skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We have pretty good evidence since 2013 of bands of neolithic humans moving over really tremendous distances. There's good evidence in the Americas of people moving from the Great Lakes down to the Gulf and beyond. Once horses were domesticated in Eurasia, all bets are off and we see mass migration from the steppe through to all of Europe, India, Iran, the Horn of Africa, and other places. This didn't happen in a single life time, but people on horseback with carts really got around.
Yes I did forget but I'd suggest the transaction costs aren't significant when you hold 10+ years and are just another cost of living. If you rent you have to pay fewer transaction costs but you have rent rising so that has its own problems.
> After the initial phase of early adopters that offer generally high quality products, a flood of fake or low-quality listing tries to squeeze money out of the platform.

See "We become what we behold" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33273640 and https://ncase.me/trust/ from the first comment. A high trust society, or marketplace, is an opportunity for the defectors to extract value. Unless they can be punished somehow ...
Anybody familiar with the Improv / Quantrix spreadsheets that he claims is 5X - 10X more productive than Excel? What's so special about them? Has that functionality found its way into Excel at this point?
I would typically think not, unless you are staying somewhere for over half the year, you aren’t establishing residency anywhere and are typically on a tourist visa.
> Great writing can't be graded, as its value is entirely subjective.

Well... I have a lot of problems with this, on both sides of the fence.

Provocative start: How about we give up the idea that students are producing great work?

I mean, I imagine teachers think of the exercises they give as skills development.

One of the skills to develop is technical writing.

Surely beginning students do not know how to cite textual examples to back up their arguments. Understanding the role of evidence in making an argument should be fundamental to democracy. (Understanding that we are not living in that world recently in the US.) So they need to practice.

Choosing the theme is another skill. I don't have anything to say about it, but I don't have a problem with teachers asking students to try to figure something out before they write about it.
> surgeon (locum?)

Not surgeon specifically, it means 'contractor' effectively - in the UK at least doctors can pick up 'locum shifts' at other hospitals (or otherwise outside their contract, or do this exclusively) for a higher fee (hospital needs to fill a spot it's understaffed for).

From the Latin, as in 'locus parentis' (e.g. a teacher has a parent-like duty of care over their pupils while they're on school grounds) for similar example.
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I suggest you think of Nim as of a better Go - more ergonomic, easier to start being productive in, faster, giving more control if necessary (by descending into the unsafe territories of manual memory management, `emits` and such), more portable, suitable for workstations and embedded alike.

Zig is definitely not that. And I understand the description above misses the downsides of a small community and not the strongest ecosystem.
There's a neat trick I've seen teachers do to address the concern that regurgitation isn't learning (and it sort of mirrors the technique we use in machine learning): ask a follow-up question based on the essay.

A student that has done the underpinning research to generate the essay should be able to field a closely-related question, offered in realtime. If they can't, that's concerning.

(To be sure, some students will address this approach by having the machine auto-generate the essay than going off and reading around the answers the essay gives to understand the adjacent space to field the upcoming question. Good; that means they just used the machine as a "cliff's notes on the topic" generator, they still did some research).
I haven't been a teacher, but I have been a TA (while a grad student with a full course load) with a substantial weekly grading burden (e.g. 30 students' problem sets a week, with 10-15 problems each, for a class introducing concepts like formal proofs and basic number theory).

So I appreciate your point.

But I also remember being a student forced to churn out mindless formulaic essays with length and structure requirements. I hated it. I never liked writing until I finally had one good English teacher in high school who assigned and graded in the way you say is infeasible.

If a teacher doesn't have the bandwidth/capacity/skill/etc. to teach English well, maybe they should find something else to do instead of torturing students with mind-numbing assignments.
"So when Stability AI says we have to slow down just a little it's because if we don't deal with very reasonable feedback from society and our own communities then there is a chance open source AI simply won't exist..."

Yeah, you can stop pretending that the neutering is the right thing to do, clearly it's something you somehow are forced to do, due to some serious threat your received.
1. Assessment is only a small part of teaching. Often the smallest.

2. The pedagogical intervention depends heavily on whether the student is cheating or just FAR below grade-level.

3. the student likely won't be truthful.

4. Even if we assume the student will tell the truth, if they aren't using an LLM and you accuse them of doing so it's going to crush the student and make teaching that pupil close to impossible.

Teachers are teachers, not proctors.
> 50 students across two classes, each turning in one of these essays. How long are you going to spend on each one? 5 minutes? That's 4 hours of grading time. 15 minutes? 12 hours.

