skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well if the data is being sold to drug companies, one massive benefit that is glarinly obvious is that drug companies may mow have an enormously valuable dataset for developing new medical technologies.

Im as anti-dna info-sharing as anybody, and I wont begiving 23andme a sample ever, but this is admitedly probably a pretty good thing. Even if it does ultimately serve to enrich some mega corps,consumers will probably get some amazing new treatments/therapies/medicines out of the deal.
I remember reading Rand where she argued that free will existed solely in the decision to focus or not. When you focused, what you thought was determined by your characteristics and history; and when you didn't, the same, although not in the same way. But free choice manifested in the decision to intentionally focus attention or not.

I don't know that I agree, but thought it was interesting.
> Beyond that, there are parents who are well equipped to homeschool and parents who are not. And there is a small but hard-to-ignore percentage who claim to homeschool but really neglect their kids.

There's such a disparity between states. States like mine require homeschooled kids to occasionally attend actual school for check in or certain classes, and participate in the same testing (regardless of your opinion of such testing).

Other states are more vague and less frequent about such thing.

And then a notable swathe of states, you might as well go off the grid. Tell the state you're homeschooling, and then that's it, you never interact with the state again. Troubling. And there's not just neglect, but active abuse, that that can help hide.

Texas is working on an amendment that ostensibly cuts taxes on child care facilities to make them more affordable. It's very easy to tell that those savings won't be passed on to consumers. In reality, it's very much more a pro-homeschooling thing. "Homeschool your kids and save on your property taxes".
I didn't talk about the actual rise of the original Nazis. I am saying that we need to use judgment to judge the qualities of someone's speech. If someone is saying "Ethnic Group A is responsible for our problems!", we shut them the fuck up. We don't exterminate them. They're still allowed to say other things, productive or otherwise. They're just not allowed to support fascism.

original contained a stupid quip I no longer endorse:

> Hey, you're not allowed to say I'm spreading misinformation. Didn't you read the declaration?!
I believe the people who signed this define "free speech" as "forcing Twitter to promote every dumb thing I say."
I'd say this is true of CEOs across almost all multi-million (or billion) dollar companies. I won't say CEOs aren't important, but they're not 100x the value of the median worker in a company.
Yeah, the quality of PC laptops has improved but that really just means you can get closer to equivalent quality at equivalent pricing. I've heard people claim to have saved a ton but every single time I used one there was some noticeable quality decrease, which I find kind of refreshing as a reminder that the market does actually work pretty well.
There are also communities of well off people. In Europe. Not every well off person lives alone in a huge ranch 500km away from the nearest town.
> you have so profoundly misinterpreted my comment that I call into question whether you actually read it or not.

You are expressing a position which is both common and disingenuous.

> Too many technical people think of the law as executable code and if you can find a gap in it, then you can get away with things on a technicality. That's not how the law works (spirit vs letter).

The government passes a law that applies a different rule to cars than trucks and then someone has to decide if the Chevrolet El Camino is a car or a truck. The inevitability of these distinctions is a weak excuse for being unable to answer basic questions about what you're proposing. The law is going to classify the vehicle as one thing or the other and if someone asks you the question you should be able to answer it just as a judge would be expected to answer it.

Which is a necessary incident to evaluating what a law does. If it's a car and vehicles classified as trucks have to pay a higher registration fee because they do more damage to the road, you have a way to skirt the intent of the law. If it's a truck and vehicles classified as trucks have to meet a more lax emissions standard, or having a medium-sized vehicle classified as a truck allows a manufacturer to sell more large trucks while keeping their average fuel economy below the regulatory threshold, you have a way to skirt the intent of the law.

Obviously this matters if you're trying to evaluate whether the law will be effective -- if there is an obvious means to skirt the intent of the law, it won't be. And so saying that the judge will figure it out is a fraud, because in actual fact the judge will have to do one thing or the other and what the judge does will determine whether the law is effective for a given purpose.

You can have all the "reasonable person" standards you want, but if you cannot answer what a "reasonable person" would do in a specific scenario under the law you propose, you are presumed to be punting because you know there is no "reasonable" answer.
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To add to this: I would strongly recommend against doing this at a fuel station. The flame may jump from the alcohol to petrol gases in the surrounding area, causing more than just the pan to flambe.
> But irreligiosity does not scale

It does scale, only ~13% of the population of the Czech Republic are religious (affiliated) [1], and additional ~10% are not affiliated but consider themselves as believers [2].

[1] https://web.archive.org/web/20220121163456/https://www.czso....

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Religion_in_the_Czech_Republic...
And I would say that 50% of parenting is getting your kid into the right school. I don't know about you, but suburban life as I know it is organized entirely around the importance of a good school district.

