skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I teach Communication at college but I was a math minor in undergrad. I hear my students complain about math class all the time, how they hate math, and it isn't rare to hear students say they have taken the same math class multiple times. I've glanced at the math book and it is basic stuff. I don't know how but we need to get kids to not hate math before we can do anything else.
PHP, jQuery and W3Schools - HN's combined kryptonite
We had home ec in junior high and high school - students just chose not to take it.

I’d add that those are 3rd grade “math” concepts - not replacements for actual math courses.
Please tell me they don’t teach cursive anymore. I remember being fed the lie that I would have to use cursive as an adult.

I don’t even really write anymore…
I see, thanks very much :)

I googled it and found some useful definitions in a paper [0]:

"the parallel programming community has developed a deep understanding of the opportunities for exploiting parallelism in regular programs organized around dense vectors and matrices, such as matrix factorizations and stencil computations. ... we understand relatively little about the patterns of parallelism and locality in irregular programs, which are organized around pointer-based data structures such as trees and graphs."

[0] How Much Parallelism is There in Irregular Applications? : https://iss.oden.utexas.edu/Publications/Papers/ppopp2009.pd...
Ah, the finals of the Upper-class Twit of the Year competition.
Oh nice. Not sure how I missed those.
Couldn't agree more. I waited until the junior year of my undergrad to take stats. That was much, much too late.

Everyone should know Bayes' theorem. It's not that hard to grasp, but it's a wildly powerful idea. Even if you aren't plugging-and-chugging, just use it to dissect logical fallacies.
Put aside the personality of Musk:

- jacking up the price of the API

- Removing chronological timeline completely, to the point that one can not simply get a list of one's tweets by going to their profile

- his vision of the "everything app".

- the "pay to play" aspect of the blue check.

Are more than enough reason for me to want Twitter to fail.

I do not want a social media that favors those who are paying, and I do not want a company that started a simple communications platform to become even more of an ubiquitous device for Surveillance Capitalism.
Pliosaur discovery: huge sea monster emerges from Dorset cliffs
The End of Knowledge Work
And many teachers have continual education.

That means the implementation of common core is also upon teachers with decade(s) of experience being told to teach differently.

Regardless, if your child has a nack for maths that is a great advantage over the other children and worth investing in since so few people bother to learn it at all.

Additionally it leads to better reasoning and logic in other academic and professional settings as well. Which means a better chance at a higher income and ability to sustain and secure their livelihood and thus afford having their own children possibly. Which means a better chance for continuation of a little bit of yourself.
Twice exceptional. Gifted occluded by disability. Son is the same as well as my brother. His kids are all gifted as well, but some don't have a disability too. It sucks being both.
The End of the Software Industry
Sorry but your post reads like one of her Facebook mom groups where everyone is panicking.

Note: I think lead is a very real issue that unfortunately contaminates a lot of products.

I have not don’t a full blown investigative review of her but every time I have dug a little bit based on some recent post, this is what I come to the conclusion of.

Her website is very hard to parse through. For me, it always reads as one of those “you may have cancer” ads mixed with some antivax Facebook mom groups.

Every post about lead contamination does not go deep into the science. Did she calibrate the machine? What are the specifics about her machine? Does the material/item she is testing need modification for testing accuracy? She mentions many times she is qualified but seems like only a bare qualification from the manufacturer. That and I never see a picture of her lab.

Does she ever follow up her hand held test with a lab test to confirm? One to eliminate any inaccuracy in her device and two to have a confirmation of her results? She makes all these posts, Costco salt has unsafe lead levels, la crueset has lead, kitchenaid mixers have lead, etc. It needs to be followed up with additional, lab qualified testing.

She undoubtedly finds items with lead but I just cannot trust her methodology. My family and I get regular lead tests and we are conscious consumers but I cannot follow her style of scare mongering. And let me say it again, she definitely finds things with lead in them but without some type of scientific rigor and verification, it’s hard to trust her results.
Founders, Beware Hardware
Ask HN: Is ChatGPT making tech publishing obsolete?
By tech publishing I mean the books from Manning and Oreilly. I was shopping those books of late, but somehow I found it is harder to convince myself they are useful comparing to ChatGPT
They gave a couple examples of the kind of AIs that don’t make games fun. One was some game (real or hypothetical) where you fight a small drone that’s very smart and fast, so it’s hard to shoot at. Another was where the enemy goes off and concocts a sophisticated plan to beat you.

They described how the player wants to feel like the game play is about themselves, not about some ultra smart enemy. So big and dumb enemies tend to work best, even though they don’t use sophisticated AI by today’s standards.

It was like the the Jurassic Park meme: just because we can doesn’t mean we should.

