skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Right but all you have to do is learn to engineer prompts better.

You should be able to start with a fresh session and feed it what you need to get the result you want.

If you’re always relying on the entire history of your sporadic conversations you’re often going to get a mess.

IMO these “improvements” are just crutches for people that don’t want to understand AIs, and want to see them as they are portrayed in movies.

It’s an attempt to make them seem intelligent, but it’s just a gimmick, not a tool.
>The most noticeable thing for me on fedi was that people actually saw my posts

How do you know that people saw your posts on Mastodon?
Threads like this always make me realize that Canada's sprawl is real.

4 hour drive and you're about half way to your parent's place, and they're in the same province.
For learning to read English at age 3 or 4, I often recommend a video called "The Letter Factory" and its first sequel "The Word Factory". Not a fan of the 3rd one, but these 2 are amusing cartoons that my kid liked a lot, and now really enjoys reading. Just one data point, take it or leave it ;-)
You could also get more detailed help from https://reddit.com/r/buildapc/
Better that bucket, directly over quarks quaters. Come to quarks, quarks is fun..
Nah, everything will just migrate to Python :P

Seriously though, there is a chicken-and-egg problem where current LLMs favor more popular instruction and programming languages. I like the idea of human friendly constructed language being translated a hyper optimized middle language (MLIR? A C or Rust subset?), but generating the training dataset seems like a difficult problem.

Maybe a smaller neural net/interface could translate the "LLM programing language" to tokens?
SpaceX prepares to launch its mammoth rocket 'Starship'
You can do a capacity test quite easily, that will only tell if the capacity is the rated one. You will have to check for physical signs of bad cells, they enlarge (bloat), but that means you need to open the case (sometimes it will void any warranty) and check each cell.
Look at the scale of the numbers involved, profits are around 15% across developed economies [1], which is not nearly enough to offset the difference between average Mongolian and what you'd consider a decent QoL.

I don't see any evidence for that claim. What's more, planned economies don't seem to be particularly efficient at reducing waste or improving QoL, examples are plenty, from lake Karachay to unavailability of basic feminine hygiene products in USSR up until its breakup.

[1]: eg https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-08-25/us-corpor...
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this seems to be truth. And like all good story-tellers, which he is, he exaggerate a bit. Maybe more than a bit. His stories contain lots of truths, with lots and lots of exaggerations.
Buddy this ain't 2022 anymore, ask chatgpt (with a plugin that can read docs).
The great irony here is that the one time I truly started to understand Chinese tones was when it was explained in terms of how English speakers already subconsciously use tones. I think I get what you mean. Correct me if I'm wrong.

Like English, Korean uses tones as a channel for metadata, not as a direct part of the encoding set. You can annotate parts of the sentence with tones, such as marking something a question or highlighting certain information as important, but you can't wholesale change whats being said.
Replies, boosts, likes, follow requests.
- "Cryogenic propellant load of Starship is underway, liftoff in T minus 1 hour"

https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1647937628808040448

NSF has their own livestream already running (watching the propellant loading):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eN57x2a_waw
One of the more interesting documents that accompany some patents is the examiners opinion as to the novelty, inventiveness and applicability of the patent.
Web stuff probably makes ML devs feel the same way.

ML is just a different field, using a different set of technologies from those you’re familiar with.
Most interesting people are not in private clubs. A lot are in public forums, virtual or not, such as this.

If you're looking for wives that are impressed by monetary success I think you're in for a lot of disappointment, but to each their own.
>You were never tasked with solving e.g equations? E.g x + 4 = 13 - 2x?

Sure I was, but what does "x + 4 = 13 - 2x" actually mean?

That sheer lack of context is what I hate about academical math. WTF is the point of it all? The answer is there is no point, other than scoring adequately on tests so teachers can collect their paychecks and schools their funding.

>You gotta understand somewhat this stuff.

I was never taught to understand, I was only ever taught to do. That is meaningless and, as far as I've experienced, still irrelevant in my life to this very day.
I really enjoy https://graphtoy.com/ by the great Inigo Quilez to quickly verify my mental models for mathematical equations
>Patents have never contributed anything to society.

I think I fixed that for you. Patents have only caused Corporations to battle each other and bully normal people into compliance
I am going to send one of the employees out to find the fanciest bucket they can for my office right now, where I will display it as a symbol of how we, the founders, are special (new rule - no other buckets allowed in the office).
That book worked well for my 3 kids, who are all voracious readers now. Generally did it at age 5 or 6.
>> a lot of which is motivated by a sense of unfairness
> This is not something I've seen once in any sort of criticism of "AI art"

I've actually seen this a lot.

In my view, it's not coming from professional artists working in the field. Their concern is more that people are ripping off their style, or that AI is making their efforts unnecessary (e.g. lots of people who made a living by copying the style of particular anime & cartoons for fans, no longer have a purpose since AI can do that given enough source material).

