skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The needs of society changed but so did the technology. An EV built in 2020 is a completely different proposition to one built in 1990.

> People are now claiming that this can never happen again or that no innovation is possible in the future for another type of battery chemistry.

Who is claiming this?
It's a lot easier to break something with a hammer than bang in some nails. Using a marker to deface property is a lot easier than using it to draw a picture.
> Exactly what power are you afraid that Google can have over you compared to the government?

There were an awful lot of people concerned about the time they colluded to depress wages (https://www.latimes.com/business/technology/la-fi-tn-tech-jo...).

And the people they fired to break unions (https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-55173063).

And they're currently under investigation for monopolizing digital ad tech (https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/justice-department-sues-googl...).

Let's assume, ad argumento, that they have monopolized digital ad tech, meaning other digital advertisers are excluded and almost all the ads you see are single-source.

Gosh, it sure would suck if fascists gained control of that single source, wouldn't it? And as we've seen, we can't trust that won't happen just because they nailed up "Don't be evil" above the door (and then it fell off later).

We should probably enforce the laws that are in place to keep a market diverse and healthy.

... I think I see your position though. You're concerned, given current political climate, that increased government oversight could give fascists more power. I echo that concern... Except that I believe we got here because fascists recognized that nobody was watching the tech henhouse and weaponized that. We had an awful lot of tech firms thinking they were bigger than political concerns and should be a world apart from government oversight right up until they realized they aided and abetted those who organized Jan 6th, then... Oops.
I think the idea is that if it’s important to rich parents, they will grudgingly fund education for everyone. But as long as they have these outlets where they can just educate their own kids and leave everyone else behind, they will.
Netflix Down: Love Is Blind Livestream
Their live stream has been delayed for over an hour. Anyone know what's going on?
I took a similar approach with a somewhat complicated scheduling requirement across dates and times. I originally brute forced the problem, but the solution was a bit inelegant and not ideal. When I used constraint programming to solve the same problem, it took me a little longer to devise the solution, but the result was superior. Also, the constraint programming solution is a little more memory intensive, but a necessary proper solution.
I was curious about the Belleville Three (who have no relationship to the Triplets of Belleville) because I wasn't really aware of them.

the wikipedia article on the Belleville Three says the "first wave of Detroit techno" was some of the future members meeting and forming Cybotron, releasing Alleys of Your Mind in 1981 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kMHNhJJnve4 to me this is quite clearly Kraftwerk inspired, and Kraftwerk had been going for about 10 years at that point.

1981 puts them after Devo had been around awhile, and Talking Heads and B-52s, which were more pop but featured many of these sounds, and contemporaneous with Depeche Mode, Eurythmics, and Yaz/Yazoo.

Two years later Cybotron released Clear which is Kraftwerk blended with more of a funk sound https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V3QHj7lai9I

I'm not trying to assign/give/take credit, just saying here's what they sounded like and who else sounded similar to me. Zappa and P Funk are generally noted as having explored these sounds early on, but I don't enjoy their stuff so much so I don't listen to it much. This comment is a bit of "you might try listening to this" if you're interested.

I don't remember when we all started saying techno, it was definitely in full swing in the 90's, I think it was the 80's but gotta admit, I dunno.
A verbal calculator for one. I need to shout equations across the room and hear an answer. My hands are always covered in cannabis oil.

If it spoke like this one, bonus points: +16507299536*

*I believe it's accent is set to millennial.
Fedwire transfers usually don't get held up by their fraud detection systems. That can be an advantage at times and a disadvantage at others.
How would you recommend a soon-to-be-parent keep track of what's actually being taught in schools, before their kid is in a given year? I see a lot of headlines but have no idea how this is different or if I should be concerned.
Remove the ability to compete in math because you are poor and cannot enroll in private school. Don't allow the poor to do algebra? I left SF (and took my poor kids with me).

However, the SF policy that was truly evil to the poor was randomized school selection. Tell a poor kid in western addition they need to go to school in pacific heights. Tell the pacific heights kids they need to go to school in western addition. So what happens? The poor kids miss school (a lot) since their parents are working crappy jobs for rich people and can't do bus commutes each day. The pacific heights parents just enroll in private school. So tons of schools in SF just close. Awesome work SF. I am confident if you do the exact opposite in all SF policies you would have a great city.
I'm not sure what point you're trying to make
What was racist about the article exactly?
Honestly, it doesn’t really work without the parents. The issue is that the biggest problems with schooling discrepancies are poverty. Kids can’t eat, need to take care of siblings or their own kids or go work two jobs, have no homes, don’t get medical care, have no internet, etc.

