skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>This is my best guess about the line of thinking that motivates these "no advanced math" policies.

You've explained the thought process of the "reformers" fairly well, but there is another additional element that's important as well: a sizeable contingent of people believe that advanced math itself is intrinsically bad or negative. Usually this is either because math is fundamentally exclusionary in some core way, or because it's somehow inextricably tied to ways in which equity-seeking populations are oppressed, or used as a tool of oppression.

O'Neill's Weapons of Math Destruction is so popular in academic circles partly because it plays to this mindset.

This viewpoint dovetails with some of the points you've highlighted, for example many believe that everyone is equally capable, but the reason they're not all getting competitive scores with good shots at college is because advanced math (being intrinsically negative/evil) is ruining it. So in their view it is rational to get rid of it, replacing it with something (the data science course) that's not advanced math.

For these people, the goal is not to improve equity by getting everyone up to speed in advanced math. It's to bypass it.
There is no real mechanism to force a complete market wide wide behavior change other than maybe a great reset(how that could happen is beyond me).
Interessant3: A newsletter where I share three interesting things, once a week
Hey HN, thought I'd share my newsletter on here in case someone else enjoys it. It's pretty much what the title says, and themes range from economics to science, to interesting visualisations or simply websites I stumble upon.

It's currently at 120 subscribers and in the latest issue I shared a study showing an unexpected overlap in the demographics of the BLM and anti-lockdown protest participants in the USA, the U-shaped relationship between income and fertility rate, and a mapping I did of per capita income vs average working hours per year in select countries.
> An icon on the other hand? "icon.svg". Done.

Which would be tolerable if those icons actually made it clear what their function is. But, increasingly, they don't even try.
Citus 12: Schema-based sharding for PostgreSQL
Oh man! this is a Godsend. I've been having issues with Sentry's payment processor... And been looking for alternatives. I'm definitely in!
>I understand why many people will perceive this article as saying that the workplace is inherentely inauthentic or dishonest, but many sociologists will tell you that all social venues are theatre-like.

The sociologists all got this from Kant as many of the 'human sciences' were deeply influenced by him. Auguste Comte, widely viewed as the founder of the discipline, was a notable Kantian.

From Kant's Anthropology from a Pragmatic Point of View:

"On the whole, the more civilized human beings are, the more they are actors. They adopt the illusion of affection, of respect for others, of modesty, and of unselfishness without deceiving anyone at all, because it is understood by everyone that nothing is meant sincerely by this. And it is also very good that this happens in the world. For when human beings play these roles, eventually the virtues, whose illusion they have merely affected for a considerable length of time, will gradually really be aroused and merge into the disposition."
Personal freedom can be a bad idea in crisis situations. Selflessness and following procedure can be better for the collective. This is why crisis operators follow checklists rather than giving each individual absolute personal freedom.
It is not bias it is flat out propaganda.
What is measured is what gets done. If schools are judged by graduation rates, then yes, fewer scientists but more people graduating highschool. Or we go the other way and judge schools by how many elite scientists they produce. Identify the best students early. Give them everything so that they can all become neuroscientists. Abandon all those who struggle in order to focus resources on the future doctors. Imho a public school should only start diverting resources to elite students once the school has achieved a reasonable graduation rate (90+% imho.)
The big thing is usually old building stock.

Urban school districts in the US are disproportionately in old buildings that have high maintenance costs, low efficiency for utilities, and have all sorts of problems that need remediation, like lead or asbestos. There is generally no capex money to replace these buildings, and even if there was, finding a suitable property in an urban area is pretty difficult, since schools are big.
If the stuff you're doing allows a design where you can just loop over POD, sure, that's the ideal.

But lots of stuff isn't that simple, and you end up messily reinventing inheritance with a lot of switches and if statements.
for a while I do believe 'town car' was actually an option.
Pretty much every golang project I've ever touched builds with `go build`. Most that have makefiles just call `go build`, and the makefile is more for building docker containers, or doing infra-related things. If a project is in go, 98% of the time `git clone XXX && cd XXX && go build` will work.

That is absolutely not the case with C, C++, Java, python.

> So gradle's issue, not Java's. See above.

The issue exists with maven too, but _not_ with go build, which is OP's point.
It does, actually. The first I've ever really seen "Threads".

Although even for a "read-only" site, there's not much there. You can go to the profile, but that's about it. Unless that's really all threads is, this just looks like a way of getting people to download the app.
Hola! Y'all can play with LLama 2 for free and compare it side by side to over 20 other models on the Vercel AI SDK playground.

