skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A financial Power of Attorney is the legal document that gives you the ability to act as that person legally in most ways. It requires only the person to sign the PoA document. Using it often requires some bureaucratic hoop jumping, but that's nonetheless what it does. It doesn't prevent the person themselves from taking legal or financial actions – like giving money to scammers. For that you would need Conservatorship which is a higher level of responsibility and must be reviewed by a judge. At least, that's the situation in the US. Things may work differently elsewhere. And also, for reasons to do with the federal system, Social Security benefits are sort of their own thing and have a different process.
I'll clarify. When I say one needs training to be a teacher I'm talking about statistics. I don't mean literally that no person can be good without training. I mean that statistically speaking it is unlikely that a person with no training in a subject is going to be better or as good as the average teacher of that subject.
I evaluate the CSS updates based on the gap in masonry layout achievement. It's one of the most important layouts that have existed for more than a decade and should have been the only achievement after flexbox and grid.
If you have a bunch of media, unless you have a narrow container like FB/IG, that's the only way to go. The alternative is fixed ratios.
Anyone who has been working in FE knows it.
Yes, is hot. And dry. But only one big wine maker is firing people, so maybe the other found a magical solution? like bringing water to the crops?.

What you don't understand is that shouldn't be an unsolvable obstacle for this particular case, because is a crop that likes dry and hot conditions, and we talk about a luxury product that is not necessarily cheap so there should be some margin to act.

Maybe the real problem is that is hot, and dry, AND in 2022 Catalonia lost a quarter of its water by leakage or thievery [1]. Without that Freixenet wouldn't had been hit by the water restrictions of, surprise, 25% water less allowed for industrial uses [2]

And don't make me start about man-made wildfires sucking the land dry.

[1] https://www.lavanguardia.com/local/catalunya/20230402/887201...

[2] https://elpais.com/espana/catalunya/2024-02-13/cataluna-comi...
I have the same opinion but Google does downrank actual personal site/blogs even if it's useful or good and serves you garbage.
Their content policy says you can:

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The HN thread you posted even shows that they contacted the forge's admin week in advance to check for possible concerns.
Is your mother tongue Finnish? I always found Japanese to have somewhat similar sounds. And as a bonus hint, you're missing a "the" in your first sentence ;)
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Then it's time to update your LLM reading!

https://leandojo.org/
https://github.com/lean-dojo/LeanCopilot
https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.07382
The tech fluff pieces are wild. And that entire paragraph about how the execs for Yahoo failed horribly, hired a new one, and that one lied about his degrees, and they hired another.

People failing with golden parachutes, and others failing upwards into even more lucrative roles. I think that's the thing that is eating away at the core of our society: basic contracts like "fail and you won't get rewarded" or "succeed and you'll get rewarded" are just not there. You see people fail upwards constantly, and it eats away at your incentive to do any sort of good work, because it just doesn't fucking matter.

Edit: WIRED is the worst about these useless tech fluff pieces. It's like they make insane money from just fauning all over whatever tech CEO is the hottest right.
I think parent meant "reactionary"
Lawsuit accuses GM of sharing drivers' data with insurers without consent
Agreed. Hesitant is the nicest way to put it. "How do I get people to run my MS Office macros virus? Oh yeah, tell them it's a game or something..."

The Youtube video in a sibling comment helps though, giving a good idea of what it's about and how it looks. No need to download it to find out. :)
I don't understand your comment. Clarify.

As it is, your comment seems to tell me that neural nets are good at neural net things and GOFAI is good at GOFAI things, which is obvious, and is what I'm saying: neural nets can make only very limited use of expert knowledge and so suck in all domains where domain knowledge is abundant and abundantly useful, which are the same domains where GOFAI dominates. GOFAI can make very good use of expert knowledge but is traditionally not as good in domains where only tacit knowledge is available, because we don't understand the domain well enough yet, like in anything to do with pattern recognition, which is the same domains where neural nets dominate. If explicit, expert knowledge was available for those domains, then GOFAI would dominate, and neural nets would fall behind, completely contrary to what Sutton thinks.

