skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes, this is the dream. Being able to accelerate learning through personalized tuition is going to be huge for children.

The hard part is going to be LLM access in a way that doesn't permit dopamine honeypots. Currently these are through general purpose Internet access tools, but it's a very natural user interface shift to not permit links to arbitrary pages.

I remember being a child and here's my true and absolute truth: kids are intelligent and curious and anything that indulges that will accelerate their learning.

The Primer is within reach.
I don't agree with their decision but it's neither Marxist nor deconstructionist.

The politics of deconstruction was pretty explicitly anti-Marxist or at least non-Marxist and in the 80s-90s and the Marxists were endlessly critical of what was happening in literature departments when deconstruction really started to become popular.

Your style is the paranoid one: there must be some kind of hidden plot behind the appearance, some spooky sinister theory really driving things.

The reality is simpler: people are just trying not to offend, and most likely because it's bad for business!
As do I, for reasons that have nothing to do with this thread. It's just a great film.
> In seriousness, I think it's been proven well enough that people, generally, can't do this.

You are implying that there are a subset of people who can. And they will protect society? Who are these people, and how did/do we select them?
>I will defend Flash all day long, and I think it's death is a regression in technology that to this day has not been rectified.

It's still strange to think that Flash was the price that we paid for multi-touch smartphones.
My blog is mostly a dev journal which has helped me better think about and express my ideas about software development.

It also helped me remove writing blocks because I intentionally time-box my posts.

https://bower.sh
Fixed pie fallacy. More likely, there will be 5x as many apps / companies with just as many jobs available. And the cost of everything will go down, except truly scarce things like Manhattan real estate.
Bamba is also delicious. The fat content from the peanut butter gives it a good body, like a cheese puff.

If you decide to get some for your kid, get some extra for yourself.
How many hundreds of millions of people die of cancer caused by forever chemicals? Its not like we know or even really try to find out of course, but complaining about self-regulation of chemical companies seems almost quaint at this point. Or just think of dangerous chemicals on trains speeding through populated areas regularly crashing in a literal inferno, the first huge oil drilling projects in the north pole getting started now despite imminent climate catastrophy or deregulated banks too big to fail getting bailed out in regular intervals leading to huge profits to investors, I could literally go on like this for hours...

I mean if you think OpenAI self-regulating ethics questions on a chatbot is anywhere near a priority for you, you need to recalibrate your perception of the state of the western neoliberal hegemony.
Decidedly not. There's plenty of meals given to kids outside of school to perform this intervention, it doesn't need to be in every meal on top of what other people have said about the timing.
The Dopamine Machine.
OK, I'm not sure it's going to make that much difference since 20 mph zones tend to be in residential zones, typically rat runs. This indicates to me that high volumes of traffic are more likely the cause of congestion rather than some annoying people who insist on obeying the law.

Let's, for the sake of argument, say I am one of these annoying people. I will drive at 20 mph with a tail of 6 angry drivers behind me until I reach a junction or a set of lights that invariably already have cars waiting to move forward.

All I am doing is delaying the drivers behind me from reaching this queue of cars a few seconds later than they would otherwise.

Of course, their rage is directed in my direction but that's another story.
I think you may not have understood those books…
Why would exposure to more germs be bad? Seems like it would be positive.

If you’re talking about sudden infant death, I don’t think it’s related to germs, although it’s a poorly understood phenomenon.
IMO people aren't going to increase education funding anyways. The reality is that small class sizes with dedicated teachers for everyone is infeasible: we already have a problem with schools being ridiculously underfunded and colleges charging ridiculous tuition. AI learning is only going to help this crisis, because now we can actually provide many students decent education at a low cost.

I actually think a good online learning platform could be comparable to the private schools with 6-15 class sizes. Because it's designed by teachers even better than those private-school tutors, and so much of teaching is largely the same that you will get "personalized" learning just be designing a massive learning module with many branches into various extra concepts and avenues for those who "don't get it". And with larger class sizes and less teachers, we can instead spend education money on things like making schools actually safe and providing decent lunches, and fixing decades-old infrastructure.
People need to understand that AI doesn't think, doesn't have insight or intuition. AI just repeat patterns it saw in a huge database, but are not able to understand what is going on.

Nobody can really understand what's inside a trained neural network, and nobody is really looking.

No psychologist or neuro-scientist can really understand how a human brain, a mouse brain or even an ant brain or a fly brain even works, so don't expect computer scientists to have any insight about doing something relevant with just a small collection of sophisticated statistical methods.

AI is soon going to become the pseudo-scam status that bitcoin experienced.

ChatGPT is an improved search engine at best.
This isn't a programming problem, or exclusive to our field. Go talk to any expert in their field about something in that field, and have the same reaction.

