skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
And maybe this is politically naive, but you would think that whoever is in power and in charge of running the government, they would want to properly fund the very entity responsible for bringing in the funds that allow them to do what they want to do. If for example, each person you hire to the IRS can bring in 100x (or more?) the cost of having them on the payroll, wouldn't that be a no-brainer?

But as I understand it, some people are more interested in crippling the functions of the government to make it easier to dismantle its functions.

Maybe the goal of having our government be effective and useful (the long and hard won effort of building the institutions we have) has fallen by the wayside to having it be used as a pawn in stupid power games.
Yeah, but how many of those 55K public school kids are from affluent families?

California schools didn’t go from top ten to the 43’rd in the US by gutting the wealthy districts.
How fun: the first one that loaded for me is an airport I flew out of last week! What a fun coincidence to get Samui airport!
Considering Europe has a VAT of over 20% (27% in Hungary, 25% in Sweden), I'm thinking the consequences are more manageable than you think.
That's because those that should be doing something (the mass producers, global transit and 'elites') are busy trying to convince us it's all up to our individual efforts to reduce our personal footprints, which are insignificant, even at large numbers.

It's mostly theatre.

I would think a large economic crisis would stop progress on wasteful things like AI pretty quickly, but the large tech companies seem now in the category of 'too big to fail' so I'm not confident.
If we can’t prepare all the kids for every trade, equity says we must not teach any kids any trade.
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More like "committed to stand trial." There's a certain level of evidence required to get to this point, so as not to be wasting the courts' time.
http://www.iasylum.net/writings/2023-03-29-if-you-are-curiou...
I volunteer for a code club, so maybe I can help you out. I’m not sure what I’m missing in your issue, but Scratch scripts run continuously once the green flag is clicked. You can stop execution programmatically using the stop() block.

https://en.scratch-wiki.info/wiki/Stop_()_(block)
And that’s why Norway has been one of the happiest countries for many years
Apparently, the x86 version of Flash was extremely well-optimized and as a result very spaghettified. So even porting to 64 bits took Adobe years of effort.

Additionally, the SWF format itself was way ahead of SVG. It still is to some extent: https://open-flash.github.io/mirrors/swf-spec-19.pdf - look at the part that describes shapes, and compare it to SVG.

One thing that helped was ability to have shapes with fill on each side of the edge, allowing smoothly joined scenes that can be animated at real-time. All without the use of high-precision math, Flash used integers only with some fixed-point data!
I'd guess it's an abject lack of knowledge about the field, and a deep-seated insecurity that prevents him from feeling good about himself if he doesn't feel like he's superior to someone else.
Hi, when you create an endpoint it should give you API examples based on the deployed app. Also docs here: https://docs.baseplate.ai/api-reference/completions. Hope this helps!
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This brings back memories. 20 years ago, I was managing a band in New Orleans (by an amazing coincidence I'm in New Orleans for a 2 day trip now), and I decided to make them a website. It being 2003, I did the website in flash, and with my zero coding skills at the time ... it still came out pretty awesome. Wish that still existed.
That’s backwards: it actually means that protecting against nuclear hazards is astronomically expensive, that nukes are borderline unmanageable in the long term
This exists, it’s how the much more popular Bedrock edition’s addons work.
For me it's most noticeable when driving. Especially on the Autobahn and fast. You're guessing what other drivers will do constantly and can react way faster that way.
Agreed.

Jetphotos is a gem of a collection, where else can you find (say) in service photos of the remaining three Grumman Mallards still operating out of an obscure once classified WWII aistrip used to bomb Japanese bunker oil depots.

( https://www.jetphotos.com/photo/6181791 )
> it was a battery stuck because there was no HW acceleration. Additionally, the software was very very bad. Used a crapton of memory, was really slow, and horribly insecure.

You're describing javascript in that era.
South Bay public schools are leagues better than SFUSD, less politics and a lot more competitive
In corrupt incompetent institutions that's going to create all sorts of perverse incentives. How about $1,000 bonus for every arrest a cop makes?

It is also insulting to teachers, as if they could have been doing a great job getting the kids to grade level, but chose not to because they weren't financially incentivized enough to do their job.
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The country ran just fine with 0% income taxes until 1913.

