skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> "In some specific tasks, a finetuned 7B llama can work as well as GPT3.5."

"some" is doing a lot of heavy lifting here.

Also: don't discount the labor cost of curating a fine tuning dataset, running a FT training run, even if the hardware is cheap.
So yeah. Having all the children at same starting point and having a good teacher walk them through with great pedagogy is going to work. yes. and be social

What happens when kids don't get it that lesson, or that week. How do they catch up?

Personalised learning is much more "personalised catch up".

One thing that struck me recently on "The rest is politics" podcast is old Etonian Rory Stewart explaining that his (posh private) school he would get up about 8 and go to bed about ten and the whole day was full of structured learning / events. That (top) private schools might get better results simply because there is 2x or 3x as much teaching going on.

Perhaps the answer to school is simple - spend 2x to 3x more. we might not like it. But maybe it seemed ridiculous to pay for schools and books for Victorian children in Dickens' day as well
VSCode actually also supports using git send-email. All you need to do is work on your code in exactly the same way, then use git send-email.
Aqua (in early versions of OS X) did a fantastic job of combining all this clear usability with a lot of fun visual flair. Even the old Qt/GTK themes which emulated that look were pretty good.

It really is incredible how flat and boring modern macOS is.
How to Use LLMs for Dynamic Documentation
Some explanations can, will, and should be written by code authors alone, or by those authors in partnership with LLMs. Others can, will, and should be conjured dynamically by code readers who ask LLMs for explanations on the fly.
Common Crawl claims to have 82% of the tokens used to train GPT-3, and it's available to anyone.

Add all the downloadable material at archive.org and you've got a formidable corpus.

https://commoncrawl.org/
https://draw.horse

This is a drawing toy that takes some inspiration from kidpix https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kid_Pix). It makes amusing (to me anyhow) noises, has some goofy brushes and stamps.

You can't save your pictures or print them out, and I haven't gotten around to figuring out some happy medium of using canvas and doing a flood fill.
Everyone knows 1+1=2, so why did Russell spend many many pages/hours on a proof, surely if people know it then it's easy to demonstrate? /s

Programmers are notoriously good at documenting everything after all. /s

It's easy to give documentary evidence for things someone found self-evident and so only wrote a scribbled note about in a workbook 40 years ago. /s

FWIW patent law obviousness is not the same thing as ordinary notions of obviousness either.

All my personal opinion, ofc.
I'm running up against this pain in a hobby project. The best options I've come up with so far are:

* WebRTC and NAT traversal to let the user sync files (complicated but viable for my use case but pretty dumb for gaming).
* Cloud storage and anonymized social logins with E2E encryption (cue key management horror stories)
* Download a file on exit, upload on resume (terrible UX)
it doesn't need to be an "offense" at all. in the event of a collision, it's enough to have a strong prejudice towards the person who had the legal right of way.
What makes you think "myth of Jesus the Christ turns out to be, say, a cipher of the re-execution of Alexandros I, the son of Herod the Great and Mariamne I" is at all likely? I read a theory once that Jesus Christ was a reinterpretation of Julius Caesar that was adopted by Romans after the former imperial cult fell out of favor. That seems farfetched, but more likely than this - at least it provides a better explanation of why Romans cared about Christianity.

I'd love to have texts that spoke more about the origins of Christianity and Judaism, but it's far more likely that this trove will contain nothing of the sort - you could imagine a Roman aristocrat in Italy caring about this, but it doesn't seem especially likely.
It's way better at writing code, or at least I've found it to be so.
Apparently they’ll have a billion in net cash after this change, which is over a million dollars per “departing flexporter.”

And yet the employees get a barebones 9 week severance.

Lame.
Win XP with classic look was pretty decent and useable. There was an option in system settings to disable all theming, 3D stuff, animations etc. just the basic look of that time and a lot more snappy UX.
Ah, I didn't have a Mac back then, but I can definitely believe that.
I mean if you're not watching the ads, you're only costing them money. I'm not going to call it "theft" or anything but don't be surprised that you're unwelcome.
I noticed that too. Yes many games can be made this way but it's not what I think of when I think of making multi-platform games. At the same time if we could continue advancing web apps it would be more appealing, but does PWA even work everywhere?
A decade ago I rented an apartment that was advertised on Craigslist as having laundry machines, that we only learned would cost extra after signing the lease.

The broker who rented it to us swore the ad didn’t specify it was included. Thankfully I’d taken a screenshot, and caught the broker in a lie directly in front of her boss. They paid us cash right there to make up for it!
AI grifters realizing why Meta paid celebrities to clone their voices for their AI chatbots.

