skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Phonics works better but whole language works OK.

The evidence suggest that whole language fails totally for low SES students.

Again, phonics is just about decoding language. Comprehension require a lot of vocabulary exposure, cultural competency, and other adjacent things that help build a mental schema of the language. The study the Guardian is citing says exactly this.

It's important to understand that the Guardian is engaged in a political debate around phonics and is criticizing it for "encourage a love of reading," which is not the point of teaching the decoding step to begin with. The Guardian article grossly misrepresents the actual study, which says in its conclusion that NO study in the UK met the evidentiary requirements for their inclusion criteria but other studies from the broader Anglosphere suggest that phonics is important in learning to read
The format doesn't support intermediates.
There is a good reason other banks do not offer more. Their customers aren't savvy enough to find a less well marketed consumer bank, so they don't have to pay more. That's called profit my friend.
Maybe they’re looking for an excuse to gain k8s experience to bolster their resume? If most startups fail, might as well gain some skills out of the current one? Perhaps it doesn’t benefit the startup though, inflating complexity, infra spend, and slowing productivity.
Can't wait for us to be able to query GPT for peoples credit card info
Hey, I get it you are DeFI fan.

All I'm saying is any discussion including it has to realistic that it is fundamentally a risky at current time. Will it outgrow that? We'll see.

> It depends on what you define as an emergency fund. If your view is

Now this is just moving goalposts, why do that? Everyone was talking about emergency funds in the usual sense. Introducing hedging against the USD based economy is at best a distraction (even if that's what you personally want to talk about) and counterproductive.
You do have a right to privacy by default, but the government can spy if it has a good enough reason.

If you thought being spied on was bad, wait til you hear what the government does when it thinks you're guilty of a crime.
Gerkin/cucumber?
How about: 13 months, each is always 28 days/4 weeks. At the end of the year there is a public holiday. Every leap year the public holiday is 2 days long. The hard part will be thinking of the name for the 13th month.
So, 20x less renovation than a $4m house in Palo Alto needs.
Except that for the same cost in cloud you can't just have double the resources in dedicated servers, but like 3x to 10x depending. And if you do colo, even more.

I get that if you have management that won't keep even 10% spare capacity online you can't work like this, but they will also "tightly control cloud spending", won't they? Not sure.

Cloud only really makes sense at really small scale.
Equaling rituals with "stupid people believing in spirits" is arrogant. I don't say I know how they thought or how rational they were, but they sure didn't leave us any research on e.g. how to extend medium lifespan to 70.
Do these incentives actually make any difference to manufacturers? AFAIK they're all selling the cars as fast as they can make them.
Sea-level rise in Southwest Greenland as a contributor to Viking abandonment
If you are from the US: tit for tats :)

I’m joking, none of that is the individual faults.
Would really love to see the LDP decide to open up immigration for folks from ASEAN member states. The JICA's infra projects in the region are a strong soft power play, and are getting delivered faster than anything funded by the Belt and Road initiative (or at least when I look at the different projects in Metro Manila, they are).
There's no EV battery supply chain in the US, just like there's no real solar supply chain.

You can't just snap your fingers and say "OK, subsidies only for US made batteries!" when there is little industry and ramping it up would take many years.

The policy is just a way of "soft" killing the subsidies.
Because it’s the only way their argument holds any water. In 2023, the security problems inherent to allowing app installations outside operating system stores have been almost completely mitigated.
I think the Omicron Bode 100 is the best bang for buck for a proper VNA these days.
This post omits the substantial Japanese contributions to techno and I am not sure why.

Technopop was not just some journalist’s genre descriptor for Kraftwerk. It was a rich genre originated in Japan by Yellow Magic Orchestra, who combined Kraftwerk’s sound with a more pop sensibility.

Many of the Detroit techno originators have cited YMO alongside Kraftwerk as a key influence.

