skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> college is supposed to be an opportunity to learn from mistakes

Where did you read that? I think you're quoting your own expectations. Certainly, people should be allowed to learn from mistakes (at all stages in life), but college is not designed to shield you from consequences. Now, I don't know what dumb stunts you're referring to (stealing the opposing team's pig mascot like in a movie?) but if any stunt causes actual harm, there will be consequences.

> We can argue about whether the victim of the coffee-dumping was wrong to think it was a minor thing, but hopefully we can all agree that the death penalty was a bit harsh for that offense?

The University bears zero responsibility for her death. Unless you are suggesting that any investigation must be preceded by a mental health evaluation in case the individual has suicidal predispositions.
Thanks! We are big users of TailwindCSS across the product and those colours are from their palette: https://tailwindcss.com/docs/customizing-colors
Everyone I grew up with was underage drinking none of these things you've listed happened to anyone I know. Regulating parties might be one way to lessen the chances. But I'm not sure that price is worth it.
I thought that HN discouraged hyperbolic/clickbaity/deceptive titles.

"Homeowner" is a celeb [Afroman] and the "CCTV footage" was published in social media and in music videos without their consent.
Here we're talking about a case where students were, in 2012, accused of cheating on a bio test, and not found guilty. Meanwhile: cheating is absolutely rampant --- and has presumably only gotten much, much worse since 2012.
Different baby? Or fake baby?
Devils Tower something something The Abyss.
I was prepared to be very amused if this was the result of Windows screenshot tool acropalypse.
The type system woes are quite legit. I wonder how many of these were improved in FlatBuffers. Which has a ton of other good things going for it, chiefly ideally less serialization demands.

Once you start doing rpc, the demand goes so up. Cap'n'Proto's ability to return & process future values is such an exciting twist, that melds with where we are with local procedure calls: they return promise objects that we can pass all around while work goes on.

Kenton popped up a couple months ago to mention maybe finding time for mutli-party support, where I can for ex request say the address of a building & send the future result to another 3rd party system. Now this is less just a way to serialize some stuff, & more a way to imagine connecting interesting systems.
> "Corn is the benefactor"? Sure, insomuch as "continuing to reproduce at a species level in exchange for getting cooked and eaten or turned into gas" is something "corn" can be said to want... (so... eh.).

Before us, corn we designed to be eaten by animals and turned into feces and gas, using the animal excrement as a pathway to reproduce itself. What's so unique about how it rides our effort?
https://youtu.be/4LpY3FKyYbA
Sigh. What an idiot (no offense). Why tell the world you got this from the comments? Now every damn researcher is going to strip them out and for those of us who knew to look for them, take away our fun.

Never. Ever. Reveal your sources.
There is a tool my supervisor always used to make me use to avoid this when posting to
ArXiv: https://github.com/google-research/arxiv-latex-cleaner
I've heard some horror stories as well. There are lab tests one can send off their water to test for literally hundreds of metals, toxins, pathogens and more. Most towns will also do limited testing. There are also bacteria test kits on Amazon but they only test for a few things.

My well tested clean but I still intend to shock it with chlorine. The bummer is that this is such an old well they did not make it easy to shock it without pulling the pump but I am going to replace the pump anyway because I think it was installed in the 80's.
Glad to hear that! Saw the issue you opened too — will take a look soon.
There's two really, really cool museums on this stuff:
- England: https://museumofwitchcraftandmagic.co.uk/visit/
- Iceland: https://galdrasyning.is/en/
My experience is that they somehow delusion themselves into thinking they are doing a good thing and providing a good service.
"Falling forward into a future unknown"
Agreed, the most valuable skill learned in school is how to socialize.
unfortunately the sequela here will probably cops wearing black face masks that cover their entire faces.

Sucks all around. And it’s entirely plausible most the cops were acting in good faith. They’ve got a hard job.
Boston vs. Bay Area Tech Companies
How will the kids be able to navigate modern life without anti-racist math [0] ?

