skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Only some kids truly have an aptitude for mathematics anyway.

That's an absurdly strong and inaccurate statement that feeds into psychological walls that then get erected in the minds of the young and perpetuate ad infinitum. The psychological research here is very clear: stressing work, over some sort of ethereal innate 'talent', in ANY area makes a massive difference in skill attainment.

I don't have time this moment to get into this in any depth, and, it depends, of course, what specifically you mean by "truly have an aptitude", but, too many people have a view of math, in particular, as some kind of magical realm only "truly accessible" to a few. There's a lot that goes into forming the basis for skill in any domain - quite a lot of that likely reflects all sorts of extremely early life parameters and events prior, even, to acquisition of language. The "playing field" is never "level" in any pursuit. But, based on my own experiences and knowledge, there's a mysticism or whatever surrounding some subjects that's just bizarre, IMO.

I would personally, in light of what I've seen to date, draw a very direct analogy with the formation of an NBA player (as an example). Someone can start playing very young, become incredibly adept, and easily never get to the height, strength, etc. (typically) required to make it to NBA level. Nevertheless, these people go on to be trainers, coaches, announcers, etc. This is even more relevant in fields that aren't in the "tournament career" realm.

Often, what holds people back the most, is substantially unfounded statements like yours.

Here's a jumping off point for further info (not enough time to provide more complete refs, currently, apologies): https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/the-procrastination-...
What's the new flavor of the moment?

I liked gatsby for a project a year or so back - seemed to be a very flexible and capable system.
> Being old doesn't make you wise, or right.

are you serious?

being old doesn't inherently make you know things, no, and that is absolutely not what I was saying.

I was around when the term was coined and I used it in conversation with others. After that the people who argue with me today tell me that my use of the term then was wrong were born.

Wikipedia is wrong about the origins of this term; I was using it in 1998 in the #slashdot IRC channel, and that's where I was introduced to the term.

why in the hell do you think I was saying that age alone grants knowledge? that is a leap greater than I've seen in a long time.
Does Germany not have laws restricting sale of alcohol to drunk people?
So... They have reinvented private school?
On my device it doesn't seem to detect it's a mobile and flows way off the screen.
The bar for "daily driver" is different for different people's requirements. Would streaming Netflix be included? Running simple games?
Mods: shortened title to make this fit. Full title said possible prolonged deterioration. Feel free to edit.

Paper is examining the question. One notable stat. 8.8% of Spaniards aged 18-34 visited the ER 5+ times in the 12 months prior to November 2022.

2018-19 average was 2.9%.

I checked the underlying data. A further 8.5% went 3-4 times. So roughly 1 in 6 Spanish youth went to the ER 3-5+ times.

Further this is only public hospital ER visits. A further ~15% were private.

Here is the underlying dataset. Questions 7 and 701. You have to sum manually to get these percentages as 701 is only those who said yes to er visits.

https://www.cis.es/cis/export/sites/default/-Archivos/Margin...
Thanks for the reminder, and yeah, duhhhhhh. People actually enjoy keeping their livelihoods. Duh right back atcha.
Thank you. I literally told my husband I didn't even want a diamond, I just want something that communicates the "I'm married" social signal to minimise annoyances from men, fits my aesthetic tastes, and is soft enough that there's low risk of a degloving accident without being so soft that I can't do any work with my hands. I'm not immune to the psychology and marketing - I'd still feel weird if he had wanted to get me like, costume jewellery for a wedding ring, but I'm perfectly happy with moissanite.
This estimation method would only work under the assumption that earth is a spherical. Now that we do know that it's a sphere. But how could you figure that out back in 2000 years ago?
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Exactly, while the appearance of a sufficiently modern homeschool can start to “rhyme” with public school for practical material reasons, in reality the underlying incentives are completely different.

For me, it was charter schools that saved the day. The charter school teachers couldn’t just sit on their ass like public school teachers when some little shit decided to try to ruin my day.
One salient difference is that the jet engine isn’t autonomously cruising around a major city center.
I have a new approach of doing ML, where autodiff is replaced with something better. Magically a lot of things fall into place. This approach should make problems like this relatively straight forward.

Interested in hearing more?
I guess it comes down to how widespread you think the coercion that you mention is. I tend to believe the current rate of non-cis identification is at least an order of magnitude over the "natural" background rate, specifically because of a system of incentives and disincentives which have been set up. Being non-cis grants attention, care, affirmation, and deference from administrators. It is one of the few categories that administrators seem actually willing to go to the mat to protect from vicious bullying. Being cis means being boring, being tacitly oppressive, and not receiving as much attention, affirmation, or defense from administrators and teachers.

I view this all as a negative insofar as it nudges cis kids to identify as non-cis and start edging closer to risks to their mental and physical health as a result.

