skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Lucky? Yes, but we also felt that letting our kids learn to read at school was leaving too much to chance.

Luck is when preparation meets opportunity. Your preparation gave your kids an opportunity they wouldn't have had otherwise.

There is quite a push to make parents feel that they are unable to teach their kids and that it needs to be left to "professionals." When COVID sent kids home and gave parents a view into what was actually being learned in the classrooms, I think many discovered that they as parents have quite a bit more skill in teaching their kids than they had realized.

I'm not trying to bash the public school system, but the kids that get the best education are the ones where the parents see the school system as an institution they are partnering with to educate their child instead of the place that is responsible for the education.
100%! We read to our kids a TON from the day they were born -- no tricks or gimmicks, we just read to them. A lot. And they've always seen us reading actual books. YMMV, but our kids learned to read early and well and they both still enjoy reading. A lot.
Do you have any statistical evidence that PornHub is being used for the crimes described above, despite the processes and procedures the parent comment outlines?

If you’re only demanding “statistical evidence, please” from the people questioning if something is really happening contrary to policies and procedures, you’re asking the wrong people.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hatsune_Miku is huge in Japan
I'm running models locally on my 3090 and it's fast enough, although for example building a vector database can take a while. I can run LoRa training but I haven't done anything meaningful with it so far. I chose 3090 because of the cable issue of 4090 (also, no nvlink, although I'm not sure that matters) but it's debatable if my fears are justified. I need to leave the gpu running while I'm away and I just don't feel comfortable doing that with a 4090. I rather take the lower performance.

One caveat though, my asus b650e-f is barely supported by the currently used ubuntu kernel (e.g. my microphone doesn't work, before upgrading kernel + bios I didn't have lan connection...) so expect some problems if you want to use a relatively new gaming setup for linux.
Again from the podcast:

Hanford: So much of this research isn’t new. And this idea that readers use context, multiple sources of information to solve words, identify words as they’re reading, that was really taken on by researchers back in the 70s and 80s, as an interesting question. Like, is that what we do? And they showed quite definitively that that wasn’t the case. I mean, were you sort of aware of that research and how clear that was already by the 90s?

Calkins: Um, again, you’re asking me to go back and figure out what was in my mind at one point or another. Um, but I would say that, that you have to remember that that research was not – I don't think that there were classrooms that were doing classroom-based methods that were exciting, and poignant and beautiful, and, you know, getting kids on fire as readers and writers, that were using that that train of thinking. You know, it was part of an entire gestalt that was different than ours.

These people belong in gaol. Introducing teaching methods that were known to be wrong because they don't like the style of the effective training. Therefore introducing new training which is less effective. This has damaged countless lives. Reading is a fundamental requirement of modern society, and failing to teach people because you don't like an effective approach is criminal.

Again from the podcast:

"Good reading instruction isn’t boring for children. Maybe adults find parts of it boring. But this shouldn’t be about what adults want. It should be about what kids need.

And there’s no reason that reading instruction aligned with scientific evidence can’t be exciting and beautiful. I think Lucy Calkins sees it that way now too. Because instruction aligned with the science of reading is what she says she’s now selling."
Apple will be getting a piece from Goldman Sachs somewhere. Both Apple Card and Saving account are US only, nearly 4 years since they first launch Apple Card.

What's next? With Apple Watch and Health Monitoring the next step could be Apple Health Insurance? or Apple Mortgage?
But what if even the artist declares a work to be a forgery only to find that in fact it is genuine?
So many "Not good. I want [company I trust] to be free to regulate [company I don't trust]" comments here.

Even more odd, its sometimes followed by the even stranger argument "If [company I trust] is legally forced to stop restricting its competitors and has to allow me to choose, I may be lured into choosing [company I don't trust]".

Sorry, but all this is closer to religion than common sense.
Breaking the limits of TLA+ model checking
> But now, with the AI integration, even when I tried it and left disappointed, Bing is starting to sound interesting.

When I try a new feature, and am disappointed, I think marketing overhyped it and lose interest. Why do you think ChatGPT + Search is a good combo, even after you were disappointed when trying it?
I have not figured out how to get CDs from the Schwab online UI.
In fairness, 0 being cold and 100 being hot is pretty intuitive. I would be curious to know how people raised on Celsius feel about Fahrenheit after having lived with it long-term.
> Personally I use GrapheneOS in order to "de-Google" without switching to the Apple ecosystem. No Google Play (you can install it but I choose not to), FOSS apps only.

