skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I live in Seattle

Luckily, everyone in the area gets access to Running Start[1]. Doesn't address the earlier years of schooling, though.

If your children are in HS, I'd really recommend sitting downing with a HS councilor to make sure that your kids take the classes that are required by the district for HS, but aren't required for a college degree (I'm thinking of speech here, but there may be others) in the first 2 years of HS. That way they get the most benefit out of their Junior and Senior years, if they decide to go that route.

I'm honestly not sure how the GPA thing works - I know AP classes can sometimes let kids increase their GPA above 4.0 for admissions purposes. But as someone who did both Running Start and AP classes, IMO, the actual college credit was way more valuable. But I also went to school in state, so those credits transferred nicely. May be a totally different story if you're shooting for Ivys.

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1. https://www.k12.wa.us/student-success/support-programs/dual-...
If this is something you need for work you should have co-workers you could talk to.
Dogs Are a Beaches Nightmare
> America operates on the principal that it is better to fail quickly and rebuild than it is to defend what's not working to preserve the status quo for as long as possible.

Microsoft has entered the chat.
Most of that heat is generated in the silicon, not the wiring. Unless we discover a semiconducting superconductor with which to replace the silicon junctions, we'll still have plenty of heat dissipation in the CPU.
Except that the traditional way of teaching the subject does not reason from first principles which is what you are advocating. The new math stuff does... I think parents hate it cause we don't understand it and it screws up the college pipeline.

To illustrate my point of the uselessness of our conventional mathematical training. ChatGPT gets a 700 out of 800 on the SAT Math section, but ask ChatGPT a reasoning question that requires math... it can't do it. That shows you just how useless the SAT actually is except for training kids to pattern match.
Parent is referring to the comments on that site, all from “Guest”
It wasn't the article per se, it was the comments section below it.
> The US doesn’t spend that much on the military in terms of percentage of GDP. Compare it to other developed nations, and it looks pretty average really.

All of the countries with higher GDP share in military expenditures than the US are in one of the following groups:

(1) Middle Eastern countries,
(2) Non-Western-aligned former Soviet Republics,
(3) Greece, Pakistan, and Morocco.

Of 145 countries with data, the US is #15. It is #3 in the G20, #1 in the G10, #8 of 48 among “high income countries” – with Greece and 7 Middle Eastern countries making up the top 7. It is nowhere close to “pretty average” among “other developed nations”.

https://www.theglobaleconomy.com/rankings/mil_spend_gdp/

> The US already spends more per-capita on students than any other nation.

Funny that shift from percent GDP to make your (false, even with that standard) claim about US not having high military spending, but shift to per capita rather than per GDP for education spending. On that, the US is merely fairly middle of the pack for developed nations, with 3.2% of GDP in primary/secondary education, compared to 3.1% OECD average.
I don't really care - I'm just amazed at the nonsense you say without prompting!
Many people have considered such questions throughout modern history in the 20th century, and if anyone currently thinks that the current or near-future versions of ChatGPT are anywhere near capable enough to give a genuinely measured answer in the style and consideration that would have been given by some famous historical figure, that person needs to seriously reassess their gullibility with the current crop of hype over AI. I say this without negating that the these technologies have made some impressive interaction, analysis and simulation advances in recent months.

Also, doctors have asked ChatGPT to diagnose diseases. There was even an HN thread about a doctor doing that very thing and describing the results quite recently. Spoiler if you find the thread: the results are distinctly underwhelming and far from being wonderous in any way.
in addition to the current sales tax?

that would not make any sense. a VAT of the same % value would lower the total tax paid because in a resale only the increase in price is taxed not the whole price.
The big question here is what's next? So far my coding experiments with GPT-4 shows it's a shallow thinker. It has ready answers for many questions. One step further and it fails miserably. Much better but not a full replacement for google search.
We should teach engineering classes and students would learn math to solve engineering problems. That solves the “when are we going to use this?” problem.
They are probably targeting video content on CloudFront, and it's easier/cheaper to do by domain or ip vs content inspection (when even possible due to encryption).

I experienced the same thing when building a large scale video service, but with Comcast. I did extensive testing to isolate it to any direct connection to aws (CloudFront or other aws services).
In addition to siphoning wealth, America has been very successful in siphoning talent. Which is why this kind of news should be pretty concerning:

https://sciencebusiness.net/news-byte/scientists-leave-uk-ch...
It's really about SAT test prep which is primarily used for Elite admissions decisions when all else is equal.
I have not said that. I have asked what the avenues of research are that suggest that there are major advancements to be made and are underfunded.
I can't read the article because paywalled, but having lived through those decades the German stuff definitely came first.
> The district had bragged that algebra failure rates had dropped. Families for San Francisco, a parent group, analyzed the data: Failure rates dropped after the district dropped the end-of-course exam

That’s the worst part. It just shows either complete ignorance and incompetence or deception. “Look how failure rates have decreased. We all deserve a bonus!”

