skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> How are you going to game this test:

Plenty of ways. Teacher takes test for student, teacher re-scores test after student is finsihed, student is placed in an IEP that gives them unlimited time and "reading assistance" for test, failing students are placed in small classes and the class size of average students is expanded, failing students are moved from normal schoolwork to test prep, test questions are leaked/sold (we're talking about a multi-billion dollar industry here, right?).

I didn't make up any of these. This is already happening, and it has nothing to do with positive/negative incentive. It's about test-based education and the natural consequence of trying to control a complex system using a simple metric. It's why education theorists are loathed by teachers--because they swoop in with grand theories of how to fix everything without understanding the system and what is and isn't broken.

It's like an outsider thinking a reasonable way to pay a coder is by how many lines of code they write and how many bugs they fix. Or a civil engineer by how many bridges and roads they produce. Because outsiders don't understand the complexity of the system they think the solution must be simple. Since you seem invested in this idea I suggest you go get some input from teachers and see what they say. My guess is you will learn that the problems with public education is multifactorial and that there isn't a simple fix.
I’d rather have small binaries and memory efficient systems instead of huge blobs having their own complete disconnected environments with non-coherent behavior on the same situation. Also, wasting tons of memory while at it.

If I have something that critical, I can always statically compile.
Any business/website owner who deals with customer support will like it (assuming it works well).

My guess is the people on here poo pooing this idea are programmers who don't deal with customer support. Don't let their negative response deter you. Let them be fools.
Rupert Murdoch took direct role in Fox News 2020 election call, filings reveal
You’re missing out! It’s better storytelling than most TV. And I think I’d include the Vox Machina show in that, though it’s little early to say.

For anyone who wants to check it out without the commitment of looking it up in your podcast app, episodes are on the web here: https://worlds-beyond-number.simplecast.com/episodes
Its a fantastic story, highly recommend the book. Theres a few factual errors in it but it's still an awesome book
I don't dispute that there are misguided K-8 schools that have been teaching CRT, or what they think CRT is. They shouldn't be.

There would be a more compelling argument here if either of those slides said something outré. But neither does, so I don't know what I'm supposed to do with this.
That argument doesn't make sense. It is like saying that the policies Bharatiya Janata Party are a conspiracy theory because the party is basically just a big social club, and upsetting a few key members of the BJP executive doesn't imply anything. It doesn't, but then later in unrelated news a billion Indians might start making life difficult for our hypothetical upsetter at the direction of the Indian parliament.

The social club is convened for the purpose of high status people deciding how to influence the direction of the World Economy. It isn't a literature club. Their consensus opinions and the voices in the room matter a lot.

> .. people talk about the WEF ... rather than the actual policy makers

The names aren't a mystery. Klaus Schwab organises the thing. Lists of the politicians and businessmen are published. It is easier to say WEF than to say "9 of the 10 wealthiest people except Adani". Especially since Adani still attends some of the meetups.

https://qz.com/davos-2023-world-economic-forum-attendees-184...
Is that (i.e. GPT) not still a service?

What people want is something they can run on their own hardware without sending their queries to some third party service which is doing who knows what with them.

This is already possible if you want to mess around with green code that isn't in system repositories yet and buy expensive hardware to make it fast, but you can imagine why some people don't have the time or money for that.

I'm waiting for Intel or AMD to realize there would be a line out the door if they'd make a CPU with an iGPU that could use system memory and run these models at even a quarter of the speed of typical discrete GPUs.
It's hard to blame interest rates for all the wealth in tech when you look at all the new products and innovations that have happened over the last 10 years.
Wait before your hear the harrowing laments of the rocks cracking in the cold.

/s

No, more seriously, stop giving an emotional meaning to a sound.
Anecdote is always dangerous, but 100% same here; I had housemates in the 1990s and this was entirely normal in the city I was in (DC). Come to think of it the only time before I got married I lived alone was when I rented a friend's basement for a couple of years basically as a favor to him.
> Side note: Everyone was reassigned or got a better job? You sure about that?

Only speaking about what I’ve experienced and been told by people in that industry. Can you point me to the massive layoffs?

At the big box stores near me, nobody has lost their jobs due to self-checkout. If you think otherwise, please show me.
Yeah, the cited depth limit of ~8.5km appears to be based on “fish use an osmolyte called TMAO to protect their proteins from pressure, and below 8.5km the concentration of TMAO required is so high that it inhibits cell function”. Apparently crustaceans get deeper by using five different osmolytes at once instead of relying on TMAO. (Info from helpful comment by mytailorisrich in this thread https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35403838)
(OP) This is what I was thinking about - thank you!
Those ones are using inferior models. I am using ChatGPT for a lot of stuff: personal, work, hobbies. Anything where what I say isn’t private. And it is wickedly helpful.