And are you saying they have per-student household income data? Or they just have the household income data for the school district as a whole? Or maybe the household income data for the student body as a whole? Those are very different things.
bcachefs currently has full metadata and data checksumming, but there is no scrub implementation. This will likely be in the works soon now that it has been merged.
Yeah ok interesting! Makes sense for the Linux parts - not sure I’d trust Google with my family’s data but that doesn’t mean they’re not useful.
From the bottom of the page:

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If it’s trained on data (particularly docs) after 2021 that’s an automatic win over Chat GPT in some situations!
> EU, lawmakers there began with a presumption of basic good faith on the part of business

Are you telling me that EU lawmakers were utterly naive to common left wing critiques of capitalism? That beggars belief.
Commission based on home value is a joke. Realtors should earn a flat-rate.
Sorry, but the parents' "values" are almost always some crackpot nonsense. Public schools at least aim for a measure of neutrality, beyond which children can develop their own ideas. It's just strange to me that people are so intent on having their children mirror their own ideas. Have some humility, entertain the idea that you yourself may be wrong about everything, and let the kids figure out what they think for themselves. The public school gives them a reasonably neutral basis to do that, even as the different ideological fads come and go in the faculty and administration.
I’m not surprised, american public schools can end up with a lot of pathologies that can’t be practically addressed by a parent outside of “flee and try literally anything else”.

My public elementary school was outright hostile to my existence, with teachers ignoring/enabling my bullies and then trying to punish me when I started fighting back viciously at the prompting of my exasperated father. “Anarcho-tyranny” is a good way to sum up my experience. You’ll likely find it unsurprising that I am adhd(I) (fully evaluated) and almost certainly autistic to some degree (not fully evaluated as there’s not much for me to gain on a diagnosis), though these revelations wouldn’t come until decades later when I learned what these things actually meant instead of media tropes. Prior to that I was considered “shy/very introverted”.

Homeschool was straight up not an option for me, since we were a single parent/provider household. I’m extremely lucky that a charter middle school opened up around 4th grade. It was amazing to see what sort of environment occurred when both teachers and children were held accountable and can and would be removed. There’s also the effects of the natural bias of having most of the children there having active and concerned parents involved, which I imagine also plays a big role in the ultimate quality of the education homeschoolers now get, as opposed to what seemed to be more prominently religious/paranoid motivations when I was a child.

Also fortunately my public high school was, mostly, tame.
This is ultimately my point, its a slippery slope. Obviously funding some states is worse than others, but no one has the whole picture, so... shrug as well
Not only do different parents have different skills, but also different kids have different needs. And different schools have different strengths and weaknesses.

The big thing is this: Parents, the buck stops with you. When one of your kids tells you "Every day when I get ready for school, my stomach hurts", pay attention to that. Homeschooling won't be perfect, no more than public or private or charter schools will be. But pay attention enough to see when something isn't working, and figure out what you have to do to make it better.

This can cut both ways. If you're homeschooling and your kids aren't actually learning things, pay attention to that, too.
>it is possible to have plenty of "socialization" with other kids.

I agree. Public school is not a great place for socialization, and it's not hard to create something better. Nothing socializes kids like sitting next to each other motionless in silence for several hours lol
> I know this because I've done it at least once in the real

"at least" once? sounds legit.

> The key is to keep an eye on their hands/pockets and move in close, get control of the hand, and then either twist until their tendons are gonna snap or... jam their own knife into their leg/side.

More cap than a lids store.
Ace holed: Hardware store empire felled by cyberattack
A quick search for higher heating values suggests that acetylene and hydrogen gasses have fairly similar HHV per mole of oxidizer. (H2 needs 1/2 equivalent or O2; acetylene needs 5/2 equivalents, so H2 wins by a bit.)

But H2 takes up most of the space in the balloon, and acetylene is nice and compact, so considerably more total energy should be available with acetylene!

I don’t know whether oxyacetylene will detonate nicely, though, or whether a balloon-sized oxyacetylene mix will merely combust subsonically.
Kicking off the comments - so far, PhD students and investor types have been the first users. But it’s a perfect tool for any podcast lover.
Thanks, I messed around with this stuff a little bit, but have little understanding of what goes on in the guts of it.
Tesla wins first US Autopilot trial involving fatal crash
I'm all for free speech (which has to include expressions I find reprehensible), but a declaration like this doesn't speak to me. What we know is that constant repetition of falsities or distortions can effect changes in the public. Consider for example how the “genteel antisemitism” in pre-WWI Germany was turned, via Hitler's and the Nazis' Big Lie into Kristallnacht and eventually mass murder.

