skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There's an argument to be made that drawing Pikachu should not be allowed, certainly. I think it's harder to make the argument that humans should be allowed to, but AI not.

What ongoing litigation I'm aware of seeks to close that loophole and make fanart illegal, which would be a first step towards also preventing AI art.
They have longer than 8 months. Previous extensions have been retroactive, pulling works that had gone public domain back under control.
That's a great point. I didn't realize that the US has these special districts that are distinct from the local government. I am only familiar with examples where the City is also responsible for the functions listed.
I've just tried this and now they show me identical room for the same price with two different nags. Not sure if they have only 2 or 5 (or 7?) "Queen Studios" left.

https://imgur.com/a/oqOTYlz
wow, 40KB/s is approx the speed I get after I use up my 4G LTE data on Unreal Mobile. I get unlimited 2G but it's also the cheapest plan in the U.S.
It almost feels like I'm reading Wired Magazine back in the mid 90s. Or at least how they imagined the web to be 5yrs later.

I mean that in the best possible way.
>Has any child ever gotten better at something they don't have to do?

Nope, and it's compounded by the fact the vast majority of academical math is irrelevant to life unless and until you make your way into a path of life that requires some of it.

Math education is fundamentally flawed because it attempts to teach irrelevant factoids in a manner that explicitly avoids teaching the hows and whys. No wonder most people end up hating the subject.
I didn't have to file a FCC complaint with Xfinity but I had an issue with Arris/Moto surfboard modems and a miswritten boot file some years ago that took weeks to fix. Basically, you can have your own equipment on a dynamic IP'd business account but they automatically default to calling you the asshole for any problems that get reported.

Business class had launched new speed tiers and it broke upstream bonding on my modem, of course they blamed me. So I bought 2 more modems (same model and a different one) and the same things happened as soon as they got provisioned on the account (prior to this on Comcast's provisioning walled garden they'd show the upstream as bonded, but once activated on the account upstream bonding would turn off and speeds went to shit). By this point I had records and emails with like 4 or 5 different people, a useful thread on dslreports, and a very worthless thread on reddit.

I took all this info and CC'd everyone I spoke with in an email to the CEO of Comcast. Executive response had someone up in Massachusetts call me the next day confirming the issue was with their provisioning boot files, and they credited me for like 3 or 4 months of service. Overall I was pissed it was this difficult to escalate but at least once it was in the right office they handled it. It probably helped that this was a business class (which overpays for better support vs residential script readers).
I mostly agree with you, except on one aspect.

We cannot rely on support from parents, the system we design needs to be thought of with parents out of the equation because in the case of the most vulnerable of kids they will not have parents that can help them. Special tutoring needs to be a part of the system, outsourcing the work will make things cheaper but it will complicate things for those struggling.

Kids in need should be our priority, because the ones that have supportive parents are really going to receive that support regardless.

I agree on everything else though. Content shouldn't be watered down, school needs to be a safe haven for kids in need. We should be having our most capable people thinking on how to improve the educational system so that we can truly bring everyone forward as we progress.
Poe's law[0] strikes again!

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poe's_law
I live in Seattle, not San Francisco, but we have some similar issues with our schools. I'd really prefer to send my son to our local public schools, but if they aren't challenging him appropriately then my wife and I obviously aren't going to just give up on his education. We'll either pay for extracurricular enrichment like the person in this article, move to a wealthy suburb, or send him to a private school instead.

That's a much worse outcome from an equity lens, but there's only so much you can expect people to voluntarily sacrifice for the greater good. Asking higher income parents to risk their children's future is a lot.
> Curry-Howard-Correspondance

Did you mean the Church-Turing thesis? (I still don’t really see the connection though….)
If you're referring to the F35, I encourage you to look at the evidence about it. LazerPig [1] does a great job in presenting some of the hair brained ideas of reformers [2]. I used to be firmly in the reformist camp until I actually examined the evidence. The A-10C for example, has one of the highest rates of friendly fire, affecting both US [3] and British [4] servicemen. Using binoculars is not a great way of navigating an aircraft.

I'd also ask you to consider: Is it better to make an affordable aircraft, if it means the pilots flying it are more likely to die?

There's more than enough avenues which can be done to reign in Military overspending. No one is denying that the Military overspends on many things. It's a serious problem. Generally though, targeting the machines keeping people from crashing into the ground is not the one to aim at.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CH8o9DIIXqI

[2] https://www.airandspaceforces.com/article/0208reformers/

[3] https://www.airforcetimes.com/news/your-air-force/2015/02/06...

[4] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DMnyVioLJbs

Edit: I think this comment sounded a bit rude the first way I worded it. Hopefully it doesn't now. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
I'll be the first to admit that I'm chronically stupid, but can someone help parse the linked SFUSD's decision for me:
https://www.sfusdmath.org/richard-carranzas-remarks-to-board...

