skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>Cultural divergence did not cause different economic systems, quite the opposite, in fact: the different economic systems caused the cultural divergence.

That's exactly what I said :-)
Slate readers are the only people who would rather read a book called "Hanging Out" instead of just... hanging out.
You could force tests to be done in testing centers. My college had these and they were strict about what you can bring, you get up to a whole week to show up on your own time, and you're only allowed a paper and pencil if anything at all, that they provide. Make the Final and Midterm tests worth roughly 60% of their grade, and it wont matter if they cheat on their homework.

Edit:

Alternatively, have students do presentations of their code from their homework, just as we all do peer review professionally. Let students learn and teach other students.
Ah, I have identified our disconnect.

Our definition of hanging out is different. I’m going with “killing time” in a sense of hours at a time, which you definitely don’t do at work. Similarly, I doubt you often kill hours at a time with random people you don’t know or your neighbors. And your dad/sister’s people are different too if your dad/sister are there.

Folks like me aren’t sociopathic lol. I like a good casual conversation with a neighbor when you happen to be getting the mail at the same time. I had a great conversation today with a stranger about Apple watches.

It’s sitting in the garage with your roommates (and whoever else) for 6 hours on a Saturday smoking cigarettes talking shit that I’m highlighting as boring. (And the article is praising.) It’s not “lost” as the article states, I just have better things to do. And that used to be every Saturday for me (pandemic aside).
yep, i had the very same “stackoverflow dejavu” feeling
A lot of business intranet software still runs on IE, especially in the far east.
There are some hints about what to post here in https://news.ycombinator.com/newswelcome.html
I did most of a humanities degree in the early- to mid-'00s and the only courses that relied heavily on long-form out-of-class writing exercises for grades were in the actual language departments (English, foreign languages).

The rest were big on the occasional short quiz in-class to check understanding, and periodic "bluebook" exams that involved writing the equivalent of perhaps 3-5 total pages of typewritten material, by hand, in one class period, in person, in response to perhaps a half-dozen prompts. Basically a series of short, to-the-point essays. Not a ton of outside-of-class paper composition. I doubt they'd have trouble adjusting to remove those all but entirely.
Mitsubishi Corporation Becomes Largest Stakeholder in Toyo Tire
Darn, I guess GP will have to go without then
You have a very odd definition of "fraud" in my opinion. But I'll just leave it at that, because this feels like the perfect example of the oft-quoted "99% of all Internet arguments are over semantics" line.
printf_p is pretty neat, thanks for the pointer. But I would bet that you will still find at least one %d gets turned into a %s.

I like printf format strings, but as a way of handling localizable strings I don't think they are the best.
Heh. I've been running my own since the mid 90's. Originally I worked for some early ISPs, and continued it as a hobby of sorts. (My main personal email is on gmail.)
Thankfully; there are entire (completely-local) applications designed around MSHTML.
are you using an ios device by any chance?

author probably needs this: https://github.com/adityatelange/hugo-PaperMod/issues/828#is...

i got bit by this on my blog as well
The world has evolved, and higher education has not kept up with it. IT's time to stop giving trite and simplistic programming assignments to your student and make them work for it. Have them study set of online documentation and make the test about whether they can look up function calls and successfully assemble the information required to present a working solution.
Yes that is generally common sense reasoning but it is called regressive because then poor people spend a larger % of their income.

Honestly seems like some mental gymnastics to me to argue that regressive is about what % of income is spent on taxes rather than amount of taxes paid but that's the argument.
Your entire argument rests upon unsupported notions of political and social homogeneity of racial groups. Seeing my race as important to my identity doesn’t mean I have the same beliefs as my neighbor, friend, coworker, or family member of the same race. It would be racist - actually racist, not the politically correct “racist” - to suggest all members of the same race have the same beliefs.

And even worse is this paragraph implying some kind of future risk to white people if they were not in political control:

> Will they be treated with gratitude for sharing their country, and so can afford to act colorblind, forsaking racial solidarity? Is gratitude what they're being shown now?

Seriously, I would ask you both define gratitude concretely and justify why it matters. Otherwise you’re just vending fear.
Poor people tend to spend a higher percentage of their income, and invest a lower percentage. So, they end up paying a higher percentage of their incomes in sales tax, on average.
To get an actual education instead of merely imitating whatever is trending on hacker news.
Mike Judge is almost that.
1. What makes any country "their country"? Why does everyone only focus on the Western World? Can I move to Japan, China, Israel, France and just become a citizen without passport, visa, etc? No.