Maybe in 15 years this will look silly and we'll all know that 10% non-cis is totally normal and all these people will be able to live authentic lives.

But if in 15 years we reach the opposite discovery, my view is that we will have done a lot of damage to individuals and to systems along the way.
Self driving cars are just another rent extraction scheme from billionaire venture capitalists.
I'm happy and delighted to concede there's at least one incredible tech elite living in the bay like a normal person. This is good news. Your direct rebuttal is welcomed, but the the greater point: this is an elite's experience of the world, not the average person.

> ‘The phrase “useless eaters” was invoked by Nazi propaganda

I appreciate you getting this reference -- I admittedly slip very dark humor into some of my comments to test the waters of HN readership for sanity.
Rapid loss of talent is an exaggeration but the churn is real. What's likely to happen is that the churn in talent will allow smaller companies to grab remote engineers and actually compete with the large ones, while the large ones take 1 year to backfill each position in a VHCOL city that they are returning to.
Thanks for adding this context. My wording was ambiguous, and I think there’s broad agreement…responsibility rests with the parents but there are real needs which are outside of their skill to meet.

Certainly, trained specialists should play an important role at various points for all children.
I think that only answers the question of how it happens. The question of why it happens falls in the realm of metaphysics/philosophy.
If you’d like help unionizing to keep wfh as a right, email in profile. I have no economic incentive, I only want workers to have higher quality of life and agency. Empathy over income and wealth. Like a hacker, one must understand systems and then find their points of leverage to encourage desired outcomes.

NLRB is halfway toward Joy Silk doctrine in force after the last week or so.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37269909
Thanks, dudes.
Does anyone have good numbers for, say, deaths per mile driven in urban environments, and for the number of miles driven by driverless cars?

The article says:

"Both Cruise and Waymo say their vehicles are far safer than human drivers and compared to humans they've had relatively few incidents. They say they've driven millions of driverless miles without any human fatalities or life-threatening injuries."

which is about all the detail I've seen since Tesla's sketchy press release a few years back.

Here's the deal: California has 1.4 deaths per 100,000,000 vehicle miles traveled; "millions of miles" is a drop in the statistical bucket. But on the other hand, that's California overall while the autonomous vehicles are largely in urban areas, right?

The article claims, between Cruise and Waymo, there are roughly 300 AVs. If they average 30mph, that's 9000 miles per hour or 80M miles per year. That would be about 1 expected death per year, assuming the California statistics.

https://www.iihs.org/topics/fatality-statistics/detail/state...
I’d argue that humans have quite a large prompt context when you consider that we build efficient knowledge representations as we process input. I can read a 1000 page book and keep all of it in my “prompt context” even though I’m not memorizing every word that I read.

There is no reason that this couldn’t be done with LLMs, but it’s certainly not what they’re doing today - and it puts you squarely back in the realm of old school AI.
I've yet to see the 6502 C compiler that can beat good assembly code. I appreciate the convenience and llvm-mos has certainly improved greatly, but if you want speed on a 6502, there's no substitute.
> The fact that a single car can even cause this much harm is a sign of a much larger problem: car centric transportation is NOT scalable.

I don't particularly love US car culture, but this is an absurd take. A single broken-down train will block all trains behind it on the same track. Unexpected damage to a runway can choke an airport.

So are we to believe that the only "scalable" form of transportation is bicycles, because it's easy and fast to move a broken or crashed bicycle out of the right of way? Yeah, right.
Because the cost would be high, and there would be no quick way to undo it if it turned out to be a bad idea.

And because in the real world you're not allowed to just say "other than all the environmental damage, why not?".
coping mechanisms that interfere with completion of a project are really annoying and likely to trigger software engineers that deal with <stupid human tendancy> that moves the goalpost in their dayjob.
yeah, that's probably why people are shooting them off power lines.
I agree that school is more than just fact-stuffing.

Having been homeschooled myself for 8 years, one common misconception is that homeschoolers are nearly always alone. Homeschoolers spend significantly more time with others than the average person realizes.
Those are unrelated topics. Not developing the technology is not going to help those kids’ quality of life.
As much as I endure the spirit of these cars helping people, San Francisco is not the place to test this.

I realize Cruise started in SF and they want that SF startup vibe for hiring, but SF was not designed for this.

Test the cars elsewhere in suburbia and leave densely populated, narrow streets for later conquests.

Larger cities with wider roads are better suited. Once the reputation of the cars being successful, it’ll work it’s way into denser areas like SF and NYC.
There's a few other options that I think in combination would make things much better.

1) Make using proc macros in your own application code faster: Encourage better macro re-export hygiene. Basically, one of the reasons serde + serde_derive is so slow is because for serde re-exports serde_derive to compile before it itself can be built. A solution (I didn't come up with this myself) would be to have a crate that re-exports serde and serde_derive together; see top comment herehttps://www.reddit.com/r/rust/comments/1602eah/associated_pr...

