skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Alternative: watch native content. Start with easy short content, build up to vlogs, series, movies.

The idea of 'convenient 10 minutes a day' will get you nowhere. People who seriously want to learn a language know it takes 1-2-3 hours of daily immersion. The only way '10 minutes a day' would work is if you lived in a country, were surrounded by the language and only counted 10 minutes you spend reviewing a grammar book.

What all those tools want are users who pay regularly. So if they taught you a language well you'd be gone in a year or two. Duolingo can is great at teaching you a language if you then had to use that language in Duolingo.
Because school isn't about maximizing education; it's a daycare so that parents can work and children can come out with a uniform education that will suffice to do basic things in society like read/write/taxes etc.
>> Did you check FTC v Qualcomm antitrust case? Can you stop your lies?

Sure, isn't that the case Qualcomm reversed and won? Sure, most legal analysts had expected Apple's sweetheart judge Lucy Koh to hand a victory to FTC as it was no coincidence how the case ended up on her desk in the first place. This was however unanimously reversed due to its flawed constrution of Qualcomm's monopoly in premium LTE market and Judge Koh's expansive interpretation (in favor of Apple/FTC).

But wrt Apple's claim on royalty basis? Not so much.
Man, this looks cool, the name's closeness to "curl" irritates me..
With the cloud you're replacing regular sysops people with cloud certified people.
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2021/03/the-fairphone-2-hits...

Basically Qualcomm only releases proprietary Linux drivers for their chips, provided as a precompiled binary blob, and they only offer ~2 years of support before dropping them all together.

Because the Linux kernel does not have a stable binary interface for driver modules, getting an old driver to work with a new version of the kernel can become a hacky nightmare.
I’d also note that teacher quality probably correlated heavily to funding and “lack of social challenges” in the student body. Schools with worse parental education attainment levels, higher poverty rates, discriminated against classes and other demographics, kids exposed to more social ills, etc will lead to worse teachers picking that as their job opportunity. Why? Because most people prefer a job that’s not extraordinarily difficult in ways they’re not compelled by. There will always be a set of teachers that are compelled to be a great teacher AND a great social worker, but you have to expect that joint distribution is pretty small relative to the staffing needs.
Excited for eventual WebGPU support for Godot!
Last time this same exchange (involving the same poster) happened on here, it came out that of course there'd have to be a bunch more nuance than just "pay teachers a bonus for having more kids end the year on-grade-level". Which, yes, obviously there would. That was acknowledged.

But, of course, the real wrinkle is that that system, with much of that extra nuance, is what's already in use. No bonuses to teachers for doing well but teachers and admin are definitely very concerned about meeting or exceeding those targets, because there are consequences if they don't. It's literally already how we evaluate schools and teachers, and it's very much on educators' and administrators' minds.

Meanwhile, the actual way for a capable teacher to earn a bonus is... to leave teaching for something that pays better. The more bullshit process and microscope-level evaluation we apply, the more will follow that incentive, and the worse the teacher labor pool gets. If this "bonus" isn't a solid $20k/yr or more, it's not gonna keep them around, especially if we make their jobs & work environment any more annoying and abusive than they already are.
Heck, most hotels in my area have banned an entire class of people -- locals.

Locals are much more likely to trash their rooms.
Counter example, n=1. We are in one of the smallest school districts in NJ, "out in the sticks" as it were. The teacher's union is extremely powerful here. Everybody - and I mean everybody - knows who the bad teachers are. Nothing at all can be done get them to improve or to exit.

When parents come in talking about issues, the teachers all put up a wall of educational verbiage and jargon that is impenetrable, but the jargon is designed to make the administration look the other way. Use the magic code words in a meeting and you're OK.
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> you agreed to watch ads

How many ads did I agree to? How long? Did I agree for them to harvest and sell my info to 3rd parties? And which ones? Did I agree to Equifax selling out my private info (including salary history) via The Work Number?

These corporations have been stealing from me forever using their lawyer thugs and endless microscopic print while having no option but to say "yes" to everything. Are you going to live without a cellular phone plan in 2023? Or internet? Or a car that is now a SaaS that tracks you via GPS and sells it to god-knows-who. Farmers can't even own their tractors today if John Deere gets their way. The rent-seeking is all a bit too much.
Is that a complement or a diss?
I mean, I could accept that 2035 was 12 years from now.

I cannot accept that 2011 was 12 years ago.
Yeah, Lagrange point satellite definitely feels like the only removable option that would be safe... And even that seems like it would be contentious. (How do you decide when to reduce sunlight for what countries)

Also agree with all of the comments, that this is really just a way for us to continue our current trajectory.

