skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
When I discovered the arrow module when I was starting with Python (15 or 20 years ago), this changed my life. One common API for everything.

Today I never use a date without Arrow, no matter how simple the operation is. I am an amateur dev so there maybe performance or portability reasons that make it a bad idea for professional devs, but, man, how easier my life is.

I looked for similar modules in TS (found them) and Go (did not find anything)
AI bros: "Why does it matter whether [a program that people want to use to teach children] can [tell whether one number is bigger than another]?"

=)
A large set of exit and relay nodes are being run out of Germany, presumably by some state actor, so it's likely at least a subset of traffic is being unmasked by a state actor.

I'm sure some of this info has been passed on and then parallel construction used to obfuscate the initial source of the data.
The media also follow trends. I remember all through the '90s there was a trend of reporting frivolous cases as news, probably for sensationalist purposes. The ones I remembered were "prisoner sues because his ice cream melted", burglar sues after falling out of rafters". These type of stories were popular on morning radio programs.

What I want to know is if Ms Liebeck just got lumped into that fad, or if there was economic pressure from McD's to weaken her case. McDonald's advertising spend was HUGE back then, of course on the same media channels that reported about her.
> Having a virtual Feynman coach you through a Physics course is perfect.

So would fusion power, unfortunately such a thing does not exist yet, nor close to.
How does being an employee differ so much from being a student? You still get either good or bad grades for your work. You do assignments, get rules and processes you have to follow, play well with your fellow students/colleagues, etc.

I would say it's quite similar.
Keep Perfecting Your Config
I never understood why people believed this BS. The process of administering an exam requires direct interpretation from another human. They are just as fallible as I.
Maybe Octavian was the snake?
to be fair, Rami did specify that this was just outlining the shortcomings, and IMO, is not just trying to sell something here
It makes even more sense when you take the law of large numbers into account. The scale we're experiencing most things on is /so/ far removed from the scale on which these probabilities are being expressed.

There are more molecules in a cup of water (on the order of 10^24) than there are cups of water in the ocean. If you have a cup of water's worth of matter, you aren't just rolling 10 dice (or even 1000 dice) and looking for mostly 6s. You're rolling a few septillion dice and hoping for a significantly non-normal distribution. It just isn't feasible.
Actually, until the mid 20th century almost everyone agreed that school was about building character, which can only be done in a social environment. As a British government report put it in 1846, schools should be "a little artificial world of virtuous exertion".
> We send kids to school, in the hope they get some education, but the reality is that we use schools for free childcare while we work

We also send kids to school to learn social skills they can't learn by themselves.

My kids sometimes watch science shows (on TV as well as online) and tell me all kinds of fascinating facts about black holes and the human immune system and {insert_huge_list_of_stuff_I_don't_fully_understand}. That's the easy bit.

"Getting along with other people" isn't something you learn ... by yourself.
> GuardDuty does what AWS says it will do

What do you view as AWS' commitments around GuardDuty? I see pretty clear positioning by AWS of GuardDuty as a one-and-done solution for threat detection.

Top level marketing claims include:

* "Protect against ransomware and other types of malware" - which is why I looked at how viable GuardDuty would be against the most common form of S3 "ransomware"

* "Detect suspicious activity in your generative AI workloads" - but they don't actually have coverage of the vast majority of GenAI Services

* "Continuous monitoring across AWS accounts and workloads without added cost" - except the service is expensive (if worthwhile for the foundational data sources!) and has unpredictable costs

> competing product/service

I see canary infrastructure as complimentary to Guardduty (w/ foundational data sources) - which is explicitly stated in the piece!

nb: I'm the author, in case it's non-obvious!
>Most the 7b instruct models are very bad outside very simple queries.

I can't agree with "very bad". Maybe your standards are set by the best, largest models, but have a little perspective: a modern 7b model is a friggin magical piece of software. Fully in the realm of sci-fi until basically last Tuesday. It can reliably summarize documents, bash a 30 minute rambling voice note into a terse proposal, and give you social counseling at least on par with r/Relationship_Advice. It might not always get facts exactly right but it is smart in a way that computers have never been before. And for all this capability, you can get it running on a computer a decade old, maybe even a Raspberry Pi or a smartphone.