We were almost 150 old as a nation then. We had already become a superpower, as WW1 and WW2 would shortly confirm.
If you think maintenance is expensive you should try an incident.
Sure thing. I went to ChatGPT, pasted this chain in the chat with the prefix saying we were playing a game of 'continue the chat conversation'. Here's what it said:

`i do not mean to mock but this is an ai superstition that i have not seen yet of course they write sentences without capital letters where what how did you arrive at this conclusion`

Please check your sources better in the future, thanks. We can't go all paraneolithic on each other out of fear of something that's not going happen. Plus, it's trained on bad grammar so it knows exactly how to do poor grammar even as a low level capability, it happened even with the tiny models.

We just have to get adjusted to this new world paradigm.
Bluetooth earbuds are just not a substitute for wired heaphones. They could have supported both without compromising either but instead they started a trend of “we too have expensive-for-the-sound-quality branded earbuds” trend who’s two-year lifespan with little-to-no repairability will just be e-waste in the landfill. Thanks Apple.
Well, I also only use Desktop Linux via VMs, since Virtual Box and VMWare got good enough to run it, around 2010.

ChromeOS and Android don't really count, as the Linux kernel is the only thing from GNU/Linux being used for their desktop like purposes.

So in that regard, BSD and Linux are on the same boat anyway.

And as Steve Jobs used to point out, UNIX was never designed for the desktop anyway, note how NeXTSTEP and OS X developer stack barely care for UNIX workflows other than getting the UNIX (TM) stamp.
Just check yourself. Canonical and Mozilla spent a lot of time optimizing snaps and firefox inside specifically. The last time I run tests was about two months ago and snapped ff performed better than flatpak and deb versions. The main reason for that is more optimal compilation flags they were able to use in a snapped environment.
We're actually working on a product right now that helps integrate this into your worldbuilding tools - we pull in relevant information from your campaign and world, then add a slick AI user experience that gets really quality generations for worldbuilding, session prep, etc. The end result is this experience where GPT has learned your world, and you don't have to do any of the tinkering with getting the prompts just right. Ask for an encounter table, get an excellent, lore-consistent encounter table.

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I'm not sure how much that software costs but bundling it with a M1 iPad should be still cost effective AND have more (more and more) than enough power to run everything. I don't have any relevant experience though so I can't tell if the OS makes it easy to fully utilize the hardware, which could be the real issue here regardless of the hardware
I love these things! Approximation is art.

I have a similar example in my book Geometry for Programmers (https://www.manning.com/books/geometry-for-programmers). There I make a polynomial approximation for sine that is:
1) odd (meaning antisymmetric);
2) precise at 0 and Pi/2 (and -Pi/2 automatically);
3) have precise derivatives and 0 and Pi/2 (and -Pi/2);
4) have better overall precision than the equivalent approximation with Taylor series;
and it only consists of 4 members! Adding more members makes it impractical in the modern world since we have hardware implementations for sine on CPUs and GPUs.

Spoiler alert, the secret sauce is the integral equation ;-)
Your mind is inventing the part about them doing it on a thursday afternoon before popping out to the pub.

This could have taken weeks of research and refinement. You can't tell from just looking at the final result.

Give yourself some credit. If you were tasked with producing a cosine implementation, you'd pull out some textbooks, read specs, research algorithms, try a few ideas, test, iterate. You could come up with this. The only reason you didn't is that you didn't need to make a cos function yet; you had other stuff to do.
All these AAA shooters feel the same to me. Tarkov/CS actually feel like 2 distinct games.
> What the studies have shown is that teaching algebra to everyone in grade 8 leads to worse math outcomes.

> And if you agree to teach some of the kids algebra in eighth grade, you're back in the sticky wicket of tracking and "gifted kids". Show me a gifted classroom and I'll show you a classroom full of mainly rich whites and Asians -- who are depriving the poorer and more socially disadvantaged students of valuable resources.

If you're worried about resources, put the best teachers in with the "typical" kids, and give them smaller classes than the "gifted" kids. I took 8th grade algebra in 7th grade at my public school, and my kid is going to get that next year too; if we had to wait for 9th grade, it would be an amazing waste of resources, because we'd be so bored and tempted to cause trouble. I don't know that my parents would have been able to put me in private school to get the math I needed (they were able to convince the school system to let me into to algebra a year early), but I have the means to do it for my kid, but this school system is setup to meet kids where they are.

I suspect this change is just another thing driving parents with means out of SFUSD, which only further reduces the resources they have.
This is really all that's worth saying until next week
> However: 99.9% of all piano music heard is not heard through a live piano directly.

That's obviously false for the individual who is a life-long, dedicated pianist, who listens to the piano in front of him or her for hours, daily, more than any other piano.

They would be short-changed by some piano synthesizer patch coming out of a pair of speakers.

