skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have a bunch of siblings, all of us homeschooled. Between all of us, some are more "socialized" than others. You can't leave out the individual in this discussion.
The article states that they were able to determine the cause of death for 175 of the birds and of those birds 115 (66%) had been shot.
Different age group, but I had success in engaging with high-school students with "Bitcoin mining". This was a ~15 minute exercise after a lecture on blockchains, during a cryptography seminar.

The original Bitcoin proof-of-work algorithm is to tweak the middle input of a hash so that the result starts with many binary zeroes (find x such that `sha256(sha256(a || x || b)) < H`). We simplified it down to `x^2 % N < 10^H` (calculators and computers allowed). You can freely tweak N and H.

The students had a blast, and I believe it was a lucky combination:

- It's more topical than ancient puzzles.

- The students were racing against each other.

- Rewards were semi-random (faster/smarter groups still had an advantage).

- The rewards were "physical bitcoins" (chocolate coins).

- Winning was more or less guaranteed by brute force, but there were plenty of shortcuts to find.
I think the article is claiming that other people think neural networks are Turing slash human complete, which they aren't, for instance because they're not capable of using unbounded external storage slash "memory", and because they only execute in finite time.

However the example at the top of the page isn't quite right. You could implement something like this. An LLM's memory only exists in its context window of its own prior output[0], but you could train it to tag its "chain of thoughts" and just not show them - now it looks like it's "thinking".

[0] this is not exactly true because you could also implement non-greedy search, ie back up and start again if you think it's gone down the wrong path. Now it doesn't execute in finite time either.
As said, Factorio's core is compiled binary, with a lot of customizable Lua on top.

Fun story:

Somebody independently recreated the core engine themselves to prove a point about multi-threading. Imagine recreating an entire game engine in 50,000 lines of C++ to prove a point, yeah, it happened: https://www.reddit.com/r/factorio/comments/jizq1b/comment/ga... What a legend!
I'm not sure this follows. It doesn't halt because the "program" reaches an end, it's halts because the hardware fails. If you are running a category B program with an anvil attached to a timer over the computer, it doesn't become a category A program. It's just a category B program that wasn't allowed to continue.

-edit- Also, this logic would lead us to believe that category B and C programs can't exist in our universe since, according to our best current understanding, the universe will end eventually, presumably ending any program running within the universe as well, therefore we can "prove" that every program is a category A program that will come to a halt.
It at least means you were wrong I wouldn’t be able to name even one.

But sure, tell me more about how you like using genocidal Nazi euphemisms.

‘The phrase “useless eaters” was invoked by Nazi propaganda advocating for the murder of disabled people‘
I'm not sure humans work differently. You might not learn something if you are coming to conclusions, only if the conclusions turn out to be correct or wrong you'll learn. the process of learning might then be different.
I agree, but for me I've gotten to the point where I dislike the "talent" paradigm in general. People are treated as marble objects, as if context in the past and future doesn't matter at all. I wish more focus were put on how someone would fit in a team, and what both the existing team and the hire would bring to one another.
If you're looking for a whistleblower, how about Frances Haugen?
You aren't playing the devil's advocate, you literally are the metaphorical devil. You are the person he is talking to.

The chief difference between evolution and intelligent design is that one actually happened.
That's what a logically thinking person thinks. Covid has shown that most people are not logically thinking, and the logically thinking majority cannot prevent them from not doing stuff that's bad ideas.
> most of the poor, bad-performing schools were allocated more $/student than the other schools once you account for federal funding.

Show me a poor school district with a public school that looks like this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xm4dy25VmCw

>Interventions tied to giving schools more funding

The funding needs to be unconditional. What good teacher is gonna move across a state line and go work for a poor school that has a year of conditional funding tied to test scores? It's also absurd on its face to think money has no effect on the quality of instruction, the market works pretty well for everything else, but teachers don't respond to incentives? They, do, and research shows it: https://apps.urban.org/features/school-funding-do-poor-kids-... However, we don't do nearly enough to correct for the affects of poverty. Someone growing up in poverty needs a lot more education help than someone growing up in a middle class or upper class family (on average). Also, it's way, way more stressful to teach kids who are growing up in poverty than otherwise, but the salaries do not account for this. So the teachers who work at the poor schools are often working at their last choice school, even if the school nominally has the same level of funding. They're the teachers who couldn't get hired elsewhere, or were hired simply because the last teacher quit out of frustration (I don't want to begrudge teachers at poor schools, there's a lot who are very good at their jobs and who love their students, but this isn't enough to overcome systemic differences).
I don't know the setup used for the ruler and compass constructions, but there's a game called Euclidea [1] which may be of interest. I found the level progression, scoring system, and solving proofs to unlock new "tools" was done very well.

