skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Reading the paper it's apparent what a huge contribution HuggingFace made by doing the BLOOM work in the open. There's so much knowledge there that anyone else trying to train a LLM can use.

Also it looks like public filings are a large dataset that isn't currently being used by other LLMs.
Apple Macs only work as soon as you unbox them because Apple controls both the hardware and software.

If you go an buy some random laptop, then installing Linux or Free/Net/Open-BSD yields unpredictable results.

The only reason that Linux works in more cases than the BSDs is due to the far greater number of device drivers.

Here's an idea for the AI experts, give a Linux device driver to your AI and ask it to produce a compatible, bug free BSD driver.
Same. I feel robbed of something that could have radically changed my life. I’ve always suspected that I could have had an aptitude for math, but was too young to be able to articulate it. I just knew that something was wrong with how it was being taught.

It’s a bit late for me now at 38, or at least it feels that way. I never took college math so HS-level algebra and geometry is my current level of understanding and sometimes it really hampers my programming ability.
> We do a disservice to students in the US by treating Algebra/Calc as advanced math.

My eastern European Calc II professor once complained when the class wasn't immediately grasping Riemann Sums, "This is grade school calculus!"
You could also try Linux Mint. I moved to that two years ago when Ubuntu started to go sideways and I've been very happy so far.
No publicity at all.
Ghost Shirts, Guilds, and Generative AI
What I dislike about this way of doing things is you've moved the game mechanic into real life. It's not good enough for the character to persuade, now the player must persuade.

Are you also going to make me stab someone to see if I'm a good fighter?

The whole point (for me) of RPGs is to have fun playing a character who isn't me, and has different strengths than me.

When I DM, if someone wants to roleplay, they can. If they just want to generally describe their desired course of action, they can. The dice will decide the outcome.
The vast majority of people understand this is 100% political theater.
Some just hope it takes him out of the running from 2024, but the truth is this probably empowers Trump to take 2024.

He's always sold him self as the ultimate "Rebel", and a half assed prosecution on something so minor to the grand scheme of things solidifies it. Human Nature 101 which seems to be something hackernews engineers don't understand as much as I'd like as a manager of many engineering teams.

I really don't understand how he drives his enemies to make so many basic mistakes, but he does.
They absolutely did not spend millions to train it. Credible estimates place the cost for an entity like Meta at about 30-100k, probably less since Meta likely owns the 256 A100x8s needed to train it.

Even as an individual, it wouldn't cost you anywhere near a million if you only trained 13B and took advantage of volume pricing.
He’s also politically active - supporting conservative organizations in various ways.
AI will definitely have NSFW use cases... I think William Gibson's Neuromancer books will prove to have prescient insights into what that will look like. Tech like simstims that can seize your attention and can hold it indefinitely, and highly personal AI-designed fantasies
Key problem being, you cannot trust that what you're getting is accurate information, which somewhat negates having such a tool in the first place.
This looks great! I will give it a spin

> e.g. transactions don't work on a single node

any Mongo has this restriction
https://www.amazon.com/The-Blank-Slate-Steven-Pinker-audiobo...
See also this article from 4 days ago on Jo Boaler who uses San Francisco as a model for the rest of California https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35319345 https://twitter.com/stephaniemlee/status/1640765521946902529
Hmmm... sounds like fun.
Americans are 100% rebels in comparison to many other countries.
They often take the contrarian position just because.
As a manager whose has to prep for international meetings, I can tell 100% there is major cultural divide.

I can't explain it, but I always have to gauge engineers going awol during a meeting with Asian partners.
> for a blue state

Would you just drop the stereotype that Democrats care about black people any more than Republicans do? It's staring you in the face, you admit it and somehow cling to this lie.
Of all the things we waste tons of time and money on, this is near the top of the list for you?

I simply don't care. They could go after every single former president for the rest of time and I wouldn't lose a minute of sleep over it.
If you're just starting with the language though, you might only have one project for a long time, or your projects might have disjoint dependencies (or close enough; I'm imagining someone with both a Django and pygame project). And you can learn a lot without any libraries at all. As a teen, I went a couple years and learned a lot before I learned how to use virtualenv. You'll want it sooner, but it absolutely shouldn't be a barrier to getting your feet wet.
**DISCLAIMER: The numbers don't add up, someone's numbers are wrong see Jesson's child comment

>US is below the mean for average mathematical performance and this isn't helping.

This depends on whether or not you control for race [0]:

- Asian (556)

- White (531)

- Hispanic (481)

- Black (448)

- Mixed Race (501)

Despite the euroworship in this thread, White-American and Asian-American students outperform Europeans and Asians, respectively (although I don't have data that breaks down those countries' scores by race, so take this with a grain of salt). Quite interesting how people in this thread (whom I suspect are mostly white- and Asian- American males given the hours/site) are talking about how bad the US education system is and how their European friends were all learning Riemann sums in kindergarten.