Side-by-side comparison of LLama 2, Claude 2, GPT-3.5-turbo and GPT: https://sdk.vercel.ai/s/EkDy2iN
The explosion in popularity of AI imagery isn't because the results became more artistic, but because they made it easier for people to mimic technical execution without understanding or caring about making art.

Put differently, it made it possible for them to have the technical execution without being able to understand or change why certain things are appealing to them. That's why most of it looks the same and why the vast majority of the results don't have any appeal beyond satisfying the ego of the person who generated it.

In a way, the appeal of 'modern' AI generated imagery to its users is similar to someone who thinks chess is cool, doesn't care enough to understand it, but wants to play anyway, so they use a mediocre chess engine to generate their moves against other players and rely on playing a massive number of games to make their win count look good.
He has my sarcasm detector pegged. He's joking.

I hate sarcasm.
The storage and memory upgrades are expensive and also have a penalty in terms of power. Memory draws the same current regardless of if it’s being used and that is significant. Unified memory is also very different, has much higher bandwidth than RAM and lower latency. You can’t compare unified memory with RAM.

As far as the SSD, the base option comes with one 256GB NAND flash IC, where if you upgrade to 512GB they have to add a second. That matters because adding a second means you double the IO bandwidth using their current design. It’s something like 3500 vs 7500 MB/s. If you add more NAND modules you also scale up the IO speed further but the difference between 3500 and 7500 is significant for all workloads where above that you probably won’t see a gain except in niche applications like video editing, assuming you have the complimentary processing power and unified memory to utilize that throughput. For storage, Apple provides 2TB cloud service for $10/mo and these have wifi 6E so it’s cheaper to use the cloud than buy the storage, assuming it’s not working storage, and safer too.

Also, upgrades on Apple products hold their market value very poorly. The M2 studio just came out and maxed out M1 units are on sale NIB at 1/4 price of retail from 3 months ago, which is not at all a true quantification of performance since the M2 is only what 15-20% faster.

So after quite some research for the MBA 15; 16GB + 512GB + 70W adapter is the optimum for power draw, performance, cost and value preservation.

Overall, it seems the best value strategy with Apple products is to take the first upgrade for memory and storage and leave it at that. You can then resell every year and recoup 60% and upgrade to the latest w a new battery. Apple is actually very cheap after the first investment considering the productivity and time saving benefits, and you can’t steal an Apple device. Just don’t drop it

Also if you are considering big upgrades, compare the cost to just buying two base units as the base units are way closer to the manufacturing cost. Often there is more benefit to having two expendable units and they will hold their resale value better.
Container tabs are unfortunately not very usable for me. I have extensions that are unique to the profile. When they decided to redo the tabs rather than modernize the profile workflow, it basically forced me to use chrome.
How can it be a trade if one party gave nothing to the other party? If one company gets good PR and a group gets something for free, how is that a trade?

One party can benefit and give nothing, while the other party still benefits.

I've literally never done anything charitable by your definition then, because i do it because it makes me feel good. I like helping others. Perhaps the only charitable companies or people are masochists? Hah
If I started shilling for the Marxist-Leninist Institute of Vkou that promoted cake for everyone, equality, unity and prosperity, self-determination and social wellbeing, would you be concerned about any of those things separately, together, or would you just dismiss me out of hand, because you think you know where that road leads?

I think I know where the road of 'personal freedom, free enterprise, property rights, limited government, and sound money' leads, and I'm also usually quite happy to dismiss anyone shilling for it out of hand.
Their target is 5% and looking at the latest quarter they are not going to hit it, even with their "creative" math.
Still fails my hippo test!

> Yes, hippos are excellent swimmers. They spend most of their time in the water, where they feed on aquatic plants and escape the heat of the savannah. In fact, hippos are one of the best swimmers among all land mammals.

But that's fine. Most do. Hippos don't swim. They walk or hop/skip at best underwater.
I think this is a promising avenue: https://www.technologyreview.com/2020/06/22/1004218/how-gree...
The point is that there is absolutely nothing in the taxi system to enforce transparency or accountability. Every time you take a taxi, you are crossing your fingers and hoping that you get a good experience.
Ask HN: How would you find a remote 6 figures job from Western Europe?
The only companies paying that much here are FAANGs, Swiss companies(but they expect you to relocate), and a few companies in London.(and maybe a few roles here and there expecting +10YoE)

Where would you look if you wanted to work remotely for a "US salary"?