Anything short of this in the "upper atmosphere" feels like an absolute non-starter, and this even feels like a non-starter as it is...
> 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.

I couldn't agree more. I fundamentally do not understand why working for state or federal government could not be seen as a prestigious thing, instead of something you end up needing to sacrifice to participate in. Working in the public interest _is_ an excellent thing to do, to my mind, but we sure don't pay like it is, to our collective detriment.
GP was recommending hybrid rather than full EV. For trips that fall into the plug-in range, great. If not, you’re using a small, efficient ICE to make use of the battery without destroying it via over-cycling.
Garlic is a simple, fast and secure way to protect your website from being scraped by bots.
If limitations like the above are not worked out I'd be shocked if these restrictions don't get pushed back or reconsidered at that time. How many times have CO2 emission reduction targets been pushed back, adjusted, or just ignored?
It's amazing that "being two months out of date" in AI means that you are already a dinosaur
Exactly. The idea that massive compute would lead to massive improvement was non-obvious.

It was quite reasonable to think that there would be rapidly diminishing returns in model size.

Wrong, in hindsight, but that's how hindsight is.
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Competition is good, so hopefully this happens for real and it forces Nvidia to offer better product and better pricing.
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I was working for a hospital, then they converted us to work for a company that sells our services to hospitals, then they outsourced 300 of us to offshore including me.
Do you? They're natural language, right?
Agreed, with the caveat that having one of those two sources be Duolingo is a waste. Pair Pimsleur with a grammar book and vocab cards, or an hour a week of italki, and you'd be using your time much better.
My understanding is that the four year max is more a consequence of funding sources federal hiring laws than an intentional choice. People get hired into USDS as "excepted service"[0] for a term "not to exceed two years" that can be renewed once. USDS has its own interview process, does its own job listings, has its own recruiting staff, and I think there was no way to do that with permanent, competitive service positions.

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Minecraft already runs in a browser.

https://classic.minecraft.net/
I can't imagine that we can go to zero emissions globally, and still have the same commute distances.
>I have no idea how OpenAI can make money on this

Microsoft.
> Not a feature, but an advantage: From what I can tell (I have only used PureRef so far) is that BeeRef has a open file format

Guess I should add news here: someone reverse engineered PureRef's file format[0] just few weeks ago[1,2]

[0] https://github.com/FyorUU/PureRef-format

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=31lsz3JNtCU

[2] https://www.pureref.com/forum/read.php?2,2912
It's not just about protecting the dog, but also about protecting people from flying dogs. That said, it's not realistic to require that dogs be restrained in motor vehicles.
What is the developer experience of using OpenAI's Server-Sent Events endpoint from something else than their Python and Node.js libraries?

The SSE endpoint is required for use cases like chat so the end user doesn't have to wait until the whole reply has been generated.

I started implementing a simple SSE client on top of C#/.Net's HttpClient but it's harder than I first assumed.
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I was listening to a recent episode[0] of James Altucher regarding the economy and I find myself agreeing with him. The layoffs are much less about a bad economy and more so to correct over-hiring and bad apples.

Of course noone is going to come out and say it like that. And I'm sure some companies are doing the layoffs wrong too and getting rid of some of the good bunch.

[0]: https://jas.simplecast.com/episodes/everyone-is-lying-about-...
At the end, finally do you recommend people migrating or staying? I am curious about your perspective.
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Been using 4 on my M1 with no issues at all.
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I'm pretty sure any system built via linear regression or similar is an opaque box even to the most experienced researchers. For example: https://clementneo.com/posts/2023/02/11/we-found-an-neuron

These are massive functions with billions of parameters that evolved over millions of computing years.
Well, the only accessible text model in any raw form is from them. Google doesn't let you have any. Meta doesn't let you have any. Microsoft doesn't let you have any. But OpenAI, OpenAI is accessible to all. It is open in the sense that the park is open. I don't own the park, I can't modify the park to my desires, but I can go to the park. And since that's better than the rest, I am happy to give them my money.
> For many people, chess is not interesting, now that computers are so good at it.

But why? I can understand that for a small number of people who has the ambition to become the best player, having an unbeatable figure looming over you is disheartening.

Most players are never going to become even close to that, and they know it. The fact that AI has beaten the best of human players should be, theoretically, irrelevant to their interest in chess, other than having a novel teacher to learn from. They are playing against the same pool of players who are on the same level, with or without the the AI advancement.

So I’m genuinely curious, does the chess community see a large number of discouraged average players?
All the people that got taken into their lies are seriously foolish and naive. Anyone that thinks they can work on AI without their work ending up in a military/surveillance application is seriously foolish and naive.
IT guy here. Printers are hell.