[1] https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.hil_hk.euc...
What's the BogoMips?
>Using the growth rate of hair it was concluded that Tycho was poisoned by mercury one day before his death.

I knew mercury was poisonous, but can it really kill someone in just 2 days?
10:35 by Tiesto
Heh. Funny that... I subscribe to Michael Penn's channel, but had not seen that video. However, it was another video[1] that led me to looking at the Quantum Derivative earlier tonight.

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XfWgfZ5V2qI
Sounds like these are businesses with aging owners with no succession plans that can also be modernized. They are sustainable and healthy but will run out of steam at some point so they buy them, modernize them, and ultimately sell them back t the employees who will own 80% of the stock after 20 years. Not that uncommon of a business model except the stock ownership part. Typically you see business flippers do this and sell them after 3-5 years, but much like an incubator they leverage the businesses they buy so they also use each others services and lift them all up while keeping the employees employed.
That’s not hunting. It’s target practice.
I should do a write-up but basically it was a combination of running tailscale (which sends a packet to an unroutable UDP destination nonstop [1]) and my game taking off at the same time. It triggered their false-positive-laden DDOS protection. I responded to the email straight away explaining it was fully under my control and not being attacked. I filled out their attestation form of the same, which is supposed to grant you 24 hrs before they block all traffic. I had responded within a couple hours.

They blackholed my server right when things were starting to hockey stick and took until the following day to unlock it. I lost a ton of users to a full outage while I had an unplanned migration to AWS.

When they finally unlocked my server their tech responded to my ticket begging them to unlock my server with an extremely condescending “It’s unlocked but I’m certain you’re not in control of this server”

Anyway, never again. I’ll pay a premium for stability and intelligent support staff and systems that don’t automatically blackhole your server.

[1] https://github.com/tailscale/tailscale/blob/94304819263b0553...
I have automatic high/low beams function and it works pretty well, sees other cars from far away and switches to low earlier than a human would. The problem is I very rarely use high beams, and never on highways, so it was even stranger for me to see so many Americans drive with high beams.
In Europe the annoying habit is to drive with front anti-fog lights on all the time, some people do it but it happens in the US too.
For everyone else confused, "menubar" here I think refers to the system menu bar in MacOS.
I'm sure you have some examples as opposed to vague general statements, right? If anything, the fact that noncitizens in the US get constitutional protections was emphasized after 9/11.
Well from the way the linked article describes it, there is no 'story' to maths like Euclidian geometry.

After all, what were the original motivations for compass and straightedge constructions? Ideas about perfection, symmetry, and constructability are all very abstract.

I found https://www.euclidea.xyz/ to be fun, but then I find drawing Girih patterns fun, and I'm also not 8 years old :)
And so begins an interesting philosophical conversation: is that actually less software, or is that more software pretending to be less software? I lean towards the latter, given past nightmares working with tools from the "we hide all the code behind a dank web UI" genre.
Shooting road signs is illegal. Go to any rural area and count the bullet holes in any road sign with a deer on it.
I'm an 80s kid, it feels like the end of the old world was around 2000, you could probably draw a line through 911 since really nothing has been the same since. I was 21 in 2001. I feel 90s kids are the last generation to have a decent childhood.

People still went out trick or treating, people still watched tv with commercials which I think made us slow down and talk about things more while we waited for the commercials to end. I love Netflix and chill as much as anybody else and I'm obsessed with AI but as I get older nostalgia hits harder and harder.

I'm not certain I love stranger things for the story or just the nostalgia it brings. Probably both, but I'll watch and probably enjoy anything set in the 80s, or 90s. There seemed to be a lot less political polarity and hatred between the left and right too. that was nice.
Yep! Executing arbitrage is definitely harder than finding they exist though.
Sorry I meant the chunk part. do you do anything special with trying to break the text into manageable chunks. TextSplitter in Langchain just uses some line breaks stuff I guess.

--- The default recommended text splitter is the RecursiveCharacterTextSplitter. This text splitter takes a list of characters. It tries to create chunks based on splitting on the first character, but if any chunks are too large it then moves onto the next character, and so forth. By default the characters it tries to split on are ["\n\n", "\n", " ", ""] ---

https://python.langchain.com/docs/modules/data_connection/do...
The Climate Change Monitor
The author spent a lot of words saying a lot of nothing which seems to be the general case of communicating about anything that is poorly defined like consciousness or intelligence.

> If a computer program is bound to finish quickly by virtue of its architecture, it cannot possibly be capable of general problem-solving.

Our current tools are bound to produce a finite and usable amount of information because that is what is useful to us. One can easily have them produce infinite streams in a loop musing and diverging on tangents as you please but it wouldn't be useful nor would make the general category more or less intelligent.

You could say that a finite exploration of any information space has finite explanatory power bounded by how much input/output it can do but that would be as boring as saying you can only fit so many apples based on the size of the barrel used.