So, the bitter lesson is only bitter for those who are not interested in what classical AI systems can do best. For those of us who are, the lesson is sweet indeed: we're making progress, algorithmic progress, progress in understanding, scientific progress, and don't need to burn through thousands of credit to train on server farms to do anything of note. That's even a running joke in my team: hey, do you need any server time? Nah, I'll run the experiment on my laptop over lunch. And then beat the RL algo (PPO) that needs three days training on GPUs. To solve mazes badly.
Nice. I made one where you should guide a sphere into a hole a few years ago. It was in 2D and I don't think it worked all that great. I'll see if I find it and post it here
Unfortunately repairability doesn't solve it. Even when it can be repaired, the repair can easily cost more than the product is worth. If anything I expect them to cheap out on parts, because they can now bring it as an "affordable" replacement for a "wear part" rather than just putting in the right part at manufacturing.

We're already seeing this with "repair kits": to replace that $0.50 thing that broke, you have to put in a new $100 sub-assembly. USB connector broken? Guess you're getting a new logic board! Battery worn? Sorry, gotta buy a new screen too.

The entire product should be engineered to last roughly the same amount of time, with no artificial wear items. But that's simply not what we're seeing these days.
Phi-3 is instruct tuned though so hopefully better.
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In the first example, I got Petra but the in the photo was a basketball player.

Once I got the sae guy in both sides!

When I press higher/lower, the caption changes instantly, but the video takes a few seconds. Perhaps you can preload the next video.
The stereotype premise is funny but the jokes don't land very often. The jump cuts where he repeats words are also not jokes at all.

The recent video about the T3 stack just lists off names of libraries that we're all forced to use. I get that it's relatable but there's a difference between funny and relatable.
> Ada's been steadily making a reassurance I think since safer languages like Rust had started to gain traction

Why one would use Ada now when it looks like there are much stronger contenders in this space: rust for close to metal and C#, Java, Go for slower programs?
>I hope it clicks for Google soon that they are “fucked” and will never recover users they lost to OpenAI, etc.

It happens to pretty much all companies. A paradigm shift pulling the rag from underneath the big company, and the big company just can't turn itself to ride the new paradigm. Like say Sun Micosrosystems not able to switch from their super-expensive Big Iron to horizontally [super-]scaled cheap x86. And usually it doesn't "click" - the management just rides the gravy train until it lasts.

I've been for years wondering what will displace Google - I was sure that such paradigm shift would happen as always, I just couldn't say what it will be (my imagination was just failing at how one can displace a trillion dollar gorilla), and now we get to observe that process - the tech like snake dropping old skin and emerging in a beatifull new one - in all its glory again.
One should take EU's press releases about their legislation with a grain of salt. They are essentially ads (which I find a bit out of place for legislative bodies).

Right to repair activists are a bit less enthusiastic: "Considering the limited scope and ambition, we feel that the opportunity was missed to make this initiative into something that would actually merit the title ‘Right to repair directive’. As things stand, this piece of regulation could be more aptly described as an ‘annex to the existing ecodesign regulations.’ In essence, its main effect will be to somewhat increase the chances that the small number of products that already had to be repairable by law anyway, will actually end up being repaired."

https://repair.eu/news/analysis-of-the-adopted-directive-on-...
This depends on the model. I have an Acura project car and most of my performance relevant parts are Honda part numbers. Interior is the main exception.

Heck, I've got a Civic intake manifold in the room with me to replace the Acura one, haha. (The generation of K series after mine has better airflow and it's an easy enough swap.)

The Acura brand doesn't even exist outside of the US- if a car is sold in Europe or Japan the parts are Honda.
Or... the US?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L%27Enfant_Plan
I don’t remember any instructions coming with any Mac I’ve bought I. The last decades. The license/warranty info sure, but actual printed documentation is limited to a couple pages of to plug stuff together.
>Getting something appropriate is going to be much more up to chance.

Getting something appropriate with GPT-4 is whole lot higher than chance which was kind of the point of all this.

>Using metaphorical or allegorical language as a test isn't that useful.

This is a big chunk of fiction which is most of the text that regularly gets translated. If you're not interested in translating fiction then great but "not a good test" is just silly.
To reiterate, teachers college training does not ensure that your child has an education that focuses on fundamentals and yields effective learning outcomes, nor does it ensure that all teachers do well.

This is obvious and no one is suggesting this. What I'm suggesting is that the average person can't adequately teach their kids k-12. On average they will do worse than an adequately funded school system and it's better for society not to let amateurs teach great numbers of kids.
Universities are famous for terrible teaching, so not a great examt.
How would that work for large scale, slow and/or risky return projects?

