skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Counter point: sure they are.

Humans are highly adaptable and like other changes to information availability in the past they will adapt. This is what societal norms and cultural memes are for. “Don’t believe everything you hear” “Don’t believe what you see on TV” “if it sounds too good to be true, it probably is.” These are all ways that the human species uses memes and cultural norms to teach ourselves how not to fall victim to false information.

Of course some people are going to fall victim. They do so today through common scams. It is the right goal to bring this down to zero. But to say that the human species isn’t capable belies all prior history and shows little faith in the resilience that made us who we are.

That’s the broad problem with this AI doom and gloom: it has so little knowledge of and respect for the humanities and humankind that it arrogantly assumes that our species has never faced challenges like this before. It throws up its hands instead of asking what lessons from history we should take and what actions we should be focused on.

If I'm being generous, I think that these pieces attempt to stir panic as a means for spurring action for change and investment in these problems. That’s a meaningful goal, but one that also might be more meaningfully achieved if it wasn’t expressing the problem with such gloom.
Ioniq 5 does it too
Odds are high we are talking past each other. Teaching the rules of the game is the same as teaching grading rubrics in many ways. And yes, learning the nature of rubrics is very important for students to know.

Now, can you devolve to completely degenerate states where they are only playing the "meta topic" and not learning the topic? I mean, yeah? I'd wager the folks that can complete the meta topic still know more than the folks that can't even do that. You can also devolve into stagnation by thinking you can reduce all learning to "first principals." Such that I just don't see that as damning on its own.

Back to my sports comparison, the technicalities and fundamentals of a sport are important. But you also do well to teach kids to get out there and play the game, even with loose rule enforcement and heavy help. Bumpers in a bowling match, as it were.
Also, when have people not followed "false narratives"? The entire human civilization sits on a stack of false narratives.
...Yes, you're going to take risks. Got it. This risk in particular ends up with you as chunky salsa 4 kilometers under the water, because you couldn't be bothered to sink a copy of the bloody thing with no one in it first.

If it's worth making, make 2 or 3 of with at least one slated for being destroyed at one point.

Space Shuttle Enterprise never saw Space or the launch pad. It was still made and flown.
I rankly speculate you have no dogs.
The tools aren't the problem, leadership and culture is. Tools can't fix problems with leadership and culture. "Executive buy-in" is conspicuously missing from the post. When companies are "doing DevOps" by wiring up manual deploys and manual approvals in GitHub Actions, it's not the tool that's at fault. When developers are applauded for deploying once a month, it's not the fault of the YAML engineers who were hired to build the pipeline that's used once per month, it's the fault of the executives putting their hands together and clapping.

No tool in the world is going to convince an executive to trust their people, to take risks with uptime and stability, and to break production as a necessary part of organizational learning. No, that requires executives to feel supported by other executives. Tools do not create collaboration and trust; people do.
Microsoft gets developer relations.
Real estate data is gold in the digital age. Whether you are a developer seeking to build a revolutionary real estate application, a data scientist aiming to design intelligent machine learning models, or an analyst constructing comprehensive real estate reports and statistics, accessing precise, timely, and comprehensive property data becomes a fundamental need.
I think the difference that I do not see fully considered is the expectation of someone's preferences being something someone else has a right to expect to be changed, with the causes of the preference (in this case an attractive partner) being somewhat beside the point.

This is why as the author points out "it’s easy to see that cuter kindergartners aren’t entitled to a better educational experience". In that role the teachers job is to teach students, with her personal preference in students coming in to play being undesirable. Relationships on the other hand are only between two people and what they like about each other, and their own feelings.

Otherwise this line of reasoning can be taken to some potentially rather strange places. Is it then discriminatory for example to exclude partners based on age or gender? These would seem to meet the qualifications of control, harm and unfairness.
Rocky and Alma will just use CentOS Stream distgit sources on GitLab, just like Facebook does for their internal rebuild.
Wonder how many people here have similar story.

In primary and secondary school, I had troubles with math - mostly caused by me not doing homework exercises and generally avoiding work (probably an early indication of an issue that took 20 more years to diagnose...). It all changed when I got interested in gamedev - suddenly, I've caught up with most of the material I was bad at, quickly learned trigonometry beyond the secondary school program, and then some basic vector and matrix algebra - and I distinctly remember it all starting with a simple problem: how to make a sprite rotate and move in circles?