Non-professional artists, on the other hand, are still learning and have put a lot of time into their craft and it hasn't paid off yet. They seem to be annoyed that other people are getting results (via AI), without actually having to learn the mechanics of art.

AI basically lets your generic art history major produce lots and lots of pieces, because they can describe artwork well enough and know where to find good samples for the AI. The only thing stopping them was mere mechanical inability, not knowledge of the art space.
The ecosystem: seems like PostgreSQL is a bit more popular, especially with offerings like PostGIS, PostGraphile, PostgREST and the many other projects you see occasionally. That said, it's nice to see MySQL/MariaDB as mostly compatible alternatives to one another, so that you don't technically "keep all of your eggs in a single basket" and there's stuff like Percona out there.

The functionality: from what I've heard and seen, PostgreSQL is commonly touted as the solution with more correctness in regards to SQL, but also has great support even for things like JSON, as well as PL/pgSQL is pretty nice to use, in addition to custom types and a whole lot of other useful stuff. That said, not every system needs than and the MySQL/MariaDB approach of having databases instead of databases and schemas is a bit simpler. That said, transactional DDL in PostgreSQL is a big plus, as someone else mentioned.

The performance: it probably depends on what you're doing. Benchmarking both for your particular workload is probably the way to go, though historically using pgBouncer has been a good idea for PostgreSQL. In the current day and age, both should be decent choices, especially with partitioning and clustering.

The tooling: here I'll come out and say that I like MySQL Workbench more than pgAdmin, both because it feels more like a native piece of software, but also because they have really great ER diagram functionality that when coupled with forwards/reverse engineering and schema sync can allow you to plan and alter your schema in a visual way: https://dev.mysql.com/doc/workbench/en/wb-design-engineering... (and it gives you SQL at the end of the day, so you can further alter things as necessary, really nice for both exploring the schema, so you don't need someting like DBVis as much, as well as for quick edits). That said, pgAdmin has built in support for displaying geospatial data (e.g. PostGIS) which is pretty great since you don't need something like QGIS as much.

The developer experience: both are good. Both have containers that are easy to run, both are easy to connect to and work with (though MySQL drivers sometimes aren't shipped with other software out of the box), both are widely supported by a variety of tools (DataGrip is one of the better ones out there as well), and they also have managed cloud offerings from many vendors, if needed. Both will scale up and down pretty decently, though PostgreSQL seems to use a bit less memory in containers and has faster startup when I last checked, though that's a minor detail. Either will be easier than trying to find a trustworthy Oracle XE container image, or to build your own with some DB setup and initialization scripts that actually work and don't throw errors about the DB being closed when the container restarts.

At the end of the day, it's hard to go wrong with either of them, much like even SQLite can be a good choice for some workloads. Right now I'm building a personal project with MariaDB, but Keycloak more or less demands PostgreSQL, so running that as well. Though in regards to MariaDB one could probably mention the whole SPAC situation that went down a bit ago.
> I'm not very familiar with the field, unfortunately, but it is my understanding that there is not much of a scientific method applied to teaching theories. As in, not just armchair theorizing, but more like A/B testing. I know, it's a hard problem, but so are many science problems, and Rome doesn't have to be build in one day. But where is the progress?

There isn't much, for a multitude of reasons:

- teachers are overloaded with non-teaching related bullshit. Tons of standardized tests, school excursions, extracurricular activities, enforcing disciplinarian measures, working as an effective social worker for students in need, fundraising, classroom repairs, organizing basic supplies, filing exceptions for books to be in school libraries, dealing with absolutely moronic parents (both those that refuse to discipline their children and those who flood teachers in bullshit complaints because "muh religion"/"freedumb")... with the exception of discipline enforcement and the standardized test flood, none of this should be done by teachers but by admin staff. But there isn't much admin staff in schools, there isn't much assistance or building maintenance/cleaning/upkeep budget, and so teachers do it on their own just to keep the lights on, if barely.

- there aren't many teachers in the first place, and the older ones often lack the motivation to further their own knowledge - some of them actively discourage new teachers from trying out what they learned in university because "we always did it this way".

- closely related to the above: "concerned parent" activist groups disrupt that as well, for a multitude of their reasons. Some because "we had to go through the same shit in my time", "what doesn't kill you makes you harder" (I'm referring to corporal punishment here, which is shockingly legal for private schools in 48 states, in public schools in 18 states of which 15 still practice this barbarity [1]), some because they object to basic stuff such as sex ed on religious reasons... the list is endless.

- frankly said, no one cares about education. Big Labor doesn't care, they need dumb grunts for slaughterhouses, farms, restaurants and other menial work who don't object to exploitation. The Army doesn't care, they need dumb grunts to send into the meat grinder. And there are enough privileged children where the parents take care for good private schools to fulfill the needs of employers needing actually intelligent people.

