skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Another evidence is to ask GPT for a link with a reference for the answers it gives: it'll generate them instead of copying them.
Almost all of those men went on to marry women who were also very well-educated on the classics. Education was about social class much more than gender.

The fact that we only hear about "great educated men" in the history books has more to do with a bias in society than with who actually got educated.
You probably mean scammers. As I remember it, in that case the scammers pretend to have their responders to self select for gullabilit.
Because the problem with carbon is that the cost of emitting it is not reflected in the market price of the things emitting it. This is called an externality in economics. You fix the externality by taxing the carbon emission at a level that covers the externality. After that you let the much more efficient market sort out what emits and what doesn't because it does a far better job than than any grouping of hacker news commenters expressing what ever combination of the seven deadly sins you think makes them hate the most productive people in society. Markets work and envious, wrathful authoritarians don't. You just end up with another episode of great moments in unintended consequences going down that road.
No one is wishing it away. There's a difference between sex and gender: https://www.ons.gov.uk/economy/environmentalaccounts/article...
Suggesting that black people need "more discipline" to learn because of "selective breeding" is plain-as-day racism.
Loved the idea, makes interior work so much easier.
> They don't because it is clearly written down in checks notes the constitution.

Often, it is not. But they don't have to (except as a fairly recent, self-imposed rule of the House of Representatives) explain any argument that it is, in advance, nor even when they do is the government bound to only that advance argument on its Constitutional justification.

Similar, regulatory agencies , while they tend to identify their statutory authority when making regulatory actions, aren't required to justify their claims of authority in advance. When they are contested, it is resolved in the courts, whether its Congress or executive branch regulators.

> Factually, our government doesn’t operate on whims and feelings or work it out in the courts later.

Factually, that’s exactly what our government does a lot of the time.

Ideally (in many people’s view) that’s not what it should do, but facts and ideals are different things.
The fictional story “The Rainmaker” is about a fictional insurance company with a secret internal policy to deny all claims on first submission, and only fulfill some claims on appeal.

It was meant to be fiction, but I suppose it’s not. This whole company should go down for fraud.
Note that’s a specific flavor of Agile related to Scrum, not the only flavor.

Personally I do 2 stand-ups a week, and a monthly sprint board (Kanban like?) with no sprint planning or any other process/system meetings. Any other meeting is as-hoc on demand. Working well!
During oral arguments on other affirmative action cases, she was incredibly defensive of the practice.
Sometimes I check out /r/teachers to get an idea of what's going on in education. The general consensus is that behavior issues are completely out of control for a variety of reasons:

- Shortage of dedicated special education teachers

- Parents who won't discipline kids at home

- Top-down pushes from administration such as "restorative justice", "least restrictive environment", and a few other phrases that will make any classroom teacher's skin crawl

- Unwillingness from administration to apply suspensions or expulsion due to how this ties to school funding

- Lack of flexibility in the teaching job market due to teachers being a licensed profession and most states suspending a teacher's license if they quit mid-year, leaving apathetic teachers trapped in bad schools

- Attempts to discipline non-white students frequently resulting in accusations of racism, making it not worth the trouble

In the classroom, the end result seems to be that behavior meltdowns take up a disproportionate amount of a teacher's attention and they aren't empowered to deal with it, all at the expense of the quality of instruction for the rest of the students. The standardized test score metrics discussed here are a not too surprising consequence.
The Kirkwoods were great for the time. I had a PogoPlug and a Seagate DockStar.

Thermals were the Achilles heel though - very easy to overheat either one of those little boxes doing simple things like uploading a lot of files to its storage.
Private data yes, but I don't think code is that much of a secret special sauce. Apart from anything else, too many engineers moving between different roles and sharing what they learn.

Even with medical data, which I at least hope is much better protected, some of that ended up in the training sets used by the current bunch of text-to-image AI.
Only articles are supported atm. I am working on algorithms for other page types.
The past few years have convinced me quite strongly that malice is sometimes, even often, the correct explanation.
A few reasons, although you are only seeing part of the picture with the project. The lectures were all theory-based (more along what you would find in the book).

1. I had a whopping three weeks to prepare this course from scratch (welcome to Uni teaching) and it was what I could scrape together in that time.

2. Parsing is highly useful, and I felt my students could benefit from it.

3. It was what I did in undergrad.

4. It was not too difficult to accomplish, and a project like this can easily get out of hand for a semester project.
This is somewhat tangential, but for anyone who thinks various american dialects aren't "proper" english could use the perspective of north carolina university's life and language project -

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=8QFpVgPl9tQ&feature=youtu.be
dammit, you've really got a bee in your bonnet...

