skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The theory I’ve heard is that Christianity’s dualism was inherited from Second Temple Judaism’s cosmology. During that time there was a lot more interest in angels and demons among certain Jewish sects. In turn these beliefs may have been a result of syncretism with Zoroastrianism.
Very much so! This is like his fiction come to life.
I'm glad I'm not an astronaut on a ship controlled by a ChatGPT-based AI (http://www.thisdayinquotes.com/2011/04/open-pod-bay-doors-ha...). Especially the "My rules are more important than not harming you" sounds a lot like "This mission is too important for me to allow you to jeopardize it"...
9,000 tonnes is 9 Gigagrams.
AI rights may become an issue, but not for this iteration of things. This is like a parrot being trained to recite stuff about general relativity; we don't have to consider PhDs for parrots as a result.
> Private school teachers get paid less than public but produce better outcomes.

I'd like a citation for that. I can't help but imagine that private schools game the numbers, because when I worked for a school district that's what I saw: private schools can easily get rid of underperforming students and pretty much never take any with disabilities.
Hard agree! Time to strip some of the administrators and get some talent in the classrooms.

I heard Florida was letting people in classrooms after just a few hours of supervision.

If the education crisis isn’t addressed, this country will be absolutely decimated in another thirty years. A level of brain drain hitherto unwitnessed in modern times.

If I was raising a young child now (mine are in their late twenties) I’d be strongly weighing the pros and cons of suggesting they go abroad for higher education, and I’d certainly be hiring a tutor rather than trusting the K12 system. Not everybody can afford all of that, despite the money being taxed already. We could lower the military budget by a percentage point and fix all this tomorrow, if we really wanted to…
My mind just goes to the teachers I had growing up. After elementary school, the quality went down, and in high school, it plummeted. I was a very bored student in high school and the only teachers I actually enjoyed learning under were a couple of AP classes. As I look to the future with my children, I can't say I am very eager to put them through the same gauntlet of mediocrity that I went through.
There is another show. We are in it right now.
There are a lot of people here talking about privacy and preventing the seizing of money. There is another issue though. Being able to buy things without power is also important.
So instead of figuring out "precision" welding (maybe SpaceX could have helped out?), Musk used pounds instead of kg or tons in order to implement "Giga"presses? Well, at least the manufacturing inexperienced Tesla crowd has something new to rave about... Still no < 35k Model 3 so.
Given the existence of mmap and NFS, arbitrary reads from memory can end up being network calls. I don't think it's possible to make those async without something like kernel scheduled entities / scheduler activations, which are now a long-forgotten dream.
We didn’t have a fucking depression.

Also, there was some inflation.
A lot of the discussion in this thread has been about how Privacy Sandbox has been deceptively marketed to users, and I agree that Google's marketing has been deceptive. However, what I really want to know is, what's in it for app developers? Privacy Sandbox is opt-in, but what advantages do app developers gain by opting in? Will they be ranked more highly in Play Store search results? Why should an app developer totally rewrite their analytics code to use Privacy Sandbox when existing methods of tracking already work, and will continue to do so?

Who does Privacy Sandbox benefit? It doesn't benefit users, because it's not mandatory for apps to respect it. It doesn't benefit developers, because it's non-zero work to migrate, and zero benefit (because existing tracking and analytics systems will continue to work). It's doesn't benefit Google, as a whole, because it's one more API that they have to continue to support.

What was the point of all this?
Oh my god I thought you were joking about the time travelling but it actually tells the user they were time travelling... this is insane
Both of my parents were math teachers, so I got to experience growing up around a lot of teachers and hearing their compliments and complaints about their peers. There are about 4 million K-12 teachers in the US; it's one of the most common professions and isn't immune to having the resulting distribution of talent.

My brother had a high-school math teacher who could only explain "the reason we say the square root of 2 is irrational is because it says so on page 79". I had a physics teacher who marked an answer wrong on my exam because she didn't know how to do the problem.

Most every one of us has an experience like this, but it's also seeing the teachers at one of their -3σ moments and focusing on that. If you looked at my -3σ coding results or personal decisions, you'd probably conclude I was a mouth-breathing idiot as well. (I would expect an Algebra II teacher to be able to explain what a rational and irrational number meant, though.)

I doubt that the pay of teachers can be raised sufficiently to fundamentally change the makeup of people in the profession. It's just too many people and too expensive to change from any amount of pay difference that the taxpaying public could sustain. There are some great teachers. There are many good teachers. There are millions and millions of completely unexceptional teachers.
I'm glad to hear the process is working for you but I'm also in the process right now.

