skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> interest in something is piqued or they are inspired by a teacher

Don't you see how this is a direct example of teachers having outsized influence on students, and how they shouldn't be allowed to 'teach' them whatever the please?

People put education on some kind of pedestal. Like it's a magical place of discovery. No, it's to provide basic literacy and math skills to the poor so they can function in society.
And this is why the remote craze has been bad for me, especially being early in my career.
Google has become what Microsoft was in the 90s. I can’t believe anyone is still taking seriously these days.
Great question! Because books like Catcher in the Rye get flagged for sexual content all the time.
But a package manager is a hundred-ton hammer when all you need is to decorate your little html page that you hand-edit and push with rsync.

You wanted a fun website but what you got is a dependency manager with a production CI/CD pipeline taking 15 min to check that yes, the sentence you wrote can in fact be written.

Package managers work, but isn't there some middle ground that doesn't involve depending on a runtime that itself is continuously updated ?
Sorry but how's Spotify's service worse?
A lot of people are under the impression that public schools are a disaster in this country unless you're in a high performing school district. Either buy an expensive house or try to make enough money to send your kids to private school. So, no, public schools are not okay here, regardless of your view on this law.
No, your point is that lumping New York and Florida together is comparable to lumping Spain and Latvia together. That is definitely not the case. Completely different histories, languages, and governing structures.
>If things go wrong and contempt of court charges need to be issued, will Reddit be subpoenaed for the mods identities?

How, exactly, might things "go wrong" for folks contributing to an amicus curiae brief[0]?

While amicus briefs are common, they're just arguments for or against a particular issue in a particular case. They aren't testimony, they aren't sworn affadavits and they have no legal weight.

It's essentially writing an OpEd or posting a blog post, except it's filed with the court. No one is "testifying" (in fact, appeals don't have witnesses or evidence or anything of the sort, just a review of the proceedings of the trial court, plus any arguments the lawyers want to make) in an amicus brief and no one is held to any particular standard.

And so I ask again, what, exactly, could "go wrong" here?

[0] https://legaldictionary.net/amicus-brief/
We have designated support person which changes weekly. He is the first line of contact in our team and reacts to support tickets. Of course he can't resolve them all by himself but he delegates them further if help is needed. He doesn't even try to do any sprint tickets. This arrangement has so far worked quite well.
"So let me get this straight your hypothesis is that campaign to get kids out of sweatshops were harmful"

My hypothesis is, that just banning kids working in sweatshop is not enough to improve living conditions for those kids, but can in fact worsen them. So I repeat my question, do you have good numbers, that the living conditions actually improved?

Hysteric campaigns from the west often stop exactly there - so the companies can place a label on their product that says free of child labour, but it does not say at all, where those kids are now, but the consumers now feel better.
I’m wondering how many encyclopaedias make the cut. Bound to be something in any large one that gets it banned.
... and know how to use it ...
> Say what you will about Elon and Twitter, but he definitely proved that the majority of the engineers at Twitter were adding no value to the company.

Unless you care about revenue, which has been crushed due to Elon's actions. The company is less healthy than a year ago and still coasting on reserves of previous work and network effects. Musk is spending billions, and refusing to pay valid debts, just to keep the lights on. He admits that the company might end up bankrupt.

It blows my mind that anyone could be touting this as a well run business that others should emulate.
I think it's mostly an issue of trust.

- Customer says they can only pay in 6-months time? Ok, you will route around it.

- Customer says they will pay next month and then ghosts you for several months? That's not cool. Particularly when it's peanuts for them, in the grand scheme of things.

I was personally burnt by the latter scenario. It was only resolved when they reappeared almost a year later, after I had stopped consulting altogether, asking me to find some other guy to carry on; I replied that I couldn't honestly recommend my peers a customer that doesn't pay, and lo and behold, two weeks later the money came in.
>Why keep attention spans any longer than necessary to evoke some response?...

Wait a minute. This is hardly a recent TikTok/Chinese invention. Hasn't american TV been doing this for decades, with commercial breaks every 10 minutes? And surely the trend for online attention-deficiency and general dumbing down can be traced back to the likes of Twitter, with its text message length thoughtfarts and [as with most other social media] responses that eschew the use actual words, in favour of clicking on a 'Like' button, or some moronic emojis.

All TikTok has done has channelled this vacuuity into video.
This is a pretty lazy take. I could also characterize a push for trains as someone trying to sell something.

Someone is going to be selling something. Does the thing reduce carbon and pollution or not, is the question.

Building trains is simple, getting/forcing people to use them is the hard part. Making them viable in a lot of american cities requires a complete refactor of how the cities are laid out. Easy to say very hard and expensive to do. Americans also turn to violence at the suggestion of a paper mask, so forcing won't be simple.

