skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A callous way to put it, but it could also be stated that setting people up for modest success is a much kinder position than setting them up for exceptional failure.
So…

Why do bugs bash into lights?
Because they think they’re the sky.

That seems to be the simplest, most down-to-earth and in-touch with instinct interpretation I can think up for this. The only confusions resting on the word “think.”
In turn, this reminds me a bit of a calculus problem I saw freshman year of college that I ended up sharing with my old high school calculus teacher because it similarly looks intractable until you make a "simplification". The problem was to find the integral of `x/(x + 1)` (I forget the exact bounds, presumably from 0 to x with respect to x). The trick is that this the same as `(x + 1 - 1)/(x + 1)`, which you can then split into `(x + 1)/(x + 1) - 1/(x + 1)`, which you can then integrate much more easily.
Copyright laws evolve together with evolving tech, and it's interesting to think about how they could be refined for this purpose. They're currently very clearly stopping somebody from blatantly selling prints that are copies of another artist's work. Now, you could argue that these models merely look at art that is available for free consumption for humans, and draw inspiration from it, like a human artist would. Just think of the music industry, and how many songs are (legally) similar for the same reason.

Is the solution to prohibit any type of processing of such images, or should it specifically prohibit the calculation of derivatives of the loss function based on those images, or something else entirely?
I think LLMs are gonna be the "jumpstart" of more general AGI prototypes over the next couple years.

The large corpus of text gives them a general basis of logical patterns, which can then be pruned iteratively in simulated environments.
I did well in high school math. These days, when something involving algebra, trigonometry, geometry etc comes up I feel like I have a good understanding of it but my calculus seems weak to non-existent. I'm not sure if it's how I was taught, how I studied it or something else but calculus always seemed like a huge step change in difficulty.

That said, I love how this article gives practical hints on how to replicate the insight and solve the question, rather than just the insight itself.
They weren’t even that subtle. If anything, the misinterpretations are illuminating about how being removed from realities of war distorts reasoning about it.
I think Tesla is pretty far ahead of its competition today people are ok to overlook the lack of apple carplay. but when others do catch up (if, say, Ford EV somehow become as good as Teslas) then i suspect ppl won't be so forgiving.
Along these lines, recently Alberta and BC got in a fight about oil pipelines and Alberta threatened to have its province owned liquor distributor monopoly stop buying BC wine lolol.
At that price you could put someone through a glass blowing course and then have them work for a few months making thousands of these for you.
I'm just as immersed in the scene, and I'm struggling to understand the blame towards journalists here. There has been a ton of hatred from OG cats in Detroit since this museum was announced, including accusations of racism. This isn't the New Yorker pulling accusations of racism out of their ass, it's reporting on something that folks in the scene, the very people profiled in the article, have - rightly or wrongly - actually been saying.

This is a common thread that folk in their shoes have been feeling for decades, and they've never really been silent about it.
They promote setting it as default: https://www.phind.com/default
Brutally incorrect, perhaps.
Did he tell you this? That seems like a mean-spirited accusation.
This was a disturbingly violent game, in which the losing team was often decapitated. Ritual killing was a big part of Mayan culture and tradition.

According to Atlas Obscura,

The Aztecs continued this proud tradition of loser‐lose‐all, as many vases and sculptures depict the inevitable decapitation of the losing team. There are even some depictions of ball players playing with the heads of the losers in place of a ball. Whether this actually occurred is up to artistic speculation. The Spanish who observed the game reported horrendous injuries to those who played it — deep bruising requiring lancing, broken bones, and even death when a player was hit in the head or by an unprotected bit by the heavy ball. (https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/meso-american-baseball)
That’s a very specific view of a mostly urban environment. Forcing an encumbered, Orwellian institution on a populace against their will does not seem very developed.

(I say that as a husband to a public school teacher, son of a public school teacher, and father of children attending public school.)
Really interested to see if this will get picked up by network operators and how.

In my experience, corporate buying at this level has always been the home turf for salesmen of entrenched companies, partly because they actually pitch better and partly because buying StandardCorpX's product comes with a level of delegating design decisions you could get blamed for to the supplier. That last one typically doesn't come to the same extent with open source.

Not that I'm condoning any of these corporate buying strategies, just stating the fact.
Land is pretty much irrelevant. If we used all the land we currently use to farm crops for ethanol and biodiesel for solar panels we would already have most of our energy needs covered.
Elon too, regardless of how much of an inconvenient truth this is to people who don't like Elon.
Today “dictator” is sort of just a synonym for “despot”, but it was an official position in the old Roman Republic—it was a six month post that the Senate would assign to someone during desperate times, giving them essentially absolute power for their term; however, it was seldom used. Sulla marched an army into Rome and insisted the Senate make him dictator indefinitely.
The gist of it is, there needs to be great opportunities offered without prejudice.
At my last company I worked way more than 40 hours a week during the ~5 years until we sold. However, even when I was often working 10-12 hours a day, plus many hours on weekends, I would take advantage of the flexibility afforded me by being a partner in the business -- mostly by taking random mornings/afternoons/days off to pursue hobbies, etc.
The link has an update at the bottom from the creator (Erin Catto), there wasn't ever any drama and he was credited.
So you think the logical patterns found in human language might also be similar enough to the logical patterns found in other systems that these LLMs have a jumpstart in figuring those out?