(Also very strong agree on monster infighting, it added so much depth, as a kid I didn’t even know monsters could infight until the level with cyberdemon and arachnotron in the same room)
For those interested in learning more about DOOM, the book "Masters of Doom" is an entertaining recollection of how id Software started and how John Romero and John Carmack started their careers.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Masters_of_Doom
This won’t be resolved until it actually costs them money to sell this garbage. They’ll keep doing it as long as it’s profitable.
I'm well aware ... I have some CH32V003 chips and dev board. Very cool little chips:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1W7Z0BodhWk

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-4d3PgEXhdY

The main reason for 16 registers is not even the silicon savings, but decreased interrupt response time from having fewer `A` and `T` registers to save and restore. Standard RISC-V has 15 of them, plus `RA`, which is a lot more than the main microcontroller competition. The downside is that normal code can run 20% to 30% more slowly due to an increased number of register spills to the stack.

Interrupt response time is more about the ABI than the ISA, so this could be handled with simply a different ABI, but some people want the smaller silicon size as well. Those who want to can compile `-march=rv32i -mabi=ilp32e` to use the RV32E ABI but also have `x16` to `x31` available as callee save registers.

It was initially assumed that only RV32E would be defined, but when RV32E was ratified a year ago, RV64E was also because there has been unexpectedly high demand from chip designers for 64 bit RISC-V with 16 registers, for small and simple controllers in Cortex M0 class, but in a chip with 64 bit applications processors, so the controller can access all of RAM.

Both 32 bit ARM and 64 bit x86 have been getting by with 16 registers, but Arm put 32 in their 64 bit ISA, and Intel recently extended x86 to 32 registers (and 3-address instructions!) also.
props, hope you get to do that
What happened to Bloomberg's Supermicro story?
I want someone to offer a large sum of money to anyone who can leak the full GPT-4 model to prevent ClosedAIs lunacy. We already got a model leak from NAI and it forever propelled AI waifus. Why can’t some Good Samaritan take one for the team and give the world access to the closest thing we have to AGI? Whoever does it will be remembered even more positively than Aaron Swartz

Why should I respect copyright on a model when the model training didn’t respect copyright? To be clear, I’m a copyright abolitionist so I’m down with not accepting copyright. I want someone to force OpenAI to be actually open.
id Software has an incredibly important legacy.

Not only they revolutionized games, but their decision to open source their game engines has so many implications that it is hard to even begin quantifying their impact.

And it's not only the FPS games that left a mark in history, the 2D platformers were awesome too.
"..there is always soma, delicious soma, half a gramme for a half-holiday, a gramme for a week-end, two grammes for a trip to the gorgeous East, three for a dark eternity on the moon..."
Agreed. It's important to put enough effort that you find meaning in your work, but not so much that it ruins your wellbeing. Here's a rough algorithm that works for me:

1. Estimate the hours you think it will take to complete a task.

2. Double it and let the team know you did that.

3. Do the work well including good documentation.

4. Assess your progress when you've spent 50% of the planned hours. If you're not at least halfway done, avoid overworking. Instead, seek help within the team and descope.

5. Utilise any extra time for learning new and useful skills, if you finish ahead of schedule.

Cheers
Not for major emergencies. It's impossible to build automation if you can't anticipate all of the possible failure modes.
I think what's far more likely is that the curriculum-writers will see it as an opportunity to dumb down the math. They'll make it into a very basic course on study design and data collection, with a handful of descriptive statistics thrown in so the students have something to do with their scientific calculator's STAT mode.

Will they teach discrete and continuous probability distributions? The binomial, Poisson, and normal distributions? Dependent and independent random variables? Bayes' Theorem? Measures of statistical significance and hypothesis testing? Chi-squared and student-t distributions? Confidence intervals and p-values? Maximum likelihood estimation?

Highly doubtful, since many of those topics are built on top of university-level calculus.
Fascinating.
Thank you for putting it together.
They do still teach cursive, at least here in New York state.
Social viruses part 2: Your mind as a coalition of social viruses
In trying to pin this down just for the sake of curiosity, the closest I can imagine is a feature phone passing some sort of of `Accept-Encoding: nih`... and that's unfortunately morbid-insanity-sniping me with even more questions.

I'm trying to figure out what profound excuse the client has for not using gzip et al; "feature phone land" definitely provides no shortage of possibilities (hence the morbid "oh no I must know").

That's a hallucinatory rabbithole I could get stuck staring down all day because it's too fun (welp hehe) and there's surely a simple explanation I'm missing :)
I would say most European countries have that desire. That and the fact it can easily by fine tuned to the local language could make these models very popular outside the US.
I like it. Simple & straightforward. However I'm interested in the usage of AGPL license. Do you think it would hinder adoption as many company fear of adopting AGPL due to its "virality"?
It depends on whom you compare it to. Consider:

- 35 year old, in their prime, old enough to no longer be aggressive, but young enough to be sharp and focused.