I've already applied to some of the big names like Gitlab or Automattic.
You obviously meant to say: "IAR not to bother spelling out three words...".
For the love of god don't forget taxes.. fucking taxes.

Federal, state, local, type, etc.
This just reminded me of a trip to Italy I took back in 2009. There was this taxi I took that charged me 100 Euros to go a kilometer.

Never again will I do that.
> some modern sensibilities are still there like the narrow layout

Yes, this is also horrible.
Hey remember a month ago when we had a huge thread with dozens or maybe even hundreds of comments about how interesting and thoughtful were the works of the unabomber? I wonder what all those commenters are up to I wonder what you might find if you follow some of them around for a few days.

I wonder if they have any overlap with the folder of screenshots I have of users here advocating eugenics, colonialism, or infanticide. I truly can't guess either way.
> Don’t many/most state of the art models take many months to train on far more data than humans need for similar tasks?

Humans generally need 18 years of pre training followed by 4-6 years of fine tuning before they can “one-shot” many difficult tasks. That’s way more training than any machine learning model I’m aware of.

Even for tasks like reading the newspaper and summarizing what you read, you probably had to train for 10-12 years.
Not downloading a random exe to my computer, sorry)

And by random I mean downloaded from a website of corporation with less than $100B valuation :)
Ultimately, all this is not leading to lower commercial rents. So if we can wait until borrowers default, maybe it will. But for now, I'd like a cooled office where I can put a few racks of servers downtown and plug some fiber. I do want access for the moment. Let me know if interested.
I'm Jewish, I went to Jewish day school for awhile, and I definitely don't think tax money should be going to Jewish day schools. Nor Christian nor Muslim schools. What religion you raise your kids in is your business, and no we're not the USSR.

Keeping religion out of publicly funded institutions, including schools, is done as much to safeguard free religious practice in this country as anything. The point is that the public institutions should be entirely civil and not under the sway of any one religion, because each religion once in control of society ends up discriminating against the others. That's why you don't allow them power in the civil sphere.
No high core count Intel and NVIDIA GPU option?
Here you go:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4103417

Two overarching principles here:

1. Sane customers value determinism more than they value maximizing the productivity of a single hour. They're engaging you because they want a thing done, and the order of their concerns is: (i) assurance that the thing gets done, (ii) getting the thing on a predictable schedule, (iii) getting the thing done sooner, (iv) that they're not making a fool out of themselves by paying way over the market for the thing and (v) how much they pay. Note how far down the list the actual absolute billing number is.

2. Conduct a thought experiment: imagine you have a project that is going to take you a week to finish. Now imagine you take 100 Provigils (don't do this) and get the project done in 3 days instead. Who should get the economic benefit of that efficiency, you or your client?
It's not necessarily that they're bad it's just that they're likely not a valuable source of acquiring information outside of what supports a specific position. Like I wouldn't necessarily trust an oil baron to tell me about how global warming doesn't really exist, or I don't necessarily believe Disney's Iger to tell me about how the writing and acting strikes are entitled whining nonsense.
Wow, just wow. I can't wonder how common such securing coding slip ups are these days.
Kunga: Ancient Mesopotamians created the world’s first hybrid animal
Why did you reply to a question clearly asked directly to the post I replied to?

> No, your presumption is wrong.

Fair enough. So it was “no big deal” for you. But functions clearly have value, since every language since that time has added them as a language feature. And I claim that, barring the occasional genius like you, most people (including myself at that time) actually need the language support in order to be able to get used to building abstractions in ever larger programs.
> Are any of those things bad by themself or in combination?

"The right to swing my fist ends where the other man’s nose begins."

* https://quoteinvestigator.com/2011/10/15/liberty-fist-nose/

Towards an individual those things may be fine, but we each live in a society, and how your actions effect others could be a factor in how much each of them may be exercised.
Thanks, this is something I will look into.

Unfortunately the people who downvoted me must be thinking differently. Would have loved so much to hear their reasoning and POV on the matter, especially if they disagree with my hypothesis, I’m always willing to learn.
and there's the temptation to govern in a permanent crisis mode. there is no end to reasons why there is a crisis. or, is there a scientific definition of "crisis"?
So, the ~9 Million people who live in New York don't have jobs other than catering to the privileged?
So you don't accidentally run out of money before the next paycheck arrives.
Was there more discussion of Chernobyl? I just saw one paragraph and then scrolls of ads and no more text. That site is pretty awful.
SimpleLogin is much more featured and supports extensions on all major platforms.
>Chrome's ability to temporarily edit and save changes to JS sources through the debugger editor is fantastic though.