They knew exactly what they were doing if they went about bragging about it.
The types of effects you want to measure would take months or years to show and are the combination of many different small decisions. Teams need to apply common sense thinking, empirical data, and the willingness to wrestle with uncertainty. All of that is hard, blindly following a/b test results relieves people of that cognitive burden
Supporting our growing number of free users
The problem is that there was a healthy free market, until the pearl-clutching wealthy decided they didn't like all the taxis that were cluttering up the streets and lobbied to introduce licensing. It took enormous companies breaking the law at an industrial scale to destroy this artificially expensive and terrible regulatory capture, and now those same companies are using the same regulatory mechanisms as a moat to stop competitors.
Just today, I tried switching from neovim back to intelij and I found myself quickly switching back because although I consider Jetbrains intelisense much better than Microsoft's tsserver, you just can't beat the customizability of neovim. I use a mostly stock vim configuration but have a few keymaps for things like switching files or plugin remaps and I found it to be very challenging to move it to Intelij. Has anyone made this transition before or have some tips? Lastly this is a bit nitpicky but I saw it mentioned in the article, the themes neovim offers are miles ahead. This is likely just my personal preference, but I could not find a good theme I liked supported by intelij.
Covid destroyed the workforce equilibrium. I think we will be dealing with these types of effects at least four times the length of the pandemic.
Yes. Switching from usage charge to more fixed charges will increase bills for low usage users and decrease bills for higher usage users. Not exactly a green solution
Is this post COVID pains or is it more fundamental, that the latest generation workers are not willing to take up the ATC staffing work and the overall pool of talent is shrinking?

I can easily see it as post COVID pains that training new ATC workers takes months to years.
I'm not sure that's a fair generalization. I suspect many parents have the resources to improve their own kids' educations, but not the time/energy to try changing the school system politics / bureaucracy / laws / budgets in time for their kids.
Sorry a bit late replying-been away.
It is not the competition that is bad, it that anything produced by them cannot be tweaked and so become "circular" sources. There will be no way to test for "truth", at least on an individual bot the training data can be tweaked to not use its own production as source. The competition will make the validity or "truth" of most data questionable. I guess it should be possible for an individual LMM to be trained for "truth" (reality?) but it becomes almost impossible for a LMM to discern truth when the sources it is analyzing are of generated by another LMM
I liked this simple calculus exercise
Microservice design. Part of the purpose of microservices is to more cleanly separate things by team.
Fascinating article. Unclear if this stops the Boaler initiative, though. Considering the tussle between her and Jelani Nelson of Berkeley [1], I wonder what actions she'll take against her own colleagues.

[1]https://www.dailycal.org/2022/04/12/uc-berkeley-stanford-pro...
I've heard this proposed somewhat seriously for Mars, to provide for its lacking magnetosphere.
Hard Drive Cost per Gigabyte over the Years
Math is Arabic and Islamic supremacy.

"The word algebra comes from the Arabic: الجبر, romanized: al-jabr, lit. 'reunion of broken parts,[1] bonesetting[2]' from the title of the early 9th century book ʿIlm al-jabr wa l-muqābala "The Science of Restoring and Balancing" by the Persian mathematician and astronomer al-Khwarizmi."
Think of the loss of those that did die and what their contributions could have been to realize that this may seem clever but actually isn't. If Sam Clemens had died it would have been a loss, pure and simple. That people that die in wars end up not contributing to society may well mean that the next Einstein or Hawking was lost to humanity.
Yep, you are correct -- this is a form of subsidies.
Other countries do this (or used to do this) with things like long distance and local telephone charges. Higher income regions (although this is not based on income but on region) would pay more, but remote places will pay almost zero.

"...
PG&E, Southern California Edison and San Diego Gas & Electric filed a joint proposal with the state Public Utilities Commission seeking to add a fixed monthly charge for services, based on household income levels.

This fixed-rate plan would reduce monthly bills for low-income customers and if electricity usage is controlled, bills would also be lowered. It would cost as little as $15 a month for low-income households and up to $85 more per month for households making more than $180,000 a year.
..."
In my view, the only way forward is providing more educational opportunities that are accessible to underserved groups, not reducing the total number of educational opportunities.
Just checked out the requirements to be an ATC and you have to be 30 years old or under in order to apply.

https://www.faa.gov/levelup
> noticed fresh grads who went to great schools wrote down 'advanced math' on their resume

I assume you are reviewing the resumes of college grads. Writing "advanced math" still seems weird to me.