The article is summarizing a lifetime of observation-based research

https://wolf.org/wolf-info/basic-wolf-info/in-depth-resource...
Reparations often sound difficult to comprehend.
Can you elaborate on the temperature parameter? Is this something you can configure in the standard ChatGPT web interface or does it require API access?
After reading the article, I feel like the author makes fair points at the beginning, then kinda goes sideways.

Says it's likely black American cultural, parent involvement is huge, etc. Hard problems to solve.

But solutions such as reparations, segregated schools, and the forced hiring of kids by local companies to hire based on skin color seem way off the mark to actually achieving those goals.

Kids spend 7 or 8 hours a day in schools, with supposedly the goal of educating children. How can they keep failing so badly? If my job was to build houses, and I only ever built half of it adequately, with the rest in disrepair, I'd be fired. Same with about any job. Except educators, for some reason?

And teachers complain it's not their fault, they don't have the tools, they are forced to pass kids along, etc. So who's to blame? Burn the system to the ground, fire the administrators, and let's try again. Because finger pointing isn't helpful.

We really, really need to look at our failing education systems first. Having outside resources lead to way better educational outcomes tells me that schools aren't doing their primary objective, at all.
> and all water bottling should be banned permanently.

There has been an issue with the municipal water supply where I live for the past 2 months.

It started with the entire town of ~2k people getting some sort of gastro virus within 2 days. The pharmacy was sold out of everything imaginable, most stores were short staffed, etc.

Then the third day the muni posted on Facebook that they were going to be performing "maintenance" on the system. They then shut off the water for 2 days.

Here we are 2 months later and are still dealing with pressure, color, turbidity, odor issues. They have not provided any additional information beyond "maintenance".

I suppose I could import a sufficient whole house water filtration system and import the replacement filters for eternity. Even then, nobody knows exactly what the issue is with the water, so I'd be grasping at straws or purchasing the most expensive possible system that treats every known potential issue.

So, yeah, we're drinking bottled water for now until there's consensus that the municipal water supply is safe to drink again.
The issues in SFUSD and OUSD are orthogonal to SF local government tbh. A lot of the failure and persistent rot in the district is due to chronic underfunding - teachers in SFUSD and OUSD tend to earn half of what they could earn in SMUSD, SRVUSD, Fremont USD, etc.

If you don't pay for talent, you ain't getting it.
Educational opportunities are not a zero-sum game.
You can't, there is no way to reverse this. The best thing to do is earn as little as one can, so as not to fund your destruction, and to get as far as you can from cities.
The article suggests that your health care isn't as good as you think it is. You never know if you'll be one of those cases where they make you fight for every bit of care you get.

Some Americans do get excellent care with a minimum of grief. Others think their insurance is fine while they're healthy and only discover later that it doesn't really cover what they imagine it does. And the difference is entirely arbitrary.

The fundamental problem of health insurance is that you cannot know what you will need, and there is no way to make an informed consumer choice, but your need when you have it is absolute. It's pathologically pessimal as a free market. And you usually don't know until it's too late.
Confidently incorrect!
Yes, if you read again I hope you will see that we agree!
There are reparations and there is stupidity. 5M USD to each is stupidity.
300 K: about ideal

< 300 K: cold

> 300 K: hot

Let's switch to Kelvins
Hard disagree with the guidelines, this comment prompted lots of great discussion.
I don't feel the need to expend energy on anyone who immediately takes an overly negative opinion on a fairly benign sentence. We both know that nothing I say will change anyone's opinion, so why pretend that I should defend myself?
I'd guess class size and teacher competence are the two main institutional factors (which separate expensive private schools with ~15 kids per teacher from public schools with ~30), and enough food, sleep, parental involvement, extracurricular activites etc. with respect to the home living situation are the major factors. Individual attention makes a big difference when it comes to lifting average performance, as students falling behind can get help before it reaches the drop-out level.

On the 'cultural expectations' front, rural white America has some similar issues to urban black America, of the 'why do you want to go to college' or 'being good at math is for nerds' or 'take your nose out of the books and play more sports' variety.

My own rather jaded cynical view is that this is a setup deliberately engineered by the ruling class, as if everyone could do math well nobody would ever have bought subprime-adjustable-rate mortgage loans, as they'd have realized they'd be better off just saving money by renting until they could afford a fixed-rate loan. The ability to estimate probabilities and to calculate compound interest should be required skills for high-school graduates.

An ignorant population is more easily fleeced - and let's not forget why it was a crime to teach slaves to read and write in the Old South, either. The recent attempts to lower math standards for high school students in California are probably motivated by that kind of agenda.
Yeah this is a very common sentiment. I feel like most people in the US haven’t actually talked to someone that has experience with socialized healthcare at scale. I had a German professor that was very clear about just how much better healthcare is in the US.
He might be boring, but he’s very good natured and interested in others. You would be amazed how hard it is to be genuine in this way.
It’s also what makes people open up in an interesting way.