> But if I'm playing for a purpose other than that,

In particular: the purpose of creating a quality recorded sound without the hassle of an acoustic space, with excellent microphones, placed expertly, going into quality preamps, and all that.

Synthesized and modeled sound makes it easier to produce (or fake, depending on your viewpoint) quality recorded music.
I wonder if we should go back to ontologies now. It should be fairly easy to have a LLM generate entries for any ontology. Then we need to check them for truth, obviously, but that can be parralized and potentially automated.

Say, I'd like an ontology of the current stock market focusing on the relationship between natural persons and public companies, board members, well-known analysts, investors and so on. This would be tedious for anyone to do, but should be fairly simple with a LLM.

Another task, maybe a little bit further into the future is categorizing open source intelligence. Think of oryxspioenkop.com and their famous lists of lost equipment in the Russian invasion of Ukraine. It's tedious and time-consuming but generates a valuable dataset. Here, image recognition would be necessary, but the principle is still the same, no?

Come to think of it, how does a company like TomTom generate map data nowadays?
That’s because the military already had it. They are just now getting bits and pieces.
There is an entire education consultancy industry whose financial viability depends on convincing people that American public education is in some kind of crisis when it isn't; it's actually a little above average, as we see.

Now, would I like it to be way above average? Sure, and I'm willing to make the public investment to make that happen. But starting from the premise of "we're failing miserably" is going to lead to the wrong conclusions.
Stressed plants ‘cry’ – and some animals can probably hear them
Yeah, that was not what I read in that text.

The point the author is trying to get accross is that nuclear is being made unnecesarily expensive. Not nececarily expensive like you seem to claim with no substantiation.
We have had very few nuclear hazards in the past, with very limited impact as shown in this article. Nuclear plants that were really old rarely failed as well, before we added all this regulatory overhead. Weird how something "borderline unmanageable" causes way less damage than the alternatives.
That, and the unfathomable sovereign wealth courtesy of nature's generous bequest of oil.
This is ignoring the fact that WoW players had been clamoring for Blizzard to find a way to bring back classic servers for years. It even lead to the infamous “you think you do but you don’t” meme when a player asked J. Allen Brack if it would ever happen at Blizzcon. They’re not even being cashgrabby about it imo, a subscription to modern day wow means you can play classic wow for “free” and vice versa.
That is very interesting. In Chinese, a word for rabies is 恐水病, which literally means fear water disease. I have never understood why until I read your explanation, but from what you have said the Chinese term would also appear to be misleading.
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Do you have such a list of countries? Australia, for example, does not allow anyone with a criminal record to hold office (and they get kicked out if they are convicted while serving).

And how do you feel about convicted felons not having voting rights (as seems to be the case in many US states)?
Why is it terrible? Using microwave emitters in a superconductive hull, and with enough energy, can engineer the pulling mechanics of the superforce.

This is all stuff the military has explored
I just tried playing Curse of Strahd with chatgpt4. It seems like it generally does okay, but changes so many things for no real reason -- often to determiental levels (ie, the first two characters i ran into knew about artifacts that are spoilers and they shouldn't know anything about, but they said exactly where they where, lol).

I can't wait for an LLM that's built specifically for text adventures like this, when there's a very clear rule set/world/adventure guide like DnD has for modules.
> HN is not that,

HN is what its users make it.

> should not be that.

...which would be solved by something like I mentioned above.
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While this is largely true, the Python situation remains a mess that needs to be resolved.

Also, Rust seems to indicate that being general purpose and interfacing with lots of legacy C (and some C++) aren't the issues.
You’d be surprised - if you can find the right scapegoats, folks can even do that for a long time!
SVGs performance is poorly optimized in every rendering engine. Flash had better performance with animations.
Sounds like we will know the specific charges on Tuesday when Trump turns himself in.
Software security certs are not helping. Who are we kidding? [pdf]
Software vendors: “After several months, we finally received our Soc 2 certification!”

Also Software vendor: “Due to a recent security incident, some of our customer data was compromised..”
One of the few that isn’t amazon owned.