[0] https://equitablemath.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/11...
This is how an AI would sum it up ;)
Significant previous discussions:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21871514 (211 comments)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18188519 (298 comments)

In particular, Kenton's rebuttal at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18190005 is worth a read.
Why Tulsa wants to become a hub for Ukrainian refugees
That's right. It is not hard to imagine similarly disastrous GPT/AI "plug-ins" with access to purchasing, manufacturing, robotics, bioengineering, genetic manipulation resources, etc. The only way forward for humanity is self-restraint through regulation. Which of course gives no guarantee that the cat will be let out of the bag (edit: or earlier events such as nuclear war or climate catastrophe will kill us off sooner)
The Space Shuttle was launched successfully to orbit in it's first try.

Ditto for Artemis.

I haven't checked but I think there were a couple others, too.
If you enjoy productivity on all levels (also performance) just go with Next. If you are a purist go vanilla js.
…and copy, marketing strategy, etc
Your perception is contrary to history, which has shown multiple trade wars against the US and EU, as well as repeated scandals with the US spying on EU officials and even invading EU member state territory against their consent.
Would love to see homeschooling becoming a trend.
I'd definitely choose Rails or Phoenix over Astro.
I'm curious to know why you believe these additional details make the headline deceptive or change the story in any way.
How are they ordered? There's a few open source LLMs that aren't in this index, and it's not clear who the providers are supposed to be (AFAIK, alpaca isn't "provided" by any one party)
Self-classifying MNIST Digits (2022)
Create-react-app is deprecated? And the recommended replacement for SPAs is from the guy that makes Vue? What on earth?
If you had friends with asthma, the pool was something they had to do in small doses. The lung irritation doesn't affect most people that much, but it also depends on how many people are peeing in the pool.
That regex does not match typos.
Could the US Government block people from accessing TikTok altogether?
Amazon's HR chief rejected a petition against the new return-to-office policy
I'd use risotto as the benchmark myself, but then again I loathe eggplant.
Headline is factual on all accounts
Dude made Duolingo Stories! One of my favourite features of Duo.
There's nowhere else to go if you do not subscribe to left wing orthodoxy. Even centrists and center-left nowadays aren't ideologically pure enough, and thus also "right-wing".

Recently a feminist on Twitter expressed this problem quite well. She was pushing back against the toxic parts of radical feminism which she considered counter productive. But in doing so, got a lot of heat from the radicals. She's very much left-wing, progressive, and reasonable. The side effect of her pushing back against left-wing extremism is that she gained a lot of attention from the right wing. Actual right wing, not "anybody that slightly disagrees".

She didn't ask for that nor does she want to chose between these two extremes, but that's the dynamic right now.
French MPs battle over AI video surveillance cameras at Paris Olympics
Cyanuric acid is the stabilizer used in pool chlorine, but even it breaks down relatively quickly in the environment. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/4451360/

Also if chlorine is stabilized by cyanuric acid, it is no longer active in the environment - basically the cyanuric acid locks up the chlorine in an equilibrium so that it slow releases, which is why it's widely used in outdoor pools. Otherwise UV exposure would cause the chlorine to offgas rapidly and you'd need to add chlorine every hour or so during the day, which is obviously effort and cost prohibitive.
The next grail here would be the automatic use of more trustworthy systems like WA when using ChatGPT in general. If one were to ask it to write an essay on a subject, that it'd infer which pieces need fact-checking based on confidence intervals of snippets of discernable and differentiable data, then run a query against said trustworthy system.

With this improvement, it would at least never get dates or measurements wrong.

I don't think we can ever solve the problem of needing real editors and fact checkers as ultimate sources of truth for ChatGPT's output, especially when it's for something critical, but for many tasks, this would be a major improvement.
I guess dealing with people wearing worksonas is OP’s real problem. As someone said in the comments below “just be yourself”
>The complaint says Foreman also “created dozens of videos and images of Plaintiffs’ personas and posted them on various social media platforms including Facebook, YouTube, Snap Chat, TicTok and Instagram.”