We already have such a poor idea of how these things seem to understand so much… it’ll be a wild day when cancer is cured and we have absolutely no idea why.
it says

Total Forecasters: 66

does it mean 66 users expressed their forecast?
I think the better question is 11,000 Flights is how much revenue lost?

Airlines are a cut throat business when it comes to operating margins. So while to you it might not sound statistically significant to you but there are likely other reasons why it is a big deal.

Also, just thinking it through, how does it look for the heart of the countries financial center to be reducing flights. There certainly is a ripple effect to all businesses with a reduction of flights.
Yeah, I was going to mention Vista as well. A startup I worked for was acquired by a Vista portfolio company and they made us all take the CCAT: https://www.criteriacorp.com/assessments/cognitive-aptitude/...
Those things are all available to the ultra-wealthy.

For your last example: https://www.statnews.com/2020/12/03/how-rich-and-privileged-...
One problem in San Francisco is that the private schools are truly expensive. One good high school, Urban, has a tuition of 55K year. That means it is hard to leave the public system even when it has these awful flaws.

San Francisco has never really gone whole hog in trying innovative programs with underachieving programs for minority youth. This trick of trying to drag down high performers to disguise the other failures is typical of the district.
I am staying with friends, who have a spare room available.
It is really entertaining that you would appear to have a specific preference about just how bugs hit your face.
I think it is worth to point out a majority of these shortages are due to those who quit or were told to quit because of the COVID vaccine.
I live in Trujillo, near to Chan Chan, is a very interesting experiment as a city but not near what Incas have done in Cusco with giant stones, the infraestructure still in use today and the way they blend with nature and resists natural fenomena but maintaining a cohesive spatial organization is impressive.
cool tool
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> I've been battling the Japanese Lady Beatles

You have a Yoko Ono infestation?
Well for one it's prompting you to make a meaningful linguistic exercise of the matter, which is at once a creative task and secondly it enforces a more dynamic approach to whatever problem is presented.

I wonder if you could get a professor to do anything more than plug and chug, and that's a skill we've long ago delegated to glass. Not only do I want to explain these things in my mother tongue, I expect to know why some variable is in some such place, and how a cube of some other variable is related to the problem at hand. Calculation is banal.
You are severely underestimating how hard hydrogen is to work with.
Certainly suspicious - almost like VC's can't take a joke ;) I'm sure there's an innocent explanation though.

Great satire in any case! Strikes the perfect balance between highly plausible and glaringly obvious.
It feels like some type of Heisenbergian deal. You can solve what you want, but you cannot know how at the same time.
ah, thanks

(you forgot to tell us the meaning of OG :)

maybe https://www.dictionary.com/e/slang/og/ ?
Thanks. Pretty cool!
You can compare the US to the EU (political entity vs political entity). If you're comparing to Azerbaijan you should also put Mexican states on the American side, being that it's also in the same continent.
Streaming services do this all the time in Asia. Instead of paying with credit card, you pay via your carrier/ISP, sometimes at discounted pricing. I paid Netflix, Disney+, Amazon Prime and Zoom this way.
The main problem is that no one gets rewarded for maintenance. You might as well be invisible like facilities staff. The exception may be if it’s something that’s on the verge of breaking the company. Of course, in that case people will note that it was due to the lack of maintenance, but everyone will eventually ignore it again because most companies do not reward maintenance vs creating something new.

Google is good example of this culture.
The elephant in the boomer bedroom is the extent to which fantasy valuations of stocks and property have allowed some to do well, but at the expense of everyone else. As a late stage property owner holding a tiny mortgage-stump on a 3 bed unit, I know that I benefited from the capital gain in my family home to up sticks and move into the unit I expect to die in. The same market conditions which let me buy cheap and sell dear, are what are blocking those terribly ungrateful X and Z from buying their first home.

Likewise the big gains on superannuation/pension/401k holdings: Sure, the good times rolled for income streams. But now, the same tech stocks which inflated my holdings are probably entering a new phase of value. Does anyone really think that FAANG shares were infinite ride to infinity and beyond forever?

There's also the "boomers voted to end the welfare state" side of it. The same people who either don't vote, or voted reactionary, benefit from highly specific unaffordable health credits, and state support which is now denied to their kids. These sweet deals have end-of-life all over them. If you want an NHS, pay tax!

