclaimer are probably thinking by along these lines.
Some courses really are required bullshit to some students. A lot of professors don't realize this, but if you teach a required course, it is simple math to say that some of your students just don't need to learn what you are teaching. Sure, a lot of students do need it but don't think they do, but a good fraction of the class does not need to learn the content you are teaching.

The only remaining question is how to engage these people. I have seen good approaches to that problem and really, really terrible approaches, and it seems that most professors go for the terrible approaches. Unfortunately, engaging people who don't want to be there is a lot harder than just having a bunch of required tests.

These students are not all wrong that some courses are BS hoops to jump through. Meet them in the middle. Teach them something.
Facile! What differentiates "work related communication"?
Phoenix is actually quite small if you look at the source and patterns. It would be interesting to compare to other frameworks. We get a lot for free from the platform, so even if you include Phoenix pubsub the feature set for size of the framework is going to be unmatched because of the process model and distributed runtime. Here’s an entire Phoenix app in 50 LOC https://gist.github.com/Gazler/b4e92e9ab7527c7e326f19856f8a9...