Two key contributions from YMO come to mind, but there are many others:

YMO’s “Technopolis,” recorded in 1979, might have been the first dance music track to use the word “techno”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ek1oCwp7oms

Their 1981 version of Ryuichi Sakamoto’s “Thousand Knives” is often cited as the first track to use the Roland TR-808: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G2d37oySCfk

ps: Technopop would later evolve into what we know as city pop, and eventually present-day J-pop. The sound quickly diverged from what we would recognize as techno; the early releases in the genre are the most important for this discussion, especially YMOs since those were by far the most accessible in the US. It’s all interesting to listen to though!
It also depends on if renovations will just be done by yourself... can be dramatically cheaper (if you have the time).
Flourish: An AI Therapist in your pocket
Yup, the good ol' days of DataFellows, when I had to convince people to use SSH instead of Telnet... ;-)
If anyone is interested. There's a pretty good Darknet Diaries episode that covers some of this and other cases:
https://darknetdiaries.com/transcript/105/
There are a lot of employees at large tech consultancies that don't really do anything that can't be automated away by even current models.

Sprinkle in some more specific training and I can totally see entire divisions at IBM and Accenture and TCS being made redundant.

The incentive structures are perversely aligned for this future - the CEO who manages to reduce headcount while increasing revenue is going to be very handsomely rewarded by Wall Street.
Under this scenario you wouldn't need to do anything if the site rotates their key - the new key would be presented with a certificate signed with the same CA key. But no clients support doing this kind of semi-automated enrollment at the moment. You can manually add the trusted certificate to known_hosts, though.
I wouldn't take it for granted that these actually use GPS at all, let alone exclusively (e.g. they might also use cell tower or BSSID triangulation). It's pretty common to use "GPS" generically for other methods of automated geopositioning.
I think "professionals" just avoid a car chases in the first place? My take is that most people trying to outrun the cops aren't going to be so highly technical and well prepared.

(as a digression: GPS jamming might not be the best approach, but that depends on what the StarChase does. It would probably make more sense to jam its transmission capability, which presumably relies on cellular, rather than try to jam its GPS reception capability. If GPS is effectively blocked but the device can still transmit it could still attempt to locate you using cell towers or wifi BSSIDs.)
I know there are POE lighting panels for commercial spaces. When I looked they were pretty (prohibitively?) expensive. Maybe when powered by solar there are network effects that make them cheaper in overall system cost.
> Dataset size is not relevant to predicting the loss threshold of LLMs. You can keep pushing loss down by using the same sized dataset, but increasingly larger models.

Deepmind and others would disagree with you! No-one really knows in actual fact.

[1] https://www.deepmind.com/publications/an-empirical-analysis-...
I think they’re talking about a broader effect at work here, and using themselves as an example.

Your advice may prevent one Hacker News poster from further locking themselves in, but there are about a billion others who won’t get the chance to read it.
I agree that this is better than the police breaking into people's property and installing GPS without the owner being aware of it. I imagine a lot of problems with this new tech will be on the backend, with GPS or the software passing that data on to officers giving incorrect or imprecise location data leading to innocent people being harassed or killed.

"Shoot at it" seems to be the default response to everything for police in the US, and I could see this causing innocent people, innocent people's vehicles, or other property being hurt or damaged by poorly aimed or entirely unnecessary shots.
I would pick Italy or rural France. But also … I can legally live and work there.
I can imaging Apple mulling about the same for iOS. Microsoft is on a roll and they have the money to challenge Google’s default place in our pockets.
Same experience here, they were even hooking us up with credits. Even when we were tiny they wanted to understand how we used AWS and were available to help with PoCs for products we weren't familiar with.

I interviewed many people in my life and every once in a while a candidate would be an AWS Solutions Architect. To my surprise it turns out that much of their time is spent helping customers implement their cloud workloads.

