skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
ChatGPT 4's math abilities are really hit or miss. I asked it to act as a "Socratic tutor" for the de-biasing terms in exponential moving averages. And it walked me through the problem, and it actually pointed out errors in my derivation (even though I was using a half-baked mix of Unicode and LaTeX). That was honestly pretty impressive.

On the other hand, GPT 3.5 is painfully bad at basic arithmetic. Apparently it can add long numbers, but you actually need to explain the addition algorithm and give it some examples. Then it can walk through the process step by step, just like an elementary school student.

In a lot of cases, I suspect ChatGPT 4 is pulling from a tiny corner of the training distribution. It has seen most of the web, and it doesn't need to see things often to talk about them. I've seen it successfully summarize the contents of obscure personal blogs, or of a very minor news story that was current for a week in 2009.

So it wouldn't surprise me if GPT 4 performs well on tasks that are mentioned on a half dozen obscure web pages, or something like that.
I've worked in this sector for . . oh lordy . . twenty years now, and in that entire time the number of projects that could be called unequivocal successes amount to . . five. The remainder, an average of ten programs per year for twenty years, went absolutely nowhere, each a black hole sucking your tax dollars. Some of them were worse than nowhere, as they were projects that were intended to optimize other programs, but then ruined them in the process. Sometimes it would take down the whole org, and then it would get gobbled up by LockBoNorthRay, which, looking back on it, might have been the intention all along.

As a laborer in the trenches, I don't have any big ideas of how to fix this. I just have small ideas, but the most important one is this: don't let contracting officers get jobs in industry, for N or however many years. Every single place I have ever been or heard of has business development absolutely packed with worthless VPs who were chucked a title and a salary because as a KO/CO they bought whatever horseshit the company was selling, having signed waivers for this requirement or that requirement ("Built In Test code review? Naw, I know BigDefCorp's good for it"). And, zoom presto, then they have a salary and a pension, the lazy and uncreative man's road to being a millionaire.

Unfortunately , I think we're going to need to see the US military machine positively humiliated before effective changes can be made. This nonsense is all far too entrenched to be taken down by anything but a vast national shame. My great fear is that we won't be able to suffer humiliation without hawking a nuke at someone.
well we've been there before, a wave of massive, fever pitch hype around things like Siri when it came out, then people calm down and realize that it's useful for some situations, but not nearly a shift in the history of the Earth it may have seemed at first.
You are reading much more into my comment than is what is actually there. You need industry to make renewables happen, but industry will focus where the greatest return is first. A global scale move to renewables will only happen when their are not other options with more return.

Energy orgs and their investors are looking at the shorter game…the <10 year ROI, they do not care as much about the longer game with the >50 year ROI. Frankly I bet you will not find an energy organization CEO in 2023 who truly gives a shit if their company even exists in 2073 let alone showing a profit.

So what do you do? Find that entrepreneur willing to play the long game. One name comes to mind, but now he is pretty much universally hated on HN, so god forbid we bring his name up. But…you need a nut job type like an Elon to push the envelope and be willing to bleed some money for a long time to move the needle just enough to show that there just might be a market worth exploring by others.
A hyper-fast local vector database for use with LLM Agents
Today we are graduating an unacceptably large numbers of functional illiterate kids from high school. If a kid graduates high school and they are functionally illiterate, that illustrates neglect by parents over many years. It has nothing to do with the academic background of said parents or whether they themselves can read or write. It has nothing to do with the state of public education, or the quality of teachers - the public system is good enough to teach literacy over 15 years of schooling. The quality of the public system may be important for the last mile of education (where you’re trying to provide kids a richer educational experience), but our bar for success is much much lower.

Put another way, you cannot convince me that the parents are not at fault when a kid can’t read or write after 15 years of education (after having sampled many many teachers and teaching styles, including summer school and remedial education, during that time).
From the article: "The FAA is encouraging airlines to use bigger aircraft with fewer take-offs and landings." I worked in ATC R&D for many years. NY Tracon, N90, is crazy busy and very complicated. DCA handles lots of Regional Jets. Each aircraft is an "operation". If you're an airline and can carry the same amount of passengers in fewer aircraft, re: fewer operations, you're at an advantage, and the system continues to work.

The airspace and airports with the available controllers can handle only so many operations, and the FAA will limit operations accordingly. The airlines can either let the FAA randomly deny flights, or they can say to the airlines, as they apparently did, "We can only handle so many operations. How do you want to do this?" In situations like this, airlines themselves can decide how they're going to change their operations. In NY, it's probably easier to use/lease larger aircraft. Yes Teteboro, TEB, could take some traffic if this were just airport operations limited, but I suspect it is an N90 issue, so offloading to TEB really isn't an option. With DCA, it's more likely the airport. Airlines like United can offload to Dulles, IAD. Additionally, the airlines could even work with each other to some degree to get through this. They do that in significant weather events, though this is a much bigger event than a snowstorm at someplace like O'Hare (ORD).
That makes sense, as you're fucked by any false positive.

