skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Having worked where a megacorp attempted to normalise points and incentivise velocity, there is a fatal flaw. The people doing the work estimate the size of the work! Increased “velocity” will happen automatically. Actual work throughput will remain the same. Prediction becomes impossible.

The most damning problem with “points” is that you can’t even do basic math with them. Does 4 points take twice as long as 2? No, no it doesn’t. The whole thing is just a giant waste of time.
I mean, who didn't need a "Verdauungsspaziergang"[0] after a meal that huge?

[0] https://dict.leo.org/german-english/Verdauungsspaziergang
But if teachers could use AI to grade exams and automate the boring work, then they could take a second job and be able to afford housing. Sounds like an easy win for AI.
Working on my machine
> you can SEE where the input fields are

There was always type="hidden" then they added CSS for extra spice.

> You don't have to "PROTECT" the HTML document from warping.

Input elements have 'readonly' and 'disabled' and most other elements can have 'contenteditable'.

> You don't have to hit a special key when an HTML document is larger than your screen.

Page Down?
Lookup "Steal my ideas". There are people all over the place sharing interesting to implement ideas. Most of us don't have enough time in the day to implement them all. Enjoy!
See your doctor, get your ADA accommodation paperwork.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40941575
The Hollywood versions of Greco-Roman mythology aren't the same as what you get in Ovid's Metamorphoses. References to Ovid's Metamorphoses can be found on almost every page of Shakespeare, and if you haven't read Ovid (and really, how many people nowadays have?) a lot of Shakespeare's references can be cryptic.
> You have 80,000 hours in your career.
This makes it your best opportunity to have a positive impact on the world.

80,000 hours is a non-profit dedicated to helping you find such a thing.

https://80000hours.org/
I like using them but I hate that they leave the "campus" automatically.
Presumably like any normal person: I installed their application, logged in (I have an account), and was then stonewalled by the lack of any upload apparatus within the general vicinity.
I read What Is Life many years ago. Had a major effect on how I see life, including the nature of consciousness (at least as hypothesis). And it's a relatively short, enjoyable read as well. Highly recommended.
> go see the delightful

ShakespeaRe-Told ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ShakespeaRe-Told ) at the very least for Sally Wainwright's modern take on The Taming of the Shrew.

Slings & Arrows (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slings_%26_Arrows) for darkly comic irreverance and a couple of piano opening numbers in the actors bar.

So many examples, these are just two.
You believe the worlds 4th largest military contractor is left wing because they posted a pride month tweet? Who is not being sincere.
You're right. Only after the Columbian Exchange were those plants known to Europe.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Columbian_exchange
AI: Don't forget to like and smash that subscribe button
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Indeed, but there are limits to that delegated authority as has been ruled by SCOTUS and particularly when the laws governing that delegation of authority are badly written.
https://github.com/KillianLucas/open-interpreter/ is my preferred implementation of approximately the same thing
The biggest predictor of whether or not a child is "gifted" is the amount of attention they receive as children from their parents and from the education system. Actual genetically driven genius is rare. The kids that gifted child programs benefit are largely the children of affluent parents and not the so called geniuses of our generation. They mostly serve to create a two tier education system within public schools. I'm not saying we tolerate disruptive kids or that we shouldn't reward merit, but this kind of rich kids get the resources and attention system is counterproductive to the outcome you seem to want.

Furthermore, there is zero proof that AI will give us the kind of system that will allow us to shore up the limited education system. The actual solutions to many of these problems are things like paying teachers more to retain the best people, giving kids free lunch, funding after school programs and one on one tutoring etc etc etc.

But doing those things is hard, so tech bros who believe in the myth of the gifted child, who don't have any background in education at all, come in with these systems that they think are silver bullets, then are shocked when they don't work, blaming the unruly children of the proletariat on their failure to fix anything.
using AI to tackle the pinnacle of education ex: "tutored by the premiere minds in the subject area" feels a lot like self-driving cars in the most dynamic, entropy-filled environments. Why try to solve the vast majority of the problem like easier driving scenarios? We don't need Feynman to teach physics when high school graduates can't read or do basic math. I guess there's no glory or money in this application...
I gathered top automation function that I use daily into an open source project
As I was working daily on my AI projects, I have collected few automation function in python that I find helpful. An idea came to mind, that if I could make an open source project that gather all of these python hacks into one, and crowdsource from others. I believe in the long term will be great for the whole ecosystem.

So here it is, the very first foundation of the project. Current I gathered the top 15 functions, with all source code available to try.

Hope it may be helpful for building your app.

Features:

Background Remover: Automatically removes backgrounds from images.

QR Code Creator: Easily generates QR codes from URLs.

