skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Perhaps. There would also be justifiable outrage by reasonable people.

Pardoning Trump would continue the example set by Gerald Ford in pardoning Nixon.

"Helping the country heal" seems hollow to me. To use a few metaphors:

1. Physical healing can't properly happen until the foreign object is cleared and infection removed from the body.

2. Mental healing doesn't fully happen until person comes to terms with what's happened. Burying the trauma is a risky time-bomb of a "solution".

If injustice goes unpunished or unaddressed, victims typically don't have closure. They lose confidence in the rule of law. Some take it into their own hands.

Large portions of the American public have been traumatized by Trump's behavior. We are seeking justice.

And any temporary comfort from pardoning Trump would be undermined by the uneven application of justice.
From the looks, I assume SVG was trying to compete with .SWF, which added network support around that time.

Which is OK I guess.
I think you might not have used chatgpt much. In the last year it's gotten much much better, it can do lots of useful things and with 1/1000th the effort of alternative ways of performing the same task. Assuming they can continue to improve it at even a fraction of it's current rate of improvement, even a small fraction, technology like this will be in everything we do and constantly in our ear. It's astoundingly useful and you are wrong here.
"okay sir. this is to figure out what your aptitude is good at, and get you a jail job while you're being a particular individual in jail"

That movie does a fantastic job of demonstrating how copspeak is designed to hide the fact that they're stupid.
> I think the only practical solution is widely-known resources and alternative curricula for low-income families so that they too can get a decent education.

And the middle class end up fucked. Too rich to get extra help. Too poor to afford private. Like walking in the middle of the road... splat.
UNITED STATES v. BALSYS https://via.library.depaul.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1...
Let he who is without sin throw the first stone.

Should Joe Biden be prosecuted for negligently storing classified documents in his home? Every person in the US is guilty of some baseline level of criminality, and the more “interesting” your life, the more crimes you are likely to have committed.

If the US wants to have non-criminal presidents then it should reform its vast state and federal criminal codes so that such a person can actually exist. Until that happens, a norm against criminalizing ex-presidents (except for serious crimes) is a good norm to have.

[I’m not sure it has to be said here, but my political beliefs are completely disjoint with Trump’s]
I wanted to build something like chatGPT but self-hosted without sending my data to OpenAI. This was more of a self-learning project. Haystack made it quite easy for me to get started and build something. Tutorials they have are really good. It still has some bugs but it works.
Let's not forget Clapper who literally perjured himself in front of congress.

Also most of the creatures in the state department during the Bush years, including of course Bolton, and also others, Frum in particular.

And of course, let's not forget Hillary, who is silent as a rock right about now. Since you know, breaking the law is now en vogue to prosecute.
I'm terribly sorry for getting to this so late, but I've edited it now.
In America, we have a war on merit.
Everyone always overestimates Intel's ability to do things. I worked for IBM in the P4 days and we were worried about 9-10 GHz pentiums. But Intel has a tendency to coast when it's doing well, and then only wakes up when AMD (and ARM also now) starts taking its lunch money.
In a republic, power is granted.

Declaring one’s self a dictator doesn’t grant power. That’s not how power works at all.
100%.
It's would have far better to just defeat Trump in 2024, and let him go slink into the shadows.

Now a red line has been crossed, the GOP is seems to be gearing up for civil war.
They keep talking about the 6 Christians martyred and how no corporation or the "Biden Regime" has acknowledged them.
Desantis has come out on Trump's side, even though days ago he said he wouldn't.

Escalation is occurring, and it's sheer arrogance to think this thing doesn't reek of pure politics.

I'm legitimately scared we have summoned something we cannot contain.
AI-Enhanced Terrorism
I feel conflicted about this. I started learning algebra around grade 6 in Europe, so I think pushing it back to grade 9 is a bit far.

