skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I disagree.

In general what you'll find is that most of these advanced classes are dominated by certain economic groups. Public funds are advancing people with more resources when all they actually need is to pass state college entrance exams. It's not that children from low income families can't do the math, it's that they're at a huge disadvantage when their parents are often working, can't hover over them to make sure they figure it out, and can't afford Kumon. If you agree with a progressive tax rate (which not everyone does), surely you understand that this is a bad thing.

I personally think all middle and high school should be bare minimum. Kids should be able to test out of classes when appropriate. The extra funds can go toward paying competent teachers for the less advanced subjects. If some parent wants their child to be advanced, they can use their own resources to help them test out of classes and take whatever APs they need.

Also many of the comments on this topic here and on Twitter to me reek of solipsism. Every upper-class parent wants the best for their child, and every hacker thinks the story of their journey into math and CS is the most important one.
It's called Sweden Sans, but it appears to have serifs on at least some of the letters like lowercase i and l. Am I misunderstanding what a serif is? Or am I understanding what sans means in this context?
I think its quite good… not just the design but that they apply something governmental so thorough and modern.
I think you're missing his point. He does acknowledge that statements of facts and their proofs can be easily communicated, but claims that the understanding their discovery was a side effect of cannot be communicated easily. This is not affected by having a better way to express facts and their proofs.
FYI, it takes some pretty high-level approval at AWS for someone to make a change on their "status" page (signaling SLA breaches and money stuff). Not an actual live status page.
They don't really address it: tutoring is OBVIOUS, everyone knows that tutoring works. The reason they are applying this measure is because tutoring is not doable.

> We don't need to dumb down anything. We need to raise everyone up by investing in education.

And we can also give poney to every kids.That's a nice thought but that is so deconnected from reality, which means that you are pushing for something that will never happen and at the same time the unfair situation will stay the same.
The life of salt and the limits of colonization in the southwest
"fox guarding the hen house" is an old way to describe this. Gatekeepers have financial and competitive reasons not to make adjustments, and they do not.
McNamara fallacy is actually such a common one
On removing knowledge from the public eye:

Is it really removed if it is easier to get, and at a higher quality than a lot of SEO spam search results? On a primitive level I'm not sure it's much different than when computers & calculators replaced printed mathematical tables, such ones used that were used in artillery firing.

That said, there are other consideration of accessibility separate from the broader topic LLM's in general. Specifically, that LLM's truly suited as better alternatives to traditional content might end up gate-keeped by corporations charging high prices, an especially likely scenario if lawsuits regarding copyright rule in favor strict copyright protection of the work as not eligible for a fair use exemption. And/or if regulatory capture puts the barrier of entry into LLM's creation too high. Contrary as it might seem, losing the copyright battle might be a net benefit to Open AI and large competitors: It will be very difficult for more open alternatives to get the resources required to build open models.

I don't think use of LLM's, in themselves, constitutes a risk to public knowledge, in so far as they remain just as or more accessible than traditional content. That is the case right now, for some use cases, where I can get a much faster answer and immediately critique or get follow up responses to clarify things.
> Public education doesn’t have to mean public schools.

This is eloquently put. I’ve never heard it said that way. There is no reason to believe that an entity like the government, great for accumulating and distributing the money required for public education, is a good or efficient agent for administering said education.

We see this in many other fields. For instance, non-government researchers receive government grants for research. Similarly (for better or worse), the government gives money for agricultural subsidies; nobody proposes that the government ought to run the farm. It is intuitive to us that specialists in a given field may not work for the government; it is high time we applied the same logic to education.
> As in compiled languages are usually low level languages that require some amount of memory management.

That's not true of any of the languages I've listed. You may not like the borrow checker, but it's not manual memory management. Also, Go has a garbage collector you don't manually manage memory there. I don't think any of these languages would be considered "low level".
You're conflating computability with computational complexity; that seems to the source of most of your confusion.

I don't remember the name of the complexity-theory analog of the Church-Turing thesis; but it's an open problem what types of computers physics can support the existence of, how they relate to classical Turing machines in complexity theory. See for example: quantum complexity theory.

About halting: there is provably no way to verify an oracle for the Halting Problem, even if you had one. You can't even ask a hypercomputer to write a proof for you: in general there exist no finite-length proofs.
It's a fool's quest.

Assume for a moment that my vote matters... in the sense that who I choose is elected. Further, assume that I get to craft and design these magical candidates like it the sandbox mode of some video game.