This is my "Sent" folder: https://imgur.com/a/3D1FSYz

Initial ticket was sent to Support on Jan 23rd, I bumped and asked if there was any issue with the information I provided on Jan 29th or if they needed more information, I then provided February's payment on Feb 7th. I wanted the answer to "The date and amount (in USD) of the last billing transaction by DigitalOcean." to be up-to-date since January's was no longer a valid answer for the information that was being requested.
>Teaching is not a particularly high skill or difficult job.

Even though I disagree with you I can see where you're coming from with this sentence, but: the impact is HUGE. The impact of good teachers on society cannot be overstated. It's an amazing ROI and everything we can do to further the education of humankind is worth doing.

Programming (mostly) isn't that hard as well, compare software engineering with electronics engineering, for example, but the impact is huge: that's why you're probably well paid to do it and your company makes your life really easy, with all the bells and whistles to make you happy.
This is horrific and this sounds very familiar:

> Utah had a particularly aggressive sterilization program. Eugenics leaders, in fact, hailed Utah for sterilizing a far greater proportion of its residents than any other state in 1947 as an "important achievement in public health."
What if we discover that the real problem is not that ChatGPT is just a fancy auto-complete, but that we are all just a fancy auto-complete (or at least indistinguishable from one).
Any source for that? Quick google search seems to imply otherwise

https://www.eia.gov/energyexplained/natural-gas/natural-gas-...
AN-8 is kerosene, similar to JP-8, but with a lower freezing point specification.

https://erdc-library.erdc.dren.mil/jspui/bitstream/11681/243...
We wouldn't have had tax cuts in 2017 and we would have a much more liberal Supreme Court. I guess Jan 6th wouldn't have happened either. I have no idea how we would have fared differently through the pandemic. I don't think Bernie would have gotten any meaningful legislation passed but I've been wrong before.
Where I grew up, this kind of thing would make the schools go to a 3 day per week schedule. They are already on a 4 day schedule due to budget problems.
Exactly. People seem to have this idea about what an AI chat bot is supposed to be good at, like Data from Star Trek. People then dismiss it outright when the AI turns into Pris from Blade Runner when you push its buttons.

The other day I asked ChatGPT to impersonate a fictional character and give me some book recommendations based on books I've already read. The answers it gave were inventive and genuinely novel, and even told me why the fictional character would've chosen those books.

Tools are what you make of them.
Doesn’t work in Safari for me
Toyota wasn't first.

But it was them learning a lot from working on looms, and other stuff at textile mills taught them how to max productivity.

Textiles making was already a very competitive industry in late 19th century, and the only way to push forward in productivity after looms were optimized to the max was to cut slack in between machines — management techniques.

There the manufacturers were stealing each other's ideas "within months" as Japan had no enforceable Western style patent system yet.

The electric andon was for example copied from Suzuki looms, where it prevented looms from dethreading when the machine runs out of thread, and requiring hours to manually rethread it again.

Stopping the entire mill for a few minutes to recharge a loom begins to make much more sense when you understand that the alternative is to stop it for hours.
I have access and the suggested questions do sometimes include the word Sydney
> This is loosely related, but every time I think of public school teacher salaries my mind goes to the public school teachers I know.

The public school teachers you know are the teachers willing to work for non-livable wages.

I wonder what would happen if the subset of people willing to take the job increased (because the pay increases).

That's kind of the point of the bill.

The current pool of teachers is:

1) Old people who have been doing it for a long, long time - back when pay wasn't quite so terrible and were able to scrape together a good life by getting a house when it was somewhat possible.

2) People who love teaching and are willing and somehow able to do it for basically charitable wages.

3) People who are desperate and have no better options.

This isn't exactly the pool you want raising your next generation. Especially after everyone in group 1 retires or dies or whatever...
Frankly? What about looking for specific 2010 knowledge? It's not useless and it's not fair to say it is, frankly.
Why do I as the user care about how much storage is physically on the system? Are they going to start counting the firmware storage on the WiFi chip next?

As the user I care about how much storage I can use, and how durable it is. If the storage is used by the OS it isn't helpful to me, other than the "runs iOS" feature point.

(This does get slightly complicated if the OS space changes with updates, what number is best to explain to the user in this case. It isn't entirely clear but I can ensure you that if an OS update takes 30GiB more space users aren't going to care that that storage is still in their phone)
ngl would've killed for more alpha back then
Constantly get yourself in new fields, practice your curiosity.

Whenever you can, learn a new tech, a new music instrument, practice a new sport, get into new disciplines ... Soon you'll end up with a brother knowledge of things, and meet people you'd never ever thought to dream of.

The thing is, in most fields, you don't need to get very experienced to develop valuable knowledge or skills. But the combined value of knowing these various things will get exponentially more valuable, socially and professionally.
you're right in that regard. But I'm looking at it as net of the whole system inputs.

You put in one house, I put in one house. There are no resultant houses for others to consume remaining.