But if you build a badass EV, they will buy it, and pollution is reduced somewhat.
This is a bit of a layman's outsider perspective, so I'd welcome having my perceptions corrected by people who are more up on the way formal grammars are employed in the ML community.

To my mind, though, the Chomsky-ish ML focus on 'grammars' always seemed to me to miss some of the power of language. Like, the idea that there is something profound in the fact that "Colorless green ideas sleep furiously" is a grammatical fragment that is semantically meaningless seems to me to miss the fact that it's still a meaningful utterance in a language, even if what it denotes is nonsensical. As is proven by the fact that Chomsky used it in his work on the subject! Its meaninglessness is meaningful - you can use it to illustrate a point. The same is true of ungrammatical sentences, too. Not only do actual humans make ungrammatical utterances all the time, but for example if you are trying to teach someone a lamguage, you might show them an ungrammatical sentence by way of an example of what not to do. So any language that is capable of talking about its own grammar has to admit sentences that are ungrammatical in that language, precisely so you can talk about them!

Human language understanding isn't 'parsing', we don't reject utterances because we can't lex the tokens or construct an unambiguous syntax tree or extract semantic meaning. Chomskyish ML researchers seem focused on the problem of making systems that produce grammatical utterances. But I'm honestly more impressed with, for example, GPT's ability to handle and produce the ungrammatical and semantically nonsensical using the same system that it uses to work with grammatical and sensical input and output. That seems much more human-like to me.

That a particular neural architecture is incapable of 'rejecting' certain ungrammatical structures doesn't feel like it matters, so long as the architecture is capable of recognizing a more fuzzy analogue degree of 'gramatticalness' of an utterance.
Yeah my initial thoughts went there as well, but the issue with voice search was always that at it's core it didn't change anything other than the method of input. Fundamentally, whether I type in "best Italian restaurant near me" or say "Hey Siri, what is the best Italian restaurant near me" the result is the same.

ChatGPT is such a paradigm shifting technology because of the output.
Having menarche and having the capability to bring a child to term are different. Pregnancies at early age have a higher rate of miscarriage. It seems there is a question of definition of sexual maturity - for me it is the age of reliably giving birth, for you the capability of getting pregnant. I am fine with either as long as it is clear what we use.
They have been very friendly with me as well but your feedback echos my experience thus far.
> 1996

It's now 2023; 27 years later.

Name a single thing Microsoft has EEE'd in the last 20 years. There isn't one. All the examples from the Wikipedia page are from the 90s or early 2000s at best (and most of those seem to be about lawsuits for things that happened a few years earlier). The only recent mention is about "Windows Subsystem for Linux", and those fears turned out to be entirely unwarranted.

Do I like Microsoft? Not especially; it's a large corporation that acts in its own self-interest in an a-moral way. But it's also no longer the Microsoft of the 90s. In fact, almost everything is different: leadership, employees, revenue stream, business model.
This is a bubble imploding, this is serious.

The value of money has shifted for good after a decade of excess, there is rampant inflation and there is a recession incoming.

These companies have seen the writing on the wall and are making the first of many layoffs to address this. This started last year and will last another year at least, possibly a few years.

Apparently most eases of this sore are still in denial about it but the reasons are real and presssing.

The other thing this paradigm shift in rates impacts of course is profitless startups which are now worth zero if they can’t turn a profit within a year. Those that can’t will go bust and lay off all employees, thus making the recession deeper.
I'm not completely sure that everyone making this argument actually believes it. Presumably there are some who do, but I suspect there's a large portion of people who are looking for a way to selectively fire teachers they don't like. Certainly there are politicians who benefit from stoking outrage, and supporters who enjoy boasting of their commitment to their cause by taking an extreme position on a culture war issue.
Doubts about service workers for OAuth token client side storage
> There were some books that some segment of voters didn't approve of that certain school libraries were providing.

I mean, so? This is small minority of people we're talking about. Why do they get veto power over everything present in the classroom? It's the teachers' job to teach the kids, manage/provision the classroom, etc.

At some point you have to just tell people "No".
The set of numbers which can be written with finitely many members of a finite set of symbols is countable, sure.

That doesn’t sound like the claim the author is making in the sentence I quoted but maybe I am being uncharitable?
It's crazy how much demand there is for these. An original 15c is going for more than $200 on ebay and the limited edition re-release is going for more than $400. I was able to get the 15c re-release when they did it, wish they would have done a 16c re-release as well.
"Equally dystopian"... how exactly?
Not really a Node guy but I thought one of its selling points is being much more performant than other scripting languages, e.g. Python?
What’s going on with the politicians in Southern states? Why are they spending time making these pointless laws that often infringe on the rights of their constituents? How are people okay with being dictated what books their children can read?
I find this plausible:

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> The formula looks at the variables below, and then spits out a "number" for every Googler. Each PA VP gets a % to cut, and as such there is a threshold. Anyone below that threshold gets RIF'd.