We have several systems for matching resources to production because there isn't any single way that works best. But it is interesting to try to stretch each model as far as it can, for best results we can get.
Kind of surprised it wasn't mentioned; it's where I heard of San Serriffe first - I assume they use the Potrzebie there.
Question : Why larry and brin not caring about it ? They built one of world's best and biggest company and it's dying . Even if they did not care about that , their money is still tied to google stock right ? That should raise some concern from them.
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They are going in the wrong direction - The simplesolution to this problem is create more charter schools and breaking up the teacher's unions.

Until those things happen, nothing will change.
It seems like it's been 3 decades and no one ever learns the lesson that normal people don't want to put a computer on their face. It's a weird thing to do.

As for productivity, typing would have to... work...? For this product to be useful.

Otherwise, VR remains a gaming product.
You would've been right like 15 years ago, but it's changed a lot since then. I live in a place with a pretty sizeable homeschooling community. I didn't come here for that, coincidentally I want to do that for my children as well, it just worked out. Most of the homeschooled young people around here are better mannered, more decent, cleaner, less prone to behavioral problems, and have a larger knowledge base. The days when homeschooling == creationism are coming to an end. There's still a bit of that, but not asuch as you'd expect.

You're right that kids have to be exposed to different people and they need to learn critical thinking and to think for themselves. School does not teach them that, school teaches them that when the drug dog comes into the classroom they have no choice but to comply. School teaches them that they need go go along with social expectations unless they want to get bullied or shunned. School teaches them that it's cool to fight in the bathroom and put the video on TikTok. People teaching their own kids, well that depends on the parents. I can give my kids way better critical thinking skills than school can. Someone that thinks the world is 6000 years old maybe can't, but it has always been that way, we were just pretending it could be different, and what is staring us in the face right now is the reality that that just isn't true. Always and forever, kids will learn to the degree that their parents care about their learning, no number of behemoth institutions will change that.
Masonry layout is pretty common for streets, sidewalks, driveways, etc, at least in Brazil
You'd probably have admins and technology suck up most of the funding. At least in the US, funding and outcomes don't have that much of a correlation. DC area schools have among the highest levels of funding per student and the worst outcomes as well.
Personally, I found that approach to learning assembly somewhat difficult.

If you're first learning assembly in some little simulator, or on bare metal, I can see the point in deferring any discussion about the ABI until later.

My first assembly project needed to be invoked as a function call from a C/C++ program. So I'd have really benefited from at least a brief explanation about the boilerplate asm you need to be a callable function, how to make function calls / syscalls to print some output, etc.
"Doing what is right and normal doesn't need to be rewarded."

I might agree with you, but the schools don't see it that way. It's very much on the level of participation trophies. They don't even have winners and losers when playing games - it's winners and non-winners now. As if changing the name changes reality...
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American schools are best funded because that ignores social funding outside of school that indirectly supports education.
I chatted with a friend who used to be a garbage man in a mid-sized west coast city. Most drivers in our area have a daily route, and when they are done, they are done, but paid for the whole's day work.

So they have an incentive to floor the throttle, and slam the brakes. The drivers don't pay for fuel or brake pads out of their salary, the company does, but if they drive like a maniac, they can finish a few hours earlier.
A full scale nuclear war and the resulting fallout would be unimagineably devastating. Whether that kills 100% of humans or only 99.99% doesn't really matter. The natural world we rely on would be obliterated along with us. There would be no remaining governments or modern technology. Rebuilding an advanced society in a
post apocalyptic wasteland would take an incredibly long time, if it's even possible.

Even then, the question would be "Should we?". If our current society ends by violently destroying virtually all life on the planet it will have been the biggest failure of a culture in history by a huge margin. Any survivors might very well develop some incredibly strong prohibitions against unchecked technological change.
When Google News did their major redesign (back in, what, 2014?) it removed pretty much everything about the service that was useful to me.

I switched to curating my own news feeds from RSS feeds of various sources. It turned out to be the best thing I could have done and now is more useful to me than any third party news aggregator that I've seen.