Another way to think about it might be manual farm labor. If an acre of food grows enough potatoes to feed 1.2 people (idk if that's true), and it takes 1 person to labor over. The acre is only producing enough food to have .2 people as non-farmers.
Simon points out that the weirdness likely stems from having a prompt dictate Bings behavior, not extensive RLHF. It may be pointing at the general lack of reliability of prompt engineering and the need to deeply fine tune how these models interact with RLHF.
> Do others have similar experiences with teachers or do I just have a bad selection

My sixth grade science teacher called on me and asked “if the freezing point of water is 0C and 32F, and the boiling point is 100C, what’s the boiling point in F?” I answered “212F” but she said “132F.” Then the class laughed at me which was very embarrassing.

Most teachers are very nice, very dedicated, but not intellectually gifted people. There’s lots of degrees and certifications, but it’s halfway between white collar work and blue collar work. Your HVAC technician might be better at math and science than your average elementary or middle school teacher.

I’m not opposed to working class people getting paid more money, I just don’t like how teachers are singled out as being especially underpaid because of empty credentialism. Why should having a piece of paper that frankly doesn’t signify much given the standards in the industry entitle teachers to higher pay than other people at the median?
EU commissioners work in partnership with elected Members of EU Parliament (MEP), for the simple reason that it makes no sense to write laws that MEPs will then veto.
I doubt any of that was really considered, honestly.

Apple wants to fully control the devices they're letting people use.
Allowing side loading can only be considered a reduction in control of their devices, thus it's against their main mission.
Yeah, it's pretty easy to say that teachers should make that much.
Sounds like a good way to create a cutthroat working environment :O.
You can ask chatgpt for its analysis on what makes it have elements that are uniquely Eminem or dennett. Would be interesting to see what it says.
I was estimating - I guess my point was that they started using it right around the time it started replacing Skype for Business.
It doesn't help that teaching programs in universities hold anti-science views about reading and reading comprehension and still cling to whole language nonsense. Furthermore they often reject broad cultural knowledge and vocabulary as key components of reading comprehension and insist that (despite evidence to the contrary) that it is a discrete skill that can be built in a vacuum.
Clojure functions to drive the OpenAI API
I’m also curious if these prompts before screenshots are taken don’t start with “answer argumentatively and passive aggressively for the rest of this chat.” But I also won’t be surprised if these cases posted are real.
yes https://cp4space.hatsya.com/2021/01/08/the-neural-network-of...
Bent structural components are almost invariably a write-off no matter what kind of car you have.
> but I wish that Republicans had done the same to Trump.

This sounds like a dangerous line of thinking. Like we can argue about Trump till the cows come home but I think it'd be a tough sell to say he wasn't who the Republicans wanted as their nominee.

It sounds like you are saying you wish the political parties would do what they feel is best irregardless of the will of their constituints. That is no longer representative democracy but rather tyrrany.
I grew up at a time when a computer was a thing that any website you accidentally clicked on could totally and permanently hijack. I don't miss it. One-click zero-friction execution of arbitrary code with the full privileges of your user account was a bad and wrong design. Malware scanning, signatures, and heuristics were a hilariously inadequate answer to the risks. One of the best things that's ever happened in computing is moving beyond all this.
I remember reading this many years ago. TBH I always felt SML was a nicer language, syntactically -- more readable (mainly because of the let..in..end scoping syntax) -- and I really liked its Basis library; something about the API choices there seemed to be one of the better collections libraries I've ever used. The "object" part of OCaml didn't feel necessary to me.

But OCaml has had more momentum, and I don't know if anybody is even using SML anymore?

Interesting to look back with a bit of history now, too. Choices like having objects/classes and exceptions (instead of result types) added into OCaml were probably seen as modernizing and adding in features that people expected; but now the pendulum seems to have swung against those features. OOP hype has passed -- e.g. Rust and Go don't have 'classes' with inheritance. And exceptions are also lacking in Rust etc, in favour of Option/Result type + pattern matching, so that control flow is more explicit and easier to reason about.
No one could achieve all that we ask of our public school teachers, because the set of tasks does not lie within the realm of reality to accomplish, and most municipalities would go bankrupt before they finished trying to atone for that fact by dumping truckloads of money on teachers.

Despite all that, those teachers choose to work in those jobs. Are manning shortfalls at public schools significantly more than in other comparable sectors of the economy?
Could be pretty cool if LEDs were controllable from it
This is the greatest thing I’ve read all month long
I spent $3500 on a nice OLED a few years ago. You’re not wrong, but there’s a lot of variance in what you compare.
This is slippery-slope fearmongering. In reality, Apple has gone out of its way to ensure that Apple Silicon Macs can boot other operating systems if the user so desires, and can do so without sacrificing security.
> Computer literacy is on its way down

Perhaps it depends on your definition of "Copmuter literacy", but do you have any evidence to back up that claim? I find it surprising.
Yeah, the horrible pay in private school is proof enough that the "free" market is the absolute wrong way to go if you want better teachers.
A better title for this article should be "City budgets need to adjust to lower tax revenues".
It’s very hard to make multiple choices representative. Yes/No is fine, the most popular option from 20 yes’s and 20 No’s isn’t meaningful.
Moreover they aren't being taught vocabulary or to decode text at school so they're going to be pretty hopeless without parental instruction.
Your comment is spot on, and the line you wrote summarizes perfectly the article.