Variables are:

1) Location of labor. US Premium Plus was largely impacted versus cheaper areas.
2) Tenure and performance in level.
3) "Runway" of comp. (e.g. base salary vs MRP. eg. .8 of MRP Googlers have a long runway, vs 1.x of MRP Googlers are basically top of band, and 'tenured' with no runway except promo
4) Promo velocity

..........

Taken from https://www.teamblind.com/post/THE-DEFINITIVE-GOOGLE-LAYOFF-...

Disclaimer: Googler, but no particular internal-only information backing my impression of the above
Luckily, banks are not that effective at all as Binance.
A whole 4% year-over-year. Seems like a pretty healthy level of inflation to me.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-01-19/japan-s-i...
America’s largest banks to launch digital wallet to rival PayPal and Apple Pay
Context as to what's happening in US schools...

This highlights part of the growing movement and disagreement around culture shaping through kids.

To highlight this, if you take a look at school of educations mission statement[1]

> Through commitment to innovation, social justice, excellence in teaching and research, and partnerships, the School of Teacher Education will position itself as a national leader in shaping the next generation of educators to be agents of transformation in an ever‐changing world.

Other schools [2] in the US are more explicit on change...

> School of Education devoted to developing civically engaged children, youth, and adults for a diverse and inclusive society.

There are many parents who are not supportive of the drive for change. Often pushing views that parents don't agree with.

Books are a subtle way to bring in change. The ideas in them. Especially as elementary age kids who are impressionable learn to read from these books.

The disagreements between parents and some teachers around this is at the heart of laws like this.

[1] https://ccie.ucf.edu/teachered/mission/

[2] https://soe.umich.edu/about#mission-vision
It is not about HN or The Guardian. Something new always excites our mind and we get addicted to finding something new, something exciting each day.

The first thing is to realize this addiction to escape the present in the form of looking for new information.

Write about it everyday. Slowly, learn to discipline your mind. Make a habit to sit in silence, doing literally nothing for half an hour or so.

One thing you can tell yourself everyday is that every time you do something that is not highly relevant for your wellbeing, you will have less energy or focus for things that actually are.

From there on you can ask yourself, how relevant and useful it is to spend time on HN for your well being or for your experience of life.

Again, it is not about HN, humans find it very hard to face the plain everyday life against the sugary new information. We want it more and more.
I did not ask for life advice, I was stating the fact, that nowdays age disparity seems to be frowned upon and provided a anecdotical data point.
Eeriely similar to how Google treats Android developers...
Even though I bring my phone with offline maps downloaded (Gaia GPS), I still like to bring a paper map of the area as well.

In addition to having another option in case my phone breaks or dies, paper maps are nice to have so people can gather around and look together and build knowledge. When solo, paper maps are an easy thing to look at when sitting around the camp.

Shout out to my local cartographer Bryan Conant who makes excellent maps of both the Dick Smith Wilderness and San Rafael Wilderness within the Los Padres National Forest.
Loom doesn't need to pose any issues for Kotlin. If you target only the JVM, you just use virtual threads directly and ignore the coroutines stuff. If you target other runtimes you use them. If you use a KMP library, just surround stuff marked async with runBlocking {}.

SIMD/Panama stuff is just new APIs. No problem there. Kotlin maybe even wins because Panama is super verbose.

JVM value types seems never to arrive. Stuck in dev hell for years maybe. If/when it ever does see the light of day, Kotlin has value types and so it can just be compiled to a JVM value type to get the benefits. You'd need to opt in to an ABI break but no big deal.

So the binary compatibility part hardly seems an issue even looking forward a long way into the future.

It's probably harder for C++ because the language there seems to evolve quicker than Java!
> It doesn't have to be personal to be editorial. Newspapers, for example.

And in terms of the topic, this is the relevant framework to consider the question.

It's already established law that newspaper editors can be held liable for maliciously false reporting in their papers, even though the editor is not the originator of the words.
If there's a single type of article that is the bread and butter of the New York Times, it's "Awful person who made the world a worse place every moment that they continued to draw breath was actually a real human being and sort of nuanced, maybe, I guess."
You can charge extra per detected fraud.
“If you layoff Bob, I quit”

“If you do these layoffs, all of us will strike”

In other words, unified action among the workers that costs the business significantly more funds than the savings from laying people off.

That is one example of having a spine. There are countless others.
Why do you think the majority of Floridians are OK with this? Does it matter to American politicians that the majority of Americans are in favor of access to abortions? The noisy people and PACs who donate to campaigns are against it and that's all that matters.
Well, as a user I will get as much as convenience I can get ^^

But yeah I understand that today is a bit of the culture of tech companies to be unreliable, was just thinking about it today, I had few updates on iPhone apps, and all the apps didn't have any explanation, just trying to be funny about having fixed bugs, but no details, software engineering is a bit of a joke nowadays, and I think it's not just software engineering but it's just that companies are a joke, no explanation to customers, not explanation to users, no support etc.
I... I... I don't hate this idea...

