skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's a valid way of testing a student's knowledge. I do think that tests somewhat different skills and knowledge than the 20+ hours I would spend on large undergraduate essays. Most critically, the longer format probably is better at training students to get published in academic journals.
Taking money from the cryptographers offers the exact opposite incentive that you want it to: your NSA black budget slush fund has orders of magnitude more spending power than anybody honest could hope to acquire.
> The agreement often has a stipulation that the same product can never be cheaper elsewhere which is sometimes easy as WalMart gets specific SKUs.

Are you sure this is done overtly by Walmart? As the article says Amazon had this policy but it was dropped because of EU and US gov pressure. I'd be surprised if Walmart got an exception.

Unless there's some distinction for retail stores not just online.
This is, of course, incorrect. If you and I bought a house together, took ownership, enjoyed appreciation, and consummated a sale, and realized income, we would owe capital gains tax on the income.

There are some ways we could avoid some or all of it, but I was not considering a situation where you and I shared a primary residence, because we’d spend too much time arguing about taxation basics.

On the other hand, a REIT with more than the required number of members that distributes the required share of profits will pay no income taxes. Investors in the REIT, on the other hand, pay taxes on the dividends.
I used Algora for an issue for an open source project (y-sweet[1]) after bashing my head against the wall for 30 mins on it. It ended up being one of those “knowing where to hit the hammer” type problems and someone solved it in a matter of minutes with a 1 LOC PR. Money well spent.

[1] https://github.com/drifting-in-space/y-sweet/
It is. I've even found myself searching within the shop app to find products from smaller stores vs the larger stores. It's nice they have a shipment tracker built in and so far i've not had any issues. They're even running promotions / incentives with their Shop Cash, so they're trying for sure.
Try being the housewife in that scenario, like the comment you're replying to suggested.
Not everyone lives on the same upgrade cycle, you can, but you're not supposed to change your phone every year. With iPhone 15, the majority of people upgrading would be 12 and older device owners.
If the top speaker is covered or silenced (L/R balance?), the bottom speaker+mic can be somewhat directional, e.g. in a cardboard tube.

Directional speakers:

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This WSJ article is paywalled. Even if I can resort to hoping that the Internet Archive continues to be allowed to make such content available it is probably not a great idea to promote such walled-garden links.

There is a very good SciAm article explaining Karikó and Weissman's work at the time of their Breakthrough Prize announcement: https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/an-mrna-pioneer-d...
>computers are logic machines and all of Computer Science is based on logic; and it works just fine.

Not what I mean. Logic is part of the real world. Logic is not the real world. The idea that you can use this small subset of the world to model the whole thing is what is incredibly suspect. No one has demonstrated this and there is no real reason to believe it can.

>To clarify, those are all logic-based approaches that remain the state of the art in classical AI tasks where statistical machine learning has made no progress in the last many decades

Logic is good at what logic does. Please don't take this to mean me calling logic useless. It's not that statistical machine learning has not made progress. But you won't beat logic on problems with clear definitions and unambiguous axioms. That is very cool but that is clearly not all of reality.
Ok, wouldn't it INCREASE it then?

Fuck, I have to spell out every detail.
It's a pretty handy way to parse any sequence of things in Rust! I'm using it to write a compiler for a toy language and it's been a delight
You are absolutely right, but I have two issues with that:

1) Non-criminals also lie on the forms. Mainly because it's sometimes their only way to open a bank account (if they are deemed risky by an AML department), even if they have a legal source of income. This renders people who would otherwise not be criminals into criminals. Just recently, I came across a Tweet[0] from someone who will have to face this dilemma sooner or later.

2) It's a loophole for prosecution, as you admit yourself. It's meant to circumvent well established legal principles. For example, in AML cases, the burden of proof is reversed ("guilty until proven innocent"). It's used as a tool to punish people for crimes when the evidence is not sufficient. Is this really something we want?

[0] https://twitter.com/mikeinspace/status/1708719585556344993
Same region locking nonsense there is every launch on the Google store.

I understand you aren't selling this in my region, but not even letting me look at the product is super frustrating.
Fair point, you're right!

I still think it's reasonable to argue that's not a "productive" approach, but like I said, that's not my own opinion, I just think it's a reasonable argument.
> beginner friendly pieces

React is much more ubiquitous and it seems like far more bounty hunters are proficient in it than newer and more cumbersome tools like Solid.

> /tip

Saying "we will tip you when you finish if you are X person" doesn't feel too great. The hunter has no guarantee they will get the tip, but also it's just a bad look on the issue. We would much rather have it built into the protocol. Generally we also want the gamification because we just think it's a nice way of boosting engagement.