Couple decades later, I still have a kind of theory+applications mindset: I always seek to generalize and abstract, but I feel lost when presented with a new abstraction without any context. Over the years, I realized I learn and understand things most effectively by seeking out answers to the question: why?. Not in the sense of, "what will I ever use this for?", but in the sense of "why was this invented?", "what were the problems people who invented it were trying to solve?". I trace the topic back in time until I find the point where the "why" and "how" are both apparent, and then go forward from there.
Or even better, cmd + /, type “svg”, press enter, done
Lol, this is funny. Thank you for clarification. Lawyers win either way.
I did when when still working in offices, as did almost all colleagues - wearing slippers, not without shoes. Not just because of the dirt but I also can't imagine wearing winter boots in a 23°C office.
<3 from Kysely. kysely-codegen is dope!
I guess GitHub is enough important and delicate.
How often do they deploy?
> It usually goes something like “wow, Country X is actually smaller than Country Y. This distorts our worldview and makes us think things we shouldn’t have thought. That’s terrible.”

That's not less stupid than the other statement. It's like looking at your shadow at sunset and thinking, "Wow, I never realized I was 20 feet tall."
Do ya mind me asking where you are in the country? I ask because I have a severely disabled nephew, and if I recall a few years before Covid our corner of California tried to get rid of special ed in elementary school. It went about as well as its going for your kid. My nephew literally couldn't integrate with the rest of the class, he's got severe epilepsy, even if he could understand the material, he couldn't actually write because his hands shake horribly! It was actually insane to put him in a normal class, the only thing he could do was disrupt it. It was bad for everyone involved.

Fortunately though, they had kept special ed programs at other schools nearby and he got transferred pretty quickly for being a severe case. It was my understanding that our school district backpedaled and reinstated special ed, but maybe that's not the case? I thought that it was just a crazy liberal California thing, but is this cancelling of special ed a more widespread phenomena? Why the hell is that happening?
Apologies I didn't mean to suggest I was sharing the actual etymologies, it was only intended as an mnemonic for the commenter above! Thanks for sharing the actual roots though, no pun intended ;)
I do not expect this trend to reverse, due to increases in carbon dioxide levels contributing to a decline in (the way we currently measure) intelligence, generation by generation.
If recipes listed ingredients in weight I’d be a happier person. I bake a lot of bread and weights just work so much better for flour and water.
> Every flat map projection distorts something, so every projection has to optimize some parameter and trade off other utility. I'm constantly amazed at how hung up people are on apparent size of countries. If size is your thing, use some other projection!

That's the point of the post. The trade-offs between different projections are rarely discussed, considered or even mentioned outside very small cohorts because there is a specific shape of the world map that most people who are not map-heads or spherical projection experts take for guaranteed. Get a non-Mercator projection map and put it in your dinner room, and then see how many of your guests will comment about "so.. why is this map weird? It doesn't look right?" then tell them "every flat map projection distorts [...]"

> Mercator is and remains popular because it preserves local angles and shapes, which makes it simple use this projection to navigate by rhumb lines (compass headings). Because most maps people are exposed to are designed for navigation, it is the most commonly seen projection. And yes, it distorts size and is largely unusable past about ± 70º latitude. Every map is a compromise.

Out of the millions of decorative world maps on walls, kids with maps to learn the world, world maps on the news, maps used in data visualization charts etc., non of those are using the map for "navigation" yet they still use Mercator projection simply because "that's the right shape of the world" regardless of what "right" means. Not because they evaluated the compromises of the different projections and figures "oh maybe someone will be lost at sea and only have access to our GDP per capita world map visualization, better use Mercator projection to preserve local angles and line up with compass headings"
I mean you have to trust that the IA did their due diligence. I trust them.
Yup! At a big company I am the only one on the floor, but I don’t care. I also don’t care about the dust on my socks. I only care about breathability and freedom of movement.
Interesting! I'm not in SV, but consulting in a European city that portraits itself as having a fairly advanced tech community. I've yet to encounter anyone on a team I've been on that is familiar with it

Didn't know the differences could be that huge.
The article says, "The green flash on Jupiter was captured during Juno’s 31st close flyby of the planet on December 30, 2020."
Actually the pay is based on the required qualification for this job. Oftentines, for software developers, they just require a bachelor's degree and will pay E11. If you apply with a higher degree, you will not be paid more..
Just look at what happened to Chrom(e|ium), when rebranded as Edge in Windows 10. Same applies here. MS is using its brute force as always, since they have almost zero innovation regarding games on Xbox. Except Kinect, that was cool tho.
No. Automate the shit out of this. Call centre jobs should not exist. If you have humanity’s best interests in mind then you should be all in on automation instead of trying to institutionalize miserable and meaningless jobs.
As a designer, all my icons are symbols and you can find the symbol artboard on another page with all the icons sized consistently with consistent naming conventions. You can select all and export as you please. Nothing drives me crazier than icons that are not properly formatted in both size and name.
The 'geocentric conceit' thing is just a moralized overinterpretation of people trying to be practical.

