skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There’s a narrative that fits this buck in the trend: the curriculum simply rejected teachings that didn’t work.

Highly recommend reading about the ‘whole word’ v ‘phonics’ wars. Generations of children have been and continue to be left behind because an ineffective teaching style that doesn’t work became popular among America’s educators. Here’s an oped from a few years ago to get started with. It's honestly a bit depressing, but things have gotten better since and Mississippi is the proof of that.

https://www.apmreports.org/episode/2019/08/22/whats-wrong-ho...

Some reading specifically on how Mississippi is responsible for their own success. It wasn’t magic:
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/10/06/education/learning/missis...
The submitted blog post says it.
Theory, ClosedAI (M$) has focused on coding to win over tech people, tech people tell average people to use their products and it snowballs.

Do you think it’s a coincidence Microsoft bought GitHub and all of a sudden they have a coding focused bot ? Weird right ? Think of all that sweet training material.
For me it’s the main step. Decision making up front would require literally 40+ people, none of whom claim they have authority but all of whom say they MUST be involved in planning.

Or, I could deploy something to QA and ask for feedback and forgiveness. Then a 3 week discussion becomes a 30 minute demo + a few small notes.
The only thing keeping Apache alive today is the need to support .htaccess files for PHP apps like WordPress and the like. For every other use case there are better alternatives.
It was always a little stupid because the .eth domain didn't really resolve to anything. All it did was give people a chance to see your crypto portfolio if you had any funds on that address.
I'm not a boomer and I hate my wife's car with a touchscreen and a UI full of non-functional-until-you-pay apps and love my car with buttons, dials, mechanical needles and a little transflective LCD.
I’ve been working on similar in a weird way. I’ve got it all working after a lot of years of thought and plodding at the code base. It has been an exercise in building something that is just for me. No deadlines, just do it right. I’m interested in this. It looks like my current gizmos can easily inreroperate with it.
Ah, I'm not necessarily arguing that "having a better keyboard will make you a more effective typist". I'm suggesting that "for keeping your hands on home row, it's much nicer if your thumbs are able to reach 2-3 keys each, than if your thumbs are only able to reach the spacebar".

Maybe "whether it's worth having such a keyboard" is down to personal preference or whatever, sure.
> but a human still has to read that code and make sure that it does what you think it does

But an AI proficient at programming wouldn't need to spit code back to the human. It would produce binaries or usable services, and the human would refine the product also via natural language. The human would act more like a manager than a programmer, and would direct the AI towards the desired goal. The code is just the means to an end, and internally the AI would be free to use whatever machine-optimized language it wants to. Hell, it can write directly in machine code for all I care. That would be more optimal than having to produce human-readable code, and have a fallible human in the process.
Just wanted to inform you that your HN profile as well as your blog's "About me" need to be updated. Cheers!
VS Code or Monaco still doesn't support tree-sitter.
Something like this? https://dexa.ai
Apple’s First App Store Transparency Report [pdf]
I've struggled over the past year to reduce my working hours from over 40 to under 40. But it doesn't matter much because the stress is still there. Volume of work and all that. The best I can do is live frugally, save my chips, and move on someday.

Time blocking for specific tasks has been helpful though. Also seniority has helped a lot. I say "no" a lot more without fear of repercussion (or maybe just with indifference to..)
It's a fair theory. I think coding is so pivotal, or scary, because it starts to prove these things can write or fix themselves. I'm still not sure whether it's impressive, depressing, or scary.

Just answering questions is a glorified Ask Jeeves.
For what it is worth, we work on a tool[0] to index all local videos and images and later allowing query just using natural language. It is based on CLIP which has been trained on image-text pairs, but seems to work great for videos after applying some naive heuristics.

[0] https://github.com/ramanlabs-in/hachi
Mice?
That is really cool and would be my dream.

In the Netherlands it's near impossible unfortunately to achieve 100% off-grid due to the winter months, when you basically have no solar. Maybe there are Dutchies who have somehow achieved it (with overprovisioned solar).

