skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's the premise of "Danny Dunn and the Homework Machine", part of a series I enjoyed in elementary school around 1980, but written in 1958.

That book is digitized at Archive.org (because of course it is), so I can quote https://archive.org/details/dannydunnhomewor00will/page/136/... after the kids have gotten an award for doing more and harder homework than the rest of the class, through the use of the "Miniac" computer, which they had programmed to do their homework. Professor Bullfich starts,

"Naturally, in order to feed information into the computer you had to know it yourselves. And in order to give the machine the proper instructions for solving problems, you had to know how to solve them yourselves. So, of course, you had to do homework -- and plenty of it."

"Why, simply programming a problem is homework," Dr. Grimes put in.

Looking through it now, they got help from a couple of people affiliated with IBM. The authors also write "In all fairness to Professor Bullfich and Dr. Grimes, we wish to point out their position on homework is supported by Bulletin 1248-3 of the Education Service Bureau, University of Pennsylvania."

For what it's worth, I can't find that bulletin. https://archive.org/details/sim_childhood-education_1957-01_... informs me the title was "What About Homework?"

Thank you for bringing up that old memory!
Thanks for sharing, I think this is a fascinating idea!
The Canon 12x36 IS binoculars are a great companion to the 10x30 IS II due to the different minimum focus distance. I use them both almost daily for birdwatching on my porch. Energizer lithium AA batteries last for months. I press the button and hold it for around 30s at a time.

On a hike I’d probably reach for the smaller and lighter 10x30 which also has a 13ft minimum focal distance which is 7ft closer than the larger pair. They’re great!

But the 12x36 has the larger FOV and 3rd generation IS that really does almost let you see what the bird is _thinking_ and that it’s not the same woodpecker that visited yesterday.

As someone with a shaky hand, I could never use 12x36 binoculars without IS and so the price tag was really not a big premium over something with possibly superior optics that I would not enjoy.

Since Canon has MAP pricing and I wanted to buy an actual new pair of the 12x36 IS III from an authorized retailer like B&H Photo ($800) instead of Amazon, on a hunch I checked some Canadian photo shops and found
Excellentphoto.ca who shipped them to my US address for $850 CAD ≈ $650 USD. Which is possibly a fulfillment bug and not a feature.
Too clever. As a logical solution to a set of mathematical constraints, yes. As a real world strategy, no.
> You seem to be saying that you don't feel you're succeeding unless you have a creator-level social presence with fans oohing and ahhing about your coding prowess.

Not even remotely and I'm not sure how you read that. I'm not really worried about "succeeding" at this point in my career as a programmer.

I don't think there's anything wrong with wanting other people to enjoy the things you've created as a hobbyist. It's a very human experience and completely normal in other hobbies. If I were into gardening and I gave my neighbor the vegetables/fruit from my harvest I don't think anyone would read that as wanting to be a celebrity or whatever you're suggesting. I'm not looking for fame. I just want to make something that someone besides myself can enjoy.
Speeding cars aren't too much of an issue you've taught your kids how to cross the street safely and they're older than toddlers. Random strangers aren't much of a threat either unless you're in an area with lots of crime/gangs. These days kids have cell phones in their pockets and can dial 911, give location updates to friends and parents, or even start recording suspicious behavior before it escalates which weren't options kids had in the past.
Also some compiled code might need to be statically linked to other deps.

A practical example: on Windows, try 'pip install tokenizers'.
>Why do civilizations need to be built to the honor of something?

Which civilization has been built in honor of nothing?

>Unclear what you mean by "TLM" but church attendance at least in the US is decreasing.

TLM = Traditional Latin Mass.[1]

[1] https://www.crisismagazine.com/opinion/the-growth-of-the-lat...
I understand where you're coming from, and I do care about the climate as much as the next person, but this comparison seems downright silly. Basically, for your example to work every single person have to run the same script every week and wait for 4 hours. Are there even that many bank statements? And then, if you, your spouse, and a child take a single flight coast to coast, round trip, that is 4.5 tons right there.
I only skimmed it, but it looks like they forgot to account for the extra energy used to run the coffee pot, for the programmers using less productive languages.
Less analysis paralysis, less perfectionism.

"Fuck it, ship it."
True.

Slack is highly underrated.

This also turns out to be a serious problem in advocating for efficiency vs. growth.

Efficiency maximises at 0% wastage. Growth is (in theory, though very rarely in practice) open-ended. At least in the short term, growth compounds, whilst efficiency tends to asymptotically approach some minimum.

I'd had this realisation years ago in various efficiency drives (energy, water usage, etc.). The region that started in a more efficient and lower-usage state often faced a greater challenge than one which was profligate, as the latter would (usually) have an easier time cutting usage.