- there are almost no feedback loops in the system other than the standardized tests, which are problematic on their own.

- a lot of school students' performance is related to poverty and hunger - what few scraps of improvements have been made in the last decades have been long since eroded because poverty has exploded...

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/School_corporal_punishment_in_...
Well for this to work you also have to “feel” how big the parking space is, which is obviously not an extension of your body.

What’s happening here is that your eyes are connected to a very highly trained model of the physical world around you. And your subjective experience of vision occurs post-processing through that model. It’s the same model you use to physically navigate the world, so it has a similar subjective feel regardless of what you’re doing.

It’s not limited to cars and tools; pitchers can “feel” the strike zone, even though it’s 60 feet away. Like driving, this takes a lot of reps to develop (lots of training data).
It's gonna be interesting to see how china handles such sheer amount of content generation.
In this case the researchers know what works but the teachers aren't taught the science of reading.

https://www.apmreports.org/episode/2018/09/10/hard-words-why...

https://www.npr.org/sections/ed/2018/02/12/582465905/the-gap...
Can anybody give the tl;dr. What did go wrong?

(I consider myself an excellent reader, but unfortunately, there is no article...)
It is only good if you do few writes, with at least seconds in between.
You ruined his attempt to appear knowledgeable, brutal.
See my last paragraph, we agree on this
That there are examples of something being done doesn't mean that it's a practical system. Just saying "Here's a hex editor. Have at it" isn't meaningfully supporting a right to repair.
> the auto-generated ambiguous nonsense content

What do you mean with this?
> A 20 MPG car is not twice as efficient as a 10 MPG car.

Why not?

The page you linked doesn't talk about "twice as efficient", it talks about an absolute number of gallons saved per distance travelled.

Also, assuming there was no typo, vegardx's point was that "kWh/h per 100km" is invalid. "kWh/h" is the same as "kW", and "kW per 100km" (power per distance) is not describing vehicle efficiency, it's non-sensible. "kWh per 100km" (energy per distance) is.
Bicycles are something like 99% efficient though so anything will look ludicrously inefficient compared to them.
Do you oppose all consumer protections or just this one?
I suspect you will find that most workers are better compensated outside the US than in the U.S.

Tech is probably an outlier. Service workers, which far outnumber tech workers, farmers, taxi drivers, etc are all better compensated in nearly every other European equivalent country than in the U.S.

As far as why tech workers are better compensated in the US? Well, for one thing, tech workers are not similarly compensated even within the US. Those working in the Bay Area, Boston, NYC are far better compensated than their counterparts in say the Midwest (the pandemic may have changed things, but looking at pre-pandemic figures is useful to gain an understanding of the wage disparity). When you factor in healthcare and other social services provided in Europe, West European tech workers are not disimilarly compensated from their Midwest counterparts.

The reality is that the outliers are these handful of American tech hubs which have outsized outcomes. Which brings us to what’s probably the real reasons for the US’s high economic output.

Immigration and college education, which is what these places have in common.
No, it was at my university computer center. I wanted to improve the Executive program, the simplest operating system for the computer they had. So we took a binary dump of it... :)
Near term it’s a frustrating decision, but if these gpt4 vision LLMs are anything to go by it will prove to be the right decision in the long term.
You are on to something.

This may be the hundred billion dollar industry of the future (forget quantum coding, the qubit is a dead end.)

I admit I have devised a practical linguistic system with long term dreams of similar goals. I wonder how many closet nerds have done the same.

Features of this (conceptualized) linguistic system

- differentiation between an abstract assertion and a specific instance (and identity)

- complete articulation of subjective scoping (all systems are interoperations of subjective scopes)

- distinction between a terminal and non-terminal “fact”

- expansive handling of “truth” and “truthiness”

I call this the “Objectified Systemic Language” and it’s really about assertions and relationships and less on linear logic.

While logic and rules and constraints do come into things, this linguistic approach would postulate assertions and find resolve among potentials.

For instance, one might define morality as “do not destructively interfere with that which is inculpable”. Along with more intrinsic definitions of destructive interference, and culpability a competent learning system should work out that any circumstance in which one subjective destructively interferes with another subjective (without a lawful right for instance) is BAD.

I find intelligence to be more like chemistry, and we deceive ourselves as to the rational sequential order of our own intellectual processes.
This instruction book was authored by Siegfried Engelmann, who, among others, developed Direct Instruction. In the late 60s/early 70s there was a thorough comparison of various teaching methods called Project Follow-through; Direct Instruction did far better than all of the other methods. The results of this study were devoutly ignored by the educational establishment, and often denigrated as being "authoritarian".

Englemann, along with another educational researcher, Douglas Carnine, authored a work called Theory of Instruction, which is as disciplined and scientific a work as you can find in a "soft" subject like education, and expounds the theoretical basis behind their effective methods.
> It's got trash ads and Catturd2.

