skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There are so many teachers explaining how and why kids don't fail anymore and that leads to issues from grade 1 to graduation. At some point people just need to _do the thing_.
This one does have attention, it's just chunked into segments of 4096
Yeah, I hadn't thought about their abandoned effort to scan every book and archived newspaper in the world in a while, but I bet they're regretting now that they didn't finish. A non-trivial amount of that physical media has been tossed or degraded by underfunded libraries since then. And it's more valuable to them now that it ever was.
We have to let bad people take the important step of attacking before we defend. Otherwise it becomes thoughtcrime.
> There's also hope that neuroscience can start to supplant at least parts of psychology in a few decades.

That definitely does happen, but so far it happens glacially, I assume because doing groundbreaking neuropsychiatric research is considerably harder and more expensive work than "evergreening" existing drugs or reading stuff like Meditations and Walden Two [1] while sipping expensive wine and then pulling an allegedly-modern psychosocial theory out of one's nether regions. My current favorite reference point is anti-NMDA-receptor encephalitis, a (class of?) autoimmune condition that was only definitively identified ca. 2007. One must assume that there are centuries of breathless accounts of "demonic possession" or "latent schizophrenia" or people who were "on drugs" (colloquially often referring to effects of heavy doses of ketamine, PCP, and other potent deliriant/dissociative agents, which tend to be NMDA antagonists) that are probably explained by this condition. And who can say what percentage of today's "schizophrenics" have arrived at a similar place along an as-yet-unidentified path?

[1] Not to say those works aren't worth reading; they're iconic for legitimate reasons. I'm just saying that context and proportionality matter in ways that are often conveniently ignored.
Comparing someone's wage to the value they produce is a fine way for a company to decide whether to hire someone, but I didn't think that was the question you were trying to answer, was it? Perhaps I misunderstood, but I thought you were asking something like, what policy would help people who are at the margins, which is an economy-wide question that can't be answered from one employer's perspective. Workers may only be "worth it" at some wage, at some point in time, but that wage is subject to supply and demand just like everything else. A policy intervention like raising the minimum wage will alter that supply/demand curve.

For example, suppose janitors all make the minimum wage. If we increase it, there might be some company at the margin that will go without janitorial services, but most companies will pay their janitors the new wage, which (from the "a worker costs $X and produces $Y" model's perspective) will look a lot like the nation's janitors suddenly started producing more value. Ergo, it's not to say that that model is wrong, just that it's not useful in answering a question like should we increase the minimum wage.
Yeah, stories like that would make you not want to call the police all right.
I used to listen to NPR quite a bit after moving to the US, mostly during my commutes. Over the last few years, it has gotten worse and worse. The point where I stopped listening to it and switched to podcasts was when they had someone claiming that office breakrooms were "basically white spaces" where non-white people do not belong (and calling for remote work as the alternative). And the interviewer essentially took them at face value.

Have these people not heard of office breakrooms existing outside of white-majority countries? I would bet that having food together in a communal setting is a team-building and fun activity throughout the world regardless of skin-color. Most likely, this was some young, introverted person who was uncomfortable being in a group and wanted to somehow bring in race into that to justify their viewpoint.

As someone who isn't white, this sort of coddling non-sense is simply infuriating. I do not want to be judged based on what I look like, and platforming/pushing these sort of views does exactly that.

They have become the very caricature of what right-wing news makes out liberals to be.
I've written about this extensively over the years:

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&so...

https://hn.algolia.com/?sort=byDate&dateRange=all&type=comme...

If you look over that material and still have a question that hasn't been answered, I'd be happy to take a crack at it.

The short version is: (1) some political overlap is inevitable* and ok, but (2) even in those threads, battle-style or flamewar-style comments are not ok, and (3) using HN primarily for such purposes is not allowed and we ban accounts that do. Your account has been on the wrong side of both (2) and (3), which is why I replied to you.

