skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Careful, you might get yourself into edtech. >-D

The average career length for teachers (not job, career) is 5 years and trending down.

The reason is not a secret:
teaching is a brutal experience with sub-poverty wages. In most cases parents, students and the school administration are your adversaries. If it’s a public institution, political campaigns come crashing in annually with “us vs them” battles that make it awful no matter what side you are on.

It is not a job anyone should pursue.
Anything that allows AI to scale to superinteligence quicker is going to run into AI alignment issues, since we don’t really know a foolproof way of controlling AI. With the AI of today, this isn’t too bad (the worst you get is stuff like AI confidently making up fake facts), but with a superintelligence this could be disastrous.

It’s very irresponsible for this article to advocate and provide a pathway to immediate superintelligence (regardless of whether or not it actually works) without even discussing the question of how you figure out what you’re searching for, and how you’ll prevent that superintelligence from being evil.
Are you thinking about the dollar leaving the gold standard?
Article makes it clear it was human error.
Right, that's just the normal way people learn to do something they haven't been trained or educated to do. Look at how other people successfully do it. You don't just discard every feature you don't immediately see the value of or you might jettison the important bits. Once you're more confident you understand the skill, you can drop the rituals you don't find useful.
It's a shame we suck at acknowledging the obvious inefficiencies in our systems and adapting our behavior accordingly and instead waste huge amounts of money, brainpower and energy for magical and unlikely to ever work techno fixes.

In this case: if we all agreed to drastically reduce our consumption of animal-based products, we'd free up huge amounts of land which we could use now to plant rapid growing, carbon-capturing plants. Then harvest them and either process them as biochar, where roughly 50% of the carbon remains captured and use the generated heat for energy/heat generation - or maybe even bury the harvested biomass in a way which ensures no methane or carbon will be emitted.

The plants would do all the hard work, we "just" need to reap its result.
Is this at 4-bit quantization? And how many tokens per second is the output?
Duplicate post from 23 hours ago with 100+ points and 50+ comments:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40674835
In my case, usually the column comes into Excel via copy/paste of a dozen mixed columns, or File-Open on a CSV.

The workaround, at least for CSVs, is to do an import via "Get Data" -> "From Text (legacy)" and tag the relevant column as "date". This doesn't always work though.
Without do-notation this is kind of dead on arrival no?
Interestingly, there is a common pattern for fixed-points and cycles for different number lengths: numbers made of 4, 5 and 9. For example

length 3: fixed-point 495
length 5: 2-cycle containing 59994
length 6: fixed-point 59994

Similarly for digits 6, 1, 4, 7:

length 4: 6174
length 5: 4-cycle containing 61974
length 6: fixed-point 631764
Your views on Musk changed precisely when everyone else's did, when he started challenging the establishment on critical points, like their support for rampant censorship of Twitter and other social media sites (e.g. removing the Hunter Biden story before the election and permanently banning users if they used certain gender pronoun conventions).

No one who drives a Tesla thinks that the driver assist features are intended to or capable of autonomous driving.
The naming, whatever you may think of it, is massively overrided by the strongly worded warnings and instructions that are abundantly and repeatedly displayed to the driver, that effectively and unambiguously convey to the driver that they must be engaged while using the driver assist features.

If you want to criticize the naming for being inaccurate even if they argue it's intended to be a forwarding looking statement of aspirations, I would accept that criticism as arguably justified.

But that the driver is fully aware of their responsibilities is beyond any doubt.

Blaming Tesla for its autopilot disengaging 0.1s before impact in a number of accidents is therefore unjustified.
Who is being censored if an LLM is not able to generate inferences about a specific topic?

The information the user of the LLM is still available, just not through that particular interface. The interactions the user of the LLM is seeking are not available, but that interaction is not an original thought or idea of the user, since they are asking the LLM to infer or synthesize new content.

> How did a society that was established on free-speech just decided that the written word was so dangerous all of a sudden?

The written word has absolutely always been dangerous. This idea is captured succinctly in the expression "The pen is mightier than the sword."; ideas are dangerous to those with power, that is why freedom of expression is so important.

> The disdain one must have for free-speech to even think that danger enters into the equation.

