skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This! Eye tracking is slow and not good - but does that just mean we need to “faster horse” it or is there another option for bridging the communication gap for people with ALS and similar diseases? I have to believe there are better answers with other tech - likely EEG (+ AI).

My family is one of the unlucky ones that has genes for ALS so I’ve watched enough family members struggle. (I’m lucky, selfishly, because I dodged the gene but I still care deeply about this).
> Homeschooling generally happens because parents don't like some aspect of public schooling and more often than not it's that general knowledge conflicts with a religious belief.

This is absolutely false. Did you read the article?

Parents didn't flock to homeschooling during the lockdowns because of religious ideology: they did it because they wanted their children to LEARN.

IME, the two biggest reasons parents chose homeschooling were a) government school academics are garbage and b) government schools were often unsafe.

The parents wanted a SAFE _EDUCATIONAL_ environment for their kids, rather than prisons which allowed students to assault one another while the teachers spent all of their energy trying to get the bottom 10% to meet the absurdly low minimum standards.

Your experience may be very different, but don't use your bigotry to defame millions of parents.
> When Musk says he’s building Twitter 2.0, he is referencing the transition from the original iteration of the internet—message boards, indymedia, a more or less open and participatory model—to Web 2.0, in which all interactions are shaped by the algorithms of a few tech overlords. They aim to determine what we are able to imagine as well as what we are able to say and do. What has already happened on Facebook and Instagram and is now occurring on Twitter is the inevitable consequence of increasingly widespread dependence on corporate media platforms.

This has happened to Twitter already in 2013 (the "APIpocalypse", which notably, what started Mastodon), why did they keep using it for 9 years after that ?
I think the point is that if the vehicle's software can't figure out how to cope with something as simple as a cone on its hood, it's woefully unprepared for real driving conditions and a liability to everyone
One shell in that list that doesn't get the attention it deserves is execline - so much so that it isn't even in the Archlinux repo. Execline, unlike (probably all) other shells, doesn't stay memory resident until the script finishes. It (execlineb) interprets the script and then execs into the first command. Exec means that execlineb is finished at that point. The rest of script proceeds by exec chaining and occasional forking. All the commands run with the same PID, except when forking. This sort of chaining is apparently called Bernstein chaining.

Execline has a very low memory footprint due to chaining - something that's probably important for embedded devices. And it theoretically has less vulnerabilities associated with shells. It is the primary scripting language of the S6 process supervision suite.
> First of all it's not 50 crates, it's 3 main crates syn, quote and proc-macro2 and a few smaller helper crates which are used less often.

That may be technically true. However, every time I pull in something that uses proc macros it seems my dependency count goes flying through the roof and my compile times go right out the door.

Maybe people aren't using proc macros properly. That's certainly possible. But, that also speaks to the ecosystem, as well.
Ah yes, as if the road provider isn't a monopoly, or there's any competition in the price of gasoline.
We will all halt.
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Because before these things existed, I always used to hold the link down on mobile to do things like see what YouTube videos were linked or see if an article or page was relevant, yet now the giant modals make that a nigh impossibility.

Anyone else here find this a bit of a pain?
That is a fair ask. To be honest, I am unwilling to devote to this discussion the time which would be required to research examples.

I will concede that if these things never happened, I personally would find the infohazard argument non-compelling, though others may have their own feared infohazards.

On the flip side, if hypothetically these were common ideas animating public school curricula and/or teacher behavior, would you consider that sufficient justification for homeschooling as being discussed here?
Netflix already pause their ads if their window is not in focus. Not a huge leap to pausing ads if you're not paying attention.
If my wife and I were to put our 4 special needs kids into public school it would result in them having a bunch of unbelievably negative experiences:

- they would NOT receive a quality education or be taught to be self-learners.

- they would be passed along, even with failing grades, putting them further behind their peers, highlighted their differences and denying them their dignity.

- they would all end up in social situations that we ourselves would prefer to avoid. Not caused by their peers (though that can and does happen even in homeschooling families) but by the institutions that are responsible for public education

- we would spend just as much (if not more) time and effort fighting the system as we do just taking the reins.

If we want to get help for our kids, we literally have to pay thousands of dollars to get them each diagnosed with a mental handicap, because they aren’t cripple or have other readily-identifiable disabilities.

Still, we teach all of our kids as they’re capable that THEY are responsible for their own education. Anything else is a) a lie and b) setting them up for failure and a wrong sense of entitlement.
This is pretty much 100% false.

