skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
While a million dollars might be wealthy in some global sense I don't think it's helpful to the debate to classify them as such. A 67 year old whom after 45 years of work has managed to pay off his mortgage and scrape together a million dollars into his Vanguard account isn't meaningfully wealthy in the way a 40 year old CEO worth 100s of millions is wealthy, even though they're both "millionaires".

The second person has power and influence and options that the first person will never have. The first person has much more in common with someone with a median income than someone actually wealthy.
I have been a proponent of kagi from near inception, and have interacted with Vlad by email as well as Discord, including getting change/feature made. The core search product was (for the longest time*) a breath of fresh air, as were these interactions**.

That "criminals" comment flipped my advocacy off like a light switch, for all the reasons described here in this thread. Perhaps it will get walked back.

* Lately, the results seem more Bing-like, and I've even had to !g things for the first time in a year to find a non-spam result. The core product has to be 10x for people to advocate and people to switch, not just more of the same or slightly better.

** Although, I couldn't convince him to make a team plan that would effectively let me pay full price (pro or ultimate) per employee for everyone registering from a domain. I cannot fathom why he wouldn't let a company pay him for double or triple digit employees, it's free money. Plus, those employees that use it for free at the office, will get frustrated at home, and buy the family option and tell their friends... Refusing to let me cover my employee base is a weird flex for someone still counting subscribers trying to get to 25,000.
Don't need to use cooling to make it work, I live in a fairly large house without cooling and a bore down into the mountain below is good enough even though we have -15 to -25C for weeks during winter. It's in a small town so not an isolated location. Most people around here have air-to-water or air-to-air, because it's good enough and cheaper to install.

And it's not a hollow, it's a plastic ~1 decimeter pipe with ethanol going through stone some distance down from the surface. Not sure how long this collector is, but 70-200 meters is common depending on how large the house is and conditions in the ground.
That's like investors trying to predict a crash. You can only ever make sense of things retrospectively.
> In this hypothetical where AGI is truly considered such a grave threat, do you believe the reaction to this threat will be similar to, or substantially gentler than, the reaction to threats we face today like “terrorism” and “drugs”?

"truly considered" does bear a lot of weight here. If policy-makers adopt the viewpoint wholesale, then yes, it follows that policy should also treat this more seriously than "mere" drug trade.
Whether that'll actually happen or the response will be inadequate compared to the threat (such as might be said about CO2 emissions) is a subtly different question.

> And, if similar: do you believe suspected drug labs get a court order before the state resorts to a police raid?

Without checking I do assume there'll have been mild cases where for example someone growing cannabis was reported and they got a court summons in the mail or two policemen actually knocking on the door and showing a warrant and giving the person time to call a lawyer rather than an armed, no-knock police raid, yes.

> And if you’re proposing a policy in which conflict between nuclear superpowers is a very plausible outcome — potentially incurring the loss of billions of lives and degradation of the earth’s environment — you really should be able to reason about why people might reasonably think that your proposal is deranged [...]

Said powers already engage in negotiations to limit the existential threats they themselves cause. They have some interest in their continued existence. If we get into a situation where there is another arms race between superpowers and is treated as a conflict rather than something that can be solved by cooperating on disarmament, then yes, obviously international policy will have failed too.

If you start from the position that any serious, globally coordinated regulation - where a few outliers will be brought to heel with sanctions and force - is ultimately doomed then you will of course conclude that anyone proposing regulation is deranged.

But that sounds like hoping that all problems forever can always be solved by locally implemented, partially-enforced, unilateral policies that aren't seen as threats by other players? That defense scales as well or better than offense? Technologies are force-multipliers, as it improves so does the harm that small groups can inflict at scale. If it's not AGI it might be bio-tech or asteroid mining. So eventually we will run into a problem of this type and we need to seriously discuss it without just going by gut reactions.
Try 18 months. There's a backlog.
You already need a huge bank account to create models, the (quality) open source ones are all hand-me-downs from companies burning through huge stacks of investor cash and giving away the spoils. It should go without saying that that won't last.
> As for teaching to the test, what's the real downfall of doing that?

This comment is a perfect encapsulation of AI hype.

Recitation is not competence. It doesn't matter if Bobby can say "4" when I say "What is 2 + 2?". What matters is if Bobby can add.
the focus on our school district is about DEI these days, that's the major measurement for schools and teachers here.
Sorry (mainly to my friends over there) but Europe in a military conquest sense is nearly useless, its people and old shit. I would be more worried these countries are full on delusional about self sufficiency in a post us-centric globalized economy.
Yeah...that gets fuzzy.

Satire of the work is allowed, but I don't think using the work, itself, in satire of something else, is allowed.

I think that the example a lot of folks use is the "Pissing Calvin" decal.