(it's linked in the article as the decision to push math back a year). But I'm having trouble understanding why not exposing students to a subject earlier would be better for their development with that subject.

Are they supposed to absorb the knowledge for that between 8th-9th grade somehow without knowing what it is?
The same way a mobile developer might say App Store and Google Play are bad, but have to distribute through them.

Booking and Expedia dominate the space, not just their own brands but Agoda, Kayak, Priceline, Hotels dot com, Travelocity, many others.
Algebra is basic math that every adult should know in and of itself, not something that is only needed to take AP calculus.
I like the New Yorker. I love the works of Juan Atkins and Derrick May.

"The situation escalated when Peter Feldmann, then the mayor of Frankfurt, sent an invitation for momem’s opening party welcoming guests “in the middle of Frankfurt, where techno has its origin.” The accumulated snubs set off a conflagration in the fiercely protective techno community".

This is silly. Of course the mayor of Frankfurt is gonna promote his shiny new museum, and probably doesn't know a ton about the Detroit scene.

That's not a reason to frame this as whitewashed, or blame the German effort to highlight their works.

What we need is more US support for the electronic music community. Like the article states, non profits like that German museum are not as much of a thing here.

It should be, and I can think of other people than the mayor of Frankfurt to direct your angry DMs to, to make things better.
Photography is a craft, to be enjoyed first and foremost by the photographer.

Opinion: we may have lost touch with the joy of doing things for the sake of the experience. Showing others is not the goal—-we need to show ourselves.
What is that supposed to prove? Any type of engineer or mathematician could pass that interview and still not know anything about coding.
I mean...it's self-evident if you've worked in any large software department. Well, with one caveat; there is the inverse, where a company's organization doesn't reflect its software, and there almost nothing gets done, and what does get done does so at a global pace. I've seen that too (oftentimes you get that in the startup that has grown too quickly; the only way anything can get done at all are the people who have been there since it was 50 people, since they know who to talk to).
It's interesting how path-dependency makes these things seem like controversial reforms, while nearby districts have always done it this way. In Berkeley, for example, there isn't any course called "Algebra I" or II. Through 8th grade there is just math, with no differentiation. Then for 9th grade you can test into an advanced track, and people take either Math 1/2/3 or Advanced Math 1/2/3. In senior year any of these people can take AP Statistics or Calculus AB, but only the advanced track can take AP Calculus BC.

So anyway the point is Berkeley has always done math the "reform" way and its math outcomes are much better in every respect. It gives one the impression that San Francisco's issues are other than with the reform.
That seems untrue. In this case, the author set out with a specific goal, then tried to do it, and then succeded.

What are you suggesting, that the author lied in the blog post and actually worked backwards, post hoc? Seems incredibly unlikely based on the details they wrote.
I really doubt this. The central, southern and western European powers absolutely depend on the U.S. for fundamental aspects of their defense against potential threats, and for many other types of economic and even social support. They won't get that from anyone else any time soon, and neither from each other without some major political changes down the road.

As for many Asian countries, faced with handling an often hostile China on their own and supporting U.S. policy as tacit allies, the choice is obvious and they definitely won't be jumping off the bandwagon. This definitely applies to South Korea and Japan, but it also applies to many other regional states that either hate or mistrust the Chinese. Among these, The Philippines, Malaysia, Indonesia, and Vietnam. Even India, a major power on its own, is leery of its neighbor and much more likely to side with the west.

As for much of Africa and parts of the Middle East, as another comment here said very well, they know where international force projection and boots on the ground can come from to support or hinder their own internal policies, and this makes them very leery of suddenly switching sides to China (Russia even less so, barely worth considering with very few exceptions).

Overall, the western system of international influence is still firmly in place and spearheaded by the U.S.. This comes with many flaws, no doubt, bit if I had to choose between a world with U.S.dominance and the same power level being held by any other of the really major powers, particularly China, the choice is obvious.
> in the name of equity

That's the problem. We're dealing with the critical theory definition of equity, which they define as the intentional redistribution of opportunity and resources along identity group lines to correct for present and historical injustices, as well as opportunities those groups have already had.

Critical theory and social justice adopts a distorted view of reality. Leave it to a school in San Francisco to show everyone what happens in real life when administrators adopt a policy based on that distorted view of reality -- inequality is only increased.

In fact, I'd classify critical theory alongside Marxism for adopting a false belief that some top-down forced redistribution of resources/wealth/opportunity/means of production/etc. is the way to true justice. That kind of belief backfires spectacularly when policy makers adopt it IRL.
The Japanese directly intervened in their manufacturing companies, and shaped their economy via the Bank of Japan to "rebuild" and grow their economy. They also have a notoriously closed (to outsiders) economy.
I will add that US is a strong "legal platform" for business. It has a very good law system and with more complex cases as precedents that other countries in world. It has also extra territorial reach.
Textual inversion? Not a LoRA / LyCORIS?
> Expect to pay a lot more if/when the market is captive.