The uncomfortable truth is it might matter a lot less how intelligent a tool is than how complex a transformation it can handle. It's possible that we could make something that for practical purposes appears much smarter than us that still isn't by a human definition intelligent, conscious, or directed. Focusing on factors that are functionally less relevant may just reveal our bias towards viewing the universe in terms of self when in fact it has no objective thing that corresponds to the labels we've stuck on ourselves.
Most if not all ( I am not even aware there is one ) browser dont use hardware decoding for images. Hardware decoding is only used for video.
Ask HN: How do you get good at Design?
I’ve been a backend engineer for 15 years, but seem to lack the imagination to create good looking front ends.

For anyone who’s taken on Web or App design, how do you do it? How do you make good looking user interfaces that actually wow users?
XMPP

Agree with this point of view. Except the Jabber/XMPP Cisco legal thing, there's just no tech answer on why on earth Slack did not use XMPP under the hood.
Ask HN: How to Contact Stripe Directly?
Hello, my Stripe account got banned almost 1 week ago, i posted it here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37268953, and i tried to contact the support several times. Everytime they tell me that someone will contact me via email. I tried to contact also the email heretohelp@ but nothing. Does anyone know a way to get an answer? It seems as if they don't care
As another comment pointed out, Bald Eagles are no longer endangered either. Still protected, since they are the national bird, but not endangered.
Analogies for thinking about intelligence as a quantity
I'm a fan of family jewelry. Come to think of it, so is my husband.
via CSIRO
Just put it in a breeder reactor then you don’t need labels
Big no true homeschooler energy going on in your comments.
txtai: the all-in-one embeddings database
It's probably worth it to Nicaragua to play along, any dollar spent in the country is a big deal.
> Anyhow like I said, America is a big country. Plenty of places to live. Not exaggerating.

Plenty of places to exist, but people cannot live in this country without work to pay for it. Most of the empty (cheap) space in the country doesn't exactly have good, if any, work.
I only gained an appreciation for ruler and compass constructions early in secondary school, at age 7 I'm not sure I could fully understand the beauty of deriving a huge system from axioms.

For making Euclid interesting to children, I remember really enjoying a game called Euclidea: https://www.euclidea.xyz/
Funny in 2023 this is still a topic of debate. I suppose one could argue WebP is now officially supported everywhere why not use it for however small the difference advantage it might have.
Nothing gets passed your professor.

If we do have online learning, maybe the need for schools goes away?
Run Neofetch!
Yes, if trading BCA results in a profit, either BC or CA has negative weight. Negative weight here just means you can sell a currency more than its cost basis, and or buy a currency for cheaper than its cost basis.

Though with arbitrage, you typically want to find a cycle like BCAB so you have more of the initial currency you started off with.
It's not like the kids get one teacher their whole life, every kid going through the public school system will have dozens of teachers and the affect of any single good or bad teacher averages out.

Could public schools be better? Yes, absolutely. We do not fund them enough, the fact that so many of my friends send their kids to private schools despite the enormous cost is testament to that. I have leaned on private schools myself for pre-K, transitional K, and earlier because its support is quite spotty across the USA.
> How can parents be knowledgeable in all the subjects that school teachers teach?

Some surely can, especially autodidactic parents, but most can't. The vast majority of parents aren't going to be able to teach their kids geometry, algebra, or analytical thinking and writing skills. Institutional schooling is the only way most people can access that knowledge.
GCPs concept of Regions and Zones is different from AWS. For the same level of physical isolation as an AWS AZ you have to use different GCP Regions.

https://cloud.google.com/compute/docs/regions-zones
I know two others, from two other countries, who came here with nothing but a suitcase and are now millionaires.
Can we paint the existing snow /ice in the Arctic with this?

Like crop dust with UAV planes? Other than “think of the wildlife/habitat”, why not?
I think people get confused that LLM is the beginning and end of AI. It’s just a piece. I think AI is an ensemble of all the classic AI techniques and IR and other information, computational, optimization, agent, etc systems. LLMs are remarkable in their abductive reasoning abilities, which is something we’ve generally failed to produce so far. But they’re not complete, and the criticism that they’re worthless because they’re incomplete misses the point. They don’t need to play chess, because we already have much better chess playing systems. But they fill a gap that all our other techniques have been unable to fill, and that is where the magic lives. It’s unnecessary for them to do everything, as those things already have good solutions.
I honestly don't know. During last survey that senior mgmt is supposedly actually reading, there were clear prods from staff for full wfh and almost immediately afterwards we got a speech. You won't get as many opportunities when remote. Corporate America is going a different way. It is not about real estate.

