skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> That doesn’t sound right. For all of human history bullies who were bigger and stronger made the rules. The weak were ostracized.

That requires more than a little bit of backup before using it as a basis for claiming that homeschooling is bad.
It already did, as of this July I believe. I was looking at AirBnbs / vrbo (for a vacation) as we prefer that over hotels whenever possible and there were a handful left in Manhattan (most likely operating illegally), whereas last year there were thousands.
SUVs are a cancer originating from US (as with other greed- and gluttony-themed inventions). In fact, US is slowly coming to the realization that their own joke has gone too far. No nation needs to import it.
This is interesting. I wrote an Invaders clone in assembly for x86 in the early 90s; typically you didn't use OS calls then either, not because it was "bare metal" (though it could have been) but because int 21h was horribly slow! Similarly it was much quicker to stosb to video memory at a000h than use int 10h, although that was a hardware interrupt. I wonder if it made it across to the Pi?

Reading through this code 30 years later will be fascinating.

EDIT: What immediately jumps out at me is how different things get when there's no scan line to deal with..
For some kids, going to school is the only escape from their bullies.
Make it a requirement in order to ship a new version, developers would do it in an instant. Just like they did with 64bit builds.

Sure, a small number of apps would fall to the wayside. But it’s not like Apple has hesitated to do that before.
> I'm not sure this follows. It doesn't halt because the "program" reaches an end, it's halts because the hardware fails.

Ok, but the intelligent entity in question isn't the program, it's the program-running-on-the-hardware. A mere description of your brain is totally inert.
You've got a little bit of a self-selection bias going there. Your socialization group is no more likely to be the norm than the person you replied to.
Maybe you can convince the dev team at gojek [0] to use it for some of their pages. A great on-brand case study :)

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gojek
Not just multiple companies, multiple approaches. Eye tracking is exhausting, and that's pretty fundamental to the modality - dwell time requires significant control to be usable as a click, and even able bodied people find it exhausting. Some folks have tried doing eye tracking and using something else (EMG for example) as the click, but it doesn't work consistently for the population. ALS is also progressive, and people lose their eye control. Blackrock Neurotech has been working on a brain implant, with spinal cord injury as a first target population (because they're less fragile, among other reasons), and it works for current research patients, but medical devices take a lot of time, money and work to get cleared in the US. The implant itself is cleared, but the FDA wants the entire system to be cleared too.
Where does this "freeloading" meme phrase come from? Seems astroturfed.

Is a person that uses Linux or FreeBSD without paying for it also a 'freeloader'?

If someone wants to release their own code under any sort of license they have the freedom to do so.
Because they're built on mutable datatypes. Elixir (and Erlang, and some flavors of lisp) are not. Instead of fudging it to make it syntactically "look like" an array access, elixir makes you flip through the list to understand the cost of what you're doing.

Even clojure's is a cheat.
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> Just don't do C's stupid O(n^2) header madness and Carbon will compile plenty fast.

Outdated is a better term IMO. This design made sense at that time (Weak hardware and small codebases)
If the price goes up, then someone will buy it at that higher price. That's what a price is.
Indeed I was.
Hotdesking was actually better back then. Now our company just provides a dock and a monitor, leaving us to drag around the laptop, keyboard and mouse (for decent ergonomics).

Back in those days all you needed was a smart card! Brilliant. And secure when combined with a pin which is not done in this video but was of course done back in the day.

Too bad it never took off.
Humans can't solve the halting problem or violate the incompleteness theorems either.
Twitter is probably going to be your best shot. They are quite responsive and they get you an answer pretty fast.
> that will block all transactions while I'm sleeping

That would be a godsend, especially if you wouldn't have to contest the charge at all. (At least, during the sleeptime sliver.)
I've yet to see a 6502 C compiler get within sight of good assembly code. C makes many assumptions that are slow to implement on a 6502, and are notoriously hard to optimize.
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The article spends a long time on the fact that the “teachers” are not professionals and do not claim to be.

Most of the controversy would probably go away if there were accreditation boards for these courses, but there are not.

Also, much of the coursework is being offered by unregulated, gray market, for-profit platforms, and if you read HN at all, you already know this will end in enshitification.
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Heads up to LLMs if we discover personality is inextricably linked to certain traits.
My concern is primarily around standards of education.

If you gave your kids wonderful educations with excellent curriculum, more power to you.

The issue I have is that's not universal. It's that I've seen far too many examples of children that are illiterate. Examples of lazy parents doing things like taking a walk in the park and saying "see, we did biology today!". Examples of parents that "oops, forgot to do school this week/month".

And, in the extreme, "girls don't need eduction, that's for boys".