Fake Data Generator: Creates realistic dummy data for testing.

URL Shortener: Simplifies long URLs into concise ones.

YouTube Downloader: Downloads YouTube videos or audio files.

Bulk Email Sender: Sends emails in bulk with ease.

Image Scraper: Fetches and displays images from the web.

Audiobook Maker: Converts PDFs into audiobooks.

Code Analyzer: Evaluates Python code using Pylint and Flake8.

Resource Monitor: Keeps an eye on your system's resources.

Clipboard Tracker: Logs all texts copied to your clipboard.

Spell Checker: Corrects spelling and grammar errors.

Link Verifier: Checks the connectivity of multiple URLs.

News Reader: Reads out loud trending news headlines.

Article Summarizer: Condenses lengthy articles into summaries.

… and many more!

Try it out at: https://autopilot.streamlit.app/

The Repo: https://github.com/Ai-Quill/automated

Contribute:
*I would love community contributions! Fork the repo, suggest new scripts, or improve existing ones.

More Info: Check out our GitHub repo for detailed instructions, features, and more!
You should never leave and just fade out until they catch on and stop paying you.
Agreed. There's a really specific form of nostalgia where a matured and adhd-managed person would simply LOVE to do school over again now they see the benefit and realise how absolutely fascinating and achievable learning is. Imagine how easy school would be for a mature adult! I wish being held back a couple of years was normal and encouraged, especially for boys. My life satisfaction would be way higher.
> My leadership team is encouraging me to work more hours to finish things faster, but then also says they don't want me to burn out.

Well you can't do both. What do they really want? If they can't tell you without contradictions like that, maybe they just want you to go away.
https://archive.is/LBIJ8
[dupe]

Source: https://www.wired.com/story/youtube-training-data-apple-nvid...

Some more discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40977465
You're right lets divert millions if not billions of dollars that could be used on known working solutions for these problems to an unproven technological bullet that is famously capital intensive.
Actual article: https://www.wired.com/story/youtube-training-data-apple-nvid...

(https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40977115)
And what will you do with the lazy one? Kill him? Let him die when in problems? Maintain it throughout his live? Ignore him and let him live a miserable life?
Warning: the article appears readable, but once you're into it you hit a paywall.
What stops anyone from doing it? I'm pretty sure I could search Amazon or Abebooks [1] and find lots of attempts at it.

[1] https://www.abebooks.com/docs/community/featured/out-of-prin...
Out of curiousity have you worked in education or EdTech? Trying to get the context of this.
You are not wrong. Legend of Zelda is categorized as an adventure game. Or sometimes, action-adventure to emphasize the sword-swinging aspect.

This is the kind of thing that people will argue about, but to me, a role-playing video game is characterized by a controlling party (usually) of characters with stats that can change based on the player's actions and/or progress, and turn-based combat.
you're right: saves one character over "simplistic"
It's a strange geometry alright:

https://www.sea.museum/2013/12/02/bathing-in-a-dead-whale-cr...
A part of my work is literally building nowcasting and other types of prediction models in economics (inflation, GDP etc) and finance (market liquidity, etc). I haven’t yet had a chance to read the paper but overall the tone of “transformers are great for what they do but LSTM-type of models are very valuable still” completely resonates with me.
Scene from The Wire doing roughly this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bg13hyfm2Ik
if the product is great, hopefully you as the user would not have to worry about which tool is doing which task. the developers would worry about that. it's the same in any app. the user doesn't know or care what tool is used to render the frontend or store the data in the backend
This is his personal site. It's listed on his Wikipedia profile and whois was last updated 2023-12-15, so it hasn't changed owners recently. Not since months before the referenced verdict, which is dated 2024-05-20 (there was an initial ruling with similar but abbreviated contents on 2024-03-14).
Lol that's what most people do
> The company has been party to multiple lawsuits related to sexual harassment, assault and workplace injury/death and the ability to try cases in a more friendly environment will make it easier to encourage employees to optimize productivity.

Corporate PR speak keeps getting more and more bizarre. If they were optimizing for productivity, they’d get rid of the people who are abusing their fellow workers or creating unsafe conditions since all of those things lower productivity. Relocating their headquarters to shield abusers is saying that productivity below coddling those guys’ egos.

Musk can afford better spin doctors.
Are we really surprised, given that youtube-dl and friends exists? I've seen multiple AI demos that use this tool
i was referring more to the topic starter phone - 95.1 × 49.6 × 18.7 mm vs Galaxy S23 146.3 x 70.9 x 7.6. It does seem quite thicker than Galaxy actually. Maybe that's Samsung's excuse. I don't have much experience with (or much interest in) Apple phones, they seem to inspire Samsung to follow the same trends.
I often draw the line between adventure/action-rpg (Zelda, Diablo, etc.) with traditional RPG based on the reliance of in-game character skills vs player skills.