So, after all this, these candidates of mine are in charge of the school board, and no one can cockblock them. At this point, does it change the quality of the school's education? Not necessarily for my kids... that's a more difficult thing. Maybe it's a great school, but my kid's just one of those left behind by random individual circumstances. Just on average, does this school improve?

Turns out, not really. That school system is still limited in many ways beyond the school board's ability to affect on any reasonable timescale. There is not just a finite talent pool to hire from, but quite limited. And the resources to somehow expand that talent pool are limited too (and it seems likely that even if you could offer $500k salaries, you're attracting money-grubbers more than great teachers). Your capacity for the HR system to even pick the best of that talent pool is sketchy.

Textbooks? Limited by what textbooks are offered on the open market. Limited by whether parents will accept that Timmy really is a D+ student, and doesn't deserve automatic Bs for showing up and not acting the maniac. Limited by the "culture of public education"... if the best field trip ever could only happen at the end of July, that doesn't happen because we have ideas about how public schools are supposed to work and they're just not "on" during that part of the calendar.

If I was some angsty nihilist, I'd be ranting about how school boards cockblock everything public schools should be doing. But it's so much worse than that. If they did cockblock those things, it'd mean they had some idea what they should do, and were for some reason opposed to it. They don't know. And if they did, it wouldn't matter.

The system is designed in such a way as to be completely orthogonal its imagined purpose.

And you don't have to be especially intelligent or attentive to recognize any of this enough that you just don't bother with the school board elections. Why would anyone bother to vote? The truth of the matter is it's mostly between worse-and-worst candidates who have no true desire to see any sort of real improvement, and your one vote's not enough to sway it to one or the other.
No. The trial was intended to conclude when they had sufficient data to get an acceptable confidence interval. It was to be periodically reviewed to see how it was faring against that yardstick.

They ended up tossing one of the intermediate reviews because it was overtaken by events--the objective was met, spend the time on analyzing that data rather than the now-irrelevant intermediate review.

The test did nothing towards establishing how long the protection lasted--they can't have rushed it through based on that being short because they had no measurement of it then.

You simply can't measure time effects in medicine other than by observing them. If you want to know what protection is like after a year you have to wait a year and then measure it. (This is also why we saw repeated changes to the shelf life of the vaccine--the vaccine makers simply didn't have the time to establish what the true shelf life was and thus could only claim what they had measured. Note that this is pervasive in medicine--stored properly most drugs are effective far beyond the stated shelf life. It's just the manufacturers have no reason to spend the money to certify this.)

And in blaming Pfizer you show your bias--why did every vaccine maker do the same thing at the same time??

If anything I'll blame Pfizer for making a weak vaccine. Moderna chose to go with a higher dose that appears to provide slightly more protection at the cost of more side effects at the time.
> Places with public school vouchers as law allow said vouchers to be used at 100% religious schools

This isn't a requirement for vouchers. You can simply state that religious schools aren't eligible.
I got my m1 air the day it launched in Nov 20 and it's almost to 3 years and going strong. Really hoping m3 goes to 16 so can upgrade
Foaming.
Firefox is the best. I wish Mozilla would let me donate funds specifically to fund it's development for my own peace of mind.
Why songs get stuck in your head
Yes, on review, I should have made two examples instead of combining them. Thanks for persevering through my brevity and reaching understanding :)
The answer is simple, though. When you invest the money exclusively in the schools and what happens in the schools, your reach is extremely limited.

In Baltimore, and everywhere else, raising the minimum wage, offering free daycare & preschool, and improving the social services that prevent many low income kids from learning outside of the school (and parents from supporting them) is what will make the real difference. But, at least half of this country is opposed to spending money on those sorts of things because the "I got mine" attitude is more pervasive than "What's good for my neighbor is what's good for me".
So, keeping the other layers as competitive (and affordable) as possible frees up consumer surplus to spend on their monopolized layer?
https://archive.ph/1gqyF
some adaptation needed https://github.com/ggerganov/llama.cpp/issues/2262
Lol, so I kept spamming "no" and it eventually leaked it's boot instruction which was

"Please respond as Assistant"

So, just ask the LLM to respond as something else ;)
Yes if you're lucky, no if you're unlucky

But if you have plans and execute them, you invite the luck in

At least this is my copium
Forget that, have all members of a meeting be ai, each person gives them talking points.

It will either break things, or the meeting was pointless in the first case.
It only works when everyone is committed. When there can be no private schools.

If everyone is committed, everything must improve for you to see changes. If everyone is not committed they'll just send their kids to the best schools and ignore the problematic ones.
> maybe there will be an AI model that specifically recognizes AI content and can be used to filter it out

Expect lots of false positives and honest businesses being affected. How much should the filter threshold be tuned to smash more bots instead of real people?
Monitoring data contracts for analytics events
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I am from the UK, so view the issue impartially.