At $BigCorp when stuff wasn't working I had regularly had AWS bite their nails out trying to understand what was wrong until we got to a working solution.
The OS can control the data the app has access to for fingerprinting, with enough restrictions apps like Facebook would still have to rely on guesswork to do so
There is a no sane way to manufacture large enough decoupling capacitors in the semiconductor processess involved. Some ICs (including most of socketed CPUs) include some decoupling MLCCs in the module package, but still the bulk has to be outside.
That doesn’t work though - without consequences you’d have hundreds of idiots wanting to fuck around and find out, with kids on tow, because freedom.
> So, 20x less renovation than a $4m house in Palo Alto needs.

While the comparison of renovation costs is interesting, it seems somewhat arbitrary to use Palo Alto as the sole point of comparison.

After all, Palo Alto is widely known as one of the most expensive cities in the United States, so it’s possible that the cost of renovations there could be significantly higher than in other areas. It would be fascinating to see a broader analysis of renovation costs across different cities, regions, or countries, perhaps even taking into account factors such as local labor costs and materials prices.

Only then can we truly understand the economic implications of home renovation and how it varies across the country.
This is honestly more of a feature that exists because the SQL standard specifies it, and supporting it can be useful for people porting code from another DB that uses a similar system. If you are not doing that, then it doesn't seem to provide enough value to be worth the headache of ading an additional preprocessor to your build chain. Not to mention, it likely messes with syntax highlighting, linters, etc.

Indeed, this (or the equivalent in other languages) is one of the main ways the SQL standard expects to be used! It get presented before more familiar approaches, and various wording and placement choices make it clear that the standard considers this embedded SQL approach more core to how it works than other approaches.

A design like libpq, ODBC, etc where the sql syntax needs to be parsed at runtime rather than compile time is considered "dynamic sql" by the standard, and the standard acts like it is less likely to be provided than this interface. Obviously that is hogwash.

This is one of many reasons (like backwards compatibility) that unlike most other programming languages very few SQL implementations make much effort towards faithfully implementing the standard. PostgreSQL actually puts a lot more effort towards implementing the standard than many other popular RDBMses. Postgres has fairly few places where they intentionally violate the standard and don't hope to fix things in the future, and several are fairly obscure, or othewise not likely to cause issues. While Oracle has MANY super common features not spec complaint with no plans to fix. Same with SQL Server. I'm not sufficiently familiar with MySQL/MariaDB to evaluate how closely it tracks the SQL standard. It seems to claim only minor deviations, but that may well be from not claiming conformance at all with features it has implemented but differently from the standard.
Obviously the implication is that only plebs are using Android and affluent people are on iOS
I wouldn't necessarily call it a level up.

There's a lot of use cases for which Postgres works very well at scale, and the main benefit of a solution like these specialized ones is more of a convenience layer.
If you can secure a job in Japan (admittedly a big if), they're far more friendly than, say, the US.
Still waiting to see those plugins rolled out and actual vector DB integration with GPT 4, then we'll see what it can really do. Seems like the more context you give it the better it does, but the current UI really makes it hard to provide that.

Plus the recursive self prompting to improve accuracy.
The missing part is often the "well done" part. Other than that - traditional bugs/listening devices, malware (recording the sound before encryption/after decryption)?

Then there's traffic analysis (a talk to b, b kill c, b talk to a). See also: "well done".
Because depending on your threat model, meeting in person may be undesirable.
Bruv has to pay for the data he's been using or soon there won't be any to nick on. Groupies claiming their ai is "intelligent", and not just a data ingesting beast, will soon learn a heard lesson. Take your blogs offline, stop contributing content for free and stop pushing code or else chavs like this one will continue monetising your hard work. As did bezos and many others that now want you to be out of a job.
Perhaps (a) there do exist bigger models that weren't better or (b) this model isn't better than somewhat smaller ones. Perhaps the CEO has seen diminishing returns.
About RACHEL
Are you working at all with Stability, Eleuther, or LAION? There have been some rumors that they are doing something similar to this and I'm wondering if this is a duplicated effort.

