skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Posts like these are the 'no fun allowed' of constructed languages, and
> it pops up most often with Esperantists. Like a diplomat, you refuse to
> let people use words carelessly, or loosely.

Wtf? What 'no fun allowed'?! In the community is fun allowed how and why are
you making that stuff up based on what actually? What interpretation are you constructing, which is not based on any reality? We have wordplays, puns
and local culture. People do these all the time and annoy the more grammatically
inclined people with it all the time. These conflicts inside the community
are normal any community will develop people who need to care about the language
more and people who care less about any language. That's how new concepts
are generated.

> EDIT: You also left like... a wall of text explaining why Esperanto is far
> superior to Toki Pona? That isn't fun to read or talk about. If the idea is
> to replace English as a language of the world, we don't have to bring
> the stern attitude of an English teacher along with it.

The wall of text tried to answer the question sincerely of how they compare.
Also it included my personal bitterness of about people who constantly piss on Esperanto for the wrong reasons. Like such as exactly this post of yours.
And that's also why I stopped writing it. I wrote that it's lacking "functionality", that makes Esperanto more complex. Toki Pona is minimalist,
it can't be the best language in the world for everything. But that does not
make it bad. People enjoy learning it and despite what you try to make
people in the Esperanto-community look like, there are a bunch of them speaking
that language too for its value of minimalism, its value in playing
around with the sapir-whorf-hypothesis regarding depression (it's after all the language of good), its value in finding a community, etc.

You see something, interpret it wrongly and then piss on it, for the wrong reasons.

> Toki Pona is in itself a reaction to that. It's an exploration in
> wordplay, puns, and local culture.

That a niche of people who are inclined to perfectionism, down-beating and snobbishness are also inclined to favor Toki Pona is shown by your comment.
Nah any game with enough variance and complexity will do that.
I had a guy vote to close one of my 5-year-old questions that had an answer and plenty of upvotes at that point. It’s clearly helping people out but yeah let’s delete it because you want a badge (I’m not sure if you get a badge for that)
> I no longer feel the need to hire juniors. This is a short-term positive and maybe a long-term negative…. A lot of stuff I used to delegate to fellow humans are now being delegated to ChatGPT. And I can get the results immediately and at any time I want.

In college, one of the classes I took was a basic digital circuit design class. How to build a CPU out of logic gates and things of that nature. A large part of the class was about minimizing a circuit using Karnaugh maps. The professor pointed out, however, that no one in industry actually does this anymore since the introduction of ESPRESSO in the 80’s. Before ESPRESSO, any chip designer would have some junior engineers slaving over Karnaugh maps all day to optimize their designs, but these engineers were replaced overnight by an algorithm.

Did this actually reduce the number of EE’s working in chip design? Maybe it did; I wouldn’t know. And obviously, GPT-4 is a much more general system than ESPRESSO. But it struck me as an interesting parallel.
Small commit reviews sound miserable. You have no context of the rest of the branch unless you look for it, you have no idea what's in the author's head for future commits (I can imagine some devout YAGNI follower rejecting a commit because a function argument is unused, which the author planned to use tomorrow..), and it sounds like it would encourage minor nitpicking when there's not that much to review. As opposed to a whole branch PR where I can see the entire feature at once and how it comes together.
If the sale was legitimate sure. But there is a long, proven history of fraudulent sales and straight theft. In those (numerous) instances would it not behoove the recipient to return them?

There are some people here saying “the people who made them are dead”. Which I imagine is an argument for “nobody actually owns them”. Which is a myopic view. The cultural heritage of a region should be able to be enjoyed by the people of that region. Imagine if major artifacts of American, or British (or wherever you are from) history were lost to another far away land and you had no opportunity to marvel at them, how might you feel?

That said, there is something to the notion of borrowing and “tours” of artifacts, so people of the world can also enjoy them.
The more I learn, the more I think I might be in the wrong business...
S.F.’s top-paid employee makes $640K. Here’s what every city worker gets paid
Players at Monopoly tournaments are changing the rules?
> The problem is, the people who can afford to drop $2M+ on house and land for a home they barely visit are not going to be phased by a 10% value tax.

