skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Apology accepted.

For a topic as personal and social as educational policy, anecdotes serve to highlight systemic points of failure.

Miraca Gross' entire book on the education of exceptionally gifted students does this quite well. You may not find the parts I excerpted convincing, but you might find other convincing. This book is titled "Exceptionally Gifted Children: Edition 2". You can find articles for free online about the research if you are interested.

I believe her work generalized outside of the exceptionally gifted range (because I'm certainly not one), and outside of Australia.
Majority of criminals are from abusive or fatherless homes. That's the externality.
This is something that increasingly has been bothering me and I am not even old. Americans increasingly do not have any self-respect for how they dress. And it is not an age thing, or even really a money thing.

Why are you wearing pajama pants everywhere? Yoga pants and gym shorts are potentially a look, but aren’t for everyone or all occasions.
It's always poor people, people like to make it about race because then you can blame something other than your society.

E.g., in my country, the concept of the "warrior gene" proved popular with people who like to think that the reason Māori are overrepresented in crime statistics is their fault. When they're overrepresented in every negative social measure, especially poverty. Nothing to do with colonisation, land theft and a century of deliberate destruction of their culture and social structure, nope, it's all them.

(And Sweden's issues with refugees are Sweden's fault, not that of the refugees)
Any crime?
Nothing. They just didn’t realize that JSON doesn’t need to be pretty-printed :)
Have you read _All the Pretty Horses_?
it rhymes so i cant argue
I'm really not in favor of a government database explicitly tracking my political beliefs. That seems pretty "1984" to me.
Ah, the two possible outcomes: The Culture's "machines are conscious, everything is fabulous, and you're bored" vs. Firefall's "life isn't really conscious, everything is awful, and you're boned." :P
If I recall, the way in was to land a glider on the roof of World Trade Center. This would obviously not work today. Overcome that issue and you've got a plan!
25% causing 63% violent convictions is still pretty crazy
YouTuber Faces Up to 20 Years for Obstruction of a Federal Investigation
(Turns to phone booth, ripping off tie) "Sounds like a job for super Forth!"
I too would like to know what use these things have?
In seattle, people are released with outstanding arrests warrants that the police clearly know about. It’s like, ya, we know this guy already has 3 outstanding warrants for car theft (usually just jumping non-bail), they get caught stealing a car again and are simply released with no or some small bond that is paid by a non-profit.
Previous discussions (before his guilty plea):

https://hn.algolia.com/?q=Trevor+Jacob
It being mothers' day, we were just talking about this today. My grandmother was quite active into her 90s (she was delivering Meals on Wheels to "the old dears" into her late 80s).

The problem is she outlived all her friends and her siblings; her youngest friend, whi did survive her was "older" in her ways. My nanna eventually moved into a retirement home and really hated it. She just didn't like being around "old people".

Yet though two of her three kids and all of their children (and thus most of her her great grandchildren) lived close by, she told me it just wasn't the same. "you young people have other things on your minds, and you should". Eventually, as she statred to lose her marbles she decided that was enough at 96.

Also I heard from my mother (a physician, late 80s now) that a huge problem with those who remain in their homes is loneliness: it's simply harder to get out and see your friends, and for them to do the same. People don't drop by unannounced because it's too hard.

Now these examples are from the west (Australia). But I remember my Indian great grandmother complaining that she was useless, and she was aging in the normal Indian cultural fashion. So it feels a bit premature for the article to consider this a western phenomenon. The traditional Indian (and I assume from what I hear, Chinese) model of the in laws, particularly the MIL, moving seems like it simply shifts the burden around.
> Right now, all "desirable" traits like health/intelligence/strength/etc are strongly correlated

Oh?
> "Markets can remain irrational longer than you can remain solvent”

I notice every time the cost of a properly sustainable product comes up, the conversation always turns to what a short-sighted bastard everyone else is, and I can only assume the people who make that argument are already making moral choices themselves, which is honestly just heartwarming to see.
FYI Brex isn't a bank although they do have a business account product similar to a checking account.

