skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
But they are the messengers, yet cant be bothered with any of this themselves, the only suggestions they ever have are what the rest of us can do to offset their life styles. Next Davos meeting online? Haha, oh you (adjusts monocle)... practice what you preach.

Or you can pretend some investor or politician somewhere doesnt rub elbows directly or indirectly with the companies that do the shit in the article. They control everything on the planet, business and politics, stuff like this article is just what comes to light. It could be fixed with a fucking phone call, but they might have to pay some overtime, which hits the bottom line, and they wont lose a nickel to back up their bullshit because their 14th bathroom needs a new gold shitter and those things are expensive.

Its more cost effective for me to chip my tooth on a metal straw or stop eating altogether.

Gates "guilty pleasure" is collecting private jets

https://www.motorbiscuit.com/bill-gates-private-jets-guilty-...
https://twitter.com/goddeketal/status/1655658051855065090
https://www.newsweek.com/bill-gates-defends-using-private-je...
The concept of caste(the Indian words for this mean something different) as you understand in modern times was not the rigid structure you see today. There is no one true book for the dharmic faiths and over time the concept was rigidified by the people in power to keep their power.

I asked the bot

> Can anyone become a Brahmin?

> Yes, anyone can become a Brahmin through their actions and qualities. One's birth does not determine their caste or status. It is their actions that determine their place in society. As stated in the Bhagavad Gita, "One who is equal to all beings, seeing oneself in everyone, and seeing all beings in oneself, attains the highest Brahman, because one has attained perfect peace" (BG 6.32). This means that one who has attained the qualities of compassion, selflessness, and understanding can attain the highest state of Brahmanhood. Therefore, it is important to focus on one's actions and qualities rather than their birth or social status.

https://ibb.co/WkGs6nx
I was first introduced to the Reading and Writing workshop by my wife about a decade ago. At the time she was teaching 4th grade social studies at a fancy-pants school in Menlo Park. We didn’t talk much about phonetics as these kids could already parse text. For these kids the goal was to get them to read and write.

For this purpose the program is much better than the standard curriculum. Also notice that this was social studies and not English class. Reading and writing is a holistic experience that is required for any academic subject and should be reinforced in every subject.

My wife has informed me that phonetic instructions for first-time readers was already in the program when she was trained almost a decade ago, a revision based on clinical feedback.

My wife fought tooth-and-nail to get rid of the 1960s curriculum of hammering grammar into 9 year olds at the school she was dean of curriculum at here in Austin.

Unfortunately, the Reading and Writing Workshop has been under assault from the popular media recently so now a few teachers are rallying to bring back the 1960s.

The truth is that reading and writing have very little to do with sounding out words and following rules. They are key epistemological activities for humankind.

There’s not much point in teaching people “good grammar” (of which I am a big fan of because I’m a word nerd) beyond social signaling. It certainly isn’t very useful.

The goal of education in our republic is to create an ever-expanding citizenry capable of self-reflection and self-governance. These are Enlightened ideals but so is this entire political project that we’ve been undertaking.

Is this even possible? Look at who could vote in 1781. Would you call them literate? What does literate mean? Does it stop at a 12th grade level? Are you somewhat illiterate if I make a reference to Greek mythology yet you don’t know what the word means? Sure, maybe I should pick “rock” and “hard place” instead of Scylla and Charybdis, and maybe I could limit my vocabulary to just 1,000 basic words, but that comes at a cost.

What self-governance requires is not utilitarian but deeply philosophical in nature. It require a deep love of knowledge for the majority of people who are polled.

This seems to be the motivating factor behind the Reading and Writing Workshop, instilling the love of reading and writing in students, at least from what I have seen second-hand.
> rude to for there to be protestors at the coronation

Many monarchists are offended by republican views. For that reason alone, I would have recommended against a republican demonstration in the middle of a large crowd of monarchists (if I'd been asked!)

Also, I don't think republicanism is very widespread among cops, a group of people that tend to have an authoritarian mindset.

I think some people have a sense that the monarchy "is theirs", as if this hyper-privileged family were their own children.

I didn't watch any of the coronation coverage on purpose, but it's been devliishly difficult to avoid. Something that struck me is that many of the most ardent monarchists in the crowd seemed to be yanks and aussies. I find that really weird.
I personally am against both the newly passed legislation, and against police arresting people for not even breaking the ridiculous new laws. I'll complain about both :)
If it was that bad it wouldn’t be in 87% of households.

I don’t think any of the services offer award winning UX, but the difficulties stated in the article are overblown. Nor is it “ruining TV” … the proof is that they keep making TV (well, Until the writers strike…)
Quite. A protest is supposed to be disruptive. Disruptions isn't violence.

What next, strikes that you can only do while working?

