skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think it would be useful for tailoring education to interests and capabilities.

In my country and state all children have some sort capabilities test, so I think the test says nothing much about the parents other than they participated in some system level testing and didn’t protest or remove their child from the test.

There’s lots of study showing correlation of IQ with income [0] and other positive life outcomes. But I think it’s generally not a good idea to tell six year olds all this.

In my own experience, the standardized tests included guidance about how not to reveal the information to children and why that wasn’t helpful. A few years later one of my children had a psychological evaluation that included IQ and it also included language about not revealing scores to the subject.

[0] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6526425/
> F# is such a great language.

I very much feel this, I found it productive, but it feels like a complete ghost town. I'm considering swapping to Go over using .NET for tooling/scripting.
How is this possibly related?
Even when the column is made with NOT NULL?
The flip side, as someone that prefers long-form video, is that TikTok tends to lack a lot of context. Is the leak coming from a pipe that is supposed to have teflon tape around the threads or not? Do you need to shut off the water main in case the pipe comes loose? How do you do that? What if the pipe needs to be re-soldered? Do they go ever when/how to do that in a TikTok?

TikTok is information dense, but only if you already know exactly what you're looking for. My experience is that people will spend half an hour watching 30 TikToks to get the same information as a good 10 minute YouTube video.
So let's assume an (impossible) perfect efficiency of spending, they can buy how many DGX with this? 100? 50? In any case, the money's probably not even enough to be competitive in terms of hardware, let alone anything else.
A couple of thoughts here:

1. I wonder how much of this is also driven by 'cancel culture', invasive media coverage, etc? After seeing stuff like how Scott Alexander's life got upended a bit after the New York Times covered Slate Star Codex, I wouldn't be surprised if many niche communities decided that making their discussions and ideas publicly viewable wasn't worth it.

Why open yourself up to real life consequences from a puritanical culture when you can limit discussions to those you know share similar views?

2. I also suspect the feeling that third parties were profiting from said information without really crediting the source may have had an impact too. I know a few communities that didn't share info until one of their own members had covered it on YouTube because they were sick of large channels and websites repackaging the info and getting credited as the 'source'.
Nothing quite like a BBB store closing sale. I've gotten some great items at 40% off over the past few years as they have been closing stores. Only 1 left around me, which is about to close.
>They didn't build an ecosystem more than others, they just made sure to kill any potential competitive ecosystem on the same hardware.

How did that work out for Facebook phone or Amazon phone or Microsoft phone or the myriad of others that tried?

Apple built the best ecosystem and that's why it prints money.
My point is that those categories aren't as separate as you like to think. I used to teach at a code school, and every single cohort had a nurse and a public school teacher in it. It was a running joke among the staff mostly because it was a very alarming trend we couldn't avoid seeing.

Those people didn't become "tech bros", to the extent they were admirable individuals before coding they remained so afterwards. A lot of people only entered the middle class because of coding work and will exit it when they can't continue. I'm one of these and I enjoy mocking tech workers as much as anyone but I trust my class solidarity is well placed in bowing out of this one.
I see 3 kind of people, all common on HN:

- The luddites: it's just hype.

- The doomers: AI will kill us all.

- The AI indie hackers: dunno about AI, I'm trying to make money with it.

Somehow the intersection is right: AI is not really smart, but it will replace a lot of human activity anyhow.
You bring the boat, I'll bring the beer ;)
What's interesting is that if your trying to build your own stuff is that the veneers and things are expensive, but actual wood is cheap.

Ikea, or someone else could probably make huge profits and great quality furniture where you buy the flatpack with hardware and veneers from them but it's design to add your own wood for massively improved stability. You could even have a few guys with miter and table saws chopping locally sourced 2x4s and plywood that fits the kit.
You mean like reviewing the output? How do we audit a congressional staffer's correctness?
That is why we used arrays of chars for that case, and naked Assembly blocks.
Everybody introduces bugs, and for a lot of classes of bugs the best way to prevent them is manual code reviews. Not everything can be easily caught by CI and tools.
In my experience lists are great but for reordering which can be awkward. Even there, there ought to be a plugin that makes reordering easier.

Have you checked out the mobile toolbar? It makes indent/unindenting list items easy.
> Why does writing in the morning (anecdotally so far) seem to be so effective for writers, even ones who are not morning persons? While programmers, which seems like a similar occupation, are invariably owls?

Also anecdotal, but I've met my share of early bird programmers. I often wonder how much of these habits are driven by ~~stereotypes~~ culture, since theoretically your energy level depends mostly on your lifestyle.
Given how successful Quaero (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quaero) was, I'm sure this will be another major success from Europe.
Probably because CS now has become synonymous with CRUD web development.
My gut is that they mean AI generated comments vs AI focused topics.

