skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The right-wing purpose of home-schooling is to get away from the religious indoctrination in public schools

Not even close. https://www.texastribune.org/2022/08/18/texas-schools-in-god... https://www.npr.org/2022/06/27/1106290141/supreme-court-high...

Their purpose is to get away from the political indoctrination in public schools. And honestly, considering how much of what's taught in school about our government and society just isn't true... I don't blame 'em.

(To be fair, a lot of them would probably try and get away from religious indoctrination if it weren't Christian.)

> And their support of school choice means elite schools for everybody, instead of just the rich, which is the status quo.

How do you figure that? The well-off are still the only people who will be able to afford the best education, because the reality is the amount of money you spend on education is highly correlated with the success of that education. The only thing it will do for the rest is take those with plenty of money out of the public school's tax base, decreasing the quality of education there even further.
I haven't gotten to try it for myself, but I've read a few of these blogs that take you through generating examples or even look-alikes to older art pieces.

It surprisingly reminds me a lot of when I traveled to Japan without knowing really any Japanese. I needed to communicate not only with friends who don't know much English either, but also other people (like restaurant wait staff, train station staff, etc.).

I used Google Translate often, but many times I or my friend(s) (or the other people) would need to re-write our statements a few times until the translation result clicked well enough in each other's languages to be understandable.
Do it in stages. Chop the text up into sections (using GPT-3 if you have to) and then summarize each page/section/chapter in isolation. Then concatenate the summarizations and summarize again. 2048 tokens is like >5KB of text — it’s not that limiting.
This is a jerk response. They were not bragging about being smart.
That sounds very much like a conveniently right-wing potted history. I'd be willing to bet the truth is rather more subtle*. Either way, they were both examples of economies that only got off the ground because of massive government spending.

(*) a quick read of a wikipedia article about the Japanese economic miracle - which undoubtedly you'll consider leftist propaganda - certainly confirms this. At best relaxing anti-monopoly laws was an example of legislation reform that helped further boost the already impressive recovery that had occurred during the 50s.
The story is egregiously wrong.

In terms of track gauge (the distance between the two rails), the most common gauge nowadays is standard gauge, 4'8½" or 1435mm. This gauge was chosen by George Stephenson, who developed the first practical locomotive--and having developed the first practical locomotive, he was a strong influence on a lot of early railroad engineering choices. But standard gauge was far from standard--in the early 1800s, every railway chose its own gauge and gauge incompatibility was the norm. As the railway networks grew and interconnection was more important, there was a push to unifying on gauges, and even large networks of different gauges switched in the names of efficiency (the southern US, then on 5' gauge, switched over 11,000 mi on track on May 31, 1886).

As for why 4'8½" was favored over other gauges... well, it wasn't. Stephenson appears to have relied on compatibility with wagonways of the coal mines he worked with. But there was equally no standardization of widths there as there was with early railroad gauges--you end up with track gauges that range about 4'-6'. And from the operations of railroads, it does seem that optimal track gauge is around 5' anyways. So the real reason for 4'8½" gauge isn't "that's the width of two horse butts", it's "that's a reasonable gauge for putting a wagon on rails."

But, to be honest, none of that discussion actually matters. You see, what matters for the SSRBs is not the track gauge, it's the loading gauge--that's what determines the dimensions of stuff you stick on cars. Loading gauge is far less standardized than standard gauge--whereas the US, Europe, and the UK all share the same standard gauge, they have wildly different loading gauges. Whereas the US standardized on a 10'8" loading gauge, Europe generally runs on 10'4", and UK on a paltry 9'6".

Finally, if you look at the dimensions of the space shuttle's booster rockets, they are ~12'2" in diameter. Recall that the standard US loading gauge is 10'8"--a foot and a half shorter than their diameter. So clearly the booster isn't even based on the standard-shape-of-a-railroad car, although that doesn't preclude it from being based on the actual practicable loading gauge of any route.

Still, the last line ("The tunnel is slightly wider than the railroad track, and the railroad track, as you now know, is about as wide as two horses' behinds.") is complete and utter hogwash. The tunnel (I'm guessing Moffat Tunnel?) is probably about 13' wide, which is... a far cry from "slightly wider" than the railroad track at 4'8½".
I was told I couldn't test out of calculus (university didn't recognize IB calc), but course prerequisites were easy to get around so I just started registering for higher level math classes. My junior year I went to my advisor and he happily waived the calc requirements.
This is good advice to be taken sparingly. I went through the US Navy Nuclear program in which "no speed limit" was taken for granted. I never stopped operating that way until, one day, I had a mental health breakdown (I lasted about ten years). It took two years of therapy to deprogram that mentality from my mind.