But on the other hand, I was always amazed by how much skipping just a week or two of school a year could impact one’s education. It’s very difficult to catch up (in Central European schools at least). A bout of pneumonia could negatively impact your whole life if you miss a week of school and you don’t have the time or teaching to catch up. Education can be very rushed, maybe it shouldn’t be. Pupils should be given time to catch up when various life events happen to them. And if this means a more spaced out curriculum, so be it.
Fond memories of my parents trying to teach me the pythagorean theorem and algebraic manipulation in second or third grade.

Ended in shouting and tears. Every. Single. Time.
Liquidity is a spectrum.

So, yes, "richest in the world" is really a mapping of timespan (days given to liquidate) to people.
You have to remember the background for this era. Shockwave (not yet even Adobe), Shockwave Flash was the overwhelming interactive media on the internet. Kids in middle school and high school watched episodes of .flv videos of South park, we played "stick figure skiing" or "stick figure fighting" games, there were stick figure sledding games, all sorts of "multimedia" apps existed inside the "flash" container/spec. Some of them (multiplayer) also had network support of some sort, if only for supporting ads. A big part of flash was that it was not bitmap, it was... scalable vectors, which allowed it to shrink traditionally "large" (500kb+, easily 10 minutes on dialup) spritemap heavy games, down into 45-100kb (less than 7 minute download) packages that could be played on nearly any desktop

SVG had the same base layer functionality but network support would have been a big step towards making an open standard version of Flash. The iPhone was famously one of the last devices to drop support for Flash (due to both wild and regular security holes), and when they did, Flash (the predominant consumer web technology of the early-mid 2000s) finally died. It was a big deal. Had SVG gotten flash-like capability, it could have been a real game changer (although with giant security holes). Security back then was "somebody elses' problem" so while raw sockets seems wholly irresponsible by modern standards, back then it was the norm, partly because less than 10 million people worldwide really had any kind of risk exposure, plus the fact that the internet was still mostly decentralized, AOL was still considered a major force back then. Facebook and others with billions of users didn't exist yet.
You’re talking about the 76-year-old WWE hall-of-famer who posted upwards of 200 tweets a day despite famously eschewing technology for paper and pencil. There’s nothing fake about this political figure. Or any others, for that matter.
Self-attention can be big for TinyML applications
Why did you post that? It's basically spam. It took no effort, and it's worthless. No one should trust anything coming out of ChatGPT, and they should trust random text purported to be from ChatGPT even less.
Check out roadmap.sh
> It's absolutely mind-boggling that the administrators try to establish "equity" by pushing all students down, instead of them up.

It's unfair that some people develop skills easily when others don't. When equity is the goal this is what happens.
I disagree that Calculus is not hard. Integration and differentiation on certain elementary functions, sure. Once you go beyond you can't mechanistically manipulate symbols anymore. The foundation of limits, too, properly treated requires quite a bit of foundational and proof machinery as well. So now you need to talk about how first-order logic is related to mathematics.
I agree with all these criticism. But I also know many human DMs who make the same stylistic decisions as GPT did here. It's definitely not good Burning Wheel, but it might be ok D&D?

On the other hand, I appreciate the GPT's willingness to follow the players' revealed interests where they lead, instead of sticking to a predetermined railroad. The comment here about engaging zombies in a multilevel marketing scheme illustrates this nicely. That's very deft DMing in my opinion. (Whether _asking_ for such a tonal shift is deft playing on part of the non-DM player is a different question.)
it’s amazing how much younger and sharper exercise, proper diet, and good sleep can make you feel. or at least, that’s been my experience. i was astonished when i realized it wasn’t as much “getting old” as it was ”shit habits” that i was feeling.
Desantis just backed Trump, we are summoning something that is escalating out of control and cannot be contained.