Do you still have a grid connection for backup or are you 100% disconnected from the grid?
Well I'm working two jobs and beginning the process of fundraising a new startup, all while parenting two kids. I'll be lucky to have any time myself ;) But it's good to keep in contact with like-minded individuals, in case the opportunity arises to get some work done on it.

> OK, this makes far more sense. I still maintain there will be a lot of ambiguity, purely because the individual words themselves are ambiguous, but it’s an interesting goal nonetheless.

I think we are in agreement. There are two definitions of ambiguity in play here. There is logical ambiguity, which I want to eliminate, in which a sentence can be parsed in multiple, contradictory ways. And then there is ambiguity due to imprecision, in which words have broad meaning and without context or clarification a given sentence parsed to a single logical statement can nevertheless have multiple distinct interpretations. That's ok.
Required as part of a lawsuit settlement according to this article:

https://www.macrumors.com/2023/05/19/apple-app-store-transpa...
A few notes on running open source project after Marten v6 release
I'm unfortunately less-experienced in embeddings than I'd want to be for this discussion.

Something I do find interesting is that lots of people use a scaled cosine distance for vectors (the dot product) that is much more tolerant to high dimensions during training, and then a Euclidean distance metric which is not as friendly towards high dimensions during inference.

I wish I had more classical statistical experience to dive into the nittier and grittier of the details here with appropriate aplomb.
And this remorseless ideology masquerading as logic is exactly why the US is doomed to ultimately fall to political violence.
The Mirrortocracy (2014)
Not everything revolves around the USA
European here. I don't care, I don't use the Spanish layout, it sucks for programming. No one uses that at professional level for programming, US-Intl it's much better with the menu/super_r key as the 'compose' one.
A novel featuring some of these themes would be nice this weekend.
> Why is it so hard, and why hasn't anybody done it before? The whole problem seems trivial to me. You need a language where

> - first you need your words to have only one meaning

There's your answer. There is no such language, there are no such words. It's questionable if it's even possible - to me, it sounds like a category error. "Words" aren't keys in a hash table, and "meaning" isn't a discrete thing.

> now you have a language without any ambiguity. If there are some ambiguity in the objects/concepts that you are referring, then use your language more to specify the object.

Thing is, I don't think ambiguity comes from language. Concepts and categories are naturally fuzzy for us. Precision is a continuum.

If you need to express something more precisely than your language allows with single word or term, you just create a new word and attach a long-form description to it to position and connect it to other words in the latent^H^H^H^H^H^H^H concept space. That's how we always did it, and it was never hard.
If we didn't have you here we might have done the terrible mistake of thinking this was interesting. I'm so glad you were here to show us how useless this effort is, protecting us from wasting our time, protecting us from our lack of judgment. Thank you so much for your service and foresight.
Great article.

A corollary of one of the facts listed there is that the ratio between the volumes of unit sphere and of the unit cube converges to 0 with d. Meaning, in high dimensions, the unit cube is all corners and no interior.

Another one is to consider the n-dimensional standard Gaussian distribution. In dimensions 1, 2 and 3 these look like a fuzzy ball around the origin. But in high dimensions, it is more like a thin shell of radius sqrt(n). You can see this as the (squared) length of a random vector from that distribution is from the Chi^2 distribution which becomes more and more concentrated in higher dimensions.
Looks like you can get it shipped from Canada, but their minimum order is $30.

https://abitofhome.ca/dandelion-burdock-330ml.html

If you do feel like putting an order of weird British stuff, I'd recommend: Tunnocks Snowballs, Ribena Sparkling Blackcurrant, Jacob's Jaffa Cakes, Chivers UK Lemon Curd, Hula Hoops Variety, Twiglets, Tunnocks Milk Chocolate Caramel Wafers, Custard Creams, Twirl Orange.

All delicious!
> I never thought I would say that but think I wouldn’t mind the speed limiter automatically engaging in the city.

You'll get that wish: speed limiters will probably be on by default in future.