The system is only failing black and hispanic students. Really tough problem to solve, but the data does not support the conclusion that the American maths education system is "behind" or "failing" as a whole. I would also like to see the scores stratified by income, which my linked paper did not provide.

[0]: https://nces.ed.gov/surveys/pisa/pisa2018/pdf/PISA2018_compi...
I agree with that. Calculus is made out to be some boogeyman when in reality is not that unapproachable.

Plane Geometry track, on the other hand, was incredibly difficult for me to grasp in university.
I've been using Ian's Secure Shoelace Knot for... years? I can't even remember how long, but it's served me very well. I just love how much more secure it is and how symmetrical and balanced the final result is. It's also such a trivial upgrade for kids that have learned to tie their shoes using the "bunny ear" method... just one extra twist.

https://www.fieggen.com/shoelace/secureknot.htm

And like many things on HN, previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13399095
Biden pardons Trump.

Outrage mitigated. Base can’t rage.

Biden easily wins re-election.
Whitener's Western Electric website has a Technical Library section with some marvelous preserved historical documents. For example The Principles of Electron Tubes which describes traveling wave tubes, klystrons, and other devices still used extensively today. The Statistical Quality Control Handbook is still worth a read. https://www.westernelectric.com/library#technical

Man, I miss Bell Labs.
The fact that this HN post links to a tweet which links to an opinion article that almost exclusively cites blogposts most of which were written by the author of the article makes it extremely hard to find any factual content.
An alternative to adobe flash was the idea behind sockets I'd imagine
This seems pretty similar to cloudflared tunnels
The story you are referring to is Harrison Bergeron by Vonnegut.
Cmon, you are 100% saying we shouldn't. don't deny it.

The New York Times thinks this is a huge mistake.
Sometimes. But it's not magic. You still have to determine what the added value is.

First, most jobs are not creative. If you have a job where you are told what to do (that is most jobs) and an AI could do it for cheaper, it is a net win for your employer to fire you and run the AI themselves. Either you do the job yourself, but less efficiently, or you delegate it to the AI, in which case you are nothing more than a middleman.

In order for AI to empower you, it needs to work for you and help you accomplish a goal that you set yourself. So if you have a great idea, it could in theory help you implement it without requiring a lot of resources. Well, that's the theory. The problem is a) very few people actually have good or original ideas; b) AI will eventually have better ideas than most people; and c) most people care about their own ideas, they don't care about yours. You have a great idea about a movie. You use AI to make it and then you watch it. I have a great idea for a movie. I use AI to make it and then I watch it. Are we going to watch each other's "creation"? Sometimes, maybe. Most of the time, probably not. Ultimately, execution is worth a lot more than ideas, so if you manage to automate execution, what's left is worth peanuts.

Note that we are talking about the endgame, here. While the technology matures, it may empower a lot of individuals (as well as a lot of corporations). The point is that it is an unstable equilibrium and there may come a point where some people have literally nothing of value to offer because AI is better than them at everything. And then there may come a point where that is true of every human.
How Noiseless Props Are Made for Movies and TV Shows
AI could provide limitless capital and eliminate the need for humans to work. Humans could then spend however much time they wanted on "higher level" creative work. I doubt it will be leveraged in this way, but the potential is certainly there.
He’s the first former President to be indicted. There’s no way for him to not be relevant.
The problem is that we’re not funding prisons to adequately to accept the apparently desired public school outcomes. /s
> actually an open-source model

I found Debian's Machine Learning policy on that interesting, they require training data released under an open-source license (plus training code etc) before they consider a model actually open.

https://salsa.debian.org/deeplearning-team/ml-policy/
I'm not sure that's true though. In the end all emulation is going to be JIT'd with some kind of data port to access system memory.

Whether it's NACL/VMWare/WASM/whatever the technology for emulation has been around for decades.

I guess I'm not sure why WASM is so special it needs a decade to come to fruition.
We hear a lot about "concerns" and many of us don't share the same ones... It would be good for clarity to know what are the concerns you feel are important enough to hold back releasing the weights?
The US loves ICC, as long as it doesn’t apply to us.

Most of its prosecutions would be impossible without US help.
The New York Times disagrees with you.
The Biggest Innovation in ChatGPT? It’s the “T”, Not the Chat
This would be a far better intention than what the school board is actually intending.
Pretty boring answers honestly.
The "Terminate TikTok on Campus Act of 2023" (H.R. 231) is a bill introduced in the U.S. House of Representatives. If enacted, it would prohibit federal funds from being provided to institutions of higher education unless they ban the use of TikTok on electronic devices owned or issued by the institution.