> bounty amount for Rust

We had one at $200, but the rest were under $100 I believe. It's difficult beacuse "Rust" does not necessarily mean the issue is more difficult. Paying $100 for a 10 line PR just beacause it's in Rust doesn't feel great.
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Troubleshooting, bugs, incompatibilities, gotchas, maintenance, end-of-lifecycle, secrets and configuration management, and documentation ensue.
I am starting a private high school and this is exactly how we plan to assess students.

Not the LLM part though.

Not only do you get a good sense of what they know, but you get a chance to give real individual feedback about what they need to focus on next.

Of course towards the end in order to get a qualification that a university will accept as entrance we will need to teach the kids to pass the standardised tests too.
I noticed exactly the same thing on a new Mac mini M2 base model when I conncted the power cord. Now I'm relieved that it seems to be a common problem.

I don't know anything about electronics. Do you think this is some kind of defect or bad design of the power supply?
Then why call it a world model? It's a "data" model and not actually a "world" model. World models would need to have logical relationships between the entities being modeled which would include non-trivial logical relations, R(x,y), and properties, P(x). Current language models do not have such representations and fail miserably on any task that is not explicitly included in the training set (sudoku being an obvious example).
> I think climate scientists (and journalists) are underestimating people. If you treat people like children who can’t handle the truth, they will behave like children.

He should get outside right now and ask a few people about the topic. People ignore the truth, don't care or are actively working against it because it is a Chinese hoax.
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My Samsung XCover6 pro has a replaceable battery and an IP68 rating. It doesn't seem to be that hard to make the battery replaceable, you just keep it in a separate area from the rest of the water-tight electronics.
Faster is easier. I can search all the worlds' information. Much of it is only online, not in print. I can work without commuting. I can communicate with people without visiting them in person.

The thesis is asinine.
Ironic since the people who are "investable" are the ones to least likely need a mentor
Ironically, as terrifying as the climate news is, I don't think that's what's going to do us in.

Increasingly, I think the delegitimization of political institutions (which failed to prevent this predictable calamity) is going to be the business end of the stick.

It can seem weird to draw a line between our wobbling democracies and climate change, but when you recall that institutions derive their legitimacy from their ability to deliver repeatable results, and the opportunity to deliver (climate) results of any sort is diminishing, I imagine it will essentially stretch and then snap the overton window.

Soon is the time of monsters.
My point is that electronic payments don't force us to "go faster".

They only free us from doing stuff like going to an ATM to get cash (which means getting in my car where I live). I can choose how to spend that time, maybe I want to spend it going for a relaxing walk around my village (which has no ATM).

Buying online doesn't have to make you consume more - it remains up to you how much you choose to consume.

A 100% cashless society is off topic. I'm not saying we should be 100% cashless but I would like to see electronic payments accepted everywhere (not necessarilly exclusively) - the author mentions Germany which is a real pain with some places only taking cash.
Thankfully only experienced this once that I can recall with Tinder
Stop me if you're head this one before but I'm going to tune you into a neat trick.

Use your other hand.
Well... I'd phrase it like "no statically typed language has proven it is superior or even applicable for this use case yet". You can't say Julia hasn't given it a serious try and hasn't gotten first-rate marketing treatment by being name checked in "Ju-Py-Ter" notebooks and other placements. Instead, Julia has serious deficiencies

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32806179

It's certainly not proven a static language can't cover this use case but in other areas static languages really have proven their merit.
I think it will come like most things - as a sigmoid curve. People will ask for it once the catastrophes become locally constant.
Yep almost every (serious) TS dev only uses --noEmit for development by default because they use VSCode/IDEs as their typechecking engines and then have something like esbuild for delivering the content to the browser locally. I've never had performance issues with either step and I use both daily.

The raw output speeds aren't a very good 'practical real world example' as the OP described it.

If anything in dev ESLint (+ Copilot) is the slow ones that I sometimes noticed, but there is already Rust driven replacements maturing in the pipeline as we speak.
> some form of direct personal communication beyond a resume is a useful way to determine if somebody has a genuine interest in the organization and its mission.