So, why is that a problem? That's a lot of extra tax money for the city to work with to solve the overall problem from the other end. If that is the only issue, they should do this yesterday.
You Could Be Wrong About Probability
I would argue that they're not competing for students, they're competing for Prestige. Most universities have a wait list a mile long, so they're not going to run out of students.

However, very few colleges want to be the university that produces an adequate education with extremely low cost. They all want to be the most prestigious University, costs be damned.

If you want to get a sense of the differences, community colleges are focused on students, not prestige. Community college costs is California are $550 per semester, while UCs are in the $13-14k/yr ballpark.

Undergraduate lecturers can actually be better at a community college IMHO, because they are career teachers, not career researchers.
I think the federal government just needs to have a 'fitness standard' for schools to be eligible to receive federal loan dollars. Like, >80% of tuition dollars must be spent on instruction staff, instruction-specific facilities that serve students, students must be able to opt-out of substantial non-instruction services (e.g. dorms, recreational facilities), etc. If you want to build a new building that doesn't have classrooms, you need to find some other source of funding than students.

I know people hate this, but I also think it would be reasonable if you weren't eligible to receive federal student loans until you had filed your own taxes without being anyone's dependent, or been out of high school for 2 years, or _something_. What if we still agreed that federal programs can help make college accessible and affordable -- but we should want students to have some perspective on what they want their life to look like, and what it will mean to pay off a giant pile of debt over years, and what kind of education might give them a chance at balancing those concerns.
It is not a bribe because it is legal technically.
It would also help to require administrative salaries to be below a certain percentage in order to qualify to accept federal loan money. (I would think 8% or lower).
from https://rnid.org.uk/hearing-research/hearing-loss-and-dement...:

"There is strong evidence to show that:

- hearing is an essential part of brain health
- mild hearing loss doubles the risk of developing dementia
- moderate hearing loss leads to three times the risk
- severe hearing loss increases the risk five times."

also, from https://publichealth.jhu.edu/2021/hearing-loss-and-the-demen...:

"Hearing loss is estimated to account for 8% of dementia cases. This means that hearing loss may be responsible for 800,000 of the nearly 10 million new cases of dementia diagnosed each year."
Computers are not necessary for K-12 education. They're more likely a hindrance.
Under PHIPA you can essentially use PHI for: direct patient care, research, or quality improvement. All QI does not need patient consent. Most research also does not need patient consent.

Research requires REB approval. Institutional policy usually requires a REB to determine that the proposed initiative is not research but this varies. It is trivial to get QI approved.

The act of deidentification is considered a "use" and therefore would require an REB approval or be structured as QI. However, once deidentified the data is no longer protected under PHIPA and can be used for anything.

There is some nuance to this, such as you can't have a planned use of the deidentified data and not have disclosed it in the initial QI or research plan, but you can subsequently use the data as long as it was not planned at the time of initial application.

Without getting lost in the weeds, there is little protection on deidentified data once it exists.
In CCC, black holes all evaporate before that.
https://www.engineering.columbia.edu/news/visionary-engineer...

"Inspired by her interdisciplinary studies in history, anthropology, and sociology at Columbia, Conway sought, as an engineer, not only to ride a wave of innovation in computing but to spark maximal diffusion of her open-ended method for better VLSI chips by empowering more researchers to advance the field."

Lynn Conway gave the most amazing talk I'd seen up to that point in my life, in the 1980's at Columbia. (Whitfield Diffie would be the other.) She opened with graphs of how birds in England had learned to poke the foil on milk deliveries, and drink the cream. She generalized this to describing how she deliberately used her training in anthropology to accelerate the spread of her new approach to VSLI chip design.