2. Yes.
The commodification of social spaces? If you can’t spend time in places without paying (in the cost of coffee, beer, gym fees, etc ) then that excludes big chunks of people, or they alert ration their social times to some extent
Reading this, I’m glad I didn’t have access to ChatGPT and co when I was in school. I was lazy and always followed the path of least resistance, but I wanted good grades so that meant doing the home work by hand after my Google-fu failed.
Creating the paper has never been the point of these things. The paper has no value at all, to anyone, as soon as the grade is issued.
Shutting down a reasonable conversation you don't agree with is tantamount to censorship. If you don't consider that dangerous, well again, reasonable people will disagree.
Not to be a downer on this but it look like he could still have HIV, this man just hasn't had symptoms in 4 years because of his treatment. Still very cool
So how do you get the precursors to the plant? You're either transporting chlorine, or you're manufacturing it in huge quantities locally, which has plenty of it's own headaches.

Either trucks or trains, and trains are more cost effective.
afaik, FreeCAD is not code-driven or text-based. In the few minutes I played with it, it seems like a massive app which is sluggish on fast computers, and stores its data in an opaque binary format. So it's not really in the same category.
The materialism is just a symptom. The root issue is believe happiness is a stasis point where you'll just ride off into the sunset in this fixed emotional state until you die. That belief is why they think they could 'buy' it. They dedicate their lives in search of it.
increasing competition lowers prices.
This is meant to run on GPUs with 16GB RAM. Most M1/M2 users have at least 32GB (unified memory), and you can configure a MBP or Mac Studio with up to 96/128GB.

The Mac Pro is still Intel, but it can be configured with up to 1.5TB of RAM, you can imagine the M* replacement will have equally gigantic options when it comes out.
None of this is strictly incorrect, but it's a mistake to conclude that since all sides are biased the truth is unknowable and you might as well throw up your hands and retreat entirely. In fact, the goal of disinformation isn't necessarily to make you believe things that are wrong, the goal is to create enough confusion to make you believe that you simply can't know what's going on.

If you assign equal weight to NASA and flat earth websites you might as well conclude that apparently there is controversy among so-called "experts", so who knows, maybe the earth is round and maybe it isn't. You can think this way, but it's clearly bullshit. While NASA isn't magic and they have made mistakes and have lost spacecraft, their level of credibility isn't equal to flat-earthers.

The governments of the United States (and the European and Asian democracies) and Russia both have agendas and both push narratives they want you to believe. This is true. But if you think the democratic and totalitarian governments are equally trustworthy you're deluding yourself.
It's amazing that in an industry with so much money they don't have accepted norms of professionalism baked in.

Even for startups.

It's almost like VC land should have the rule, 'once the cheque is >$1M, you do this required 2-week long training' hopefully jam packed with essential goodies.

Most of our time in school is academically oriented, nothing in particular applied.

I find that very odd.
It's also conceivable that companies running LLMs might consider various tweaks to popular questions as they appear in media so as to inflate the model's answers. No way to learn for sure, but competing companies where PR spells short term disasters, wouldn't put it past them to intervene when necessary. I am not familiar with how one augments and already trained model or if if there is even an architecture that's capable of that, short of input proxies in front of the model. I am curious to learn more if anyone knows.
I would not call that hidden, but rather obfuscated prices. Although, legislation to make pricing clearer and easier to compare is always welcome.
Council tax is done locally and basically has to be as high as it can be because the vast majority of it goes to things like care for wealthy pensioners (about half of council tax goes to adult social care). This used to be at least part-funded by central government (which raises its income mainly from taxing workers)

It's sort of based on house values, but that's values in 1990 so very little relevance to today, and its certainly not proportional -- someone in a £5m house pays just 3 times the amount someone in a £80k flat.
What ChatGPT (and its cousins) expose is that the way humans have been taught in most schools - memorizing and regurgitating information - is now a commodity.

What humans being to the table over ChatGPT is our ability to create new links between information, aka creativity. Teaching creativity, imo, will require a return to the methods like those of Sophocles and his contemporaries. I would rather this author be writing about how he is going to re-examine how he teaches rather than bemoaning that students can shortcut his current approach.
Primary school here is until 12 (Year 6)
How fast is it in single batch mode?
NP-complete isn't always hard
If the point of school work is to prepare for life - then you should mainly learn, how to get a job done.

And if they want to teach special skills, like writing essays without computerhelp - then you can test that onsite.
It would be fantastic if large language models (or any of the nascent AI/machine learning tech.) finally kill off both assessment in education and copyright/IP protection.

What a wonderful future that would be. We can but hope.
It wont for long time. For light and not too volumetric cargo the shipping in container is very very cheap. Like laughably little from price of item.
I have an older house and cold cellars are common here. It's a room outside of the foundation in the basement and the roof is the floor of my porch. It was originally intended to keep preserved food cold passively.

So I threw a 32 core xeon server in there. It's isolated enough that the fan noise doesn't carry, and nothing I can do will make the core temps go over 28C. Free cooling during the summer, and in the winter, waste heat from the server helps keep the cold from leeching into the rest of the basement. It's really a beautiful solution.