There are known trivial Turing machines (which can be implemented in matrix multiplications) that are intelligent. They just don't think fast enough to be of any use.
I mean, the point of my post was that it IS easy for Apple users; just not people outside the group.
> Experimentation belongs in a laboratory

How about all those new drivers hitting the road for the very first time? Are you suggesting we should banish them from public roads until they've got a few hundred hours under their belt?

How are they going to get freeway practice?
The project itself may not be large, but if it's pulling in 517 dependencies, that's a lot to compile.

Rust also does significantly more for you at compile time than C++ does, so I don't mind the compiler taking some not time to do it
I think sociopathy is a spectrum and at least 10% of humans are members
> Rust should be improved to provide the necessary building blocks that are needed to write cryptography code that is free from timing side channels and similar hazards

I misread that at first as saying it already did and was rushing to the comments to say "like hell it does!"-- but this is a difficult situation given that it doesn't really even exist in C where it would be easier to provide.

Technically, since Intel and AMD won't make guarantees that operations like multiplies won't have data dependent timing no language on these popular systems provide what is needed, at least in theory. (In practice things are somewhat better).

Ignoring the processor interface issues, it would be totally rad if there were types in rust for secrets that were guaranteed to get suitable handling. But doing so would probably require architectural changes to LLVM...
I partially agree with the author. It's better if your work includes some hardware too and is not limited to software only. Just much harder for the competition to replicate the product.
But the examples he gave are all big, ambitious and universal problems to work on. How to even start on that?
I would suggest: start with some industry and learn, find what are their tools, what machines they use, what software, what are the typical problems. Try to solve some of the problems or make better tools. Find your niche. Many companies use old technology, old machines or software because they're specialized/niche and the progress of the tech is slower, less competitive in such niches. It should be easier to improve such tools, even by providing easier integration of software with the existing hardware. Much better chance of success than just trying to tackle top 10 humanity problems.
You can hire a private tutor, or teach them maths yourself. Only some kids truly have an aptitude for mathematics anyway.
I’d love to see AI take on some of these 50 year old COBOL monstrosities, partly because it’s desperately needed but also because I have little faith that AI is anywhere near sophisticated enough to undo half a century of bad programming decisions without going sideways.
Something I heard a few years back put my life experience as a kid in perspective. At least for me, in the most important way possible, it doesn't sound like regular school at all.

The main deep life impacting characteristic of standard public schools is coerced unwelcome company. You're forced by law to be around the same bullies for 5, 10, even 12 years. The natural order with organic friendships (and indeed probably since antiquity) is that those who act as a bully or jerk get ostracized. It is both justice and instructive for those who get excluded from one circle and must rethink their social approach to possible get accepted in another. It is how socialization is supposed to work.

Parents won't force their kids to continue to be around others they dislike, schools are totally ok with the violation of right OTOH (basically if you have a right of free association you also have a right of non association btw).
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The mismanagement continues :(
The problem is that, in general, governments are also stealing your focus to non central issues and hide the core issues.
Everyone shows up to be taught by a common teacher, with government and non profit funding? That's just school.
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I recently came into possession of a fully-functioning TRS-80 Model 4, and I fantasize regularly about putting some vaguely Unix-esque thing on it. The fantasy continues.
Well, that's funny. But I take it to mean that it was intentionally made addictive, rather than just being enjoyable.

By analogy, some people say that food is being made addictive. But I think there is a dubious difference between an addictive hamburger and just a tasty hamburger.
Paper straws are the perfect example of human hypocrisy. It sounds so convincingly good for the nature and makes everyone forget that the oceans are polluted with fishernets.

Effectively, paper straws are really really bad when it comes to recycling. Since paper doesn't have the right qualities for a straw (it will soak up all the liquids pretty fast), they are usually coated inside. That makes it problematic for recycling since you somehow need to reverse that coating. Besides, recycling paper costs a lot of water.
Plastic on the other hand doesn't need coating and is pretty easy to recycle (a bit harder if it's colored). The reason why this doesn't happen is simply that new plastic is much cheaper than recycled one. I'm afraid with the de-icing of Greenland this trend will continue with all the new sources of oil.
>but useless as a computer?

LOLNO. Many, many people use an iPad as their primary or only nonphone computer.

Sounds like you had a tool chain problem, not an iPad problem.
The light/dark mode toggle (I think that's what it is) does nothing for me
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Have you tried oil shell or nushell?
Too many Stripe horror stories here.

The real question is, are their any better alternatives?
Oh, not the halting problem argument against AI, again. Sigh.

