skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think it boils down to the (intellectual) effort needed to synthesise your thoughts, which is a skill that leads to deeper understanding.

I'd say ChatGPT is a bit better as a tool than copying from a colleague, just because you still have to double check for correctness. However, does it rob students of that opportunity to think deeply and therefore learn? I'm not sure to what extent, but I'd imagine that there's an impact to _some_ extent.

ChatGPT is also going to get better, and will eventually be pretty accurate (or, at least as accurate as a student of a subject may be). My stance is that in school, you should be learning to think instead of memorising. If the goal is to memorise, however, then use ChatGPT isn't that harmful (you'll still fail for memorising the wrong information).

Overall I'd treat ChatGPT as a tool, and give students the facts: first gain a deep understanding of a subject so you can learn to verify, then use the tool later in life.

I'm also mindful of the fact that if an AI is not guaranteed to be correct, which is the case right now, then students now have an incentive to _understand_ the subject so they can verify, which might actually be a net good?
Sodastream and a quarter glass of OJ is a great way to save orange juice, but still have it taste great :)
Reddit's weird setup where essentially random people who were first "own" entire categories (= subreddits) of discussion is totally absurd.
Not yet, but it's a great idea! We'll add one asap!
It’s an interesting question and the answer is also pretty interesting: https://obscuredinosaurfacts.com/post/2022/11/30/bird-brains...

There are a few factors and that post gives a nice overview.
The organization of knowledge production in different fields can be quite, well, different. If you had 2 post-docs and 8 graduate students, and were collaborating with other labs as well, then papers per year would go up.
The story is interesting more for the forboding quality than "outrage" IMHO.
https://web.archive.org/web/20230106154140/https://www.indep...
I'm not sure this effect is caused by a chronological structure. For example here, one can use "threads" link to see if someone is responding on their comments and react no matter how old the comments are. If that feature wasn't there, I would not be writing this comment right now. What makes is hard to keep old threads alive over weeks or more is imho rather the volume of new posts and comments.
JavaScript seems an unlikely compiler target, forced on us out of the odd historical success of JS on the browser. I'd think that a better target would be to make a VM like WASM.
> how great they were paired with the Steam Deck

Didn't even think about this use-case...Sounds fun during a plane flight, holding the Steam Deck in your lap and just resting your head the way you fell comfortable. Probably a bit jarring for the other passengers :) But also to just lay on your couch or even in bed.

> I bet a game like factorio would struggle since there’s a lot of UI elements that are small

Bet, yeah. Probably great for first-person, third-person and racing games. Games which rely heavily on UIs and menus are probably not that fun. I don't know how sharp the screens on these glasses are, but I couldn't imagine playing Factorio on a HTC Vive. Granted, the Vive is old and screens have gotten better, but it's the only reference I have.
I don't really understand this oft-repeated line. Yes, charter schools are funded with public dollars. But are they not privately owned?
A Sanpao TJ800 mini TV. It's a really stinking adorable display styled like a retro CRT TV and it has the guts of a cheap Android TV box inside, or you can plug in an HDMI input.

I found the HDMI input on mine didn't work but I figured out how to put Armbian on the TV box inside and so now I can turn it into a mini retro emulation console!

A $60 shaved ice maker attachment for my wife's KitchenAid mixer. Now she can make Snoballs any time of year. Seriously, if there's someone in your house who loves to cook, you need a KitchenAid mixer. It's a godsend, like Visual Studio Code for the kitchen.
I am running displayport at 1440p at 60Hz - I used these cables, and they work fine:

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07HN8PR4J

However, based on some of the reviews, they will probably not work for higher resolutions or refresh rates at that length. There are active/amplified cables available, but I don't know how well they work.

KVM is a Black Box KV6202A-R2. Which I think is discontinued now, but the same people make similar items. The important thing is to get a KVM with EDID emulation - a lot of the cheaper KVMs don't have it and will tell the non-active system that the monitor is disconnected every time you switch, which causes all sorts of problems.
If you forgot if you drank the glass of water, no harm. Same with salt.

