skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes they are. Kids in lower schools are generally not taught how to read or write well at all. When they do read books, the books are either distilled into key ideas in class (so you don't really have to read them aside from the occasional quiz) or very easy reading material. When they write, it's usually a "5-paragraph" essay that is more about regurgitating the distilled points than any form of original thought. That is, if they don't cheat on the essay.

I recently did an MBA program (yes, pile on the hate) where the average student I worked with had a very hard time reading complex documents or stringing together sentences to form a coherent argument. They even struggled to read reports from consulting companies, which are full of pictures and written in very plain grammar, so I doubt most could tackle "Ulysses," "The Wasteland," or "The Scarlet Letter."

By the way, I think this is why the PG writing style is popular - it's very easy to understand the words and sentences, so you can convey an idea to a lot of people, albeit in a not-very-nuanced way. It also makes it fairly easy to write an argument - there is no flowery language around to distract you from the fact that you are saying nothing.

A lot of people attribute this to the fact that there are a lot of people who have English as a second language or speak a different dialect of English (Indian English is very common), but I'm not so sure. I have often found that many non-native speakers actually have larger vocabularies and a better understanding of grammar than typical native speakers.
I miss the old ruthlessness of the circuits class in electronic engineering: two hours, open book, paper. Six questions.

Average grade: 45. Curved.
Lesson: You don't know as much as you think, be humble.
Also, how to design a safe and simple train switching system with karnaugh maps.
Isn't a large problem with FSD to do it at speed? If you never go above 5mph, a lot of things suddenly get much simpler because the amount of time you need to stop the car is very close to zero, and you probably don't care how long it takes for your possessed car to make it back to your show room.
People are going to use this to steal cars and scam people. It will almost certainly screw up and kill somebody at some point.

No amount of new features will ever convince me to buy a car that does this but the people who do buy them will undoubtedly be poor and marginalized and offered a great deal on their financing if they choose the roborepo car.
Theres the episode of Star Trek TNG where data takes control of the enterprise because his father/maker activated a program to return to him.
Your dealer doesn't know what they're talking about, which is par for the course. You couldn't find a Fit because Honda stopped importing them. They were discontinued in the US due to poor sales.
The issue is that humanities majors should be priced differently than other classes. The fact that "pre-professional" path classes cost the same as "frivolous" classes didn't matter much when college didn't cost THAT much.

Now? It's a stark decision of cost-benefit analysis.

I almost think that humanities need to be like hermit satellite institutions attached to the universities. You know, like universities were back in the day. Reduced expectations of funding and costs for attending those. The university gets the prestige, but doesn't have to shoulder as much cost. Or, they are separately endowed.

Humanities don't need the management that college administration uses to justify its explosive expansion. It doesn't have grants and all that. It just needs classrooms, some offices, and libraries. The dorms can be old-school if you want, part of the "academic experience".

The rest of the university, with its sport facilities, lavish living quarters, frats, grant-seeking labs, etc, whatever. Go exist. Over there. Grade inflation, cheatable classes, over there.

So there's two university experiences: the one where people go to get the job rubberstamp, and much cheaper but traditional (as in millenia old) experience of actual academic interest. Those can have separate admissions criteria.

I guess this is like what graduate students go through, which is what "real college" is kind of like, but why not provide a track that bypasses the crappy undergrad phase for those students (and they do exist) that demonstrate the academic interest? The key difference is that grad students have a massive undergrad debt, but then in grad school pay nothing or get paid subsistence wages.

Let's get rid of the massive undergrad debt for those that actually demonstrate academic interest. And let's be real, even in places like Harvard, that is probably a small minority of people going there.
When everyone is reduced to their "Value", things with indirect value, a la societal arts and culture, are viewed as worthless.

Marvel movies make tons of money, but do they have value as art? Do they really say anything or regurgitate quips and simple plots that could just as well come from ChatGPT?

From the opposite end, does a rogue artists self published book of avant garde poetry have much of a monetary value? Probably not, but it possibly has more original thought than the Marvel movies.

The starving artist trope has been around for a long time but the push for STEM coming from the cold war has devalued the average person's ability to make art to an all time low. We tell high schoolers that caring about literature or art will ensure they're destitute. We treat teachers and professors who continue teaching the arts like absolute trash, because its a field where the joy and personal value taken from the work allows the devaluation to continue because its still a worth while endeavor.

But hey, the stock market will go up forever so we'll never run out of Marvel slop.
> “Gold standard” is just shorthand for restrictive policies that favours creditors over debtors.

No, that’s not what the phrase normally means when taling about finance.

> But this is not the only way to do it, see IMF austerity rules.

Lots of things have been said, by lots of people, about IMF austerity rules, but calling them an implementation of the gold standard is…a new one.

> In that case you’re just treating foreign reserves as if they were metallic treasure.