I tried my hand at blacksmithing, and had to learn (what seemed like) a lot of metallurgy before half of what my mentors were saying made any sense at all.

Sometimes it's on the expert to make it clear to the non-expert. Other times it's on the newbie to learn the basics so they understand the answer to their question.
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This is beyond bleak.

Hopefully it’s just part of the hype cycle and nothing like what’s described in the post will ever come to life.
You'd have to pay me to sign up for a meta account.

I'm sad the general population is okay with paying to be the product.
Hrm, true, no one’s ever gotten fluent in a language just by reading a textbook.
I'm not saying it isn't more prevalent now, but there were definitely kids in my elementary school (~500 kids) in the 1980s who couldn't have peanut butter. I always felt so bad for them too, because I more or less survived on the stuff.
We use PureScript at Awake Security (now part of Arista Networks). The language is such a joy to use for a complex single-page application. All-in we have ~150,000 lines of PureScript, though we use it for more than just the SPA (we parse protobuf files and code-generate all our APIs, among other things). We're using the bare-bones react bindings with React Hooks.

PureScript is niche, but when it's the right fit for your problem it's a wonderful language to work in and especially to maintain.
Putin absolutely used language suggesting these actions were defensive against "fundamental threats" and in reaction to "the military machine is moving and, as I said, is approaching our very border". Putin puts the war against Ukraine as "a matter of life and death, a matter of our historical future as a nation" and a threat "to the very existence of our state and to its sovereignty." He even literally states "we are acting to defend ourselves."

Putin himself has absolutely, 100%, without question, very publicly stated they needed to go to war against Ukraine to defend themselves against Western aggression. He absolutely framed it as a completely defensive action. Those words aren't some misquote or mistranslation or taken out of context, they're hosted on the Kremlin's website.

I guess you don't consider Putin to be a Russian?

http://en.kremlin.ru/events/president/news/67843

https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/blogs/new-atlanticist/markup...

Please quit spreading lies.
If instead of flashing high beams or last-resorting to honking I could just say "hey, car in front of me, I'm kinda in a hurry, could you move to the right lane so I can pass?" I feel a lot more people would be relaxed. Me included.
I have a feeling that recent SSR/hydration/signals in web dev are slowly rediscovering flash streamable everything in a new form.
> How in tarnation did anyone think keeping babies away from the allergens would help with allergies is beyond me

No one, AFAIK, thought it would reduce the rates of people developing allergies.

What people thought was that it would reduce the rates of people having dangerous allergic reactions as infants (which it does) and that the longer term effects would not be so negative as to outweigh that benefit (which seems, in the case of certain allergens – particularly peanuts – to very much not be the case.)
In person school is definitely the answer. The real challenge is the student teacher ratio you mentioned.

I think the ideal is ~10:1 sorted by student performance/learning capacity increasingly for difficult subjects (so students form a cohesive classroom pace of subject material). Which will also give variance to friend groups if you sort students differently per subject.

AI tools will be great for public schools where its often 30-60:1. We still have to get past the 'confidently wrong' AI though.
There is a mostly ignored body of research linking at least some food allergies to food proteins in vaccines. Here is one such study https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3571073
again its debateable. VC's caused all their portfolio teams to pull their money. Had they all relaxed and just waited SVB to raise... is there even an issue ?
I was actually running ESXi on my Mini for a while and successfully installed macOS in a VM on it. The performance was horrendous though, so much of macOS depends on GPU acceleration which I didn't get. I think I've read newer macOS builds don't even have a software video fallback, though that might just be the Apple Silicon builds which wouldn't apply to me.

It was definitely a fun project even if not terribly useful.
I found startups to be vastly different than established megacorps in this regard. I always loved the startup environment for that reason.

The large, established organizations I've worked for have moved so slowly in comparison it feels like you're wearing two rings of speed. Once I was given 4 months to complete a 40-minute task. (I had other things to do, so I didn't just sit around, but I absolutely could have had that thing done the next day.)

As for the raise, too bad you work for a money-starved startup! ;)
One thing that’s replaced it is making people register a mobile phone number.
> Second, even if that's not the case, the part of doing the communication can be handled by non-programmers.

It can’t - only programmers will know which follow up questions to ask. GPT will be able to ask those questions before non-programmers will be able to.