I've seen an HP Officejet All-in-one inkjet literally fall apart in less than a year because of (mild) daily use. Inkjet printers are trash. I would not rescue an inkjet printer from the curb.

I volunteered at a non-profit that had some sort of xerox solid wax BS printer that cost hundreds of dollars to maintain, we swapped it out with a laser and suddenly all the problems disappeared.

The daily printer problems my profession has to deal with - did you really intend that job to use legal size paper in the bypass tray?? People don't deserve this.

What I've done is 15 years ago I bought the smallest laser I could find (HP p1005) and I keep it in a cupboard. I use it maybe once a year and it never has ink clogs.

I suspect the most realistic route for most people is to use Other People's Printers, which is what this article is describing.
Thanks, good point. Thinking aloud:

Can ChatGPT evaluate how good ChatGPT-generated output is? This seems prone to exaggerating blind-spots, but OTOH, creating and criticising are different skills, and criticising is usually easier.
Good luck getting dog owners to restrain dogs in motor vehicles. That generally means putting them in a cage, and a) that is not something most dogs appreciate, b) for many dog owners that would mean upgrading to a larger vehicle.

We can't make everything perfectly safe.
My point is that they'll treat a self-taught person who wants to go into software development the exact same way. It's not bootcamps don't make you build real projects and put them on Github.
“Humans are trained on orders of magnitude more multimodal data over their lifetimes. Also, humans are not borne as an unbiased model, billions of years of evolution have crafted many implicit biases into our cognition (like a propensity to language, facial recognition, etc.).”

What in the world are you talking about? I must be talking to chatgpt and am done with this thread. We were originally discussing the differences in methodology between AI and humans for passing standardized exams. Those involve tasks like applying well-defined mathematical concepts to a brand new problem, not “multimodal” data or facial recognition.
People who care about costs will prefer a used car with all the luxury features of a few years ago vs the basic new car. People who are willing to spend money on a new car demand luxury features.

There are business who buy basic new cars yet (tax law and deprecation makes this a smart move), but otherwise nobody will buy a basic new car: there is always a better deal.

In the 1950s a basic car made a lot of sense as cars did not last as long (without major maintenance - engine rebuilding used to be a lot more common)
Since batteries are recyclable, raw material costs are of secondary importance in the long term. What is important is a long lifetime and high round cycle efficiency. High power density is desirable for vehicles.
Germany is dragged kicking and screaming into the future, which has become very common lately.

Tanks to Ukraine, Nord Stream 2, turning off all their nukes, now this?

Maybe if Greta scolds them they'll do it, they certainly seemed to take all of their nuclear advice from her.
I just don't understand why more gamedevs don't work in pure code like libsdl and C++, it is very liberating.
Do you have any specific criticisms of GDScript you'd like to share?
Looked good at the first sight, but at the second: the list only has 7 pages of very recent history. It looks like the oldest item in the list is 3 days old.

These are “irrelevant” release announcements that had no time to make history yet.
For real! This stuff is moving fast. It feels like just last week I was posting about how it's going to change...art. And now there are hilarious deepfake memes of past and current presidents shit talking about video games.

There are a handful of ML art subs that have pretty amazing stuff daily. Especially the NSFW ones, which if you've studied any history of media VHS/DVD/Blu-ray/the internet, porn is a major innovation driver because humans are thirsty creatures.
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I was in the camp formerly of "just use Lua/C#/JS/etc." for Godot as I didn't want them to reinvent the wheel. I've changed my mind on the matter after using it though. Or, through having a custom implementation, they've integrated it very tightly with Godot's node/refcounting memory model. Much in the same way UE's Blueprint execution feels similar to C++ logic, manipulating nodes and sending signals in GDScript ends up having a similar flow to something done lower-level in the engine.

I think it makes a tighter experience, and less maintenance work is done for bindings and transferring data to/from a separate heap/runtime for scripting.
A lot of people assumed GPT4 would be an even bigger model, but I've been thinking it'll probably be more about more efficient compute.

This is at least some evidence that they're working on that.
PureRef Format Reverse Engineered
Even the bottom 10% of US population are pretty comfortable.

Most of the problems are pretty much self-inflicted (addiction, homelessness) than any fundamental wealth issue.
Conversely a teacher teaching below a students ability is going to drive the student out of the classroom. I was egalitarianly not tracked and I barely graduated school because I was so bored I checked out in the 6th grade, yet got summa cum laude at one of the worlds most difficult engineering programs.
So the revocation list is distributed by BIOS updates? If yes, then secure boot seems like a joke for most consumers.
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