I had no idea she was trans, though the only way it could matter would be as another data point for how being at odds with the conventional world so often boosts creative thinking. And I've encouraged many students since, "To be a revolutionary, first embrace that you want to be a revolutionary."
There are some (pretty much meme) videos on “proportional” destruction of the Iranian navy, after an incident.

This kinda feels like the same thing, but politically. “You…” … “so we” … “and it’s gonna be ‘proportional’. Sorry-not-sorry.”
I think what happened is that during the 90s/early 00s the internet was too immature to be affected by the garbage/attention economy campaigns that took place in more refined mediums like television for example. The internet was not yet a part of mass media. It was more like a “walled garden” of a different kind in spite of how open it was within the walls.

Watching the internet change may feel different to some people because the relationship that they’ve had with it is more intimate than with their television. What we’re dealing with now is just the intended development of media in society courtesy of The Powers That Be ®.

In hindsight it was inevitable.
Definitely interesting TFa points out that Amazon was one of the biggest benefactors from Webvan because they learned from their mistakes and even got people and robot tech later from it.
These guys tried to generate every possible melody and then released them under Creative Commons Zero in an attempt to thwart industry rent seekers: https://www.vice.com/en/article/wxepzw/musicians-algorithmic...
Here are my rates in Minnesota: https://www.kpcoop.com/rates-0
How is the former owner sure it's in Ukraine? Couldn't the new owner have added
a proxy or VPN to the config?
> The biggest beneficiary of Webvan’s failure was Amazon.com. Not only did the company learn from the mistakes made by Webvan, but it also hired former Webvan executives to launch its own grocery delivery service: Amazon Fresh. Further, in 2012, Amazon bought KIVA Systems, a company that developed the robotic technology initially used in Webvan distribution facilities, for $775 million. Amazon even owns the domain webvan.com.

Never heard of this company before but found this very interesting. Good read.
If conformal cyclic cosmology is to be believed, heat death is indistinguishable from the singularity as entropy is infinite in both cases, so heat death "may as well be" the singularity.
I think Simon has a lot of experience solving hard problems:
https://simonwillison.net/about/
Before my brain caught up I was just about to ask you what brewery is it that can do a 99% Indian Pale Ale...
I always had a very simple way to do student debt forgiveness:

1) Have universities foot the bill, not the tax payer (shocking, I know). A literal refund.

2) Institute an audit every 5 years on their price to success rate on a per major basis. Have them refund north of 50% of the tuition if overpriced.

Cool, now run your little game.

This is literally a consumer protection issue and this industry has hid far too long under the veils of sanctity of “but tis’ but education, maaaaan”.

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Like many have already mentioned, the federal loans going toward these costs are essentially like donating to a charity that you will never get actionable data on. Did the money go to the right place? Did it work? No? Okay, stop donating to that charity, as nice as it feels to be charitable.

If a charity doesn’t work, it doesn’t work, doesn’t matter how great it sounds. Even a charity named Education.
I heard an excellent quip on the Dan Le Betard radio show (which is in Miami for context) with a bunch of 20 something contributors, which kind of went like this?

"Hey, Sara, did you know this was the hottest summer recorded?"

"You mean the summer that in 20 years we look back on as being a nice comfortable summer?"

Which brings home the reality: the global temperature is going to keep going up, no matter what. The train is moving faster and faster, and it is a biiiig train
Thanks for the message! It's always nice to hear from others in the same position.

Re sport: I'm not too concerned about it, honestly. I do a lot of backcountry adventuring, rock climbing and pack rafting and I'm not about to stop because of an elevated increase bleed risk. I won't push it right to the edge, but I'll keep enjoying life.