If it's a graph of potential stacks, though, wouldn't you eventually find the one that unwinds, if one exists?
Hell, I took honors history instead of AP history my junior year (it was the only class I took that was "merely" honors; everything else was STEM magnet/AP level). And that class sucked, and was way too dumbed down, and was full of people who (comparatively) didn't care about their education. God forbid I would've had to take a normal level class at any point; the boredom might've killed me.
"harmless"

They will do everything in their power to kill and eat you and give you diseases.

We do need them but harmless? Mother Nature is anything but harmless.
I kinda want to stir the pot on this when it comes to Jungle and Drum and Bass.

I feel like rarely see anyone claiming its roots in Miami Bass, but it seems obvious to me, e.g. tracks like "I wanna rock" by Luke and more to the point, this original version of "Wiggle wiggle?"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xwW1aK1SC4g
ATCs are government employees, not in industry. And they belonged to a union, through which they engaged in collective bargaining (as is their right, under federal law).

The actual circumstances of their firing are worth reading about: striking is legal for unions except for unions of government employees, for whom it is explicitly illegal. What makes the situation unusual is the extreme response by the Reagan administration.
There’s no regulatory capture here. SpaceX hasn’t been around long enough to do so in the first place.

Also regulatory capture is defined as putting in place regulations that you can handle but create undue burdens on competitors to prevent the entrance of new entrants.
I have no insight into SF school politics beyond things like this and Lowell High School. Who's voting for the school board members that are driving this?
This trust problem has been solved for humans in the past because humans have some responsibility over the outcomes of their work, and there are incentives to ensure you do the right things and not make errors. Your reputation and job depend on it.

An AI has no such sufficient motivation, nor does it care. It’s gonna die anyway by the end of the prompts.
I am quite aware of that. That's what I'm making fun of.
Your own company is likely an example. Look how the company is organized, and then look how the software is organized.

You might say the software created the teams, but then who created the software?
Personal vehicles are a luxury, why shouldn't they pay relatively more than commercial traffic?
JavaScript isn't a necessary component of ePub readers. Besides a handful of apps like Adobe Digital Editions and Apple iBooks, most don't. Kobo doesn't in their eReaders. JavaScript is only used in ePubs for multimedia crap. Fiction ePubs don't bother either.

Kindle books generally start their life as ePubs that Amazon then converts to their formats before they list them. They don't even let you publish in mobi anymore.

Kindle's lack of MathML support actually makes the user experience worse for everyone. Publishers often make 1 ePub they submit to multiple stores so rather than make a MathML version and a shitty image version for Kindle they just make a shitty image version and now you have a math textbook that's larger than the PDF would have been AND the equation text isn't resizable defeating the whole point of a reflowable ebook.
This is just factually incorrect.

"In the Middle Ages when the feudal lords . . .concluded to enlarge their domains, to increase their power, their prestige and their wealth they declared war upon one another. But they themselves did not go to war any more than the modern feudal lords, the barons of Wall Street, go to war."

Feudal lords most definitely went to war, died in those wars, their who families were exterminated in those wars. This was the case everywhere in the world, from England to Japan.

In the end you can protest all you want but when dudes with guns show up, they care not about it. They will take your stuff, they will rape your wife and daughters, they will murder your sons and you. That is the history of humans from WAY before any feudal lords.
I can buy this defense if they have a reasonable justification for this determination published somewhere publically (via court documents or otherwise). Do they? This isn’t something that we just take their word for it.
You should check out VapourSynth, which makes colorspace conversion tasks like this very organized and Pythonic: https://www.vapoursynth.com/doc/functions/video/resize.html

But it also sometimes suffers from trying to parse the original colorspace, whether you use use ffmpeg reader or not.
Not to be dismissive or mean but what percentage of the workforce are "old timer" professors and lecturers? If I've learned anything about academia is that the most common personality trait of this demographic is their own sense of self-importance. Often as a consequence of their own local job/life experience where young people look up to you before entering real life, combined with the typical boring institutional hierarchies.

Making a big deal about their retirement/exit, or at least connecting it to something wider and currently culturally relevant, is on-character in that context.

This was satirized very well in a film I just watched recently so maybe I'm biased https://www.imdb.com/title/tt5536736/
As a SEGA kid growing up through the 90's, I got to watch my favourite console and game maker make business decision after business decision so incredulously stupid, just - so unbelievably, shockingly daft; that one would have to assume the corporation itself was somehow a sentient - yet suicidal - entity.