2) Make using libraries that use proc macros faster: Publish pre-expanded source code, such that no proc macros run for dependencies. Some work would have to be done around conditional compilation to make things just work (TM), but I think it could be done. (Who knows, maybe it'd be really hard to make the compiler deal with expanding proc macros on stuff behind conditional values. Also, there'd be issues regarding macro hygiene. Both solvable, but I'm not sure how much effort they'd take).
Re: There are plenty of companies around.

I believe Paul Graham can Google or use AI and already knows about the companies and links you posted. His post was a call to action to connect with people working on yet to be discovered innovations and inspire those and others quietly working to come forward and connect with him.
I don't know why this popped up again now, but it's nice to see that some people are still interested in this little Smalltalk 80 system (I'm the author, happy to answer your questions...).

Code at https://github.com/michaelengel/crosstalk
Tangentially, the Round Tower observatory in Copenhagen where Brahe worked is a neat site to visit.
When I had issues like yours, I just walked away and switched provider. No regrets.

It's absolutely criminal that a company providing a critical service for small business has no way to get in contact with a real human being, and nobody should ever do business with Stripe.

If you're in Australia, I recommend Pin Payments any day of the week. There are probaby good local alternatives where you're from too (Ayden?).
See also a post about OCamlPro experience on migrating some COBOL projects to use GnuCOBOL[1].

[1] https://ocamlpro.com/blog/2023_03_18_autofonce/
Turns out people really don't like cities after all - as is being demonstrated when people have real choice. NYC tax deficit is over a billion now; just nuts!
Anyone can learn mathematics. Not everybody wants to or would find it useful. I feel as if you're putting a large amount of words into my mouth which I never intended -- all I meant to say was that not learning mathematics to a high level is not that bad. Lots of people have perfectly meaningful lives knowing basically no mathematics beyond middle school level, having forgotten even high school maths.
In Australia, Pin Payments.

One click plugin, can bill cards from any country in any currency, great support when you need it.
On one hand, people should have the ability to do what they want with properties they own. On the other hand, there’s clearly a reason this is happening, and it doesn’t sound like it came out of a void. The free market had its chance to operate for the past decade in NY since Airbnb has come into existence. City of New York has apparently decided that the benefits of that operation are no longer worth the price.

I get it. In Austin where I live there is a somewhat significant problem with “investment properties” that people bought to rent out as Airbnb’s. Sure they are annoying and they do take away housing from people. But when you look at the driving factors here in Austin for what takes away housing, STR’s, while not nothing, are a small fraction of the larger housing problem. Is it the same in NYC?

In the end, I’ve mostly switched back to using hotels over Airbnb. Last time I was in NYC I picked a hotel over Airbnb. I want that choice though. I want hotels to have to compete with Airbnb for my business. I don’t want some regulation making that choice for me - that kind of garbage anticompetitiveness is what made Airbnb appealing in the first place
This had nothing to do with conservative talking points. It has to do with current capitalism always looking for money but letting the real societal issues ongoing because fixing them doesn't pay enough dividends.

Simplified, with current capitalism, doing the right thing doesn't pay off. We have more than enough know-how and technology to fix real issues but we'd rather put rich people in overweight electric cars.

Yes, full self driving could help save lifes. Space exploration helps us better understand our world. But often times, current capitalism encourages the use of technology and know-how for things that benefit a minority at the expense of the most vulnerable.
Running a fast network on sparse data then calling one optimized for a task on a subset seems like a good optimization and dealing with video we are probably going to need them.

After you parse what an object is, tracking it doesn't take anywhere near the effort of original segmentation. No need to re-evaluate until something changes.

Maybe even use activations to turn on and off networks. "Oh text better load ocr into memory"

And it does inform a lot of our built world
It's strange to think that when watching a movie only 10% is in focus.

Eye movement does provide a lot of information to other people and I think the physical movement produces feedback for velocities and things too. Mimicking biology is often a good bet.
Shucks. 3:12 by Suisei (prod. Taku Inoue), one of my favorite songs, isn't on there. That's probably because it uses the Japanese format of 3時12分. Worth a listen: https://youtu.be/LYFciXBcXIQ?si=Kq94sqYWv-qCkwUV
It used to be fairly common that some idiot would drive their car into a Muni tunnel and put that part of the system out of service for hours. For some reason I haven't heard of something like that in quite a few years, though.

I have my issues with this "live testing" that Cruise et al. are doing, but let's not pretend that these sorts of things are any worse than what human drivers have done, and continue to do.
> how do you ensure they all run properly on x86

Again, simulator builds in Xcode are exactly that on x64 devices.