These same celebrities are ready to take anyone to court to collect their money for unauthorized cloning of their voices for commercial purposes and it costs them almost nothing with a greater chance of them winning.
https://www.oncer.io/

Encrypted messages without history - for when you want to send an api key or password or the like and don't want it sitting in the recipients WhatsApp/Signal history, for example, or going over non-encrypted channels like email or Slack. And you don't want to set up a complicated encryption messaging thing. There are similar services already: e.g. onetimesecret, burnernote - but I wanted something that did encryption client side. I also wanted to set up channels, to send multiple messages between 2 devices without doing "trust on first use" for each new message.

The encryption takes place in the browser - if you're a developer: you can even use browser devtools debugging/network sections to confirm the private key never leaves your device.

I plan to work on the ux, and also further strengthen the encryption (e.g. does the signal protocol work for this...? will implement something that should provide some form of forward secrecy in any case), and make a Flutter-based client so it's super convenient to use on all platforms (maybe also enable things like nfc-based key change...).

Would be very interested to hear from anyone who would like to help! :)
This sure brought back memories!
> ... new cities to be designed differently in several ways. One of which is for roads to be only for small autonomous vehicles and entirely separate ...

As I understand it, this vision does not compute. The number of movements of people in a dense city is too large for everyone to move in a car, autonomous or not. Cars take a lot of space. They need to stop someplace for someone to get in and out, merge in and out of traffic. Streets cant be designed in a way that accomodates this at the scale of a city like NY.

Similarly, in spread-out suburbia, autonomous cars would still get stuck in traffic jams if everyone has to use them to get to work. Making cars autonomous makes things a bit more efficient, but not by orders of magnitude.

Mass transit, combined with walking and biking, is simply way more efficient for moving people in cities and is a proven model that does scale.
would that be true for providers that aren't Fastly? why would there be a different implementation for non-fastly? or are they the sole providers for private relay?
Public school teacher here. Public schools have been in a downward slide for decades. If you want to know what's wrong, just brace yourself and ask a teacher. Alas, many people want to believe it's the teachers' fault, and so rarely bother to ask the teachers. Or, failing that, people think it's just that teachers aren't paid enough and think more money will fix the problems (more money would be nice, but that's not the problem).

It's very straightforward to fix public schools, but, in my view:

* few people actually want to know what the problems are,

* only a fraction of those people will speak up and say something about addressing the problems, and

* only a small fraction of those people would have the wherewithal to actually push for the solutions to be implemented.

Fact is, good teachers are constantly being driven out of the profession. It's just too arduous and heartbreaking, and every year it gets worse.
Automakers are also directly and/or indirectly responsible for the destruction of American local mass transit and the dysfunctional regression in urban planning* towards inefficient suburbanization.

* It wasn't unplanned. It was the purposeful design of city planners who failed to take into account unintended externalities including gridlock, pollution, and cost.
All of the largest software is collaborated on over webapps, without exception.

Windows and Office and AWS and GCP dwarf these foss projects.

There is a reason that Google, Amazon, Microsoft, and Apple don’t use email to collaborate on software.
That's a good question a d should be easy to look up, but no I have no idea.

I can tell you though, 1,000% EVERY Japanese sdf ship has at least 2 US Navy person on board when deployed. That's a fact.
This won't end or even slow down AI in entertainment...we'll just get fully-synthesized "stars" that live forever, created from scratch.
That would make sense, the programmer crowd is more common on Linux and these are programming-like games. Looking at the authors games, they seem like the type of thing that would be more likely to do well on Linux (factory / automation). So the fact that he's still leaning towards it not being worth it financially seems notable.
It doesn't take a genius to figure out why so many schools are failing. Schools are failing for obvious reasons.
I've learned all sorts of stuff from online tutorials; like how to tile a floor, fix my range, install a dishwasher, etc.

I'm not sure how many people have actually learned Calculus or European History or PHIL101 to the point of expertise...
I really hate these scammers.

I've moved quite a few times and when it gets to be a week out and I still have so much stuff and no time, I've often tried to give it away, but people are so suspicious that they could get a free couch or desk that we have to go through 10 messages for them to trust me. I can't be bothered to exchange that many messages with 20 people just to give something away.

I want an apartment equivalent of a garage sale for good stuff, not junk
Hi Dang, sorry to contact you via a random thread. I am new to HN and have jumped on because I've discovered that a couple of months ago a project (a blog / game) that I created was posted here and got a lot of interest and feedback that I wasn't aware of at the time. The post is here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37060305

I would love to be able to reply and thank all the people who showed an interest in my work, but the post is more than two weeks old. I have read a comment by you where you said you could reopen commenting for a thread given a good reason. Hopefully you think that the creator of a project that was the subject of a popular post here, wanting to address the 75 comments about his project is a good reason to open up comments?

I would really appreciate it if this is possible. I'm excited to chat with the people and assure them that I have indeed changed the terrible font I had been using - which got roasted mercilessly.