Extending this to sites makes sense. Eventually this service will need to compete against Google or Bing chat based search with regular indexing and it’ll probably get put out of business unless it pivots into tailor made models or something else the big guys can’t offer en mass.
It’s not probable, it’s guaranteed at FAANG.
You need a robust font selection. With few options installed the replacements selected autom6for some are kind of shitty. On arch you can install ttf-ms-fonts other options are available.
ZSTs work splendidly in Safe Rust, but you do need to consider them if you're writing unsafe generic code. Here's the relevant section of the Rustonomicon: https://doc.rust-lang.org/nomicon/exotic-sizes.html#zero-siz... .
I was thinking the same thing. It's a dogshit plugin, but they've apparently made bank with it.
More Hondurans end up in Texas than in California

As a Canuck, immediately I thought "But Texans will shoot criminals".

True or not, the belief is there for many. That does have some power. maybe.
What's groundless is this mentality. Please read Rule 11 of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure (a rule that is also well-adopted in state courts as well). As fun as it is to hate on big tech, one should still be mindful of the fact that their attorneys aren't stupid enough to file patently frivolous lawsuits that put their own law licenses on the line.
Any chance of a cheaper plan for those bringing their own api key? And maybe if you get some VC money, a free version for Open Source :-)
Los Angeles Real Property Transfer Tax
The fact most Linux neckbeards fervently deny Android as a Linux distro points to the reasons why Linux has thus far never achieved mainstream acceptance outside of the aforementioned.
Should have called him "Big E" to obfuscate
That has not been my experience. If they have deep pockets they draw out the court case in an effort to make you quit, and the stress literally kills people.

In the end I agree vindication will come if you can afford to defend yourself, hire your own experts and retain competent council but your comment is a bit glib.
It will be interesting to see how their sales progress after the initial hype period. Some of their contracts to incorporate gpt into products sounded like initial marketing and hype, but perhaps even independent of those, they will make it back with services to bing. But the subdued reaction to gpt4's increase in capabilities means their might be a lack of incentive to pay for improved versions.
I really don't think anyone could possibly want the _specified behavior_ of a function changing below their feet.

However, the author is unlikely to be correct here. E.g., to this day, glibc contains _multiple implementations of memcpy_ just to satisfy those executables that depend on the older, memmove-like behavior that was once part of the unspecified behavior of glibc. The only way to get the dynamic linker to choose one of the newer versions is to, well, rebuild the executable. It is inconceivable that glibc would not use symbol versioning with an actual specification change.

The behavior is practically the same as with static linking, and you still get the benefits of dynamic linking.
We are not alone in your own minds. We are networked by entanglement and thought control exists to keep it a secret (the greatest taboo of our modern humanity, admitting you actually hear the voices.)
Yeah, but they would have to be crazy to make the games linux exclusive.

Even if you set the shut out market thing aside, Proton is an excellent platform to target. Theres basically no disadvantage vs targeting linux native unless your game is java+opengl or something.
Larger corporations, profit and non-profit, DO NOT CARE ABOUT PEOPLE. Period! Some of the people in them do. There are good people all around us. And knowing some of them we may be fooled into thinking that the system we are all a part of has a conscience.

It does not.

I'm not talking about small or even medium sized business or non-profits. Some great things happening out there. But past a certain size all businesses simply serve a profit motive and the status quo. And for those paying attention, the status quo is post-imperial decay. Putrified late-stage capitalism that we can only really ignore on big doses of entertainment and our legal or illegal drugs of choice.

Large corporations do NOT regulate themselves in any way. They are not able to serve any public good.

Before the '80s our government did serve several regulatory purposes. But the military/industrial intelligence apparatus has dismantled that effectively for so long that our government is simply a means of placating the populace with the thin illusion of balance.

These are basic historical facts. Facts that the public, on either side of the political spectrum, are ever more able to argue against due to declining literacy and media echo chambers full of simple lies and convenience logical fallacies.

Both corporations and our government do not serve the public good except to an ever smaller degree required to maintain the social order.

</endofrant>
Modestly high interest rates are the only way to break the growth of income inequality fueled by low interest rates.

There are other factors boosting real estate prices -- more people desiring to live alone, ease of renting an unused property via Airbnb, people living longer, massive wealth generation via stock markets -- but a low-rate environment offers existing wealth much more leverage to grow.
Same can be said about washing dishes, or growing carrots.