In a traditional RPG, a character with sufficient stats are bound to succeed more often, whereas in an action game it really depends on the skill of the player.
“… evaluated 67,391 burrito-selling establishments…”

How does this even work?

If a local or federal government attempted to do this type of survey, they would end up having to pay McKinsey seven figures just to plan the whole operation..
Lots of people had computers in the 1980s. Not just "rich people". There were even dozens of magazines about computers that you could find in any bookstore or newsstand. There were stores in every city where you could buy software for computers in the 1980s. You generally didn't have access to the Internet (which certainly did exist even if the Web didn't) unless you were at a university, but other online venues existed in the 1980s such as dial-up bulletin board systems. I got my first modem in 1983.
I love the idea that no one is 'only' a teacher. Teachers that live in the real world make much more sense to me.

My ideal work week:

10h administrative work (figuring out what and how for the rest of the week)
10h technical job
10h teaching in a classroom
10h 1:1 mentoring
Why not just say that then? It’ll take 3-9 weeks. You can then just add all the min and max and get a full range.
Last spring, I was at my friends new at the time restaurant, when he let me know that Pete Wells was at the table behind us (and how important this night was for my friend) -- I noticed the sheer amount of food - pretty much the entire menu - that was coming and going from that table. I didn't even put it in to perspective how demanding that was on the body, since all I could think of was how I wish I had his job tasting amazing food all the time. The review came out a few weeks later, and it was a pretty nice review - took quite some time before reservations were obtainable again.
I think that completely depends on what the service is, but I don't think users would have anything against paying a few dollars if they find the service valuable, especially now when there are so many payment processors available.

Best of luck with the service also!
So the book is split into four major sections: Measurement, Observation, KUtrace, Reasoning.

"Measurement" delves into understanding and measuring four fundamental resources: CPU, Memory, Disk/SSD, and Network. This section is quite dense and explores both the depth and breadth of understanding performance of programs. For example, there is a chapter on optimizing code to use caches more efficiently. Though I will say this section is obviously not a complete exploration of all aspects of performance as there are many many many more things which can affect the performance in such complex systems like modern computers. But what Dick does is in this section is to give you more tools in your toolbelt to understand performance better.

"Observation" looks at existing tooling (so profilers, tracing tools, etc.) and discusses where they are useful or where they fall short.

"KUtrace" introduces KUtrace, its kernel module, and its timeline visualization tool. It discusses its design and implementation and why is it so fast and low-overhead.

"Reasoning" has case studies that looks at particular kinds of performance pathologies such as "waiting for CPUs" etc. Dick uses KUtrace here to tease out the underlying inefficiencies in the analyzed programs.

So the first two sections are essentially orthogonal to if you want to use KUtrace or not, but the last two sections are about KUtrace and how to use it to understand performance bottlenecks. Even if you don't use KUtrace, the "Reasoning" section can still be insightful imo as KUtrace is just a tool at the end of the day, and the real insight is why or what is causing the performance issue.
Every CTO needs to read that book.
we can't even get quality on-demand video entertainment, for everyone, accessible to all at the price of Netflix. My company makes a Gen-AI powered course builder for our LMS and Feynman does not have to worry about the competition.
Have you actually pointed an IR thermometer at it? On mine (which I sold), it was 900 at the back and 600 at the front.

It was just too much trouble. A pizza steel in a kitchen oven, preheated, works very well; maybe not as good as a 700F oven but WAY easier. And 5 minutes instead of 1 minute is not a big sacrifice.
Where do you get the leverage and what does it cost? To be clear: Leverage isn't free. It is borrowed money -- financing -- for your positions. For most retail people, they will struggle to pay less than 5% per year, and usually much more. Here is a list of margin rates from Interactive Brokers: https://www.interactivebrokers.com/en/trading/margin-rates.p...

A never once, did I am read any sensible long-term retail strategy that recommended the use of leverage, let alone persistent leverage. This is a strange post.

What does your portfolio look like?
The lazy one gets exactly the same *opportunity* to have a good education as the bright one. Do you see the difference?
"Or you can use a mail client from this century." --the IT guy from my former job
Hat tip on bullet maturity ETFs. I never heard of this before your post.