Re diet: I agree! Drastically altering my diet isn't something I particularly want to do. I'm quite happy to adjust my dose as necessary.
From silphium wiki: "Theophrastus wrote in Enquiry into Plants that the type of Ferula specifically referred to as "silphium" was odd in that it could not be cultivated."
You know jetpacks are a thing now right?

https://youtu.be/DkZPI5m9SIE

“Illegal miners get their hands on some surprisingly niche tech” seems many many orders of magnitude more likely than anything related to aliens.
Someone was looking into doing this on Robert Strandh's lisp implementation. The existence of first-class global environments on it allows for saving off the entire environment on a defmethod and recompiling all methods for static dispatch every time a new defmethod occurs. This was being talked about at least 5 years ago; not sure if any work has been done on it in the interim.
Cost per student is the wrong metric, since the numerator includes all the hundreds of assistant deans, other administrators, and other non-educational costs.

"Instructor salaries, fully loaded, and other direct costs" would be a better choice.
I am the op? E2E dose mean that only the sender and receiver has the keys. You can't redefine what E2E is.
I am a lawyer who uses ChatGPT to assist in drafting documents. My clients are familiar with it too, but at the end of the day, clients are lazy, and would rely on the lawyer to draft something as simple as a cover letter or HR form. For those clients who pre-generate contracts and legal documents through ChatGPT, the result is astoundingly bad, such that I still had to overhaul their outputs.

Laziness and human incompetence -- these are the reasons why I exist.
Welcome to life for most of us. Precious few are privileged enough to go to whatever school they want to. Almost everyone has to make tradeoffs based on economic factors, it's been that way forever. It was that way over two decades ago when I went to school. I dreamed of going to MIT or more realistically UT, but that wasn't affordable to me with the support my family struggled to provide. I took all the measures I suggested, lived first 1hr away at home and then in a trailer park instead of on campus, and worked as much as I could between classes. A big chunk of my classmates were worse off.

UNT has some perfectly good programs by the way, some of the most brilliant and successful people I know graduated from their math and physics programs.
Rust, Go, and even TS roles all have better comp.

The C++ people you want to hire are not applying to C++ anymore.
They claim that they are 10x faster given the high accuracy target ( no clue what that means in practice for the AI use case, probably less tokens for the LLM). Can you elaborate why you think hnswlib is still faster? Can you link the benchmark you mention.
Stock up if you're ever in Oregon, Arizona, or Utah. No luck in Nevada either.
More regulation to micromanage things is never going to work. For example, what if you've got an opportunity to hire Feynman, but he expects 9%? Maybe you'll skirt the 8% requirement by giving him a company car to use.

Nobody is smart enough to write a regulation that can't be gamed.
What salt tastes the best? Li, Na, K, Rb, CS and more [video]
Your comments would bear more weight if you were to describe your philosophical objections to the GPL.
How about a hops extract?
What the FAA had to say on the matter isn't relevant, and doesn't contribute to there being "conflicting guidelines". The FAA doesn't regulate European airspace.
Can I use this locally with models that run on my CPU? Like llama.cpp
An example of a textbook which starts from the discrete, linear-algebra form of QM (using the Stern-Gerlach spin experiment) is "Quantum Mechanics: A Paradigms Approach" by David McIntyre of Oregon State University. It's not quite like what's described here, but much closer to it than the more traditional way of teaching QM (using differential equations).
Then go ahead and explain why West Virginia is consistently and historically among the poorest, least educated, unhealthiest, and unhappiest states in the US.

It is a fact that West Virginians vote to perpetuate these circumstances. Our governor is the richest coal baron in the state, and we're going to overwhelmingly vote out centrist Joe Manchin to put that coal baron into the US Senate.

I've lived here for four decades, the son of a coal miner who was the son of a coal miner, the first person in my extended family to ever earn a college degree. Do you actually know what you're talking about, or are you just angrily shouting into the wind?
> If needed put a cap on the number of units a person can own in one jurisdiction.

Individual people? Let's talk about investment companies as vehicles then.
This is mostly just that gpt4 API/app have this disabled rather than it’s not capable.

When you enable it, it is pretty shocking. And it’s pretty simple to enable. You just give it a meta instruct to decide when to message you and what to store to introspect on.
Replacing the POSIX dirname utility with a silly hack is inexcusable.

If $0 happens to be just "foo", you calculate "foo/" which is incorrect.

