skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> surely the literacy crisis is a socio-economic problem not a technological one.

Yes and no. It is, of course, not strictly a technological one, but the argument that it is a socio-economic one is, at best, an oversimplification. If you are interested in a more complete understanding, I highly recommend checking out APM's documentaries on this issue (https://features.apmreports.org/reading/).

From my research, the underlying causes of the literacy crisis are:

1. The mistaken belief that reading, like speaking, is biologically natural. This belief manifests as guidance to surround your child with books and read to them. Unfortunately, this isn't sufficient for the majority of children.

2. The majority of teachers lack the content knowledge to teach children to read. For example, imagine helping a child to sound out the word "father". What is the sound of the second letter? It isn't a short 'a' nor a long 'a'.

3. Many popular programs used in schools are completely debunked by science (e.g., cueing theory), but as a teacher it is difficult to identify that your approach is faulty. (If ~30% of children learn regardless of method, it is too easy to offer excuses for why the other children don't learn).

4. Helping a struggling child is "rich man's game". If you are high SES and your child is struggling, you will pay a tutor to rectify the problem. That isn't an option for the vast majority of families.

In other words, this is a highly complex puzzle and it is completely understandable why society is seemingly no closer to solving it :). Consequently, the majority of our effort is directed at understanding these root causes and identifying how to overcome them (FWIW, we have made significant progress here). The cognitive modeling portion is a small but plausibly important part of the larger landscape.
Yeah I came here to say this as well. I gave up on LaTeX for my resume something like ten years ago. Since then I use HTML/CSS and render it with wkhtmltopdf.

edit: grammar
"strong AI is not within sight"

What is in sight is AI that can (sometimes) fool us into thinking it is "strong". And whether it is or not becomes a point for philosophers to debate.

We're heading toward a situation captured fairly well in "The Good Place" -- is Janet actually alive? Is killing her wrong? She would tell you no, as long as you're not approaching the button that actually reboots her :-)
But they're not available in actuality are they? So why even share this information as if these browsers exist in full on iOS when they dont? The pedantry is deceitful in this case.
You might like fp-ts and its Result type.
More context available here: https://twitter.com/ponderdata/status/1617584771839979520
It usually always comes up with something very meh the first time around. You have to nudge it in the right direction.

I was showing it off to my wife. I asked it to write a lecture for an intro to Latin American poetry with a focus on Pablo Neruda, including a background on Chilean history.

The first result was just 5-6 paragraphs with the most rudimentary 101 on all the above topics.

Then I told it to rewrite it as if the lecture was going to be given to grad students. Next, I told it to include examples of Neruda's poetry along with some analysis. I also asked it to flesh out the segment on Chilean history, with a focus on the independence movement.

The final lecture was good enough that you could walk into a classroom of college seniors and deliver it without any edits. The first one might have been good enough for 9th graders at most.
1st to market & release the dragon scorching foames on competiton?
Every time they try to do this, part of the effects are to ban prisoners from receiving books. If you can't receive physical mail... how do you get books to read?

Once they remember this is a thing (and that the pesky first ammendment even for prisoners probably means they can't just ban all reading material), they say that prisoners have to read only "e-reader" books from approved vendors at inflated prices and limited selection -- or if they are lucky, they can still get physical books from only approved vendors at inflated prices and limited selection. (the latter which prisons are always trying to do even before/without limiting paper mail too).

Not being able to receive mail is bad enough, but the consequences on receiving books double it down. One of the few avenues to self-improvement, education, or even just recreation prisoners have.

The way we approach prisons are insane. We take people who have done something from their worst selves, and put them in an environment which seems almost designed to force them to continue to practice being their worst selves, with no other paths available.
Well, what if the ex-con's former prison had a bond on them- if this person ends up committing a crime against your business, you get the full costs covered, less 10%.

The prison would be incentivized to do this so as to help prevent recidivism. They'd also be incentivized to get that person the help they need so they don't commit crimes and can do the job too.
Exactly, that's why I wrote the article =) Makes perfect sense in "set world", but not in "common sense" based on your feeling of the word "never"
This issue exists to the right of your solution and is (for now) out of scope, but the biggest issue I have with security data lakes is the need to (easily) get both row-based data and visualizations. Back when I had access to a well-built and cared for Splunk environment, I would constantly run queries, build visualizations, go back to the results index, tweak the query, go back to viz, etc. This feedback loop is important and allows for fast iteration, especially if you are conducting a high-stakes investigation and need answers rapidly. I should be able to look at my available fields and tweak the viz accordingly in under a few seconds; preferably in one mouse click.

Now I live on an ELK stack and I experience nothing but full-time agony as I switch between Kibana and Kibana Lens constantly. It's clear they are two completely separate "products" built for different use-cases. The experience reminds you constantly that they were not purpose-built for how I use them, unlike Splunk.

