skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Oh i see! Controversial subjects be controversial. I don't think aiming for "non-controversialness" is a worthy goal in itself."

First, thank you for your reply.

See, your comment clearly shows that there was a significant communications failure on my part because I failed to get my message across with accuracy. In fact, my failure was so bad that it deserves to be awarded close to 0/10 because you interpreted the opposite meaning to my intent.

As an old phil. student I make a clear distinction between formal argument as found in say Book I of Plato's Republic and that which now goes for general debate on say HN or Twitter. My point had nothing to do with being non-controvertial, in fact formal argument is usually just the opposite, subjects are often very controversial indeed.

Both Russell and Taylor would never have let an error of misjudging their audience to that extent slip through, they would have prefaced their discussions with explanations to avoid confusion. Here, I failed to do that by assuming that everyone was on my 'wavelength' and had the same understandings (definitions) as I have.

"I'm not familiar with the names you mention, but I will check them out. Thank you for the recommendation."

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bertrand_Russell

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ihaB8AFOhZo

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/A._J._P._Taylor

Part 1: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=vnkZ4o7C-DE

Part 2: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=rnxI8YMD9BY

There's also part 3 and many more like them if you wish.

"I still think we have spellbinding orators who discuss current public issues. I would count Adam Conover or Jordan Peterson as such for example."

No doubt there are but they aren't as widely known nor as well respected by friend and foe
alike as those who've I've mentioned. They were intellectual superstars before intellectual became a dirty word, they were known to everyone as well as we know the name 'Einstein' today.
You mean like, "what is the form of the actual reality, of which 3d is a mere interpretation?"

Is that what yr asking?

(as for the source of the interpretation itself... biology, culture...)
My personal opinion is that this has nothing to do with SEO. All those developer-focused blogs serve Google ads, while the official Go documentation does not. Google is trying to boost revenue by promoting results with ads.
CRA is no longer recommended. Official recs are Next, Remix, and Gatsby.

https://react.dev/learn/start-a-new-react-project
I think it's telling you don't mention what exact 'special forces gear' were provided. As far as I can tell all that was provided were some machine guns and helmets, and don't see any mention of anything useful like night vision goggles, radios etc. Even if these forces were fully specced, SF equipment for a few hundred soldiers would make zero impact on a conflict like Ukraine.

It's interesting to see lately how people use their pet random social/political issue and try draw some parallel with the Russia/Ukraine war.
When hiring, I always pay close attention to a person's writing skills. I find it to be a useful heuristic for general software engineering competency. But I actually look at this from the opposite direction - someone who's good at writing is usually also good at reading, and being a good reader is extremely helpful in our field. (Good) engineers spend so much time reading: technical books, documentation, requirements, specs, email, and of course code. Engineers who don't mind reading and are able to read attentively tend to be a lot more effective, as they will be more knowledgeable and less likely to miss important details.
Well.. to that I would say that parents HAVE drawn a line and teachers and people without children, perhaps such as yourself, are pushing back. Parents, IMO, should be the ones to draw the line. Not the teachers, not the state, and not third-parties that are fighting a political war.

As for top-down meddling, I agree with that. The Department of Education has been the worst thing for America's education system, not to mention half-baked federal policies on healthy eating.

The issue is that teachers and the administration are the government in most places. So if we are to have less meddling it would be to empower the parents to make decisions - to draw the line as you say - and force the schools and the teachers to follow that line.
A great quote from an article I read on HN recently

> Suppose I was an evil person and wanted to eliminate the curiosity of children. Give the kid a diet of Google, and pretty soon the child learns that every question he has is answered instantly. The coolest thing about being human is to learn, but you don’t learn things by looking it up; you learn by figuring it out.
I forget a famous economist (old British guy I think) who said that there is no more effective way to secretly and insidiously overthrow / disrupt a society as unchecked inflation.

(something similar to that, I'm probably paraphrasing badly)
The Board overruled the 2020 decisions which allowed broad anti-disparagement clauses, so at best what you'll get is a return to the status quo 2019. I can't say I noticed a difference in the amount of disparagement I read now vs. then, so I don't think you'll get your wish.

BTW, the guidance letter refers to disparagement of "the image of the employer, its parent and affiliates, and their officers, directors, employees, agents and representatives", so rather broader than just coworkers.
I feel like the ultimate culmination and drive for AI products to be developed is to go back to the times where slaves were normal to own. We don't want to pay actual humans, we don't want to deal with the difficult and expensive things like providing a living to people. We want this robot to be everything LIKE a human except not require the resources humans need.
I just read McCarthy for the first time - Sunset Limited - and it blew my mind. Beautiful, insightful, unique, playful, tragic. Fantastic way to spend time!