To answer the parent: Download a "gguf" file (blob of weights) of a popular model like Mistral from HugginFace. Git pull and compile llama.cpp. Run ./main -m path/to/gguf -p "prompt"
Except, by turning them off, you are therefore forcing people who want to communicate with you to adapt to your communication preferences because you have, by fiat, decided that you simply don't want to perceive the communication method they prefer. Coming to an agreement with others about how you want to communicate with them as fine, but communication is a two-way street, and so it has to be bilaterally negotiated by both parties, in which case it is very fair for someone to question your decision to unilaterally force everyone around you to change how they communicate by simply deciding to stick your head in the sand regarding one channel of communication. I find emoji reactions to be a much more efficient, direct and low boilerplate way of communicating, sometimes quite relevant and important information, and I would be extremely frustrated to the point of disgust if someone decided to simply turn them off and not perceive my reactions, thus forcing me to come up with polite non-phrases lile "looks good to me" to express the same reaction.

Also, I think this philosophy that all software must be infinitely configurable, so that it can serve every whim of every possible user, and that if it has a clear idea of what it wants to do and how it wants to achieve that, and sometimes that way it is designed to be used, it's somehow unethical or abusive of the user or something, is the fundamental sickness at the heart of open-source software design. It turns programs into unclear bloated piles of buttons and switches that are overcomplicated to use and impossible to properly quality assure and impossible to design in a coherent way. For powerful professional creation tools (CAD software, publishing, programming, etc) that will be the primary software used for decades by experienced and educated professionals who will want to optimize their workflow and who have the time to invest in deeply learning that one specific tool, then I think that philosophy is fine, but for random chat apps and stuff, it's just frustrating.
Please do post, particularly the Moonball link, more widely :)
No, it doesn't, because nobody is configuring systems to query that registrar's DNS server for zones it doesn't own.
The In-Vivo Screening Revolution
Thank you to you and all the others in this thread for your positive comments. I almost didn't write about this chip because it is so obscure, so it is encouraging that people are reading it.
If the technology is truly as capable as humans in many domains (and that might still take a while), it will not matter anymore whether it is a good teacher or not. The need for (and thus value of) human labor will depreciate and so will its "supply chain" the education sector.

> hope they get some education, but the reality is that we use schools for free childcare

Exactly, teachers will be less and less pedagogs and more and more wardens.
> Most people that are academically inclined are self motivated and have a desire to learn more.

Isn't that by definition? Most xes are x.

> Most people aren't academically inclined

Is that so?

> It is odd that the curriculum tends to accommodate people that aren't academically inclined at the expense of those that actually want to learn.

Well, if what you say is true, isn't it fair that the program is catered to the majority, who are apparently not academically inclined? For one size fits all mass education, catering to the largest mass is the best you can do.

> People that aren't academically inclined should not be forced to learn, or at least forced only insofar as they're baseline literacy so that they function in today's world.

Isn't that what the curriculum already accommodates then? Didn't you just say that?
That's email server dependent. When my mailserver blocks emails, it just drops them onto the floor. The sender doesn't get any sort of notification.
That does not contradict my point... also, there are other ways to make money from writing code than forcing people to pay for copies of that code.
Excellent points and being able to use available hardware in unison is amazing and I guess we are not far away from botnets utilising this kind of technology like they did with mining coins.
> There are also no social ramifications of ignoring your laptop.

you could absolutely have a digital social credit system the way you have game scores and leaderboards. once you get a competitive system like that going, it would sustain itself. top students could get to visit cool stuff like grown up labs and get involved in museums, etc. bottom ones could be celebrated with a virtual dunce hat on their avatars.

the problem is how mediocrity is now valued over hard work.
I feel really weird about education, the only value I think I’ve ever gotten in education is tangential (social, inspirational) which I think many people say is the primary value, but when it comes to actually work skills Im mostly self taught. I’m not sure if there’s a way to make school better without making it way more expensive. AI would be interesting but so far it’s not reallly there yet, for one I think it needs coaching skills to know when to reach out rather than just respond to prompts. And most self learning is experiential not interactive.
Weird how that is considered radical left now.

When i think of radical left, i think of the proletariat rising up and freeing itself from its chains.

The only radical left thing about mozilla is the iconography in its original logo.
I misread that as 30% less housing. I stand by what I said though. It looks like Raleigh housing supply took a dip during the pandemic followed by a large swing climb back up and now it looks fairly stable.

Source: https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/ACTLISCOU39580
Repo author here. This sounds interesting. Could you elaborate on the benefits of Bumblebee / Axon?
How can you bring yourself to trust a human teacher? Humans are wrong sometimes too, often with confidence.

The trick to learning effective timely (with both LLMs and human teachers) is to recognize that you should learn from more than one source. Think critically about the information you are being exposed to - if something doesn't quite feel right, check it elsewhere.

I genuinely believe that knowing that an information source is occasionally unreliable can help you learn MORE effectively, because it encourages you to think critically about the material and explore beyond just a single source of information.