If you forgot if you took your Paracetamol pill, accidentally taking another one would leave you with permanent liver damage.

It's like looking into the sun: normally, you flinch/blink away and are safe.
But if you stare, and suppress or your reflex isn't working, you'll catch a life-long blind spot burned into your retina.

The therapeutic margin is just insanely small for anything OTC.
over 600: https://social.lol/@adam/109642813277235626
If an AI can generate an infinite number of stories that take place in the LotR world and do it well and faithfully in the style of JRR Tolkien then I would happily read it. You can only read the trilogy and The Hobbit so many times.
Why is it the default on nearly every distro is what I want to know.
A 3-kilo bag of Taza chocolate baking chips.
I'm a private school teacher.

I'd argue that there's a huge selection effect on what kinds of students you have. I have the ability to listen to parents because the vast majority of parent feedback I receive is given in good faith and because I don't end up in the ridiculous situations I hear about from public school colleagues.

> They have put themselves on a pedestal and been conditioned into a serious superiority complex.

Really, unless you derive some intrinsic satisfaction and feel some deep desire to do this job-- in public or private school-- there's no economic reason to do this job. Better comp is available elsewhere for most of us, and even in the relatively supportive environment I'm in, I need to cope with a lot of people who don't just think of themselves as my customers, but by social betters/superiors.
My A.I. looks at all the cs abstracts posted to arXiv every day, I skim maybe 50 of the abstracts and download maybe 15 PDFs.

I am a little shocked at how many papers are fewer than four double-spaced pages, scarcely more than a tweet if you're trying to explain something that is fundamentally new to people who aren't intimately involved in that exact corner of that exact subfield.

(If my metric for "quality" was "it might frontpage if posted to HN", the superficial characteristics of the paper would be "about 25 pages with a splashy image on the first page" but unfortunately you can't tell that from the abstract, but maybe you can get the number of pages and the content first page without downloading the whole PDF.)
The hilarious irony is that the AI is quite possibly copying the authors older work if it was published on an image sharing site like Reddit or deviant art.

Lawsuits need to destroy these models stolen from the public.
> For example any maths test which only tests students on problems which are easily solvable by a calculator isn't testing any skill of real world use.

True in university, but memorizing multiplication tables and learning the mechanics of long division and multiplication are important parts or math education for kids. Most of school is not strictly for "real world" skills anyway (even if doing basic math unaided is almost as close as we come in school to teaching a real world skill).

Same goes for say, basic reading comprehension and summarization.

I don't buy your argument
Curious why and how this is something that needs to be done online. Frozen food sounds like a bad thing to order online.
The fact that most research, dare I say by definition, has little value is true. The fact that most published papers have no value is also true.

It is also true that some (published) research may go unnoticed and be discovered or rediscovered (much of science is the rediscovery of ideas that were once speculative and then became valuable because of a change in methods, technology, paradigm) later on. It is a rare occurrence, though, which does not justify the hours, money, energy spent on endeavors that everyone knows are, to the greater community of scientists, researchers, and citizens, meaningless and worthless.

But part of the currency used in science is the number of papers, place of publication, citations received and overall impact on the field of the papers, and the deluge of worthless articles and research is a direct effect of the metrics chosen to evaluate scientists.
What sensors do you use? I have a bunch of air filters but just leave them running all the time.
That's some cyberpunk contraption!
How does Misskey compare to Mastodon?
Her is a Jensen CR-100, it has a 3.5mm "mic" input so I guess it's expecting a low-level mono signal. Probably not what you want but for kids' ears it's likely ok. It was for sure cheap. We've only used the built-in mic which is, of course, horrible, but nonetheless exciting for her to hear her voice and music played back.

But I think the easiest way to go is cheap walkman for playback, used full-size deck for proper stereo recording off line-level inputs.