It's a common perception that "HN is getting more political lately" but I think that's an illusion which goes back a long way: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17014869. It's a product of sample bias plus random fluctuation.

* Btw, that is the answer to your question "why not ban [political] topics entirely"—it can't be done. For one thing, there's no agreement about what counts as "politics"; for another, many stories that are clearly on-topic for HN have political aspects. Trying to exclude the political altogether would actually be a surefire way to intensely politicize this place, as we discovered when we once briefly (for a couple days) tried an experiment in doing so. That was quite a learning experience.
> The outcome of this has been to make it harder to fail as a kid.

I'd like to go a little further and suggest that more recently there's been a trend of not holding the adults accountable either.

Instead of trying to improve outcomes for all, we seem to have decided to choose the path of collective failure.
Agreed. I’ve stopped watching anything recent. Theres a few Apple TV shows that I’ve enjoyed but it’s always so predictable that an engineered and coerced social justice issue is forced in. This is what the theory of equity is about, it goes over and beyond equality and actively helps by increasing exposure, opportunities, resources for historically disadvantaged people communities groups.

I wish we could stop making everything into a war and fight and just let things speak for themselves. Show don’t tell.

Lately I have been working in DEI committees to better understand. I believe in helping the poor and marginalized but having officially reviewed equity theory I feel a bit disgusted with myself.
This is a great project! Once you use it, it's hard to go back, you'll miss a lot of these fixes.
No argument here.

But most Americans don't work at large corporations and that most companies are not large.

https://www.bls.gov/charts/county-employment-and-wages/estab...

The parent post said that most businesses are fraudulent and pointed at practices by large businesses.
Unfortunately all the people with money can see nothing but upsides.
Hah, I've been using this in a similar fashion with my 5 year old daughter. We've been generating super random and personalized songs about anything and everything (sometimes narrating life) - it's been super fun. Definitely has value as an entertainment tool.
Not to mention rich people who store their money and assets instead of cash are much less affected by inflation.

There's literally zero way I see of America not becoming a third world country in the coming decades.
Drafting a 'Dysfunctome'
Congratulations on having a condition that gives you some control over whether you need an organ transplant in the future.

I'm not supposed to have any such control. I exercised it anyway, thus my opinions.

I don't expect anyone to care about me or my opinions or my agenda and I don't know what the PC language is for this. There seems to be none.

But "more access to transplants" isn't your only option if you are thinking long term about your own health issues.
The idea that we're collectively responsible is abjectly untrue. The only people with responsibility are the parents because they are the only ones who are allowed to make decisions. That is unless the government wants to take their children away because they're "uninvolved." Not that a government employee or paid foster family is likely to be better.

The fact is that people with positive influences and role models will do better. It would be great if we could maximize that, but who chooses who is "better," one of the majority who didn't have those role models themselves?
That's an old video from 2 years ago. FSD changed a lot in the mean time. I would agree with you then, and I had the car for 4 years now, and I am only planning to subscribe because it seems dependable enough. I am aware it is not scientific and I won't let of the steering wheel until it is. Nevertheless I can be half present in most of the circumstances. Unless it is a busy, tight street it won't matter to me, because all I am doing is commute on the interstate with lane switching for the most part.
Same, and it’s pretty good. Not sure what the complaints are as I only use the text only version.
I removed the commented words and updated it with Romanian and German.

Thanks for the feedback! If you click on definition, it will speak (I need to improve the ux here)
But Seattle (and Boston) are very blue areas, the issues that Berliner is suggesting wouldn't seem to apply to those areas, they would seem more likely to apply to the hinterlands. The Boston situation probably implies that they just need to combine the two stations into one.
Check out https://ooh.directory/
Age-related brain atrophy and the positive effects of behavioral enrichment
I beg you, beg you to read the very short article. It's Gruber's own bar for what he (John Gruber) will install on his phone, not the bar of the App Store reviewers.
Sorry for the meta-commentary, but I don’t think it warrants its own post: wow the Overton window has shifted right on HN. I’ve noticed it with other comment threads but this one drives it home. Not good for discourse.
$75B is a lot of money. The problem is that due to concerns about escalation, The U.S. has fairly consistently provided just enough to maintain the status quo.