This is asinine. You want dangerous text? Here is a fill in the blanks that someone can complete. f"I will pay ${amount} for {illegal_job} to do {illegal_thing} to {targeted_group} by or on {date} at {location}." Turning that into an actual sentence, with intent behind it would be a crime in many jurisdictions, and that is one of the most simple, contrived examples.

Speech, especially inciting speech, is a form of violence, and it runs head long into freedom of speech or freedom of expression, but it's important to for societies to find ways to hold the demagogues that rile people into harmful action accountable.
Harvest Coccoliths that have been around for millions of years and are believed of being responsible for the majority of carbon sequestration. Plus, they are pretty!
There is a general shortage of titanium. It would be hard.
Evolution gave us legs. We invented wheels.

Nature gave us eyes. We invented telescopes and microscopes.

Natural selection “only” does the bare minimum that beats the competition. It didn’t design plants to be maximally efficient at removing CO2. Plants do so while also having to deal with respiration, water conservation, heat management, reproduction, nutrient intake, disease prevention, etc.

I’m sure we can do better when we don’t concern ourselves with all that other stuff.
Episode 2 was about sleep. But the transcript had no matches for insomnia or camping.[1]

It sounds like a distorted memory of a small study where subjects without sleep disorders slept earlier but not longer or better when camping with natural light and fire only.[2] How long the effect lasted was not studied.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nm1TxQj9IsQ

[2] https://www.cell.com/current-biology/fulltext/S0960-9822(13)...
The Federal Reserve system was created in 1913, the Great Depression kicked off in late 1929. Your comment seems like a non sequitur.
> I've not seen anything to make me think this feature is intended for surveillance as opposed to personal utility.

The previous commenter was attributing malicious intent to Microsoft and other parties, but in the long run, I'm not sure that anyone's immediate intentions are particularly relevant.

My concern is much less about how the creators of these tools currently intend for them to be used, and much more about how they will end up being used regardless. Well-intentioned people have often created things that were viciously abused by ill-intentioned others later, or created things that had negative unintended consequences.
We'll see what the FAA finds. The United flight in 2022 was deemed to be weather-related, not this flight. It's still undergoing investigation.
Planting trees?

Layman question: is there a way to figure out how much carbon levels would drop for a given area of new trees/forest? How much would we need to plant to reduce carbon to preindustrial levels?

(I understand that trees don't permanently sequester carbon, but they do keep carbon for at least a century. Which would give us time to figure out other solutions)
Many trains have backward facing seats. It's not common for people to have a problem sitting in them, certainly a minority. And train windows are usually several times larger than plane windows.
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2 cultures? Doesn't sound too surprising to me... one that is feature oriented and another that is old guard trying to support legacy customers.
I played the game in this picture at the pinball museum in vegas. One lever operates the rear fan and the other operates the bottom fan. It was a lot of fun for an analog arcade game.

I returned to the museum a few years ago and it was no longer working. I hope they fix it one day.
How is this objectively a great feature? This is a spyware that stores screenshots unencrypted (and thus accessible to any other spyware). I am also not convinced that the AI tools would have been offline, thus effectively sharing your whole data with Microsoft (even more than before).

From a privacy perspective, this feature is an abomination
Confidently asserting that there hasn't been a crash involving a commercial flight with few survivors in living memory and your examples are all post-2010 flights is...certainly something. There are plenty of people much older than 20-30 years still kicking.

And you can get a hell of a lot more than a bruise from a seatbelt due to the magnitude of the forces involved in a plane crash, especially one that [allegedly] killed almost everyone else. Seat belt syndrome is a well-known thing.

The GP's story may or may not be true but your points for it being "extremely unlikely" don't hold water at all.
Spirit believed it was buying a specific, certified titanium alloy.

Imagine the rabbis at Hebrew National were out sick, but Hebrew National continued churning out “Kosher hotdogs” that hadn’t been properly vetted.

Sure it’s still a hotdog made with kosher ingredients. But it’s a major violation of trust. And trust is what consumers expect when flying.
I agree with you that AI probably won't have better than human customer reps access to systems and solutions.

Then again, most customer service reps are so limited that I can easily see an AI having an equal amount of power and discretion on the things customer service reps already do. Really this would just be a push people to the next tier of support type thing in my mind.
WSU isn't really a thing in computer science, but I wouldn't call it "conservative-thinking".