There is no way to really fix those problems by changing the school system. You can have bandaids, like providing free food at school, but that’s fixing the problem at the wrong level.
Stable Diffusion can run on Intel CPUs through OpenVINO if you don't have a GPU or the funds to rent one online (Google Collab is often used). You still need a decent amount of RAM (running SD takes about 8GB, training seems to run at 6-8GB) so I'd consider 12 or 16GiB of RAM to be a requirement.

There's a huge difference in performance (generating an image takes 10 minutes rather than 10 seconds and training a model would take forever) but with some Python knowledge and a lot of patience it can be done.

Apple's Intel Macbooks are infamous for their insufficient cooling design for the CPUs they chose, which won't help maintaining a high clock speed for extended durations of time; you may want to find a way to help cool the laptop down to give the chip a chance to boost more, and to prevent prolonged high temperatures from wearing down the hardware quicker.
Video of a person commuting a crime is evidence but not scientific as it never followed the scientific method. Should it be thrown out and not considered since it isn't scientific?
>> Has any child ever gotten better at something they don't have to do?

> Nope

It happens all the time. You think people are born being great at Mario Kart?
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.

The US already spends more per-capita on students than any other nation. The problem is not funding. Throwing more money at the problem isn't going to help.
> Pretty cool stuff. Personally though, not a huge fan of his “the one” choice. Some of the other images in his assortment were much better imo. Each to their own of course though!

Glad to see I’m not alone on this. I think the end result would have turned out much better if the author had simply adhered to the Huichol art palette, which I’m convinced they were aiming for at the beginning. That color scheme works for a reason.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Huichol_art
Yeah, that's why people don't like it.

The essay's thesis is that math is an unusually useful art form that we typically teach by diktat. Students are asked to memorize formulas, but they would learn more effectively (and have more fun) if teachers could work closely with them to derive and understand the solutions. Or better yet, encourage and guide them to find their own interesting formulas and patterns.
The Space Invader [Space Invaders Origin Story]
> If we could spend $1T and have a high likelihood of a high density storage system that can run on clean grid energy, doesn’t waste large amounts of its input energy, can be viably deployed in all areas where vehicles need to be recharged, I would support that.

You seem intent on missing the point. This is the very reason why people should be open to the idea. Hydrogen is the very thing you are describing here. And let's not forget the issue at hand: the problems of climate change. It demands we spent significant resources tackling it, and thus refusing to spend money on potential solutions is the unsupportable idea.
>the result? parents moving kids to private school.

as someone who went through the public school system in California during a time where classroom sizes hovered between 35-50 students under a single teacher, I have a hard time thinking that won't bring at least some benefits to those that aren't being put into private schools.

Don't get me wrong, as a delinquent/mischievous/criminal youth I loved it; the dating pool was huge, parties everywhere, drugs abound -- but I never received any kind of decent scholastic education until college.
Are we free to revoke the limited liability of companies who act against the public interest?
They missed the point that usage is not part of the fee change. The part they want to make income based is the service charge. So your final bill will be service plus usage.
> I will export millions of dollars in products that I produced here, or I will die trying

Why? Really. Maybe I’m in a
midlife crises but I care about money less and less. I used to get a a lot of satisfaction from the simple fact of seeing the number on my bank account increase. Not so much in the past decade.

My computer, phone, speaker, camera and other tech toys are amazing and not that expensive. Great food and beverage are not that hard to come by. A good house is indeed expensive in most of the world, but after that, what does one need that requires “millions of dollars”?
ATC staff shortages: 11,000 flights cut from NYC and DCA in summer 2023
I imagine the idea is that coding is easy to teach on the job, but the fundamental logic and analytical skills aren’t.
Yes! Back in high school, one of the most impressive MySpace profiles I ever encountered was by a peer who went on to build Lil Wayne's website.
No examples needed. You can't adequately define "what you create", because nobody can. Where does your contribution begin, and end? Where does the contribution of your parents, your neighbors, your friends, your society begin, and end? To what extent did you create anything, or was it just a remix? Is everything a remix? Who are you? You have a unified, continuous sense of self, but most contemporary psychology finds it fairly easy to take people through processes that break this down (as do a number of psychedelics).

We don't need simplistic randian objectivism - it fails to describe the nuance, the beauty, the depth, the wonder, the complexity and the truth of reality.
And a fuel cell car today is completely different than one built in 1990 too.

> Who is claiming this?

You are claiming that. You seem intent to not accept the fact that hydrogen fuel cells are a form of battery technology that can advance.
Here the science suggests that just having a light isn't an attractant. It just happens to confuse the bugs flying by. Statisically they would be no more likely to go to the neighbors site or yours. Of course it also suggests that if you surrounded your site with lights that it could create a "light shield" which would disrupt the flying pattern of any bug that was on a vector that passed by your site.