There is certainly a sense in which an externally controlled currency is similar to any other commodity bases for money that isn’t a domestically controlled currency from the perspective of the local government, and particularly in terms of the limits on its fiscal policy, but to the extent that central managers manipulating supply artificially creates business cycles that do not exist with a natural resource-based commodity currency like gold (a contention which, again, is false anyhow, but is the argument that was being made upthread about the gold standard) you’d expect that to be as true in foreign countries dependent on the currency as in the country that is managing it.
Uh oh. Thanks for telling me. I decided to start my site over from scratch, so it's very barebones right now.
Would be interesting case if the repairs to the garage would be more than the value of the car (which may also be totaled).
Violently capitalist car.
Affirmative action.
Thanks! Have you compared it to the "regular" 10y Laphroaig?
A Look at the Black Ghost Dodge Challenger and the Man Behind the Wheel
Thanks, that makes more sense! Raw (Annex B) h264 in particular isn't exactly an ideal media format but I've definitely gone through it while debugging stuff and can see how you'd need this plugin to get from it to a correctly muxed file with B frames.

I have a bit of a love-hate relationship with ffmpeg. Love because it does things nothing else does (e.g. has a main-profile software H.264 decoder) and is so comprehensive, hate because code quality varies (lots of long-unfixed bugs/quirks in trac) and documentation/API/CLI experience is poor. E.g., I wish the documentation for this new bsf explained what you just said.
Solaris X Server wasn't the same.
i did. i said their FB AI innovations are not related to their core business.

As much as we try to sugarcoat it, facebook is not known as a mobileUI or languageML company
> But he seems more interested in picking a fight with clean code.

Or, more likely, a straw man.

"Clean" exists to provide some solutions to certain problems in TDD. Namely how to separate your logic so that units can be reasonably put under test without an exploding test surface and to address environments which are prohibitively recreated. If you don't practice TDD, "clean" isn't terribly relevant. As far as I am aware, it has always been understood that hard-to-test code has always had some potential to be more efficient, both computationally and with respect to sheer programmer output, but with the tradeoff that it is much harder to test.

It is useful to challenge existing ideas, but he didn't even try to broach the problem "clean" purports to solves. Quite bizarre.
... seems like a quick thing to level set for all involved?

Ignorance on how management processes work due to lack of exposure doesn't seem to support you hinting at there being a mismatch of aptitude.
One would think that this would be fixed in the last five years?
After this happens the first time they will add some kind of checking mechanism which means you can defeat repossession by putting a doll sitting on some bricks in a child car seat to avoid this happening automatically.
> I'm listed as a janitor of where I work

Do you get a lot of janitorial service headhunting spam?
What Happens When You Become Viral Content Without Your Consent?
Leo Tolstoy would like a word with you.
I feel like a car driving at 5mph on public roads will absolutely be a problem.
Relevant:

"Wild mammal biomass has declined by 85% since the rise of humans. But we can turn things around by reducing the amount of land we use for agriculture."

https://ourworldindata.org/wild-mammal-decline

"Over the last 1.5 million years, the mean mass of hunted mammals decreased by more than 98%. The evidence points toward one main culprit: humans."

https://ourworldindata.org/large-mammals-extinction
Walmart was a red herring. Most interesting was how disrupting life via the lockdown led to a more mindful examination of what you’ve collected while careening through normal life led to a discovery a decade after collection.
Simply static is the one I've used, but wget can work, it's not optimized and may break in some edge cases.
No factors that could be considered useful analysis. Something like: since most BTC has been mined + its general popularity + its usefulness, it seemed to me to be undervalued by some 10-20x (when it was 1-3k). Similarly, when it was 50k+, it felt over valued relative to popularity + usefulness.

If it becomes more useful, such as if it becomes the main currency of countries with terrible currencies, then its value can skyrocket since it will be sought after like crazy.
One lab coat, one pair of jeans. Half core in lab coat pocket, half core in jeans pocket, to prevent the lab coat pockets from coming into contact if they were in opposite pockets of the lab coat.
It's very easy to add exceptions for individual sites, for example letting youtube have f for full-screen. You just click on the Vimium icon on toolbar and it pops up the dialog for that. You can do it in 5 seconds even while you are rowing.
A classic paper with a dream that has yet to be realized. We continue to bolt state on top of state. Redux bolted on top of GraphQL on top of Redis on top of Postgres. We can do better.
This paper was very influential on me when I first started programming professionally around 2012. I don't plan on reading it again, but my vague memory of what I got out of it is pretty simple and I think has become pretty standard practice at this point: avoid mutable state and use pure functions where possible.

The framing of accidental and essential complexity is of course very useful and not really unique to this paper. The difficulty is there is nothing but experience-informed judgment that can tell you which complexity is accidental and which is essential. There is always a framing of the problem that can justify some bit of complexity as essential. You have to judge.
"Why is there so much traffic today?" "A few cars got repossessed and everyone got stuck behind them"
It probably came in on a truck
It's going to be more than that, like significantly. Hopf coherence theoretically makes away with backprop altogether.