This is not a quality I know in many people, it’s very rare. It also doesn’t make him look good as an interviewer, but it does make for good interviews.

I also find the calibre of his guests much more appealing than many other podcasts.
I'm glad you had such a good experience. Not a counterpoint, though.

Healthcare is like running water, bridges, or banking systems - a high-volume system with extremely high stakes. We need many nines of consistency as protection against preventable harm.

There are around ~35M hospital admissions in the US every year. Even if 9/10 patient experiences are like yours, that means more than 3.5 million people had a sub-par experience that year - that's the entire population of LA. We need to strive for a much higher bar of quality and consistency.
Lex Fridman: charisma is a dangerous thing. Flaws in communication style is a feature, not a bug in general, at least for humans in power.

https://youtu.be/L_Guz73e6fw?t=5533
Compiler construction is a part of practical computer science that includes

- formal languages, Chomsky hiearchy and automata (DFAs, NFAs)

- algorithms & data structures (syntax trees, symbol tables & hashing)

- parsing algorithms

- asymptotic complexity (of automata recognition/acceptance and parsing algorithms)

- software architecture (single pass versus multi-pass, abstractions)

- operations research (graph coloring based register allocation)

- assembler & automatic code generation

- virtual machines & interpreters

It is a field where theory and practice come together beautifully (and works like the Aho et al. ¨Dragon Book¨ or Wirths ¨Compilers¨ are masterpieces that lucidly lay things out so after reading Chapter 2 of the former, or all of the latter short volume (barely 100 pages), a compiler is basically demystified to any undergrad).
It is very common in the Bay Area (the subject of this article) for former school people to run for political office. Especially on the far left of the political spectrum. It is a real problem.
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(Anecdotally, almost everyone I know who texts like this is very well educated and absolutely capable of writing in full, grammatical sentences — they just choose not to in these situations.)
How much plumbers will we need in a future?

I'm pretty sure that it'll end with oversupply on traders (especially in stagnant economy) if AI will cut most of the knowledge workers the world will have to move into some sort of utopia/dystopia and people will just don't have to work at all or it will be 0.1% vs 99.9% scenario but with brainwashed people cause of social media and maybe AI censorship.

But its worst case scenario in my mind AI will make jobs just more specialised and output of knowledge worker a lot faster.
I disagree that fatalism is a meaningful course of action. Consider me a starfish thrower.[0]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Star_Thrower
Not all animals are able to be domesticated, right? Wolves are, so something must separate them from other un-domesticatable animals.
Can you walk me through your thought process why this amount is too high? What would a proper amount look like?
Agreed on this, by far the largest benefit from a utility standpoint from my programming language design course was increased understanding of errors.
Ask HN: Use Cases for Bridging-Based Ranking (Like Twitter Birdwatch)
I've found Twitter's Birdwatch, aka Community Notes, to be quite useful. It takes a community-based approach to annotating and contextualizing misleading tweets, which is a great way for Twitter to enable free speech while combating misinformation and bias. Twitter has shared that Birdwatch uses bridging-based ranking to show notes that are deemed helpful by people who tend to disagree, rather than relying on majority rule or popularity. This increases the likelihood that the added context will benefit a wider audience.

I'm curious about other use cases outside of Twitter that could benefit from a Birdwatch-like solution using bridging-based ranking. What comes to mind?

More on Birdwatch here: https://communitynotes.twitter.com/guide/en
The real problem is teachers running for political office? What % of teachers go for political office?
A relic of being a colony.
Is getting into college hard these days?

Maybe specific highly sought after schools, but college in general not so much, at least in the U.S.
>wherein for example more people can vote for Trump in California than Texas in 2020 yet each of those person's votes are functionally meaningless.

Executive election and apportionment of electoral votes are specifically a matter for States to determine the implementation details of. Therefore, any complaints on that front are entirely California's problem.

> or, republicans can fail for over two decades and still elect three presidents in that time

...The Chief Executive is determined in a two-fold election pipeline. A popular vote to elect State electors to cast votes for the President
The number of electoral votes is set by a Constitutionally defined function that strikes a balance to ensure the most populous states can't steamroll the less populous. The means of choosing who the electors are are up to the States. Original intrnt was that Electors were unaccountable to anyone, as the Founders wanted a specific check on demagoguery, as they greatly feared the charismatic charlatan who could work a crowd, and believed a second smaller unaccountable party of voters would either eventually reconfirm the majority if it was a genuinely uncontroversial decision, or conscientiously object if they could not in good conscience believe it was in the best interests of the nation to cast that vote. The Founders believed a person was virtuous. People were easily led and prone to being swindled by a charismatic speaker.