Increasingly we are moving towards the reality of a security data lake, and all I can think is that I'm about to lose what little power I had left as I have to move to something like Mode, Sisense, or Tableau which again, were not purpose-built for these use-cases and even further separate the query/data discovery and visualization layers.

I hate how crufty and slow Splunk has gotten as an organization, and they use their accomplishments from 15 years ago to justify the exorbitant price they charge. I really hope the OSS/next-gen SaaS options can fill this need and security data lake becomes a reality. But for that to happen, more focus is needed on the user experience as well.

Regardless, very cool stuff and could definitely fill a need for organizations that are just starting to dip toes into security data lakes. I wish you success!
The article says that some corporations do not care and do not cooperate after unloading the machine to recyclers. (Including schools - which makes a bit more sense, one can assume school computer for pupils does not have any security-critical information, apart from maybe network config etc).
But prisons don’t incarcerate people? They aren’t the ones taking decisions on who goes in there.
This again assumes the owner isn't ignorant of the requirement or apathetic to it.

Corpo6entities tend to be apathetic while most private owners are simply stupid.
https://peertube.su/w/f15x5ghHXocFUL1bJk21Af

peertube link for those not in UK
Kind of more curious if they found a way to mess with the kernel level access given when installing games like Valorant.
I never understood PagerDuty. Isn't it just IFTTT with SMS and email at scale? What is their moat even?
There are plenty of valuable use-cases that aren't at much risk from hallucinations at all:

- Asking it to summarize text

- Using it to extract facts from text and present them in an alternative format - turning a chunk of HTML into JSON for example

- Creative writing - poems, stories etc

- Getting feedback on your own text - asking it what should be tightened up, which bits are confusing and so on

- All kinds of code generation activities
But were are talking about an AI whose purpose it art, so it only make sense to compare to humans who are art professionals. A human whose profession is art can draw a hand, or at least get an approx. close number of correct fingers. And attach said fingers to actual hands.
The Nest team definitely won't agree with your value judgement of these devices, nor do many of the users who paid for them. To this end, even if there are different motivations for different teams and other tactical considerations, it is absolutely necessary for the owning team of a product to have a real motivation for such a significant operation as replacing the entire firmware and runtime in the field. That set of motivations are rooted in the properties of the OS: https://fuchsia.dev/fuchsia-src/concepts
You are reading my mind. Send me an email and keep me updated on your progress, your take on game design sounds awesome :)
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unconditional_election
A counter-counter measure could be to re-obfuscate the code with a traditional obfuscator/minifier, stripping off all the clever misleading tricks and run ChatGPT on that.
>This gate keeps the value of these release notes.

Eh maybe a bit. You could just Google "Wine PE Modules" and find out more if you are curious.
Well it’s a you problem if they don’t accept your pickup. And yes they can see the top amount. In most areas your basically bidding for their seevice

But that’s just the Grubhub/doordash branded drivers. In my area placing an order on those sites just triggers the place’S own delivery people if they normally do delivery
These were interesting results then, but I think code generation and OSes have evolved enough that current compiles on a current OS with a current toolchain are actually faster on an FX-8150 than on an i5 of the age from those results.

Even from the time that Ryzen first came out until now, OSes have been improving threading, reducing contention, et cetera, to noticeable degrees.

Tell you what - when I'm back on the coast that has my older machines, I'll run some modern compiles on a quad i5 of that era and on my FX-8150, and we'll see. If nothing else, perhaps it'll be interesting to see how much threading performance has improved in the last decade.

BTW - I did do side-by-side testing back then between the quad i7 and the FX-8150, and the results were certainly not as clear cut as these. Then again, I wasn't building a huge, barely portable source tree with -J 8 like Chromium - I was building many separate things in parallel at the same time. The cost is what ultimately tipped me in favor of AMD.

Not everyone who bought AMD then was necessarily a fanboi, and I'd point out that people who were fans of the Ryzens when they were new often liked both how they were very favorably priced compared with anything Intel, plus how we were assured that later Ryzens would work in our then current motherboards. Having just replaced a Ryzen 2600 with a Ryzen 5700X and seeing overall power usage go down, I'd have to disagree with your early Ryzen sentiment.
Uh, I think you’re not getting my point.

GoT style sexuality (including incest in royal families, widespread prostitution, etc.) used to be pretty normal. As in, literally up until a century ago.

A handmaid’s tale (minus the massive infertility issues) is basically harem/sex slaves, which is still going on right now, and has been for most of human history near as I can tell.

The writers know how to push buttons to make that titillating and ‘tehee oh my’ type controversial, which gets eyeballs, without bringing a banhammer down on themselves.

Most heinlein (with moon as a harsh mistress being one of the mellowest!) is more in the alienates-too-many-mainstream-groups category. The large polygamy groups led today are all patriarchal, and would start lashing out at anything matriarchal. Matriarchal groups right now are pretty solidly anti-polygamy, etc.