Is this series a good next step, or am I better off reading something from his back catalog first?
I see exactly the same.

Google provides exactly what you're looking for ..
Have they worked on this in recent years? I don't know how VW's are but a relative of mine had a Ford (I believe 2018) and the infotainment system was absolutely abysmal. I wrote off ever owning a Ford because of that thing. It felt like a joke.
I recall news about Qualcomm charging a fee based on the overall price of the final product too. But does Arm have as strong of a hold on the market, compared to Qualcomm, to pull it off?
Can it still do stuff like set timers on my phone for me?
When a business decides to pick a tech, they look at following:

1. Longevity

2. Market share

3. Developer supply

4. Third party support. (Ecosystem)

5. Technically mature and advanced

Among those criteria react excels at first four. And is good enough for the fifth.

So, most business will pick react. Depending on the local environment, some may pick angular for those same reason.

All newer, better technologies will be evaluated afterwards and only if react and angular prove to be too troublesome for the business's current needs.

This is why "react new" is not a thing. This sentiment is echoed almost weekly basis. Recent threads were under title "React is holding me hostage"
I thought the same but it is actually able to interpret URLs that are not indexed by Bing. It doesn't work all the time though, don't know why.
Google knows it's you if you did all of that from the same computer.
The topic is too broad. My recommendation is to give they a good enough kick start to motivate them to learn more about the subject instead of a general knowledge that is more difficult to apply immediately. Start with a hands on course of programing.

Just teach them how to nest two `for` and two `if`

It's incredible the amount of task that you can solve with two `for` and two `if`, and they look like magic to uninitiated. Functions may be a nice optional objective in case some students go too fast. Under promise and over deliver.

Stick to one language. I recommend Python that is beginner friendly, battery included but is also used professionally and has a ton of advanced libraries. [1]. If someone knows another language, allow them to use it.

If they can't use a normal computer for each one, it may be a problem. It's hard to install a programing languages in smartphones. What about Jupyter? I never tried that, but it may be a good alternative.

For a hand on curse, I strongly recommend to have 2 teachers instead of 1. With 20 students it's too easy to get distracted and answer a question that is too long with one student. The second teacher can help to avoid the dead time of the rest of the class. For 30 students I recommend to have 3 or 4 teachers. I guess this is a personal project, so it's hard to get helpers, but perhaps you can invite a different one for each class.

In my curses for kids I used problems of integer math that can be solved by brute force nesting two `for` and two `if`. (In the last clases we have some advanced topic like naive primality check.) (Actually, the amount of `for` and two `if` was not fixed.) They are easy to understand and to create new ones, and there are many recreational math problems that are trivially bruteforzable.

The math problems were relevant for the activity that organized the curses. Perhaps you can try with some turtle graphics like the old logo. I think there is a package for python for that, but I'm not sure it's smartphone friendly, I never tried the package and I never used it in a curse. I just guess it may be interesting.

Avoid explaining bits, just use numbers, magic numbers. It may be a problem with floating point equality, but just explain that floating point numbers are weird and will be explained in the next curse.

[1] Later they can get enlighten and learn Racket. Save some parens in the beginners curse. [2]

[2] I'm ashamed for the amount of value I got from using a little of html + javascript + php, but I prefer that beginners avoid any language where 1+"2" is not a syntax error.
It might have done, for the three whole minutes the sides played that way after one of them cheated by doing this extremely boring and uncompetitive thing https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JZlqfhLwBnE
Unfortunately I don't think any footage of those minutes is publicly available

But FIFA's been unusually consistent in handing out bans for deliberate own goals for strategic reasons in other contexts, so I'm not sure why Barbados got away with this one. Fixed matches and mass brawls can be pretty entertaining to watch too!
You used to be able to say "Ask Wolfram ..." for a while to get around it, but now even that seemingly is gone
> I'm guessing the volume is low, but I'm surprised to see Nintendo continuously take moves to stop supporting old consoles when there's clearly still demand.

I'm surprised too, but I would point out that the Switch came out six years ago! Nintendo did keep supporting the 3DS, with new games even, for a long time after it was succeeded.
> The writing does seem to be a masters-level course in telling rather than showing.

That's a failure on the part of the [author?]. When you literally ask GPT to tell you a story, it's going to tell you a story. The "author's" entire process is mechanical iteration-- "Make a statement. Enhance. Enhance. Enhance."