Teachers with fifty students shouldn’t be assigning essays. There is no way for them to read them, which means they’ll grade by scanning for key words. That destroys the pedagogical value of an essay, this post’s point.
Depends on your situation. For example, I bought a house and my mortgage+insurance+repair amortization is less than I'd pay for renting a similar sized apartment or home. I had to lock up 30k in my down payment, but I'm saving $500+ (probably closer to 1000) a month vs renting. That's equivalent to 6k a year, or >20% return on my investment.
WAAS is nice but dual-band receivers provide similar accuracy levels without needing to see that satellite. Ublox quotes on their ZED-F9P datasheet 1.5m accuracy for GPS+GLONASS+Galileo+BeiDou, increasing to 1m accuracy if using space-based augmentation (WAAS, EGNOSS, MSAS, GAGAN). Even without a SBAS, if you can do RTK, you can get 0.01m accuracy. (The corrections from a nearby reference station are even better than what you can get from a satellite.)

RTK is probably more available than people think. My state offers a public network of continuously-operating reference stations; you can sign up for a free account and then do whatever RTK madness you desire. https://cors.dot.ny.gov/ if you happen to be in New York.

(I realize now that I really wanted to reply to the person complaining about not being in North America, but oh well, maybe they'll find this.)
Geeze. How is "... Good." considered unacceptable clickbait, while:

- "Why I don't..."

- "... considered harmful."

- "... written in Rust!"

are so ubiquitous?
And a higher security feature set of security camera would have the followings:

- VLAN support

- MAC-layer encryption (802.1x)

- FOSS software

- Common Criteria compliant (logs remote accesses)

- TPM v2 (Linux Trouser)

- No remote firmware capability
I honestly hate oral exams. I had three for my master degree, in english (not my native language), in math-related courses. I underperformed them because of several reasons

- Pressure to actually talk and perform. In a written exam I can stop, look at the paper and take my time to actually start. In an oral exam I have the professor looking at me. Less time to actually think.

- It's harder to communicate orally with complex subjects than in written form. Add to that the extra cognitive load of not dealing with your native tongue.

- Time constraints on oral exams punish students that don't learn everything by memory but can reason in real-time. I didn't know by heart a certain proof, I know for sure I could have done it in a written exam with time to spare (it wouldn't have been the first time) but I wasn't quick enough for an oral one.

- Mental blocks are much harder in oral exams. Some times I blank out and forget something basic (e.g., the derivative of a logarithm). In a written exam I can stop, think, and solve it. In an oral exam, the "stopping" is already making you look like you don't know things, adding pressure that will make you underperform.

Written exams have been the norm for decades for a reason. Far easier to actually ask the things you want, they scale far more easily, easier to correct and grade, and easier for students to practice and perform well.
https://instadeq.com/blog/posts/no-code-history-lotus-improv...
I'm a copywriter. I've tested out several GPT-3-based services to see if they could speed up my workflow. None were up to my standards. I spent more time editing their semi-coherent output than it would have taken to just write the thing from scratch.

I have no doubt, though, that the day is quickly approaching when they will be of greater use and even threaten the livelihoods of people like me.
Depends. I could imagine wild reaction of Chinese families being essentially wiped out when their only sons will die in trying to to storm few but heavily fortified beaches of Taiwan. Could be recipe for another collapse of China.
Hmm, you can just create a torrent out of it. Either as a single file (impractical, but you can just avoid downloading it fully), or chunk it into multiple files.

You don't even need to store it all at once on your computer: stream it and generate checksums on the fly. Then distribute the torrent, and seed sections at a time. It can also be distributed on IPFS.

I've seen a lot of torrents being used for distributing neural network (mostly stable diffusion forks).
I don't know about others. I know a few doctors, like a friend who is an emergency physician.

He was hired after 1 hour long interview, and he could start next monday.
They could easily saturate the whole LEO where starlink operates with schrapnel - and any damaged sat would add more schrapnel, as described by the "Kessler syndrome".
I think this really depends on your specific university. At my university in Eastern Europe the teachers were bitter and overworked, and that really showed during oral examinations.

Because of the high number students enrolled in the classes, almost all oral exams also featured a written component, very similar to a regular exam. Because of the unstructured nature of oral exams, you would have an arbitrary amount of time to solve it. After that the professor would make you elaborate some of your anwsers, or not, depending how he felt like. The students who performed best were indeed very extroverted and able to convince the professor that they actually meant something other than what they wrote.

The professors also used these exams to give you an arbitrary grade for the subject, depending exclusively on your oral exam "performance". I remember having a high 90% grade in the written part of my Advanced Electronics class. The professor didn't feel I was confident enough in my answers during the oral exam, so he passed me with 1/30 points even though I answered most of the answers correct, thus bringing my grade down to barely a C.