- 85 year old, losing vision, reflexes, and slightly senile

Mostly, what I'd like to see is liability for crashes placed on Tesla. If I kill someone, my insurance pays. If a self-driving car kills someone, manufacturer / manufacturer's insurance pays. That prevents them from offloading costs and incentivizes things like retrofitting safety upgrades.

Costs to consumer are the same in both cases, whether it's my insurance premium or whether it's baked into the selling price of the car.
I think Ubuntu has some kind of notifier in "tray". For me, I am subscribed to debian-security mailing list and update when something that is running on systems that I manage seems to be affected.

> versus the more automated update systems MacOS or Windows

I'm not sure -- it is better with Microsoft Store, but other apps solve updates on their own, with various success. I have little experience with Windows and no with mac OS, so I cannot comment.
yawn I guess you're in the wrong place, innit?
The point of most of the common core math changes were to teach numeracy rather than rote arithmetic.

Remember how some teachers said "you won't just have a calculator on you at all times" and it turned out that we all carry around what would have been supercomputers for the time? Early math education realized that too, and shifted the focus to quickly estimating solutions through understanding the relationships of their numbers so you can go "hey, something's not here" when you work with your calculator, rather than just accepting whatever garbage out came from your garbage in.

It is complicated, but the point isn't to get the right answer per se, it's to give kids a geometric intuition of numerical relationships by going through the whole rigamarole.
Exactly, there's no point in a startup having _perfect_ code, great test coverage, and an excellent CI/CD pipeline if they've not gotten to market before the cash runs out.

Though I think that if leadership are not consulting the Engineers on timelines, instead just dictating the timelines to them, then there is a massive problem afoot.
It runs up to 13b models nicely on a 16g orange pi 5 fyi.
You can also use a float sensor and relay to control the pump, and use ESPhome for monitoring only.
> For an example, the replication crisis in the social sciences. These studies, containing flawed statistics, are carried out by social scientists with PhDs who have been required to take courses in statistics designed for their discipline.

> If they can’t get the statistics right, how can we expect it from teachers with far less education?

This isn’t really a statistics education issue, much like Enron wasn’t an accounting education issue.

Social scientists abuse statistics because the incentives are all aligned with abusing statistics. To get a good job you have to publish lots of papers. To publish you have to have statistically significant results. To get into top journals you need surprising results. You see other people in your field playing fast and loose with their data and getting rewarded for it. Why not exclude that one problematic subject from your data analysis? Without them the p-value (from a regression on a carefully chosen eight of your eleven measured variables) drops to .038, and you can publish...

It’s not that nobody thought to teach the scientists about corrections for multiple comparisons or the dangers of picking observations to exclude as outliers based on what gives you the result you want. They learned all those things. But it’s so much harder to get results when you’re not willing to play games with the data, and they need results. The people who do try to play by the rules wash out, either by choice after getting fed up with the fraud they see all around them or by failing to publish N papers in top journals.
I agree with you that statistics is incredibly valuable skill, but teaching it is not that different from teaching calculus. Besides notions of set theory, you need a pretty sound understanding of the concept of integration. For that you need to still understand real numbers, functions, graphing, and possibly even limits [1].

If you are teacher, you learn pretty quickly that every time you invoke magic or "trust me it works this way" you lose students. Students are clever and have self-respect and they don't like being lied to, or when information is hidden from them. You have to present a coherent picture, and I think teaching statistics without calculus is incredibly difficult to keep coherent.

[1] I am not sure if it's possible to argue without limits that the normal distribution extends to infinity, yet has a finite area under the curve.
When you write,"GPT-4 generated" does that mean that all of it is gpt generated? Things like design, graphics, summaries...
It's called Sideload XPI, iirc Firefox Nightly allows you to sideload XPI if you enable Experimental by tapping Firefox logo in About 7 times.

But it's easier with Ice Raven or Smart Cookie Web Preview:

- https://old.reddit.com/r/browsers/comments/18ezd3g/iceraven_...

- https://github.com/CookieJarApps/SmartCookieWeb-Preview/rele...
God. "Freedom of speech" and "free of abuse?" Sounds like a nightmare! Liberals!!

Where are the spaces anymore to be outlandishly an asshole and shut other people down?! :-|
Why not both? Or two 3090s for that sweet, sweet nvlink for fine tuning?
I see. What if you drill a hole at a high water level and drain excess water?

Or use a toilet water tank kind of mechanism so that it turns off the thing manually through a switch if the water level is too high?
he'd also have to renounce his US citizenship
This is why I don't use Airbnb (or any similar service). I just can't make myself do it.
This comment seems like it follows the standard path of all people who never wanted to address climate change.