Watterson never allowed any commercialization of his characters. Every "Pissing Calvin" decal is actually a copyright violation, but I think that they never enforced it, so it may be considered "OK" to use, as the copyright has been allowed to wither.

But IANAL. Things get sticky, here.
Sometimes I wonder what might happen to me. For some reason, it makes me feel sad
In this situation server bandwidth was an issue. Using an available CDN with the fall back was what we decided to do. It's not that complicated, from the client check if the object you expect to exist in the library exists, if not load it from your server.
Xz: Update maintainer and author info. The other maintainer suddenly disappeared
What problems are you seeing with your water heater? I’ve had one for about a year and have been pretty happy with it after learning I needed to schedule high demand times of day. It is a bit louder than I’d like but it’s not horrible.
It is because USA is a dystopian hellscape where you will grind your life away with no upside. - So they rather kill themselfs.
Given that we have the whole private sector as benchmark for your questions, I'm pretty sure the outcome would be positive.
Isn't the term "rabbit ears" more of an American thing? Can't recall anyone using it in the UK.
From Words to Numbers: Your Large Language Model Is a Capable Regressor
>>These people can't be weeded out right now because

I thought one of the causes was unions? qv "rubber rooms" etc.
I would still prefer it to send it to me on my mobile device display. Voice interaction is nice for accessibility, bu the first method of control (whatever it is) is faster.
As long as there's way to identify a true unit test (no outside dependencies) vs an integration test (some dependencies like a DB or Redis), it doesn't matter to me. I'd like to be able to see which category they're in and run them separately (for CI purposes), but they're all just code that runs other code and checks the output, at the end of the day.
That's probably true. If you actually have ties to another country, having a passport (or other residency permit) could make sense. But it's not a case of just getting an arbitrary second passport.
My perspective as a subscriber for ~6 months:

Search just works, 90%+ of my searches are on kagi. Much better than google, bing, ddg, etc. Worth the $10.

I do use fastgpt and the summarizer sometimes. As with any of these AI tools, you have to get a feel for what suits it and when to use it.

The unbiased review idea _sounds like_ it would be ultimately fruitless as the requirements get philosophical, but it may very well lead to more useful tools in the process.

The GDPR perspective is unfortunate. I'm willing to wait and see if they eventually accept it.

Overall, I like their focus on user experience, customization, fast and light websites, and search quality. Sure it might not as objective as it's portrayed, but it is giving me great tools _today_.
TFA is about people under 35 and mostly discusses college campuses.

Yes that is precisely the age group that is trying to reconcile their world view, life goals, and relationship with the world.
The USA has the largest tax haul of any nation on Earth at $5.5 trillion. That the US government squanders that tax haul is indicative of the corruption, incompetence, and malevolence of the US government’s officials and bureaucrats.
There needs to be a rule against having to read entire articles or YT videos just so that a reader can understand the point that a commenter is trying to make, but which they cannot explain in their own words, no? It’s very anti-discussion, and how do we even know to what extent commenters are quoting or agreeing with their sources?
I agree that this sounds like a different kind of voucher/private school resource transfer. Private schools are able to self-select their students and aren't required by law to take ALL students that want to come. This makes it trivial to be both cheaper and show better test results while at the same time removing resources from the students that actually need help.

The problem is that people in power thinking that this is mostly a teacher driven problem. This would be the same approach as saying that a the amount of money a doctor gets paid should be based on how much weight their patient loses (e.g.) Anyone who thinks teaching is so easy should go try it for a month. This kind of approach also misaligns incentives. The fact is we have good teachers and bad teachers, just like every profession. We need to rethink two things for our education system. Is it to just push kids to college or is it to maximize the number of students who can become gainfully employed and self-supporting adults. Then we need to restructure our resources towards that goal, specifically in terms of class size and ability level and extra help. The main change we need to make is to move investment of resources much more towards elementary age where it can have the longest compounding benefit. (Source: I'm from a family of a dozen current and retired public school teachers)

I do agree that if we increase the pay and benefits for ALL teachers, then we'll create incentive to get better quality teachers in the profession and that competition will get better results in the long term.
The point is to have a domestic supply chain independent of other nations. It’s becoming vital for security purposes.
This the best talk I've ever seen about testing (Ian Cooper): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EZ05e7EMOLM

I see he's done a much more recent follow up, which I intend to watch: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IN9lftH0cJc Not sure if it contains new ideas.