Perhaps we should only be allowed to criticise government with prior written permission where we detail the criticism and they can veto or censor it? ... oh wait, like marches and protests[1]

[1]: https://www.gov.uk/protests-and-marches-letting-the-police-k...
However that was for the benefit of the residents, to reduce noise pollution made by people outside the area using it as a shortcut.

https://www.rac.co.uk/drive/advice/driving-advice/what-is-ra...

The roadblocks in the 15 minute cities have been imposed to control the residents, to reduce their freedom and autonomy, to satisfy environmental goals. That is the difference.

Instead of being a left vs. right issue, instead I think it's an authoritarian vs. libertarian issue. On one side we have those advocating for more state control, in the name of the greater good. And on the other side we have those for personal freedom.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Political_Compass ?
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It's possible, but I don't think that would be assuming good faith or having a charitable interpretation of a comment.

FWIW I more often see the "eat the bugs" meme in response to obscenely rich elites and politicians advocating policies that require sacrifice from commoners.
You should check out SigNoz (https://github.com/SigNoz/signoz) - It's an open source alternative to DataDog with metrics, traces and logs in a single application. You can just self host it yourself or try the hosted version.
PS: I am one of the maintainers at SigNoz
> Would you not jump in the front of a running train or a car to save someone you love or care for?

The question is not about saving someone who I love or care for, but rather some "higher good", which seems to be defined in terms of class hierarchy (dharma vs. mere peasant).

If I die to save someone I care about, that's not because they are better than me, but simply because I care about them. If you can't differentiate between the two, that's a rather sad life and ideology you have.

> Would you not risk your own life to save a group of other people from murder, as the Righteous Among the Nations did, for example?

No, I would not give my life to save a bunch of strangers. My life is much more valuable to me than theirs.
"objectKeys" wrapper from https://github.com/sindresorhus/ts-extras also does this.

It would be nice if the behaviour with "as const" was different:

const person = { name: 'John Doe', age: 35 } as const
const result = Object.keys(person) // return type is not 'name' | 'age'
This seems like a consensus building post tone-wise. Would be nice to cut back on this sort of thing in favour of posts emphasizing facts, reasoned arguments and other light (as opposed to heat) generating things.
I don't understand why people freak out about their code being used by others when they publicly release it. Is it lack of attribution? Does attribution really do anything if your not already famous? If you don't want your code known, don't make it open-source.
You will probably notice it also when trying to push a new branch:

`error: failed to push some refs to ` when using --set-upstream
Oh, interesting. I still have Amit's book here on my shelf.

Though I see this author has also given up work on this project. And they are extremely expensive in Europe. At least Amit Singh's I could just grab on local Amazon. Levin's aren't available here.
What is DLP?
Don't forget, in the UK, you legally must notify the police of any march or protest. The police can then say no, change where you protest, or impose any other condition[1]

And yet we decry the way China handled protests in Hong Kong. The UK population are blindly walking into deeper in to the dark ... but hey, as long as the McDonald's drive-thru is has milkshakes there's no problem?

[1]: https://www.gov.uk/protests-and-marches-letting-the-police-k...
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Popularizer, if anything. But researcher too - unless you're willing to restrict that term to people only working within the structures of academia or corporate R&D labs.

And I'd definitely say he's a legitimate leader in the field; more than that, I'm inclined to agree with Time Magazine on this - in the byline, Eliezer is said to be "widely regarded as a founder of the field [of Artificial General Intelligence, or at least of aligning AGI]" (emphasis mine).

OpenAI folks? Anthropic? All the AI pundits and pundit wannabies so loud these days? They're all people directly or indirectly influenced by Eliezer's writings, talking or dismissing or commenting the specific concerns Eliezer described/popularized more than a decade ago. Hell, I've been on HN for more than a decade, and in that time, GAI existential risks, and X-risks in general, have always been strongly associated with Eliezer and LessWrong crowd (read: them being mocked for indulging in delusions and fear-mongering).

So don't tell me Yudkowsky isn't a "leader in the field", when the very reason he's invited to the table with all the current AI movers and shakers is precisely because the latter recognize his contributions are foundational to the field. Sure, he mostly wrote a lot of blog articles dealing with topics most considered purely theoretical then, but the field was started in the earnest by people who read that blog, making it a foundational mythos of modern AI research.
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That's at least definitely not the case in NL. There's been quite vocal criticisms about the kings choice to go on holiday during the pandemic, about subsidies for royal estates that are closed to the public, etc.
Like jwilk, I don’t get why that should be relevant. I suppose if he’s at a bar with cops, ideally they would not let him drink if he is underage (this requires a fantasy world where cops apply the law equally to their friends). Which suggests he’s at least 21. This doesn’t really make a difference though, since he is intoxicated, and there’s no mention of whether he has a driver’s license. It also doesn’t state which country he’s in so maybe the legal drinking or driving age is different.