"Global Warming doesn't exist"
"Sure it exists, but humans are not responsible"
"Well sure, it's human made, but we can't do anything about it now"

Every single move just is a reason to not do anything which might inconvenience the current order. I'm very tired of it.
It’s already dead after what happened earlier this year.
Meme. The word you were looking for is meme.
Do you have a habit of making up people to be mad at, like you're doing right now?
I don’t really see why you can teach both. I know I learned both in school.
That's a great question. Right now, we don't have that feature incorporated, but we do thought about hydrating existing bookmarks and making it part of memory graph. Chrome's bookmark API is so primitive, and we have seen many issues keeping things in sync (being cautious here..).

I took your point down. Thanks for brining it forward.
If you're looking for an oasis of 'gloves off' discourse, 4chan and its ilk already fits that niche. omg.lol harks back to a time on the internet where people were at worst just 'silly' to each other, and people would talk to random strangers on AOL or ICQ and the like with genuine curiosity and hope for the future of the internet.
> It was intentional. RSS is a way to sidestep advertising.

I would argue that's only a part of the story. After all RSS quickly morphed into Link with a short blurb and image just like any modern link aggregation site rather than a full page of content.

The big issue was RSS was it prevents site lock-in like Facebook ect. Even Reddit pushes people to the comments to try keep you on the site as much as possible in order to have you see the link aggregator's Advertisements and more recently, to provide more robust data collection for later sale.
> It is a consumption course. Kids don’t actually learn how to write graphic novels.

That's the norm for high school English courses.
> There are so many heroes out there casually looking at work while eating cereal in their underwear at 1am. They're no more stressed than anyone else.

I personally know several people from amazon, pretty much all of them acknowledged the crazy oncall expectations there. Combine that with the pip culture and visa issues, and your statement above about being "no more stressed than anyone else" is just ridiculous

Expecting people to work at 1AM, romanticizing them as "heroes"... that's not a normal culture. That's not a healthy lifestyle for the employee and can lead to long term health consequences. And it never applies to everyone equally, because why would you call them "heroes" in the first place

It's one thing if management expects it, it's another thing if I as an employee choose to trade 4 daytime hours for 4 nighttime hours because I know I can be more productive at that time. But building that type of management expectation into a work culture is a red flag
Scientists discover unknown prehistoric world – on Earth
QLever – Fast Sparql Engine
That's the shortcoming of every alternative protocol and "indie web" community I've come across. They only attract existing techies and have a weird sheen of forced kindness about them. If you're just chatting with other programmers under American HR communication standards, then how is it any different to work?

The true magic of the early web was somebody genius but decidedly untechnical like David Bowie shitposting at his own fans. There's no special line of code that's going to foster that. You have to ruthlessly curate a community to avoid a critical mass of sensitive nerds, but guess who the early colonizers of these alt platforms are. None of these communities will attract today or tomorrow's David Bowies.
Data point, (or rant) about high school (Abitur) situation in germany: it is the same or worse.

I was quite good in math in school, yet in the beginning did not understand anything math related in university. Which was no surprise, because the math in school for me was basically memorizing algorithms to solve known problems of style X. But not really understanding it. And then in the final years in school, while in theory doing higher math, the main focus shifted on how to use a graphical calculator to do the math for us.

But in university I suddenly had to understand what I was doing, to be able to use it. Oh my. So it was just really hard grind, to recover all that I did not learn before (that grind was highly beneficial, though). In theory the universities knew about the problem and they complained about it to us - but as far as I know, nothing has changed since then. So Math will remain a weeding factor for lot's of students, who otherwise might have been great engineers, but maybe had the bad luck, of having bad math teachers on top of the bad curriculum.

It is also a really bad sign, that math is so universally hated among students. Because math done right, is just thinking done right - and I think the world might benefit from more of it.
Game Engine Black Book: Doom is also a fantastic read!

https://fabiensanglard.net/gebbdoom/
Why can't I like the rockets but also think he's bad at twitter?
I'm all good with supporting people of all genders to do whatever they choose, but this comment seems to be needlessly pedantic, and breaks an HN guideline:

- Please respond to the strongest plausible interpretation of what someone says, not a weaker one that's easier to criticize. Assume good faith.

We don't need to be so literal and inflexible about everything. Even with modern sensibilities, we're adults here and we're all capable of reading a comment like that and understanding that the author doesn't actually mean that no or even few women can be obsessive about coffee/knives/audio systems, or that no/few men can do yoga.

(FTR I'm sure I'm not alone here in being a male who does yoga and can also be obsessive about things like audio quality.)
This isn't the first time such changes have happened. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Math, target of the famous Tom Lehrer song by the same name. The idea even seems exactly the same as common core:

>In that unfamiliar context, students couldn't just mindlessly follow an algorithm, but had to think why the place value of the "hundreds" digit in base seven is 49. Keeping track of non-decimal notation also explains the need to distinguish numbers (values) from the numerals that represent them