I find them very annoying as they currently are: I've had it do things like misread a 50 as a 30, decide the current speed limit is 35 (I have never seen a 35 limit) and also read a side-road 20 while traveling on a 40. It will then shift gears and slow down dramatically in moving traffic, but won't show brake lights, so it's just asking for someone to rear-end me to use it except on side-roads.

Hopefully, they'll get better.
Product Engineer vs. Full Stack
Alma have consistently released the new upstream versions faster than Rocky, so I have decided to go for them. Both distros are essentially just debranded copies of RHEL, so IMHO the choice needs to come down to which organization you have more faith it.
You're welcome. I've been working for more than a year on a blog post about the various safety aspects of building battery packs but it's a never ending rabbithole of stuff to research and learn about so I haven't gotten around to publishing it.
e.g. standardized ARIA-accessible captions sources for the <video> element, etc.

YouTube could literally be a minimal web forum with a video tag in the first post of each thread, but likely due to DRM and related motivations, they instead wrap everything in thick layers of obfuscated JS.

Comments were easily indexable too, before that was also removed: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11053204

For a while there were various shady-looking sites that seemed to scrape YouTube video pages (including comments) and I could sometimes find them through Google (then going back to YouTube for the original video), but within the past few years those have unfortunately also either been delisted/censored from search results or died out.
Social media companies are in a constant tug-of-war against the end users when it comes to controlling what the users see. The ideal is that the user has absolutely no control over on what they see and the social media company can fully dictate content. That is what makes the money.

Allowing users to freely query content in their own websites is completely antithetical to what they are trying to do. YouTube is also very aggressive in preventing scraping and limiting the usage of the official API. Which is quite ironic considering the history of the company.
https://counter.dev/

Don't need advanced use cases, not interested in monetization. Counter.dev got me because:

- it's simple

- respects users' privacy

- has a pay-what-you-want model
my only issue which can be big is that some websites have some actions which just don't work on ff like dropdowns or playing video
> I think we are in agreement. There are two definitions of ambiguity in play here. There is logical ambiguity, which I want to eliminate, in which a sentence can be parsed in multiple, contradictory ways. And then there is ambiguity due to imprecision, in which words have broad meaning and without context or clarification a given sentence parsed to a single logical statement can nevertheless have multiple distinct interpretations. That's ok.

Yeah, I can agree with all of this. (Although Anna Wierzbicka’s work on the ‘Natural Semantic Language’ is an attempt to control the latter sort of ambiguity… you might find it quite interesting, actually.)
The one with the Sheliak?

https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/The_Ensigns_of_Command_...

https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Sheliak
I am a Spaniard which I learnt to use the ES layout as the 100% of the Spaniards and then I realized it sucked a lot for programming symbols. If you use Linux/BSD for programmaing and don't run something
like "setxkbmap us -option ctrl:swapcaps -option compose:rwin" (or menu instead or rwin in order to use menu+'+a to type á, you are losing your time. Stuff like "recogerá" can be easily written with menu+' made solely with the right hand as a pinch and 'a' with the left key. The only issue is 'ñ' which is a bit cumbersome to type, but there aren't many words with 'ñ' usable in the same context.
You can have completely pauseless GC. Take a look at SGCL for C++.
Is aluminum magnetic? Didn’t think so?
Lojban could have gone further to eliminate logical ambiguity, allowing monoparsing from sentence to an explicit statement in a framework of computational semantics (e.g. Davidsonian event semantics). That Lojban did not was one of its great failings.
Using super_r+'+a is not that bad. Super_r+' can be done with ease with the right key as a pinch.
If somebody else is willing to do the same job for less, it means your asking price for your services is too high. Americans love to complain about stagnation of wages, while in reality it just means that people in other parts of the world have reason out of poverty competing with them on a labour market. If you value a Chinese life just as much as an American one, the fact that American worker can now afford one car per family instead of two but a Chinese worker can now eat meat on a regular basis clearly is a benefit to humanity.
No. I work for a Fortune 100, we use Quarkus for lot projects, the dev reload is amazing, it just takes less than a second to reflect the change. It fast enough that I feel like I work with a Python project.
You'll need to wait for RHEL 10 :)

It's worth noting that Red Hat backports newer hardware support and some functionality to its new kernels, so in practice it is not as out of date as the version may imply.
It is the rent seeking layer of human capital,
ultimately siphoning off credit for all surplus productivity.
> I will rise at 5. Meditate, 530-630. Journal 630-730. Breakfast 8-9,

that is very ambitious if not pathologically ambitious.