Who?

> MySpace still exists but you wouldn't call it alive.

Mastodon still exists and with ~50,000 users using it every day for 7 years globally, is something that I would not call 'alive'.

I would call it dead and has failed to 'take off'.
> what’s the opposite of anachronistic?

In this case? Anachronistic still. Anachronistic just means something like "belonging to a different time period," and it doesn't strictly imply earlier or later.
> Running start credits, being based on community college credits, don't even transfer cleanly to state schools. When I did running start, this was the cautious advice.

My understanding is that there are been a number of reforms to WA community colleges that mean that a larger portion of community college credits transfer to public universities now. Of course, going out of state is a roll of the dice as always.

> Transfer credits had very little to do with it - it was just a more fulfilling curriculum.

Very true. I loved taking Microbiology as a HS student. Def something I wouldn't have gotten the chance to do normally. And CC offers far more advanced math than HS.
Phonics-centric reading is the next big scandal waiting to happen.

Teaching reading in England may have been less successful since adapting the synthetic phonics approach rather than more.

https://www.theguardian.com/education/2022/jan/19/focus-on-p...

The number of downvotes shows that it may still take a few years for people to understand that phonics is not the be all end all solution that it is currently made out to be.
I appreciate having basic GIS/spatial stuff built in to MySQL8, vs having to do extension stuff in pg for postgis.
> Or, to put it another way, I would not be shocked if every US state trades more with China than it does with any other state.

No. No US state has trade with Canada at more than 15% of state GDP <https://www.reddit.com/r/canada/comments/6vism4/canadaus_tra...>, and Canada is a bigger trade partner for the US than China.
Gh-ost is the new hotness. Simple to use and lots of great features: https://github.com/github/gh-ost
What is the significance of the core's shape? Looks kinda like a bullet.
I don’t understand your comment. I’m wondering if maybe you misunderstood me as talking about Jesse’s name as opposed to his language’s name.
Whenever I point out the reality of 2014 Ukraine on HN, it always degenerates with the other person making some kind of weak, petty counterclaim like this. Nobody can ever admit a simple point.

Why do you care so much about this coup narrative that falls apart under the slightest scrutiny?
Even without the tiles, they can probably still test several parts of the reentry process. Just not once it gets too hot...
I see a pattern here: scientists don't dig expressionist/impressionist art so try to explain it with external theories.

There is the (bullshit) example about Van Gogh being color blind [0], the astigmatism in El Greco, the cataracts in Renoir and Turner,...

It is all about scientist that just don't get it.

[0]https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/was-vincent-van-go...
>I heard (not verified) that every province of Canada trades more with USA than with any other province which I think is quite remarkable.

As of 2017, international trade was 65% of Canadian GDP, compared to 40% of GDP for interprovincial trade. <https://www.imf.org/-/media/Files/Publications/WP/2019/WPIEA...>

Another way to think about this: <https://np.reddit.com/r/canada/comments/6vism4/canadaus_trad...>
I'm a little confused about the need for the inverter here.

The SmartSolar can provide output the Pi can use. Why not just throw a 12v-compatible USB power supply on there?

Going up to mains then back down to 5v seems inefficient. Am I missing something?

edit: I'm wrong! My SmartSolar has "LOAD" output but OP's does not. Ref: https://www.victronenergy.com/solar-charge-controllers/smart...
I don’t mind new tabs but what really annoys me is when things are set to open in a new window, and you have to fiddle with it to get it to merge back into the window you already have open
You only get a year of email so it will be before renewal unless you only bought a year.
So you support the defacto removal of right-to-repair across the board? Or just for software?
> If it involves freeform rhythmic dancing based on drums, black people probably invented it.

This is racist and harmful rhetoric. There exist a plethora of cultures and music has been independently developed and is core to them all as their humanity. Please do honest research before making racially motivated statements.
I've worked at two hospitals. Both of them "had" Internet2. I was excited, as I had not heard about it in ~20 years.

Neither of them actually ran any traffic over it.
I specifically ended my comment saying we need to be responsible with this power, not abandon it completely.

I said nothing of pessimism or pessimists, or that progress shouldn't be made. I strongly question how you could possibly know that anything we do with the intent of making the world better could possibly bring benefits to practically everyone forever.

Everything has side effects and more often then not we can't predict them. What we do today with the best of intentions can be a huge mistake that we only realize years, decades, or centuries later. That doesn't mean we should hide in a cave and do nothing, but it does mean we need to be extremely careful with where we lean in and change things and where we don't.
Just a word of writing advice, if you link content inside the text it should be first or last word, never in the middle. It just takes a lot of effort to know what the link in the middle of the text is about.
Why wouldn’t LIDAR in addition to computer vision with cameras be a strictly better idea?