Oral exams sound great in theory but in practice they always felt somewhere between unfair and traumatizing. I much prefer the objectivity of written exams.
Thanks for clarifying, changed the original post
Solution? End homework assignments and make students write in person.
Kotlin is so far pleasing for me. If you want to use it for backend dev then good news is it's officially supported in Spring.

Personally, I'm a mobile app dev, switched from Java to Kotlin a few years ago.

If you want to escape the JVM club, yep I think Go is a very popular route these days.
People seems to be focusing on college level work.

Isn't this going to also cause huge problems at the high school level? When teachers are dealing with large classrooms and a very limited amount of time spent in class, sentiments like "just learn to teach better" aren't going to be very helpful.
So glad to hear that ♥ it's such a strange feeling that is really hard to describe
Good ol hamburger format, never fails.
> Whatever I produced for the first prompt can be graded by ticking off boxes and looking at my grammar; whatever I produced for the second prompt would need a thorough investigation of my own writing style and a framework of grading that takes into account my own voice as an author.

The two prompts motivate the writer to practice two completely different skillsets; they're really not comparable.

The first one is focused more on the fundamentals of close reading and analysis. The writer needs to understand what the theme of "chaos" means, then closely read the novel or review their notes to identify literary devices or techniques that theme, and then tie it together in a "report". It requires the assignee to practice very basic skills... it's technical practice, not artistry.

The second prompt is the artistry - it's an assignment in discourse or rhetoric. The thing is, it's not possible to successfully execute the second prompt unless you've mastered the techniques from the first prompt. Beyond constructing logical or emotional arguments that may be tailored to your audience (your best friend), you still have to collect evidence from the novel. It might not be a list of literary devices, but if one of your arguments was that the book was poorly and confusingly written, you would still probably need to collect evidence of specific passages that support your claim. The whole point of the first prompt is to build the skill to do this, but with some hand-holding/constraints for practice.

I won't defend page limits, but even the reference style mandate is important because it has implications for how you actually write the essay. I deal with technical stakeholders all the time, and the amount of time that we could clear up issues if someone would just properly cite a reference can be ridiculous... perhaps those stakeholders were the teenagers who didn't bother to follow the citation guidelines for their literature class?
Humans be humans. Our bodies aren't inherently anything but human. Let's all grow up and normalize allowing being comfortable in any situation. If a human feels constrained by the clothes that they currently have then they should be able to be comfortable and not wear or wear whatever they want. Life is hard.
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I'll go further and ask "what if their 'voice' is just bad"? Just because I have a 'voice' doesn't mean it's necessarily good. Teaching students to be able to switch voices - some voices/styles are more appropriate for some types of communications than others. Recognizing these types, and being able to switch... that seems like it would be a thing to teach/learn. My early schooling was a long time ago, and I don't think I had the language to categorize all of this at that time, but I do have memories of doing this sort of stuff (mostly grades 6-8 where I had the same writing teacher, but later with various classes through grade 12).
Learning how to write is _really_ important.
I think an important part of this is the 'reasonable expectation of privacy', too.

From what I understand, recording video or audio outside in the public where there's no reasonable expectation of privacy is a-okay.

This may put the ring cameras in an interesting position. They're attached to your home, yes, but they're looking at the public street.
> I don’t think extrovert is necessarily correlated with skilled speaker.

My oldest is quite introverted but can somehow flip a switch internally and is excellent at public speaking. She's won a number of speech competitions and is far better at this sort of thing than I will ever be.
> want to see that a student has writing skills

This is a fine goal. Having “someone write, say, 8 pages” is not, it’s a task, and a tedious one at that. No good writer starts with a page goal. It’s a common criticism by great writer’s of bad publishers.
+100

When I write today, for work, the challenge is always to write less. My VP might have time to read two pages; he's almost certainly not going to read anything longer.
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The ergonomics for Tensorflow are probably always going to be behind PyTorch (or Keras for that matter). The fact that the API has not been stable for the past 6 years has really burned me one too many times to not flinch at using it. It is basically an internal Google tool that has been made available to the public, and like most internal tools at Google the deprecated/developmental dichotomy applies (https://goomics.net/50/).
That said the deployment of TensorFlow models onto mobile devices or the browser is really good, so sometimes the pain is necessary.
Although I would argue that Zappos didn't "limit profits." Rather they (correctly) surmised that the only way to successfully sell shoes online as a core business was to be seen as bending over backwards from a customer service perspective.

Which is not to take anything away from them but customer service is pretty much baked into their model.
It's tough, until you stop caring. And obviously, hitting the "don't care" point is pretty sub-optimal, so far as being able to muster any enthusiasm necessary to keep doing the job.
> People change jobs more frequently now than in the past

Pretty sure that’s wrong. Tenure in job is near an all time high in America. Boomers were the job hoppers.
It's ultimately irrelevant to the Texas code whether Google is correlating the data across sources, because what the Texas code banned was collecting the data in the first place, not the way it's collated and used.