I've been learning things with the assistance of LLMs for nearly two years now. I often catch them making mistakes, and yet I still find them really useful for learning.
from https://9to5mac.com/2024/07/16/apple-used-youtube-videos/

"It’s important to emphasize here that Apple didn’t download the data itself, but this was instead performed by EleutherAI. It is this organization which appears to have broken YouTube’s terms and conditions. All the same, while Apple and the other companies named likely used a publicly-available dataset in good faith, it’s a good illustration of the legal minefield created by scraping the web to train AI systems"
I agree. I'm not anti-reactions. I'm anti-reactions in email.
In an article about C programming, the context tells you that everything that is given in a typewriter font is a C identifier, unless noted otherwise.
Yeah exactly this, ChatGPT 4-o very rarely, if ever, hallucinates.
Are humans provably correct and ethical in their outputs?
Anytime someone says AI can give everyone their own einstein, Feynman, Galileo in a box i can only think about how little data we have on anyone before the 90's.

These would be charcutiers of these people with nothing but their most famous equations and examples and quips letting you know "this is supposed to be a famous person"
What is flock camera?

it's personal cameras or from the muni/gov?
It's quite a useful (and fascinating) site and I've browsed it a few times before. But a limitation is that it just has copies of written judgements. Contemporaneous reporting of trials, particularly criminal trials, can give quite a different insight, especially for those cases which are not as high profile as those which go to the Old Bailey.
> * Users: Sure, use whatever language you want -- just make sure it compiles to Javascript, which is already the lingua franca of the web.

I don't think users are saying this and I don't think they care as long as it works.
For maximum efficiency you'd avoid addc like hell, because it blocks internal precomputation, and use guarantees like he did, avoiding overflow better. Better use int128 types though.

I'd just just stack objects for small typical sizes. And esp. do formal proofs than the random test joke.
Lord, spare me.
> as well as something in between like the NX

There was ONLY the NX. There were _no_ other mid-level Android cameras. And Galaxy NX was produced by Samsung, which is not known for their cameras.

So there was a grand total of ONE model of mid-level Android cameras. And it was fairly successful, but never got any improvements.

> people just didn’t like it and chose smartphones.

Most people haven't heard about Android cameras and never had a chance to try them.
For what it's worth, Haskell's Integer type is that way.

edit To be clear, in Haskell you 'default' to using its arbitrary-precision type, unlike say Java where they're available in the standard library but not in the core primitive types.
So you just smile and nod, but inside you think "American racism may be bad, but our racism is true and based on evidence"?

I mean, look, if you want to condemn Romani culture, sure, I can at least listen. (There are some in the US who think "all cultures are equally good"; I am not among them.) But if you want to condemn Romani because of their race or ethnicity, and say there's "some truth to the racism", then I'm going to condemn you as a racist. And to the degree that's part of your culture, I'm going to condemn your culture.

And yes, that's not negotiable.
FWIW, every time I've had my oil changed at the dealership (dozens of times, but only 3 different dealers, so take it with a grain of salt) it's always been done by the service department, with no interaction from sales at all, and therefore no upselling or discussion about trading.
> Most teachers today aren't experts anyway, we just pretend they are

Experts in what, grade school math? Do you mean professors?
> Most teachers today aren't experts anyway

Lmao what
But how to harness "Bugger all" so that it results in educated students? Because my understanding is everyone likes to do stuff.. no one really does nothing, but often unproductive/consumptive things if not channelled.
You can? That didn't used to be the case on my phone at all. Glad to hear they changed that.
I imagine a 7400 TTL quad NAND gate would have... 16 transistors?
Yep. To me it feels like foreign language learning on easy mode.

To be clear, I'm not good at foreign languages. I've never become fluent in one. But I studied Latin back in high school, and Japanese more recently, enough to slowly read some works written in those languages. When doing so, there's a real thrill in seeing a familiar idea expressed in a way that's grammatically totally alien. Using sentence structures that aren't allowed in English. Using a vocabulary that marks out a different lattice in the space of possible meanings, connecting some ideas that are disconnected in English, or splitting apart ideas that English connects. Or just using idioms or cultural references that don't exist in English. Meanwhile, in the case of Latin, the vocabulary is full of words that are the ancestors of English words, with meanings that are sometimes the same, sometimes subtly different, and sometimes seemingly totally unrelated, making it feel mind-expanding just to consider the series of semantic shifts that let one meaning evolve into the other.

Reading Shakespeare is like that, just… less so. Grammar, vocabulary, and idioms are all familiar enough that you can understand their meaning with just some helpful glosses, yet foreign enough to reproduce some of the same thrill. Sometimes they're more thrilling because they're familiar – because they could be plopped right into modern English and fit into the existing scaffolding, filling in what can now be recognized as a gap.