Just as an example, The U.S. finally provided ATACMS in October of last year, and in their first night they destroyed a ton of Russian attack helicopters, and essentially made the whole area close to the front off-limits to Russian helicopters. Had these missiles come six months earlier, those helicopters wouldn't have been eviscerating Ukranian armor conducting the counteroffensive.

The real question is what the goal is here. Are we going to just keep putting in calibrated amounts of weapons to keep the meat grinder going, or are we trying to provide Ukraine some sort of victory?
> us evakyated

huh?
It sounds like you're trying to re-implement IPv6 Neighbor Discovery using qr codes. I really don't see the point of this or how it relates to private networking.

If you want really simple solution on device itself, just let it NDP for router info and drop any incoming SYN that's not already in the conntrack table or part of the ULA space. Boom - done.
Milkdrop, the music visualizer bundled with Winamp, is still alive and well in the VJ community through the NestDrop app. (co-developer here)
https://nestimmersion.ca/nestdrop.php
Eu que agradeço! I agree. I love to mix fun and learning.
> If it takes you more than 10 minutes to pull this from fridge, heat a pan and fry, something is wrong.

Something is wrong, then, because I have to go all the way back to my place to put it on a bun and put things on it and eat it. I don't have to make that commute with fast food.

You two aren't arguing about which is cheaper; you're arguing about which externalities you're willing to ignore.
> I’d be more curious as to how anti-vaccine agendas ever became a thing.

It's simple. They don't trust authorities on the subject. They don't trust authorities in general. They feel lied to and manipulated. In many ways, that's the fault of the authorities. They are prone to simplifying things in order to get their consent.

During the pandemic I witnessed government officials proclaiming that there were no risks associated with the vaccines. That's just false.

Everything is a risk/benefit calculation. There is no 0% and no 100%. Things are vastly more complex than they seem to be. Yet these authorities insist on simplifying things for the layman in order to manufacture consent for their public policies.

These people aren't stupid. They will find out. When they do, they will never listen to you again. They will actively resist you.
hah, this is great! reminds me of webrings in the 90s
Thanks for the feedback, I'll look into how disable the browser auto correction.
You realize that this comment does literally nothing to persuade anyone that HN isn't a left-wing bubble? You just provided a rather sweeping and frankly offensive assertion with no evidence whatsoever to back it up. You don't come off as a reasonable interlocutor, you come off as a bitter partisan and you got rewarded for it. If I didn't have enough exposure to HN to have been in threads where an equally lazy conservative take got upvoted, I'd agree with OP that there's a slant.

As it is, I strongly disagree with OP—HN tends to have very balanced conversations—but I wish that you would provide substance instead of shallow dismissals.
Many of these recent forks are being done because people won't want AWS/GCP/Azure to slap a UI on top of their free open-source product and resell it, making tens of millions of dollars per day in the process. I can't really blame them.

I can.

Free software is, at its core, wage theft. It is truly unfortunate that so many people don't understand "big picture" economics, not the $2 for a loaf of bread economics, but the creation of value, it's consumption, and allocating resources to maximize creating the "right kind" of value. Most programmers "get" that writing code has value, hell tech companies will pay $5,000/week in total compensation just to do that, of course "coding for money" isn't the same as "coding on something you love", or are invested in, or does something you want. But here is the detail that so many miss, it is still $5,000/week "worth" of value. Whether or not someone is paying you to do it, there is still value there. And when you think about it is it all that surprising that putting that value into a thing doesn't make it something others might value too? Others who don't have the chops or the time to make it themselves? THAT is economics. And there are so many people who can see that value just sitting there and say, "Hmm, I bet I know someone who would value that, and I could get them to pay me some of that value in cash money in exchange for hooking them up." And it's game on buddy. And what is that game? Stealing the 'value' that would have been returned as a wages to a coder if they had been hired and keeping it for themselves.