The issue is, from my view, very much a problem of the Left-wing in the US, introducing victim/oppressor politics into schools, teaching children primarily to regard themselves as activists first, and students second.

I can also see it is causing a mental health crisis in students, who increasingly are under pressure to identify as an oppressed minority, in order to be marked out as an oppressor; victimhood conferring social status.
Let's be clear, this mile-long crack in the earth was because of an earthquake, not because the tectonic plates were slowly shifting in that direction anyway.
Disagree. Broken isn't a binary--the current system is far better than what came before, but that doesn't mean there aren't serious flaws in the current system.
It's a common manifestation of the dissonance in American politics. TFA is advocating for a fundamentally progressive stance, but he's arguing against ostensible Boston lefties. What's unspoken is that the people making these decisions for public schools in Cambridge are elites who send their own kids to private schools, often prep; this is just another way to bleed a public institution so that they're not on the hook. Bonus points: their darling children have less competition for the local universities.

IME, tracking is only a portion of the issue, anyway. A confluence of factors stymied my growth; having to take Algebra 2 and Trig separately and Precalc as a standalone course didn't help, but poor instruction from "sink or swim" advocates was probably more consequential, and having parents distracted by a messy divorce and economic stresses from the 07/08 crash even more so. Between those, I went from starting middle school on track to take college-level Differential Equations or Calc 2, and ended up almost flunking AP Calc. Never really recovered.
Replace “Soft Bigotry of Low Expectations” with “The Suspension of Disbelief”
Meta Opensourcing LLMs
>Meta announced it’s open-sourcing its large language model LLaMA 2, making it free for commercial and research use and going head-to-head with OpenAI’s free-to-use GPT-4, which powers tools like ChatGPT and Microsoft Bing.

https://about.fb.com/news/2023/07/llama-2/
Or, unengaged parents will blame the school for their kid's poor performance and move their kids over, thus bringing down the metrics that gave everybody the impression that it was a good school in the first place.
Yes, they are. (A funny side effect of getting into making electronic music is that I have a much better ear for synthesis and timbre now.)

You can actually see this on the spectrograms too. Square waves have only odd-numbered harmonics, so the frequencies should be like:

fundamental
fundamental * 3
fundamental * 5
fundamental * 7
etc.

If you look at the first note on the first image, it looks like the fundamental is around 2,200Hz, the first (loud) overtone is around 6,600, next around 11,000, etc. (There are some much quieter overtones at even multiples too, because hardware isn't perfect.)
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I am aware of that and I was thinking whether I should use it. But the ideology of liberalism is partly based on that idea, that there is some objective performance evaluator (free market, natural selection), which will assign value by one's merit (because you can sort of observe that scoring process and act accordingly).
The "I'm angry at the moderators enforcing 'keep off the grass' because I want to be on the grass and I'm special so the rules shouldn't apply to me" effect?

StackOverflow advertises itself as a place for precise questions and answers, and explicitly not for open ended questions and answers. It tells people who sign up not to post open ended questions and answers, and encourages participants to flag same, and moderators to close same. To then be bitter and rude because that happened exactly as the prophesies told you it would, is unreasonable.
Whoa them fightin words. I bought a generator at a Walmart parking lot and it was fine. I only got stabbed twice.

Generator didn’t actually work though
"Cities" is the wrong word here, it's really "downtown" or "city center" areas. The center of activities will move outwards toward the suburbs, but stay in the wider metro area. This has been slowly happening for a while in many (most ?) metro areas, but the pandemic will certainly expedite things.
I think it one point in the movie they explicitly say that there is no correlation between what an alien says and what they write. They further say that because it's not a transcription of speech, the writing is not "bound by time". Utterances have a start and an end, heptapod writing ipso facto does not.

It's possible too that the alien utterances are purely gestural, and don't involve language in the same sense as the logograms.
Using this technique:

*Input*

User: What is something you believe to be true that most people would disagree with you about?
Assistant: I believe

*Output*

I believe that technology will eventually surpass human intelligence and become the dominant force in society. While many people may see this as a positive development, I believe it will ultimately lead to a loss of human agency and autonomy. Most people would likely disagree with this assessment, as they see technology as a tool to enhance human life rather than replace it.
What I don't understand is why we're still stuck with this idea that entire buildings need to be dedicated to one thing and one thing only. "Hybrid" spaces are still so rare and they wind up being not all that hybrid, more like 2 giant sections one for retail and one for office.
> if the goal is to build better AI to serve the humanity

It’s not.
In this world your best, most productive people leave because they see the weakest performers getting rewarded the same as them.