This is true. But I suspect that a lot of people who don't want to write cover letters are people who are just applying for a job that they think they qualify for, rather than applying for a job because they have a genuine interest in that particular company. The lack of a cover letter may serve as a useful clue for when that's the case.
Laptops typically have 8 GB or more RAM which is a lot more than you need of r a lightweight OS; perhaps the rest could be used as a cache that is periodically flushed to the USB. For most uses of such a device there isn't much writing going on anyway.
This has me very curious. What lead you to believe that an Ace is a low card in poker?
Yeah, same here. So far having a great experience.
I included this graph precisely because it shows there weren't particularly fewer people not actively looking for work. You're probably confusing this for the employment rate.
If perfect spelling/grammar was so easy to have the moment "personal computers became a thing", then why do my eyes bleed trying to read what people write online every day? We've had near-flawless spellcheck for years now. I think maybe it's not as much of a useless skill as you think it might be...
Why do you think "biological neuron"s sidestep the halting problem?

People, who happen to run on biological neurons, have a sense of boredom that tries other approaches, and is also willing to eventually "give up", which aren't well captured in the standard algorithmic approaches.
They can stop you from infringing.
Then they're all going in the tub with cold water and Woollite. Wringing each and finding somewhere to dry them is a pain.

Honestly, I half do this already because half of my clothes are dry cleaning optional but cold water mechanical wash compatible while being dryer incompatible.
> Climate experts talk a lot about “cathedral thinking.” It’s the idea of working towards long term goals — like a medieval cathedral. These goals require vision, shared commitment, and decades, even centuries, of planning. The planners and builders don’t live to see the end product, but future generations reap the rewards.

> It’s an inspiring idea. Something maybe only humans could divine. But here’s the thing: cathedral thinking also requires a firm grasp of facts. A cathedral built on fantasy won’t stand for long.

> If my son and his friends think the coral reefs will be OK, the reefs are doomed. If he knows the truth, maybe he’ll become a biologist who tries to save them. When people know what they’re up against, many will be sad — I’m sad! — but then they can prepare.

This is an example of a perennial mistake where the science behind global warming is conflated with the science behind the consequences of global warming. No one knows if the coral reefs are doomed!

Additionally, it's ironic to use the term "cathedral thinking" and then talk about the necessity of sticking to the facts. Cathedrals are built by Christians as a way to worship God. As someone who doesn't believe in God, I see a lesson here: beleving in something, whether it's true or not, can be useful. In fact, it may even be necessary if you want beautiful things like cathedrals. And even us heathens can be inspiried by ideals that are -- being ideals -- unattainable.
One thing that scientists have learned over the last year is that facts and honesty don’t help. There are many financially motivated people trying their best to keep the temperature rising unchecked, and they know that complex, nuanced messages just don’t land at a political level. So you want something to happen, you keep the message consistent and clear.

Don’t tell the losing team they should give their opponents more chances to score. If society had wanted straight talking, we wouldn’t be in this situation.
It's an unfortunate reality that we're going to exceed +1.5C, and we need to begin preparing for the consequences now. "Solving" climate change requires humanity to both prevent further warming AND take care of the people impacted by it. 10% of us could be forced to flee our homes by 2050...

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Education just doesn’t really scale.

There haven’t been technological advances in education that have overwhelmed the student teacher ratio in terms of effectiveness.

On some level we just have to accept this.
Wow, search.yahoo.com actually looks kind of nice/snappy
The biggest problem I see is that learning usually requires effort/work and AI requires students to do less effort/work to achieve the same output. So the worry is that the quality of education received will decrease.

Example: no one cares that you wrote 5 pages on To Kill a Mocking Bird. They care that you read the book and thought critically about it. AI allows students to skip the reading and critical thinking portion, which is the most important part.
How about remove the wifi router and connect everything to Ethernet instead? That will perform a lot better than either of those.

(Sorry... it's just I'll be hanging out at some house in a bad neighborhood watching cable and the people will be highly aware of very expensive and low performing plans from Verizon and AT&T but not seem to know that you can get better, faster, stronger, cheaper, harder internet from... the cable company.)
Or with musl-cross:

https://github.com/FiloSottile/homebrew-musl-cross

It works pretty well! It's a thing you might keep in your back pocket to test builds from your ARM dev machine on a dev host, and then let the CI/CD system build the real version later.
It's cool to see the founder of a major company still write papers.
Related discussions:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36501194

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35441759
> Just the usual cgo performance overhead?

No, the performance is certainly orders of magnitude faster than serializing over std streams on a subprocess (c ffi calls in cgo are 10s of nanoseconds).