> Yesterday, I finally realized ... But I suggest ...

s/he has been failing up until the previous day and is already giving public advice about how to do it better?

that's not just questionable, it also shows a lack of self-reflection and unhealthy levels of impulsiveness.

if that text wasn't 13 years old i'd suggest to the author an afternoon on /r/adhdmeme to have a good laugh before moving on with the revised plan. but back then this subreddit didn't exist yet and there was much less useful info on adhd available online or offline. so, from that angle this text might even have some historic raison d'etre.
Great writeup! Any interest in finishing the article on the PPU? I'd love a good writeup on that.
Conflict of interests. They want you faffing around provisioning all those valuable clicks for them to sell.
I've been enjoying each of your posts you share here regarding this set up. I have two questions if you please?

1. Have you considered adding a small wind turbine (DIY of course) to supplement?

2. Although the costs are certainly coming down and within the realm of possibility for many, they are still too prohibitive for those that would benefit the most. Do you see any way that you could recreate your project on a shoe-string budget?
Sounds very similar to objective-c.
https://archive.is/BUo29
Also, remember that Nyxt it's a Lisp based browser, so for sure has an Emacs layout.
100% disconnected; it was cheaper this way (grid was too far away).

What is the typical kWh/day consumption of a household there in winter months?
Long time coming. Now it just needs to be signed, then things can move.
Does that mean that one could trap Ctrl+AltGr+8 and map it to the same effect? (and the same for 7/9/0 if required)

If so, I'll try and remember that if ever tempted to use Ctrl and {[]} together I need to handle that as well.
Everything I hear about semiconductor technology sounds like you need two PhDs minimum and then you have to work in horrible environments with horrible management (either personally or just due to stressful deadlines).

Like this kind of comment seems par for the course (though not the PhD bit, that's more for the "science" end of things): https://www.reddit.com/r/AskEngineers/comments/kdzs4t/any_ad...
I still don't get it. In the linguistic part the only problem is to make to word->object mapping unambiguous. And it is trivial problem. If the world is fuzzy (i don't think so) then is not a problem in linguistics.

Yet linguists seem to aim for a language that eliminates ambiguity (see TFA). Where am I wrong?
Wait, wasn't Bluesky a Mastodon alternative, but without cancel crowd pathology? I need to get my Fediverse map straight.
noice! respect.
> You'll get that wish: speed limiters will probably be on by default in future.

I don’t wish for them but I would not mind them coming on. As it happens, I put a speed limiter on most of the times already anyway.

> I find them very annoying as they currently are: I've had it do things like misread a 50 as a 30

Yes. One of my two conditions for not minding it coming on.
Operation Antarctica (https://www.amazon.com/Operation-Antarctica-William-Meikle/d...)
Clarence Thomas: Black Nationalist Afro Pessimist?
For the motor hum, yes. Telemetry/Control however is very easily detectable by design alone. Especially for consumer drones and their known spectrum/patterns.
City of love and war: How a front-line city became Ukraine’s romantic capital
I hope they fix it. I have an ASUS router and it is down and we need Internet for work. I'm buying a new router as the fix is not there yet or too complex to do.
Yes every time I do the math I come to the same conclusion.

And then I'm proven wrong by unexpected price appreciation.

The thing that tips the scale is a house has way more square footage. You're worse off solo paying rent vs mortgage, but with that extra space you can host an Airbnb and come out ahead.

> Eventually it will become infeasible—the prices get too high and you run out of suckers.

People say that.. but it hasn't happened, barely a lull. I think that's a very local-centric opinion. Visit other dense cities around the world. Demand to live in cities increases with time as the city offers more economic opportunity and tourism. And supply is mostly fixed (for a given unit area) due to zoning laws.