Republican Twitter keeps talking about "6 Christians Marytred and ignored by Joe Biden and the Corporations" , "3 leftists state insurrections", and more.
As far as I know, there is no proven way to improve equality in a school system. Even in Norway, which has the highest GDP per capita in the world, the students from poor/less educated families still underperform [1]:

>Norway is a wealthy and egalitarian country with a homogeneous educational system, yet achievement gaps between students at the 90th and 10th percentiles of parental income and between students whose parents have at least a master and at most a high school degree are found to be large (0.55–0.93 and 0.70–0.99 SD), equivalent to about 2 to 2.5 years of schooling, and increasing by grade level. Achievement gaps by parental income, but not by parental education, increased over the time period, underscoring the different ways these two socioeconomic status components relate to achievement and the potential for policy to alter gaps.

Part of the answer could be that genetics play a larger role than anyone would like. Plomin for example claims that from twin studies a large part of educational attainment is heritable. I suspect the current school system will burn itself down before admitting that, however.

[1] https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.3102/0013189X221142...
> Einstein didn't make as many groundbreaking discoveries in his latter years; some attributed this to being tied down with more draining work.

There's only so much that one person can do in a lifetime. Humans are not infinite wells of creativity.

Or let's put it this way: which post-Einstein groundbreaking discoveries do you think he should have made? Why does he personally have to discover everything in physics?

Why didn't the Beatles write Stairway to Heaven?

Doing one great thing is hard. Doing several great things is even harder. There's no reproducible method, no routine. You can't just crank out inspiration on an assembly line.
Instagram has been shooting itself in the foot for a while now, people are abandoning Meta like the plague because even the content there is dry...

I think it will be something out of left field that will change the entire game... Something light and responsive, free to use, and something that allows everyone an equal post playing field again...
I believe p5.js (used at https://editor.p5js.org/) is quite close to Scratch in spirit. Of course I think turning straight to javascript (the library really streamlines it) might be too difficult without instruction, so following some kind of tutorials or lessons would be necessary.

It's incredibly fun, and I've been making procedural... things for a while with it. Many artists use it (and of course every web tool is available... you can even later port the code to just straight canvas for the performance, although that's rarely necessary I guess).

See my little roguelike room generator: https://editor.p5js.org/gustavo.nramires/sketches/eyyxg7vl2

And a funky flower: https://editor.p5js.org/gustavo.nramires/sketches/hwhVUQu_X
Some spam messages claim to have hacked the recipient's computer and camera and have sordid videos. They then reveal a password that has been hacked in the past from e.g. Yahoo, LinkedIn, DocuSign or other, to make the threat more convincing. Others impersonate legitimate companies, such as Amazon, Apple, and so on. These can be scary to many people. In my case, I get almost no "pure" spam (stuff with no apparent phishing goal), perhaps because my ISP's are filtering it, but phishing emails manage to go through. I forward them to the impersonated company "abuse@", "phishing@", with both full headers and message source. Some come from apparent home addresses, indicating hacked home computers. My guess is that the pure spam ones are to verify email addresses that they got somehow or generated. Might have a tracking pixel or image. Just guessing.
At my daughters school they had algebra in 6th and 7th grade, and it was only about an hour south of San Francisco. San Francisco is outlier bad in education in the US, and it is surrounded by a dozen communities with outlier-good schools. It is a double outlier.

https://schools.latimes.com/sat-scores/ranking/page/1/
Yep. Google paid like $2 per download of Firefox. It cost like 5 cents a click, for the "download Firefox" keyword, on Google Ads to bring someone to my website. Profit.
I have a more positive experience than the OP, I worked with a news outlet that has several newsletters and sent about 200K emails/day, and we use our own servers/domain and an open source/self-hosted tool to send them (I think it was Mailman [1]).

We did all those technical bits like SPF and DKIM, put the one click unsubscribe link on the message and also on the header of the message so that clients like Gmail can put the unsubscribe link on their own UI [2], all the recommended practices. I remember using the tool Mail Tester [3] and the results where all green.

We doesn't have issues with being marked as SPAM by Gmail/Outlook, and have average open rates of 50%, which is a lot higher than the industry standard who is around 20% [4].