This is only valid for power users. Normal users would probably never accept a phone without Google Play Services running on it, with Amazon's devices being the exception (and don't ask me why, because I don't get it.)
part of the issue with 'bubbles', as I see it, is that you don't know you're in a bubble. a big huge honking option of "keep me in the bubble" and "show results outside my bubble" would make it a lot more obvious (and manageable) to many people who are oblivious to the notion that they live in an information bubble. won't stop people who only use one source of news, but in a search aspect, it would be useful.
> Yes, there are special rules and outliers that you need to learn in English (...)

I think you're greatly understating it. It's most of English, it's present everywhere as you try to learn the language. It's present from the very beginning, when you need to figure out why "are" and "area" are not pronounced the same, until the very end, when you have mostly mastered the language but now need to be able to understand everyone else's pronunciation while also accounting for them most likely pronouncing some words incorrectly.
Actually if you have been really looking at Google's management, just the opposite has happened.

Eric Schmidt, who is an exceptionally rare talent understanding engineering, business and politics at the same time was changed to a person who just want to show more ads (the product that makes money) with 0 engineering background.
If the problem is people gaining through rent seeking, then attack rent seeking itself, rather than rich people in general.

There are poor people who make money through rent seeking too, by playing zero sum games. These zero summers should be targeted rather than the entrepreneurs, artists, writers, and musicians who play positive sum games.
How about trying the French Republican Calendar [0], on this auspicious date: Décade III, Septidi de Germinal de l'Année CCXXXI de la Revolution?

It was still 'square' though. Perhaps alternative versions of the Periodic table might provide some insights.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_Republican_calendar
Wait... hasn't in? How many examples do you have of people dealing with ransomware on their non-jailbroken iPhone?
> Tons of work and some rando comes in complaining you didn't advance type theory to help avoid annotating a type in one location.

If your language gets any traction, then you're going to get a number of randos saying things like that. Worse, some may not be randos. Some may be people with a connection to other languages.

> Arguably worse are the people who advocate against the new PL because no one is using it, strengthening the Matthew Effect, collecting Internet Points for cosplaying as a "responsible engineer" that argues solely for the status quo.

Well... one of the things a responsible engineer should in fact consider is maintenance, including the ability to find future workers who know that language. It's only one factor, not completely determinative, but it should be considered.
Pro gaming and speedruns are still free marketing - there will be people who know the games and come for the challenge content, but there will be others as well who are going to enjoy the show and buy their own copy.

I'm not saying he's bringing in their core demographics. Just that he makes some sales for them.
Even the default cash positions for many brokerages (money market funds) are now paying over 4%. Untouched cash positions in my Vanguard and Fidelity accounts are doing better than most CDs or bonds right now.
I've been watching this since 2000 and I'm still unaware of any ruling that addresses this, even tangentially. I have never seen the law address the act of taking content from a major company and adding in content from a third party, despite the popularity of the practice.

"They don't sue because they know they will lose basically and losing would create a precedent."

I disagree completely that they would obviously lose. I think you're applying some combination of logic and wishful thinking to a situation where neither apply. The only logical conclusion I can come to about this situation over the past nearly 25 years is that they haven't codified anything because the current murkiness suits them just fine. There has been plenty of time to push a law through Congress that reifies that you're not allowed to make any modifications, but why bother with that expense when they can pretty much harass anyone they like at any time about it right now. What third-party mod provider has the wherewithal and desire to go toe-to-toe with a multinational behemoth so they can distribute their alternate Mario Kart courses or something? A C&D shuts down any sane person now, and a DMCA report takes out the vast majority of the rest. There's not a lot of need for them to established a precedent, and establishing a court precedent on this matter has been complicated by the inability and/or disinterest of anyone on the receiving end to take this through multiple levels of court, all the while incurring personal risk if they lose and only highly socialized benefits if they win (as they will most assuredly still be deeply into the net negative both in terms of money and stress). It's easy to wish someone else would take them up to the Supreme Court and establish that it's perfectly legal to mod games, to distribute the mods, and the game companies aren't allowed to prevent it, but the list of people willing to do it themselves has been pretty short.
Health insurance feels like a sort of "gross" industry that I don't imagine Apple would want to be associated with. Could be wrong though.
See the footnotes.
If I am not mistaken, HN pointed it out back then too.
Taming Traffic Spikes in Kubernetes and why Resource limits are a good Idea
The propagandists pay more than the advertisers, who are interested in humans engaging with the ad content? I find this hard to believe, but if so, seems like Elon has a bonanza on his hands, and Twitter may indeed be profitable! Thanks for the economic insight!
This ridiculously stupid approach to teaching kids to read was imported to the US from New Zealand.
> Less than half of French people even have a single credit card

Got a source ?

https://www.cartes-bancaires.com/cb/chiffres/ says 76M cards over a population of 67M (50M for people over 18yo). Sure some people have multiple cards, but that sounds hard to believe. (Also that's not counting non-CB credit cards. Those are pretty rare in France, but I have one)

(Maybe I'm misunderstanding what you said in "a single credit card")
Web LLM: Bringing large-language models and chat to web browsers
I'm not sure how you are reading to your kid but mine usually sits on my lap. He knows what is on the screen whether it's words or something else.