Either way, huge fan, it would be awesome to have a LLaMA set of weights that are fully open.
Why anti-virus engines used to be multi billion business?
"The banned books include graphic novels such as Batman and X-Men, a copy of Reader’s Digest, works about artists including Leonardo da Vinci and Michelangelo, graphic novel adaptations of classics by William Shakespeare and Mark Twain, the Pulitzer-prize winning graphic novel Maus and other books about the Holocaust, and The Children’s Bible."

https://www.edweek.org/teaching-learning/nearly-300-books-re...
Yes, though 80 years of workers is enough for almost everyone starting to be dead already. So “centuries” is not quite as biting as it sounds. Engineering does happen to be that old of course.

My father ran his two-person business with spreadsheets, word processing, and games (haha) about 40 years ago.

I think people forget how much tech was around in the old days. Moon landing and SR-71 happened in the late sixties. Mythical Man Month talks of the software/PM angle and most chapters apply directly to today.
I'm experiencing minor flashbacks to the EE intro class where they made us calculate RC circuits. Objectively I know a .1µF capacitor doesn't affect circuit voltage that much but my inner 19 year old is screaming.
What indoctrination is actually going on? It’s a convenient bogeyman, but as someone that went through the public school system, and with younger siblings that did so after me, I’m honestly not sure what people mean by this.
I'll be a 60 year old software engineer next year(class of '87), my brother just retired as a 60 year old engineer(class of '85). We exist but the educational/career pathways at that time were very limited.
I think the main reason is that LE basically has root on the entire stack up to the encryption.
Why would anyone use such a bank when pretty much every other bank and credit union in existence is cheaper and more convenient?
Easiest code review of my life. Can't let bad code through a code review if there is no code at all!
How many of those cells have you killed that were physiologically whole, were arranged in a shape of having two arms, two legs, two eyes, and every major organ but especially a brain? How many were complete organisms?

> There is no hypothesis to test that disproves "an organism is alive when it can X and Y".

1. Metabolize
2. Homeostasis
3. Responds to stimuli
4. Growth
5. Reproduction

Never learned the list in school? It often includes "composed of cells", but that one might not make sense for xenobiology.

There are people who only believe in science, I guess, when it gives them the answers they were hoping for anyway.
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How is defunding libraries protecting children and fighting homelessness...?
Change that to "Computers/Printers" and you'll probably have universal appeal
ING [1] is offering a variety of financial services, including financing and savings accounts. Such banks necessarily have to operate at scale, in order to offset fraud/investment loss. I am specifically asking for the viability of a small "dumb" bank, which engages in only the lowest risk activity.

Surely, technology has reached the point where a small team can create a bank of the sort I am suggesting. But do financial regulations and economic realities allow for it?

[1] https://www-ing-de.translate.goog/?_x_tr_sl=en&_x_tr_tl=ur&_...
Its a mixture of hard to use and things seem to not work as expected.

For instance, I want to do multi region deploys for lambda, I can't just do a simultaneous push to deploy across regions. I'm expected to use this messy switch[0] between the CLI and the CDK to do anything useful. This is a tiny example.

Not to mention the CDK packages have no comments in the shipped files (at least for typescript) so I can't even introspect the typings and try to understand the purpose of things. The documentation is atrocious.

Consider instead Firebase, Supabase or Fly.io, which are dead simple to use.

Developer Experience needs a major overhaul. It should be as easy or easier as Supabase or Firebase. No, Amplify is not a solution, its too buggy and has zero margin for customization plus, its local dev experience is quite bad

It'll probably never happen though, because developers are just end users, not the true customer, the buyer (e.g. management) is. I think that's the real reason why these improvements languish

[0]: https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/compute/deploying-aws-lambda-la...
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I remember my dad put a preorder deposit in for this when I was in high school, with his idea being it would be the perfect vehicle for me to commute around a college campus several years later. I am now approaching 30 and from what I recall of Elio's website when I looked at it then, it looks like they've made a lot of progress in offering the vehicle in additional colors.
Thanks, that's helpful
The way I understand SSH interaction, is that every single time I login to a site or server for the first time, it is like interacting with self-signed HTTPS cert. There is no PKI, no central trust that did any kind of validation that the site is who they say they are.