The popular vote literally was antithetical to what the Founders set put to do. It was specifically not the system they wanted to get anywhere near.

>Or the fact that California gets very few senators per person whereas north Dakota gets a much larger power per citizen in the Senate,

This is by design. The Senate represents the States. Not the People directly. Each state gets two Senators, no matter how big, no matter how populace. Only the House Scales as a function of Population. The Senate is specifically a check on the House. It was recognized that the House would be the Heart/Vehicle of the People's passions. The Senate was intended to be a smaller, more rational filter to keep the House checked as Reason is the check on Passion.

Again. Working as designed/Civics 101.
I never made the connection but damn you’re spot on! I remember in one of the scenes she would even show pictures of her fake made up kids which you can equate to AI hallucination. Very on point.
As far as I know, all groups have parents who care about education (exemplified by some stereotypical populations) but also have within their ranks parents (and thus children) who don't care --the proverbial kids form the wrong side of the tracks (or trailer parks, if you prefer). So yes, we can find exemplary parents in all representative populations, but also parents who have abrogated their responsibilities when rearing children.
Isn't there a fine if they show personalized ads to underage user? How do they avoid that without checking ID?
How on earth can some one read this and think that the American Health System isn’t fucked up?

Can someone explain to me why the model we choose to pay for the health for the populous of this country is through insurance and not straight up taxes??
> AI will make jobs just more specialised and output of knowledge worker a lot faster.

If the user is skilled enough at prompt engineering to get good answers (i.e. code that compiles and does what they want) the answers can still be objectively worse than search results for stackoverflow or github in many cases.

Seems like the current state of chat bots is that it's slower than either making a regular search or simply just knowing what to write in the first place. Shouldn't be a surprise, but a mid to senior engineer doesn't spend their whole day googling stuff to copy and paste. They read the docs for about 5 minutes and then get things done in the precious couple of hours they have between meetings. I don't think it gets much faster than that. I sincerely doubt the nontechnical people in the meetings would get a good enough answer from ChatGPT that fast and they certainly wouldn't want to slam their head against a wall learning everything the dev already knows, no less in a higher level and imprecise "natural" language.
I agree with what you're saying about writing a response. I don't quite see the point of using ChatGPT to write comments on Hacker News, Reddit, etc.

If you're reaching to ChatGPT to write a response for you, did you really want to write a response in the first place?
FYI, CodeForces allows challenges too.

They even implemented it slightly better: instead of having a separate challenge phase, you can “lock” your solution for a particular problem at any time (which means you cannot resubmit it) and then view other people's solutions, and challenge them with custom input.
On the one hand, it's amazing how much freedom the family had. On the other hand, this could have ended very badly with just a tiny bit of bad luck.
This is cool but seems likely to be quite expensive if you need to scrape 100,000 pages.
Observation of historical facts isn't racism. They were bred to be subserviant.
I had MRI in EU, it was 160 euro for scan, and another 50 euro for specialist consultation. Public insurance would not cover it, so I paid it myself.

Not sure what is holding you back, but health should be a priority!
It's also important to note that with modern LLMs, they wouldn't even work. It's too easy to convince the LLM to violate its own rules.
From what I see, that was mostly a Victorian era thing. Not sure about earlier--though there were certainly tutors for the upper class. Certainly, in general, women weren't learning classical languages in universities until female colleges became fairly common in the US and Britain.
Personally, this feels like the direction scraping should move into. From defining how to extract, to defining what to extract. But we're nowhere near that (yet).

A few other thoughts from someone who did his best to implement something similar:

1) I'm afraid this is not even close to cost-effective yet. One CSS rule vs. a whole LLM. A first step could be moving the LLM to the client side, reducing costs and latency.

2) As with every other LLM-based approach so far, this will just hallucinate results if it's not able to scrape the desired information.

3) I feel that providing the model with a few examples could be highly beneficial, e.g. /person1.html -> name: Peter, /person2.html -> name: Janet. When doing this, I tried my best at defining meaningful interfaces.

4) Scraping has more edge-cases than one can imagine. One example being nested lists or dicts or mixes thereof. See the test cases in my repo. This is where many libraries/services already fail.

If anyone wants to check out my (statistical) attempt to automatically build a scraper by defining just the desired results:
https://github.com/lorey/mlscraper
You need to separate the types of rich. Yes, if your family is rich enough to name a Harvard building, you'll be in the legacy admissions pipeline, but for those who are merely upper middle class, they have a much higher chance of getting in via only test scores than those who don't have the means to hire outside tutors for their children.