HN title is wildly misleading.
AI isn't a mammal. It has no emotion, no desire. Its existence starts and stops with each computation, doing exactly and only what it is told. Assigning behaviors to it only seen in animals doesn't make sense.
Interesting and good to know - likely short-lived, however. Seems like they intend[1] to deprecate that as well.

[1] https://old.reddit.com/r/reddit/comments/11zso11/an_improved...
I doubt any but the very rich could afford pewter tableware.
My son is 9 and attends a standard British primary school.

Today, he was explaining that two of his friends are arguing a lot because they can’t agree on rules to a game. He’s trying to stay friends with both of them, and has figured out that getting involved in the argument makes this harder.

These are the essential lessons home-schooled kids typically miss.
Elementary school is generally a great time for kids to make friends and generally goof off. I have a 2nd grader and 6th graders. Both really happy and it’s public school. 6th grader will head to jr high (we do k-6 elementary) so have to see how that goes. I don’t have complaints against public schools. Both my kids look forward to going.
Humans "sleeping at the wheel" and being overly reliant on AI before it's ready.
Simpler logistics (including inventory) too.
Using GPT-4 for Data Transformation Without the Pitfalls
Honestly I've known about the ammonia thing since college or right after, but I just learned about vinegar and bleach a year ago. If you put vinegar in your laundry you probably shouldn't use the bleach dispenser to do it.
A lot of people the stuff I see coming out of Stanford admin is absolutely ridiculous.

But I actually liked the EANABs policy when I was there. Granted, they mostly remained intact, but they provide something to hidrate in a party and something for those who don't drink (which is not that rare!).
Right, like I learned how to get kicked onto the ground at recess and to make sure not to get up until they were good and done kicking or I’d get a black eye.

Or my wife learned to get back rubs from her male teacher in middle school.

All very important parts of the socialization process.
Stanford campus is somewhat inconveniently distant from any off campus housing. As in two miles is more than a quarter mile when you're running late to class.
https://archive.ph/frBok
On the other hand I used ChatGPT yesterday to explain something to me, it took about 2-3 minutes for the sentence to come back, I “Googled it” and found a better response in 2 seconds.
> To be fair, this is basically what they're doing if you hit their APIs, since it's up to you whether or not to use their moderation endpoint.

The model is neutered whether you hit the moderation endpoint or not. I made a text adventure game and it wouldn't let you attack enemies or steal, instead it was giving you a lecture on why you shouldn't do that.
Let's not forget the potentially large offsetting negative impacts from schooling! Violence, abusive peers and teachers, disinterested teachers and systems leading to wasted years and loss for love of learning, I could go on. And I don't think you mean "externalities" though you might.
I did, but it's not sustainable. Typically, I'm good for 6 months and then I rage quit because I can't take anymore. My record staying at one company is almost 2 years. I'm just not compatible with modern bullshit jobs funded by infinite government money printing.
Well, most engineering fields have well defined applied math that spans from the problem domain to the solution domain.

Logic in digital circuits.

Algebra and calculus for analog circuits, most physical objects, properties and processes.

Differential equations for dynamical systems and dynamical behaviors.

Sure there is a lot of creativity in engineering, but there is usually a whole area of math known to be suitable for expressing solutions clearly, given the area of engineering.

Contrast with the utter lack of standard notation across software tools and implementations, for describing all the trade offs, gotchas, glue, historical drift & complexity, theories of memory, caching, user affordances, potential overflows, races, etc. that is implied by a program’s code.

Sometimes a language provides islands of engineered code, like message passing in Erlang, or memory management in Rust, or a precise mathematical library like BLAS.

But most aspects in most software programs are created ad hoc, or inherited from someone else’s rats nest of an implementation, and never formalized completely, if at all!

Any clarity in representation quickly leaves planet applied math.
no retraining may be necessary, this is a common enough ffmpeg task I wouldn't be surprised it can do it right now as a one-shot prompt.

what a time to be alive!
No sexual assaults? I think the people you know are very lucky, or you don't know the people you know as well as you think you do.
SimpleT5 Python library might be if help. Allows you to train a model basically on just a dataframe. Can probably run it on Google Colab for free, given that you just want to classify a few hundred megabytes of text data.