So yes, it can get you far, but there is a cost to be considered if you don't keep it under control.
Bitcoin effectively invented, completely from scratch with no precedents I'm aware of, a probabilistic Atomic Total-Order Broadcast algorithm, that's a pretty damn advanced Distributed Systems problem to me, and a solution that was never investigated in Distributed Systems orthodox literature before it as far as I know. So, in no way "really well known".

And public-private crypto & hash pointer data structures are both fairly advanced CS from multiple fields. Public Key Crypto was discovered in the late 1970s and only further explored in the 1980s, hash data structures only in the 1980s and 1990s. That's fairly young, most vanilla CS ideas date from the 1960s or before. Just because the public APIs of those things can be explained in an afternoon doesn't mean at all that they aren't advanced concepts: I can explain what a hydrogen bomb does to a 10 year old, but that wouldn't imply the Hbomb isn't advanced nuclear physics.
I self host wallabag with browser extensions and an app on my phone.
Great article and interesting story. The combination of innate talent plus a beneficient one-on-one tutor can have remarkable results and it's really too bad this historically important form of education isn't more widely supported.

A case example is Leonard Euler, one of the most significant mathematicians in human history by any measure:

> "Euler’s interest in mathematics stemmed from his childhood when his father would teach him the subject. As luck would have it, Johann Bernoulli, Europe’s foremost mathematician of his time, was a friend of Leonhard’s father and the influence of this great mathematician on the young Leonhard was immense. Euler’s father wanted to prepare him for a career in theology and it was Bernoulli who persuaded his friend to let the boy study mathematics."

https://www.thefamouspeople.com/profiles/leonhard-euler-biog...

However, education for the masses is also important and there's just not enough expert tutors to go around for the one-on-one approach. It's also true that the combination of innate talent and motivation isn't necessarily all that common, or easy to identify. Notice how this tutor had a selection system in place? I.e. not many people showed up for the offer.

That's where the 'gifted and talented' programs have tried to pick up the slack in public education, with mixed results. Unfortunately, more often than not, teachers feel threatened by such students... not that high-quality teachers capable of tutoring such students (notice the low pay) end up being recruited by our public education system all that often.
Without an Issue tracker on the GH fork it will be hard to add ideas.

I would add: removing Unicode identifiers, because identifiers are meant to be identifiable.
Auto-correct will make even the most well written posters appear to have room temperature IQ.
Germany and Japan have had reputations as being somewhat bureaucractic for decades though, which says to me war had no lasting impact, if any at all. I.e. a very expensive way to achieve nothing.
Ah, yes, GNOME simplicity: feature-poor, but hard depends on a complex tangle of bloated RedHatWare.
No, not surprising at all. In my time at the YMCA (in non-homeschool areas), I often found that new kids were not used to talking with adults, like me--their "group leader." At home, mostly they ate dinner and went to bed. At school, you just don't get one-on-one time, especially just to chat about yourself or off-curriculum topics.
Any article I find on HN and similar sites is bookmarked into a folder called “Inbox”.

I then use my phone’s browser reading mode to read through that inbox. And rebookmark into the appropriate folder or forget about it.

I consider this a productive use of my smartphone. I’ve definitely learned a lot by reading.

I am on iPhone but I’ve considered buying the Galaxy Fold so I could split screen browser and a notes app.
> ...USB controller chip alone is about $1...

That's for official parts and at lower quantities I presume. Knock off chips are often pennies, especially at scale. When I buy chips for side projects, I often just source them from ebay/alibaba where you can get them for ridiculously cheap prices. [1][2]

> ...it's still orders of magnitude more expensive than email based spam.

Relative to how much they drain from elderly folks retirement accounts, I think it's a logical investment for them given that existing scammer tactics are being made obsolete.

In any case, I just checked Alibaba and found several listings [3][4] that claim ≤50¢ at scale. They look rather professional and you could even brand a logo on them.

1 - https://www.ebay.com/itm/392526892417 (USB - Serial converter, NOT a USB drive IC)

2 - https://www.ebay.com/itm/392540419491 (power bank chip)

3 - https://www.alibaba.com/product-detail/Usb-Drive-Usb-Drive-L...

4 - https://www.alibaba.com/product-detail/Cheap-customized-Logo...
What the law is depends on the country, and I’m not familiar with Netherlands law, but this isn’t about structuring, because there isn’t bank reporting of Ethereum transactions. The parent is correct in some jurisdictions (like the U.S.) that merely hiding transactions isn’t money laundering.
Related:

There's no speed limit (2009) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3761013 - March 2012 (194 comments)

There's no speed limit (2009) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2766060 - July 2011 (25 comments)

There's no speed limit. (The lessons that changed my life.) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=970945 - Dec 2009 (60 comments)
It's not coding you should be quick at but finding a robust design, that doesn't need a lot of fixes or rework. It takes practice and experience and may not be as glamorous. Also takes an experienced boss to appreciate, but there are jobs for us.
Can you give an example of something that wouldn't work well if you did so? I've written code to talk to both sftp and s3 servers, the basics aren't that different...
I need to create a demo video. It basically rearranges your calendar anytime something important comes up that you need to take care. It makes sure the calendar stays in sync to your day without much context switching. It is adaptive time blocking to your priorities. There is also things like creating buffer before and after if you train it so events of similar context end up with prepare time and review time after. So no more continuously moving around your calendar every time something comes up.