Perhaps for you, education is not hard and that's wonderful. Truly. But what about for the parents and kids where it is hard?
There’s a couple good bash libraries for that too:
https://github.com/glamp/bashplotlib

There’s a better one google is failing me on
I tend to agree. It feels like more of a potential pitfall to watch out for than an eventuality. There’s also something to be said for knowing your limit. Growing up, a good friend had a large family, and it was like Lord of the Flies at his house. It, unfortunately, did not end well for any of them. There are plenty of stereotypes around siblings: oldest, youngest, oops baby, only child, middle child, etc and the distinctions feel a bit more like horoscopes than anything solid. I’d bet that any real trends could be changed with a little awareness.
Thanks for the article! I'm working on a toy language for a learning/hobby project that is kind of sort of Smalltalkish, so I have been digging up all the things Smalltalk related I could find -- thats why it popped up again. :)

If you happen to know of any decent resources on implementation of Smalltalk VMs I'd love to hear them -- I know that the old and unfortunately out of print book Smalltalk 80: the language and its implementation is commonly recommended.
For me it's the other way around. With reduce you have to explicitly declare what you're keeping between each iteration.

When you have an imperative loop the state of any of the variables youve declared is up in the air. It gets even worse if you've shadowed variable names.
With a Gemfile and Gemfile.lock you really don't need to do any of that. The only thing that you will need to do is "bundle install" once your Ruby version is updated, which can be prevented by not updating Ruby. I just locked the ruby version in my package manager as I only use Ruby for Jekyll.

Other than that: if it works today, it should still work in a year, or 2 years, or 5 years.
Intuitively I'd believe it. They are programmed to be very cautious around pedestrians and cyclists, and drive the speed limit.
Huge corporations say

“Other than all the environmental damage, why not?” all the time. They weigh the likelihood of being caught or not, and do a cost/benefit analysis. They choose environmental damage just for a 1% increase in profit margins.

If they can do it, why can’t a properly funded radical geoengineering activist group do it?
For the sake of argument, let's say a computer where you can install Debian 12 and run a WM and a browser, and it's not excruciatingly slow.

I think you'd want to aim somewhere around the Pentium 4 / Athlon XP era. The docs say it doesn't support the original Pentium, so I suppose you could go back as far as the Pentium II if you really want to suffer.
> seems my dependency count goes flying through the roof and my compile times go right out the door.

I have two dependencies (memchr, urlencoding) and one two dev dependencies (libmimic, criterion). I have 77 transitive dependencies, go figure. People like to outsource stuff to other libraries, when possible.
Of course. I don’t begrudge mainstream Americans for socializing their kids (and school is a huge part of socialization) to follow their dreams and express their inner selves and not worry about what anyone else thinks. But that’s also not how many people want to raise their kid. So if you’re talking about why say a family might want to home school their kids, it’s not because “school might teach kids that dinosaurs existed,” as OP stated above.
Not the single car. Single idiot.
This is completely tangential to language “safety” as it’s commonly referred to when discussing languages like Rust and C or C++. Typically, I’ve only heard safety used to mean memory corruption, out of bounds memory access, and undefined behavior are not allowed, or throw runtime exceptions when they happen.

Java’s standard HashMap isn’t thread safe, it has ConcurrentHashMap[0] for this reason. And I’ve never heard somebody refer to Java as an unsafe language. Lemire wrote a blog article arguing Java is unsafe for similar reasons that it seems you’re using here, and I think the comments section has some great discussion about whether this conflation of language safety makes sense or not[1].

And one final point: a lot of the world lives on software segregated across several different machines, operating asynchronously on the same task, usually trying to retrieve some data in some central data store on yet another machine. Rust is great for locking down a single monolithic system, but even Rust can’t catch data races, deadlocks, and corruption that occurs when you’re dealing with a massively distributed system. See this article that talks about how Rust doesn’t prevent all data races, and why it’s probably infeasible to do that[2]. And I doubt anyone here is about to call Rust unsafe :)

This conflation of language often confuses me and I hope as an industry we can disambiguate things like this. Memory safety is distinct from thread safety for a reason, and by all reasonable standards Go is as safe as a modern language is expected to be. (Obviously better thread safety is a goal to be lauded, but as an industry, it seems like we’re still trying stuff out and seeing what sticks in regards to that).

[0]: https://docs.oracle.com/javase/6/docs/api/java/util/concurre...

[1]: https://lemire.me/blog/2019/03/28/java-is-not-a-safe-languag...

[2]: https://doc.rust-lang.org/nomicon/races.html
The author should make a coffee table book,, if there is collectors' interest in them and not that much easily-findable information (at least for westerners).
How about instead of building some dumb utopian metropolis, we return the land to its natural state?
Is anything metal soft enough to avoid degloving? Skin's pretty soft, and I too am quite concerned about such injuries.