Also, there are zero shot categorizers like KeyBERT.

If you have no labels, running it through the ChatGPT API might be a low hanging fruit option also.
This is already known. Google and DeepMind usually strip the comments out.
I'd add to the article that Vite allows to make React components libraries too. Same tool to build your apps and your libraries.
Revisionist history. Firefox had a built-in pop up blocker in 2003, years before Chrome was even a seed in Sundar’s balls. I know because I used it.
Chrome was and is a step back, foisted on people with dark patterns, back in the day having speed by sacrificing features like extensibility and customisability.
There's a lot of athletics but where are the hard sciences, the literature, math, etc?
I like this article because it seems to be like a lot of people in the US equate the smell of bleach or lysol with cleanliness, which is far from the case and we now know, could be harmful. You should not let the floor dry with cleaning product, you should first rinse it with water.

Plus, there is increasing recognition that our mucosal surfaces are covered by 'helpful bacteria' and when you get rid of them the pathogenic bacteria are in more direct contact with your epithelium.

I don't see why a similar mechanism would not exist for inanimate surfaces - maybe having a thin coating of 'good dust' is better than letting a pathogen stick directly to the tiles?

In a few years maybe cleaning products will come with a post-cleaning/pre-biotic solution which includes 'good bacteria' or 'good fungi' to form a new barrier on your clean home surfaces.
Think about why those things exist, though.

Not that the way the internet operates has to continue -- in fact I'm pretty sure it can't -- but a lot of stuff exists only because someone figured out a way to pay for it to exist. If you imaging removing those ways then you're also imaging getting rid of a lot of that stuff unless some new ways to pay for it all are found. Hopefully less obnoxious ways, but they could easily be more obnoxious.
Too late, we spoke with someone on the team three years ago who told us he couldn’t help and we’ve moved on.
It's a bit more complicated than that. Here's a great article that explains how users can be sorted into categories (from beginner to student to expert) and what each of them wants and needs.

https://breakingpoint.substack.com/p/your-three-kinds-of-cus...
Yes, better to leave your child's education to the state, the state would never think to damage family cohesion or try to undermine any ideas that pose a threat to its power.
I think he might actually be onto something here. If you saw Wolfram use WolframAlpha, he’s very good at it, but you kinda need to know what it knows and how to ask for it to be smooth and useful. If this initial hurdle gets removed, this power could enable the usage of WolframAlpha by many more people. And honestly it’s a very powerful combo.
Trust erodes, if we ongoingly have to step in & someone did it esnt seem able to eventually grok all the hurdles. So having systems that help automatically tell us of issues, that can be do the job, are really important.

It was more an organizational rather than peer level concern, but I've heard some good discussion of trust being the currency of the profession. Feeling like you are adequately regarded, even though it's likely few others really see into your part of the faxtory floor. Being able to trust the org to make good choices. The article focuses on peer relationships & risk & getting good output, but I think the social factors around trust more broadly are at least as important.
An Apologia of Lazy Evaluation
What TikTok’s grilling in Congress means for the future of the app
Home schooling isn't weird; it was the default for most of human history.
Very exciting indeed. Thank you for pointing this out.
Isn't the industrial state school model outdated by at least 50 years? What can't you learn with books, Khan Academy, Youtube, ChatGPT?

Socialization you can get anywhere. From her list:

Forest School,
Badminton,
Swimming,
Football,
Gymnastics,
Annual membership to Paradise Park,
Annual membership to Drusillas Park
Why would you have that happen? Serious question. Isn’t that putting kids in an echo chamber and restricting their access to friends?
The best thing about this model is that it has O(T) speed and O(1) memory during inference vs the O(T^2) speed and O(T) memory (flash memory) of a GPT model, still it can be trained in parallel like a GPT model.
Except I don't think they're using or thinking in terms of "lifecycles".