This is priced at about 10-20 minutes of a developers time per month.
Declarative UI Programming in Rust for Native Applications
Have been experimenting with some UI programming in Rust. Would love some feedback!
Scotland's Ancient Towers
OpenAI provides a demo to do this in their docs:

https://platform.openai.com/docs/tutorials/web-qa-embeddings

IME doing this task the scraping isn't easy to generalize. the embed / chat part is honestly low hanging fruit on top of the openAI api. if you're capable of scraping the content you want to do this with I'd say whip it up yourself. its a 15m project.
I believe we are in a time where everyone is milking the 90s-20s real estate bubble and no one wants to be first to fold. Internationally, not just on a per country basis. As soon as say, French real estate collapses (or UK or USA or Germany etc), the whole rotten castle of cards will fold as well. If it doesn't you can enjoy the expensive property, but you won't be eating farmed foods, won't be in a clean environment and wont have nurses to look after you since no one can afford to be in any relative area and I mean just for shelter from the elements.
It is difficult to shake the suspicion that the advocates of banning TikTok are using it as pretext for their real goals.
It wouldn't be so terrible if their real goals were limited to just restricting social media in general, but beyond that...

The real benefit of having a Congress for broader society is that it forces at least partial exposure of these unmentioned goals.

In that sense the federal government is a wonderful invention, but the drawbacks are so many that it doesn't seem all that wonderful overall.
I am not against political propaganda in principle, I mean, it is at the core of freedom of speech and democracy. Just please keep it out of my lifehacks. Not only it is, I believe, off topic, but it also alienates about half of the US population.

We often talk about the virtues of diversity, but diversity is not just about LGBT and black people, it is also about diversity of opinion, and I think republicans (including Trump supporters) and democrats have a lot to share on the topic of lifehacks. Farmers for instance know their fair share of tricks, they also tend to be republican, and probably feel unwelcome to LifeHacker even though they would certainly be valuable contributors.
This is the thing I'm always fascinated by in these stories - the complete lack of understanding for why not everyone can have everything in a particular place with finite resources.

> I'm in the highest percentiles of income in Sweden

Which one is it then? 80th? 90th? 99th? 99.5th?

> It's basically impossible for me to afford a house / apartment for my family in the best neighborhoods.

Which are the "best neighborhoods" in your mind? How many houses/apartments are there in those "best" neighborhoods?

Do you see why these numbers matter if you're trying to learn from this situation rather than just complain and pretend nothing is finite?
Just switch now, I dumped Chrome two years ago and haven't looked back. Firefox is great, and you can even use it on mobile--with ublock!
Here's one 6km away from camping

https://goo.gl/maps/muFXPTy9okhex6U48

Here's one 3km away,

https://goo.gl/maps/Qe3QHtKzo6BQ9Hiz9

< 3km,

https://goo.gl/maps/QRob7cDWYZ2ufuQi6

2.3km

https://goo.gl/maps/3kotrgfmjUT4kERbA

I'm sure we can find one closer, but <10km seems to be not out of the ordinary.
I’d say most who have vested their shares are millionaires. At least those who vested by the 2010s.
Another commenter posted a link to a 2014 article that explains how the fish can survive so deep.

https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-26423203

It says that fish use the TMAO protein to protect themselves from pressure. But other organisms use a combination of multiple proteins and that apparently lets them survive higher pressures.

So it seems the fish would basically need to re-evolve how to handle pressure, but in a different way, to be able to go deeper.
The BJP is in fact not just a big social club.
GNU is an acronym.

GNU is a collection of free software.

GNU is the name of a project that is focused on software freedom.
AI tools are built and controlled by corporations with a profit motive. They aren't in the business of empowering anyone. If they do then it's just a side effect.
Did we ever legalize type punning?
I already doubled it ;)
When I learned that our DNA has trouble replicating properly in microgravity I started to assume the filter was ahead of us.
The actual funny part of it is that campsites in France are actually starred just like Michelin restaurants on their maps (and on their signs - France of course loves to over-sign everything). A 3 star municipal campsite could be 40 Euros for the night!

One of the reasons I spent so many nights in apple orchards.
The WEF is in fact not just a big social club either. People go their to coordinate, discuss policy and make deals.

They aren't going for the merch. They are there to lobby and influence, dare I say, the World Economy.

I mean, https://www.weforum.org/focus/the-great-reset . They're not talking about the weather. They're looking at the future and coordinating a response.

EDIT https://www.weforum.org/great-reset was a better link.
Disk encryption has always been advised for mitigating incidental leakage of data, such as stolen laptops or thumb drives that go missing.