In this case, the comment you were replying to referred to the high school curriculum in the town of Berkeley, not the eponymous university located in the same town.
3.75 at discover. I can't speak much to their customer service since the money just pretty much goes in and comes out lol
Basically the new new tutoring thing is Russian Math which teaches reasoning and abstraction.

https://www.wsj.com/articles/russian-math-tutors-education-t...
Does anyone have an example of agents like AutoGPT doing something useful? Everything I've seen seems to be stuff that GPT could do anyway without the agent cruft. And iterating seems to multiply the opportunities for LLM bugs and mistakes.

The hype seems to be that agents are an emerging form of AGI, but the fine print is always "it's not quite ready for production yet, it makes a lot of mistakes, I had to fix 20 things in the output, but it's fun to watch and I'm sure once we work the bugs out..."
oh yikes, yea didn't even think to read, why wouldn't they be a dumpster fire? They're anonymous comments on an article on the internet, seems about right.
> i'm not a Musk fan generally, but when it comes to SpaceX i doff my hat

Like all of us, he has a mix of qualities, some of which are positive and some of which are negative. It’s a mistake to try to put a person in a “good” or “bad” box, and it some cases particular traits can be helpful in certain contexts and harmful in others.

He does have too much money for his own good, however.
The "that's a long time" for me occurred when I learned about the Mississippian Period (named after Mississippi in the United States) - part of the Carboniferous period, and only really useful within the US because the rock beds within that period are different than the adjacent Pennsylvanian period rocks.

In this period, you've got crinoids - related to starfish (and still around - https://youtu.be/ror_fFswejM ). The classic ones had "stems"...

https://www.wired.com/2008/03/friday-field-foto-46-crinoid-f...

Look at all those circular things in that fossil that are scattered about - those are parts of stems that aren't intact.

The Mississippian layer is up to 460 feet (140 meters) thick with these fossils.

The crinoid fossils are so common you can buy them cheaply in bulk - by the pound. https://www.dinosaursrocksuperstore.com/collections/bulk-fos...
In the interest of dogpiling, I'll also never give up my support for standardized testing.

My childhood school had 99% pass rates on standardized state tests and we literally never prepped for it. Time wasn't wasted studying directly for the state tests because there was no further score on which to grow. If a school of students is unable to meet the trivial ability required to pass the state tests then they have significantly worse problems than wasting time studying specifically for state tests.
Inequality is increased because those without resources aren’t receiving any new benefits and those with resources use those resources to compensate for the failure of the system to provide an education optimal path. It’s worse outcomes for both, except some people can shield themselves from the fallout. What new kind of self-inflicted damage will be required to realize the detrimental failure of this world view?
Is there any reasoning as to why this requirement exists?
I didn't know about the first part but he is droning on about Tesla for many hours every day in Twitter Spaces. The rest of his waking day he is tweeting about Tesla if it's really just one guy.
Things to Know about Large Language Models
> If Berkeley's system prevents everyone from taking calculus before 12th grade

High school in the US ends at 12th grade -- how do they teach physics without calculus?
I think your assessment of the current situation is probably accurate.

My point is it's suboptimal, and the U.S. Federal Government could change things, as the biggest buyer of tech in the world. If they said "everything has to be public domain", it would be a seismic event. I think we would all be better off if they did this (probably with the exception of <1% who would lose monopoly profits).

Nit: I think you misread my ChatGPT comment. I said ChatGPT could be a competitor to office.com's _support_ agents, not that ChatGPT could build office.com.
Cuba's economy is closed to outsiders. Didn't make them prosperous. They have a state run bank, too. Didn't make them prosperous.
COVID probably didn’t do the FAA any favors, but it goes back further than that[1]: it’s hard to entice people to a high-stress job when the president can declare your union illegal and erase your entire career permanently.

[1]: https://www.npr.org/2021/08/05/1025018833/looking-back-on-wh...
My personal website/blog is a Next.js site using MDX. It's incredibly over-engineered.

On one hand, it's nice to have a static site I can host for free on S3. And it's nice to have a React website where I can do front end UX things like sticky navigation on page changes.

On the other hand, I really don't recommend anyone actually try to use Next.js as a day-to-day blog. Just use Wordpress or Ghost or Substack or something with a CMS. It's fine for a personal site where I post something twice a year. But for anyone who is more interested in improving their writing than their web development skills, just use a CMS or a hosted blogging platform.
Fuel cells is not a problem. Hydrogen storage is. Hydrogen is just a very nasty material, it leaks through everything, makes steel brittle and requires extreme pressures to store it at meaningful density. Combine the last two problems together and it's easy to see why there are significant technological barriers to hydrogen adoption.
It will never completely replace Google search because no matter how large the model gets it will always have a training cut-off date in the past, and there will always be specific factual information that isn't a good fit for language models.

If you're looking for a LLM replacement for regular Google search then Bing and Bard are much more likely to fit the bill.
I know I was talking about hydrogen. That was the point.

The point you are missing is the “high likelyhood”.