When this Declaration speaks disparagingly of “disinformation experts” and “fact checkers”, I have to ask whether some of these people might actually be correcting errors in the statements they are analyzing. Whether they are doing this in the service of Big Media or the Great Pumpkin is irrelevant: or do these individuals and organizations not also have the benefits of free speech?

As Daniel Patrick Moynihan once said, “You are entitled to your own opinion. But you are not entitled to your own facts.” By blurring opinion and fact, this Declaration is not helpful.

We must all be vigilant to protect the right of all to free expression. And we may differ strongly in what forms of expression should not be protected, notably the right to shout “Fire!” in a crowded theatre. I don't feel that this Declaration adequately deals with this issue.
I was taking a low-effort apporch of just unsubscribing from emails and newsletters as they came in. I saw a huge decrease in unwanted emails at first but NextDoor kept coming _no matter what_. Finnally in frustration I logged in, did half the above unsubscribing, then just deleted my account instead. I agree.
Concerns (or "concerns") like this always make me wonder what kind of terrible environment the commentor grew up in: a war-torn country with child soldiers firing homemade rockets, or maybe a cute little cul-de-sac in an upper-middle class suburb where all problems are hypothetical yet everything is still terrifying.

Maybe modeling the child rocket program[1] on [whatever it is that public high schools are doing] would save us?

[1] https://estesrockets.com/collections/stem-products
Unlike in for example the US, UK students only start paying back their student loans when their income goes above a certain threshold, and the amount paid is proportional to income. This makes it more like a progressive graduate tax than a traditional loan. In the US you cannot escape this debt even by declaring bankruptcy. Its hard to say that this is truthful.
https://www.arrowsmith.ca/
See also his twitter for some speculation as to how on earth simply changing refresh rate would cause boot corruption: https://social.treehouse.systems/@marcan/111329614147717090

>Why? I can tell you why: because Apple hates display modeset flicker, and switching modes between ProMotion on/off causes a modeset flicker, so of course they made it so that is stored in nvram somewhere and applied when the screen is turned on during early boot, so when macOS boots it doesn't have to flicker again.

>And they didn't test it with older OS bootloaders, so display handoff/init just fails catastrophically with those when this mode is enabled.
Obviously not. Perfectly reasonable to share anecdotes though.

Also, I ran a few different tests, and every GPT-4 response was superior, but I didn't want to clutter my comment with queries and code.
There is not a state that will jail women for a failed pregnancy. Thank you for contributing to the ever-fucked up and misinformed conversation about abortion.
https://www.phind.com/search?cache=hnqqc3fo3o3n61blb6bfh69b

It's not generating the wrong answer. It's quoting the wrong answer
I'm pretty skeptical of an analysis of a company's turnover rate written by that company's head of HR. It's just too easy to leave out relevant factors to draw any conclusions from reading this. If their real secret were something unsavory like "we have large golden handcuffs" or "our employees don't have good options", would they share that?
That's what I mean by gathering information through dynamic interaction. It's not explicitly given the rules, but it can infer them. Interacting with an external system and sampling the result is still a way of gathering training data.

In fact this is ultimately how we've gathered almost all the information we have. If it's in our cultural knowledge store it means someone observed or experienced it. Humans are very good at learning by sampling reality and then later systematizing that knowledge and communicating it to other humans with language. It's basically what makes us "intelligent."

A brain in a vat can't learn anything beyond recombinations of what it already knows.

The fundamental limit on the growth of intelligence is the sum total of all information that can be statically input or dynamically sampled in its environment and what can be inferred from that information. Once you exhaust that you're a brain in a vat.
I think these people don't understand free speech.

Free speech means I can freely claim that, for example, 9.8 m/s^2 is the acceleration due to gravity here on this rock we call Earth.

But it also means that someone else can claim that my estimate for the acceleration of gravity here on Earth is BS.

The "correct"-ness or the "incorrect"-ness of your speech is irrelevant. People can say whatever they want about you. You can't say that someone calling BS on my estimate for the acceleration due to gravity is harmful to free speech.

No.

It IS free speech.

We can all say what we want.

And others can say what they want. Including calling what I say BS, or lies, or misinformation.

When you want to prevent others from being able to claim you are promoting BS, you are trying to restrict Free Speech.
Rules of schema growth (2017)
Well, unless having the three percent get through makes it impossible to improve the condition of the other 97%. Survivorship bias is our favorite logical fallacy here in the US.
Ugly Bag of Mostly Water! :)

(A Trek TOS thing I think)
This is more interesting than the deluge of posts that say "I created an iOS app in 30 minutes using ChatGPT!" Which doesn't mean much because it could've done nothing more than create a simple hello world.

This one at least shows the finished product, which is indeed pretty impressive.