The server itself runs proxmox, and I've got four or five services exposed to the internet behind an nginx proxy. Most of the time I don't ever have to touch it.

The -only- thing I don't host at home is my email server. Mostly because it's very old and I don't want to upset it, but also email behind a residential IP can be painful.

Everything I host is just for my personal use, and it's been a pretty worthwhile experience. It doesn't take too much of my time, I get to learn new skills, and at the end of it, I get a service I was going to use anyway, but I have absolute certainty that my data is under my control and no one else need be involved. It's nice.

I still need to figure out long term backups, but for now I periodically dump to an external drive and store it in a fireproof safe in the same room. That's as secure as I can get in this environment and I think it's good enough.
I wrote on this over the weekend in an essay titled "Forced Boredom"

A lot of this is standard advice for various creators. I think, however, that it's possible to optimize yourself for the process. I find in my professional life and watching others that there are creative stages which are followed by forgetting these lessons, then re-learning them all over again. Humans are complex machines.

Shameless plug: https://danielbmarkham.com/forced-boredom/
Yeah I guess I should be more specific. It's not really a barber, I think it's more 'hair stylist' I guess? Just a place that does all kinds of haircuts. No barber pole on the front or anything like that. Rarely get the same stylist twice, and they just pull up my cutting preferences from their computer when I check in.

> My hair is now so thin and wispy that no barber can make it look OK. I cut it very short myself, with electric clippers. I haven't been to a barbers in 8 years.

Ha! I'm getting there fast. I can still get it cut so it doesn't look terrible, but it quickly grows out and starts to look patchy, and worse, like I'm trying to have some kind of hangover. I'm this ---><--- close to just taking the clippers to it myself and calling it good.
5th person confirmed to be cured of HIV
The people you're cheating are not your professors but your peers. For better or for worse, grades are used to rank people and mete out further opportunities and benefits. The professors already have jobs.
Those that do earn over £150k a year don't have to worry aobut how much they spend eating sunday dinner at the local pub

Those earning 55k a year used to, now they can't afford it.

(Marginal tax at 55k for a parent with 2 kids and a student loan is 69%, for someone on 150k who's probably paid off their loan it's 47%)
I agree ... but lots of companies seem to be penny-wise and pound foolish.
mRNA vaccine sequences in blood up to 28 days after Covid-19 vaccination
This makes sense for location specific services. If you are trying to compare two hotel rooms, by so means, they should be forced to include all the taxes they require since that doesn't involve your location and is important when comparing prices.

But should not be a requirement for products where I would need to pay my local tax as that would require me to enter my location and would not provide any interesting extra information between products.
1). Brain drain is very real and documented even on a state level in the us.

2). Maybe we can focus on immigration _and_ the reasons why women (and men) are choosing not to have as many kids anymore? Maybe just bringing people in to work the jobs most Americans don’t want to work should be looked at a little more closely? Just saying
I thing DfWalker would be a better name.
While OPT-175B is great to have publicly available, it needs a lot more training to achieve good results. Meta trained OPT on 180B tokens, compared to 300B that GPT-3 saw. And the Chinchilla scaling laws suggest that almost 4T tokens would be required to get the most bang for compute buck.

And on top of that, there are some questions on the quality of open source data (The Pile) vs OpenAI’s proprietary dataset, which they seem to have spent a lot of effort cleaning. So: open source models are probably data-constrained, in both quantity and quality.
I'm not sure if samanas are the ideal of how everyone wants or should aspire to find happiness. I'm also fairly certain they would describe themselves as content but probably not permanently happy. As far as I know they seek enlightenment, which is not synonymous with happiness as a concept.
Insurance companies doing this to help people manage risk and are often attempting to help people in moments of grief and tragedy, and those people opted into the contract.

Train companies doing this to unsuspecting towns are stochastic monsters killing people because the victims are a financial externality and therefore cheaper dead than alive. They knew that a disaster could happen but chose good balance sheets over externalized risk.

Boiling this down to pure economics is monstrous; Flip this around. What if I get to decide if you live or die based on my spreadsheets?

Clearly the dollar value of thing isn't the only thing that matters. We should make these as safe as we can afford to, to the point that mass death or even mass destruction doesn't happen while billionaires are made from it. We can't afford infinite safety but while we can afford more safety we should. It is even correct from a macroeconomic standpoint, people who don't die or suffer from disasters go on to be more productive in the economy than dead people.
I think there' an initial reaction of something like "how dare they!?!?"

However, AI the type of tool that going to level up mankind's capabilities to the point that curriculums will need to adjust to fit those new capabilities. Certainly this has happened dozens of time in a field like Computer Science, where curriculum in 2023 is radically different than it was in the 60's and 70's.