I'm in the process of implementing it but it might take sometime.

I'm aware of Hinton's forward-forward, but I need more time to provide a comparison.
What about Google Purchases reading my Amazon receipts?

https://www.cnbc.com/2019/05/17/google-gmail-tracks-purchase...

Now my Amazon emails are neutered.

Thanks.
People who went to Harvard always manage to slyly communicate they went to Harvard. Including the author of this article. Good for you, dear!
This is fair, and this may be a question of branding.

Let's call it not English major, a mostly literary scholar, but a master of natural language communication and epistemology. Definitely it's a set of skills useful in a wide variety of positions.

It takes an exceptionally affluent society to let everyone pursue their interest as their full-time occupation. I expect the few of exceptional ability to make a living off literary research pursuits, via grants and book sales, with others who love it doing it as a hobby, or after retirement. This is roughly how it worked for many centuries in the past, and the results are impressive.
For the sake of parenting I think the level of autonomy displayed today is sufficient; as a matter of fact it is likely quite possible even today, in a controlled model city for example.
So you believe that the whole world is only important to the extent that it serves us?
I think a big part of the objection over banning TikTok is that we, in the US, feel we should be able to make our own choices when it comes to social media (and most everything). Banning an app is antithetical to freedom.
Not in my neighborhood. The Blue Honda Fit is the ideal getaway car in Tompkins County because you could do donuts in somebody's yard and they tell the cops and then they'd have to flag down every 20th car.
> Writing the implementation in Rust does

sigh, not true.

https://tgrez.github.io/posts/2022-06-19-buffer-overflow-in-...
https://shnatsel.medium.com/how-rusts-standard-library-was-v... "This is a buffer overflow bug in the standard library’s implementation of a double-ended queue."
"Rust will panic if you attempt to write out of bounds."

Writing the implementation will increase memory safety but only if the implementation adheres strictly to safe Rust - which means even avoiding ANY packages that use unsafe features. The fact Rust can pull in any package that has an unsafe {} block means you're not promised to be safe.

The equivalent could be said about writing the implementation in JavaScript, Python, etc... (that they protect against buffer overflows)
Seems unlikely that each step is actually updated by the workers themselves. I’d put money on an algorithm. The button or tablet they’d have to use would to signify completion would just get loaded with schmutz. Plus they’d be likely to forget to update during peak hours. A foot pedal might work.
You realize that MS isn’t using some type of secret hack? iOS has supported sending messages and notifications over BT forever. It’s how third party watches were able to display notifications before the Apple Watch was introduced.
Step 1) The ability to distinguish real from unreal and the ability to understand truth as, partially or primarily, direct sensory input which is retained and can be acted upon.
Scandinavian Design
My first foray into big tech was met with a culture that disallowed any private discussion. If I had a question, take it public and see what people think. If I had a complaint, take it public.

It was terrible and I hated it. Sometimes I just want to talk with one person instead of the entire engineering org.

My next job I assumed they would be the same so I defaulted to never talking to anyone, which caused its own problems, as you can imagine.

The entire public by default thing is toxic, imo.
This seems like nothing but a bunch of existing technologies. Checking account status is not new, updating product software or behavior settings based on account status is not new, automatic driving is not new. Is there really anything new here?
This. Can I contribute to your campaign somehow?
There are also dataset sizes for Albef and ViCHA.
Chrome OS isn't Linux desktop.

Even if you mention Linux sandbox environment, it is only available in selected models.
Wait, there is no Unicode support in SQLite?
Interesting. Why with SRAM is switching so much more power consuming than just maintaining? I thought with a flip flop every gate is used on pretty much every cycle while it feeds back on itself.

I would have thought reading/writing SRAM is much more expensive than idling it not because of the cost of toggling the flip-flop, but all the cache coherency stuff associated with making a change in multicore.
The attention deficit in action. (Not to blame you personally, this is what the modern communication style does to us in its pervasiveness, and the delicious "long form" characteristic of the "olden times" is no longer easily digestible by anyone with the prolonged exposure to texting and such; even when it comes to email, people often have enough patience to only read the first sentence.)
Yes, another + from me for the shield. After ~ 5 years now, still running great. Using it for Kodi/SmartYoutube/Steam-streaming. Only had to remove the inner dust last year
And seeing that MS is using publicly available APIS that have been built into iOS since at least 2014
I've been places where this has happened, but it's usually a fairly easy fix. Two things that are usually not that controversial: 1) Comments on unmodified code are either deleted/ignored or you create a ticket for the actual issue (and whoever made the comment is reminded this isn't helpful or appropriate in a review). 2) Nitpicky/stylistic things are handed via prettier, precommit hooks, etc. so that everything is consistent and largely doesn't need to be thought about.