To answer your question though, Brex uses AI for a lot of things some of which being:

1. Fraud/Risk/Underwriting

2. Auto-generated receipts and data enrichment

3. AI assistants for all users that have a ton of capabilities

There's a lot more as well but these are just some of the obvious ones.
Every 10 years there is a 4+ level accident (on the INES scale of 7).

And that is with less than 400 plants globally. If we 10x these then we should expect far more frequent accidents.

And let’s not get started on the topic of the nuclear waste.

https://www.statista.com/statistics/273002/the-biggest-nucle...
Prison is step one for the violent and most people in prison haven't commited a violent crime. We will make say three honest attempts to reform you but if you can't go around without seriously harming others eventually we have to cut our losses. Is putting the violent among themselves really all that bad?
First two things that strike me:

1. The streets are clean. I am sure this is selectively take footage, but still. We have a trash problem. People litter and our trash pickup system is not really up to the task of keeping up anymore.

2. People actually put some effort into their outfits.

Many cities in America feel like they are on the worst Back to the Future timeline where Biff has the sports almanac.
This seems heavily impacted by the specific proxy being used for "engagement".

In fact the article notes "In 2012 YouTube switched from maximizing clicks to maximizing watch-time. They found it led to a short-term decrease in clicks but a long-term increase in retention. I believe Netflix similarly has invested a lot of time in developing “deep” measures of engagement."

If you were to rewrite this article to not use the word engagement and say "user clicks" it would ring a lot more true, but the attempt to generalize from clicks to things like likes, etc, actually muddies the issue and impliesthis issue is more fundamental than it is.

In many ways, RL promises to solve this problem by letting us optimize metrics like user retention directly, even when there is not a way to decompose it into a per-item score, but RL is hard to deploy efficiently and has not seen huge takeup.

But to go back to the article, I think it's argument that estimating quality is important is clearly true, though often you can implicitly estimate quality from some other metric (e.g. aggregate watch time), but the article implicitly argues that you have to start from estimating clicks and everything else is downstream of that, which is not fundamentally true.
In my experience, the non-human characters cause GPT a lot of problems. They break a lot of the magic of GPT.
The USSR would deport political enemies to small remote cities, then force them to even live outside (5 km?) of those.
You no longer have to imagine this.

The Minnesota State House, Senate and Governor seat are all controlled by the same party. That party is now planning to use their unchecked power to push through legislation for a program which will track all reported wrongthink:

https://news.yahoo.com/minnesota-lawmakers-lock-horns-over-2...
https://twitter.com/KelseyTuoc/status/1588231892792328192

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slate_Star_Codex (NYT controversy)
Also focus on the people behind these decisions. Some senior execs getting real jail will have a greater deterrence than a company fine, plus doesn't punish shareholders.
> This is how you get rid of hypersensitivity after all, by exposure to whatever it is you're overly sensitive to.

There’s a bunch of scenarios I don’t want to desensitize from - thanks
>women being the victims of violence.

What sort of violence are we talking about? Men are murdered far more often than women across the globe, at a ratio of about 4 to 1:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homicide_statistics_by_gender

Men are slightly more likely than women to experience domestic violence in the US, per the CDC's National Intimate Partner and Sexual Violence Survey:

https://www.cdc.gov/violenceprevention/pdf/nisvs/NISVSReport...

However, woman are about twice as likely to become victims of sexual violence:

https://www.cdc.gov/violenceprevention/sexualviolence/fastfa...
I have a similar model and the wire swapping capability has saved them from the trash a couple times. The first time, they got sucked into a vacuum cleaner after only having them for two years or so. The second time, a dog chewed them severely. The in-ear monitor parts still have dog bite marks, but they work just fine. I guess I’ve had them about 15 years now, and they still sound excellent.
State charts are great for the right use cases. I used XState to help build a graphical editor (think Figma) with fairly complex interactions involving mouse and keyboard events, etc.