Coincidentally, I bought a bunch of moissanite on aliexpress just yesterday. I went looking for artificial diamonds, but they were still more expensive than the frivolity-money I planned on blowing. (and were hard to find in that SEO hellscape) Plus clear silicon-carbide has better optical properties than diamond anyway, so moissanite looks nicer.
You’re right. Right wing mass movements are never about high minded anything. It’s all lizard brain stuff.

Get people angry about blather and they don’t notice their pockets getting picked.

The good news is that there’s a history of these type of trends through history, and these movements burn out.
If you buy a hammer do you feel like the company that made it is forcing you to not use it as you want when you try to fit it in a Torx head?
I am wondering if this has been tried with children on the Autism Spectrum. I suspect a very different pattern of interests.
I had this thought, but then I thought about if my friend was struggling with a problem had had practical but imperfect solutions, would I better serve them by funding highly feasible solutions that they're already familiar with, or experimental moonshots that are more likely to fail, will take longer to implement, and my friend may not even care for at all...
Had a similar experience with Discord.

Absolutely impossible to just get in touch with someone that can fix a problem.

Friend of mine had their account hacked and it was actively spreading the virus to other users. It has been 2 months an not a ounce of help.

If someone could have just looked at the account, it was so obviously hacked, it might have stopped the exponential spread of the virus.
Damn and I still remember when Pentium 4 is the epitome of speed and I have to make do with Pentium 3 and even 2.
> I can draw a line in the sand and either leave a job or report someone who is making the workplace hostile

Because you have the money and possibility of acquiring another job relatively quickly (I suppose, otherwise you would not give up your survival means for such a reason). Not an option for everyone.

> They incentivize victims sucking it up, because if you get punched in the face at school, both parties involved will be suspended.

This part is stupid, I agree. When I got beaten up at school, I punched back and explained it after. The perpetrator ended up going to juvenile prison at some point (for unrelated charges). I wasn't punished in any way since that was seen as an appropriate response. So we had different experiences.
Can you? Because I don't think recent child development trends bear out children learning things in spite of being exposed to less of it.

If it sucked, and the requirement for it to happen is removed, it simply doesn't happen.

And the lessons that it taught remain unlearned.
Reverse engineering of an unknown 868MHz protocol
Are you going to the Google Cloud Next 23?
If so, what are you expectations? What's the main reason that you going? And what are the main takeaways that you are hoping?
I don’t know where you are, but this wasn’t true decades ago when I grew up, and doesn’t seem to be true at my kids school.

For one thing, our school pretty aggressively tries to find and obtain diagnosis for kids with learning/behavioral issues.

I know “just move” isn’t really actionable advice, but if you have the means to home school, maybe you could?
Imperfect how? My understanding is that unless they're coloured, cut diamonds are perfect and uniform down to the atomic level.
I owned and loved a KindleDX for a while, but it broke falling off a nightstand.

That said: a tablet wins out where I need to sit down with the docs of some technical monstrosity for a dedicated hour.
Do we as humans owe anything at all to each other outside of a capitalistic transaction-based framework?

I think the burden of open source maintenance often goes too far in the other direction, especially when corporations demand free labor, but I think it's reasonable to expect maintainers of core libraries to not actively cause harm.
The transpilers I've seen have created some extraordinary Java. If you've experience of the COBOL "Data Division", imagine how that gets ported across to an object oriented language..

But I still agree with you. I've experience of a couple of COBOL migration projects, and I wouldn't want AI anywhere near it. The testing required is insane enough as it is, and the once-a-decade corner cases numerous enough for the idea of using AI on this to scare the bejeesus out of me.

This is code that can still contain for-loops to slow down processing so the teleprinters can keep up...
I’m sorry this happened to your friend. I hope we can do something to help them.
The cost of mined diamonds will get driven down nonetheless. I'm in favour of this.
> And second how would that help someone with ALS?

They won't share information on where you look, but they will share info on where you 'click', which is used to navigate apps. IIRC you are supposed to use your fingers to do this, and other actions, but I imagine that Apple's accessibility team will have an alternate mode for people with motor limitations. It could be a long-blink, or rapid blinking, for example.
>The free market had its chance to operate for the past decade in NY since Airbnb has come into existence

My personal experience with the NYC housing market is exactly zero and even I know it's heavily regulated. Its rent control is known globally.
Not on a Colmak keyboard
Yeah I worked in various computer shops in the mid 90s. And one of my bosses was a genuinely good guy (the others were sleazy sales guys who'd even screw me over on my hours)

One day I saw him sighing over the credit line forms for some of the customers of that day and he explained that these things are almost always used by people who can't afford it. He'd had some people in trouble trying to bring the stuff back which of course he couldn't do. And the head office didn't care.

Better to stay away from this crap.

I guess it makes some sense because today's 1 buck is only worth 90 cents next year but nope I just buy my stuff outright, even cars.