I'm also excited to join the community, turns out this might be where I fit :)
I think that all makes sense in a narrow way but I think you are sidestepping the actual challenge of education.

As the root comment pointed out - we already know that you improve outcomes by excluding low performers. Schools that can be selective take advantage of that. If you are in a position to attend one of those restrictive schools it may improve your outcomes!

However, the question of "how to do a good job educating kids" on a national level must include everyone in the measure. It might be worth having schools for troubled kids! But you have to look across the results of the troubled kids and the more normate ones. I think the root comment's point is that...this seems to have copied the techniques that charter schools use to improve their educational outcomes...but that arguably those schools are not "solving" the same problem as public schools and comparing them does not reveal any insights.
The UN is a good source of intel. In September this was the state of things.

https://www.unocha.org/publications/report/occupied-palestin...
Camera powered drum machine!

https://www.3d-beats.com/
> easily drop off a handful for free at the local big box electronics store

I believe this is required in the EU (electronics stores, with some exceptions for tiny ones etc., need to accept any electronic device up to a certain size whether sold there or not, and recycle it properly - I think the cost is ultimately paid by the seller or manufacturer through some chargeback scheme).
You're conflating what is important with what seems important, and what your job is with what you'd like your job to be, and that's a dangerous, burnout inducing, trap.

Important, in the context of a hierarchy-driven development team or company, is defined first by the best way to let money flow towards the company, and second by the people who are enabled by the hierarchy to make decisions about where to allocate resources to improve that inflow of capital. While persuading someone it's momentarily important to shift from what was going to be done to what you think should be done can be one way to acquire "career capital" (Newport) and maybe move towards it being your job to do so, it doesn't change what your current job is which is basically to consistently show up and do whatever those others decide is important, and to be ok with that; slow, mediocre, gradual progress and existence, which is perfectly fine if you have other part s of your life, which you should be spending more time on anyway. If new shiny stuff gets attention, then that's part of the dysfunction of the overall system (Meadows - Thinking in Systems)

When I was early in my stupid career as an developer, I made the idiotic mistake of trying to influence decisions regarding things that didn't matter to anyone else, like accessibility, usability, and when I failed to do so put in a lot of my own personal energy to do it right anyway. That was worthless, and I got depressed, fired, and ended up homeless for a while. Do what you're paid to do, and be realistic about what that is, until you're literally swatting people away who want to pay you to do it, then you can do it the right way. Never trust companies for any reason, and don't invest too much of yourself in them unless you can guarantee positivity will come your way if you do things beyond your standard deliverables.
This isn’t great optics: https://archive.ph/pxy91

Serious question: with how much instability there is with this company, why would anyone want to work there? Are they the best in their business and just have hit a rough spot? Why is Flexport so commonly discussed here?
Kia's New EV Range Includes Cars That Can Turn into Bedrooms
I get what you mean. Whenever I read one of these scenarios that tries to show some absurd conclusion about a moral theory like utilitarianism, it makes me wonder if there is something about the outlandishness of the situation that makes it hard for our mental heuristics to work properly. In this case it's the idea that Bentham is a perfect act utilitarian, that the mugger will 100% follow through on his promise, that it won't affect anything else in the future besides the immediate suffering etc.

That said, I am doing my best to come up with an example that avoids the problem you mention. If we can imagine a utopia society where everyone is a perfect act utilitarian except the mugger, and all resources are distributed in a totally fair way such that any $10 will buy much less utility than saving a finger, the mugger's tactic would be harder to avoid.

I think the problem I still have with this is that it's basically saying that it's possible for a jerk to take advantage of a bunch of nice people, which isn't that interesting of a conclusion.
https://archive.ph/KvjxF
Not my experience. I went to a university, got a CS degree, got a job. Just looking at my coworkers that seems to be by far the most common path. We didn't even have a PC at home for the longest time when I was a kid.

The self directed autodidact thing is the stereotypical Bay Area, romanticized narrative and all the 'education disruptors' seem to come out of the exact same circle. It's not surprising to me at all that Zuckerberg had to write the 100 million off, most professionals just come out of decent schools with a good social learning environment.
> the Secrets CSI Driver loads secrets directly from a secrets store as virtual files within ephemeral volumes.

You could totally spin this as agreeing with 12factor… the virtual files are attached resources that are part of a deployment. The configuration, expressed as env vars, configures where to look for those secrets (ie. their filesystem path) and where they’re used (e.g. as a templatized database URL.)

12factor says config should be env vars, it doesn’t say secrets should be. It’s unfortunate that the site lists credentials as an example of configuration, but… it’d be great IMO if we could sidestep a lot of contention by just considering this to be errata of the example, and that secrets are left as an exercise to the user.
I thought they could measure it like they measure humans using SLAMMD, but apparently that’s only accurate to 0.5 lbs

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/air-space-magazine/how-do-ast...
Flat design has destroyed UI readability.