$(dirname "$0") calculates ".".
I remember reading that this would be not allowed under the European legislation. Interesting.
I'm quite impressed with Llama 2 13B - the more time I spend with it the more I think it might be genuinely useful for more than just playing around with local LLMs.

I'm using the MLC version (since that works with a GPU on my M2 Mac) via my https://github.com/simonw/llm-mlc plugin.
Students getting experience doing computer things is nice. And there's things that are awesome to demonstrate with simulations.

Spending a huge fraction of your educational day on them is dumb and ripe for abuse.

This is a potential silver lining of the whole LLM thing: computers being used for writing assignments, etc, may become untenable.
On the contrary, the concept of "manliness" and "being strong" (which does not necessarily mean "better", btw) needs to be promoted more - but also understood correctly, as the ability to conquer your own weaknesses, like the one GP is talking about.

It is sad to see how our civilization collectively decided to throw out several thousands years of tradition and dozen of thousands pages of collective wisdom. The topic GP mentioned has been known for centuries, way before modern psychology. In fact, it is one of the important points of Catholicism (AFAIU) - every single man is a sinner capable of horrible deeds, but that diminishes neither the dignity of every human being nor their ability (with God's grace) of overcoming that.
I find that weird outliers are usually evidence that the underlying model is flawed in some fundamental way, but sometimes I think people believe the exceptions are fundamental, and a lot of effort goes to the wrong place.
The Bitter Lesson (2019) [pdf]
"The accessibility of French universities—both from an admissions and financial perspective— paradoxically has had negative consequences on students."

That's pretty obvious to anyone who understands that people tend to not place value on things they get for free. Like public high school education in America.
We can add an integration to llama.cpp, please open an issue on the repo if you’re interested!
Yes. And if that human was smart and knowledgable they would use property based testing to automatically generate test inputs. Most libraries make it trivial to do for custom data types and can even reduce the failing test case to a minimal size input. I have been using this since 2008 and it was around before that.
The section that says sqlite doesn't support drop column links to documentation that says it's supported?
I was pleasantly surprised about 6 months ago when I went to run a game I wrote in Java when I was at university. Nothing huge, but still about 10k lines of code. I originally wrote it in Java 6, and it compiled and ran with no issues on Java 20.

I only used one 3p lib, otherwise just the standard library, which helped, but I was expecting something to be broken given it was over 10 years later.
The first line in the "causes" section of the official accident investigation blames ATC.

The murder of Nielsen is a tragedy, but that doesn't mean he wasn't responsible.
While many jobs do not in reality require more than a high-school level education, a college degree is a valuable filter for people who can commit to something that requires learning and applying what has been learned, and seeing it through over a period of 3-4 years.

For jobs that require a college degree, but the major subject of study doesn't matter, that is what they are using it for.

A High School diploma used to mean a lot more, when education was compulsory only to 8th grade. A modern high school diploma pretty much just certifies that you showed up, and the only people who don't have one are people who dropped out.
New calcium material functions as an ammonia synthesis catalyst
It's ok. They did the right thing, and continue to do so even without your approval or sympathy. You can move on with your life, they will continue to fight the good fight as they always have.
Grumbles in F#…
Hugging yourself is a way to overcome the vertigo effects and associated nausea that can happen underwater. I’m actually not sure if it works on land!
US picks the first two sites for carbon-capture hubs
I don't understand your first question.

To your second question, no, it's not a last straw situation. I've been outraged by specific things in the past, and I'm sure I will be again in the future. But I'm not outraged by this specific thing, in the present, because all signs point to these people being brought to justice in due time.
Note that the Supremes recently ruled that commercial use isn't necessarily a gate to fair use. I'm not thinking about the Warhol case. Maybe it was the Oracle/Java case?

Also, there are some odd fair use things, like the google books case, which may tilt the court in the archive's favor.

Here's a nice site that talks about fair use. https://fairuse.stanford.edu/overview/fair-use/cases/