That suggests another interesting test which would be to use a bunch of rope lights to create a complete circle around your site to disrupt all bug flights going in or out of your area. Presumably it could create a higher density at the perimeter of disrupted bugs.
And that's one reason why the majority of ebooks purchased by consumers aren't in epub format.[1]

For the vast majority of fiction a format constrained to bold, italicize, paragraph break, chapter heading, and chapter break allows a far superior user experience.

[1] https://magnoliamedianetwork.com/ebook-publishing-platforms/
Or use school funding to pay students who volunteer to tutor the previous year.

why pay students to tutor? make tutoring younger kids part of the curriculum. teaching a skill is the best way to practice and internalize the skill for yourself.

montessori is already doing this very effectively.
i had no idea that's where this came from

i've reviewed multiple resumes from people in cali for east coast jobs and noticed fresh grads who went to great schools wrote down 'advanced math' on their resume and i thought it was so strange for it to be that vague that i definitely overlooked quite a few of them because other people named courses more clearly
Does API support pulling data both account level and individual tweet level? A readme will help to understand the capabilities
I think it's mostly semantics, it seems pretty axiomatic to me that Detroit Techno is from Detroit... but people like to have a simple label to slap on all EDM, and tend to reach for 'techno' which is vague at best.

Short documentary on UR on YT - https://youtu.be/fe7sC4SAvc0
This is an interesting enough article, but it has been written dozens - if not hundreds - of times since the mid-90s. Everybody seriously into electronic music knows the impact of the Belleville Three. The history has already been written, drawing a line from disco, funk and early synth noodling of the 70s through the club scenes in NYC and Chicago, to the bedrooms of Detroit, and back over the Atlantic to London, Ibiza, Manchester and eventually Berlin.

There are perhaps people who have a legitimate case to be made that they have been left out of the history. I remember one DJ from Chicago (Leonard "Remix" Rroy) who wasn't part of the Warehouse clique and spent years telling everyone who listened that he did at least as much to pioneer house music in the city as Frankie Knuckles. But The Belleville Three and Underground Resistance are not that. I was hoping this article would reveal more untold stories like that one, not the same mythology that's already been around for almost three decades at this point.
I’m sorry you had a poor experience with math in an academic setting. I agree that this is what kids need, the problem with this particular failing of just nixing Algebra is that we’ve not actually innovated in the way we communicate the ideas and techniques used to solve problems.

Perhaps the biggest failing with academic math is that it is geared towards a subset of students who can suspend curiosity in order to memorize equations and learn precisely the place to apply them. These are often the students who dislike word problems because it causes them to actually think about the work they are doing. That is to say, I don’t hold contempt for these students as they are just optimizing their academic experience - there is no room for actual rational thinking with how math is taught.

My point here is that everyone loses: those who want to bring rationality and purpose into math are left behind because they cannot keep up due to pesky curiosity and those who can parrot equations and mechanically solve trivial problems are lured into the false sense of deep knowledge their grades would suggest. We need to do better for our students but nobody in a position to enact change actually cares enough to do the legwork in revamping how we teach and communicate mathematics or any other subjects for that matter.
Are you implying playing Mario Kart isn't a must-do for a child? I would argue that as far as they are concerned, it is: It's fun.

Must-dos fall under those dictated by our surroundings (eg: life, work, etc.) and those dictated by ourselves (eg: it's fun, it's for a greater purpose, etc.).

Math education falls under neither.
The Name of the Wind I really enjoyed, but be warned - it's part of a trilogy, and the second book was released 12 years ago. News on the supposedly forthcoming third has been sparse, and it seems quite possible that the trilogy won't be finished.

Unsong is a very idiosyncratic web serial novel by Scott Alexander (the Slate Star Codex/ Astral Codex Ten guy). It's a weird mixture of religion, sci fi, fantasy, comedy, and probably some other genres too. It's among my favorite things I've read, but due to the weirdness might not be for everyone. Still I think most of the HN crowd would appreciate it, it's truly special in my opinion
On iOS Apple Arcade is pretty good also. No ads or other nonsense.
Nobody said otherwise.

It's still there in high school fwiw: https://www.sfusd.edu/learning/curriculum/high-school/mathem...

This is about dropping algebra I in 8th grade which is where you need to take it in order to prep for AP exams and the SAT basically. Algebra I (8th), trig/Geometry 9th, Algebra II 10th, pre-calc/ calculus 11th, AP calc 12th.

Anyway, these are all basically memorization and it is more important to teach mathematical reasoning and understanding skills vs pattern matching.