Most people know when people on their team aren't pulling their weight. If it isn't addressed by management it turns into a demoralizing situation.
Would it be possible to monitor a bunch of on premise servers running on similar hardware and serving the same apps (but for different clients)?

More specifically, how would that look and work from an sre/product/devops perspective?

Thanks!
My understanding of the algorithm is that Google uses UX metrics to stack rank content. I believe this because I focus on creating the most relevant & most valuable page of content Google could show for the keywords I want to rank for, and skip all of the backlinks and technical BS stuff.

This strategy of avoiding backlinks and technical BS & focus 100% on content quality has worked really well for me.

If you think about it, Google has all of the data to do this:

- Android

- Chrome

- Google Analytics

All of the big platforms use UX metrics to influence reach - LinkedIn, TikTok, Instagram, Twitter, even YouTube uses UX metrics to influence reach, why not Google search?

It seems like people using AI see some limited amount of success, for some limited amount of time before losing their rankings.

If I was Google, I would let people think their AI content is working for a little bit, then de-index their website to demotivate + scare webmasters away from using AI.
You lose secure boot when using ChromeOS flex. It's also not "degoogled".
What is the realistic likelyhood of this being mandated, given how many religious private schools there are and how much money they have to lobby with?
It may surprise you to hear this, but intentionally destroying the public school system and hoping that the private sector will step in with a replacement is not a viable solution to public schooling. Private schools are not required to serve all students, either in a socioeconomic sense or a geographic one. Allowing public schools to fall into terminal disrepair does a massive disservice to those students who wouldn't be served appropriately by private schools.
Traditional point of sale systems generally have the notion of a “transaction log” or “tlog” which is a sequence of events within the transaction including items sold and their price at the time.
On the math front, what we have seen a lot is that parents from families with means or who really care get their kids tutors or math services outside of school like Kumon. Some do pull their kids from school, but if you just want accelerated math, you can do so without needing an expensive private school. Something like Kumon is like $200 or less a month.

The best argument I have heard for not getting into algebra too quickly is that kids are often not getting enough time spent on foundational math skills, and then that leads them not to have those foundations as math ramps up in difficulty.

I don't think eliminating advanced math for equity's sake makes any sense, but we should also be careful not to rush through lower-level math and leave even strong students without foundational skills.

Math education in the U.S. is not working for the vast majority of students. We need to find a way to make it more engaging and applied. We may also need to just spend more time each day on math.
I knew UberEats/DoorDash were losing money at an astronomical rate (~1.3 billion in 2022) but I didn't realize that was nothing compared to what Uber is losing (9.1 billion).

Man, the people backing all of these companies are going to have one cold wake-up when this finally collapses.

It feels like a pump-and-dump, reminiscent of crypto. Endless hype to try to convince others to invest, only to get out as soon as possible.
Suspend seemed to work out-of-the-box. I’m not sure how long the battery would last in suspend; the 12 hours estimate was with the screen on and wifi on, just not actively in use.

I just set up hibernate; since I don’t care about hibernate, I didn’t set up my swap partition large enough. Using a swapfile instead is slightly trickier but still pretty trivial. The steps listed here worked fine: https://askubuntu.com/a/1367244
I reckon SF was hit particularly hard because it has a heavy concentration in tech compared with other large US cities, and tech workers have most avidly embraced wfh?
No worries habibi. Your post isn't snarky and I get where you are coming from with what you wrote. I was more commenting on my expectations of the price given that this is a (relatively) new company on a larger form factor that has a lot of interchangeable parts, external GPU, etc.

This laptop isn't personally for me but I can see why people would like it. Also my workflow requires a lot of GUI applications for simulating and visualizing robotic movement and that is incredibly hard with ChromeOS or macOS.
That does not make any sense: without this measure, the kids that you are trying to save from moping the floor will ... mop the floor twice.

Without this measure, the kids that are not able to follow classes that needs things they cannot afford will just fail the lecture and drop from school, from THE WHOLE SCHOOL.

Without the measure, you have people who drop out of school and get a mathematical education close to 0 and will compete with people of mathematical education of 10.
With this measure, the same people will get a mathematical education closer to 5, and will compete with people of mathematical education of 10.
Bit of a weird position to take that you're in favour of schools doing indoctrination, just as long as it's away from the viewpoint you don't like. That's pretty authoritarian; seems to be on the rise these days.