I’m curious if others have found it worthwhile for more typical web apps too. My instinct is it’s usually overkill.
Note for others: tmux is under the ISC license, a permissive non-copyleft opensource license.
"Cancer Ward" is sort-of about the post Khrushchev thaw, and how one political feels conflicted about his exile, and ultimately returns to the settler steppes.

Emma Goldman, and around 100 other US left wingers were exiled to the USSR by a young J. Edgar Hoover in the post WW1 context. I don't think it was colonising behaviour however.
Is ALiBi still the sota for this setting, or have there been advances beyond this in the last 8 months? I know there has been a lot of interest in longer context lengths recently.
Looks like just two on the current MacBook Air: https://www.ifixit.com/News/62674/m2-macbook-air-teardown-ap...

I was partly influenced by memories of scavenging WiFi cards from early Intel MBPs with failed NVIDIA GPUs and buying adapters (with 3 antennas) to add WiFi to desktops in an era where that was not close to standard.
I might have been a bit uncharitable in my interpretation of your comment. I think your view is this:

Racists support immigration from white men and women, but if racists really care so much about demographics they should only support immigration from white women, since they're much less violent than men.

OK, this is a reasonable enough point and deserves a reasonable response, but I think the response is quite simple:

As long as both white men and white women are contributing positively to society, and improving the future demographics of the country, why wouldn't racists welcome both? If they limited immigration to only the less-violent female whites, they'd be missing out on the net-positive contribution of white males, and thereby shooting themselves in the foot, and for what? A demographic shift in the short-term that will lead to reduced violence. But also the troubles that come along with gender-imbalance. And in the long-term, the population will go back to being roughly 50:50 male-female anyway.
Show HN: Slingshot – cheap and fast prospecting for founders
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ironically this showed up when i googled Converso
Godel's theorem applies to all systems strong enough to do arithmetic. When we talk about "powerful" systems, it will inevitably have to do arithmetic.

One of the unprovable statements of any such formal system will be that "this system is consistent", which is an important property. [Godel's second incompleteness theorem]

I feel that AI in general is headed towards the direction of saying that provability is not really important, let's just head in a pragmatic direction.
Sounds reasonable, but each token_type_embedding would have to be kept private like a private key , and each model tuned to a users private key
Show HN: NoSwag – Automate the Test Automation
Simple app to generate pytest scripts from swagger/open api definition file.

Copy paste the spec, get the tests, execute them. Reporting feature is still in development.
Reads like a normal comment to me. Doesn't seem like ChatGPT's typical writing style. It has far too much texture.

As someone who people often find stiff and formal, I'm really not looking forward to being accused of not existing more and more often.
Yes and then format it back to JSON
Should we be doing a whole lot more nothing?
Skin contact from someone infected? It can survive quite a while on surfaces.
> Not sure how you got there. The ratio is between highest and lowest paid, not median. So you’re measuring something I’m not interested in targeting for this particular protocol

From TFA (emphasis mine):

> The plan would raise the corporate income tax on a sliding scale, depending on the ratio between the pay of a company's CEO and the median pay of the company's workers.
Ha! You're right. Honestly, I couldn't recall how many cores I had, and I figured it was faster to run `cat /proc/cpuinfo |grep processor| wc -l` than to google the specs.

It seems like using the right # cores saves ~25%. and then using the GPU for 26 layers saves another ~43%.

Timings for comparison with `--temp 0`:

-t 6 : 4m10.458s
-t 12 : 5m34.772s
-t 6 -ngl 26 : 2m23.278s
> I’m starting to doubt anything on the internet that’s overly cherry and polite.

> …was this written by an LLM?

do you find that asking this is constructive?
Another approach would be to set up a VNC viewer on the badge. Then to update with new contents you'd connect to the shared VNC server and do whatever you'd want to update (you could in theory even run a browser, but the resolution is a big on the small side).
The problem isn’t sentience, it’s alignment.