I want Shiller to be right. I am just not sure we ( wfh supporters ) can effectively organize.
This is so lame. What a confused bunch of idiots.
Isn't that trivially a conflict of interest?
You could literally put a traffic cone between the doors, and it would prevent the elevator being able to go up and down until someone moved the cone—exactly the same as the car.
Do api calls to something like Apple Music or Spotify with “HH:mm” as the search string. Scrape the results. Do some more filtering on the results.
Is it expected that a programming language would have ~9,000 open issues?

~100 issues are either Critical/High/Prioritize

https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/issues
Well, you are in fact correct, yep.
An explanation of all this would be useful for those who haven't followed this.
> Suggesting we force people to use their land to build more housing seems pretty dystopian to me. Force me to build upwards on my land?

You have this wildly backwards. No one is being forced to build upwards on their own land. People are being forced not to build upwards on their own land.
Listened for a while, but they are not saying it. The titles are cool but it's not fun listening to it if they don't say it.
In case this is of interest, and unknown, there's an aesthetically pleasant digitization of Euclid's elements[0]. But I'm not sure whether it's best for studying: usually, actively engaging with the material is key (e.g. performing the constructions, without a model), thought the effective rules for kids might be different.

I'm actually happy to see them interested in propositional logic, given how foundational it can be to coherent thinking. I would have guessed, as the author, that manual activities would have been preferred.

[0]: https://www.c82.net/euclid/#books
> "If the size of the input is fixed and there is a limit to the number of possible tokens (words, or even numbers with bounded precision) then the state of the transformer at any given moment is describable with a string of fixed length."

Doesn't this also likely describe humans? Albeit, we don't currently have the capacity to inspect our brains that way, so we can't prove it.
I think you have a quite limited understanding of the funds and planning that go into crossing the border, and also how effectively people who make that crossing solve other issues in their lives.

My brother-in-law's family crossed the border illegally out of dire necessity. However, they still have many others issues (managing money, working for awful bosses, living in crappy housing, family in-fighting, unhappy marriage, etc.) that they have struggled to fix. Some of these issues are so bad that it has led my brother-in-law to distance himself from some of them.

So yes, they did a really hard thing to solve an extremely pressing problem, but it does not mean they have solved all of their problems. There is only so much one person can do to fix their life when there are many things wrong with it. They can usually only prioritize a couple of things.
If parental ideology is whacky, one family suffers. If state ideology is whacky, million families suffer. Including those who didn’t consent.

What if someone can’t keep themselves healthy? Is it a good reason to regulate food consumption? What if someone is an alcoholic? Let’s introduce dry law?
http://web.archive.org/web/20230824110240/https://www.newsta...

https://archive.ph/RzMAw
The distinction between macroevolution and microevolution sounds like nonsense. There's too much evidence for me to believe that evolution doesn't happen, at any scale. Evolution is clearly observable and foundational to biology.

Whereas Christian creation stories always felt like mythology, sounds human centric and made up. I read stuff like the Epic of Gilgamesh and realized that some stories in the bibles are based on older iterations written by ancient people.
Exactly right but also in our case, we support single and multi-tenant first/second, and even third party support. That is, we need to support any workload from any customer or customer's customer at any moment now or in the future. We can easily say "if you have an x86 cluster, we guarantee 100% compatibility." But if we switch to ARM, we'd have to make exceptions and do double the testing on any existing workloads, as well as all the complications with building twice and doing releases and notes for each arch... It really does spin out of control quickly.
it's not a want it's a forced need. There's a history of oil companies buying patents to inventions that could increase gas mileage etc. We're forced by society to get a job to live, most of the time at least in earlier times that required transportation. It wasn't a want, it was a need. Travel or die. there's many food deserts where the same applies to just grocery shopping. No vehicle, no food.

So it has nothing to do with advertising, but very much has to do with culture, society, and oil industry always doing what's best for the oil industry.
I don't mean it that way at all.

OP took their anecdote and generalized it very broadly [0]. I shared my own anecdotes, explicitly acknowledging that it's "hard to come to any conclusions from warring anecdotes alone". OP responded saying that their anecdote is actually a collection of 13 anecdotes. I countered that 13 tightly related and completely non-random anecdotes do not turn into a usable stat.

Nowhere did I mean to imply OP's experience isn't a true homeschooling experience, just that it's not necessarily as representative as they believe it is and that more information is needed before generalizing either of our experiences is fair.

[0] "it hasn’t really changed that much - it’s just something parents like to tell themselves to avoid thinking about the experiences their children are missing"
What do you mean? There are no specifics here.
Ah so those APIs allow searching lyrics? I did not know that.
As someone who was homeschooled, I'm having a hard time coming up with an "infohazard" I avoided exposure to other than things like "the theory of evolution" or "the concept of sex" or "it turns out 'the slaves were treated quite well' isn't exactly true"