We have UBC, SFU, and even UVic closer by, and the punch a bit higher in computer science. But these days many of the UW professors that started companies back in the late 90s/early 00s are long gone.
Nobody has argued that this feature doesn't work. In fact, it probably works really well which is why Microsoft has been pushing it so hard.
Christ. I just went through this stuff with a loved one, for a few years.

“Hey Siri, what did mom do today?”

“Asked 214 times when you were getting back in town, because she has not seen you in a long time.”

“I’ve been back for two months and I saw her this morning.”

“That is what I told her, each time.”

“Ok. What else did she do?”

“Nothing.”

Yeesh. Some Black Mirror shit.

[edit] not to crap on how nice that really might be for a lot of people. Dementia’s just… well, pretty messed up and sad, I guess, and bringing machines into the mix can be weird.
The thing Seattle needs most is more Series A and beyond firms. We have a bunch of great folks looking at pre-seed and seed deals. But beyond Madrona and Trilogy (who is virtually unknown even here in town -- they deserve more spotlight) and Maveron (if you're in consumer), you have to go raise in SF/Valley or in NYC for the breakout round.
According to cheema33 React is most "popular frontend stack", but I'm not allowed ask questions of why websites demand JS to display basic content... I suppose my reply could have been more _constructive_ as to ask "by whose count" or "how does popularity correspond to quality" but that's like playing chess by one step in front of you.

Look, I'm seeing an increase of blogs made with an implication that _infinity_ amount of visits requires less resources than one and I don't just find it true.
Important topic that has been posted a few times:

2 days ago. 87 comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40657933
2 days ago. 91 comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40666304
Going off reporting, it's not as far-fetched as you're suggesting.
Great questions! Let me address them all:

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2. Paper Certificates vs. Blockchain: While traditional methods like paper certificates and human custodians have been the norm, they come with risks such as fraud and mismanagement. Blockchain technology provides a decentralized, immutable record that reduces these risks, offering a higher level of security and trust.

3. Misstating Gold Information: Trusted custodians verify and report the gold's location, quantity, and purity. Regular audits and transparency measures are in place to ensure the accuracy of this information. The immutable nature of blockchain makes it difficult for any party to alter records without detection.

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At least that's the idea. We are currently building the infrastructure, but we are also working hard to start these partnerships.

Hope this clarifies your concerns!
I'd like to see a massive CO2 -> limestone operation set up with the explicit purpose of creating artificial reefs. That would help offset overfishing in addition to removing carbon from the atmosphere.
FYI, most of the lead has been lost, and I now put that old 00's era 15-20 year marker closer to 5 years, which may help others understand the arms race we are in. (the people vs the supranational oligarchs)
All's fair in attention war.
People can be awkward and weird and have inconsistent moods and change their minds and aren't completely in sync with their feelings.

These are the complexities of actual human beings. "Dan" is a fantasy, and unfortunately, just like high-production pornography, serves to give false expectations to young people, this time mostly women instead of mostly men.
When will those generics be available in a portable fashion with multiple compilers?
This is called "submarining" and it's a factor in seat shape design. It's also one of the reasons why car seatbelts have pretensioners.
grabs water spritzer

Stop that, now. Bad cat.
If it's Boeing, I ain't going!

Seriously, after seeing several Boeing engineers saying they wouldn't fly on a Boeing aircraft, and seeing how their management has handled their crises, I'm not flying Boeing. That company needs a major restructure and "come to Jesus" moment before I'll ever trust them again. So far, that isn't even on the horizon.
In the meanwhile, the stock pumping will go to levels unheard of...

"Elon Musk says Tesla robots will power the company to a $30T market cap" - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40683120
I’m waiting for the day that banks will demand back the money they lent him…
My apologies for asking the question when I could only read the first two paragraphs due to paywall. The archive link shared cleared up my concern, and makes it clear that it was human error during a weather-related re-approach. Thanks, though!
They want "agency", which means something like looking at the universe and interfering with it without being part of it, like a scientist with the universe in a petri dish, somehow external to any universe and not subject to any rules or causality.