I mean ChatGPT LLMs score a 5 on AP calc now for god sakes. However, it scores a 2 on ap English language comprehension and literature. Oh the irony.

https://www.thestar.com/business/technology/2023/03/14/chatg...
Ask HN: Do you work nights/weekends?
This question is aimed at folks with "traditional" full time jobs.

Those at a high-growth startup or other such scenario, I understand there's intrinsic motivation/expectation to make as much progress as possible. But that's a particular type of role. As well as contractors with multiple gigs, and anyone side-hustling, I imagine odd working hours are common.

Those making a reasonable salary as a full-time developer, do you regularly work nights/weekends for that employer? Do you do it because you enjoy the work? Do you do it because you feel obligated? I'm just trying to get a sense of what people do, in various types of roles. Maybe you work nights/weekends, but take time during weekdays for yourself. Maybe you work as little as possible to get the job done. Just trying to start a conversation around what people's working schedules are like.
LoRA requires input images roughly in the same domain, and the Pokemon model is bespoke.
I am thinking that the 3 countries you had mentioned are the 'vanguard' of the 'isms' in the western world, not because the populous there initiated these ideas -- but because these places are chosen to be the 'test grounds'.

Sort of like it is easier to have biolabs or other testing facilities, in other places... to test out how those yet-to-be-fully-backed ideas will work out, without incurring costs of a 'blowback' in the financially-and-election sensitive places..

After all, the introduction of laws, the supporting 'academic research', and other elements -- will need to be built out...

Cashless society is another idea that will be implemented in the 3 places you mentioned, first.
The most impactful single unit of software I can think of would be the C compiler.

It’s hard to find anything that runs on a computer today that wasn’t compiled by a C compiler, compiled by something bootstrapped by a C compiler or being executed on some platform compiled by a C compiler.
Canada isn’t a single language market.
A related question: can anyone provide a link to what the K-12 syllabus of the former Eastern bloc actually was? Certainly USSR and Hungary must have had impressive curricula. I had a Croatian friend who said that his basic skills in algorithms (which were very advanced from my viewpoint) was based on his math schooling in the former Yugoslavia, which he said treated very advanced concepts early on.

Is there any link to an English version of these syllabi?
>Banks are less reasonable than techs in this regards

Nonsense. Banks have someone you can get on the phone, usually 24/7. Good luck getting anyone at Google on the phone.
I've created my own list of lists as a pun for that: https://github.com/ClickHouse/ClickHouse/issues/29457
If you were a hardcore racist and systematically wanted to keep Black and Brown kids uneducated, you would throw out all expectations and requirements and let them pass every year until they graduated high school with almost no education. The white kids and the rich kids will find a way to educate themselves, either through tutors or private school but the poor kids with no options would be stuck in this worthless system and graduate high school completely uneducated.

This is exactly what’s going on right now in SFUSD, and it’s so blatantly bad I honestly believe they are white supremacists in charge of the curriculum. What we are seeing is true systematic racism. How do they expect these kids to compete intellectually when they have lived an entire lifetime with lowered expectations?
In 1st grade it was an unspoken understanding that Latin kids are put in the slow class. It's understandable since most of us didn't speak English at home. But my teacher realized that I was advanced for my age so she put me in the back of the class with another classmate who didn't know any English. An hour or two a day we would sit in the back and I would read to her, translate words, and practice spelling. She seemed happy that someone was helping her and I felt great helping a classmate.

One day I mentioned this to my parents. They didn't understand/believe it at first. But the next time I mentioned it they understood and instead of feeling proud they were clearly upset. Then a few months later I wrote a poem that impressed the school teachers and at that point they moved me to the "fast" class and I never tutored again until college.

Why couldn't I have done both? Would I have learned more if I had been forever in the slow class but tutoring half of that time ? That seems better than where it we are headed -- where everyone is in the metaphorical slow class and the advanced kids likely become numb and disinterested.
Yeah, we can just delay classes because the students weren't properly prepared in prior classes... no reason to fix the preasons the prior classes didn't prepare them.
Sweden has already producing green steel: https://www.theguardian.com/science/2021/aug/19/green-steel-...

Large scale production is slated to happen before the end of the decade: https://www.bbc.com/news/business-64538296

Everything seems to be happening way faster than what you are claiming.
As someone with a chronic condition who has had to make many appointments with specialists over the years, 6-12 months is a gross exaggeration. IME the typical wait time to be seen by a specialist in the US is between 2 and 3 months. The worst I've seen is 4 months.
Frankly, the US for a lot of people seems more like hire slow/fire fast.
From second-hand knowledge, the Stanford GSE is really bad at understanding equity and minorities, and routinely, minorities in STEP (the teacher training program) get less support and empathy