I recommend this very much.
The characters are mostly 1-1. There are a few exceptions, but usually one is a lot more typical than the other, so reading it with the typical reading won't usually get you in trouble
I would be slightly more cynical and suggest that the easy tooling enables people prone to cheap chest-thumping to get into the language, when otherwise those types would probably wander somewhere else. The difficulty of the borrow checker will already create investment-induced loyalty[0], but if the first difficulty isn't even unique to the project, then the interesting difficulty doesn't have a chance to work.

Speaking, myself, as someone who likes Rust but wishes people would be more clear-eyed and less obnoxious about it.

[0] Someone remind me what the standard term for this is? You know, the thing where people get really emotionally invested in things where they've invested a lot of time and effort, like Vi or Emacs or Dark Souls?
A win win would be if both types of people were happy, but the status quo frustrates one of them. It’s only a win if you stop playing because you’re satisfied, not because you’re annoyed. Games are supposed to be fun.

Plenty of games have a “zen mode” or “story mode” or “explorer mode” or any other kind of name to enable an option where’re you’re not severely punished by mistakes. Better yet, they usually allow you to switch modes mid-game. Which means you can progress at your own pace and appreciate everything without getting stuck and rage quitting.

Anecdotally, even if I never turn those modes on I find that the games who have them tend to be more fun and better designed in terms of difficulty progression. Examples include Celeste and Cross Code.

For this game, such a mode would even allow someone to see all the levels or practice in one where they’re stuck and then try again with lives turned on. That would be a win win.
Google now uses an ML classifier to assert the “helpfulness” of content. Your entire website gets penalized if the algorithm thinks your site is “not good enough”.

And so far, for the last 8 months, not a single person has had their site reinstated after this penalty.

That is the very definition of being robbed.
Use xxd or od then.
Wow. This man seems to have a personal grudge against Raghavan. I knew people hate Pichai, but this brutal.
How can one learn to do this?
> There's no tense, no verb ending, no conjugation, zero of any of that stuff in Chinese...the difference is night and day. There is barely any grammar to learn. I finished the Chinese grammar in less than a week lol

What you're saying is that Chinese is not inflectional. It's a pretty common trope that people equate grammar with verb inflection.

But Chinese does have grammar, it's just in the things that aren't as in-your-face as verb inflection is. Chinese has numerical classifiers, which don't have a clear corresponding feature in Indo-European languages (the closest I can think is the... I forget the term, but those silly terms like "pride of lions" or "murder of crows" which are more erudite wankfests than proper English grammar). There may be other features, but I don't know Chinese well enough to highlight them.

The things is that if you're learning an Indo-European language (and you already know on), you can largely import your native language's grammar and expect things to work. Take, e.g., the superlative construction: in English, it's "most" + adjective; in French, it's "le plus" + adjective. Word-for-word translation (including tense/aspect/mood as word-for-word, when you'd use past perfect in English is pretty damn the same time you'd use it in other languages) gets you pretty close to correct, you just have to fix up some word order issues, and some agreement issues, and you're done, so grammar instruction largely focuses on teaching those elements of grammar. It can actually be somewhat jarring when you hit upon a situation where the grammar isn't in close alignment: e.g., in English, we would say "it has been several days since I've seen you" whereas in French, it would be (doing tense-for-tense translation) "it is several days since I've seen you".

The focus in grammar instruction on the elements that are different from your native language rather than the ones that are the same can lead you into a false sense of what grammar is.
It was "fun" when tinkering with some really creative special concern, it was an insufferable pain when your job was finding ways to layout all the "fun" designers envisioned who weren't highly familiar with CSS.

Before position and float madness and all, we used to abuse tables -- because layouts for complex information do work best in grid systems. Now CSS finally has a module that serves this purpose, and brings a huge amount of flexibility to make formerly painful stuff easy.

I'm not even talking about "page layouts" as a whole, just simple particle patterns like "a big icon with a title + description to it's right" is so so much cleaner and easier to do in markup AND css with grid.

Embrace the tools, and if you dislike them - you may as well just not use them. But thinks like grid make simple, stupid, deadlined webdesign _work_ so so much less of a grind.

(speaking as a General Graphic Designer who's also been deep, deep in CSS since before 2.1)
they have much more money than they really need for everyday happiness.
How so? How is having your parents as the source of truth for all things making people think more independently?
Tried it on firefox on linux and windows, both work good in gamer mode.
so true. sometimes the best solutions are not sexy
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