Yes, this is a possibility but cloud computing became a commodity.

But I see why people would pay to have their own private and unfiltered models/embeddings.

> if OpenAI isn't able to get couple hundred bucks over the typical lifetime of a computer it means the added value they provide is very low (like several times less than Spotify or Netflix for instance), meaning they'll never be “the next Google”.

They don't have to worry about this today.

> What opportunity cost?

You could utilize the money and the time spent to do other things.
Wow, that site allows really racist comments. That can't help their messaging.
I would expect small class sizes to be considerably more expensive.
AI generated Kanye Song [video]
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Booking.com's advantage used to be that they had actually good customer service, spread all around the world, no huge call centers in India. They've recently outsourced most of it though, so I can't speak for what it's like at the moment.
Cryptocurrency, AI and pretty much all of Musk's projects give me that cool future feeling.
That's wild. My meter fee is like $15 and then my rate is less than $0.14 total, for delivery and supply.

Guess I'm burning coal.

I used ~200 kW-h last month, so at least it wouldn't ruin my life to pay $0.50 per. I don't have AC, so even with a gas furnace, the winter months tend to be my largest electric (running the blower and hydronic pumps).
Reading all the anecdotes about experiences people had in this thread, both good and bad, it seems like the whole travel and lodging industry is hit or miss depending on seasonality and a million other variables.

“YMMV” definitely applies once you reach your destination lodging/hotel.
Inquiry: small class sizes doesn't work? Could you show me sources/papers/studies/etc? It's is unintuitive, so I'd like to be educated on the factors at play here.
When Twitter introduced its new API plans, the company maintained it was to go after the bots. However, according to many developers, Twitter has refused to offer any lower-priced tiers somewhere between the $100 and $42,000 range. It appears that Musk's Twitter would like to broadly eliminate the vast majority of the Twitter third-party ecosystem.

Sounds like someone paid $44 Billion for a company now worth less than half that and thinks they can get their money back at gun point.

"You can't get blood from a turnip."

Most people simply cannot pay that, full stop. Even business entities who are in some way making money via Twitter are unlikely to be making so much money that it's worth $42k per month to them.
I know Rogers for a while had 'conditional' peering at Torix, but doing some traceroutes now, more routes are going through Torix than I recall in the past. Seems like they've lightened up over the past couple years.

Too bad the indie ISP market has been decimated. Ebox & Distributel --> Bell. Start --> Telus. Oxio --> Cogeco. VMedia --> Quebecor (Videotron). Mostly only Teksavvy left standing

Indeed with Bell & Telus, you could only peer freely on US soil:

https://www.peeringdb.com/net/1550
https://www.peeringdb.com/net/76
It's impact is going to dwarf everything that came before it, but maybe the invention of the graphical user-interface. It requires no sales pitch, its immediately useful, its utility is obvious, its the fasting growing app in history. It's going to be integrated into everything: your smart-speaker, your ring doorbell, all productivity software (photoshop, visual studio...), search engines... what else... your tesla? McDonalds ordering kiosk... call centers... some system that gives you a social credit score, drones.. what else... a new generation of industrial robots...
> what problem are you trying to solve?

That sounds like a math question! Get 'im, boys!
Even if true for a small number of edge cases, i don't think that says anything meaningful about the model in general.
Depends on the characteristics of the trap, the bait and the bug, doesn't it? A highly attractive trap with a steep drop-off, and large and effective kill zone, and a kind of bug with a small but active nightly migration radius (when near campers) (compared to the trap attraction radius) might quickly attract and kill all the bugs that will come into that radius that night.

When you kill all those bugs in the first hour of the night, does that leave a noticeable excess-food signal in the region where the dead bugs use to be?
Memorizing things like SOHCAHTOA and FOIL may not be a vital life skill for everyone, but everyone can benefit from the base logical thinking required to identify a variable, break a problem down into steps, plan and execute a solution.

At a bare minimum, the basics of algebra (and to a lesser extent precalc, such as understanding limits and differentials) foster a type of abstract thinking and skills that pretty much anyone can benefit from.
Spreadsheets.

They were the killer application for personal computers.

Whether you were running a Fortune 500 company or a local club or just your own household, updating a single number in a column and immediately seeing the result reflected across all your calculations in a visual way was amazing.
Amazing. I've ranted about the disgusting practices of Getty Images before. They claim ownership of public domain photos and demand payment of $1k/photo for access to them. Utter gutter scum.
Not all of us have friends or 400$
> So anyway the point is Berkeley has always done math the "reform" way and its math outcomes are much better in every respect.