Current round trip hydrogen efficiency seems to be below 50%. Is there an actual concrete path to making that 90%? Is spending $1T today going to achieve that?

Would spending that on other chemistries (ex sodium ion) produce better results?

I very much understand the issue at hand. And I do not think we are “refusing to spend money” on hydrogen. In fact I see quite a lot of evidence to the contrary, that hydrogen is getting more funding than other avenues relative to the demonstrated utility thus far, because of that very alluring promise if it were to become viable for broad applications.
Recently met two ATCs and got some interesting perspective: new ATCs are trained on COVID levels of air traffic. So as things ramp back up (still not at pre-COVID levels across the board) there are a myriad of issues. The fact that flights are being cut instead of throwing new ATCs into the unknown is actually refreshing even if frustrating.
Why would anyone bother when you're stripped of your career for life if you try and organize collective action as an ATC? It's a sacrifice of a good deal of freedom and submitting yourself to malevolent companies and a government that doesn't care about you.
> Plenty of underdeveloped countries are free markets as well.

Example?

And you're right that democracy is not a requirement for free markets, though they usually go together.
Some students need to be left behind
There is no amount of power or setup that will make a heavy car handle lightly. Physics.

And until a person has driven something in the Miata or lighter category, they don't know what they're missing.
>that's not a problem in the decade timeline but it is problematic over a century or two.

So after roughly 100 years, we can look forward to the terrible catastrophe of sea levels (in some places only, not in others) rising by.. just over a foot. A problem for many really flat coastal areas, sure, but hardly the picture of global coastal flooding much of the alarmism has put forward. And if that one-foot rise happens across a full century, there will be many measures that can be taken to counter it even if the rise itself is unstoppable.

I'm not arguing against human-caused climate change, but some of the hyperbole i've seen said with deep certainty goes well beyond the scope of known evidence, realized events or even many scientific assessments.

With such things, it's not hard to see why some people find good reasons for being skeptical of yet another worst-case prediction.
https://www.businessinsider.com/becoming-air-traffic-control...

https://libraryonline.erau.edu/online-full-text/faa-aviation...

> All ATC applicants must be 30 or younger on the closing date of the application period to qualify for the position, according to the FAA. This is because the agency has determined through extensive research that the older someone is, the harder is it for them to complete the rigorous training.

Having sat with a controller for an hour while they managed Midwest airspace (ARTCC ZAU) in my younger years, I am somewhat inclined to believe it.

EDIT: Pilots had mandated retirement at 60, which was bumped to 65 in 2007 due to pilot shortages, and there are discussions of pushing it to 67.

https://www.reuters.com/business/aerospace-defense/senators-...
I always figure what makes house and techno different from earlier electronic music and contemporaneous synthpop is more contextual than musical. House and techno tended to be made by individuals, not by bands. It was put together by people who started with synthesizers, and then stopped with synthesizers. There was no attempt to even fake that there was some live drummer or live keyboard player as part of the "performance". In the case of house (perhaps less so with techno), the goal was to get your tracks played by DJs who were mixing them up with other tracks played at local nightclubs, it was not to end up on Top of the Pops. I think this difference in motivation matters, because it explains better how house and techno evolved into what they are today.

Of course, all genres are arbitrary and there continues to be lots of cross-pollination between electronic music that is mainstream/popular and the stuff people are just throwing together in their bedrooms for their mates online or for the local party scene.
Per this source [0] it appears you are correct. Trucks contribute 99% of wear and tear on the roads but pay only 35% of the cost.

My take is that cars/pickups/suvs are overpaying by a lot and commercial trucks are underpaying by a lot.

My biggest concern is that taxes, like inflation, only ever seem to go up, never down.

In this case I would be in favor of correcting this inequality if we reduce gas taxes for standard vehicles while increasing taxes on commercial trucks, but given their track record I suspect governments will never reduce taxes, only increase them.

[0] https://truecostblog.com/2009/06/02/the-hidden-trucking-indu...
I always get confused with these things of "who did it first"?

The cats from Detroit were certainly influenced by Kraftwerk. People from Detroit always accuse white Europeans of cultural appropriation.

But you don't see them pointing fingers at themselves when they go to countries where the dollar is worth a lot of money, buy all the local records and take them home to sample and make hip-hop or house music and with that make a lot of money.

For example, an underground house music duo called "Detroit Swindle" changed their stage name under pressure from Detroit artists.

A famous German DJ, who used the name "Motor City Drum Ensemble," also felt pressured and no longer uses that name, but he had an "odd" argument: he's from Stuttgart, also known as a "Motor City"

But people from Detroit didn't buy that argument. Anyway, all of this is egoistic and elitist nonsense from either side you look at it. If you look closely, couldn't the inventor of drum machines claim to be the inventor of techno, then? What about the inventor of TB303?