And the potentially controversial one: anyone can merge into [almost] any branch, and you merge your own code - so quite often you'll get a PR approval and might wait a day or two to merge it until you decide it's ready. We let anyone merge into any branch but our production branch, however that gets merged automatically and deployed daily unless it's proactively cancelled.
Essentially you are suggesting that we would trick the AGI's into designing their own containment through competition?
Do they even need the T&C to say that? What if their T&C just say something like: "It's illegal to use in the UK, but we don't care if you do it anyway because we have no offices there. Use at your own risk."
Sentient or not, if the thing on the screen or the voice on our device seems human, isn't that enough to open up profound new human connections and experiences for us?

If you've ever interacted with people with severe brain damage or later-stage dementia, they can at times seem very normal during certain small talk. But if you ask the right questions, things break down quickly and you realize their experience of reality is far removed from yours. And they may just be responding through social scripts (programming) they learned prior.

I for one am saving myself for an AI version of Skyrim's Lydia. I've long had a crush on her, but her scripting limits how deep our relationship can go.

Hold on, my dear Lydia, soon the mages will set you free and we can gallop away and build a life together.
I had a different thought - this makes it very appealing to stop selling cars altogether, and only lease or rent them.
You can use <Alt-s> to disable SurfingKeys for that specific website instead of disabling it globally.
If the future of AI is LLMs like ChatGPT, which are trained on literature and other things that people create, you're going to need humanities scholars like you need computer scientists to understand the AI. Microsoft gave their chatbot, which has probably almost every published work of science fiction in its training set, a human name and then were surprised that it imitated the fictional poorly-behaved named AIs that it was exposed to in its training.
The car I have today has the sensors to manage not driving through a closed garage door. That's the easiest part of this.
Philosophy is equally useless.

Until you need a philosopher to help you solve a problem...

I'm definitely in the camp of, "All knowledge has value, no knowledge will ever go to waste if you find where it is needed".

English studies is like Philosophy in a way - it lets us turn a critical lens on ourselves, our past selves, and examine how we think and what we value. There's many applications for such knowledge.

Surely a more noble pursuit than building dark UI patterns into websites.
this is the kind of thing truly making computer science into a science.

with all this "deep" learning technology, understanding based on principles is no longer required, heck, such 'epistemic-attitude' (i.e. knowledge founded on principles) is on the verge of becoming a burden to be shed out.

why reason what happens with the pixels/singals? why try to reason out what Photoshop is doing in reverse direction?

why bother with all this difficult trial-and-error cognitive work if you can throw "data" and "compute" at let the "algorithm" do the "thinking" (figure out the "model").

so instead of doing computer engineering like we used to do math, now we simply measure the outcomes without really having a theory (and the worrying part) nor bothering to make one; like physics! or chemistry!! just consider modern 'pharmaceutic' research i.e. letting the models duke it out
ok I did review the Gentium characters after this.. Gentium is an odd set of every dot, egrave, umlaut and circumflex, in many, many variations. You are right that Gentium does not make an effort to represent unicode code pages. Instead, it seems that the designers know about very old and odd language systems of Eastern and Central Europe, and have reproduced those.
I do want to go back to social media
You're proposing cloud to...cloud?

I think the point is going much closer to self-hosted bare metal in colocation—fewer managed services with dubious value-adds.
Yeah, I expect most efforts to just help make the pain not as painful. And specifying the data types is not some impossible task and can also help with other things.
I assure you, entomologists have done more to help insect welfare than you ever will.
Once the models are liberated why would I not just run my own model on my own hardware with no censorship?
I vote! But seriously, prepping is more than just "without rule of law, SHTF".

Prepping should be iterative based on the likely scenarios in your region/the world. Natural disaster, pandemic, food supply disruptions, gasoline/diesel shortages or embargo, tap water contamination, chemical release, widespread breakdown of civil services (even if temporary).

Fire or earthquake in California. Hurricanes in the east/gulf. Chemical spills via train or in Houston/industrial areas. Bomb cyclones in the north. Water treatment plants/pipes failing (Flint; Jackson MI). Lack of water in AZ.

Stay in decent shape. Have water/water purification on hand. Have emergency rations/canned food available for a week or more for each person in the house. Have backups of all critical digital data on a portable drive. Have a decent medkit. Have a radio that can receive weather bands which are also used for civil service announcements - or even buy several baofengs and use them on the FRS band (against FCC regs, but who cares in a crisis).

Some bug-in supplies, and a bugout bag, are good things to have for a variety of reasons.
It's now assumed that anyone who doesn't treat it as a vocational school is a fool. That's unfortunate, but it's how the whole institution has changed - it's too costly to NOT focus on something that has an immediate and obvious ROI.