skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The quote from November 2022 of a German MP saying that Hungary must go along with the laws enacted by the EU commission.

It only took a few months for the shoe to be on the other foot. Now it's Germany, rather than Hungary that does not want to comply with EU law.
Ask HN: How to get an accessibility tester job as a blind programmer?
I want to test accessibility for apps and websites as a job. I regularly use pretty much all screen readers except Orca, I use VoiceOver for anything Apple makes, JAWS or NVDA anything Windows, and Talkback in Android. I haven’t had a formal education on accessibility, but I use these screen readers to navigate websites and apps daily, so my skills is pretty good. I also like coding in Java, I love that language, I consider Java the best language since C. I only code in Java, because I can’t C (a little joke). So, if you have an app that you want their accessibility tested, let me know I will do that for you: I currently only own iPhone, though.

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New car buyers tend to be relatively affluent, otherwise they would be buying used.
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Suicide is not necessarily a sign life is worse. It can also be a sign suicide is perceived as “normal”.

Look at the occurrences of suicides on the Golden Gate Bridge. When newspapers talked about it, it spiked. They made a pact not to talk about it, it tanked.
I'm pretty sure EU can have the "last word" here by blocking sales of iPhone in the EU. Apple has become an expert lately at malicious compliance.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waiting_for_Godot is the pun
But this is bound to happen at some point I think?

ChatGPT is massive success, but that means the competitor will jump in at all cost, and that includes open source effort.
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let me help you here - "black" is a particularly tragic demographic classification.. since a very large part of the world population live closer to the Equator, and have darker skin, than the people who wrote those English category names; add to that the particular unique form of slavery in Agricultural USA.

The fact that the President of the United States for two terms, a Harvard Law School graduate, is as demographically "black" as Haitians with loud and proud, violent anti-literacy every day.. says to me that actually.. you cannot lump together people by skin color in this day and age.
Remote Canadian an option or strictly US?
USDS requires an SF86 now??
6 digit Iphone passcode can open a treasure box. Never store bank password in iPhone password manager.
I'm not sure that's the only reason. That is also lucky :) I guess I will have to read about those who made it. (The official story may not tell all.)

It's not ideal just for that reason but because 7 bits is a good amount to preserve for other characters, as well as the simplicity of only having to check one bit to tell it to look at the next byte to find what character it is. It could have been all but one to say that it isn't a single byte character. Then there would be 255 single byte characters and 256 two byte characters, minus however many you use to specify that there are more bytes.

It would be easy to make an encoding format where 0x00 or 0xFF (0b00000000 or 0b11111111) say to look at the next byte, but that would suck as a general text encoding format.
Artificial Intelligence from a psychologist’s point of view
Lucky you, with only two cables to keep around. Because of our Beats Studio headphones (created after Apple bought Beats, for the record), I get to tote around a micro USB cable in addition to Lightning and USB-C.
The general idea you're getting at, incentivize teacher performance, rests on the underlying assumption that a "great teacher" can have an outsized impact on students outcomes in the one year they're teaching the student. Much of the US tried to find evidence of this in the 2000s and failed. Past the basic "does the teacher understand the material?" level, outcomes on a year-long basis are dominated by:

- Home life (food, safety, parent engagement, socioeconomic background)

- Classroom size (smaller is better)

Teacher incentivization might work if students spent more years with individual students but that has a different set of problems and requires a much larger reform of schools.
I really miss this blog. It was great and had solid advice and points of view. I am glad a lot of the articles hold up after all these years.
Quick overview of why SpaceX's new thrusters are innovative and what they can do… plus, what would happen if you put your hand in the plume of one.
Backups are their worst feature.

80% of the tickets we've had in the last year have been their auto-generated "Your backup has failed 2x in a row".
That's certainly a possibility. I haven't seen any evidence that the AMLO administration is actively collaborating with the cartels, but they have been quite open about not pursuing the failed strategies of the past, like working with the DEA:

https://world.time.com/2014/01/14/dea-boosted-mexican-drug-c...
That’s one of the most disingenuous comments I’ve seen.

Common Core demolished the education system in this state, along with the other acts to “improve” education. The optional AP was just a single African American studies class.

Education in public schools is just straight terrible here - teachers live like 2 hours away and hate their lives, topics are low difficulty and uninteresting, and the entire system predicates itself on the SAT, which you need a part-time tutor to cover your ass for, unless you want to spend every weekend doing a test; most can’t afford that.
Its not EU law as yet. EU Members can weild the veto if they choose.
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Not familiar with the codebase, so grain of salt.