It's secondary function is to properly fix and place tasks that you might sync from 3rd party apps like monday or clickup. Things that can be added are like color, duration along with time preferences and priority level for the schedule assist. Semantic search helps in copying over these values from a previous similar task or from a tag that has default values for these attributes (automatically using zero shot classification based pretrained model).

The $3.5 plan is not recommended for work calendars. It reorganizes all events into 30 minute parts when the scheduler runs and then joins them together before updating your calendar. You want the $6.50 one with 15 min accuracy to allow more flexibility. The $3.5 is for personal use cases.
"Hyperpersuasion", nice. Reminded me of Westworld Season 3 and Serac, FYI : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SSRZfDL4874
I think they're the most socially adept kids when speaking with adults, and the most socially inept when hanging with other kids, particularly medium-to-large groups. On average. I knew plenty of them who didn't fit the mold.
I have never managed to finish a single essay from this gentleman. My loss, I guess.
I don't really doubt that, and that's why I'm glad software in general places much less emphasis on licensing than other industries.
This is basically what I did. The only complication were "quizes" which were just completion marks but at random times. So I would skip 4-5 classes after each quiz then come to classes and so personal programming in the back until the next quiz landed.
When I was in college I needed to take two classes, one of which was a prerequisite for the other, within semester to graduate on time. The CS advisors adamantly refused to add me to higher level class because I was missing the prerequisite class. Furthermore, the classes were taught at the same time to prevent people from taking them in the same semester, for some reason.

I talked to the more friendly advisors in the Philosophy department, who also had the ability to add and drop students from classes, and got them to add me to both classes I needed. I persuaded them not to worry about the overlap. I completed the semester by attending the higher level class except for exam days (I had to get a special dispensation to take one final early because their final exams were scheduled at the same time).

My point with this anecdote is that sometimes more powerful people try to impose a speed limit and sometimes you can get around them.
I have a hard copy of the book though. I couldn't really read, maybe I didn't try harder. English is not my native language.

TLDR; Will get the text, tokenize the words, index against a standard dictionary, go on from there.
i can only sleep on my side. you get used to tucking your chin in as is described in the article pretty quickly
It kinda looks like Parallels. I can see using it to trial funky operating systems? Before Steam, I'd have said it could be useful for playing windows games on Linux, but these days everything I want to play just seems to work.
There isn't any MMIX machine code in Copilot's training corpus.
That's a premise of Kim Stanley Robinson's book Ministry for the Future.

Financially the process might create real returns. Thermodynamically, however, it's still a losing game. It's costing you more in energy to remove the carbon than you gain energetically by creating it in the first place.
A misleading title. Just a list of 100 books published by 1999, mostly explaining science to the general public--although there are some major scientific works.
We’ll get worked up and squeezed out like tubes of toothpaste.
PoW software that does no work? More likely Ethereum is about to fork and big question will be does the market value of ETHpow really go to zero quickly.
It is too similar to last.fm.
I really enjoyed this interview [1] with Emad Mostaque who I gather is probably the key funding and organization player in that stuff. It remains to be seen exactly how "open" it winds up playing out over time, but they're talking a compelling game and the EleutherAI people seem to be pretty heavily involved, which you probably wouldn't do if you weren't serious.

Yandex has also put up a ~100B language model [2]. My old colleagues at Meta have also started nibbling around the edges of opening some of this stuff up [3]. The Meta folks still aren't just handing out the big ones, but they're definitely moving the ball forward. In particular their release of the training logs is a really positive development IMHO as it opens the curtains a bit on the reality of training these things: it's a difficult, error/failure-prone process, there's a lot of trial-and-error, restarting from checkpoints, etc.

Anything that puts downward pressure on the magical thinking is A-OK in my book. The reality of this stuff is exciting/impressive enough: there's no need to embellish or exaggerate.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YQ2QtKcK2dA
[2] https://github.com/yandex/YaLM-100B
[3] https://github.com/facebookresearch/metaseq
I don't think this is really worth the read. If you're going to write a piece specifically as a takedown of a viewpoint, in this case, the view that AI risk is real and should be taken seriously, it's worth at mentioning your opponents finer points. There are lots of very brilliant PhD's who've spent their careers working on AI risk, to not even mention any of their arguments makes me feel as if the author is trying to argue against his own idea of what people mean by AI risk, instead reducing the entire idea to his own nomenclature of 'pseudo-traits'.