From the baffling release of the 32x 'console', to the jump-start release of the Saturn (which cost them insanely valuable retail connections and meant software wasn't ready for launch) - to the shit-show that was the never-released Sonic X-Treme - SEGA seemed obsessively dedicated to making sure it made every major business decision as damaging to its existence as possible.

By the time they finally produced a frankly phenomenal offering with the Dreamcast, the industry's good will towards SEGA had all but vanished. I recall EA saying after the debacle with the Saturn they wouldn't even make games for the Dreamcast.

All these years later, that girl who grew up getting and cherishing her SEGA Genesis as a Christmas gift in 1993(4?), spending way too much time on the playground about how much better SEGA was ('there's actual blood in Mortal Kombat, though, suck that, Nintendorks!') fully expected to be using the equivalent of a Dreamcast 5, and if SEGA hadn't been frankly just so incredibly stupid, I most likely would be.

This is just a continuation of normal behavior for SEGA, another monumentally stupid decision based off all the wrong motivation and market research.
You could also try Google OR tools, ‘OR’ means operations research.
But it’s not a single piece of software.

It’s more a ecosystem.
Microsoft Looks to ChatGPT AI to Transform Its Digital Ad Business
:) I'm glad your experience hasn't been so bad. I've had to wait that long. My partner is a chronic pain specialist and wait times for new patients often exceed 6 months.
Does it all have to be 30 minutes though? Not just him to be sure but I’m not a fan of YouTube’s crusade to incentivize long form content which just seems to have made everyone pad out every topic as much as they can. Very rare have I seen 30 minute videos that truly deserve that time commitment.
Honors English has been removed from many schools in the name of equity. Kids barely read novels for school anymore. Writing assignments are often limited to two page essays. Anything more significant requiring research, drafts and multiple revisions is not done.
I don't specifically know about Berkeley, but my experience has been there's always an accelerated track for some students whose parents push the school system to let them into the right classes. At some point in middle school I was bussed to a local high school along with some of my peers to take advanced math not offered in middle school, and in high school all of my math classes were with people 1-2 years older than me.
It's probably because Naver is a Korean website, with some English localization. In Korean, it's fine to split a word to a new line almost anywhere. I'm guessing it's using the same configuration even for English.
I look forward to trying your viewer when it's ready.
GPT-4 is generally superior to reading a book or following a tutorial, in my experience.

You can't ask a book questions about parts you don't understand. Books will also talk about things that are not directly related to the problem you are trying to solve, which can be frustrating.

The biggest issue with GPT is when you are working with new or rapidly changing tech. For example it might suggest Godot 3 syntax when you are working with Godot 4. But working with OpenGL for example, I find questioning GPT-4 to be more useful than reading a book. The book was probably in it's training data, anyway.
English has one word answers for those questions.

It’s just conversationally dry and people will assume you’re not interested.
Probably not as much benefit as you'd think. The state funding that student would have been bringing goes with the student to the private school so the student/teacher ratio stays about the same
Cool. Makes sense. Where is the evidence that was used to make this determination and the document released by FAA using that evidence to make said determination?
I took physics in 9th grade along with everyone else in my program, and it didn't include calculus.
My statistics bullshit detector flashed on this line, "Average incomes have grown much faster than in western Europe or Japan. Also adjusted for purchasing power, they exceed $50,000 in Mississippi, America’s poorest state—higher than in France."

I was imagining a handful of billionaires "averaged" with a state full of people living in desparate poverty.

The census bureau [1] says that the median income in MS for 2022 (single earner family) starts at $47,446 and goes up from there.

Quite surprising IMO.

Just saving someone else the search.

[1] https://www.census.gov/quickfacts/fact/table/US/SEX255221
For you, I 100% agree, but for those who were "born into this problem" (including myself), this is simply "just-the-way-things-are"^tm.

An analogy is, "how did 9/11 affect you?". I was born in 83. I can talk about this for hours. Anyone born after (or even near it) just know that TSA is a fact of life with that time when "airplanes crashed into some towers". -And this is the next generation of ATC controllers.

Unions, labor relations, Regan, etc for those under 30 have no idea.
It seems that way at first, but for years hackernews have used steganographic techniques to hide memes encoded into comments for years, just gotta know what to look for.
https://old.reddit.com/r/NoContract/comments/oaophe/data_pri...

>QCI 6 is applied to all of T-Mobile's postpaid and prepaid plans (except for Essentials) and Google Fi which also has QCI 6 as well. This means if you want the absolute best from T-Mobile, you want to get a plan directly from them. Even their cheap $10 prepaid 1GB Connect plan has priority data.

You can apparently confirm this with a rooted phone: https://coveragecritic.com/2019/09/17/how-to-find-qci-values...