It's likely due to being cross platform. What's happening is they're bundling the scripts and assets with a pre-built binary. If you're writing all c++ you're likely going to link in the engine instead, not the paradigm they support. That said I know you can extend the game engine, and there is some kind of plugin support for building native code, but you've got to do compile time support yourself? It even supports Rust now apparently?
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I doubt the new fabs will produce things only from the companies I listed. You're right that a blockade would cause shortages, but I'm skeptical that it would be as bad as you're suggesting. The only industry that I'm aware of that was "de-computerized" during the recent shortage was the auto industry, and even that was just manufacturers temporarily leaving certain features out of new vehicles.
I'd say the real moral issue would be if anyone makes life or death decisions based on what the chat bot says. It's definitely not ready for that, as we've covered in this discussion.
What the cost cutting measures suggest is that AI like this could maybe soon be run on consumer hardware. That combined with actually open source language models could be huge. OpenAI won't allow for that for obvious reasons, but this confirms that the optimizations are there, and that's exciting enough news on its own.
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It's not an ARM problem, it's a kernel/OS one. Same as Windows, macOS simply doesn't have what it takes (namespaces, cgroups, etc.) to run Docker/Linux containers natively, therefore an intermediary Linux VM is needed.
Any experiences with Godot + M1 macOS?
Just one anecdote, but I bought a Canon in either late 2014 or early 2015 and it works great- it looks like I have printed about 6000 pages on it- mostly academic papers. IIRC it was a clearance that was selling for $300ish when it originally listed for about $700. I use off-brand toner replacements which work fine, from what I recall I have only bought one set of replacements. My only real complaint with it is that its large and weighs about 80 pounds, not that I move it often, but it takes up a significant amount of room.

Its a Canon Color ImageClass MF8580CDW, its well past its sale date, but it looks like this line of printers still exists: https://www.usa.canon.com/shop/printers/multifunction-printe...
Pricing is good because OpenAI does not need to make any money but needs data for feedback, if everyone switches to open source ( Llama etc. ) they won't get the data they need.

Google is testing their system internally with XX thousand users, OpenAI with XXX million users ...
How Rust and WASM power Cloudflare's 1.1.1.1
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And how does the USB-IF prevent an iPhone from getting fried by non-USB-IF certified cables?

If they had some method of doing that, would the expense of operating it be a "money-grab"?
This probably needs someone well versed on domestic German politics so to be interpreted correctly.
Everyone assumes the tech will be self driving, but it doesn’t need to be.

The repo man can just use the 5G connection to locate the car, drive to it, unlock the car start the ignition and drive it away.

This would work today just using the APIs all modern Fords already have.

There are rumours this already happens for some car models:

> https://tiremeetsroad.com/2021/03/18/tesla-allegedly-remotel...
There is a difference between not complying with something that already is EU law and not agreeing with the other member states during negotiations BEFORE something becomes EU law.
Agreed and not sure why this is down voted.

It would be totally possible to properly fund this over funding defense as much as we are. It would also likely greatly contribute to efficiency and cost savings if things like our IRS or healthcare or even parks could operate like they do in Japan for example.

Its worth asking ourselves why the offices that serve us, the citizens, on the daily are constantly underfunded to the point that the work is not rewarded in financial, social, or career oriented ways.
Popular diets in U.S. show wide variation in carbon footprints and diet quality
Do you mean AirPrint? That's printer-side functionality that explicitly doesn't depend on any drivers; that's literally its entire value proposition.
The proposed 2035 fossil fuel car ban isn't an existing law. It's in the negotiation stage and Germany is negotiating.

This is completely different from Hungary not following laws existing when they joined the EU.
> The hyper-capitalist global market owns everything and that is good.

Poe's Law strikes again...
Thanks, that wasn't clear to me. Why not just dump the index on the same storage as the packages? If text files are insufficient then do an SQLite database.
There was a push to make all schools in California teach in both Spanish and English back in the eighties. The backlash was so great that it was made illegal for public schools to teach in anything but English.
Once-in-a-century weather patterns happening multiple times per decade, that sort of thing.
I wouldn't be surprised if Apple acquired them.
You can run Whisper in WASM (locally) so no need to pay for the API, plus the bandwidth. It actually works surprisingly well: https://github.com/ggerganov/whisper.cpp
The trouble with these startups is that they focused on the overpriced "luxury" niche. That worked for Tesla in the early days. Now, though, electric cars are common, and price matters. Tesla finally had to cut prices.

If your pickup trucks start around US$100,000, you have a problem.

The company that really gets this is BYD, in China. They started out making low-end vehicles, and now they make decent mid-range EVs. They passed Tesla in output in mid-2022. So far, they haven't sold into the US, but they do sell in Europe.
https://godotengine.org/article/introducing-gd-extensions/

https://docs.godotengine.org/en/4.0/tutorials/scripting/gdex...

https://github.com/godot-rust/gdextension
Car companies decide how to much to invest now in new lines of gas-powered cars based on views of future government policies, so the measures are not "irrelevant". At a micro level, someone considering buying a gas station or building a new one will consider the lifetime revenues of the business.
Is it awkward to blatantly disregard rules and etiquette of HN and this thread?

> Commenters: please don't reply to job posts to complain about something. It's off topic here.

@dang
Psychology research is pretty thin and not great science, but there's some evidence floating around that you may be right about lack of social skills.

Social skills lower in kids who are the heaviest users of gaming and social networks: https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.1086/707985 (obviously correlative but still)

Time away from screens improves reading nonverbal emotional cues in kids: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S074756321...
These tests are not looking (much) at advanced courses like Calculus.