It's a bizarre but apparently intuitive wish. But this isn't necessary. A robot can select one option from among many. We can predict the robots choice. A human can do the same, and we can't predict the human's choice so well, because humans are deep and complex and actually think, but it's still a mechanism, and so what? The error here is in thinking that "mechanism = robot" and "mechanism = amoral", neither of which are true - except for all the non-human mechanisms, which is the great majority of the mechanisms (processes, etc.) that we see, and we don't like being lumped in with them in case it makes us robots and removes responsibility for choices. But it just doesn't.
> You can use your human creativity to come up with an outline of a story, then have AI do first drafts of chapters according to your outline. It's tremendously faster to go back and rewrite the AI draft than it is to generate a first draft by hand and to be honest for most writers the quality will be better.

It's also tremendously crappy and less creative. If all you want to do is an outline, just publish that instead of fattening it up with AI slop.

Also, your idea is great if you always want to be a terrible writer and develop your writing skills poorly, and just care about volume of output. IIRC, real writers say the writing part isn't actually the hard part, but for some reason that's what you want to automate. The hard (and creative) part is the thinking you have to do when you're figuring out what to write.

There are books I've read where I seriously wish the author just published an outline, with maybe a bit more exposition around world-building (yeah, they were sci-fi). And that was human written stuff, reading AI slop would an even bigger waste of time.
On redfin, I see lots of properties less than $1m near Boston center. A $1m home is $9k/mo at today's interest rates and considering repairs, insurance, etc., assuming 20% down.

$30k/mo income pre-tax or $360k/yr. Obviously not ideal, but a dual income family can afford this. My tech worker friends typically put more down 20% down (avoid jumbo loans), so their monthly could be much lower.
Nah industrial direct capture is a proven technology. Energy isn't the problem, plenty of sun in the southwest. The chemistry isn't a problem, we have sorbents that work great, it's just cost. We don't want to spend 1/3rd of global GDP on carbon sequestration for the next decade.
They gave Miami a 1 for Knowledge? Ouch
> How many different ad screens are on windows 11?

How many are there? Admittedly I use a Start Menu replacement so I don't see ads there but I don't see any ads anywhere else.
Try doing a 24 hour water fast. It will feel awful during the fast, but you may notice your mind is sharper the next day after a good sleep. Cleans out the cobwebs at a cellular level (autophagy). https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3106288/

EDIT: I'm getting rate limited so cannot reply to the comment below.

Water fast means only drinking water. Tea or coffee is acceptable if black (meaning without milk or sugar).

"Water fasting is a type of fast during which you're not allowed to consume anything except water."

I would never do a fast that cuts out water/liquids. That is stupid.
That doesn't describe this case at all though? It's more like you got your croissants but without a name brand or receipt.
That’ll never happen. They love him. Everyone in his orbit thinks he can do no wrong. The man is a walking, talking, seemingly-god to these folks.
It's too bad that the rest of the "90's spirit" -- consistent, well-organized UIs, users controlling their own computers, and software that runs locally without dependence on cloud servers -- seems to be receding at Microsoft, leaving everyone with the worst of both worlds.
VVC is a generational improvement in compression ratio over AV1, which might make it the best for a lot of applications. Too bad it will probably languish in patent licensing hell.
Programming is not a craft [video]
My bad. The article makes that clear behind a paywall. I could only read the first two paragraphs before I asked the question. Luckily the archive link shared had the full text and I was able to read the full incident description. Thank you!
wonder how they managed to add all these security features so quickly to a product that they didn't think had security issues in the first place...

If you are vague enough, you can say you did something.

If you don't explicitly mention the issue(s), you don't have to mention what you changed, if anything.

Classic M$.
If Apple did something like Recall, they'd run the whole thing on a separate secure chip somehow and encrypt the data with a (actual secure) enclave.

Microsoft are doing this the quick, dirty, lazy way by just embedding it into the OS. Lack of vertical integration is also haunting them.
Having spent a big part of my career writing technical papers, I found myself exhausted by lengthy prologues concerning the problem space, and then referencing a bunch of 'objects' that were largely tangential to the 'punch line' the author alludes to.

Now that I spend every other week making a pitch for a start up, I can just start off with: "We are stopping hurricanes. And you can join us."

It is so much more fun this way. And, OK, getting to talk it out, lets me add a lot more pizazz than the dry technical writing. One thing is certain, people are not caught napping.