I did see at least one account that was posting a generated comment seconds after each submission posted.
Lmao 900m£ is not enough for hardware and development required as well as running costs, not with the UK gov's glacial pace and inability to move into the modern world. This is just a way to funnel money out.

As a Kiwi living in the UK for like 6 years now, the Brits' worst enemies are themselves; they're afraid of change, want everything to stay the same like the good old days and so vote for the same old idiots but complain when the leopards eat their face. Over and over again.

History runs deep here and people hold onto things for far too long. Then again, I did come to Europe for the rich history, I just didn't think its inhabitants would be so bound by it.
As a tech-inclined person working at a private school with a healthy amount of time to putter and work on my own projects, I feel like I need to get busy!
They wouldn't jump ship if you paid them what they were worth on the market. Or gave them the barest inkling that they were secure in their organization and not subject to arbitrary layoffs. Or if there were some sort of pension plan. Or if companies didn't keep foisting more and more insurance costs onto employees. Or if applying for a job didn't take 3-4 months and unemployment covered 100% during that transition period.

Job loyalty didn't just die, it was killed along with pensions and tenure. A lot of employees are applying to other jobs because, it takes so long to get through the application process, they can't rely on getting another job in time if they get laid off. Job hopping is the new job security. The fact that it is the only way to get a raise only accelerates it all.
I don’t think anyone is typing out every link at this point.

Html is split into components or views or partials. Links are inside loops etc.

You save time every time you don’t have to think about coming up with a new class name or how it might affect the hierarchy.

I totally understand it feels weird to begin with but on a major project you never worry that your css tweaks might affect some other obscure part of the site.
While it's true they experience more weight gain, that's more of an off-label use. That doesn't negate the claim that proper procedures/care/environment could make the use of animal antibiotics more rare. There are other alternatives to increasing weight gain, although the use of any medication to induce weight gain should require careful consideration.
No, AIT is a runtime - it exports a .so that you can load from C++ and call how you like.
We are discussing whether the article has content or not, clickbait is a particular type of low information content on the internet which I think is an incorrect characterization of this article however I do agree it's low information, and basically the premise of the article was reverse engineered by a writer that thought "wow these photos are cool."

If you find my comments on the matter also low information, I can live with that.
If person A borrows money from person B, and person B (for whatever reason) writes off and forgives that debt, person C should not be able to swoop in, buy the discharged debt, and reactivate it.

The situation you described is not at all what this is referring to. My credit is shit, because when I was much younger, I stupidly ran up a bunch of debt and was unable to pay it. However, the creditor completely forgave the debt a few years down the road, near the end of December, and as I looked into it, the IRS counts that as reportable income and thus affected my taxes that year. Should some third party be able to resurrect that, a third party to whom I never owed money?

I don't really think that should happen in a just system. I wonder if having proper documentation to the debt cancellation would be a defense against ugly shenanigans like this.

If our governing system wants respect, then they really shouldn't be using the dirtiest tactics they possibly can to extract every drop of blood from so many stones. The state having a monopoly on violence does not mean that all use of that violence is justified or appropriate.
> ChatGPT can read a 4,000 page bill in 3 days

So can the legislative staff of the committee of responsibility.

> And it'll be a nice neutral way of arguing about what is in a bill - people might be able to agree on which AI is reasonable

Ha ha ha ha. No. Just like they can’t do that with human experts, and for the same reason. Heck, this has already been demonstrated in the case of AI models quite resoundingly.

And it would be a bad thing if they could: designating a single AI vendor as the sole arbiter of truth in the lawmaking process would be much worse than the status quo.
Probably https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2023-03-30/bed-ba...
Yeah, I'd be interested to see what's _inside_ the request, not just that it was made.

Was it a connectivity self-test or empty GET request? That's not ideal, but fairly benign.

Or was it a "phone home" reporting the device's ID, SN, IMEI, etc? That's a lot worse.

Or, did it truly contain PII or geolocation data? that's really bad. It matters a LOT what's inside the request, and it seems a little dishonest to not include it in the report.
Again have you ever thought that something is “premium” based on its feature set and how well it works - not just to impress people?

The difference is that you can buy an iPhone for $17-$25/month compared to $4-$12/month for an Android phone. It’s like going to McDonalds and choosing not to eat off the value menu.