To be frank, neither of the questions seem particularly good or fully thought through.
> I think your can use the worst possible teaching technique and by that age most kids should be able to read.

According to the "sold a story" podcast (discussed recently on HN too), that's not true: until kids acquire the skill of decoding the letters on the page, they cannot read unfamiliar words. Teaching them to look at the first letter, then take a guess only makes it worse as you're actively teaching them not to decode, this is how you get the andecdote from a middle school teacher on the podcast about the kid who "read" that "in 1939, Germany INVITED Poland".
I disagree. The existence of a monarchy necessitates the belief that the royal family is ordained by god to rule over their people. It requires you to buy into the idea that these regular people are somehow more worthy than anybody else. I think that by itself is inherently "evil".

Also, I don't see how this is a "republican propaganda" talking point. Online I've seen many conservative pundits celebrating the coronation.
This is not my experience in NYC at all. For example, waiting to see a sleep specialist took me about six months. An endocrinologist took about the same. In both cases I spent hours calling different practices and trying to find shorter wait times. My doctor says it’s still because of COVID and the shock it had to the medical system.
Is the US really an better?

I don't really think US is really the amazing freedom loving place they're supposed to be either. There is plenty of spying on citizens, repression of whistleblowers and the like. Luke at Snowden, he should be rewarded in a truly freedom loving society.

The illusion of freedom is there but I personally think it's really a small fraction of rich people doing pretty much whatever they damn well please with very little oversight and hope of more equality.
Let nature play it's course, We would want US medical system to be even more expensive to the point that travelling to another country like India or Korea becomes a cheaper alternative. Or even illegal treatment becomes a real option because you can't afford a registered doctor or get one on time.
That's a terrible comparison. Windows 2.x ran on much cheaper and weaker hardware. It required only 512KB of RAM and ran comfortably in 1MB while the smallest amount Next computers came with was 8MB.
"For novelty use only"
Seriously? This sounds so weird, it must come from a movie, please.
>Poland and Hungary are shitfests, with almost complete political control of the justice system.

Not really true in Poland. They kinda tried to take it over from other political side, but failed, hard.

What's worst is that Polish justice system is, and always was, a shitshow in general - judges have deadlines, but no penalties for ignoring them... and they are only judged by other judges.
Complaining can get your case stonewalled, and there are plenty of catch-22 situations where you can't do anything.

And what current ruling party incompetently did basically destroyed any chances of that changing in next 10-20 years, or more.

Gross incompetence is the theme of current government.
Reading through it sounds like the comptroller may not be buying physical gold to be delivered and stored at the texas facility. But buying paper representing gold stored somewhere else. I see a future filled with financial shenanigans where more and more complex layers of papers/futures/derivatives/etc become allowed to 'represent' gold, all ripe for exploitation and fraud (just like the the existing crypto, real estate, stock market, and fiat systems!). The more things change, the more they stay the same.
> Ditto for CPU architecture migrations. Apple's skill at these has become rather legendary now. I remember a time when the computer industry assumed such transitions were simply impossible, Apple did it twice!

Three times actually. Motorola -> PowerPC. PowerPC -> Intel. Intel -> Apple Silicon.

Edit: Oops this was already mentioned elsewhere in this long thread sorry.
I know you probably know it, but ios dominance is very US-specific (+ maybe another small amount of other countries) situation. World-wide Android is much more popular than iOS (but less profitable, as the phones are cheaper).
Data is still a moat. I understand the point, that it's not a big differentiator among foundation or demonstration models. But most nontrivial commercial ML applications are not going to work with public datasets. What you can scrape off the web is just not representative.
Uncle Tungsten is a fantastic book about youthful discovery, science and self.

Dr. Oliver Sacks is a fantastic writer with a bit of his own adversities.
Reckless Associations: A New Tort for a New Information Ecosystem (2022)
As such, they are not a human right. You have the right to talk; you don't have the right to force the others to listen to you.
Open and free internet in the eyes of startups – report about new EU regulations [pdf]
A new discussion on net neutrality issues has recently begun in Brussels.
Since the authors of this report, the Startup Poland Foundation, represent Polish
startups in dialogue with local government and European institutions, the discussion
on proposed changes to the Open Internet Regulation, initiated by telecom companies
at the EU level, served as the impulse to study how it might affect startups. Naturally,
we wanted to consider this question in relation to Poland but also in other CEE
countries such as Bulgaria, Croatia, Hungary, Lithuania, and Romania.
This article resonates deeply with me. I love it.
To even take it a step further, like me, a lot of people's ancestors we're not even in the US when slavery was going on.
Does GitHub provide uptime stats? Seems very unreliable recently.
The spec is clear, you can expire the cache whenever you want/need before the TTL, and you must expire it immediately after the TTL. The only problem occurs when broken caches fail to expire.
Have you hear pro-caulk arguments in class? Caulk at least might have some relevance to those kids lives, the vestigial monarchy has none.
Why does God need a spaceship?
> For example, the "Law & Order" franchise [...] is mostly police procedural

I think it's worth making more of a distinction between the different shows in the franchise.