That's not always the case --- a region might become wholly dependent on profligate wastage, say, in the form of air conditioning or heating, in ways that are difficult to substitute for or curtail, especially given infrastructure which makes limiting such activities difficult. But as a general rule, having more fat to cut should actually increase options, all else equal.
Another important point that the video doesn't touch on: the environment.

Not being able to repair a device means less reuse, more e-waste, more garbage and that's bad for the environment.

So this bill can be interpreted not only as "fuck the consumer", it's also "fuck the environment", "fuck our future", "fuck the planet", etc.

It's doubling down on planned obsolescence.
I think this is an example of how, unless you're specifically designing a file format to be redundant for error detection/correction or similar reasons, having "this field must always be related to that field in this manner" types of constraints introduces redundancy, and with it, the associated ambiguities of inconsistency (and opportunities for code handling the format to behave erroneously.)
I think it's funny that removing what looks like actual key material doesn't break a key, but having the wrong kind of newline, or trailing newline in a .pem file can cause certain programs (webservers etc) to not be able to load a cert or key.
We would have known this sooner, if only somebody had built a warrant canary canary canary.
Seems to me like the parent comment was being sarcastic, though in fairness you never know on the internet.
This year I ported a quite complex web app I had in React and TypeScript, into Vue, Angular, Solid, and Svelte, just to see if I were missing anything given the new changes in the frontend ecosystem. I did not find that TypeScript helped more in Svelte than in React, particularly.
What I find interesting about RSA is how it became so popular and important in our daily life, yet it uses basic math from hundred or thousands of years back.

It uses the Fermat's little theorem of prime numbers, which was defined in 1640 then proved by Euler almost 100 years after that.

Plus uses the Chinese reminder theorem that was discovered in the 300 CE

What is more crazy is that RSA (or something comparable to that) was discovered in parallel also by another mathematician working for a government agency 4 years prior to the RSA algo
3rd party readings and public readings aren't just terrible form, but if one believes in the non-materialistic aspects, it's widely said to be terrible for one's karma.

And if one doesn't believe in this, why even participate?
The thing is, that depends on if the client wants to use the other bits instead. The key is broken if the parts are out of sync, even if some clients ignore some parts.
Yes, at best a voting system can make it so that your naive intuition is pretty close to your best tactical voting.

Approval voting and range voting come pretty close.

However, your first link only seems to critique deterministic voting systems. It's fairly easy to sidestep these critiques (especially Arrow's theorem) with a probabilistic systems:

Eg this variant of sortition: every voter chooses a preferred candidate on their ballot, and we draw n ballots at random to fill up parliament. (Pick whatever system you prefer for resolving one candidate getting picked multiple times, eg give them extra voting power in parliament, or pick the voter's next choice on the ballot etc.)

If you can find a way to vote 'tactically' in this scheme, please let me know.

I believe it's fair in some sense, and free of the pathologies outlined in your links. You are always better off voting for the candidate you prefer.

(I specifically mention using this scheme to fill up parliament with a few hundred people in it. If you want to pick a single position, like a president, the low of large numbers won't kick in, and you might have a greater variance than you'd like from your voting system.

But even for picking a president, a randomised system can still avoid the pathologies mentioned.)
> Kids often continue to live with their parents well into their 30s. But this is mostly due to a shortage of new housing.

That just seems really awkward. By their 30s people are often having kids of their own! Does italy have something like love hotels for teens and young adults who don't want to make out with their parents in the next room?
Check out this: https://github.com/LAION-AI/Open-Assistant
Besides driving too fast, a good pair of binoculars really comes in handy for a wide variety of antisocial activities.
Single earners with no post-secondary education used to be able to be a sole earner and afford a stay at home spouse, car, home and kids.

You can't say "oh that's false" whilst giving no examples when it's extremely well known that life is getting extremely expensive, all the iPhones in the world don't actually make it better.

Here's a well known metric:
https://www.cnn.com/2020/01/11/politics/millennials-income-s...

And it's getting worse... Homes less affordable, entering recession, less socialeconomic mobility, etc...
I think it’s axiomatically true that if you change definitions at will then anything can mean anything. I don’t think that’s useful for enhancing understanding.
You're getting a few saucy replies but it does work and you don't even need a physical letter. Find the "Our Leaders", "Our Corporate Team" section of a companies website, drill-down to the best fit, send an email. Some executive assistant will pick it up and re-direct appropriately. This has worked for me with UPS and Verizon. The complaints were not run-of-the-mill ones though but specific to ongoing issues. I think the key is having a unique problem.