Obviously if you're traveling out from and back to one place over and over, the most sensible thing to do is to put that place near map center. It makes it easy to see all the other places in relation to your home, because how they relate to your home is what's relevant to you. Those are the distances and routes you want to be the most clear. When taking a sphere and mapping it to a rectangle there is no way to not do this - somewhere has to be the middle so you might as well choose somewhere practical.

Sagan like many others often sells morality porn - the feeling of "I know better than those ignorant less moral ones". A lot of entertainment is like this these days.
Thanks for clarifying.

So how does the price scale with the limit on concurrent backends? That's the really important factor in determining whether this is feasible (though I assume given a baseline of 20 it probably wouldn't be, for me, right now)

Also, how does BYOC differ from using Plane or Socket.io?
Sorry, I don't wish to spend time on a page that auto plays a video.
unlikely to be 2023, now, is it?
"This content is password protected. To view it please enter your password below:"
ITT: people who do not know that files do not have to be stored on a disk.
For any company too small to own its own building outright, as well as many that do own their own buildings, cleaning staff work for a contracted janitorial company and not the company itself.
Reddit Goes Nuclear, Removes Moderators of Subreddits That Continued to Protest
And who can forget "peace, love, Linux" ;)

https://www.zdnet.com/article/ibm-gets-100000-fine-for-peace...
Seems like it, doesn't it? I'd be curious to see if and how we can get there.
What I was highlighting are some serious challenges along the way that might end up leading us to insights about why it might be harder than we think, or why there may be factors that we aren't considering.

It's very easy to say "brain is made of fundamental particles and forces, all we have to do is create a similar configuration or a model of them," but it's precisely in the task of understanding the higher order patterns of those fundamental particles and forces where we seem to run into some serious challenges that as of yet remain unaddressed.

The AI/ML way of approaching this is more of a top-down approach, where we just sort of ignore the fact that we don't understand how our own brains/minds work and just try to build something kind of like it in the folksy sense. I'm not discouraging that approach, but I'm very curious to see where it will lead us.
Mainly I just feel I should be in control of the sites I make. They're personal in nature that I don't mind sharing with the world, but if I want to change something or make them disappear completely it irks me that there's a website out there violating my express wishes.
Reading is more than interpreting simple letters, words, sentences or even paragraphs. It is just as much about following an argument, retaining information from reading, and being critical of the information in parallel. There is very little written content of sufficient length to practice such skills online, especially content to which children and teens would be exposed.

People have always taken the path of least resistance. Radio, TV, and now the internet has gradually shifted the path of least resistance away from reading.

Not to mention the constant distractions one is constantly bombarded with even if one where to try. Popup ads, newsletter signups, inline gifs and memes, notifications, etc. Heck, even Wikipedia breaks up the text with constant hyperlinks which break up the linearity of the page.
You need some level of standardization, otherwise it's difficult to judge on a contextual manner if a student at HS A is a better candidate than a student at HS 1.

But the bigger issue is definetly the salaries - School Districts are at the mercy of local tax regimes and a bit of federal and state funding.

Due to this, salaries remain low as it's politically untenable to give meaningful raises.

Add to that, a College Degree for Educators is expensive (around $70-100k in tuition alone) given the salaries ($30-70k starting depending on the school district)

You get what you pay for I guess
Three Ideas for Regulating Generative AI
Garbage collection is not necessarily memory compacting.
The Awesome Socks Club is currently open for registration. It opens once or twice a year. They post you a pair a month, each designed by a different independent artist, and all the profits go to charity (maternal health care in Sierra Leone).
What about services such as house cleaning, laundry, gardening, cooking/meal prep, etc?
I appreciate this kind of discussion. It's important to note C programmers these days effectively avoid the inherent risks of unsafety by deploying solid memory strategies.

For example (self-plug incoming) we're hosting a workshop this summer [0] teaching people to replace a rat's nest of mallocs and frees with an arena-based memory allocator.

These sorts of techniques eliminate the common memory bugs. We don't do C programming the way we did back in the 80's and 90's.

[0] https://handmadecities.com/boston
Is there some way to export Figma's local variables to a CSS custom properties?
It makes things further from the equator appear huge. There's no conspiracy or biases involved, unless of course you're proposing that the Mercator projection was developed to give Antarctica a false sense of superiority.
Hi Emil. My question is about the prototyping. The proto tooling is improving but still pretty limited. Right now the approach seems somewhat disjointed, meaning some interactions utilize variants for state change, while others work across frames with the "onclick" interaction. But that could get really messy as this grows. Question: have you considered using a "dynamic panel" approach similar to what Axure does? That model was my favorite among the proto leaders.
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Was there a write-up of what the goals of the rewrite were, and why they switched the language and made the new engineering decisions?
Well Rust was written OCaml on which F# was based
So i think this was probably for performance, not for any expressive reasons

And personally i consider Rust to be from the OCaml/SML family of languages similar to F#, so i guess they moved within the family
Yet another anecdote here but I have an 8 year old that had a "covid kindergarten" as her teachers call it.