Over 50% of the market including my 80 year old mom are not buying iPhones to impress people.
I agree with you it’s in a lot of way similar to the dotcom bubble but the issue seems to me simpler than you make it seems. Propped by an easy access to cheap investment fonds, companies massively over hired developers to work on projets which have actually no value. The massive demand leads to under qualified people being hired. The current layoff is a return to a sustainable situation. And even then if you look at the number for the entire market we are not even back to a prepandemic number.
Coincidentally, I'm writing this with my feet up on a vintage IKEA coffee table that's solid pine. I got it second hand from a thrift store for $20, but it must be at least 15 years old. When I move, I'll probably just donate it back to Goodwill, and the cycle will continue
The Rise of Autonomous Agents
In the case that dark matter doesn't interact via any force other than gravity, then there will be an epistemological crisis in physics as your model will be indistinguishable from one in which dark matter is a particle.
To put all political opinions aside, I was also about to add that it is fundamentally wrong that representatives in a representative democracy are outsourcing lawmaking to a private company whose training data and associated reinforcement learning may contain all sorts of unknown biases. Even if all biases would be absent, I would argue that elected representatives are neither doing their jobs nor serving their constituencies if they outsource policy deliberation and lawmaking to a machine owned by a private company.
I can also recommend using Syncthing with obsidian. I use it to synchronize my vault to all my devices. I also added it to my existing Raspberry Pi server that's always online, so I always have a distributor instance running and don't need to worry about sync issues.
Hey, saw you post, but you said that you have no codes left. I've sent you an email anyways, could you please give an invite if you ever have a spare one available?
Back when I tried it, there seemed to be a few verticals where Ocaml abstractions made Ocaml very productive to work with.

Once a colleague and I did a programming race between two languages, to see how long it would take to implement a small cryptanalysis program using Ocaml vs C++. I wrote it in a day, and it took my desk neighbor who was doing the same in C++ a couple of weeks.

What made the difference:
- There were a lot of things I didn't have to worry about. For example, I was working with nontrivial structures but didn't have to write any boilerplate functions for deep equality or lex ordering.
- Immutable structures with GC made it much more direct to translate the math into a working program. Ditto with guaranteed tail recursion optimization.
- The match syntax caught many issues at compile time by forcing me to reason about every case. As a result I had many less runtime bugs to deal with, while my colleague needed to troubleshoot memory and correctness issues half the time.

Ymmv. This was for research and didn't end up in production use. The C++ implementation was also much "closer to the metal" so was able to wring out more performance. Still the difference in initial velocity was striking and there could've been a case that this would've been a better choice based on dev velocity in that vertical.
In my experience, these personal projects are the best way to learn.

Most of the key skills that got me a job started with me playing around with some technology to solve a custom problem I had.
This is trivially broken by taking a picture of a high enough resolution screen, or printout.
Respectfully, you are not correct that eclipse in Geo is insignificant. It drives many engineering constraints for spacecraft systems. Look I get why people are excited about space space solar power, but I've been in this industry for 15 years and when you dig into the numbers and understand the realities of spacecraft engineering, SBSP just seems like a fool's errand. It may not always be that way, but the technical challenges are extreme and costs are still nowhere near what would be required to make it work.

You can chalk my comments up to a grumpy engineer tired of the cyclical SBSP pushes that never go anywhere.
I'm actually arguing that GPT-4 is more knowledgeable and capable than the average human, and I insist on the word average.
Tags would help here, in that you could use them to filter out what you don't want to see.

I've asked many times for HN to allow tagging, but my sense is that it's never going to happen.

Another idea is to use a spam filter on an RSS feed of HN articles. I did this decades ago for my personal feed, using bayesean spam filters, and it worked well enough.

Finally, you could use an AI to filter for you.
Try Das Kapital by Karl Marx and/or The Conquest of Bread by Piotr Kropotkin.
> Why would a company use ocaml?

Why wouldn't a company use Brainfuck?
I’m curious about this, because over the past decade or so, large parts of GTK’s cross-platform ability have been actively sabotaged. It used to be possible to style it to look native on Windows, with some feel problems but mostly comparatively minor. Now, well, no one has quite managed native look (whether or not it’s possible, and certainly I’ll allow that “native” is very ill-defined on Windows these days), and feel is way off in important ways because they’ve deliberately removed a number of important pieces, forcing GNOME HIG conventions. (Things like how they basically force GNOME’s style of overlay scrollbars these days; also keyboard stuff is regularly hopelessly wrong.) The GTK/libadwaita separation is a lie. The GNOME Foundation co-opted GTK and deliberately scupper it for everyone that’s not GNOME (whether on Linux or for other OSes).

So I’m curious whether this sort of patch would be accepted. Assuming reasonable quality of patch, it pretty obviously should be if you want to be a cross-platform toolkit that doesn’t feel massively out of place, but without knowing what position or connections Paul Rouget may have, I’m honestly sceptical that such a patch would be accepted.
In practice, Microsoft doesn't really care because they just tie the Windows license to your physical motherboard (that's why you can reinstall Windows on your laptops over-and-over again without a license prompt). This only matters in hobby builder circles where you build your own computer

So yeah, its not really a thing NFTs solve, and something that a very simple chip on a motherboard solves perfectly.