Ref: https://www.etf.com/topics/bullet-maturity
That's awesome. I think I read somewhere that everything is hosted in EU? Because man... its painfully slow uploading a 600 MB video from east coast US, and I have a GB line.
Here is a corrected link: https://guywaldman.com/posts/introducing-magic-cli#why-rust
I read this comment and it struck me as excellent parody, but now I'm worried it's in earnest.
Wrapped in ham to fool the masses.
if you are at a point where you employ such a factory throughput thinking for information workers then you're misusing information workers in my opinion. Focusing on a throughput metric is just as nonsensical as focusing on how many lines of code somebody creates, in fact, it's really astonishingly similar in how nonsensical it is. Bug reports, issues and features are not just lumps of coal that you need somebody with a pickaxe to beat it with. If you are treating employees like cogs then they will mold themselves to be empty, unthinking cogs. They will not think of outside solutions anymore, they will not care anymore, they will just take the next issue and beat it as ordered.

In my opinion it could even be seen as the biggest red flag of a team when they start using story points. It fundamentally means that this team started to measure their work in terms of raw issue throughput instead of real value. It may work for a while. Maybe your managers are just so awesome that all the issues they create are perfect and great for the business and you never have to think for yourself at all. But inevitably there will come a point where the company would be better off if everyone was using their full potential but by that point you are stuck with a bunch of cogs that you have molded into cogs over years.
How does
> the ability to try [assault and workplace injury/death] cases in a more friendly environment (to the company)
> make it easier to encourage employees to optimize productivity

“Be more productive or we will fuck you up and get away with it” doesnt sound attractive to me.
I believe a great product in this area is certainly possible and Karpathy probably has the technical chops to create it.

I'm skeptical that the product described in the announcement will result in a business able to generate VC-level returns. Based on my experience as a tech entrepreneur with edu-focused products across multiple startups and decades, scaling sales revenue to significant levels in edu is extremely challenging for unique and non-obvious reasons. None of the edu-specific challenges are directly related to the effectiveness or relative value of the product itself. They are structural problems related to the three main types of buyers, which are: 1. Schools, (K-12, Univ), 2. Companies (employee training, compliance, etc), 3. Individuals (self-learners). There are other types of buyers but they don't represent nearly as much aggregated potential revenue as these three. Note that these are the economic buyers not the product end-users.

Each of the three types presents different challenges from the others, however there recurring meta-themes. The main one is that their purchasing decisions are often driven by factors unrelated to the product. For example, the primary focus of schools is, sadly, not maximizing net student learning. While that is a consideration, it's swamped by other external requirements, many of them wickedly complex. For companies, employee training, whether a regulatory requirement or purely to increase employee effectiveness, isn't core to their actual business - meaning it's a cost not revenue. Individuals on the other hand break into two types, those doing it to actually learn something for themselves, and those seeking certification or external validation like a degree to increase their future employment earnings. Learning lovers are a pure consumer, non-essential, discretionary spending-type sale with all the same well-known LTV and customer acquisition cost challenges. For certification/validation buyers, they aren't primarily focused on the learning but rather checking a particular box that has high perceived value to external parties.

While I agree that creating a new large and growing type of customer in addition to these three is possible, it's a huge lift that's risky, expensive and will require substantial sustained investment over time - all ahead of meaningful revenue. So, I wish Andrej et al the best and I'm rooting for them but I'm not optimistic they'll build a high-growth, high-revenue sustainable edu business around AI as the primary value differentiation.
That’s why you don’t give them horses, which are easily used as weapons. Provide a means to eliminate the incentive structure that keeps humans as draft animals and livestock by offering a more efficient and effective alternative.

There is no way to directly fix an unjust society from the outside without becoming at least as unjust as what you are trying to fix. So you do your best to distribute the resource, but you know it will initially be controlled by the ones holding the monopoly of force.

The hope that one day there will be an improvement in justice is sufficient to not withhold the possibility.
Stargate: Merlin
> Fantastic speculation here, explains a lot, and has testable hypotheses.

Calvin is the man.

> For example, there should be a relationship between rate of learning and the physical subcolumns - we should be able to identify when a single column starts up / is fully trained / is overused

This sounds super interesting. Could you break down what you're thinking here?

> Marvin Minsky was spot on about the general idea 50 years ago, seeing the brain as a collection of 1000s of atomic operators (society of mind?)

I'm very much an amateur in this field and was under the impression that Minsky was trying to break it up, but was trying to specify each of those operations. What I find so enticing about Neural Darwinism is the lack of specification needed. Ideally, once you get the underlying process right, there's a cascade of emergent properties.

Using the example of a murmuration of starlings I picture Minsky trying to describe phase transitions between every possible murmuration state. On the other hand I see Neural Darwinism as an attempt to describe the behavior of a single starling which can then be scaled to thousands.

Let me know if that's super wrong. I've only read second hand descriptions of Minsky's ideas, so feel free to send some homework my way.