There's some sense to that approach; people don't want to trust that the only thing keeping Google from doing the cross-correlation is their own corporate ethics. I ultimately think trying to ban the intake in that way is bailing the Titanic, but I think I see where they're coming from.
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How is it good? Writing essays teaches writing and also reading. It also teaches thinking critically about your writing and your reading. They are not pointless at all. It's exactly the same as taking code off the internet instead of trying to solve an algorithmic riddle. You may learn something new, but the problem solving process itself is lost and not developed.
You have to learn the rules before you break the rules. The 5 paragraph essay taught me a lot about how to create a convincing written argument. The rules are:

1. Start with a hook. Engage the reader.

2. Present the ideas (2-3) that you will be discussing in the essay. Have you ever read a rambling blog post? Yeah, they suck. There's no direction and you don't retain much.

Also, 2-3 ideas in one essay is a great number. There's all those studies that say we can only hold 5 things in working memory at once, blah blah blah. Keeping the essay focused on a few core ideas helps the reader retain them better, and the writer to have a well defined scope.

3. Extrapolate the concise ideas in 2-3 concise paragraphs. Ever read a rambling blog post? Yeah, they suck. Telling students to keep paragraphs in 3-5 sentences helps the essay communicate the ideas in a concise manner.

It also helps block out the text in small visually appealing blocks. Ever read super condensed very long paragraphs? Yeah, they suck. It helps to break up your thoughts with some whitespace. (It's almost like coding benefits from this as well...)

4. Conclude your essay. Reiterate what you wanted to cover. This helps the reader retain the ideas, and it allows the author to tie up the ideas in a nice bow. I love when I finish a book or essay and everything comes together and reaffirms what I've been reading the whole time.

This format is not only great building blocks, but it helps you write larger volumes. If you repeat these small steps several times, you create chapters. If you repeat these steps on a macro level, the chapters tie together into a cohesive piece of literature.

These unnecessary "quotas" may sound meaningless, but a lot of people have thought very hard about how to create basic building blocks writers can follow. These building blocks allow the writers to create concise, well formed arguments. "Boring simple sentences" are extremely conducive to clear and concise writing. I'll take boring sentences that form complex ideas over complex fluff that describes nothing any day. (This is almost analogous to good code design too, weird...)
School should be testing you for knowledge and ability in a certain subject, as objectively as possible. Unless you're in a public speaking course, your public speaking skills should have as little bearing on your grades as possible.
Put very simply: Affordability will continue to decrease, due to the lack of supply of housing and of skilled labor to build new housing.

At the same time, real prices (what is paid to existing homeowners, adjusted for inflation) will decrease due to higher interest rates.

As corrolaries: Real mortgage payments will increase, and property tax revenue will decrease.

So, the banks win, schools, local governments and individuals lose--nothing new there.
A lot of these thought experiments are just semantic arguments in disguise.

We think we disagree about physicality of consciousness, but we're actually disagreeing about meaning of the word "all". She knows all there is to know about colors.

This might be a good linguistic discussion, but it's unlikely to move us anywhere on physicality of consciousness.
I disagree.

Time to time I hire entry level people. Their writing in general, the primary method of communication is atrocious. I am not complaining about fundamental grammar or punctuation. I make those mistakes more frequently then most myself.

There is no cohesive flow of thought; there is a lack of logical structure. They are unable to unpack their justification for recommendations. This costs us because we have to have multiple "draft reviews" until the document is succinct, or cost us when the recommendations are misunderstood.

Over the last three decades I have seen the decline in the skill of writing.
And for cruise missiles.

(Maybe you should read why GPS is not more accurate: it's not a technical limitation, it's done on purpose.

Also try to read up on Chesterton's Fence.)
Humble to write an essay where you could do such a reveal?
>LLMs have the unfortunate limitation of being both powerful and lending themselves to centralized control choke-points due to how resource intensive they are to train.

I wonder if that will continue.

My understanding is that's partially because it currently relies on GPUs, which until relatively recently there was a limited demand for, and the market is basically controlled by a single company.

Will we see cheaper special purpose AI accelerators? Like happened with crypto mining ASICs.
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All acts of deliberate writing can be examined for clarity, concision, fulfillment of their own purpose, etc. If the purpose of an essay is to teach writing, then the writing should be inspired and flow freely. It's only after someone can read and write competently that it's important for them to learn mold their writing for specific, dry purposes.

The second half of your argument is incredibly common, although I don't begrudge you for making it. Yes, it's true that teaching effectively and creatively is near-impossible given the current setup and demands of the modern education system. This should tell most people something about the worthiness of the modern system, but instead most of them defend it.