It's more "showy" when you start with "write a script about..." and massage that into a story, or add stipulations like "...go into emotional detail."

People are gaming this thing to write smut, so if the output is this bland, it's not the tech that's the problem.
> Aren't politicians involved whenever the will of the voters is being enacted? What if most parents in MO support what the politicians are doing? What if they called their representatives and asked them to take action against libraries?

Indeed. I think jessuastin probably meant something like nationalized identity-driven politics. It's a valid difference.

> If you oppose top-down meddling in public education then I assume you support vouchers? That's about as bottom-up as things get.

I like choice but not vouchers. There are basically two issues with vouchers.

The first is that they're usually implemented in a fashion that is simultaneously regressive (on income) and re-distributive (on geography). Ie, they're often implemented as pure grift.

The second, and more important, is that we already have experimented with a hybrid public/private system where some public funds flow to private options! The result is runaway spending and the market driving emphasis toward a bunch of bullshit cost disease stuff instead of actual learning outcomes. No matter how bad our public K12 system is, you will never convince me that our higher ed system is better, and that's what an American public/private hybrid system would, empirically, end up converging to.

I could get behind a voucher system that (1) gives each kid the same amount of cash and also (2) caps all tuition and fees for any school receiving even a dollar of voucher cash.

I'd also be okay with just not providing state funding for education at all, but it'd be a sort of terrible world for most families and I genuinely wonder how many people realize how bad things would get for most families...
> you don't need to memorize every fact in Wikipedia if you know how to effectively search it.

yeah you're onto something. models good enough to sustain a conversation where I bring my own data as a primer are probably more useful that models that have a frozen knowledge of everything. the killer feature of gpt-4 is the 32k token size, which allows unprecedented amount of input to be fed into the knowledge graph and queried.
Dividing and conquering where specific people are assigned specific source files / methods / etc can work well, and provide clarity to people who like that instead of expecting them to find / drive themselves.

Sometimes things are presented as a 'challenge' with 'points' and some prize in a lame attempt to gamify things. Pretending that it's not just work, and that a gift card will motivate people is kind of pathetic - it's just a normal part of software development work, the reward is that you get paid, and the software works and is easy to enhance and does what users expect it to.
Sometimes you do need to consider compute cost, say if you want a small but high quality model that can run on a smart phone to perform a task. For example, with camera input, identify a plant or animal, while in a remote area with no cell signal, so it has to yield an answer without communicating with a server. What's the smallest, most efficient model that can do that effectively? Build that.
I don't think this is true, although the quoted terms may not be readily visible. Google talked about it as late as last year: https://blog.google/products/search/how-were-improving-searc...
Feeling the pressure from Risc-V perhaps?
Thing is inflation isn't 'natural' economic condition, it is mostly a product of economic policy according to a very respected school of thought (monetarism). In other words it is as natural as slapping a wealth tax of 80% on the super wealthy, which is definitely not beneficial for the rich.
Back up your networks, folks!
UK wages have not risen with inflation over the last year or so. Private sector wages went up about 7%. Public sector less.
Answer is simple: according to people who would be suffering from bad code.

I've had seen code reviews done by people who are not working on the code in question and never will, and this is dysfunctional and should never happen. If that's your case then I am sorry and yes, make code-review optional, non-blocking or even better cancel them all together.

But the proper code review is done by your peers working on the same part of code. When I put a blocking comment saying "this function called GetFoo now deletes database, submits payment and returns Bar, please rename it to match its function" this is not done because I read too much books and have weird ideas... This comment was written because I know that next week I will be adding new features and debugging production failures and having bad code will actually impede my progress.

Of course people may disagree what "good" is, so there should be some way to resolve conflicts. I've seen teams with very strong technical leader who had the final word. Or the one place which had "review meetings" for author/reviewer disagreements which anyone could attend and which would vote on resolutions. Either way, make sure you have a wiki page or something where you can write down what you decide on (for example: "no review defect should complain about punctuation in comments"), so that the same questions don't come up again and again.

(Btw, if you have problems with other people reviewing your code, this is where microservices shine. You have your own repo and service, they have their own repo and service. No one touches other's code and thus has no grounds to impose code review. Just make sure to have good monitoring solution so that if main app falls down you know who's service to blame.)
From their blog [0]

The bug was discovered in the Redis client open-source library, redis-py. As soon as we identified the bug, we reached out to the Redis maintainers with a patch to resolve the issue. Here’s how the bug worked:

- We use Redis to cache user information in our server so we don’t need to check our database for every request.