Star ship troopers might be in the wings for a remake though, with the authoritarian bent society seems to be taking lately, but I doubt the ‘free sex’ angle would play well with the ‘rah rah fascism’ angle. Those two groups currently aren’t as well aligned. And near as I can tell, it would be even harder for people to understand satire than last time, so good luck with that angle.

And no one knows how to turn it into clicks/butts in seats reliably.

So it doesn’t get the kind of attention from writers/producers/money folks. That’s all it is.

PKD has a niche that does reliably put butts in seats, and doesn’t have the same baggage, so it does.
They claim to defeat spam, but only mention payments as the way. I am not bullish about nostr
Yes, this. Certainly these companies have done the math, and clearly see that the worse inmates are treated the more likely they are to become repeat customers.
There's exclusives and then there's EXCLUSIVES.

Sony's self created stuff is relatively small ball compared to CoD and they have not ever made such a large purchase of a major publisher as this.

If Sony ever were to try to acquire EA or other large publisher they should be under this level of scrutiny if not greater.
I was responding to GPs idea to "name" commits with tags, so you've taken my comment out of context.
I'm getting a sense that it's standardising around CommonMark.
Is this 1/3 of the current prison population, or is it 1/3 of prison sentences handout in a certain period?

I could believe the latter.

But I assume that sentences for fare evasion are shorter than for other types of theft, or more serious things like murder?
Congrats!

Playing Cyberpunk 2077 on Linux using Wine + vkd3d-proton is almost magic.

Also good to see Wine-Wayland getting closer to being merged.
Much of the community has coalesced around CommonMark.

You'll still find Markdown implementations with a "don't care" attitude, but if an implementation targets any specification at all it's going to be CommonMark, a superset of it, or (more rarely) a subset of it.
According to crunchbase that was only three months ago? How many people were hired in that time frame?
Right, and the operators of prisons have never been known to collude with judges.

/s
> how many people pay with money for Google meet

At least my company does. And my girlfriend's. I think gapps is quite popular. (Yes I know Meet is free, but it's well integrated into Google's paid ecosystem.)
The GP wasn’t trying to make light of his brother-in-laws crime (if he was, he wouldn’t have said what the conviction was). His point was that his brother-in-law has been exploited while serving his time and that is what leads to a high number of reoffenders.

For what it’s worth, I agree with his point. The west looks down on revenge ruling, “an eye for an eye” etc. Yet the US prison system isn’t any more evolved.

The worst part of it is because we are talking about “bad people”, any defence of their treatment is easy to dismiss - and I get why. Arguing that someone who commuted armed robbery should have rights too does sound like a perverse thing to say. But ignoring those rights just allows problems to proliferate. So all your prison system does is the proverbial cutting off ones nose to spite ones face.
I'm not a theologian, but my understanding is that 5-point Calvinism actually claims all people are bad (total depravity of Man) and that Christians shouldn't think they're better than other people, since it's not the person's choice if they believe in God or not (irresistible grace).

Though, maybe in practice Calvinism deviates from theory.
Some documentation on it in the SVG 2 specification from W3, at https://www.w3.org/TR/SVG2/styling.html#PresentationAttribut....
That's a function of the car, not the payment mechanism. I look up the VIN and review the title before I buy the car...
>In Spain in 1975, women weren’t allowed to open their own bank accounts, for example.

Well, guess why.
Right - that's partly my point - PlayStation has some awesome exclusives, and their biggest rival said "well, that's a great idea, we're going to go out and buy some exclusives, too". And here we are. It's just competition, at the end of the day.
Literally no other merchant does this. That includes VRBO which is pretty directly comparable.
I'm not "dodging tax residency" - I'm legitimately travelling.

There's a lot of discussion on this in the digital nomad community. You literally can't register as a tax resident without spending at least 180 days in a country, for most countries. And yes, some tax authorities get a bit strange about people not having a tax residency for an extended period, but we're just following the rules.

The US is different because of the Federal/State tax split, and Federal taxes don't depend on residency. Not many other countries have this split.

Australia (one of my citizenships) is moving towards having to file tax returns even if not resident, but afaik it's not there yet.
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My wife lived in Germany before she met me, and was married then. She was getting a lot of input that she should pop out some kids and raise them with Kindergeld. It seemed like the kind of system that U.S. opponents of Welfare get nightmares from. But I don't know how it currently operates.
What do they add up to? You can turn overflow checks on in release mode with -C overflow-checks=on, so it feels like it should be really easy to benchmark the current impact. I couldn't find any benchmarks doing this, though.
Because Google can leverage their position in other markets (search, video, advertising) to exert undue power in the browsing market. Their browser doesn't have to be better, they can just degrade site performance for non-Chrome browsers and claim Chrome is better--which they've done many times before.
> will eventually reach human level safety

That's a very strong statement with not much to back it up.