Also, if you're in the US, it might seem futile, but you do have elected officials and a massive government bureaucracy that tracks all this. Include them on the email if it necessitates it. Every email or letter has to be recorded, by law, so, if it's ever needed as evidence in something, it exists.
Hardly the most depraved, it was nice to see the article didn’t fall into the “stunning and brave” trope.
The main issue, I think, is the entire economy would have to be changed on a massive, global scale.

I had this job 20 ago delivering for one of the major grocery chains. Southern Nevada, New Mexico and Arizona were all covered out of a single warehouse in Phoenix. That place is a shitshow and that’s with them having a couple hundred docks to unload trucks, lucky to get out of there in seven hours. If they were unloading train cars I couldn’t even imagine how bad it would be. Or the local drivers wasting a whole shift after getting a container out of the train yard.
Get this on ballot measures across the nation? A rightly worded ballot measure, in populous consumer-friendly states like CA and NY, can compel megacorps to provide appropriate customer service.
Earn more money.

I've been a software engineer for 8 years but I earn less than some new grads. I've never gone in for flashy toys or expensive trips, but now I realise that money buys me time. Time with my friends, time with my family, time to do what I want.
Tax carbon and let the market sort it out.

Generally I’d expect less efficient languages to be more user friendly (well, a language which has neither advantage is just bad, why is anybody using it?). So, hypothetically these companies should get away with spending fewer programmer-hours on things. They won’t have to run the coffee pots, and air conditioners as late.
What most surprised experts about the Covid pandemic
So what we should actually discuss more is how preferences are embedded. The problem with ordinal systems are that exactly the same but with cardinal systems they aren't. I don't think a percentage system is a good way for expressing the advantage because people are going to be used to more discrete systems like a 5 star rating system. Here's a better example:

Suppose there are three candidates, A, B, C, and D. We have a strong preference for A, we like B and C equally, and strongly dislike D. How do we express these?

- Ordinal: A > B > C > D

- Cardinal (5 points): A:5, B:3, C:3, D: 0

We can see the embedding issue here pretty clearly. In an ordinal system there cannot be a means for us to express that we have no strong preference of B over C. We also can't express how much we like C over D because we're forced to place them equidistant from one another. This is a big problem because in the ordinal system we say that our preference of B over C is identical to our preference of C over D. There is a clear advantage here to cardinal systems that have a lot of downstream effects that lead to cardinal systems passing the favorite betrayer criteria -- aka strong spoiler -- (ordinal fails) and is why these systems are monotonic (ordinal systems aren't).

I argue strongly in favor of cardinal systems but I often find that people are strongly invested in ordinal systems. Unfortunately fair vote has done a great job at advocating for RCV and people get passionate about things they are not passionate about learning about. But I need to note that there are downsides to cardinal systems too. Voting systems are over constrained and so it really depends on what criteria you are optimizing for. If we strictly want the best VSE over everything else, there's ordinal systems that out perform cardinals. There is nuance here that we need to recognize and be aware of in these discussions, especially when passion is abound. We'll also see if Clay shows up. If it stays on the front page long enough he'll probably see it (hi Clay ;) He's the real expert here.
Cloudflare are also curiously opaque on just what the case and nature of the content addressed by the Austrian court was.

(I'd noted this the first time I'd read the blog post a couple of weeks ago.)
In my experience there is almost an inverse relationship between course quality and whether it's paid or not.

People who are experts in their fields typically don't need to make money from selling educational materials. They make enough money in their field of expertise, e.g. by being a researcher or professor. The reason they publish educational materials is typically to improve their public image or become a bit more famous, and they want as many people as possible to have access.

On the other hand, paid courses (think Udemy and stuff like that) are often made by people whose goal is to put in the minimum effort plus some marketing to sell a course. They are not experts in the field, and don't need to be, because marketing is more important. These courses end up being shallow low-quality fluff.
I lived in an apartment with one of these sorts of bathrooms in Tokyo. It was made of two molded plastic parts put together: a bottom half and a top half. I had no idea what that was called, but now I know!
It seems like it has received quite a few updates since first reveal!
I think we agree then don't we?

Google Cloud has competition, people dislike them because of their lack of support, thus they are a distant third and likely NOT getting away with it in the long run?
It's a private key so sharing it kinda defeats the purpose. This also only works because the modified part isn't being used.
That doesn’t mean anything.
The DJ and the War Crimes
> Where has the ambition gone?

To be honest, I made my driving license pretty much as soon as I could, but now I don't understand what for. I have never really used it. I don't think I have driven a car for the last 10 years at all in fact, and if I wanted to get a car and start driving now I'm pretty sure I would have to take lessons again, so not being "ambitious" in this regard seems like a perfectly sensible choice to me. My partner had pretty much the exact same experience with their driving license as I did.