We have a good UX and an ethical way to treat our users, like all users have to opt-in to their desired newsletters when creating an account (or choose to receive newsletters without creating an account), one-click unsubscribe link in big text at the bottom of each newsletter, but also a one-click-no-need-to-be-logged-in link to opt-out of all the newsletters that the user was subscribed, and more stuff like that.

But one thing that I think give us a lot of reputation for the Gmail algorithm, it was that we designed a feature that if the user doesn't opened a newseltter for about 3 months, we started to send the newsletters with an alert at the top saying like "Seems that you aren't reading this newsletter anymore, you will be automatically unsubscribed in 30[n counter] days. Click here to disable the auto-unsuscribe." (the disable the auto-unsuscribe also was for people who have images disabled and we can't track the openings, but is small percentage). So with that feature, we get sure that our users where engaged with the newsletters, and we have a system to avoid sending messages to "dead" emails, maintaining a fresh and healthy database of emails, and seems that Gmail/Outlook knows and likes that.

[1] https://www.list.org/

[2] https://www.sendinblue.com/blog/list-unsubscribe-header/

[3] https://www.mail-tester.com/

[4] https://mailchimp.com/resources/email-marketing-benchmarks/
That's more your parents' job since a career or hobby as a mathematician is extremely niche. School math is really a foundation to enable you do to all sorts of other things, as well as being directly useful. You can go a long way in engineering with only high-school calculus and engineer is a hugely popular profession and trade. Proofs are almost completely useless there. An engineer can usually "prove" something satisfactorily by testing it in a couple of cases and guessing that it generalizes to all real-world-scale numbers. That takes a kind of intuition about how typical equations typically behave which you get from doing all those tedious exercises at school.
I'm sure in every educational system you can use some form of metric to exclude low SES students and conclude that the system isn't behind or failing.
If you find it too tedious to self-study on your own (there are books for this purpose), then you can consider taking a trig or calc course at a local community college. Just think of it as a temporary hobby.
>Tubes amps are repairable.
??? Sorry, but Tubes guitar amps are fairly unreliable creatures, especially if you are gigging musician. Don't get me wrong, they sound cool (I have Vox AC15), but they require upkeeping: tube changes, changing caps, burned parts due to heat, and a lot of modern tube amps(even reincarnations of old models) aren't well designed for the long run. See https://www.youtube.com/@psionicaudio if you are into guitar tube amp repairs.
What you probably meant to say, is that tube amps are fairly easy to service and maintain, if you have a good tech.
“ 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”

Hard to do when you are poor, as many in SF are. SF seems like a rich city on the outside because it has an insane number of rich people but it also has dirt poor people who can’t do anything else.
In cold climates incandescent bulbs are 100% efficient.
Not the same in the slightest, Al Capone wasn't a presidential candidate with millions who view him as the "god emperor".
It's interesting that

explorer is like some kind of evil Spanish conquistador

chrome is like some kind of terminator

and firefox is like a cute, cuddly, endangered fox
Yes, of course, they don't get any shares. That's the issue with these term sheets, if you read the legalese, they don't say the VC must wire funds, it just says that in exchange for funds they get whatever stock or convertible debt or rights or whatever. If they don't wire, they don't get those things and the contract is then void.

It doesn't say that they must wire funds, or at least, this isn't legally enforceable.

The real problem is I'd really rather get a fast, hard rejection than handshaking and making space in a round for a VC only to have them drop out last minute and then having to scramble to get the void filled, and this whole situation leading to other VCs dropping out like dominoes because now "ooh something looks fishy".
Good summary, only thing I'd add is that the iPhone didn't drop support for flash, they never had it to begin with and made it clear they never would. Android vendors at the time used to use flash support as selling point until they too dropped it.

Being the first to call the death on something seems to be an ongoing trend with Apple.
It absolutely does even the New York Times is calling this a disaster!
‘The system is only failing black and hispanic students.’