He says the unit is not "a class" but a module. It's up to you to decide what the module does (ie. what level of abstraction it's at). More importantly, he argues against mocking and essentially "unit testing" in most cases.
I guess the OSM community is more defaulting to developing for other open platforms because that's what we mostly use ourselves and can test/run the code on, but iOS is in the making:

Pinned ticket "iOS - Planning": https://github.com/streetcomplete/StreetComplete/issues/5421

See also the project board: https://github.com/orgs/streetcomplete/projects/1/views/1 showing quite a few things already done, some in progress, and a handful todo or blocked each
LinkedIn's Leaky System Prompt
Here are a bunch of designs. Please build them, send them back to us so we can sell them to you :D
Russia supported by Iran vs Ukraine supported by every major Western Power.

China vs Taiwan standoff. China recently built a Taipei city center mock up in the desert. Taiwan controls 90%+ of global microchip production.

Recent Armenia vs Azerbaijan (supported by Turkey) war. More tension on border.

Israel levelled Gaza and killed 30,000 Palestinian civilians, and is striking Lebanon and Syria. Iran posturing back.

Posturing in Africa by Russia, France, and China.

North Korea being noisy as usual.

This is literally just the tip of the iceberg.
They are the general population, look around. Teaching no longer provides a stable middle class life in most areas. They live paycheck to paycheck, struggle to afford housing, feel crippled by student loan payments, and have little opportunity for advancement.
Not every criticism comes from a place of personal offense, and it's unreasonable to cast things you disagree with as its author having a case of the vapors. He's not insulting me and I'm not insulted; instead I think the article is bad for the reasons I explained. I could just as easily point out that you seem strangely offended by criticism of an article you did not write.

Again, the job of a journalist is to simplify and explain. Think about general-audience articles on subjects you're _not_ deeply familiar with. They typically do not patronize you or tell you that the details are boring; instead they try to explain the issues at hand in the most accessible way they can. Software is no different from science, law, or medicine in having lots of arcane terminology and intricate technical detail; it is not somehow the case that those topics can be simplified and explained but that a software problem can only be understood, even in concept and imprecisely, by a special cast of techno monks. But we seem to pretend it is, because we have strangely low standards for technology journalism.
Which frustrates us oldies because that polish is literally all it is. Even images are as simple as loading the image someone links in chat in the browser.
The downfall is that in theory the purpose of school is to educate, not merely get people enough points to be admitted to college.
I think it's referring to the idea that men (in general) are lonely, never get compliments, and told to man-up if they open up in any way. That men are taught to suffer alone and not complain. When they do they get ostracised.

I don't think that is really relevant tbh, if anything this is recognised more and men _are_ encouraged to open up more etc.
People seemed to be focusing on the fact that this wouldn’t break the NIST leading PQC public key cryptosystem, but I think that misses the point. This takes a problem at the core of this security, which previously only had an exponential approximation, and finds a polynomial approximation. Sure that polynomial is too high O(n^4.5) to break the leading proposed systems, but I mean are you really feeling safe when an exponential just changed to a polynomial?

An analogy would be something like this. Factoring is hard. We base RSA on the hardness of this problem and there we use numbers that are the product of two primes. Someone just found an algorithm that doesn’t work to find the product of two primes, but can take a product of four primes and return two products of two primes. Do you feel safe with RSA?

Anyway the paper could be wrong or it could be right, it will take a while for those in the field to dig through this. As a cautionary tale, there have been a few extra good quantum people who have proposed quantum attacks on lattice problems that have later been shown to have bugs.
Sure, but if your enemies are super powers and you succeed, whats left? Would Europe stand ideally by? Probs not... even in a post-war rebel state situation, would not be stable.
So, I picked up a pretty easy process I've used for the last 10 years (at decade old small company with plenty of legacy code, Microsoft, & now a startup using go/rust/js)

Every Monday I update dependencies. Review breaking changes, get to know what CVEs are out there, glance over changelogs

It takes less than an hour a week. It keeps me up to date on our dependencies
I just installed HN relevant. It works pretty well!
> test scores improved

I understand that using test scores makes for easier science, but I grew up with some level of "teach the test" and in my anecdotal experience you turn schools into the dullest cram schools when performance is measured this way. I did fine on tests but I hated it. The only reason I didn't drop out was because I didn't realize I had the agency to do so.
> The architect said to me that we'll never fully recoup our costs of putting the hat on the house.

Your architect is almost certainly right. I would bet that most of your improvements came from fixing the drafts, with the insulation providing a marginal improvement on top of that.

I’ve also dealt with insulating old homes, but I did draft fixes, wall insulation, and attic/roof insulation at different stages. The draft fixes provided the most improvement, followed by attic/roof insulation. Insulating walls had much less effect than I anticipated.

In friends’ houses I’ve used my thermal camera (which I didn’t have back then) and it’s easy to see where the heat or cold is coming in during weather extremes. These days I’d recommend anyone start with the thermal camera view before deciding where to spend money on insulation.
But I find it genuinely uplifting that, despite such awful things, the Earth recovers and life goes on

It makes the horrors of today less dire. Maybe sucks for "us" but not life itself. Hopefully.
> Eliminate poverty by eliminating capitalism, a system that literally depends on it.