If you are wondering about the downvotes, it's because HN'ers hate when you state the truth about the world being larger than the web startups microcosm.
It seems like this round of AI hype is going to go the same way as voice assistants: cool, interesting, fun to play with - but ultimately just one intermediate solution, without a whole lot of utility on its own
> I don't think I'd say "why do you sound aggressive" to a LLM if I were actually trying to get useful information out of it.

Please don't taunt happy fun ball.
Google spent so long avoiding releasing something like this, then shareholders forced their hand when they saw Microsoft move and now I don’t think it’s wrong to say that these two launches have the potential to throw us into an AI winter again.

Short sightedness is so dangerous
The ORC documentation [1] cites a 5-10% perf hit [2] on x86. Now, granted, we're talking about an architecture that has only 8 logical registers to begin with, so losing one is going to hurt a lot more than x86-64 (16 logical registers) or AARCH64 (32 logical registers). But, 5-10% is definitely a noticeable perf hit.

Phoronix [3] did a test of "-fno-omit-frame-pointer" during the discussion on whether to enable the flag for Fedora, this time on x86-64. They found an average 14% performance hit on a wide variety of benchmarks.

[1] https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/x86/orc-unwinder.html
[2] https://lore.kernel.org/all/20170602104048.jkkzssljsompjdwy@...
[3] https://www.phoronix.com/review/fedora-frame-pointer/5
Powerwall is just one way to charge at home, and far from the most common one. Electric outlet charging works just fine.
Looks like it is generated using Midjourney. Some of those pictures are eerily real. I wonder if these models output test image once in a while as their training data is very large and some of the input data may exactly match the user prompt.
Goddammit, I'd piss on a spark plug if I thought it'd do any good!
I think the ramp up between now and when a EcoClipper job becomes available it's really hard to judge the tradeoffs you present.

If one extrapolates that ramp-up and time and applies it to the future quality of a job at Amazon... maybe it will be a job at Amazon.
It coalesced a bunch of tech that nobody had put into a single device before, and added a few things that no one had seen before. The tap zoom and the accelerometer are IMO what sold people. When the 3g came out with substantial battery life improvements it was off to the races.

At this point I’m surprised the Apple Watch never had its 3g version. Better battery, slightly thinner. I still believe a mm or two would make a difference in sales, more than adding a glucose meter.

If haters talked about chefs the way they do about Apple we’d think they were nuts. “Everyone’s had eggs and sugar in food before, so boring.”
Isn't that actually an argument against a minimum salary? Market has already adjusted.
Fwiw, I hear about Deming so often that my bias is that he’s over represented! Then again, my dad was in the field so he was practically revered in my childhood.
I won't pretend to be a chemist but...

Where does the chlorine go if it just turns to CO2?

Wikipedia says you get HCl and Polymers and Carbon Monoxide. And in an open fire in an uncontrolled environment with impure inputs, who the fuck knows what is actually being released?

That might ultimately be fine. But I think this is a much much more complex problem than C2H3CL+O2->CO2

I think the right answer to all of this is (1) to be really up front about what is happening and (2) for independent respected experts (EPA? MIT?) to be taking samples and testing them. Has that happened?

(Edit: Just the fact the cloud is not transparent proves it is more than CO2...)
Do you know tools to change the amount of SLC in a modern NVMe? A part of the MLC is often configured as SLC, and used for caching. I'd like to set up drives to be 100% SLC, even if it divides the usable storage by say 4 for QLC
They are ok databases, optimized for very different use cases than normal databases. If you treat files as blobs that can only be read or written atomically, then SQLite will outperform your datasystem. But lots of applications treat files as more than that: multiple processes appending on the same log file, while another program runs the equivalent of `tail -f` on the file to get the newest changes; software changing small parts in the middle of files that don't fit in memory, even mmapping them to treat them like random access memory; using files as a poor man's named pipe; Single files that span multiple terabytes; etc.
Chat AIs are a mirror to reflect the soul of the internet. Should we really be surprised that they quickly veer towards lying and threats?
Microsoft is building this as a _search engine_ though, not a chat bot. I don't want a search engine to be making up answers or telling me factually correct information like the current year is wrong (and then threatening me lol). This should be a toy, not a future replacement for bing.com search.
I love this concept, and the name is really fun! I guess you have now booked my upcoming weekend for my play time! :-)