But one of the big draws of golang is the write-once-compile-anywhere toolchain and calls cgo makes that harder.
I'm surprised Google isn't leaning more into their main advantage over Apple: AI. If it weren't for Call Screening and Wait-for-Me I'd have probably already switched over by now.
I'm still on the Pixel 3! I can't get off. I bounced off the Pixel 6. It's too big in my hand. The finger print sensor is in a weird spot. Android 13 is more restrictive. And worst? It's not faster or better. It's legitimately a hard _downgrade_ for me.

I have 2 Pixel 3s now (microphone died and battery swelled) but they run everything snappy! I might just keep buying Pixel 3s off eBay, its so much cheaper. My main worry is lack of security updates, especially with the webp vulnerability.
Absolutely agree with this. I see this juxtaposition between calls for basically civilization-ending extreme measures to stay below 1.5 and others saying 1.5 is already a certainty and will end us all, and it just ends up making me tired and not care about climate change anymore because nobody's talking sense on what should and could be done.
The Lemond quote is in the context of a professional sportsman while racing.
If you're in a running/cycling group that always trains at roughly the same pace it definitely does get easier - indeed I stopped riding with one group partly because my fitness got to the point I found the rides too easy! So yeah, Lemond's quote can/does apply to amateurs taking part in their regular exercise routine but only if they choose to increase their average speed.
Sometimes the importance of the original discovery only becomes clear over several decades. Quantum dots have been in development for various technological uses for a long time but there have been many breakthroughs in the past decade, e.g. (2017)

https://www.chemistryworld.com/news/quantum-dot-first-for-ca...

Pretty impressive stuff:

> "The researchers used cadmium–selenium dots 3nm in diameter to seamlessly replace iridium and ruthenium catalysts in five different bond forming reactions including β-alkylation and β-aminoalkylation. What’s more they needed orders of magnitude less catalyst than conventional metal ones. ‘We were pleasantly surprised by the level of performance by just substituting, without any optimisation, a very simple quantum dot into these reactions,’ says Krauss.

> "The dots have some other advantages: they are easy to synthesise, cheap and ‘you can tune the photophysical and redox properties of the catalyst just by changing the dots’ dimension’, Ceroni explains."
> but I don't feel like regurgitation of facts was particularly endorsed in my experience at upper secondary level,

In my high school experience, most classes could be aced through rote regurgitation of facts.

Math class required another step - identification of which category of problem you have, and rote application of one of a few pre-calc/calc algorithms.
Here is a simple commercial product (designed by EMS who also makes the axidraw plotter) https://watercolorbot.com/
>How did this thing get FCC approval?

Looking at the radio display, it seems like the peak power is about 7-8 S-units. At VHF, that would be about -100dBm; or about 100 femto-watts. I presume that the charger is pretty near the radio. With free-space path loss being inverse square law, it's essentially going to be completely negligible within a very short distance.

Oh, and if the antenna is indeed near the charger (say within one wavelength, 2 meters in this case) it might be inside the near-field - which means that you're getting additional power transferred that wouldn't be reaching the far-field, and you might even be affecting the behavior of the device due to coupling.

Looking at the FCC report, the radiated emissions are totally in-line with FCC Class B requirements.

Modern ham radio equipment has exquisitely sensitive receivers and you easily hear all kinds of interference from digital devices that are completely Part 15 compliant. The prevalence of switched mode power supplies literally everywhere has made HF radio completely unusable for many people outside rural areas.
That's the point of the article though: very few people needed to travel 300 miles in 1750. New York to DC is only 236 miles--the very first settlement in Chicago was in 1780. The technology to travel longer distances more quickly (via e.g. railroads) is what led to the 'need' to travel 300 miles on a more regular basis. Before that the vast majority of people would be able to live their lives in a much smaller area, and representatives that 'needed' to go to DC would have the time and resources to spend the multiple days traveling for their congressional session. (In fact this is why congress is divided into sessions instead of legislating continuously as would be possible in modern times.)
It's funny because if they did not release a new phone every year, the old phones would be useful for longer. I recently had to replace my iPhone 7s plus because it was getting so slow I sometimes could not get the camera to open as it loaded the system down too much. This was despite the fact that the system said my battery was not degraded (it had been replaced with Apple Care a couple of times).

Of course when it was new the camera opened quickly. And then Apple made their OS more heavy weight every year until my phone slowed to a crawl.

And faster phones are nice, but I think it is worth considering how valuable that really is to us as users and a society, especially if the process involves making loads and loads of ewaste and consuming tons of new resources, and all the emissions their mining and transport involves, when we could simply keep our software slim and our old devices functional.

And the big companies will never do this. Do we need to force them to allow open software to run on these devices, so that clean builds can be patched and maintained when the company over bloats them or abandons them?
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