Bookfinder.com is also excellent to price compare used books (love the Web 1.0 look too!) but a lot of the recommendations are amazon-owned because they cornered the market, although BF themselves are independent.
Depends. Which one would you rather bump into at 2am when ‘no one is supposed to be out’?
You might be thinking about filing directly on the IRS site, which has an income threshold? There are free filing services, like FreeTaxUSA that I use.
So in essence, if I understand correctly, instead of generating Balenciaga Pope or arrested Trump fake images, we can now dream up fake protein things which may actually be viable for whatever purpose if synthesized in the real world?
The US tech obsession with degrees is stupid and self-defeating. You'll regularly see ads for a web programmer requiring a BS in computer science. Somebody with a BS in comp sci should be able to write a (very simple) operating system, which is not what you need. It's even weirder because some jobs simply require any bachelor's degree, whatsoever, which is how I became a sysadmin after being a classics major. This is just explicit class gatekeeping.
Could I get a source for that? Not that I don't believe you, but my napkin math puts the cost of training the 65b parameter model alone at a lot higher than 100k.
Then you be the emperora'.
You're probably more of a "real programmer" than whomever wrote this code--it's numerics code, after all.

There's no real tricks or anything to this code, it's just a polynomial evaluation of a Taylor series (which you probably learned, and subsequently forgot, from calculus), with some steps done using techniques for getting higher precision out of a floating-point value, and (in some other functions in libm, not here) occasional use of the bit representation of floating-point values. It's standard techniques, but in a field that is incredibly niche and where there is very little value in delving into if you don't have a need for it.
What is your point? That America has more people in mega cities who live close to their work?
> I know it is campaign finance fraud that is the actual charge

No, you don’t know what the actual charges are.

You know the central focus of the investigation was a particular campaign finance fraud.

What the–reportedly more than 30–charges that have come out of the investigation are, is another question. What are they? We’ll see.
If nuclear power was invented today, it would have been considered a breakthrough capable of changing the course of climate change dramatically. Since it exists for long and people formed an emotional reaction to incidents that were not that serious, while dying constantly from things they cannot see (like air pollution from coal), we are in this weird scenario where otherwise educated people say absolutely stupid things and refuse to see the evidence.

Yes, nuclear is way too safe. Regulations keep piling on, adding costs and construction time, with no measurable benefit other than political expediency.
Saying anaconda is worthless because its maintainers
don't expend a ton of effort on making your particular
niche more convenient is the actual toxicity...

Good thing that's not what I'm saying. The problem with Anaconda isn't that it doesn't support BSD (or whatever), the problem is that by using Anaconda you prevent a project from building on anything that Anaconda doesn't support. It's a poor design that simply saddles python with vendor lock-in and, yes, that is toxic.

It's a ridiculous non-solution given that even in the data science context most stuff is POSIX compatible. If I can get R and Python on their own to work without hassle, there's no reason a mere package manager should throw up unnecessary walls.
Another important piece of context:

HTML was basically frozen at the time, since this was when Internet Explorer had absolute domination of the browser space and Microsoft had decided not the develop it further. But innovation could still happen in Flash which Microsoft did not control, but what still popular enough that IE has to support the plug-in.

So W3C was trying to move the web forward through specs which were independent of HTML. SVG 1.2 was not just for logos, it was intended to be viable as a stand-alone application format (which required network communication). Another attempt was XHTML 2 which was not backwards compatible with HTML, but considered a fresh start.

Firefox changed that by creating competition in the browser space, which made innovation in HTML possible again.
> Don't forget that the IRS is one of the largest purchasers of ammunition of any govt agency.

“The IRS purchases guns and ammunition for special agents in its criminal investigation division, a law enforcement branch established in 1919. The typical IRS auditors that Americans would encounter in a routine audit are unarmed.

…

Special agents train for weeks at the National Criminal Investigation Training Academy in Georgia, the 2021 report said. That includes firearms training and handgun qualifications for agents, which is a big reason for the large orders for ammunition.”

https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2022/aug/12/matt-gaetz...
https://www.atwillys.de/content/cc/sine-lookup-for-embedded-...

Have you checked out this?

Its an alternative implementation which uses interpolated table lookup and requires only 66 bytes of constant memory with an error of less than 0.05% compared to the floating point sine.
Yeah, I need to try it.

But the parent was suggesting that metaprogramming could make readability issues go away and I can't wrap my head around how it would do that.
Linux has become incredibly bloated. The kernel is bloated, the freedesktop (instead of just X) is bloated, etc
GPT-4 doesn't do remarkably poorly at math. It's well above average actually. What it struggles at currently (and by struggle i mean rather bang average) is calculus.
In the MVP, only the Chakra UI-based design system we provide is available, so you can't import additional components at the moment.

However, we're working on enabling additional design systems. We'll provide the integration for some of those (Material Design is next, but we can look into what it would take to support the premium Tailwind UI components). It will also be possible to integrate your own custom design system. We'll have more to share on this soon.