People don't really "buy Windows" in practice. They buy a laptop, or a Dell computer. And they sell the laptop, or Dell computer, in its entirety.
If you let the JSON blobs grow past the page size the cost of recovering TOAST tuples can be 10x reading main storage. Also JSON is fundamentally de-normalized so you can incur scan and read costs just from hauling out duplicate values where a nice normalized lookup would be snappy. And finally JSON recovery is going to pull the whole object every time, even though you are probably only interested in one element of the object, so again, higher recovery times compared to an equivalent normalized model.
I am talking about BigTech top 10 CS school grads. They literally don't understand the scientific method or how to use mathematics to design their systems.
I've extensively used both. The problem I have concerns this part:

> I assume that in the next 5 years something better than Obsidian will come out though the idea is that is really doesn't matter in the end because the data stays the same.

Something better already is out, and the data has already changed. A ton of the power of Notion is in the structured formatting of note metadata; Notion calls them Databases. This is the core of a lot of the produtivity-hacking snake-oil that these YouTube videos sell, but there is something to it. Markdown doesn't have a correlate. Nothing even close. You physically cannot represent in markdown what is possible in some of these Notion documents.
Is "slay" internet slang? I thought it was American gay slang.
Yah. I mean, a lot of human activity in employment is not really smart.

Anything that you can make into a fairly formulaic job for someone who's not really interested in doing it or improving too much is probably not very intellectually demanding (but perhaps may be a bit demanding in world perception or actuation than current AI/robotics systems).

And I believe that is "most jobs."
Schizophrenia occurrence may be somewhat related to the inverse of Dunbar's number, this is only partially about biology / genetics, just as computers are also about software and not only about hardware.
kill accepts multiple pids. So there is no need to use xargs unless you expect so many pids that the command line is exhausted.
Someday, all those 20% off coupons they mailed out will be as quaint a collector's item as the America Online CD's.
You forgot about the rest of us. Developers who are interested in the subject and want to read about the latest developments and techniques. We're actually interested in the computer science.
Any language that have exceptions are trash imo. It is clearly a relic of the old day. It works for CPUs but not people.
fuser is so handy - I am surprised more people do not know about it. It is one of my favourite tricks when pair programming etc.

You can also use it to kill processes that have a file open too, which is also handy if your hung server is also hanging onto files as well as ports.
I doubt that Gen Z are already purchasing homes without leaning on any inheritance at all.
`i` has a geometric meaning! It's explained by Geometric Algebra: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geometric_algebra

In three dimensional Geometric Algebra, `i` is defined as the product of three orthogonal unit vectors, `abc`. You have `abc = bca = cab = i` and `acb = cba = bac = -i`. So `i` defines a chirality on the space.

David Hesternes has a paper relating that to QM: https://web.archive.org/web/20120406093531/http://www.montgo...
They're making a math joke. It's impossible for more than half of the sample to be below the median since the median is constructed so that half fall on each side.

Having 60% of a sample below the median means someone calculated the median wrong.
Animal agriculture has too many shortcomings.

- Greenhouse gas emissions

- Deforestation

- Land degradation

- Water pollution

- Water overconsumption

- Loss of biodiversity

- Antibiotic resistance

- Ocean dead zones

- Inefficient land and resource use

- Ethical concerns regarding animal welfare

- Contribution to zoonotic diseases

- Air pollution

- Eutrophication

- Soil erosion

- High energy consumption

- Chemical runoff from pesticides and fertilizers

- Destruction of habitats and ecosystems

- Overfishing and bycatch

- Inequality in global food distribution

- Public health risks from foodborne illnesses

- Nutrient pollution

- Strain on waste management systems

etc.
My best fake account was when pretended to be North Vietnam war veteran IronNokovski. I learned so much of Russian tech in Finnish Army that I could go on for ever on RBK missile targeting systems and AK-47 field maintenance. I actually think it was Russians who burned this account, because of revealing military secrets.
is it easy to set it to not charge to 100%? a timer or something?
My favorite explanation for the remote viewing stuff is that it was cover for advanced spy satellite imagery and transmission. Explaining away new capabilities you want to keep unknown to the world as "magic." https://twitter.com/mmabeuf/status/1371213766734573569?t=lrW...

The other theory I've encountered is that it was cover for ongoing mind control research after MKULTRA had to be wound down.
> Deming just wanted businesses to be run holistically

That was the impression I got of the Agile Manifesto when I read it back in '99 or so - boy did that ever get misinterpreted.
.NET has System.Text.Json.

I wonder how does it compare to go's implementation
I was just lamenting to my friends last night about how the Trending (daily, weekly, and monthly) section on GitHub seems to be 90% AI/LLM related projects. I personally use some LLM functionality in my workflows and I appreciate the technology -- but at this point I want to have other types of projects bubble back up to the top.
I would argue that a true luddite towards AI needs a corollary:

- The luddites: it's just hype — because I will kill it with fire before it takes over.