So in a way I agree with John McWhorter. When I read Shakespeare's plays, the foreignness of the language does distract me from the content. But it's in a good way, a fun way. To have an experience that's more about the content, in contrast, I can watch performances of the plays. When performed, the dialogue usually goes by too fast for me to understand the unfamiliar bits, but the way the actors speak it helps get the meaning across. There does still tend to be a risk that I miss out on part of the meaning and get confused about a plot point… but it's not the end of the world.

Still, I'm sympathetic to people who find it hard to get into Shakespeare because of this. Not everyone has to share my interest in language. Some may find it difficult; some may just dislike the tradeoff of language distracting from content. If translation helps those people, I'm in favor of that being an option. But reading poems in translation has its own massive cost. A translation of Beowulf isn't Beowulf; it's something related but new and different. Same goes for the Divine Comedy, the Odyssey, the Bible, et cetera. That's just the bitter truth.
I’m probably anti-big tech but what will pro crypto bring us? Convince me that the deregulation of the Trump/Vance administration won’t bring about the next 2008
I'm not sure which part of my comment would result in maximizing folks who like to obey authority. I'm more focused on improving individual outcomes in terms of functional individuals, their quality of life, and the contributions they're able to make to society as a whole.

In any case, we homeschool.

I haven't really considered how to improve schooling at scale (particularly in an affordable way), but my proposal would be to introduce a _lot_ more granularity to schooling by eliminating the idea of grades and classes and focusing more on individual assessment.

Obviously this is likely cost prohibitive, but perhaps promoting and subsidizing homeschooling and homeschool co-ops is a good start in that direction, and could give rise to more cost-effective solutions over time. Not all parents are equipped to homeschool, but homeschooling does make use of resources which could be improved and which others could leverage as well.
Socially left in the American sense (same with "liberal"). You're just insisting on the Old World economic sense, which is totally irrelevant in America.

Oppressing workers is fine, but it better be inclusive oppression.
His VP has endorsed it.
I believe we agree? Character and mental discipline are closely aligned, perhaps even the same.
They probably weren't THAT delicious, but the portions were huge! ;)
I bet this is related to Ikea fatigue. I always get a splitting headache around the time we get to the kids' furniture section and it gets worse in the market hall. I perk up when we get to the warehouse tho.
>I asked ChatGPT about this. It thought

Lemme stop you right there. No, it didn't.
This would be more interesting if there was actually a proposed solution.
Reminds me of a recent podcast with Staša Gejo [1], a top competition climber. She basically says the same thing. At times she hated being told to do drills growing up, but really valued that later because as a kid she sometimes didn't feel like doing the hard work necessary for the outcomes she desired.

[1]: https://youtube.com/watch?v=hg4jPdMnPyE&t=995
>To quote Colbert, reality has a known liberal bias.

That quote has a specific context (parodying the George W. Bush administrations' spin on negative press coverage) that doesn't necessarily apply as a general axiom, or to the internet.

Bear in mind that numerous negative biases already manifest regularly in LLMs[0,1], and AIs have shown a tendency to "go full Nazi" when left alone on the internet[2]. And then there are weird outliers like LLMs "encouraging" people to commit suicide[3] or an AI-driven microwave "attempts" to kill someone[4].

[0]https://www.technologyreview.com/2024/03/11/1089683/llms-bec...

[1]https://archive.is/hhZ4C

[2]https://www.theverge.com/2016/3/24/11297050/tay-microsoft-ch...

[3]https://www.euronews.com/next/2023/03/31/man-ends-his-life-a...

[4]https://www.newsweek.com/lucas-rizzotto-youtuber-microwave-a...
How does the YouTube ads skip feature work? How does it know?
Trust but verify. If you're doing your homework you should be able to notice things not lining up and ask the model about them. Human teachers can also make mistakes (though usually less than an AI hopefully) and it's the same process dealing with those.

In my opinion the best teachers just direct your questions in the direction where the answers you find give you the most useful information. I'm optimistic that AI could be an improvement to the average for scientifically minded learners, though I wouldn't expect it to be more effective than a 1 on 1 with a good teacher.
Are you saying we shouldn't teach children things that "can be done trivially in any programming language?"

How will they know what they are doing in that language?
> the extra hoops for the user

The idea of Godot is "extra hoops."
I've been using it for a few months (with Starcoder 2 for code, and GPT-4o for chat). I find the code completion actually better than Github Copilot.

My main complain is that the chat sometimes fails to correctly render some GPT-4o output (e.g. LaTeX expressions), but it's mostly fixed with a custom system prompt. It also significantly reduces the battery life of my Macbook M1, but that's expected.
After 12 years of reviewing restaurants, I'm leaving the table