Here's a summary of the main provisions of the bill:

Short Title: The bill is referred to as the "Terminate TikTok on Campus Act of 2023."

Prohibition on Federal Funds: The bill would prohibit federal funding for institutions of higher education that do not develop and implement standards and guidelines banning TikTok on their electronic devices and requiring the removal of TikTok from such devices.

Research Exception: The bill provides an exception for research related to national security, law enforcement, telecommunications, or cybersecurity that is conducted by, supervised by, or authorized by faculty of an institution of higher education.

Definitions: The bill defines "institution of higher education" according to the Higher Education Act of 1965, "electronic device" as a device capable of accessing the internet, and "TikTok" as the social networking service TikTok or any successor application or service developed or provided by ByteDance Limited or an entity owned by ByteDance Limited.

What this means for end users:

If this bill is enacted, students, faculty, and staff at institutions of higher education that receive federal funds would be prohibited from using TikTok on electronic devices owned or issued by the institution, with some exceptions for research purposes. This could impact the use of TikTok as a tool for communication, entertainment, or education on college campuses.

Given your emphasis on fairness, freedom, and privacy, you might want to consider the following aspects of the bill:

Privacy concerns: TikTok has been criticized for its data collection practices, and this bill could be seen as a measure to protect the privacy of students, faculty, and staff at higher education institutions.

Freedom of expression: On the other hand, the bill could be viewed as a limitation on the freedom of expression for members of higher education communities, who would be restricted from using a popular social media platform on institution-owned or issued devices.

Equity and access: The prohibition could disproportionately affect students who rely on institution-provided devices for their personal use, as they would be unable to access TikTok, whereas students with personal devices could continue using the app.

Before taking a stance on the bill, you may want to weigh these factors and consider the potential benefits and drawbacks of such a prohibition for students, faculty, and staff at institutions of higher education.
Good overview here. The TLDR is that some parents are giving their kids an edge by paying for private classes in Algebra I and/or Geometry in eight grade (this hasn't been banned, it seems) which means they're in better position to finish high school with an AP Calculus class, which tends to greatly improve their chances of getting into a UC/Cal State school:

https://calmatters.org/education/k-12-education/2021/12/san-...

Incidentally, this system has also created a big need for remedial high-school-level math courses at community colleges and even at the four-year universities, where students essentially have to relearn all the material again at an acceptable standard to continue in science/engineering upper education, which is just a huge waste of resources.

I'm pretty sure that more math, taught earlier, in smaller-sized classes, by better teachers, is always going to be better for long-term outcomes. This 'equity' business seems like a race-to-the-bottom which is bad for everyone.
Sounds like Serbia.
One can hope, but doubtful.

Braggs ignored many democrats advice on this and went rogue.
https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/using-explain.html
What? 8th grade and students won't take calculus?

In Singapore, the default stream sees students taking basic algebra at age 11 (5th grade), simultaneous and quadratic equations at age 14 (8th grade), and single-variable calculus at age 16 (10th grade). By 17-18 (11-12th grades), students have done first-order ordinary differential equations, volumes of revolution, functions, vectors, and students have the option to take college-level linear algebra or discrete mathematics.

What is wrong with the US?
> Leverage ChatGPT so students learn by repetition in innovative games with cool interfaces

You mean shitty, derivative games that haven't been tested at all?

There's no good reason to use ChatGPT in education like that, and doing so is pure technology fetishism.
Yes, this. I knew how to do derivatives in 8th grade, came to the US in 10th grade and took AP Calculus because I was more than ready for it. I took differential equations at a community college in 11th grade, multivariable calculus in 12th.

Some school admins went nuts about letting a student take calculus in 10th grade because they didn't think it was doable. But I tested out of everything else. I was the first person in the history of the school to do this, only because I came from internationally having completed a trig course in 9th grade. In the US they wouldn't have allowed that in the first place, but here I was, having already done it, because I was given the opportunity outside the US.

I never saw myself having any special learning abilities, I was just moving onto the next thing to learn. I'm not any sort of prodigy, I just hated team sports and liked science and math, and spent lots of my extracurricular time learning about it.* I only moved faster in math because I put so many hours into studying it outside of school, not because I had any innate talent for it. It also made it more fun, because by learning ahead of class, I was learning for myself with much less pressure than learning for some stupid exam.

This "no child left behind" stuff is pure nonsense in the way they are implementing it.