There's a "nonzero chance" your dead tree book is a game too ala Sudoku.
On AI
You wanted to be god, creating a miniature world in perfection, a system in your image. With purity of concepts.
Great point. Children also have a powerful desire to know their parents are paying attention to them. Phones disrupt this as well.
> That is incompatible with a company that seems to want to make fun things for a family to play, like Nintendo.

Yes, because sibling rivalry and intense competition among family simply never happens. It's always just a fun time where everybody is a winner. Except for the fact that games like Smash Bros, Mario Kart, Mario Party, Wii Sports, etc will literally call out the winners and the losers of the tournament/match/game.

This argument makes no sense whatsoever. Plenty of people like to play Football, Baseball, Basketball, insert sport here for fun. That doesn't change the fact that there are paid professional leagues that take it to the next level. And the reason the professionals get paid is because other people, even sometimes those casual players, enjoy watching professionals play their favorite game at a superb level of skill.

> Copyright striking everything is one issue, but not wanting to bend over backwards for e-sports is a different thing entirely;

You and OP keep saying this. Please tell me what restrictions e-Sports players are trying to place on Nintendo? In this specific instance, SWT was literally playing one game that is 22 years old and that Nintendo does not even sell anymore (afaict you can't purchase Smash Melee from Nintendo). The other game was released 5 years ago, and the e-Sports scene wasn't demanding that Nintendo stop making updates or something afaik.

And, just as an aside, I don't give a crap about e-Sports. But the e-Sports scene certainly hasn't detracted from my enjoyment of playing smash with my brothers for fun and for competitive fun.
People keep saying this, and I agree english is more complicated, but it is otherwise regular. The vast majority of English words are regular, and for those that are not regular, sounding them out incorrectly in context with the other words quickly disabuses you of any incorrect reading.

My mom was a public school teacher in a poor district, and the main problem with her kids learning to read is that they did not actually know English. This would make it much more difficult to figure out how to read properly, since they'd never be able to correct 'wrong' pronunciations. I believe a lot of focus on reading is mis-placed when the children cannot speak English properly. Better to focus on diction and vocabulary.
Yes. Older forms of Korean were either tonal or had a pitch accent like Japanese or Swedish, and the original form of hangeul included accent marks. Some dialects of Korean still have a pitch accent.
You're right.

I'm not sure if Reddit does it for messages but they do for votes for example. HN too.
So, Apple Bank this decade?
You can take your family to a "pick your own __berries" farm if there's one nearby. It's a fun family activity, if you like.

This is not the subject of the article.
Bob The Builder got my child started.

I didn't read to her most nights, btw. I told her a multi-year bedtime story instead.
AI has already trained people to enjoy looking at flat images with zero depth, perspective and spatial awareness.

I would be more worried if this trend in human visual taste wasn't a repeat of 1k yrs ago. Illuminated manuscripts featured flatland-styling and architecture of the time was as bland as the cybertruck too.

The real "danger" is people jumping on AI will make contemporary hand-made art like Star Wars appear high quality by comparison...
The problem with Google is very simple: they have become entirely incapable of creating new products (specifically: stuff that people actually want).

Most of the tech. that underpins OpenAI's stuff has been invented at Google, and quite a long time ago.

They've been sitting on it, not doing anything with it, and even when their most direct competitor comes to take a huge pound of flesh out using stuff they created, all they manage to do is put out a lame subpar competitor (bard).

Things this situation evokes for me:

- Google plus

- Kodak

- Xerox
Do most people write stuff and then go back and search for links to relevant content?

As a writer, I'm continually inspired by things I read or watch, and when I find something, I add it to my references. I use Zotero[1], but it's not the only solution. When I start writing, I already have my notes and the links to sources and related content. I don't add in links as an afterthought, the writing is informed by the related material.

Maybe, once in while, when I've done a couple of drafts and am getting close to the final version, I'll go back and add in links, but rarely do I spend time poking around on the web. I go to my references. Granted, the reference database takes effort to create and maintain, but the end result is far better than what I'd get just doing a web search for a term.

1 https://www.zotero.org/
One sentence. Prompting for maximum impact (and why that is a bad idea)
Some would consider the fact that Microsoft "competes with Google and Apple in the Cloud" and "has a not so competitive ad platform" and "has a semi competitive voice assistant" and so on is evidence they don't have a monopoly, rather than evidence they do.
Apple already lets you sign your own apps, but i will admit the 1 week expiration is very quick and a $99/year developer subscription for 1 year signing is way too expensive for most hobbyists.