There's also the analog argument, that you can't make a human-level AI from digital components, because analog has infinite resolution and can thus
handle more data. Analog, of course, has noise, and Shannon's coding theorem applies. Some modest number of bits is sufficient. However, you can sell people who don't believe that expensive HDMI cables.[1]

[1] https://www.pocnetwork.net/technology-news/the-most-expensiv...
I am not entirely opposed to the idea. The governance of CA is a goat rodeo run from Sacramento. With lame goats. But I don’t necessarily trust the intentions of this group given that they have already sued the ex land owners.
See also: the rival to the Suez Canal https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ben_Gurion_Canal_Project
Unfortunately we use all that technology on devices that are built with metals mined by kids in Congo and similar states. Talk about quality of life.
I live where I live specifically because I dont want density or a bunch of public transport options. Financially I could afford to move 25 miles and be in areas that are more walkable with public transportation but the downsides (crime, homeless, traffic, crowds, smaller living spaces, privacy concerns) outweigh the benefits for me and my family.
"The dose makes the poison" - Parecelsus
The problem with capacity limits is harder yet again and I don't think the discussed algorithms help you (except in so far as if their optimal choice doesn't hit the capacity limit, then its the optimal choice).
Thank you, only on hackernews could one find levels of pedantry surpassing reddit, where someone will be so brain washed by the vestiges of the war on drugs propaganda that they'll try to demonize coffee consumption and call it enlightenment.
If you are 40 then you'd have been 33-34 when the "Attention Is All You Need" preprint that laid the foundation for LLMs became available.
I used to work on it and have spent tons of time in the headset. The eye tracking is next-level and it's really the only platform that exists with eye tracking as a primary input method. I'm pretty confident it will greatly improve your friend's quality of life.

Because of that, I'm also sure that eye tracking will go mainstream in other areas once the Vision Pro is released once everyone else catches on to it as a great input method.
> I know zero, none, no people who put their pronouns in their signature. Given that I work with college students, I'm not exactly sheltered. You live in a weird, woke bubble.

Roughly 50% of the tech folks I interact with (at minor companies like Salesforce and Amazon) list them.

But tell me more about my “weird” “woke” (as if you can define the word) bubble. Because of course it’s not that you live in a bubble. You’re the main character. Or whatever.

I’m so tired of this pervasive, self-important bullshit. Grow up.
I can understand why Apple doesn't want component level repairs because most repair shops dont hit the level required for the job. Rossmann is arguably the top 10% of that level of work if not higher.

On the other hand, speaking as an old EE the amount of crap Apple do to their Laptop on newer generation of MacBook circuit. You kind of understand why Rossmann has all the rage.

While I am not aware of Apple doing circuit level repairing, at least not since 2001 with first Apple stores opened. Apple's Genius Bar and repairing were there to file all the problems their products were getting in real life usage. So you get some iteration and small improvement every half generation. Somewhere along the line this stopped happening.
If this has piqued your interest, there are some (but not lots) of paid options for things like this, e.g.

- (San Francisco) afterschool math team for 7-11yo kids: https://www.meetup.com/chess-games-inner-fire/events/2956372...

- (San Francisco) afterschool math circles at a couple of SFUSD schools: https://www.sfmathcircle.org/jose-ortega https://www.sfmathcircle.org/starr-king

- (Remote) 501(c)(3) nonprofit running weekly online competition math sessions for elementary and middle school students: https://mrmathonline.com/

If you're looking for something in between classes and circles, then perhaps:

- Engaging Math Circles (https://emc.school)

- Russian School of Math (RSM)
I'm unsure if you're saying that coerced unwelcome company is a good or a bad thing. While kids can be mean, it's just a reflection of humans in general and this kind of behaviour doesn't go away when you block it out. People get more mature but there's a lot of similarity between how people act in high school and in the work place, it's just a lot more skillfully and subtly done. Exposing kids to this reality doesn't seem bad to me.
I’ll need to see some research backing that up
The loading screen reports 130 BogoMIPS, but remember that it's emulating the timer as well, so the number is meaningless.
Australian Paradox
Those decision made 60 years ago was buying cars and moving out of the dense cities into car-oriented housing. Then they continued to move more and more into car oriented housing and voting for more car oriented housing. It's not like suburbs just appeared one day against everyone's wishes.
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Is it really a train of thought if the LLM completely loses tokens as soon as they are trimmed from the context?
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Did anyone ask?
Post to HN and wait for a "could you email me at edwin@stripe.com and we can dig into this more" comment.
And I imagine trust in the supreme court is at an all time low. I know part of the point of the SCOTUS is to be shielded from popular sentiment, but that used to include not taking large bribes from corporate entities and corrupt cabinets.

And a retroactive lookup seems to support my imaginations: https://apnews.com/article/supreme-court-poll-abortion-confi...
When it comes to public policy, I don't find myself particularly animated by hypotheticals. I think we have more than enough on our plate if we just pay attention to things that are actually happening in the large.
> car centric transportation is NOT scalable.