*You see, I was previously growing up in Asia, where STEM is what the "cool kids" do.
Thank you for pointing this out! It makes sense, but I hadn’t made those connections.
You’re staff level and you’re looking for leadership from your “line-level manager” (?) and direct manager? I’d definitely talk with them about it. Maybe they’re expecting some intrinsic motivation?

And as a staff-level engineer you should definitely be spending time leveling up your team.

I mean, at some point you just start taking your job wherever you want, doing whatever you think is most important to the business, and just encourage them to hang on to you.
Economics doesn't mind what preferences you have. Doesn't have to be about money.
https://www.npr.org/2022/11/11/1135878576/the-democrats-stra...
I am afraid there is an evil lurking just around the corner: mass private tuitions. I grew up in another country where public
and private education kept falling in standards and eventually there was a gap between what was expected in college and standardized tests, was no longer being taught in schools.

Solution: Private tutors to fill the gap. The kids who couldn’t afford it, kept falling behind. It got so bad that at some point school teachers would teach completely different subjects to their own students, but in private tuitions outside the school. Seems that is the way forward if nothing changes.
Distributed Vision
"This volume explores the diversity of distributed eyes and other unusual visual systems in nature. It compares the unique themes of optics, neural processing, and behavioral control that emerge from these visual systems with more-canonical eyes. This volume attempts to answer a number of questions about distributed visual systems. What are distributed visual systems good for, how do they function, and why have they arisen independently in so many phyla? Why are eye designs and visual system arrangements much more diverse in invertebrates? Each chapter includes an overview of the visual systems that exist in their group of animals, relates vision to ecology, and takes a comparative approach."
It has a negative political impact upon his chosen party. The truth of the crimes are irrelevant. If Trump were to plead guilty — and given his notoriously stupid outbursts he may — it wouldn’t matter. Only party matters, not guilt or innocence.
Greece and Turkey have been credibly threatening each other for decades.
Which "top Democrats" have expressed this opinion?

You're all over this thread repeatedly making this claim (seven times so far), and it's got https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yoy4_h7Pb3M vibes.
A piano is a 3D object; it has long, vibrating string courses, and a large sound board. When you're playing a piano, sound is coming at your head from various angles. It changes depending on how you turn/move your head.

All of that is condensed into a single voltage signal and sent to a speaker.

A speaker is also a 3D object; it has various modes of vibration. With multiple speakers in a cabinet (even with just a mono signal, not talking about stereo), and reflections from walls and so on, you can hear different things in the 3D space.

These are not related; the speaker cabinet just won't reproduce the experience of playing a piano, or being right next to one. It reproduces its own sonic 3D signature.

Now if you're listening to a piano from a distance in a big hall, some of this matters less. Your head movements don't make much of a difference; it's almost just coming from a single point that could be represented by a single point source (one mic capture), panned into a stereo sound stage.
Cross-platform compressed audio record!? How!?
While this is in theory true, and as much as the literature of AA attempts to separate itself from Christianity or any other religion, the reality is that the 12 steps of Alcoholics Anonymous were derived from the 4 steps of the Oxford Group- an Evangelical Christian organization. The word god is constantly thrown around in meetings and throughout the literature and, make no mistake, that is a Christian god they are talking about. Christian prayers are fairly common in meetings as well, especially the Lord’s Prayer- and 12-step meetings are typically held in churches.
What is "absolutely mind-boggling" is that there are parents who voluntarily send their kids to a school that openly admits it wants to dumb kids down to the lowest common denominator yet claim they care about their kids.

If you know that the school's focus isn't on providing the best education possible to your kids, pull them out of that school immediately. If it is a public school (as it is in this case), complain to the school board, vote them out of office if they don't listen and support local efforts to expand school choice to rescue as many kids as possible from that failing public school system that has proven itself incapable of performing its primary function. Even if you get the school board to reverse insane decisions like banning algebra from middle schools, I still wouldn't trust any school system that would even consider doing such things to properly educate kids. I think it beyond a reasonable doubt that the dysfunction in the SF school district is much deeper than just this algebra ban.
You could, but the data can be a mess and often needs interpretation. I wouldn't trust the numbers to be pulled directly.

1099-K - you could easily be sent a 1099-k that includes money that shouldn't be included in your return

1099-B - it's not unusual for cost-basis to not be included, so you need to calculate a bunch of numbers from your 1099-B before entering into your tax return

1099-R - depending on the distribution you took, it may be taxed or not taxed depending on other information not included in the form

I mean, it would save you the trouble of entering the numbers, but it doesn't solve the problem that there is a good chance the numbers aren't correct.
As a kid from eastern europe, my first algebra lessons were in 1st grade. I was always baffled by algebra being introduced in grade 5 or 6 here in the US; grade 8 would be ridiculous. Kids my age in my hometown would be taking early calculus at that grade level.