If Berkeley's system prevents everyone from taking calculus before 12th grade, it's not getting even halfway decent results. If they're better than the results in San Francisco, all you can learn from that is that Berkeley has extreme problems with student quality, and quality is even lower in San Francisco (or rather, the part of San Francisco that's being measured).
Booking actually owns something like 5% of Ctrip.
> As in, orders of magnitude larger than I normally deposit.

> It was in and out and nary a peep was heard from them the entire time.

It could be a blessing in disguise, as they could have instead put a hold on transactions and forcing you to show up in a branch in person to unblock it. Because their ML systems told so.
Cars are most likely the wrong application for the technology given it's explosive potential.

Grid connected or off grid storage seem like a far more apt use for the tech.
>Are you using "collapse" to mean "noticeable degradation"?

Do you believe that the Roman Empire never "collapsed"?

Probably every historian would agree that it did, however that collapse took centuries to complete.
Two guesses:

1. You had a modem that wasn't on their approved device list. It needs to be on this list to receive firmware customized to their network parameters. https://www.xfinity.com/support/devices/

2. (the most likely scenario) You were switching the macaddr of your router's WAN port every time you connected. For IPV4 Comcast was always set up to only allow one macaddr to bind to a public address at a time, you needed to trigger a dhcpcd release on the old macaddr before reconnecting or clone the mac of the old device if switching.
Yes, but it’s still pretty common. When I was interviewing for my first job, they were much more impressed with a couple of math puzzles I solved than my actual programming ability.
Or use school funding to pay students who volunteer to tutor the previous year.

In addition to being a continually renewing supply of teachers, it provides an income stream for those who might really need it and financially incentivizes academic excellence.
> As someone who fucking hated and still hates academical math: No, kids do not need math. Not in the sense as taught in schools, anyway. That is a straight waste of precious time.

Would you mind explaining why you still hate math? It seems like a strange thing to hate except for trauma from school.

Are you referring to K-12 level math only? Math at the college level is very useful. Most of the math I was taught in K-12 was just how to calculate (which is mostly useless in a world with computers) and basic algebra. Basic algebra is useful, but only really as a building block to more powerful math.

> What kids need is broader context and guidance for what math is, how it applies to the world around us, how we can use it, and why it's important. Fuck quadratic equations and counting slices of pie, none of that literal bullshit is useful as taught to kids today.

I completely agree that math curriculum in the US needs a significant overhaul to be more useful, more interesting and a better base for learning advanced mathmatics. Actually coming up with a detailed curriculum that students can follow is pretty difficult.

As someone who found K-12 math really easy and boring, I was very peeved when I found out in college that there is a bunch of fun math that I could have been learning throughout school.
Okay, first of all, no, that's not the fundamental principle of science. That's the fundamental principle of science according to Karl Popper. Karl Popper is probably the single most influential philosopher of science, but his perspective is not the whole story. I know, I know, your high school science teacher told you otherwise, but I promise you there's more to philosophy of science than that. There's a reason they teach Kuhn and Feyerabend and so on.

But even if you ignore that, or don't believe me, or whatever...

You're conflating two different meanings of "speculative" here, which I think is probably whence your confusion stems.

On the one hand, you're (reasonably) saying that theoretical physics is speculative, in the sense that, once you finish your modelling work, your output could be said to be a speculation about what would happen in an experiment.

On the other hand, you're (again, reasonably!) describing certain proposed engineering projects as speculative, in the sense that if someone says "we'll have economically viable fusion within N years", that's a speculation.

My point is that those are just very different types of speculation, they really don't have much to do with one another. It's perfectly reasonable to be someone who wants to use theoretical (a.k.a. model-based, a.k.a. speculative) techniques to try to advance human knowledge about the nature of reality, while also being someone who is skeptical about the practicality of various (speculative) proposed exploitations of that knowledge. "I'd like to advance physics in areas P and Q; I don't think engineering is likely to advance in areas X, Y, and Z".

For example, Einstein was a theoretical physicist (very much not an experimentalist). He wasn't (initially) particularly bullish on the plausibility of doing engineering based on his work (and when it became clear that atomic bombs were gonna happen, he was horrified). For a later famous example of theoretical physics, Peter Higgs (and others who did the same work) were not concerned with whether or not it would be possible to design an experiment to validation the existence of the Higgs Boson, while still being vaguely hopeful that someone might one day figure out that experiment (using equipment invented decades after the proposal of the Higgs mechanism).

ALSO, btw, just because someone is a theoretical physicist doesn't mean they don't think that they're uninterested in experimental validation. It means they're not working on experimental validation. Maybe someone else will figure out how to do experiments, maybe not, it's just not the theorist's problem.
Selective Attention Test
US public education (pre-college) is sorta similar to US healthcare: they spend the most per-capita in the world, and get, on average, very poor results.