I'm all-in on AWS and I've drank the kool-aid so I'm obviously biased but I've quite enjoyed living in the AWS walled garden. Stripe is one of 1-2 external services I use, bringing that "in house" would be nice, especially if CDK had full support for creating merchants/etc.
Read as written, it seems like the parent is saying that things like this (felony for providing a child anything but whitelisted books) destabilize the society they occur in, and bad national actors exploit and encourage that instability. Not that Russia directly induced this law.
Aggressive podcast placement is the big problem, but they also allow artists to "promote" their music by accepting lower royalty payments. And those artists show up much more often than other artists in radios and suggested playlists.

As someone who doesn't like the podcast walled garden Spotify is trying to build (I prefer my podcast market with competitive open standards and choice of clients, thank you very much), the podcasts really bothered me. As a paying user, I should be able to turn them off entirely, but they kept overhauling the UI to make them more and more prominent. I stopped using Spotify a year ago today, and I've been very happy managing my own music library with Jellyfin since then.
I am very much against this law but I think "present in school" is much different than "curated."

I couldn't give a shit if kids were bringing Anarchist Cookbook and images of the tortures at Abu Dhabi prison to school. What the kid and his family obtain on their own through private means and choose to read in a public venue like a school IMO is none of my business.

If the teachers are curating books that disproportionately pushes certain non-academic agendas, though, then maybe the parents ought to have the right to guide the employment of that teacher to make sure it follows the desires of the voters. Criminal charges are insane though.
>Personal Chef - who shows more signs of drunkenness each day

> Personal Driver - who seems to be flirting with your husband/wife

> Personal Assistant - who you suspect is subtly defrauding you

Employing people to be close to you is fraught with potential problems real or imagined. Jeeves would give away Bertie's clothes if he didn't like them.
2012. Incidentally, the single test flight of Ares I rocket ended in what would likely have been a disaster, or at least an abort, with a real crew. Those vibrational issues ended up causing the the upper stage simulator to enter a flat spin upon separation from the booster.
Intuitively I would argue the definition of indescribability is loaded with semantics that can sprinkle paradoxes at will. A set from my perspective has at least two interfaces, one to populate it and one to query it. By making the population interface “indescribable” you get an “indescribable” method to query. Worst case you start from a describable superset of the indescribable one and test the “indescribable “ set population method to get you an indescribable set member. Which makes the indescribable actually describable in terms of this process. “?” on this whole statement, late night intuition from an indescribably bad at math sleepy guy.
Felony inflation is rampant, and horrendous.
You don’t know enough set theory and model theory. Of course there are different models of the real numbers. There are non isomorphic models of the first 4 axioms of Euclidean geometry even. A given set of axioms can have lots of different models.

The widely accepted first order axioms of the natural numbers have nonstandard models. Of course each such model has an isomorphic initial segment. There are two things going on. There is the set of axioms and there are models for those axioms. I think in your usage: “define real number” corresponds to “give the axioms for the real numbers”. I’m not sure though.
You should really emphasize your first sentence in some way, it was really easy to have eyes drawn to the second part when skimming down the thread.
Earth’s inner core seems to be slowing its spin
If you can make 24 year old tech turnkey, you have a business
Yeah, I thought the GOP was all about freedom?
Because having sex before you are 18 is quite normal? It is odd to pretend otherwise, but 16 for example is quite an usual age, at least here in Europe. I doubt it is actually different in the US.
I don't think this is true at all. First you'd have to show that the new thing is useful in the same ways that the old thing is, and that the new thing has a viable business model.

I don't think ChatGPT has actually done that yet. Can they even charge enough to pay costs? If they do will enough people use it? And the questions about accuracy are material: if the LLM lies all the time, can it really replace a search engine? What do you do with a months old training set?

Figuring out how to combine search + LLM is the problem and OpenAI doesn't have a search engine.
The finger pointing at the moon is not the moon itself. Original Buddhism has died with the people who practiced it. We will never have the original Buddhism again. Only a mummified finger pointing in a general direction which we call original buddhism.

Buddhism has died many times and been reborn many more times. Just as it has in you. Be careful clinging to signs. Be careful of certainty. We mummify ourselves in many ways other than the literal.
M2 Mac mini Review: Whatever you want it to be
This inspired Nostr which seems to be all the rage lately https://nostr.com

Nostr is self-signed (and optionally encrypted) "notes" that are passed around using "dumb relays" it's a pretty cool concept, and it has attracted a lot of active devs/projects.