AIs can be as sentient as we like without being any threat at all, as long as their goals are aligned with our actual best interests. The problem is we have as yet struggled to clearly articulate consistently what our actual best interests are, in terms of goals we can train into our AIs. Furthermore, we’ve also faced huge problems even training them to seek those goals either. Oh boy, alignment is hard.
Hi HN! I'm one of the creators of Slingshot, and we're excited (and nervous) to be posting this on HN.

Slingshot is a Chrome extension thats lets you email prospects while you’re browsing LinkedIn, all with keyboard shortcuts and without needing any context switching.

We built Slingshot because we were frustrated by how slow and tedious cold outbound is. Existing tools we looked at were either buggy, overbuilt for sales teams, or too expensive.

So we made Slingshot to be cheap, fast, and lightweight – perfect for founders who are evaluating an idea or trying to get more customers, but don’t want to break the bank. I'd love to hear HN's thoughts. Thanks!
I think Netflix might be categorized as "other media" further down, where it says "social media platforms rank by predicted engagement ... ranking by popularity is common for other media", so the negative quality correlation might not apply.

Quality being negatively correlated with engagement sounds like social media version of people preferring junk food over gourmet.
Cheers. I'm glad it was at least somewhat helpful. And you've got me responding when I said I wouldn't, and that's something :)

> "I still feel like is an injustice that hurts the truth so badly,"

In my opinion, this is what you should be supporting. Providing examples that support the truth goes a lot further. Off the top of my head, a question I have is why is the cathedral/bazaar model better than the alternative 'tptacek puts forward from Gabriel's Worse Is Better or Zawinski's CADT model at describing open source? (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35941338) What in particular do you find useful and true in CatB that you believe 'tptacek is dismissing unfairly?

> "how the room is so happy to stick to Thomas here."

One doesn't have to agree with 'tptacek to think your comment was unhelpful. It's not zero-sum, or us-vs-them.

I'm not great at contentious discussions (particularly on internet forums). Your "I still struggle with..." resonates with me: it's something I find myself thinking in situations like this. The best I can do is try to catch myself, and figure out how to express what I'm trying to get across in ways that move the conversation in a constructive direction. Easier for me to say than to do.
This is crazy cool. This would be epic as an extension for text-generation-webui, so that we can run it with local LLMs!
I have no idea what this supposed Minnesota law is, but I'm certainly not going to watch a video from Fox News to learn about it.
What do you mean "learn" BERT?
Keep in mind that this book was published 7 years ago, using data from 13 years ago. That does not mean that it is untrue, just that the statistics may no longer be as relevant or timely. (A bit more recent, from the same author: https://twitter.com/sapinker/status/1559195349092376577 )
I'm sure someone has thought of this before, but there's x86 as the full ISA, and there's x86 as gcc (or whatever) actually uses it. What if you had one or two cores that actually run x86 and the rest just run a reasonable subset of it until they hit a weird instruction and hand the thread over to the more formal one?
The 'own C compiler' is from Joel Spolsky from when he worked at Microsoft: https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2001/10/14/in-defense-of-not-.... And indeed this states that it was p-code. I'm old enough to remember when p-code was - briefly - a very hot idea.
No way to prevent strangers from approving pull requests on GitHub
The elected legislature doesn't have the expertise to write regulations in highly technical areas. Or really almost any areas, but certainly not the sorts of stuff that the FCC, FAA, SEC, etc. regulates. The representative democracy happens with their confirmation of the agency heads appointed by the executive branch.
There is not a single line mentioning the effect it would have on lithium (or vanadium) price and supply if this would be adopted at grid scale.

Which of course, like common sense would say (irony), would stay perfectly flat or decreasing when it already struggle to match the supply for EV which is two order of magnitude inferior to what would be needed.