You might as well decorate your front lawn with $100 bills and put up a sign that says, "These bills are decoration I forbid you from using them to go buy things for yourself." Sure some folks would respect that sign but a whole lot more would say, "Uh, good luck with that, and thanks for the cash."

If you write code for "free", no matter what license you try to put it under that "prevents" people from profiting off of it, they are gonna profit. You can either make it possible for them to profit and cut you in on some of that, or you can decide for yourself that you're okay with all of that value you created funding someone else's lifestyle.
Even if you're lazy you can buy frozen Bubba Burgers and it still comes out way cheaper than McD's.
You can always buy evaporated milk
Or a desync between the game and the display.

In Super Smash Bros Melee the game runs at 60 Hz but the display runs at 59.94 Hz... one frame in 1001 is simply not displayed.
The pattern I've noticed is that the poor and the poorly educated have no career expectations from their kids. If the kids with wealthy and/or highly educated parents showed up at home with just one poor grade all hell broke lose. Grounded for 6 months, allowance cuts, no more TV or video games etc One kept his kid at home during the holidays to tutor him himself, screaming 90% of the time. The other parents would look at the grades for < 1 minute and compliment the single thing they did well. Later on, when the other kids ended up in their first factory job the mantra was if only my parents gave me a good kick in the but I wouldn't be here right now

I would send all 13 year olds to the factory for a good few months. Earnings to be paid when 21. I would also introduce Sunday school if your grades are crappy, 8 hours every week until you are no longer behind. And finally, call in the parents regularly just to annoy the fuck out of them. You don't seem very involved mr Jones. Could you be so kind to explain these grades?
Sure; but its a mistake to throw the baby out with the bathwater here. Its true that I don't want any of my news to come from flat earthers. But if all of my news (or all of my friends) share the same set of political biases, I'll end up wrong about important things and unable to connect with people around me.

Its a balancing act. Like every balancing act, you can fail on both sides - by being too open minded (and believing Alex Jones or whatever), or by being too closed minded.

I think if you live in a country where half of the population has some particular view of the world, you're being a bad democratic citizen if you don't take the time to understand that point of view.
You've always had narcissistic people make everything about themselves or seeing victimhood everywhere.

However what's new is that as long as claims being made are of a certain type, they are not only accepted uncritically, but in fact trying to challenge them can be dangerous for your employment status. So essentially no one can call BS on their ideas because no dissent on these topics is allowed.
> In the end, NPR deserves all the credit / responsibility for what it broadcasts.

I think it's more like: In the end, your local NPR station deserves credit/responsibility for what it broadcasts. Not all of the shows they broadcast are NPR shows. There's PRI, for example.

The other thing is that sometimes there are multiple NPR options that could be presented.

EDIT: I checked the schedule of my local NPR station:

The morning/afternoon schedule:

- Morning Edition (NPR)
- On Point (seems to be NPR out of WBUR)
- Here and Now (also NPR out of WBUR - I actually think this one is generally pretty good)
- Think Out Loud (local production of OPB - really good local interview show, the guy is an excellent interviewer, I wouldn't be surprised if he gets moved up to the national level at some point)
- BBC Newshour (BBC, of course)
- The World (PRI - actually a really informative program about events outside the US)
- All Things Considered (NPR)
- Today Explained (VOX podcast)
- Marketplace (APM - informative business show)

So not all are NPR. And in some cases the non-NPR shows are
some of the better ones.
Do I have the wrong paper open again? :)

See "Long-Context QA tasks in Scrolls", I don't want to copy and paste the whole thing, I'll elide the words in between: "...long-context open-book
question answering (QA), we use a simple prompt {CONTEXT} Q: {QUESTION} A"

n.b. It's literally the same eval in both papers :) I know, it's buried and non-obvious, it took me 20 minutes so far today to double check it 3x, even after reading it yesterday.
> What would you call a century of heteronormative, white media?