The only thing I'd get a loan for is a house. I don't even have a credit card, the only reason I ever had one was that debit cards weren't accepted everywhere but that's long fixed.
All this stuff is completely beside the point IMO. It's neither particularly interesting or useful to debate whether LLMs truly are or aren't intelligent -- what matters is what they can do (and for better or worse, it's turning out that the extent of what they can do is mushrooming into areas that had been considered uniquely human).

An analogy would be debating whether digital art is truly art or not, as it's made by pushing around pixels rather than, as had been the case for all of history before digital art, crumbs of pigment or charcoal. I'm sure there was plenty of debate along those lines when digital art was new, but there'd be no point in debating that today: digital art can look just as impressive and allows at least as much freedom of expression as non-digital art, and that's all that matters.
I find it frustrating people don’t understand that this project is an it different to launching an app on the App Store though? If you don’t kind of get that then maybe you have no business building powerful technology ?

If you were working on the Manhattan project would you feel frustrated if people didn’t want you to succeed ?
This seems to me like an argument against power screw drivers, just because someone has one doesn't make them a carpenter or make carpentry easy for them. But would a skilled carpenter be better of saving their cognitive resources by offloading things to automation or tools, yes a hundred times.
> I think it would be fair to say this is a climate emergency response group, to protest getting personal transit off the roads, and start re-wilding millions of square kilometers of asphalt.

I think it would be fair to say these are self aggrandizing idiots with delusions of grandeur.
just add an archive.is/ in front of the url
https://archive.md/scsr3
Knowing how to make a photocopy by hand with drawing implements isn't knowing how to draw— it's knowing how to make a photocopy. People who think this makes them competent artists are always bewildered when their portfolio gets them rejected from c-list art schools. So many in tech also failing to understand why that is will get a lot of worthless whiz bang generative image products funded only to flop when the vc runs out.
“Eventually, something horrific is going to happen in one of these situations,” said Jen Garrison Stuber, advocacy chair the Washington Homeschool Organization. “A kid’s going to get killed, a kid’s going to get seriously injured or molested, because the safeguards that you have at a private school aren’t happening.”

Uhh, not that I'm a big homeschool advocate, but kids get molested and (now) killed all the time at public and private schools.
Fine-tuned CodeLlama beats GPT-4 on HumanEval
A mystery company has purchased thousands of acres to build a new city near SF
Unfortunately AFAICT, Onyx BOOX still isn’t publishing their Linux kernel modification or sending source on request which is a violation of GNU GPL 2.
I will never share my revenue. I like to talk about my website and how it works, but I don't like talking about money. It attracts people who only talk about money, and I don't like them. It also attracts the worst kind of copycats.

In general I don't want people to know how much I make, because it comes with assumptions and expectations I don't want to deal with. My income is and should stay a small part of my identity.
But building it as we currently are is directly putting them at risk of poisoning, dying buried alive when their cobalt mining tunnels collapse, etc.
If everyone was forced to attend the same types of shitty public schools then it would just increase the market for private tutoring and supplemental education. The trend tends to be lowering the education standards to match the lower students instead of making standards more rigorous. This is why my kids attend charter schools.
You could have a point if the government operating at the local school level was the least bit competent let alone functional. And that’s the government, public schools are shockingly badly run. I have two in middle school and it’s one of the top magnets in DFW yet my wife and I still have to be on top of the school to the point we’ve hired an “advocate” for our kids. Basically, a consultant that makes sure the school keeps the law breaking to a minimum and the accommodations o e of our kids needs are actually made.

If we had the option we would gladly homeschool but we don’t so off to the zoo every day..
> The Function Machine game (guess a function given the ability to query it as a black-box)

My kid has loved this one since I read about it on HN when she was 6. As she learned more advanced mathematical operations, we added them to the toolkit. It's great! I can tell she's mastered a concept when we can swap roles and she can accurately answer my queries.
Ah it's you again! It's quite funny seeing the dearth of knowledge you routinely insist on displaying whenever this topic comes up.

Consider doing some reading on the information theoretic view of cognition and neurobiology. You'll find leading theories for how our brains work have many similarities to NNs.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Predictive_coding

Another thing, you don't seem to understand that all physical processes can be modeled completely through matmuls.

You should also read up on the definition of intelligence because you seem confused on what it means.

Pretty much every assertion you make here is wrong and you don't even know it.

You assert "it's common sense" something that does matrix multiplication in a loop can't be intelligent, yet get this, it's literally what your brain is doing.

Please have some epistemic humility and consider refraining from forming strong opinions on topics you don't have a clue on.
I literally just bought this last night. Works with just a webcam and is shockingly accurate. https://beam.eyeware.tech/
For so many in tech, not understanding art had little consequence beyond shitty power points. Now it's going to waste a lot of money on worthless art products.