Edit: I said "most of which" didn't I. Oops. I'm sure there's some cognitive bias at work there; what I meant was, the single one I have seen does, but only for certain values of 'does'. Sorry!
Are you praising ChatGPT by explaining how it allows your kid to avoid having to think and learn their lesson?
Ask HN: Why are URNs not more popular?
I'm working on i18n of an API for a customer now. It's a domain where one needs to refer to phone numbers, bank accounts, National Identity Numbers, business / legal entity organization numbers etc; in short, IDs in misc. national and international registries.

URN should be perfect for this; I would expect to do the i18n by replacing a Norwegian account number "12345678902" with "urn:bban:NO:12345678902", or a Danish company number "987322431" with "urn:business:DK:CRV:987322431".

However, the list of URN namespaces is very lacking. I'd expect to at least see "urn:msisdn:<phone number>"; or "urn:nin:DK:..." for Danish national identity numbers. But it's not there.

What I see looking around is a lot of home made solutions that make inferences about ID spaces based on "country" that usually holds but not always; or solutions coming from the XML world that seem very complicated to figure out (like ISO 6523 which declares '0037' for the Finnish company registry, and the syntax around it is XML or home-grown). URN would have been such a simple and nice solution. Why has it not catched on?
With Preceden, people tend to fall into two groups: those that need it for a short term project and won't use it again, and those that need it for a longer term project.

The monthly plans are there to give people who need it for a short project an affordable way to use it for a short period of time without any long term commitment.

And the annual plans are there for the people who need it long term.

Preceden sends receipts for both monthly and annual charges, and reminder emails for the annual ones. Don't get too many refund requests or chargebacks because of this.
It's not absurd, it's reddit's killer feature and the primary reason that reddit is as big as it is.
I have steadily been replacing all of my socks with darn tough socks. They absolutely are tough, but the replacement warranty is super simple, too. I snagged one on a loose trim nail, and got a new pair within a week from the company.

You can get them 25% off from gobros.com as well!
Or you could do what we did, which is give the baby cold milk straight from the fridge. He didn’t seem to mind, and now won’t drink it any other way!
This title doesn't really tell the reader what the P language is for.

dang, would it be possible to change the title to something like, "P Language: a state machine-based programming language" ? (That's from the first diagram on the page.)
I remember several years ago reading about "junk DNA" or "useless DNA" in sequences. Even then, I was certain that it probably wasn't "junk", we were just yet to understand it. I wish we'd take that attitude a bit more with science journalism. "It doesn't make sense..... YET".
Art and research are not that different when you think about it. They require highly dedicated, intensively focused individuals to dedicate their lives to the work, but the benefits are diluted and distributed across all of society. So both basic research and art is funded largely by patronage, either by private owners or by the state. Some forms of research are funded by private industry, but those are specific cases.
It's really interesting. I tried Kawai and Yamaha digital pianos in the store and I didn't like the key action of the Kawai at all, nor the sound. Now my piano teacher has an “actual” (non-digital) Kawai grand and it feels just like the digital one -- not my favorite.
But determining first authorship itself is non-trivial, as different fields and different journals have different conventions and norms.
There are constantly people getting older. That’s the thing we have an infinite supply of.

They complain because 1) As someone who did it when they were younger, they expect all young people to do it for them now. 2) In general society is just not as polite to old people, and society notices you’re getting older much quicker than you do.
> If it's complicated, then you're doing it wrong.

You still need to do something even if you know this. Replacing the system is not an option, since the next one will be just as bad.
Based on who received and didn't receive it at my workplace, we concluded that it was only sent to users who had not unsubscribed from marketing mail.
My understanding is that the British Raj was several months away from London?
Sounds pretty unhealthy
> it seems like Kindle has better sideloading support now.