“When intentionally broken, this transport doesn’t work. So it is not scalable.”

There are many ways to scale car-centric transportation that have been done successfully in countries other than the US. Public transit is one example.

Autonomous buses could solve a lot of the car issues in the US. Not if we keep putting cones in front of them though.
ALS really doesn’t leave much strength for having a headset strapped to you…
>"This is why the fight for for liberty never ends”

I find it odd that you’re invoking Liberty when your proposals involve forcing everyone into the same system.
Why is this entire article using an 8 point font?

The good news is that whatever asshole made that UI decision is presumably 22 years older now and probably dealing with presbyopia.
I went to regular school from K-12 and I also felt like my social skills were significantly stunted for a long time. Which is not to say that homeschooling can’t negatively impact your social skills, but that plenty of kids experience stunted social skills, social anxiety, awkwardness, introversion even with regular schooling.

Also as an adult I gotta say, in most ways it’s traditionally schooled kids who are “stunted” (immature, have mannerisms/beliefs/habits incompatible with the adult world) until they hit about 20-26 more so than homeschool kids. I’ve met homeschooled kids who probably considered themselves stunted, and in some ways (being sheltered) they were, but they were also significantly more “adult-like” and mature in other ways earlier than their peers. This is also true for a lot of traditionally schooled kids who are “late bloomers” IME.
Have you tried to write every day and complete a story?

What is it? It's good rules to write consistently. This is one of the ways to beat writer's block, and there's myriads of other rules and advice for that too, it's not that mystical a phenomena.

These rules are fairly specific to writing and fairly valuable. In fact there's some common ground with Henry Miller's commandments: https://www.themarginalian.org/2012/02/22/henry-miller-on-wr...
The pity commercial is why I hate watching the Olympics in the US.

They'll skip over half the competitors just to show us how poor and sick some athlete's mother is or whatever.

Sometimes you even miss the winner while the person they were talking about doesn't even medal!
Is this literally about states that have poor math achievement, or is it along the lines of some states aren’t teaching math because <insert culture war things>? It’s become difficult to tell when a good faith discussion on public education is happening.
>Do you ever go help out a friend who needs it? Same thing, but two unions.

I'd hope to understand what help my friend needs in that case. But I guess there is also something admirable about someone who is there to help without question, especially in this day and age.
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> Having worked for a company in the past doesn't mean you like the company or will be soft on them.

This often is implied, actually. Better safe than sorry.
Yes, and? There is no plausible near future where anyone else (except maybe his heirs) directs how that wealth is used. Better that it go towards socially useful investments than megayachts or land hoarding.
I fail to see how Tesla fixes an "important problem". They're big electric SUV with huge batteries that require tons of mining and destroy the environment. They're largely non repairable. The full self driving feature seems to be vapor ware.

The space stuff looked interesting until he started sending all kinds of things into space to become an ISP, polluting space the same way Tesla pollutes the earth.

The real issues are still here: poverty, lack of access to clean water, etc. How does Musk fix that?
I am torn between shaking my fists at the ‘oligarchs’ and going ‘well done, boys!’.

I would do the same if I had a billion dollars or two to spare. The future is city states and networked small towns of 10k mixed population ..use the same seed idea as the Dunbar Number. Fwiw, I have already designed such cities for my own amusement with high density housing in 10% of the total land and the remaining as forests and food producing acres..underground tunnels for intra city transport and above ground, self driving cars and efficient public transport(maglev)…

it will be a three tiered city with skyscrapers, underground city and ground infrastructure. Etc etc.

What’s the point of being a billionaire if you can’t even build your own city?
Any 8 bit machines will have similar complexity and difficulty. Personally I have only done the NES as my first and only emulator. I used C++.
They’re probably irked by how AI pessimists keep moving the goalposts
> those that only follow a cookie standard or accelerated curriculum are relatively unprepared for careers in mathematics

Culture-dependent? I recall the story from France of the second-grader who, asked what 2x3 equals, replied "3x2", knowing only that multiplication was commutative.
The author doesn’t appear to consider the idea that an LLM can be placed into a larger system where it isn’t limited to a single continuous inference, and given the ability to self-direct, i.e. the output of one inference can be the decision to try again in a loop, for as long or short a time as it wants.
It depends on your business, but I seem to recall Authorize.net works better with some "high risk" business types.

There is a list of business types that Stripe doesn't like to have as customers, some obvious, but some not so obvious.

https://stripe.com/legal/restricted-businesses
wow, bit of a clunker, that. I read "n8n" as "nation" too.