Reads a bit like an internet atheism blogpost of the early 2000s trying to take down religion through logic alone. Sure, through the specific parameters presented in the piece, the logic is sound, but there's so much more to the topic than what's covered. Presenting one's blogpost as if you've successfully individually debunked an entire field of research is a bit pompous, IMHO.
Autocorrect changes "Georgism" to "Georgian." I caught it the second time but missed the first.
Its not crazy, its actually means that they are going down the risk curve. When you create a rental / real estate company, does it really matter who is at the top?
These statements make no sense. One is a small and simple UI amd the other is deep technical issues with libvirt. The development of one has literally no overlap with your issues.
Start buying small businesses
actually sampling them and distributing them would be another matter entirely.

even public entities aren't always super carefree about their trademarks. Transport for London and New York's MTA are two public agencies that vigorously defend their trademarked and copyrighted design materials.
What effect will this have on its price?
I wasn’t expecting a “well, actually, screw happiness and satisfaction” response but here we are.
I tested out of multivariable calculus in college and to this day, it is one of my biggest regrets. My peers who took the course have an intuitive understanding of the material that I never developed. Sometimes there's a difference between learning on your own and working through the material with others.
University was a wonderful time that shaped me in many ways. Technically, because it gave me the time and freedom to branch out as much as I wanted, and socially because I had a fantastic time with friends I made there, at a time where I was still unencumbered by commitments.

Cutting that short would have been the last thing on my mind.
I started by talking to advisors and professors in the CS department, and they agreed that I should test out of intro programming classes.

The dean was a cruel man named Warren Harrison who accused me of trying to "game the system" and told me that they don't tolerate people like me here. I shared the story later--other people had similarly negative experiences with the guy.
Each group within a big company is different. See if you can find a group in your company that will be a better fit for you.
Vault supports reading secrets from a file when using Nomad.
Probably.

Also probably why the USA doesn't typically rank in the top 10 countries by quality of life metrics.
https://www.wa4e.com/lessons
It can get even more ridiculous as a transfer student.

I had to re-take two physics courses at a California State University school that would have otherwise transferred from a junior college due to minor catalog year changes. Ironically the JC physics courses both had labs (the usual stuff in Electricity & Magnetism, and a whole bunch of optics and slit diffraction fun in Modern Physics), while only the E&M lab remained at the four-year university. The Optics/Modern Physics prof from my retake also taught astronomy, and was still harboring a minor grudge against Neil deGrasse Tyson from some shared research work in the '80s.

Also couldn't test out of or otherwise apply transfer credits to freshman biology, and the subject matter was at about the same level as what I experienced in 7th-grade science at a rural public school.

Intro to CSCI was unavoidable, as my previous programming coursework was coded under MIS. The cherry on top was the professor pulling me aside after the first midterm, telling me "you could teach this, since you can't test out I'm just giving you an A for the whole course". Despite this I still attended his rambling lectures, and found that he did actually manage to tie all of his tangents together rather like a call stack in human form.

On top of all of that, the transfer coursework that actually applied toward the degree that did surprise me were my technical training credits from the Community College of the Air Force. Ten units under law enforcement and field work actually took care of general education elective requirements - "Fundamentals of Ground Combat" was rather amusing to see on the graduation transcript.
I agree, I just disabled it today. I'd say 3 out of 10 times it produced a good result. Most of the time the structure looked ok but the variable names were wrong, or the types were wrong, or it had logic issues.
Surprisingly, I thought it did great with autocompleting the comments. In Visual Studio, it would block function autocomplete which was really annoying also
The late 60s (and especially 1969) was just a very great time for music, perhaps because the boomers were coming of age, but anyone of any gen can enjoy it. The only time in my life that competes, and even then not anywhere near as much, is the early 90s (incidentally, inspired a lot by the late 60s).
Elite schools for everybody? Hard to laugh hard enough at that. No. It doesn't mean that at all.

We were a lot better off when participation in the public schools was much higher. Draining resources from that system cripples it, and only a tiny minority can afford to send their kids to a quality school without it.
Work on something else on the side. Family, projects, relationships, honestly anything that gets you going. Your fang job is just one of many jobs you can have in life.
this for people learning things that have been already discovered and done. You can do it as slow or as fast as you want, because really you're just copying information to your mind.

Creating new things (research or art) is what takes time.
My first impression was: People who adopt a sleep posture as kids, develop the flexibility to maintain it as an adult. I don't know if I can twist my body into those shapes at my age today.
Not as many people develop (useful) social skills in school as you may think. It's a reason many, many people (in the US) have very negative experiences in high school and want to forget it.
Indeed it is a jerk response.

They were bragging that primary school is mostly busy work while ironically making a primary school mistake.
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