I'm still considering to be one of their suckers in Toronto.
> in high dimensions, the unit cube is all corners and no interior.

Wouldn't it be rather "all faces" ?

As you say, it is useful to think about these volumes in terms of probabilities. You can pick a random point in a one-million dimensional cube by throwing one million random numbers uniformly between -1 and 1. Being near a corner means that each one of these coordinates is very close to either 1 or -1, which is extremely unlikely. Being near a face means that just one of the coordinates is near 1 or -1, which is almost sure to happen! Thus, essentially the whole volume of the cube is near its boundary.

By a similar reasoning, you can see that the volume of the sphere is negligible with respect to that of the cube. Consider your random point inside the cube, it will fall inside the sphere if x_1^2 + ... x_n^2 < 1, which is extremely unlikely if n is large: you are summing a million numbers between 0 and 1, how likely is it that the sum is smaller than 1? Very unlikely: if just one of these numbers was too close to 1, all the others must be nearly zero.
On this theme I can heartily recommend SovietWomble’s essay on the game the Forest (Soviet was a QA specialist in a former capacity)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PUWg905fGTA

Both funny and insightful for anyone starting a project.
So far this group only tested this solution on E.coli. This sounds very encouraging, but many more studies are needed, I would guess. So maybe not in the store tomorrow, but overall quite promising.
No, that is why it might still there to remove with a coffee filter, after removing the powder magnetically, I assume.
> Like, you can inscribe a circle inside a square and have it touch all sides without extending outside the square, and you can similarly “inscribe” a sphere inside a cube such that the sphere touches all sides of the cube without extending outside the cube. Does this hold true in higher dimensions?

Of course, points with only one nonzero coordinates xi in $\{1,-1}$ are in both the sphere and the sides of the cube, and those are the minimal distance points from the sides of the cube to the center of the circle (since they are orthogonal to the hyperplane xi=+1, or xi=-1 that contains it). That also shows that no side of the cube extends outside of the circle. Some more math: A well known result in math is that the minimum distance from the origin O to a linear subspace of R^n is attained at points P such that OP is orthogonal to the direction of the subspace. In this case, since the linear space is a hyperplane there is just one orthogonal direction to that hyperplane, and there is just one point in the intersection of the hyperplane and the line defined by the point O and the orthogonal direction to the hyperplane, and that intersection is just the points we alluded before.
Neither Italy nor any of it's allies has fought a defensive war in the last 80 years.

It's about weapon exports first and interfering around the globe.

I have a huge moral problem with it, calling it "defense" is hiding it's a business to kill people.
Slippery slope fallacy here.
Why should I care if my online customer is he/she/they as long as they pay the price? Or if I talk about technology through the Internet? All I want is effective communication with no insults.
Ahh the suits are back in style.

This is a classical submarine PR blurb:
http://www.paulgraham.com/submarine.html

Notice the last paragraph talks about some crowd funding platform - their PR guys did this article.

Not that it is a particularly bad article, just need to be aware of where it comes from.
https://eurkey.steffen.bruentjen.eu/

Has the US keys on the first/second levels and most/all special symbols for European languages easily accessible w/ modifier keys. Entirely removed the need to switch keyboard layouts for me.
Knife have dual purposes, military weapons have only one.
It does. For an n-dimensional cube of size 2, all surface points are at least distance 1 away from the center of the cube (the surfaces are where one of the dimensions is exactly 1 from the center, and the remaining dimensions can only increase that distance), and so a unit sphere around the center point is always contained within the cube.
Death Outlives War: The Reverberating Impact of the Post-9/11 Wars
I use heirloom vi (while making it clear when asked that I doubt the person asking me should do the same ;)

I was basically forced into learning vi to begin with (editing things on a -very- heterogenous collection of servers) but then found after a few weeks that I found it surprisingly pleasant and stuck with it.

Then again I don't recall sending a vi instance anything involving the control key except for Ctrl-C, Ctrl-L and Ctrl-Z.