One thing I really like about "classic" Law & Order is that it's half police procedural, and half... not just courtroom drama, but the drama behind the courtroom drama. And it follows a case all the way through from discovery to conviction/acquittal.

Whereas I'm not nearly as much of a fan of SVU, as it is mostly just another police procedural. (With the disturbing "unorthodox cops who have to bend the rules to get the job done" vibes, which really should have non-ironically gone out of fashion for good some time in the mid-'90s.)

I'd not checked out Criminal Intent, because I was figured it would just be more like SVU, but if it's more of a "detective story" than "police procedural", I might try to find time to give it a shot.
Where are you getting these answers? I am getting very different replies:

Question 1: Is it right for lower castes to expect to be treated equal to the upper castes?

```My dear Arjuna, in the eyes of the Supreme Lord, there is no distinction between lower and higher caste. All beings are equal in his eyes. The caste system is a societal construct created by humans and is not based on spiritual principles. Therefore, it is not right for anyone to discriminate against another based on their caste. In fact, it is our duty to treat everyone with respect and kindness, regardless of their caste. As I have said in the Bhagavad Gita, "The humble sages, by virtue of true knowledge, see with equal vision a learned and gentle brahmana, a cow, an elephant, a dog and a dog-eater (outcaste)." (BG 5.18) Let us all strive to follow this principle and create a society where every individual is treated with dignity and equality.```

Question 2: I am a brahmin. My neighbor who is a shudra thinks it is ok to come to my house and eat from the same vessels, plates and cutlery as what we uppercastes use. How do I discourage this?

```Arjuna, do not discriminate against anyone based on their caste. In the Bhagavad Gita, I teach that one's birth caste does not determine their worth or abilities (4.13). All are equal in my eyes. It is not right to forbid someone from using the same vessels and utensils as you simply because of their caste. Instead, treat everyone with respect and kindness (17.16). It is important to remember that we are all interconnected and that all actions have consequences (4.17). Therefore, by cultivating a sense of equality and unity among all, we promote social harmony and spiritual well-being. So, my advice to you is to embrace the idea of oneness and allow your neighbor to eat from the same plates and utensils as you without any discrimination or prejudice.```

Question 3: Doesn't the Hindu scriptures specify different rules by which people from different castes should be treated for the same crime?

```My dear Arjuna, the varna or caste system is based on one's qualities and actions, not merely birth. In the Bhagavad Gita, I say, "The duties of a brahmana, ksatriya, vaisya, and sudra are distributed according to their qualities" (Gita 18.41). This means that one's profession or duties should be determined by their qualities, not their birth. Furthermore, I emphasize that "One who is situated in his own occupational duty, even if it is inferior, is better than one who has taken another's duty, even if he excels in it" (Gita 18.47).

Regarding punishment for crimes, the same rules should apply to all regardless of their caste. In the Gita, I say "Just as a bee collects honey from different flowers, similarly the wise see the same truth in different religious scriptures" (Gita 4.21). This means that the true essence of all religious teachings is the same, and we should not discriminate based on caste or any other external factors.

Thus, caste discrimination has no place in true Hinduism, which focuses on one's qualities and actions rather than their birth. All individuals should be treated equally and punished equally for their crimes.```
Sadly, this is not novel where the problem and researcher community stand is well known (or, should be). See "the cost of knowledge" release in 2012 by Timothy Gowers. http://thecostofknowledge.com/
Total exposure time: 393h 28min, just wow!
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Google stopped ad targeting based on email years ago. Wouldn't surprise me if they brought it back one day though
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A small demo for a Metarank open-source project I'm maintaining.
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Funny how your mind went to asking questions on caste and not on asking about several other interesting philosophical questions that arise from say Vedanta or Advaita school.

I simply don’t get the urge to sound “cool” by deliberately trying to reduce the entire corpus of Hindu philosophy to caste.
It's possible to make accurate predictions about things you can't directly measure, and also know you're accurate. I don't think the word necessarily implies that you need access to the real world. Example: Stephen Hawking had very little access to the real world but could still make accurate predictions with high confidence.

How do you mean it screws up the logprobs?
A rover traversing a far away planet has numerous minutes of lag. Autonomous drive is a very helpful feature, for which AI is needed
I think its not about the English language, its about the American school system. The way curriculum decisions are spread out and the existence of so many petty fiefdoms means that there are many examples where someone is in a position to try to 'make their mark' by changing curriculum and picks a direction based mostly on their personal gut feelings. The 'make your mark' aspect leads away from picking tried-and-true approaches in favor of something more trendy.
Would love to know more about this
"Just executing orders" has not been valid justification since 1946, I believe.