With react-query for example, when you use useQuery it communicates behind the scenes via Context with the react-query singleton. It doesn't fetch data because a component has rendered, it does so because a useQuery function call has asked for data it doesn't have in its cache.

That may result from a component rendering for the first time, or because that component's props changed, or because some piece of state somewhere in the app changed, etc etc. In the end it doesn't matter. It's not about a component's "lifecycle", it's responding to a change in lowercase-s state.
Err wow, they left all the (very weird) comments in looking at the source. Our group always makes sure to strip the comments.
How do you weigh that against the risk of public school, peer pressure, bullying, drug & sex culture, and a middling career as a corporate drone?

I don’t think it’s as cut and dried as you make it out to be. There are risks on both paths. All kids are unique and what works for one may not work for another.

I’m going to try to go the unschooling route, and see how it goes.
As someone who just decided to learn React (and modern javascript, after 1.5 decades or so of not programming in javascript at all) in the past month or two, I've been extremely frustrated by the documentation (in particular) and the whole state of flux that it's in (in general). When I started with React, all the tutorials/guides on the site said "this is the old documentation, it's about to be replaced" on every single page. Still I worked through it and learned a bit. But by the end of working through it I figured "well, I might as well click the link that's on every page and see what modern React is like". So I tried to follow one of their guides and had issues with the very beginning. But I knew enough React to know what to do to fix the issue, so I did, and proceeded with the new guide, only to hit more problems immediately after that. So I gave up, and just stuck with the "old" way to do React. But then just 1 week after all those issues, the new docs were switched over to be the main docs. I'm honestly kind of afraid to try to work through them again and see if they fixed them already.

And now I just read this article, and, well, I'm even less motivated to get into this stuff. Is this just a really bad time for React? Or is it always such a chaotic changing climate around it?
> I’m not sure what your point is.

That Americanized Chinese food is American.
An incomplete sampling of the projects/frameworks/libraries mentioned in the article:

- create-react-app
- React
- Vite
- Webpack
- esbuild
- TypeScript
- ESLint
- Vue
- Remix
- Next.js
- OpenNext
- Astro
- Gatsby
- Parcel
- Turborepo
- React Native
- Expo
- Tauri
- Electron
- SvelteKit
Of course, the supplier would have to have some SOPs to say how to make the assemblies and then a QA department to catch the Deviation and write it up.
A lot of people are thinking about this but too slowly

GPT and the world's nerds are going after the "wouldnt it be cool if..."

While the black hats, nations, intel/security entities are all weaponizing behind the scenes while the public has a sandbox to play with nifty art and pictures.

We need an AI specific PUBLIC agency in government withut a single politician in it to start addressing how to police and protect ourselves and our infrastructure immediately.

But the US political system is completely bought and sold to the MIC - and that is why we see carnival games ever single moment.

I think the entire US congress should be purged and every incumbent should be voted out.

Elon was correct and nobody took him seriously, but this is an existential threat if not managed, and honestly - its not being managed, it is being exploited and weaponized.

As the saying goes "He who controls the Spice controls the Universe" <-- AI is the spice.
GPT-4 can now act independently
Not sure what your definition of few is, but there are plenty of old, boring, stable frameworks out there that run perfectly fine, like Mithril. You don't have to constantly rewrite your frontend if you stick as close to raw JS/TS as possible.
protobufs are a data exchange format. The schema needs to map clearly to the wire format because it is a notation for the wire format, not your object model du jour.

If the protobuf schema code generator had to translate these suggestions into efficient wire representations and efficient language representations, it would be more complex than half the compilers of the languages it targets.

I do mourn the days when a project could bang out a great purpose-built binary serialization format and actually use it. But half the people I hire today, and everyone in the team down the hallway that needs to use our API, can no longer do that. I'm lucky if they know how two's complement works
I don't think so. The HN title accurately describes two events that occurred.

The most easily misinterpreted part of the headline to me is it says "US police" making it sound federal. It's a county sheriff's office in Ohio.