Which make me back to my point: Yes, this is oriented garbage done by people that has financial interest in what they are selling.
This seems like an even and accurate description of his current activities I wonder why it's light grey for me.
> That sort of lifestyle

As I said in another comment, once people can afford a better lifestyle, they aren't remotely likely to choose to keep living the worse one.

On the other hand, I too am a fan of solar and electricity. I completely buy the solar + storage + grid is sufficient for a western lifestyle. I'm not arguing against solar, I'm arguing against lack of grid, that connecting houses, towns, and cities together can save more money on storage than it costs to run the wires. You want to plan for very-close-to-worst generation + storage >= very-close-to-worst-case load over all time frames, and grids smooth over variations in both generation and load, which makes the worst cases go way down, which means that that equation requires a lot less storage (not none, but less).

Incidentally I also think that "solar + wind + storage + grid" is an even better combination... and that wind power only works with a grid (because the scaling rules around them mean you want giant wind turbines that put out enough power for many houses)... but even with only solar grids just make too much sense.
Show HN: Sha2git brings code hosting to secure SHA-2 Git repositories
In the old days if you wanted to use the version control software Git with a SHA-256 hash function, rather than broken SHA-1, you were stuck using it locally. This posed a major problem, as Git repositories are meant to be shared, adapted, and changed by many! Even though we should have moved away from SHA-1 years ago Github, Gitlab, Bitbucket and many others had a monopoly on the hash function you choose, but now sha2git.com is a safe haven for SHA-2 repositories allowing the users to share code without broken hash functions.
OK, if you want sources, just look at the numbers here https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_launch_market_competitio....

SpaceX has the vast majority of the worldwide private launch market. It's the only company with a reusable first-stage booster. The cost-per-KG is 10-20% of the competition.

This isn't me speculating wildly, everyone with even passing familiarity with the industry knows this.
TERFs have nothing to do with this at all.
If you could prove the existence of any of the gods, this would be a pretty popular capability with deity advocates the world over - but given no one's come up with such a proof, and you haven't demonstrated one here, I'm inclined to go with the standard view that it's impossible.

The Rosetta Stone - aligned with and correlated existing writing / languages with a huge swathe of corroborating material. There was nothing mystical about its content - it was a pretty pedestrian payload, if I recall.
In the context of things like clipper chip, the compliance of the supply chain behind the technology needed to make this workable at scale is marked.

I doubt there are no printers or scanners which don't comply, or no software stacks. But the dominant signal is that this technology got wide deployment.

Has there been a formal assessment of the differential for fraud between currencies which do or don't implement the pattern?

The problem being cofounding issues: Not all currencies are equally worth forging. I doubt there's a good model for faking out Zimbabwean $10 trillion notes, except for collectors.

I'd also love to know if the Marx/Engels Euro you can buy in Trier has them!
There is a strong philosophical message in the works of McCarthy, but it's not explicit, you have to synthesize it. If you read his best works being totally oblivious to what he's really saying, then they'll feel like pointless exercises in sadism and cruelty.

Blood Meridian is perhaps the easiest of his works to understand in that regard, since he's as far from deliberate occultation as he can possibly be. The philosophy in that book reaches out and punches you in the face.
> Nobody wants to use them; they are heavy, uncomfortable, have poor performance, need an amp to drive, and use huge old school connectors.

Are you thinking of Stax electrostatic headphones? That describes them, but they can sound amazing and people definitely still use them.

60s headphones used the same jacks we have now, but they don't last forever and the plastics then weren't as comfortable as the ones now.
Is it, though? It's 5 times as many crimes per person on average, and remember we are talking about the top 1/4 of all perpetrators.
Science explains why shouting into the wind seems futile
Beans are protein-rich and sustainable. Why doesn’t the US eat more of them?
interesting. will definitely check this out.

and for TFA, that's also nice. and i think, if it works on debian, it could be made work on vast majority of other distros.