>My Google Fi service had a QCI of 6 during regular data use.
Lookism should be opposite of beautism .
It’s all just a race to the bottom in the name of “equality”. Everyone with the means to do so is moving out of SF because of the terrible schools, and the kids suffering the most as a result are from poorer families.
Khan Academy videos continue to be exceptional. They are free. School districts offer free laptops. Some offer free 5G wifi access points as well.
I don't think it's juts between NYC and DC. I think it's across all flights at those airports.
I mean the word we use for it just happens to be Arabic. If anything it's more Indian and Hindu we, the west that is, just happen to get most of our exposure to it via the people who lived between us and them.
I think popularity is a completely valid reason for choosing one framework over another. It means I’m more than likely not the first person to run into problem x or need y, and don’t need to reinvent the wheel. That means I can focus on developing useful things instead of getting tangled up in the tech. Which can be super fun of course, but most of the time I need to accomplish something other than playing with fun tech.
At least as of 15 years ago in a middling California public school.

7th grade (age 12/13): Pre-Algebra

8th grade: Algebra

9th grade: Geometry

10th grade: Algebra 2 / Trigonometry

11th grade: Pre-Calculus

12th grade: Calculus 1
Yes, you can also have a prominent light and dark mode switcher on Hugo.
By any reasonable method of cataloging Christian deities, there are well over a dozen. Perhaps hundreds, all distinct. Christianity has this annoying habit of failing to (often) speak the name of their deities, so it's difficult to make the distinction sometimes.

But even in fictional narratives where names are not used, it's possible to identify distinct individuals based on their actions, personality, and carefully correlating together various stories. Same here.

Did you think there was only one?
This is actually good analogy. OG will definitely throttle your breadsticks if you eat too many by taking their sweet time bringing another basket.
This is an exceptional article on the effect that Jo Boaler has had on California's math education: https://www.chronicle.com/article/the-divider

It mentions Prof. Nelson's criticism among others.
Depends on where this happened but in the US IIRC age discrimination only covers people older than 40. Discriminating against young people is legal, and it's not clear to me that describing someone as "young" is a form of discrimation.
Why limit the ability to write math to undergrad math majors?

And even for those why make learning math typesetting worse?
Exactly. The whole economy is paycheck to paycheck, from the government to multi billion dollar corporations to hourly gig employees. We need to build a more resilient economy than the one that maximizes profits for Wall Street.
Damn interesting proposition considering that the folk might just feed in all sorts of data into chatgpt without considering the implications
> The state funding that student would have been bringing goes with the student to the private school

No, it doesn’t.

There was a proposed 2022 ballot initiative that would have done that with about 2/3 of the state funding, but it got less than 1/3 of the signatures required to be placed on the ballot.
Wonderful. So what is the problem? All's well that ends well.
The point remains though that the technical capabilities necessary to install chrome extensions and the technical capabilities required to program dark patterns are vastly different. No one is getting hired on their ability to do the former.

The asymmetry is that one small group of web devs can roll out a change to millions of users whose ability and patience to combat those dark patterns will vary.
>YouTube’s crusade to incentivize long form content

They're all about "YouTube Shorts" now, of course that will change soon enough.
I’m under 30, so I was also “born into this problem”!

Younger people also know aviation history, even if they don’t have the visceral experiences of the past. Reagan’s mass firing of ATCs is also a landmark in his domestic policy; I would expect most high school graduates to be at least aware of it.
You know as someone who sucks at frontend I actually had the opposite experience. I went from WordPress to Hugo to nextjs (on mdx) and I couldn't be happier. My use case was to actually put in custom embeds and of different widgets/interactive tutorials etc and this was the easiest thing for me.

Where I did struggle in this migration was I got sucked into contentlayer (the template I got "inspired" by used it) and it was a total time sink. Instead removed contentlayer and just loaded whay I needed and it was a lot smoother. Same with preact. Just keeping up with dependencies got easier by removing preact and contentlayer.
Does contentiousness relate to intelligence (as in having your own opinion?) or to stubbornness (as in not changing your opinion)?
The flop that changed Apple forever [video]
Seems like a job a computer can do better. How soon before a corporation with "ai" takes over this role?
History of Kites
You mean that you can't direct a plane full of people that it has clearance to land on runway 3 from your mother's basement while using an 8 year old laptop connected to the Internet via a wifi router???
An example of a product that has a well made undo feature is Jetbrains’ IDEA. Whole file operations (move, delete, rename) and refactoring tasks are included in the undo stack. They even let you browse the undo stack in the “local history” tool, which has totally ruined a lot of other editors for me.
Yeah it’s 50% of the top 50 unicorns
For P2P the US has Zelle which does email and phone number identification, but people usually stick to Apple Pay (Messages app) and Venmo/Cashapp otherwise.