For books? Hasn’t Kindle always had amazing sideloading support? I think even over a decade ago you could just email your pirated books to a kindle.com email address to have them automagically show up on the kindle.
Some of the Calculator analogy comments downstream are inaccurate.
300,000 students in the United States compete in the AMC 8/10/12 exams every year. Calculators have always been banned. The official policy[1] states sternly in uppercase -

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AMC 8
The only materials that students are allowed to have on themselves during the competition are writing utensils, blank scratch paper, rulers, and erasers. NO CALCULATORS OR PHONES AND SIMILAR ELECTRONIC DEVICES OF ANY KIND ARE ALLOWED. No questions require the use of a calculator.

AMC 10/12 - AIME
The only materials that students are allowed to have on themselves during the competition are writing utensils, blank scratch paper, rulers, compasses, and erasers. NO CALCULATORS OR PHONES AND SIMILAR ELECTRONIC DEVICES OF ANY KIND ARE ALLOWED. No questions require the use of a calculator.
--

Mathcounts[2] is kinder, but only a little bit - "Calculators are not permitted in the Sprint and Countdown Rounds, but they are permitted in the Target, Team and Tiebreaker Rounds". There are 500+ chapter rounds every year, plus 56 state rounds, & each school sends upto 12 contestants, so again a very large number of students compete in these exams with no calculator.

Note when they say "No questions require the use of a calculator" - that's quite a dubious claim. For eg. the question which is bigger 9^10 or 10^9 ? With a calculator it becomes trivial. Without, you take logs to base 10 and do some simple arithmetic by hand. For most trig problem sets, you'd have to know the standard sines & cosines. With a calculator that becomes moot.

[1] https://www.maa.org/math-competitions/amc-policies
[2] https://www.mathcounts.org/programs/official-rules-procedure...
"What the heck happened to John Ioannidis?" (about his publications during the Covid epidemic.) https://sciencebasedmedicine.org/what-the-heck-happened-to-j...
Because variable compensation is not going to be variable in practice. It's going to closely track to the stated minimum. For some executives the variability is in the split between their bonuses and shareholders in the form of increased EPS. Employees get the remaining portion, if any.
Suppose you could engage in Damore-style public thinking (or anti-Damore style public thinking), without risking professional/social problems. Would your thinking improve from the feedback?

Let's find out. We have a private beta to answer this question. I'd love to see what happens for you guys (note "Hacker News" on the invite request to be placed in a group conversation).

https://hiweave.com/
> That is not what ‘drone’ means in a musical instrument context.

Which other word should they have used?
Thanks for the kind words Scott and also for your detailed feedback over email - much appreciated!
Thanks! I've always been curious. Just opened this up.
But the article is wrong...
The problem with "digital" is the playback equipment used. Most people assume that their expensive smartphone/tablet/laptop has a great DAC in it and will play music great. Sadly, they don't and they won't.

Additionally, most have got rid of or never owned a good amp and a good set of speakers or headphones. So the music sounds much worse that it ought to and the listeners are frequently completely unaware. Also, that bluetooth speaker that they're using sounds awful and even if it supports LDAC and APTx-HD, because they're likely not sending the data from their streaming device to it using those technologies.
They have found a completely non-reassuring way of dismissing the issue.
I use them all of the time during my biking and workouts. I even sleep with them quite often. Never fall out somehow.
Despite mentioning the circadian rhythm, completely fails to mention that humans have vastly different chronotypes. I'm supposed to eat between 7-8am, which is hours before my natural wakeup time? Bizarre advice. This might be true for an early riser, but my lunch is your breakfast in relative time. This sort of advice/science is therefore largely useless.
I would be interested in doing some sort of hybrid mirror / cache of a few repos, if I could do them just in time style. I don't need all of pypi (nor do I want 13.5TB of packages). I probably only ever use a few hundred packages at most.

I would like to point all my systems at my server. And if I `pip install pandas` and its not on my server the server grabs it and passes it through and syncs that package locally from then on. Same with yum, npm, docker, or whatever.