She's now about to finish 2nd grade and is doing a summer reading program with her school because she's in the ~40% percent of her grade that are behind state standards. As her parent, I almost feel helpless here. I want her to enjoy reading. I try not to push her "too" hard at home to the point where it's a constant fight.
I've heard that all people with absolute pitch will lose it once they get older into their 40s or 50s, as their sense of pitch drifts away from reality and everything will sound slightly out of pitch to them from then on.
Clearly not wearing Bombas
Hallucinate This: An authoritized autobotography
Well, Go is a descendant of Plan9's main programming language.
A shoe you've "knocked the snow off" is still full of snow, just less of it. It's also full of slush and salt.
Definitely country-specific, I'd expect it to be used to describe areas (and football stadiums be used to describe "number of people"). But footy fields in Australia are typically oval shaped!
"Olympic swimming pools" can be used for length, area or volume (but "Sydney Harbours" are only used for volume).

PS just tried the tool and couldn't find any of the above "units", not even "football fields".
And also Mercator remains popular because everyone is used to it and nobody actually cares that Greenland isn't really half the size of africa
In my mind, the similarity is that both handles and function suites allow the host runtime to change things around behind your back because you're not holding direct pointers, but instead the access is always within a scope.

With a memory handle there's usually an explicit closing call like unlock:

uint8_t *theData = LockHandle(h);
...
UnlockHandle(h); theData = NULL;

With a function suite (they way I've seen them used anyway!), the access might be scoped to within a callback, i.e. you are not allowed to retain the function pointers beyond that:

doStuffCb(mgr) {
SomeUsefulSuite *suite = mgr->getSuite(USEFUL_V1);
if (suite && suite->doTheUsefulThing) suite->doTheUsefulThing();
}
> but saying that the game is rigged against white men is absurd.

Yes.

But for an individual white man with no family nor means, it does not look like that

The real absurdity is the avarice, bigotry, and prejudice that bought us here
I grew up in a family of neatniks, and yet, the very concept of taking your shoes off when going inside perplexed me, on the rare occasion where I found a "no shoes" house. (Northwest USA).

Living the SF Bay Area now, I'd say it's slightly more common to take one's shoes off indoors, but certainly not the rule.

I just generally don't step in disgusting stuff. I don't want it on my shoes, whether or not I'm wearing them indoors. I don't live on a farm. I don't regularly walk across fields or on dirt roads. My shoes are relatively clean, and I don't have wall-to-wall carpet so I don't have to worry about dirtying the carpet so much.
Fun thing is that USSR (and Russia as its descendant) was actually never using Mercator anywhere near education, since the distortion was too great in places where it was important. You would imagine it would be good for ego, but pragmatic reasons prevailed.

Indeed, Russian textbooks would rather use Gauss-Krueger with its backgammon board appearance than Mercator. I believe that variations of Kavrayskiy VII projection were very common.

On the other hand they used projections which skip displaying Pacific ocean entirely, because who needs that?
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Pinball is of the body: why modern tech can't recreate the world under glass
I remember one particular trip I had on LSD. I spent some of the time inspecting my childhood neighbourhood in Belfast on Google Maps with the 3D view, and looking at it from angles other than North -> Top.

It completely changed not only how I viewed the geography of the city but also the socio-political history of it. I would definitely recommend anyone to do the same, or with other areas they're familiar with, with LSD or not. It's fascincating to realise how much the map has shaped your view of the places you know.
Why does Reddit need sales? Genuine question. My guess is to sell ads?
The administration today is about as untrustworthy as it gets, having become a vector of ideology. Parents are responsible for their children, and their primary teachers, not administrators, not teachers, and so they have more than just a say, but the deciding say; all other authority are deputized. I seriously doubt that parents are the primary reason for the mediocrity of education standards, but even if they were, it is parents that must be convinced that a curriculum is good. This is non-negotiable.

There are also plenty of counterexamples of parents, fed up with the poor quality of the savage factory that is the public school, coming together to form new private schools that surpass the standards of public education. These parents may not be representative, perhaps, but laying the blame at the feet of parents while valorizing administration, I claim, doesn't reflect reality adequately and certainly not constructively. In general, I am favor of more school choice and local initiative which would free parents to pursue models of excellence that could then be copied by other parents and even public schools (fat chance).