Could you give an example of where this has worked?
Note that per the CDC[0], suicides are not just higher, they are also significantly higher when normalized by population size, from 10.7 per 100k in 2001 to 14.1 per 100k in 2021.

[0] https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/databriefs/db464.pdf
"You get what you measure" is broadly applicable and systems need to accomodate that.

There's nothing about teachers that makes them less ethical than the the average 
car emissions system engineer
 
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I was going to say this too, but Russia is delusional.
> The world probably has never been as peaceful as in the last 50 years or so.

You are probably living in a different world than the rest of us.
> Cars are very obviously not the future of human transport

I wish this were true. However, I'm seeing the trend pointing in the opposite direction almost everywhere. For example, almost every European country has seen a rise in the motorization rate. [1] China is also firmly on the rise, and America remains 80-90% [2]

Given this, I don't expect that OSM has the ability/authority to make a dent in motor vehicle usage rates. I do, however, believe they can take advantage of the way the world exists today to improve open source mapping.

[1] https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/web/products-eurostat-news/w/D...

[2] https://www.forbes.com/advisor/car-insurance/car-ownership-s...

[Not cited, but neet]: https://www.jstor.org/stable/27503807
Sounds like systems worked as designed but the Delta employee didn’t do anything about the tricker scanning as a duplicate boarding event. That raised questions of it they failed to follow a defined protocol or if the scanning system was just prone to be a bit flaky (eg consistently double scanning someone’s pass in quick succession and thus throwing out false alarms for dupe boarding that agents just ignored as annoying alarms).
The difference is that China or Russia or the US have a mutual destruction doctrine. Russia or the US won't nuke every country on earth that they can reach if they get nuked by China for example. According to that logic since Israel clearly wants to destroy Iran, it should be able to nuke Israel as a last act even if Israel didn't initiate a nuclear attack.

As to your first point, I'm talking about decades of Israeli operations, not just what happened recently. But I guess Israeli embassies are ok to attack now, since they aren't in Israeli territory.

You keep saying that they are just trying to not get wiped out, but they are the only people that are actively and openly wiping out another group. Like, multiple Israeli officials have stated they want to level Gaza to the ground. Is the Westbank colonization also just a way for poor Israelis to not get wiped by neighbors or?

They also killed more than 30 000 civilians in the past few months. So the narrative that they are just trying to not get pushed back to the sea doesn't work very well here. Especially coming from a colonizing state that is actively expanding in territory that isn't theirs the moment that said territory stopped armed combat against them.
Your platitudes do nothing to make up for the fact that wealth inequality is worse than it has ever been many times over. The cruel and unusual experience of such exploitation and social contortions faced by those at the bottom will always undermine your pathetic attempts to legitimate such ignorance.
The author is mostly complaining about mocking from what I can tell.

>>>> Strict coverage for classes prevents regression in these classes but does not assert that the feature actually works

literally the point of unit tests
If they want to improve teachers performance - reduce the $hit modern society is making them deal with. They're very under paid.

How would you like to deal with corraling 23'ish hyper nut jobs all at different levels? That you have to be their parents, psychologist, DEI, identity fosterer, special education teachers etc.

Funding in many schools isn't there now for specialists to do these roles.... because teachers wanted to earn more after inflation, so cuts made - more responsibilites to teachers.

So the teachers are having to take on the role of many of society's "dump bucket" of stuff that parents should be taking care of.
PBS Frontline has a good documentary on the NSO Group. They are sanctioned by the government, and even used as political leverage - https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=6ZVj1_SE4Mo
I don't understand why my brain is so amazed by these incremental games.
How not consuming 'so much media' going to fix homeless situation all across Canada?
Is that the reason why millions of people tried to come to the states, legally or illegally, every single year?
I did in fact miss this, thanks. I'm not as convinced by other commenters' references to Putin's nuclear threats, but the Middle East erupting into a broader conflict with the US joining in seems at least somewhat plausible to me. Another comment mentioned the potential of the US entering a war in defense of Taiwan, which also seems quite plausible to me given China really wants Taiwan back and Taiwan is much more critical to the US than, say, Ukraine.
> this scheme seems likely to redistribute talent in ways that reinforce existing patterns of inequality

Only if school districts that implement flexible pay are also those with higher SES indicators. Which could very well be the case, although the study did try to control for these factors.

I do agree that unless you increase teacher pay vis-a-vis other professions, the effect will mostly be to rob Peter to pay Paul.
They're as noisy as an AC. So here in Arizona no one cares. But in Belgium this was an issue as they run more in winter and in winter sound travels further.