And I just realized I could use Artifactory as a caching proxy and at least save some time there. However, that doesn't mirror the package it just caches that specific version. I would be very interested in something where the system sees that I use `pandas` now and will mirror it. Or give it a requirements.txt and it flags all those packages and dependencies for mirroring.
That takes me back.... World of Warcraft is a feeling :-D
Physical slavery was once the law of the land too. I like to think I would have been on the right side of history at that time, as well.
And if it wasn't Amazon, but some other less well known company?
Nobody ever understood what REST means. The "standard" creator choosing not to document its meaning really didn't help.

So, yeah, REST means whatever people use it for, that is 'HTTP services with JSON payload'. That's the actually valuable part of it anyway, the meaning that was documented after everybody started using it wrong is a synonym for the web, and we already have a name for it.
it is... white shirt will definitely stain yellow if you go just a few days w/o washing.
There’s literally rules about this That we were all (hopefully) taught in drivers ed. in the case of 2 drivers reaching a 4 way stop at the same time the driver on the right goes first. If the two are across from each other then in most cases there is no conflict. In the case of them turning towards the same lane, then right turns have precedence over left turns.
If you're running a single-node SQLite application then you can handle reactivity within your application code itself and use either websockets or SSE to propagate it to the client.

It definitely gets more complicated when you have a distributed application. Using something like NATS works but you'd need to synchronize between the NATS message and your database state on your replicas (e.g. NATS could arrive before data is propagated to replicas).

We do have plans to add event data to the LiteFS transaction files[1]. That would let you write out a message like "user_updated id=123" during your transaction and it would get bundled with the transaction payload on commit. Then your application on your replica can listen for events and they are already synced up with your database state.

[1]: https://github.com/superfly/litefs/issues/20
In the AI community there is this desire to "cheat" at art; i.e. the belief that artistic talent is some kind of cabalistic conspiracy to keep them from making pretty illustrations. You can see this in how a lot of AI artists defend themselves by saying how it's "democratizing art", because the alternative is having to pick up a pencil and actually learn some basic techniques. This is also why there's far less interest in inpainting than there is in "push button, recieve bacon". Inpainting is more like an actual artistic technique that requires skill to use effectively, whereas a lot of people just want to go straight from idea to thing they can sell.

Crypto is a technology cul-de-sac: it consists entirely of solutions to problems that only exist because of it's odd choice of problem domain. i.e. if you weren't trying to make a payment system for organized crime, then you wouldn't need to deal with Sybil-resistance. So it effectively counters my belief that you can wrestle good tech out of bad hands, because it's not actually good tech.

I recall seeing something on Mastodon a while ago that I don't quite remember the source of, but I can paraphrase as "left-wingers tend to create social spaces and art, while right-wingers tend to consume and destroy them". While I absolutely despise this sort of one-dimensional thinking, there is a kernel of truth to this. Or, in other words, Hitler failed art school for a reason.

Art is, first and foremost, a language used to communicate ideas. People on the far-right[0] do not have a whole lot to say. When listening, they tend to get caught up in superficialities and ignore the underlying idea. Their goal is not to speak, but to prevent speech[1]. So naturally they would be attracted to technologies that let them "gussy up" their nonsense into something that "looks" artistic.

This even goes for the not explicitly far-right stuff, too. After all, to them, the purpose of art is to look pretty, not to say things. That's why there's such an odd focus on overdone cinematic aesthetics in AI art - because it "looks pretty". There's tweets of people saying that artists should just give up and submit to the machines because Stable Diffusion has already "perfected the female form". What they meant is that it generates sexier porn and panders to their tastes more. The AI does not communicate ideas with its art, and if it did, they would reject it and delete it.

[0] I am specifically talking about the right-authoritarian corner of the political compass. Right-libertarians can put down their torches and pitchforks now.

[1] This is also why I do not shed tears for them when they get banned from online spaces.