I think as a Boomer, I have to take some of the blame shed my way. I might argue not all of it, but probably? most of it is true.

I'd hate to be young, facing a decline in expected living standards compared my parents, thinking (somewhat rightly) they caused the economic circumstances driving me down the road.

We're often told people de-radicalise as they get older. Mostly it's true, but I would argue a small number of older people remain able to say honestly, the arguments of the coming generation regarding Boomers financial falsity, are valid:

"don't blame us" is not even half-right. Blame us more!

(long term rate of return on investment has been 6%-7% for the last 150+ years. Anyone who thinks they can do better in the lifetime of a 401k investment strategy is ripping off the system because at-large, its really hard to argue why and how that can work. Annuity income demands 3% to 4% return for some stability. Do the sums, to get to "comfortable" lifestyle for a retirement and explain how that works, in the current financial situation for most X and Z gen facing rampant house inflation)
I hacked something like this a few months ago. Mine works on Mac OS X too; wonder why this one doesn’t (at least it is not in the list; I did not test yet).
Could they be rehired now that vaccine mandates have been widely dropped, due to court rulings and other reasons?
Of the many separate lines that ultimately led to Techno (arguably, Detroit Techno), one of them is absolutely Motown. The thread pretty solidly moves from Motown towards House, which came from Chicago. Chicago had a lot of people with strong connections to Detroit, and there's a good number of people who moved from House over to (Detroit) Techno when it was in it's infancy.

Chez Damier would be one of them. He cut his chops in Chicago with House music before moving to Detroit and being one of the founders of The Music Institute, one of the first Detroit Techno clubs (and mentioned in the New Yorker piece).

Aside: He's also one of the humblest people in the scene, and still one of the best DJs I've seen. Caught him a few weeks back and I cut a serious rug for 3+ hours. 24 hours later you could still ring sweat out of my shirt.

Edit: I'd argue that (and as this whole thread demonstrates, a lot of history around this can't really be pinned down, so a lot of it is just personal opinion) you wouldn't have House and Techno if you didn't have Motown, followed by Disco.
For software quality to have bell curve distribution, you have to define negative software quality first and then proceed to define inifinite qualities also. Otherwise it is either one-sided distribution (when there is no negative quality) or bounded distribution. Both cases have no guarantee to have sums of independent variables to converge to a bell curve. Log-normal distribution certainly does not converge to normal distribution however hard you try [1].

[1] https://stats.stackexchange.com/questions/238529/the-sum-of-...

Which brings up the question: what is negative software quality? Can we define that?
The state test scores are broken down by all those factors (except for "child of professor" which I am not sure is really a difference, since there is a UC and a CSU and several other universities in SF) so you can make apples-to-apple comparisons for yourself.
all the more reason - whatever the observed timeframe - for us humans to not behave like assholes towards insects and other life or nature in general.
I took Calc in my senior year but I took AP Chemistry as a sophomore. As far as my experience goes, you just ask.
It's mostly a categorical problem - techno is a hard term to pin down. I've been thinking for the past few years that late 60s/early 70s prog-rock played a much more substantial role in it then I had initially assumed for the 20 years prior. Take say Tocatta from ELP's BSS album: https://youtu.be/Qk8jAuVzga8?t=494 ... that's 1973 - a careful ear will recognize many later standard patterns packed in that small clip. There's tons of these little 20-second or so clips that are 20 years ahead of their time in the prog-rock from the era.

Along with that are space age and lounge jazz. Take Hugo Montenegro – Moog Power from 1969 for instance or the Mort Garson album under the name Atraxia from 1975.

I used to think these weren't part of the story but I've been coming around on it and think of it as "technos" Xerox PARC era, the first attempt at the future world that electro and 80s disco took the lead on.

We separate rock from techno categorically but I think it's a limitation and mistake if we're trying to figure out the influences and history. That's a modern distinction. E2-E4 came out of that, to put things back in to West Germany - an album heavily cited as influence regardless which originating American school you want to focus on (https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ys0HyevZpQg). Of course put that guy back in 1975 and you get more Xerox PARC style prog rock inventions, this time for electric guitar https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=khejrbgdc4w *

Let's call these things Techno v.0.1-0.8 or so.

This stuff is complicated. It's like how Wes Craven said the opening chords of the Gary Wright's pop song "Dream Weaver" was his inspiration for Freddy Krueger. (those first 30 seconds ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xZKuzwPOefs) Things are weird.