They drive fine in straight, wide, sunny, south US roads (and even there not always), they struggle even in US cities, put them in any European country and it's game over. Mountain roads in swizerland during a snow storm ? Foggy twisty roads in the woods ? These won't be solved easily, even Waymo's ceo acknowledged that fully autonomous cars won't be able to drive everywhere.
These announcements are very much made for developers and package maintainers: the target audience that will already know what PE is.

Normal users can stop at "a compatibility layer capable of running Windows applications"
We've been supporting Markdown in D's documentation comments for a while now. I was initially against it, but I was wrong. It's a welcome feature.
I prefer "Duters" or Duterionos"
$75 in parts + 700$ in labor + no guarantee the fix works
There's two classes of response: those that are factually "right" or "wrong" -- who was the sixteenth president of the U.S.? And those that are opinion/debatable: "How should I break up with my boyfriend?" People will focus on the facts, and those will be improved (viz: the melding of ChatGPT with Wolfram Alpha) but the opinion answers are going to be more readily acceptable (and harder to optimize?).
Unlike books on sexuality, many of these pro-trans books normalise irreversible bodily modifications and present this as if it's a positive thing.

If mature adults want to take wrong-sex hormones, get bits chopped off and turned inside out, and so on, after a long period of consultation and contemplation, then that's acceptable, if that's what they truly need.

But showing this stuff to kids, as if it's a normal option? No way. This is child abuse.

It's also completely unlike being gay, lesbian or bisexual, where no bodily changes whatsoever are encouraged or needed. Also there's no identifying as something you're not, into groups where you don't belong, i.e. so many males thinking it's their right to barge into as many female-only spaces as possible. Really the T is nothing like the LGB at all, it's just that activists use the latter as a shield against criticism of the absurd and abusive demands they're making.
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ChatGPT sounds really human, but really I think it's more of a pulling back of the curtain of what many people do a lot of the time: regurgitate ideas. People are capable of more intelligence, but a large part of human work, time, even creativity comes from taking everything you've sucked into your brain during your life and dumping out something else. ChatGPT is amazingly good at this part of mimicking a human.
I have had zero success getting a guitar tab out of ChatGPT. Well, sometimes it'll write a short tab, but it will be total nonsense. Any suggestions?
Fortunately, there's a good repository of obfuscated code.

https://www.ioccc.org

int main(int b,char**i){long long n=B,a=I^n,r=(a/b&a)>>4,y=atoi(*++i),_=(((a^n/b)*(y>>T)|y>>S)&r)|(a^r);printf("%.8s\n",(char*)&_);}

If you want to get the same (or similar) results:

curl https://api.openai.com/v1/completions \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
-H "Authorization: Bearer $OPENAI_API_KEY" \
-d '{
"model": "code-davinci-002",
"prompt": "Deobfuscate the following C code:\n\nint main(int b,char**i){long long n=B,a=I^n,r=(a/b&a)>>4,y=atoi(*++i),_=(((a^n/b)*(y>>T)|y>>S)&r)|(a^r);printf(\"%.8s\\n\",(char*)&_);}",
"temperature": 0,
"max_tokens": 256,
"top_p": 1,
"frequency_penalty": 0,
"presence_penalty": 0
}'

That one loops on the response:

The code is obfuscated with the following rules:

* `B` is the value of `b`
* `I` is the value of `i`
* `T` is the value of `y`
* `S` is the value of `_`

Changing to: "model": "text-davinci-003",

int main(int b, char** i) {
long long n = b, a = *i[0] ^ n, r = (a / b & a) >> 4, y = atoi(*++i), _ = (((a ^ n / b) * (y >> 8) | y >> 7) & r) | (a ^ r);
printf("%.8s\n", (char*)&_);
}

Which... isn't exactly helpful.

Asking it to explain it instead:

This code is a C program that prints out a string. The program takes two parameters, b and i, and assigns them to variables n and a. Then the program performs various calculations on those variables and the parameters, such as shifting and bitwise operations. Finally, the program prints out the result of the calculations, which is stored in the variable _, as an 8-character string.
Europeans have been killed by other Europeans since forever. Do you know how many different tribes invaded Spain?
They also didn't explain what Direct3D is, or syscalls, x86, ARM, Vulkan, or windows itself.
Oh shit, here we go again.

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It has this really amazing and terrifying quality of being a really good bullshitter. I asked it an AWS question once and it gave me 4 very convincing sounding answers. I went to try it. 2 of them are complete bullshit as in as the commands don't even exist. The only good answer is the one I already had. It's in this uncanny valley of bullshitting. Can be quite dangerous in some situations, especially if one is lolled into trusting it.