What is “the system”? you mean to say the school is racist or unfair to black kids..hispanic kids? who is responsible in your opinion?
And then Totally Not A Front Ltd. pays you a paycheck into your legal, real bank account so you can pay your rent? Now you're not anonymous anymore. OK, let the company pay the rent and mail you the keys. There's still a trail for the cops to follow by just...showing up at the apartment and seeing who's there.

Until transactions can cross between crypto and real money anonymously (which is getting harder all the time, and is already effectively impossible at any kind of reasonable price and scale), OpSec requires that you not invest your real money into any such venture, and also never get paid by any such venture. Again, you can still /conduct/ such a venture, but at that point its just an eccentric, high-stakes hobby, since it only happens in an alternate reality where you never need to buy peanut butter or a gallon of gas but can still potentially slip up and anger the feds/cartels/chinese intelligence/whatever. Yes, there are ways to reduce the risk that your "extraterritorial" company is not traced back to you. There is not a way to avoid it completely, and it's a pretty big risk.
Does anyone else feel weird about comparisons that match a subgroup of people in the US against whole continents? Why is it normal to smash all the countries of a continent into one? What “asian” or “European” student is making it into these standards? The ones with money to come to the US and be surveyed?
> It’s generally a bad look to arrest your political opponents.

Its generally bad look to let criminals go free because of status, especially if the status is political position. The first demonstrates that the law is tool of control of those with lesser status, and the latter specifically promotes escalating abuses (the US since Watergate is, actually, quite a good example of this.)
well said. chatgpt is awesome. it will free everyone.

Related news from earlier: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35364985

More family time! And higher quality of education outcomes for very cheap! It's truly the iphone moment for AI including the increasingly cheaper pipelines to train it. I remember how just a couple months ago it was still costing $50k+ to realistically get something resembling GPT-3+ performance. Now that's way less.

Wohoo!!! Innovation abounds!!! <3
Well minister you asked for equality so we gave them equal marks! One is not a mind reader!

I miss you Sir Humphrey.
VirtuaGirl.

I made a good chunk of money in my small town being the computer repair guy (well, kid).

Just you referring to that blight brought up memories of my entire digital youth. Having my parents shepherd my and my PC to friends so we could LAN, Hamachi (virtual LAN), Kazaa, Limewire / Frostwire, Azareus / uTorrent, uHARC compressed games, jailbreaking iPhones, writing my own hooks for d3dx9.dll for cheating on games.. good times.

Specifically with Azareus vs. uTorrent I remember being amazed how a program that was a few hundred kilobytes could principally do the same thing as one that was a few hundred megabytes big, and with 1/10th of the RAM consumption to boot.
It’s given me a lifelong impression of Java being a sluggish crappy language, which isn’t factually correct.. but first impressions last.

Strangely enough I have a feeling we (‘90s kids) were the last generation where every kid had to learn at least some digital nimbleness. These days even the cracks and jailbreaks are one-click and work without a fault.
Yes I’ve seen these statistics a number of times and it really goes against so much of the “lol Americans are bad at math” meme all over the internet.

America is a society of disparate cultures, regions, communities, and outcomes (often in the same cities) that is far too fine grained to reduce it to generalities (with a few exceptions such as heavily nationally influenced/consistent things like health care insurance, defence spending, Wall St/banking policies, etc).

Some people try to minimize it all to “class” like they found some Pandora’s box for all of life’s problems but that’s just as often flawed as any other generalization.
Does summer vacation exist in Central Europe?

In high school (USA) I was tracked into a two year remedial math course following an abysmal performance in pre-calc, so after 1 year of that I spent the summer taking an online course and tested back onto the normal track.

The Summer break is often derided as a time when students forget everything, but without it I likely would not have ended up studying mathematics in college.
Surely the majority of businesses are small, and are more about making profits every year, rather than selling shares?

I don’t usually see one-liner comments from you.