It'll be great to see all the neat little apps that macos has come over to ios
Netflix cancels second-ever livestream after technical issues
SmartOS⸻illumos based type-1 hypervisor
> Little children learn to read first by literally reading out loud.

IME, little children learn to read first by recognizing whole words that other people read out loud, and the best learn-to-read curricula recognize and leverage that heavily, and use it to progress to add in phonics skills via using words that vary in one phoneme to reinforce what the common part sounds like. Phonics is useful as one of the skills used to identify unfamiliar words when children progress to reading independently, but even there its not the only thing going on (context is important).

> How else can you learn to read if not sounding out?

Whole word recognition. That written languages have existed that are logographic rather than phonetic makes it clear that it is possible to read, and learn to read, by means other than phonics, which is only potentially useful as part of the process in phonetic languages. But even where it can be part of the process, its not the whole story.
The US Gov really needs to start in-housing critical tools if only to build internal competency. There also probably needs to be more incentives for individuals inside the USG to excel and produce value. There are too many perverse incentives for unscrupulous contractors to milk tax payers (see the national parks situation [0]).

There is a huge resource imbalance with the amount of money spent generating hype/misinformation targeting USGov acquisitions vs how much is spent on the other end doing research and fostering expertise.

Maybe the way contracts are written/awarded could also just be overhauled for a similar effect.

[0]: https://mattstoller.substack.com/p/why-is-booz-allen-renting...
Thanks, the limit seems removed now. With my own submissions I’m never rate limited.
> It worked well enough for BERT: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/BERT_(language_model)

Great, the next education fad will be trying to teach kids like some software engineer trained his algorithm.

"Hey kids, start your integration over this new 1TB data set. Remember to adjust your weights after each iteration!"
> But at this point in time PH as as ethical as it can get for porn creators and consumers.

I'm extremely sex work and porn positive, but the current status quo doesn't mean they're doing all they can. This is a bit of a distracting comment, because indeed, things are better than most expect, but could always be better.
Yeah, that's the appeal. Occasional combustion (though less frequent now than in the past, I think) is the drawback.
> You should practically never parallel different values of MLCC

Can you then say why paralleling capacitors to cover higher frequency range is repeated often in literature? Was it true before MLCC? Why is it not valid with MLCC?
There are plenty others offering north of 4%, and north of apple's rate, that are reputable (not saying UFB isn't, but it's definitely not a household name).

The delta between, say, 4.55% and 4.8%, on the amounts I'm holding, may not be worth the potential extra headache of working with a lesser known bank. Introducing more risk (or just taking time to open more accounts) to earn, say, an extra $8/month... at some point becomes not worth it.
GBP is the iso code, stg is the abbreviation for pound sterling
I liked this story a lot until I was about 1,000 words in and realised there were still 4,500 words left.
That sounds about right for me. When I'm searching the web for information, only rarely does that information have to be newer than that.

That said, I'm not a fan of using these tools for search. For me, anyway, they don't even come close to doing what I want when I'm searching the web.
You answered a rhetorical question.
Microsoft has always been a shark in the water. Maybe it was slightly less capable of killing blows during the Ballmer days.
English is not phonetic. We do not always say a word the same way we spell it, unlike for example Spanish.

According to your definition all spoken languages are phonetic.
That wasn't the point. Visa and master getting more and more irrelevant and porn Industrie being once again a driving factor in this process is a good thing.

The point was that there is no reason to blame the current PH for their ethical standards, or rather that I think we should appreciate good standards and make them an actual standard instead of playing the blame game
I'm pretty sure, it had something to do with Wirecard. They had been the payment processor from Pornhub. Just a the same time, when some parts of the old Wirecard got sold, Pornhub deleted a lot of stuff "because of the children".
A lot of light rail and subway systems are entirely automated today. As far as I know, most of the systems that haven't automated conductor work are either grandfathered into union negotiations that preserve those positions or haven't been able to justify the cost yet.
Yeah I mean, other commenters have noted that it takes a while for curricula to change, but yeah I bet that's what was going on and that sounds like bad instruction.
This isn't a funding problem - SF's schools spend ~$17,500/student/year, while the California average is ~$14,000/student/year.

LA Unified is currently ~16,000/student/year.

It looks to me like SF actually gets significantly more money per student than people in the suburbs.
Facebook hasn't recently blamed the Play Store rules for their losing a shitload of money. They have so-blamed iOS App Store rules.

Basically, they have far less incentive to try to push a side-loaded version of their app, or to try to create an alternative app store, on Android.