Considering that SSH is generally used by a small number of people per server vs. a general access mechanism (for the general internet), the need for PKI hasn't seemed as pressing. But why it isn't more prominent, I don't know.
> the command was:

> sudo rpm-ostree rebase ostree-unverified-registry:ghcr.io/ublue-os/bluefin:38

> After the process was completed, I rebooted, logged in, and saw a completely different desktop environment.

Interesting idea. Hopefully it will have diff, and maybe checkout --force as well!

I wonder what the possibilities are for other choices than desktop environment - audio stack, maybe? - and how hard for the maintainers a multiplicity of these would be?
nah this is different because USA has no interest in fighting China over Taiwan. But it also can't have the microchip supply chain cut off. Hence, relocating Taiwan's most valuable assets to Arizona before the war starts.
It does. The problem is that crooks aren't generally trustworthy, and selling you out is leverage they're very willing to use should the cops ever catch them. The same applies to every part of the illicit communications network you rely on - if any part of the trusted chain breaks down in a way that enables the cops to subvert your encryption you're screwed, right down to installing an OS update on your device.

Good opsec is exceptionally hard. If you aren't building it from scratch it probably isn't secure. And even if you are, if you're a big enough target for nation states to be looking you're still going to have a hard time.
Almost as if they have a not-even-single-digit-percentage of bugs...
> and end up with a model that actually is not really good and gets rendered useless

ahem Bard ahem
If crooks were proficient at using FOSS to write their own encryption apps that obey best practices... working as an SWE would probably pay better and have less downsides.
For a big company that is nothing but if you are bootstrapping and trying to acquire customers with an MVP racking up a $500 bill is frightening. What if you offer a free trial and blow up and end up with 5k+ bill.
I'm talking about the firmware on the motherboard. Your BIOS is CPU-specific - if a future CPU changes the default CPU mode, you simply update your BIOS code to match while you're doing the rest of the work you need to do for that BIOS to run on the new CPU. If the BIOS expects to run in real mode (I'm not aware of any modern firmware that does, but) then you just add some code to switch back to real mode. Otherwise, you probably just delete the code that currently transitions from real mode to protected mode. That doesn't preclude you switching back to real mode if the bootloader expects that.
I've seen them in the US (rarely). I think they just mostly just bury any record of it when someone important enough gets caught. More common are the checkpoints near the boarder where they stop people "just because"
You've got the flow of money inverted... Phone manufacturers don't pay for the right of getting to set a search engine as the default. They expect to be paid.
>How are they at human performance?

Because it performs at least average human level (mostly well above average) on basically every task it's given.

"Invest something new" is a nonsensical benchmark for human level intelligence. The vast majority of people have never and will never invent anything new.

If your general intelligence test can't be passed by a good chunk of humanity then it's not a general intelligence test unless you want to say most people aren't generally intelligent.
>Incredible Shrinking Japan: The great country’s population has fallen for 12 years in a row.

https://archive.ph/93ccw
Castlevania is on the list at #15.
NACHA requires you to upload a formatted file and it's a character offset format that you can't do by hand. There's a computer in the mix. There is also ACH pulls that you need have error handling around for invalid account numbers and insufficient funds. I guess you could just do it by hand.
Microsoft 'Semantic Kernel' for AI LLM-Backed Apps
My IQ is 140 and I'm far from exceptional.
Exactly for making car chases less necessary. Just get in range to shoot, shoot and then track the fleeing car more safely from a distance.