Half the work is nitpicking on date formats or where some id comes from or if a certain field is optional, etc.
Here is an example: COVID. In January of 2020 journalists and politicians, and a lot of other people, kept saying to alarmed people that panic and "freaking out" is more dangerous than the virus itself. Those measured people said we should look at the flu, which killed much more people. Of course the alarmists were right, the flu and "panic" were both much less leathal than COVID.
Just reverse time in the evolution operator.
Maybe AI can function as a mediator/conciliator in the future, perhaps showing us with irrefutable logic that cooperation can be a better path for humanity. Geez, I'm wishing for a machine deity that will watch over us. Would that be faith or lack of it?
Ask HN: Is there a Hacker News for world news?
I really like the format of hacker news and for tech it’s great. Has anyone seen the same format for other topics such as world news, marketing, business etc etc
> I recommend it. Start a blog - on your own domain, on webspace that you control.

Following up on this - any specific reason behind this? I am considering starting a newsletter soon to first gather audience and Substack looks like right solution for this without requiring much technical setup, esp. as a non-tech. Idea is to first start blogging, get into that mindspace, build an audience and then you can move it to a proper blog on your own website, if required.

Curious what would be your thoughts here?
yea its a simulator of human text on the internet

for instance, your comment confidently states this is unfixable - presumably based on the frequency you've seen similar text on the internet. why should anyone believe the veracity of your statement? These things didn't have any of these emergent capabilities one year ago, why are you so sure you understand their nature one year from now?
> The profit from EU gas market actually covers any possible costs of any EU involvement in Ukrainian crysis, except maybe nuclear strike by France.

So how much is the life worth of six conscripted Russian soldiers in an APV killed by an NLAW? I struggle to understand how you've done the maths. Furthermore I believe that the Russian Federation's current issues are not wholly money but ability to produce the complex components required for new armour.
"Like a snow day for your whole life." Thank you, that gave me a hearty laugh.
Note that water tiles have cost 2, so the tile-crossing limit cannot be expressed simply as a maximum total cost.

Looking at the two examples in the paragraph after "And there’s a lot of complication to it beyond the simple cases too", I can't figure out how the movement value is defined, as I can only see 10 and 8 moves respectively, not the 14 and 10 movement value claimed in the following text (and only one water tile on each path.)
Hi, he3.app founder here. Thanks for using it.
We built He3 to provide long-tail tools -- tools that might be helpful to developers but no big-enough market to have a business to support it.
Yes I'm a Chinese. But I used to work in the silicon valley and we built it initially in China for labor cost reasons. Eventually we plan to benefit developers around the world and would need people/community outside China to achieve that :D
People think of Flash and fondly remember HomestarRunner but that shit was EVERYWHERE for awhile, and not just in banner ads. Entire websites would be built in flash, and not well, either.
Number of Banks by Country
Microsoft also published DataFixerUpper and added some packets specifically for servers such as the "Ping" packet and the "Bundle" packet and the 1.19.4 display entities.

Ping being to synchronously measure latency of the client - unused by vanilla

Bundle being to force packets to be processed together - very useful for sending clients display animations all at once

And then all the display entities to display text and itemstacks in the air, with custom interpolation and stretching - so advanced animations can easily be made.

The most hostile thing is Microsoft pushing the locked down Bedrock edition.
>it will be used to cut costs by replacing human teachers for low-status students with poor substitutes

most public school teachers are glorified babysitters at this point anyway, I can recall only a single teacher during my 12 year public school attendance that was actually helpful. From what I've seen from GPT-4 so far, I'd have taken a ChatGPT Plus subscription and laptop over dedicated teachers. YT and Khan Academy were far more useful than my actual teachers
Just flip your coordinate system, and voilà, it's all positively existing people roaming the world in wonder.
Yes, this is the absurd part of the fat-hate movement, "you're wasting my insurance/tax dollars!" actually no fat people tend to die early, and US healthcare spending is absurdly weighted towards end-of-life care for terminal patients, something like 50-70% of your total life spending comes in the last 18 months of your life. Someone quietly dying at 50 of heart disease is really cheap compared to the person spending 10 years fighting lung cancer at 70.

Not that it should really matter, if the goal is to "get them healthy", right? But it's not, it's about having someone to hate and look down on. Black Mirror nailed this vibe perfectly in Ten Million Merits.

Anyway this is a specific problem with the US healthcare system though - we spend way too much on patients who are circling the drain and everyone else gets screwed. Broken bones and bad dentistry and missed immunizations are what produces the single largest improvement in health outcomes - Cuba really only has something like a 7-year reduced lifespan vs the US iirc, because they do well at delivering that basic care even if you're not going there for proton radiotherapy or other ultra-high-end treatments. And the US does the latter but sucks at the former.
I experienced a 100% increase to $7.50 in 18ct egg prices, followed by a 50% decrease to $3.60, as expected;

But I heard others have only seen a 6% change?
No joke, from page 3 of the pdf. I'm stunned at the lack of rigorous process around alignment that this suggests.