Much better than whatever activist garbage we have now.
presumably meant to be 'is evaluated'.
Sextortion scams are driving teenage boys to suicide
So you mean to say it IS choice, which is being exercised to choose outrage-inducing material for profit.
Those days of drawing distinctions and flaunting moral superiority are over. It’s all one uni party. Time to stop fighting each other.

Much of the same criticisms can be leveled at leading democrats. What they once championed they no longer do and have radically shifted multiple core positions.

The “uni parties” are covered in filth and it benefits them for us to be at each other throats like it was some sports ball game.
Sit at 24HourHomepage.com for a minute or two
>making it harder for people to fail at adulting

That has been the direction school has gone and, at least from my perspective, it seems worse. It has lead to a loss of agency among now so-called adults who expect to always be in a situation which guides them toward success. They struggle without a guidebook.

Learning to fail, and crucially, how to handle failure and recover are better approaches.
It’s really disheartening to hear so many objections to “race” or “class” stories on NPR as these are the pieces that speak of experiences like my own. I’m in my 40s today but I remember being one of barely a handful of Tejano game developers in Austin back in the 90s and no one called our inclusion DEI - they just called it hiring locally. It seems all these good things that were the norm have been hijacked and brought the worst of the objectivists. Maybe if listening to understand (vs listening to react) a lot of these comments here wouldn’t look fence walking outbursts.

I still have hope for the future. Not much to be found in these comments tho.
First sentence: sure!

Second sentence: nonsense!
Overall, I really like this. Know English, Learning Spanish.

I wish that you wouldn't automatically move to the next word when I finish typing. I want to read it over again and process, then move forward.
The GA of Kong Konnect Dedicated Cloud Gateways
"evaluated", but with a small key shift on qwerty
I don't think is wise even if you had written guarantees from their state via the business, because how your state might look at it.

It's a war, things have changed.
Here is the source for that knot (as well as many others)

https://www.fieggen.com/shoelace/ianknot.htm
Good luck trying to argue TREE(3)[1] is not a big number...

[1]: https://www.popularmechanics.com/science/math/a43023757/game...
Almost all of these make absolutely no sense, they sound like propaganda zingers, not actual reflections of reality. The housing crisis is the only thing you can reliably hold against Canada, but it's far from the only first-world country to be facing that issue. Canada currently has five parties sitting in parliament. What banking restrictions? (I have no idea what even is described here). As for healthcare, there is a doctor shortage but you will get treatment in an emergency, the biggest choke point for wait times is people moving and having to wait to get a GP assigned to them.

Source: I actually live there
Merely Karma.

Yes it was nearly two centuries in coming, but it's karma just the same.

Some American merchants entered the trade by smuggling opium from Turkey into China, including Warren Delano Jr., the grandfather of twentieth-century American President Franklin D. Roosevelt, and Francis Blackwell Forbes; in American historiography this is sometimes referred to as the Old China Trade.[9] By 1833, the Chinese opium trade soared to 30,000 chests.[7] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opium_Wars
I remember actually testing that stuff out when it came out. I was working as an intern at Philips Semiconductors in their Wi-Fi chip division. Speaking of time has no meaning... :)

I think there were a couple of consumer products that got released - Linksys and netgear perhaps? They consisted of a USB Hub + Dongle.

They actually worked ok, but the speed would drop off quickly with distance. Across the room, and you'd be at 50% of the rated speed, at best.

The technology was interesting. Basically they were transmitting over a whole slew of spectrum simultaneously (from like 2.5GHz to 5.5GHz), but they kept the transmit power low enough that it didn't exceed some FCC threshold.
I believe a big problem is many venues have either lock in contracts, or are outright owned by live nation directly or indirectly.