But my understanding, both as an industry standard and as common sense (insofar as common as computer literacy is), is that the only true way to ensure data destruction is total physical destruction of the physical medium the data resides on.
It's not really AI we're talking, they haven't achieved an artificial Intelligence. The sooner we realize that, the sooner this overhype dies and we don't end up with another massively over-valued trillion-dollar company.
Can’t say I’ve ever seen them jank. In my experience, compute doesn’t seem to be the limiting factor for Spotify etc., it only ever seems to be waiting for API calls to return. There really isn’t a whole lot of compute going on in a typical front end, and modern browser engines have JIT virtual machines and parallel processing with the final rendering pushed into the GPU. Even the processing power in a low end mobile is not struggling on compute for these applications
What do you think about CPE/Chlorinated Polyethylene? Works fine for me on a Prusa i3mk3s in a room heated to 75 degrees F, with limited drafts (make a tent/enclosure if you have to)
Capital accumulation and the tendency of the rate of profit to fall are the objective fundamental causes of inequality in every capitalist society, which is why every capitalist society depends on a plethora of ostensible efforts to counter these fundamental characteristics of capitalism.

https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Capital_accumulation

https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Tendency_of_the_rate_of_profit_to...
Flights are cheap. Hotels in Europe in tourist areas are insanely priced because they’re reliably booked.
We absolutely should listen to them, and then do the exact opposite of what they want.
I wonder if there is a way to let users generate this one-page demo themselves dynamically, rather than via a manual interaction by you.

what's to say you won't add specific optimizations by hand now that aren't included in the product out of the box?

edit: ah, just saw your other comment about being afraid free trial gets out of hand financially

a solution could be to only allow x number of free tokens for a given demo chatbot
Feels like they just imitate work instead of solving real problems.
I think this is good for the scenario where python is not your main language, but you have to use it occasionally and just want to get shit done.

Whereas I think training python code
through the neural net behind your eyes will be more efficient in the long run if you expect to do a lot of python.
why doesn't that apply to stocks though?
I mean one of these is consistent with the known laws of physics and the other isn't. Seems reasonable to me.
<tounge-in-cheek> didn't twitter already opensource their code?

https://www.databreachtoday.com/twitter-says-source-code-lea...
> so if you work yourself to death you can make slightly above average income

These people are working for themselves with no boss, and doing what they love. They don’t believe they are working themselves to death.

Again, Google: "The national average U.S. income in 2021 was $97,962. The median U.S. income in 2021 was $69,717. Highest paying jobs: Chief executives and nurse anesthetists earned over $200,000 a year on average in 2021, making them the highest paid occupations."

So really, what are you talking about? Nothing slightly above average income here. Maybe step out of your bubble. People work 12 hours a day all over the country. I did it for ten years. Doesn’t mean it’s good, right, or acceptable, but it’s considered normal in the US.

> But are you really arguing the light bulb did not cause that specific job to become less common?

Artisans like candlemakers were needed at that time and today. The job is still very much in demand. Is the job less common due to electric lights? Possibly, but do you think craftspeople in that industry couldn’t make something else? They could and they did. The painter Renoir is often cited as an example of a craftsman who lost his job due to the industrialization of porcelain manufacturing, and was forced to work as a portrait artist for rich patrons who wanted portraits made of their family.

> I also thought it was fun how, you asked for a citation, then when you were asked for to provide one yourself, you respond with "gOoGlE iS yOuR fRiEnD".

A citation for what? Candlemaking is a huge industry with people starting new businesses all the time. I gave an example of one in my community. It’s really common. A quick search will show you what I’m talking about, and as it turns out 300k is expected for a medium operation run out of a commercial garage space.
Thanks marketing people that decided to double down despite the clear distaste of the general public at their relentless tracking.
I am an indie bootstrapper, so no VC money haha.

Right now, there is no way to add your own API key. I will try to look into this option in the future.
> The device ultimately needs the wifi passcode in plaintext.

Why is this the case? There are a number of cryptographic methods of varying complexity which allow a server to authenticate a client against a password without storing the password itself.
The WEF is if anything less than a social club. It's a series of social events. It's nothing. The only potential energy it has at all is people imputing it power on threads about how it's the secret architect of the global economy. That is not something you can say about the BJP, which has real power.
I understand. In that case, the only way is to subscribe to the $19/month plan and try it out for yourself. You can cancel anytime you like with the click of a button.
> I don't dispute that there are misguided K-8 schools that have been teaching CRT, or what they think CRT is. They shouldn't be.

Okay, that was my whole point though – "CRT" has been appropriated to mean something different from the original academic theory – and not just by the "anti-CRT" crowd, by "pro-CRT" folks too. So why not just accept that "CRT" now has two meanings, the original scholarly meaning, and a colloquial meaning, and they are different, even though the later grew out of (distortions of) the former?

The appropriation of "CRT" isn't really any different than the appropriation of "woke", which you seemed more okay with.
This is a very uncharitable view. Those types would exist at any company.

There is pretty high turn-over at the large companies as well. People can be there to help build their resume, help make connections, learn the ropes at a large company and gain technology exposure, etc..

My time at Amazon, I did see some people leave to form companies. Generally it was when someone particularly smart found a clique of a few other smart people and they then all quit and go off and do something else.
better in terms of costs and access, worse in terms of quality and wait times.