Some details I'd need to know are (a) how long did it take, (b) how many prompts, (c) how many course-corrections were required, and (d) how competent this individual was with the technologies in question.

I've personally found ChatGPT extremely empowering in lots of scenarios, but code generation was not among them.
Not sure if related, but my 2020 M1 macbook air bricked a week or so after upgrading to Sonoma. I was suspicious if this was related to the update.
Luckily the logic board was replaced for free under warranty laws here, though it put me off switching to iphone which I was a day away from doing.
> I also wasted far too much time trying to get the DFU restore to work before discovering that you cannot use a Thunderbolt cable — it has to be done using a plain USB-C cable, otherwise the Apple Configurator simply won't detect the other Mac.

I would have expected a Thunderbolt cable to be required, if either was. This is quite surprising to me. Usually, the more capable (higher bandwidth) cable works if one isn’t supported. I’ll hope to remember this is I ever find myself reviving a bricked Mac in the future.
Am I the only one thinking that home schooling is the wrong solution to the underlying problem?

The problem is that the public education sector has been - for years - continuously squeezed dry of any funding. Teachers are quitting left and right, and schools are in a terrible state. Instead of fixing THAT problem, now people homeschool.

Ok; I guess. At least homeschooling is something that the individual can control, public funding not so much.

But it boggles my mind how people can assume, with a straight face, that they are equipped to educate their child alone - something which is normally a profession for which you have to study O(years) (and even then most people aren’t really good at). What gives parents this confidence? And what gives parents the right to squander the future of their children on a whim?

I have two kids, would consider myself very well educated (have a PhD, etc), and I habe absolutely 0 confidence in myself schooling my kids.

Finally, public schooling is obviously an attempt at leveling the playing field between children from different backgrounds. By removing your kid from that, I think it further contributes to the segregation of our society.
> It's also just all-around generally good practice to live in the present, not the past.

Maybe not when you're testifying under oath.
Of course, there’s no other way to do it in America, that’s the political reality. You can see it in this thread, people wouldn’t want their taxes to pay for accommodations. Just look at our healthcare system, it’s the same thing.
There are bad graphs and then there's this: https://img.caixin.com/2023-10-31/169875090919714.jpg - That Y axis is something else!
This has been my strategy. I would rather be paid less working for a lower-stress company that treats my colleagues and me well than to get paid a higher salary working in a stressful, less respectful environment.

With that said, I’m paying for this decision with inflation outpacing annual merit increases at work, which means my effective pay is getting reduced as the prices of everything else rise around me. I still rent an apartment; I got repeatedly outbid in 2021 when I attempted to buy a home, and then the interest rate hikes of 2022 and 2023 completely priced me out of the market. I’m still living fine, but this inflationary environment is highly demoralizing.
That was the point the author was making. His popularity has come completely from outside the establishment.
Thanks for sharing, you're right - that does improve performance!
Citation needed.

Beyond studies by the National Home Education Research Institute, that is. The three leading studies by homeschooling advocates looked at "homeschooled students who went to college" and how they did at school versus public schooled students at college, and ignored the fact that the percentage of homeschooled students who went to college was much smaller (why?) than for public schools.
Your mistake is using words like “us” and “we”. You are not part of the club that makes these decisions, and eventually, the people who are will make decisions you don’t like. The goals of those making them are just not aligned with yours, and they never will be.
So, what do you do with the open racists?
While I'm all for doing a better job at reducing spam, this also will effectively drive a lot of those advertising dollars that go into bulk email straight into sponsored email products from Google and Yahoo.

The main webmail platforms do not benefit economically from spam. They have every incentive to turn it to their advantage by diverting ad dollars from bulk email and forcing it into their own ad platforms.
Sounds like a modern reconstruction of the magic eye tubes that used to be used

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magic_eye_tube
Interestingly, I'd say that _not_ being able to give citations helps protect the LLM from copyright issues. That being said, I'm much prefer if the LLM could provide citations for every piece of information it was trained on and uses to provide an answer.
What the heck is neurodivergence?
$9B makeover but their workers get paid so little that they qualify and are subsidized by food stamps/EBT and Public Assistance. The only "makeover" I wanna hear about is a big fat bulldozer plowing through every wal-mart in existence.
I got (for my wife) an entire Framework Ryzen 7840U system, plus a 2TB SSD and 32GB RAM purchased separately, for THE UPGRADE COST on an M2-class MacBook between its base spec and 32GB RAM/2TB SSD. It's a farce. I don't want to leave the Apple/OSX ecosystem after 20 years, but I simply can't justify it any longer. I bought a €300 used ThinkPad. Fedora's pretty good these days, and I'm mostly in a terminal or Firefox. I'll live. Wife's been mostly running Windows on Macs since 2011 anyway.