(as is probably easy to guess, I don't live in the US)
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Not really.

I grew up in the suburbs. Nothing but houses and maybe a strip mall 2 miles away.

By the time I was 12 I was allowed to bike wherever. We rode all day long, to the strip mall, the even bigger mall (3 miles away), to each other’s houses, to hiking trails, etc.

It was a great childhood. Lots of autonomy and a safe environement.
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Are they calculating the cost of training these models based on cloud computing costs? I would think it's more economical to just buy a couple DXG stations.
Those who view the source code will surely die of the curse.
I didn't think what happened with Southwest could get so bad but my last flight with them was in 2021. Post-early COVID, it was pretty obvious every airline was struggling with reduced and/or ill staff. I flew from the East Coast with a 1 hr layover in Las Vegas that turned into multiple hours, at night, with everything outside of the gambling areas closed down. Kids crying for food, all that. Finally, the staff for the flight from Vegas to LA showed up. They had to call them in and specially ask them to take this last flight of ours. I've also sat next to a Southwest pilot on a flight transferring to another city.

They haven't had "cheap" fares for a while nor have their staff had the quirky friendliness I had seen on flights when I started flying with them some 15 years ago.

The US domestic airline industry a patient that's always on life-support and pretty much upheld by government bailouts and bankruptcies at this point. I've probably mentioned it here before but the first chapter of David Dayen's "Monopolized" covers some of the sources of the issues going on there. It's a bad mix for something that has become important infrastructure, especially since we have no redundancy on the ground with something like rail traffic.
How does GPT-3 perform on an actual IQ test?
I’m sure we can find flaws in any number of the included data sets, but we’re not excluding those, right?

Why are people singling out this one dataset?
There is nothing 'nationalist' about this. The past 40 years have seen an immense amount of trends that were manufactured for profit originating from the US. From privatization of social services to reduction of labor protections. From atomization of social life down to individuals because 'individualism was better' to having those individuals subsist on prozac to keep their resulting depression under control. From sugary food spam then to obesity being bad to now obesity being ok. In the process, a lot of such trends were exported everywhere, including sociopathic scandals like the Avandia drug scandal. (which is one of many). This is without even touching the subject of overseas wars and how they are manufactured with the same trend-making mechanic, starting from how a certain people being 'evil' and their lives not being worth 'that much to ensuing invasion, occupation and destruction being 'a mistake'.

A trend is manufactured by whatever private interest, industry group or segment that catches a moneymaking or career-making opportunity. They push it as hard as they can. If they end up being able to gather popular dynamics behind them for whatsoever reason - like how some people are jumping on this bandwagon - then the trend becomes ever stronger and more easily exportable.

The topic at hand follows on the heels of the mentality that exported all of those to everywhere around the world. If that is a trait of the US as a nation, then there is a problem with that and the rest of the world cannot stop calling it out because 'that would be nationalism'.

By the way, nationalism in its negative sense means people elevating their own nation above others and demeaning others. Not criticising some other nation beause of their actual deeds. At no point I said that 'this particular nation is better than the US and therefore they are superior'. I literally said that the only country on the planet that this is a mainstream trend is the US, which means that the US goes against entire world. Which is obviously not 'a nation'.

I want to stress again that such logic would literally prohibit any criticsm of US foreign policy and prevent anyone from saying that the US has been invading and destroying nations in the past 40 years - due to being 'nationalism' in the subverted definition of 'criticism of a particular nation' that you reduced it to.
What lead you to believe nobody cares? One of my biggest complaints about Firefox is it is still in the stone ages of doing ANYTHING outside or sRGB, even video. Chrome at least has long had video and image support and has been working heavily on canvas, CSS, and WebGL color space implementations for display-p3 and rec.2020 as well as participating in the standardization of it. The hard part here is it has to work on more than the way their OS does wide gamut with a single color alternate color space.
Every such event reminds me of that celebrated fraud of an academic who argued that corporations exist to maximize profit within the applicable legal framework and that it is how things should be.

The fact that corporate entities actively shape the legal framework to suit narrow interests that frequently undermine collective welfware somehow escaped him.

When intellectual dishonesty and amoral behavior reach such systemic levels society crosses boiling points
SF publishes the cast vote record…does alameda not?

With the full CVR it should have been obvious they were fucking up the count, because anyone could replicate it.
Ask HN: How do you plan for the new year?
How do you self-reflect at the end of the year? How do you plan & set goals ahead of the new year?
You might 'enjoy' this: https://www.theguardian.com/business/2022/dec/16/self-checko...
Tax super-rich on private jet travel to fund public transport, says UK charity