- We use Redis Cluster to distribute this load over multiple Redis instances.

- We use the redis-py library to interface with Redis from our Python server, which runs with Asyncio.

- The library maintains a shared pool of connections between the server and the cluster, and recycles a connection to be used for another request once done.

- When using Asyncio, requests and responses with redis-py behave as two queues: the caller pushes a request onto the incoming queue, and will pop a response from the outgoing queue, and then return the connection to the pool.

- If a request is canceled after the request is pushed onto the incoming queue, but before the response popped from the outgoing queue, we see our bug: the connection thus becomes corrupted and the next response that’s dequeued for an unrelated request can receive data left behind in the connection.

- In most cases, this results in an unrecoverable server error, and the user will have to try their request again.

- But in some cases the corrupted data happens to match the data type the requester was expecting, and so what gets returned from the cache appears valid, even if it belongs to another user.

At 1 a.m. Pacific time on Monday, March 20, we inadvertently introduced a change to our server that caused a spike in Redis request cancellations. This created a small probability for each connection to return bad data.

This bug only appeared in the Asyncio redis-py client for Redis Cluster, and has now been fixed.

[0] https://openai.com/blog/march-20-chatgpt-outage
I do believe I just saw an open letter from some Google staff to the CEO reiterating the need to uphold their "do no evil" model.

I can't imagine what it's like for the original employees to watch the company become what it has.

All the things that made Google so appealing, and gain market share, seem to have faded. It's a bit sad, to be honest. I remember being so excited to become a Gmail beta tester, back in the day.
Florida parents upset by Michelangelo’s ‘David’ force out principal
All they had to was to bring in laws about data privacy. I guess they don't want to because it's making big money for advertisers.
Stability is a feature of industrial processes. Natural processes are all over the place. Also, there are external shocks that you can't control (e.g. oil producers raising prices in the 70s, Russia invading Ukraine, etc.).

Compare pre and post 1945. The 1800s had a depression every banking cycle, now we just get recessions. Bank failures no longer take down your life savings. The king of England doesn't sometimes surreptitiously start putting copper in the gold coins to fund wars any more (e.g. inflation). GP's chart is pretty impressive, actually. Aside from the 70s oil shock, inflation is pretty constant, especially in the last couple decades.
Some betting market needs to host bets on when AI will put programmers out of their jobs. I don't expect it to happen for decades. (Although I might bet that it will happen earlier, as insurance in case it does.)
what a ridiculous clickbait post, and not text.
good point, assets aren't infinite.
Can someone explain why they require a new sign up process for just plugins? I usually make up information for sign ups. Does that mean I can use plugins even if I have different information on the chat account and plugin account?
I appreciate the feedback, but I think it's unhelpful to dismiss what I said as "lazy". I have an economics background and am certainly not a "blame corporations" reactionary.

Companies are smart. When news gets spread far and wide about a shortage of eggs or other products due to disease or wars or "supply chain issues", they leap to take advantage of this consumer consciousness by increasing their prices, knowing the consumer will blame the larger macro factor and not the company. This has been well-documented, even in cases where the supply chain issues didn't actually impact the company that raised prices.

The best way to understand what's happening is via corporate earnings calls. They're upfront with their strategy when talking to investors.

For more info I'd recommend listening to this episode: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-03-09/corporate...
Why?

The result for the end consumer is identical whether they have their PII leaked from "an external library" vs a vendor's own home-baked solution.

It's not really a different kind of mistake, it's exactly the same kind of mistake, because it is exactly the same mistake! This is talking the talk, and not walking the walk, when it comes to security.

Publishing a writeup that passes the buck to some (unnamed) overworked and underpaid open source maintainer is worse, not better!
>I thought in the 90's Amazon is what people dreamed of. Click a button and have something at your door in hours.

The problem is this only ever really worked for the people in the bigger cities. Half the time people who live in rural areas can't even get their prime items to come in less than a week. It's why I only ever take the free trials for the free shipping and cancel it immediately on arrival. And in the entire time I've been doing that the only time my items ever arrived within two days was when I specifically got a hold of Customer support and complained about it.

It sounds nice. It is definitely just a dream for many of us. Hours? LOL, I've never seen it happen in real life. Must be nice for those who can actually get it.
That is actually a good example. How long will it take for future engineers to blindly trust neural networks with only brief fact checking in the same tab? How much damage will it bring to the humanity? How to mitigate those risks without bannig neural networks on the work?