> it would be rosetta2 in reverse

It wouldn’t. Rosetta takes programs compiled for one CPU and runs them on another. But in this scenario apps would be built specifically for x64. Xcode previously had the ability to build multiple architectures in one package (32bit and 64bit), they could totally package ARM and x64 together if they wished to.
Reminds me of my Kurdish Grandma who owned a dagger. Most harmless, sweet woman alive and too afraid to touch it to. But she had one.
Tell HN: Turo (and probably others) use your credit cards if you delete them
This year, I used Turo to rent a car while visiting Maui. My payment through American Express went through smoothly back in July, covering a rental period of a couple of weeks.

In August, I decided not to use credit cards at all, especially for large purchases. I removed my credit card information from all services and replaced it with my debit card details, including on Turo. I haven't closed the credit card account because I still need it for one service and am awaiting a reply from their support team.

In July, while renting the car, I apparently caused a minor scratch on the bumper, according to Turo, and was required to pay for the damage. To my surprise, today at 6:11 AM, I received a notification that a purchase had been approved on my American Express credit card. They also attempted to charge my debit card, but the transaction was declined. (I am working on a system that will block all transactions while I'm sleeping to alleviate anxiety my wife has about credit card spending).

So far, reaching out to Turo's support has been fruitless. For those of you who are also struggling with bad financial habits related to credit card use, be aware that even when you remove your credit cards from such services, the information might still be stored and could be used without your authorization.
> I typically abandon my account around 2-3k upvotes.

I’ve done the same thing about three times. My rough limit is 5k. It’s time. I think HN is better than many forums but posting for karma is a motivation everywhere it is possible.
Not content on just driving residents out of the city, it's time to wage war on the tourists too.

These idiots do realize if no one comes to the city that there is no one to pay their ridiculous taxes? Apparently not!
> The sorts of harrassment that school bullies inflict on their victims is, to put it simply, not tolerated anywhere else.

Workplace bullying is fairly common too, it just follows the corporate hierarchy.
Do we know how the different cells self organize, know where to form folds, parts and depressions and what the boundaries are?
You're describing a private school.
The electricity switch.
Atuin or fzf is well worth adding to fish. I only add one of those (atuin these days) and a few custom scripts to make my life a bit easier.
What project are you referring too ?

Do you think software engineers are excited to replace themselves with LLMs? Like they’d feel complete if they achieve this ?

I’m lucky I own some assets and have other skills outside of tech so I could probably get by eventually but it would be a major setback financially and professions; however, most engineers I know couldn’t really do anything else but work on a computer and have minimal physical interaction with others.
that's really easy to turn off if you're happy with your setup.
this article style is very hard to read.
This has changed my life thank you
> make serious medical decisions

Did you sneak that in by mistake? Kids shouldn't be making any serious medical decisions for obvious reasons. This is law in many countries.
> on one hand, people should have the ability to do what they want with properties they own

So no concerns if I start a pig fat rendering company next to your house?
Murdered by my replica? When pirated books are used to train AI
You seem to be forgetting that every app in the App Store would need to be rebuilt.. and developers would need to buy in and do so
Point ceded on the analogy. The point I was trying to make is that the only solution was a flippant suggestion that we just "ask social media companies to change their business model". Leaving aside how difficult of a proposition that is, it would have extremely negative knock-on effects. These companies are roughly 50% of the S&P 500 top 10.

> The business model of slave plantation is another one that society got rid of.

Ya I mean 655K people died fixing that issue[1]

I admit I am being unfair here, but the trend of "identifying" an obvious and well known problem and writing an article about it, really frustrates me. We KNOW climate change[2] is a problem, we KNOW social media is bad, we KNOW that housing/living costs in much of the world are unaffordable for generations of people. I would appreciate at least exploring the surface area of what a real solution could be.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_military_casualt...

[2] Those that do not accept climate change still recognize that our key fuel inputs are finite resources. Thus we still need to make changes to prevent foreign wars, increased pricing and maintaining global progress.
The role of shame and self respect as a social regulator has been severely diminished. Going out in public is sadly like going to a circus side show nowadays. Everything is ugly and people are very crass. Oh well, better get used to it, it’s not going to get better.
There are sharp limits on the development you're describing. Cars still need to be parked nearby because nobody wants to have to wait for 40 minutes, or 15 minutes, for their car to come get them after they've decided they're done shopping.
Research suggests monarch butterflies may be in less danger than we think
> I don't like waiting at lights when I could be moving, with a metro that's not an issue.

So you never have to wait for a vehicle and all of your routes are direct with no stops? I doubt that.

> worrying about the vehicle being damaged

You been on US public transit?

> knowing that I'm still paying for it even when I'm not using it

You pay for public transit while you're not using it.

>, those things all annoy me.

Then I guess public transit annoys you just as much if not more if you are in the US.