* if you like that style check out Michael C Sharp such as https://michaelcsharp.bandcamp.com/album/trip-further which will combine some mid-era, (also called Berlin school) analog synths as well
Why pay for college later on when you could pay for high school now? School districts charge thousands of dollars in fees per student directly to parents. Public school is not free even if it is greatly subsidized. Our state claims it costs something like $25k/year to educate one student. If taxes, etc cover 95% of that, the parents are on the hook for $1250 per child.
The approach is less mysterious if you recognize it as going back to definitions, which is a common problem solving technique.
There was a brief window where industrial R&D had a 120% to 150% tax write-off value in Australia and surprise-surprise: it co-incided with a huge leap in R&D. And.. sure as eggs is ovoid shaped when the tax benefit ended, so did the investments in the future.

Oil was getting a 2c/litre price support to be shipped by train. That ended and it went back to trucks, to nobody's benefit.

Money talks, and walks.
Sure, but that's not the primary reason it's better for economic growth. A far larger proportion of social program beneficiaries would survive in an alternate timeline where these programs never existed. As for charity cases, there are vast private social support networks that emerge in a society with lower taxes and less government-funded social safety nets.

It's not a perfect system with no one falling through the cracks, but it is a system more resilient to systemic collapse as seen in the USSR when it went bankrupt, and one that produces greater economic/social development overall.

The zero-risk bias means people prefer to bring one type of risk to zero, even if it means increasing overall risk. I believe that is what's at work with government-provisioned social safety nets. Economic growth reduces a host of risks. But a social safety brings one type of risk - that is actually quite insignificant relative to the rest - to zero. So people are willing to trade economic growth for unconditional social safety nets.
They don’t generally transfer for Ivys. Running start is something you do if you have no intention of going to prestigious private universities as it’s completely pointless (credits don’t usually transfer) and they don’t have a great process for evaluating such students into their programs. You’d only do it if you plan to go to a school in your state since transferring credits out of state isn’t always easy going.
omg, so I am totally wrong :)
Couldn’t overpopulation and the problems caused by an inverted population pyramid both be true? Arguably they both are for the moment. But the pain of an inverted pyramid was always likely if you want to bring a population down ethically.
My kid is on this track exactly and I think it is a joke that some kids take multivariable calculus or linear algebra in high school. Enrichment and AP has become an arms race for the upper middle class to get their kids into good schools. Realistically, if you are STEM major you probably are going to have to retake these classes anyway. And if you aren't you probably won't need them.

I know some kids are really exceptional and maybe ought to take this much math that young. But I think a lot do it now to get into a college.
The downtown Boston tax office is 2.5 miles from the author's workplace. He could have walked, biked, or taken the MTA, which would be free if it already had a monthly pass. The MTA planner says it takes 21 min at the fastest.

So for him, it's likely the transit cost was $0.
Things tech workers associate with “job stealing” (exploitive temporary visa programs and offshoring) should not be characterized as an animus towards immigration. They are different, and that’s the point, right? Nobody in tech I’ve ever met is worried about a high skilled immigrant stealing a tech job.
I found the actual impact of AP credits disappointing. I ended up with no gen ed classes and started off in sophomore classes for math and physics. AP doesn’t count towards college GPA, and it turns out that others ended up with GPA padding that I missed out on. Still turned out fine overall, the GPA padding thing just didn’t occur to me in high school and no one pointed it out.
I'll accept that, only if you accept the times you had it good in life were also because of this boogeyman version of "neoliberalism" that you hate.
Like a coding bootcamp?
Wenja: A fictional language based on Proto-Indo-European language
If one day you'll write a blog post / article about what you're doing, it'd be interesting to read :- )

(What if you start collecting email addresses to people who want to read such an article? And if one day you write one, then you can email them? — My email is in my profile, if you'd like to add it to such a list)
There are a fair number of Peruvian restaurants in the Bay Area, due I believe to a fair number of Peruvian immigrants. There are apparently 720,626 Peruvians in the US, and 91,511 in California.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peruvian_Americans
You see phenomena which are at least related to Conway's Law across organizations more broadly which is why you see companies switching back and forth between matrix organizations and functional organizations, independent product teams and cross-product orgs, and various variants of those and others.

So, for example, you can have more generalist organizations that hopefully consider the needs of the portfolio as a whole and can sell the portfolio appropriately with fewer product fiefdoms. But you probably give up some of the advantages of a specialist organization that's really expert in and focused on making one product succeed in ways that are specific to that product. Of course, companies can and do create various overlay organizations that can work to greater or lesser degrees. But there are always tradeoffs. In my career, I don't think I've ever seen the right organization--only better and worse ones for the current circumstances.
"Standard of living" would include access to education, healthcare, work-life balance, the public environment (e.g. within cities), vacation, parental leave, etc, not just material goods.

While access to material goods and size of housing is normally certainly higher in the US, education and healthcare are notably more expensive for the same quality in the US compared to North and West Europe, and the public environment of most American cities is abysmal.

edit: my personal experience is in the SF Bay Area, London & SE England, and BeNeLux.