I can’t stand modern platforms that make me guess whether any piece of text is a button.
OSINTBuddy - https://github.com/jerlendds/osintbuddy - https://osintbuddy.com

Node graphs, OSINT data mining, and plugins. Connect unstructured and public data for transformative insights. My long-term goal is to turn this project into a viable alternative of Maltego/Palantir type software.

Currently my roadmap looks something like:

- Refactor and clean up the code base all over to make it easier to onboard potential contributors

- Improve the UI/UX

- Moving/sandboxing the plugin system/crawlers to it own compose service

- Adding a settings option to the plugins system and a way to directly query a graph with gremlin

- Adding another graph display mode to the UI (using https://www.sigmajs.org/)

- Creating a registry/marketplace for plugins where anyone can upload, share, and download plugins

- Adding accounts and RBAC

- And many more things to come but for now the above tasks are my focus :)
Sometimes teachers actually want non-basic necessities like smart boards. We just need to give them what they want, not prescribe to them yet a different approach.

I mentor a robotics team that’s attached to a set of high school courses. One of the best things I’ve seen when it comes to bureaucracy is that the three teachers who basically run those courses were handed a budget and bought exactly what they needed. A mitre saw, 3D printers, a plasma cutter, etc.
People really don't see where this is going, do they? Replicas are the last of their worries. Actors and singers should be more worried about being replaced by perfect, completely artificial people. It's like when extras were worried about being replaced by body scans. No, ThisPersonDoesNotExist will replace you all, silly.
As the Mythbusters almost said, the only difference between whirling a mouse's corpse around tied to the end of a string in space, and science, is writing it down.
So shopify cut its logistics to flexport, who are now cutting 20% of its company. Must be really shitty to anyone unlucky enough to go through that :(
> Personalized education in the form of tutoring is consistently the biggest intervention in education,

> As [soon as] we can figure out how to replicate the effects of tutoring with technology, we should see massive improvements in education outcomes.

As soon as we can figure out how to replicate social context and emotional support with technology, ...
No?

A smart board is $3000. Another teacher is $66,397.

You can buy 20 boards per year for the _salary_ (ignoring benefits and other non-payroll costs) of a single teacher.

https://usafacts.org/data/topics/people-society/education/k-...
I think Paul's online math notes got many of us further than our professors did
half the iOS developers I've known were making software before the App Store existed ... but to your point about "iOS class", wasn't there any more general "this is how you use C/C++" classes? Objective-C was already 24 years old when the App Store came to exist ...
3 of x4 engineers, get competence and a lower bus factor.
> where 3% rent control is typical

> landlords exploit this by neglecting repairs

To be fair, if rent can never go up more than 3% per year, how long until the landlord can't afford to do any repairs?

Property tax goes up 2% every year, so there's only 1% headroom. If some other expense starts to go up wildly (such as insurance has been doing for years now) it can eat that up and then the landlord is losing money every month, which leads to abandoned maintenance. Which isn't good for anyone.
> Joe Rogan has mentioned a few times that people are using a deep fake of him to sell penis enhancement products.

shouldnt this already fall under false advertising laws?
I think the cab companies here have apps. I don't know how good they are, though I've been meaning to find out.

There's no way I want to ever wait on hold for a dispatcher again, or be mystified as to when my cab is arriving (this always seems to involve standing outside in the snow or pouring rain).

If the cab companies have apps comparable to Uber and Lyft, sure, I'll give them a shot.
A small Arduino project for triggering MIDI messages from an off-the-shelf footswitch pedal: https://github.com/ledeniz/midi-footswitch-converter

It works, yeah, but I'm just not getting around on actually learning CAD to design a nice case for it. Also I started another project that takes this idea further, supports multiple switches, expression pedals, acts as HIDs, etc. but I keep getting distracted by starting even more "projects" of course.
I have the same lock, with basically the same underlying rules: any automation should fail towards the old, "dumb", way. I automate light switches more than outlets, and most other things send control commands to those switches. The thermostat is added as well but works just as well as a walk-up-and-change-it touchscreen.

The other rule is that no cloud service ever be necessary. I want heat & lights, even if the internet is out.
Even taking the writers premise as true, it’s not scalable. Most teachers do not have the necessary capabilities, even with training, to run whole classroom engaged learning experiences. School is designed to meet the capabilities of teachers as much as it does the needs of students.

That said, most students don’t have the capacity to benefit from personalized learning either. The whole problem with the discussion of improving education is the assumption that a proper education process can increase the size of the “glass” by pouring in more “water.” Not everyone is capable of every type of thought, and that’s ok! Every type of person is valuable.

People who are unusually intelligent should be given free time to self teach, and if possible tutored. Traditional classrooms work well enough for everyone else, except for the drug issues.