This new rise in AI might be amongst the most disruptive forces ever in many fields, including academics, but at some point, you have to factor AI in as integral part of our day-to-day work and life and factor that into education.

This will be difficult, especially finding the line between what is fundamental and what is not, but it's not like this hasn't happened before -- e.g. the calculator didn't eliminate the need to learn basic arithmetic.
I see what you mean, but it's not really a better analogy.

We need to learn how to do addition at some point, so we can't have ChatGPT do that.

We need to learn how 'registers' work, so we can't have ChatGPT do that.

We need to learn basic algorithms work, so we can't have ChatGPT do that.

AKA - almost whatever is being assigned as homework, is the 'thing to be learned' and it's ridiculous to suggest that ChatGPT do that, and doubly so to gaslight teachers.
The question of whether States could secede from the Union had been settled a generation prior to the Civil War. If that's how you define the US "dying" then it died under Andrew Jackson while many of those who made the decision to enter the Union in the first place were still very much alive.
Looks like it might be no bueno on google colab for now, chatbot.py takes prompts via input() too rather then a command line argument.
Citations are of course needed, since I find the idea that most poor families have this pot of money anyone in the household can loot kind of bizarre. In the end, can you really blame a poor person for spending $3 on gatorade instead of water? That $2 price difference might amount to 0.1% of their monthly rent. You probably feel a lot happier at the end of the month eating a variety of things versus rice beans and water day in and out until you die, and the overall financial outcomes would probably be the exact same since no one is getting out of poverty through cutting out snacks and tasty things. They get out when their job changes and they are paid substantially more than the difference between buying a sandwich and making your own would be.
Android always has a browser you can’t remove. It’s just not always chrome.
Cheating in academia isn't a problem, because the only people students are cheating is themselves.

I've seen plenty of cheaters, they were the worst students, and despite cheating couldn't graduate or couldn't find a job after graduating.

If some moron is stupid enough to cheat when he's paying 50K a year, let them.
Show HN: Bing AI just ditched and ghosted me
> Latino voting bloc, growing every day, votes against immigration reduction (or even enforcement, via sanctuary cities) out of ethnic solidarity.

In fact until 2008, the majority of Hispanics said there were “too many immigrants” in the US: https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2019/02/19/latinos-hav.... It flipped around then, I assume for the same reason it flipped among democrat leaning white people—party polarization. But even today 85% of Hispanics think the level of foreigners in the country is about right or too much, while only 15% say they’re are too few.

I agree ethnic solidarity politics is a danger, especially because some people are trying to push it so hard to keep minority voters in line (see the recent MSNBC article that basically excommunicated Nikki Haley from Indian Americans). But with 40% of Hispanics voting Republican in 2022, I think they’re headed the same way Italians, Irish, etc., did in previous generations. (Of course in the meantime the damage was done, with FDR getting elected, so there’s that.)
I am speaking from a position of legal expertise about how Hollywood unions function.

I have been part of the legal counsel to several Hollywood guilds/unions, and have participated in the production of multiple Hollywood and non-Hollywood productions. Like you, I was also a member of a non-Hollywood union (while I was in the public sector), though that experience is irrelevant to the topic at hand.
Should we? Basic arithmetic has long since been solved, but I've met plenty of people who struggle at higher level math because they haven't mastered enough basic arithmetic. Solving complex problems will often involve many much simpler problems that must be solved as well. The time to offload this to another system to solve it for you is immensely more expensive than being able to solve it mentally, meaning that to solve the complex problem ends up being far more expensive as well. Eventually students will reach problems whose price they can no longer afford.

It is related to the reason we teach concepts starting with simple, small, easy to solve problems before building up. If I want to teach a student how to solve the limit of x*sin(1/x) as x approaches 0, I need them to understand quite a bit of math to even know what the problem is asking.
Yes, I’m a senior engineer who was laid off. The company I worked for layed off 20% of engineering.
After turning on compression I was able to fit the whole thing in GPU memory and then it became much faster. Not ChatGPT speeds or anything, but under a minute for a response in their chatbot demo. A few seconds in some cases.
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Doesn’t matter how it’s treated. People get lured here, have their visas taken from them (sometimes to “pay debt”), and now they’re slaves who will be treated as illegal immigrants and arrested if they go to the police. Problem entirely of our own making.
As an opportunity to move to a more progressive tax system? Helping to reduce the tax load on lower income folks and shifting it up the tax bracket?
According to the Department of Education, 54% of Americans have below a 6th grade reading level. [0]

Everyone thought that the kids who started using mobile devices as babies would become computer savants, but it turns out the kids these days don't understand what a file system is. [1]

What will ChatGPT do to our youth?

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Literacy_in_the_United_States#....

[1] https://www.theverge.com/22684730/students-file-folder-direc...