Furthermore, in my own contemplations I don't even perceive how alignment could ever be possible as from my perception we have built the very premise on top of an unsolvable paradox. I elaborate on that in great detail in my recent writings here FYI - https://dakara.substack.com/p/ai-singularity-the-hubris-trap
Hypercard died twice, once at Apple's hands, and again at Adobe's.
For anyone wondering, Trader Joe's sells these in the US! They're great, and they're "real" Bamba and not a TJ's replica.
I started my blog because I have a shitty memory, I could never remember exactly how I did things last week/month/year. Over time, it went from a crutch to a superpower. Now, I don't just remember what format to put foo.conf or what commands to empty the queue for bar.service -- I have the exact context, outcome, and all the things I tried to make it work. Between my 'long form' blog posts and my more 'wiki-like' notes site, I've basically documented everything that I know over the past decade or so.
I missed them renaming <dl> from definition list in HTML5. Use them all the time in MediaWiki markdown.
It works the other way, too. You're happier when you don't consume the news. That is also scientifically proven, although I have no linkage to support that claim.
SIDS and also suffocation, which is now separated out from SIDS.

However, in recent years there has been a backlash to the backlash, and under certain conditions (no drugs/alcohol, exclusive breastfeeding, no blankets) some doctors will recommend co-sleeping. It’s controversial.
Yeah but, kids and teens are the easiest group to trick with dark patterns and addictive behavior. What other age group is going to give you better engagement metrics and help you raise capital? /s
I'm not sure where the breakpoint for "younger" and "older" is, but I've done Engino with kids as young as 2nd grade, but they do need help pulling pieces apart sometimes. By 4th or 5th grade, it's ideal.

One of the things elementary school kids like about it is that it's possible to build big things.

Younger than Engino, and I like normal blocks (wooden or foam) and Magnatiles.

I wasn't familiar with webrick. That's something to perhaps explore at some point.
> I’m stuck with having it write one function at a time.

Because thats the most it can do. Claims that it can write code are getting quieter. People made wild claims on reddit but when prompted to share their code they either went mute or the code was hilariously amateurish and limited.
My kids already ask Siri all sorts of questions - how to spell things, to perform searches. My son asked "is God real?" was last night to GPT-4.

They're very comfortable with speaking to the machine.

But Siri is so limited. It frustrates them to no end.

I'm genuinely excited to see the virtual "teachers", "assistants" that come from GPT-4, Dall-E, etc.

It won't replace us. But it will give them an unending outlet to ask these questions, and to have a reasonable response.

I'm not too concerned about the AI "going off the rails".

There's crazy in the physical world, crazy in the virtual world, and as parents, it's our job to help them make sense of it, not to suppress it and act like crazy doesn't happen.
Take doctors out of the loop and let me prescribe with the Internet as my guide and I will save more lives in America than I will harm.

Access is everything.
Could you train a ChatGPT-beating model for $85,000 and run it in a browser?
Peanuts contain a unique kind of lectin, which, unlike almost all other plant lectins, does not break down with preparation (heat, mechanical, etc.). Lectins irritate the gut lining and therefore cause gastro issues for a lot of people, peanuts probably moreso than other foods.
Not only that, it often lies, and does it in a "convincing" way.
> or a corpus Google doesn't cover

Sadly, I expect this is the most likely answer. Or along the same lines, Google searching is so broken now that trying to find something specific but rare is difficult.
Yes on the current facts, but good luck to any district that thinks it'll be attracting new qualified teachers in that scenario.

Current Los Angeles teachers' wage penalty is 25% vs neighbors with same college degrees. [1]

One only need look at the current starvation in teacher training programs' rosters to see the coming implosion of supply of new teachers.

Paper with methodology and citations: https://utla.net/app/uploads/2022/08/UTLA_ShortageReport.pdf
I think you’re making a joke, but reference counting is different than what a unique pointer does. (a destructor is not the same thing as a reference count, even if that reference count is limited as you suggest.)
As popular as it is, I wonder if there's effectively microdosing happening from baby's 1st week, even before they eat it themselves?
Not saying that you're wrong, but your line of reasoning is incorrect. It could also have been because all the people with peanut allergies have died and the people surviving all have some sort of genetic advantage against peanut allergy.

Again, the above reasoning is wrong but not completely baseless.
Love your writing, Will. Have both of your books!
This article has no analysis, insight, or data. It has a few singular datums, but doesn't establish any relations or context.

Unless I missed it in a one page article.

This is just click-bait without the annoying pop-ups.
That's not what daemons are... At all.

A better comparison would be literally any sci-fi book where everyone has a personal AI. Spider Robinson's Stardancer trilogy is the first one that comes to mind.