This is more “what percentage 9th graders can read at a basic 9th grade level”, “what percentage of 3rd graders can multiply and do basic 3rd grade math”.

These numbers should be in the 80-90% range. But they are not. And note: the majority who are performing well below grade level are not failing. They are probably getting C’s and getting promoted to the next grade. Meaning every year they fall farther and farther behind.
>You can throw out Reddit guy words all you want but that doesn't mean I'm wrong.

But in this case you are wrong, and this isn't reddit.

>I didn't exclude any discipline I said it extends to all of them. That's not how "no true scotsman" works.

"A true discipline has poor science". This is a variation of No True Scotsman. QED.

>I gave you sources to back that up

You gave no sources that backed anything up. You came in with a huge non sequitur that doesn't even follow the original posts. The GP asked for what other fields are considered "grievance studies" and I copied and pasted a quote from the article that covers the inventors of the term: The trio referred to several academic fields—postcolonial theory, gender studies, queer theory, critical race theory, intersectional feminism, and fat studies—as "grievance studies" because, according to Pluckrose, such areas begin "from the assumption of a grievance" and then bend "the available theories to confirm it".

>Also, gender studies is not really classified as a social science

It's not a science at all, but it regularly falls in the sphere of social science as related/integrated.

> I did Google "replication crisis gender studies" and didn't find much--I'm not sure how a replication crisis can extend to a largely theoretical discipline that doesn't really conduct classical scientific studies?

You must be terrible at Google because apparently you didn't even come across the original article I posted: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grievance_studies_affair

"highlight what they saw as poor scholarship and eroding criteria in several academic fields. Taking place over 2017 and 2018, their project entailed submitting bogus papers to academic journals in cultural, queer, race, gender, fat, and sexuality studies to determine whether they would pass through peer review and be accepted for publication. Several of these papers were subsequently published, which the authors cited in support of their contention."

>You just said you don't classify the field as a science so clearly it wouldn't.

A subject does not have to be classified as a "science" to have studies with replication issues. This being a prime example. You just proved my point. QED.

>I was supporting my first point which you seem to have misunderstood.

You haven't made any points, or you tried and failed.

>I'm qualifying a larger trend I have observed.

Anecdotal non sequitur as I stated. Nothing to do with the GP or my reply.

>You're the one who started this discussion about your own feelings towards the field--you just didn't qualify your comment as subjective, which it is.

I didn't start the discussion, the OP did. You're fractally wrong. And it's not my feelings, it's objective fact.

>If I were you I'd say strawman :-)

No you wouldn't because you're wrong, I'm not.
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I liken it to software processes and "research" code. Researchers are focused on their task at hand and things like TDD, sensible commits, releases, refactoring, not using magic numbers, etc. are all put to the wayside in the pursuit of their actual goal. "Regular" developers are very similar when it comes to their build systems and being "too creative" there is just as harmful.

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Do you mean the US doesn't have enough generating capacity to support EVs? Charging infrastructure grows with demand, it's the market at work.

https://supercharge.info/map
Great post. Super-helpful understanding the context as well as actual code that illustrates the mechanism.
What was your yoe?
I wish they would offer an uncensored version of it too. Also, I wish they would specify the differences between ChatGPT and GPT-3.5 because one is 10x cheaper than the other but with (supposedly) better chat/coding/summarizing performance. What's the catch?
Makes sense. The perfect is the enemy of the good.

Plug-in hybrid cars with a decent electric range (let's say 80 km) can achieve 99% emissions reduction compared to current cars. The vast majority of trips people make are short.
Does that make it difficult to make a cellular modem or just expensive? Those are two different things.

I'm assuming that they were asking why it's so difficult that so few vendors do it and why it's taking Apple so long.

For example, Intel had trouble competing with Qualcomm's modems - they were always a generation or two behind. Apple bought Intel's modem business around 3.5 years ago and it looks like it'll take 5 years for them to come out with their first Apple-modem phone - and Apple wasn't starting from scratch. Apple was starting with a billion dollar purchase of Intel's modem business including all that IP, 2,200 Intel modem employees, 17,000 wireless patents, etc.

It's gotten to the point that Qualcomm is basically the only game in town for high-end smartphones. Even Samsung who has their own modems went with Qualcomm worldwide for the Galaxy S23 - which they hadn't done for previous models.

If it were just a matter of paying money, Apple and Intel would have created a competitive chip quickly.
Probably because it creates problems. You need math teachers who speak that language for one. Then you divide the student body, probably along racial lines for the most part, which isn't a good thing. And then lastly, it will only hinder the language development of the ESL group which will come back to bite them later in life.
I mean a huge amount of code I see is stuff like "get something from API, do this, and pass to API/SQL" so I'm assuming a lot of that could be automated.
One of the things I love about the API-ification of these LLMs is that they’re plug and play.

I built https://persona.ink against davinci knowing it didn’t give as good of results as ChatGPT but knowing I could swap the model out once 3.5 came out. Today is that day, going to swap out the prompt in the cloudflare worker and it should Just Work(tm)