Does this affect the live code so the change is available immediately? I once had a thought about wondering if this was possible to have the change available without refreshing
Requesting to chat in Portuguese is not working. The model always falls back to answering in English. Incredibly bias training data to favor English.
Ah, so you think the better solution is taxi cabs, which have zero tracking, transparency, and accountability?

Every time one of those stories come out, you're forgetting that the perp is immediately caught because there's a huge paper trail detailing exactly who took what ride where and the route.
Marxist-Leninists often have fair and valid critique of society. Hearing them out is valuable even if you (like myself) find yourself opposed to many of their values and proposals.
I think you have to include a lot of "Retail Trade" and/or "Leisure and Hospitality" in those numbers, though I'm not sure where grocery and food service workers fall exactly. Meat packing, prepared foods, etc are a lot more manual than agriculture itself. Most people do not want to eat raw field corn/wheat/soybeans.
> Excess mortality....the number of deaths *from all causes* during a crisis

My friend killed himself because of lockdown. I guess he is a covid victim. Very convinient.
LLM's generally don't do math well. GPT-4 has made some strides but I have to wonder if it's using special mechanisms to support it with delegation to special training or modes. I know for a fact Google's Bing has some mechanisms specifically for it too but it's really just crutches that also easily fall apart.

These are first and foremost specifically for language... and no, not the "language of math" ;-)

If you're interested in doing math on an open model, I'd rather look into integrating LLaMa 2 with Wolfram Alpha. That would be a very nice complement! And there's no reason to see it as admitting defeat. AI and engineering at large is all about using the best tools for the purpose!
What the Heck is FreeCAD and why do I care?
after Github got support for mermaidjs charts in markdown, I've not looked back
> On HN, I really expected better of people. Why does everybody think this is open source?

If you put five HN users in a room you will get at least a dozen definitions of "open source".

>Does everyone also think OpenAI is open source?

No one thinks that OpenAI is open source.

> Or a non-profit?

I think most people just assume that OpenAI is a for profit company (which it is). There is of course a non-profit foundation that is a majority shareholder in it.

> Does putting open in the name just mean you're going to love it?

Obviously not, since people here definitely see Meta as the good guy when compared to OpenAI.
Wow, that looks so bad from an anti-trust/competitiveness standpoint. M$ is embracing AI just like it embraced the internet 25 years ago.
I don't entirely understand your question, but the one bit I do want to address is that it's somewhat tautological that average incomes will be priced out of [the most] desirable places.

The issue with SF that the OP here is trying to extrapolate to US cities as a whole is rather more like "priced out of literally every part of town other than a tent on the street" while at the same time having huge amounts of empty space in buildings, which is a very precarious position and one that's far less common in large US cities/metro areas. (There's also a unique aspect about SF being quite small, city-wise, by US standards and much of its surrounding suburbs also being obscenely expensive across the board; SF itself could suffer big hits to population and desirability and that may or may not have much impact on the rest of the Bay Area).
I would argue that finding a better solution to our education problems would be a bigger achievement for humanity than putting someone on Mars.
KVM GPU passthrough, use an AMD GPU, fairly simple, plenty of guides out there because Linux gaming is such a thing at the moment. Works fine.
Eight different classes in one day? How can that work?
Our school district has a program where teenagers can elect to go to high school at a local community college. Depending on their aptitude going on, the program starts them off on high-school level classes and moves them up to college-level classes as the semesters go on, and all of this happens on a real college campus with a real college workload and schedule. The idea is that the kids aim to graduate with at least an associates degree.

Poor grades and trouble-making will get you kicked out of the program, so the only kids that are there are the ones who WANT to be there, which is a drastic contrast to actual high school.

Our daughter will be attending this school in the fall, we are all very excited about it.
It read like they DID know how to spot it, and the reaction was... "never again for anyone under any circumstances".

Blanket bans like the one described are always wrong. ;)

If there's a problem, monitor it after every shift, or every day, or weekly. You know who worked what registers; monitor/scan/review, then take action against the offenders.

I worked food service with POS; we had to review things every drawer change, and discrepancies were noted. Repeated discrepancies (either money or between food usage and money) would be tied to someone (or multiple people) and action was taken. It's not always that hard, just a bit time consuming, but... it's part of the job (or was for me).
No, but understanding the position of the author is useful. There is an agenda behind this article. If my goal is to avoid death during a pandemic, personally I would rather read articles about pandemic response by epidemiologists rather than economists.