skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A more accurate title might be "Issues with The Atlantic's framing of student difficulty with lengthy assigned reading"

Relevant gripes:

>> These are all points I made in speaking to and emailing with Horowitch and her fact checkers throughout the summer. [...] Perhaps the most disappointing defeat I observed in the final article was that although I shared my observations of the tireless work of colleagues at the state and national level advocating for intellectual freedom, Horowitch does not acknowledge that culturally, we do not value reading. We ban books, scrutinize classroom libraries, demonize librarians, and demoralize teachers. We pay lip service to the importance of literacy, requiring four years of English and regularly testing literacy skills, but when push comes to shove, we don’t make space for the curiosity and joy that are the foundations of lifelong literacy habits. In truth, we seem to be doggedly fighting against the best interest of a literate populace.
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That's a pretty reasonable mental model. The only real requirement during unloading is ship stability, other than that just use max concurrency with all the cranes and equipment to max throughput. Even just on the crane level, you can just keep unloading stuff to shore, and wait until vehicles pick them up. If they are slow, just keep on unloading until they catch up. Chance of stalling ops is close to zero.

Loading operations are much more variable, especially if your yard is not stacked well and you need to 'dig out' specific containers. If you run out of containers underneath your crane, your operations are stalled until the terminal vehicles catch up and bring you new boxes to load.
the webcam video doesn't move out of the way to record
Was just listening to a live radio interview with Hinton finding him in a small hotel room in California somewhere quite flabbergasted at the news. Interviewer all happy for him etc, but when delving more into what it was for he started to go off on AI concerns etc and the interview didn't last much longer.

Acceptance speech might be something.
I thought the German language deprecated the use of ß years ago, no? I learned German for a year and that's what the teacher told us, but maybe it's not the whole story
As opposed to software folks who are 100% nose to the grindstone all day, never yammering on internet forums...
I don't really know what I'm talking about, but weren't there like 9 Nobel prizes awarded to Bell Labs engineers for physics? One of which (I think) being the invention of the transistor, which presumably had a patent.
I find this dockworker strike interesting because it's forcing people to re-evaluate their principles and beliefs about workers' rights and unions.

>yass! go labor unions! strike! power to the workers!

>NO, NOT LIKE THAT!

Some questions for those struggling with this:

- How will you reconcile your unconditional love for unions and laborers with the fact that you do not approve of what this labor union is striking against?

- Given that you believe these workers' complaints are invalid, will you continue to support the proliferation of unions?

- If you've deemed the complaints of a labor union to be invalid, what do you think should happen in that case? Would you like to see the union dissolved?

- Would you like to see "shell unions" that severely limit the power of the plebeians but still look good on paper because it's a union and "union == good"?
You will probably find that your corporate TLS MitM proxy excludes financial institutions so that employees can do their banking without any doubt that their own company would respect the confidentiality of their finances. If not, your cybersecurity team needs some help.
So the threshold of concern by a "security" company is "they might audit your apps and find out you're gay!"

Yet not a single concern about tethering an iPhone (with an external connection) to a PC on the company's internal network, bypassing all firewalls, proxies, and other protections. That is grounds for immediate dismissal at some places.

I expect security people to think more like network engineers and less like teenagers gossiping in the canteen.
> I agree, we and the union workers should vote in a government that helps people who lose their jobs to progress.

You have an incorrect, oversimple model of politics (e.g. business interests have shown much more capability in influencing government on economic policy to suit their own goals than pretty much every other group, and there are a lot of reasons for that).

You use "progress" in a really suspect way, like it's a line pointing one way. It's really about whose progress it is.

etc.

> After all, it's the job of a government, not a company, to serve the needs of the people.

I disagree, and I think that idea is actually at the root of a lot of problems.
What could be more mainstream than VB6?
While a PAE system can address more than 4 GiB of physical memory, individual processes still use 32-bit pointers and are therefore still restricted to 4 GiB. I think this is why the author calls PAE a hack.

In x86-64 long mode and i386 32-bit mode, pointers are really 64- and 32-bit, respectively; I would not call this a hack.
If by 'real world' you mean the skewed version of reality you'd wish everyone shares + a sprinkle of russkiy mir, then I don't care if it changes or not. The status of your comment history shares my concern about your online activity on hacker news, so I really don't see the point.
If you're interested in DIY security+AI, check out Frigate NVR(https://frigate.video/), Scrypted(https://www.scrypted.app/) and Viseron(https://viseron.netlify.app/).
I went to school to learn about the world and the overwhelming majority of that learning was from professors and textbooks. Whether the professors' beliefs and the textbooks' contents reflected the true properties of the world was a completely separate thing, entirely outside of my control. But I did come away with a better understanding of the world and few would say that education is orthogonal to that goal.

If you add two vectors that don't have a truth component (ie. are orthogonal to the truth), the resulting vector should be no closer to the truth. If you start with random weights and perform some operation on them such that the new weights have a higher likelihood of producing true statements, the operation must not have been orthogonal to the truth. Am I wrong there?
It sure would be a more accurate title, but it wouldn’t be a better one.
I think it'd be a pretty big mistake to interpret "it needs servicing every ten years" as "it stops working immediately after that", and similarly a mistake to think the Russians can't accomplish at least some of that maintenance themselves. One can run a car without oil changes for quite a while before the problems add up.
`decreaseBy` is a multiplication and subtraction combined, map naturally to commerce domain, and is more complex than plain addition / subtraction.
Mitigate, not completely fix.
It literally isn't good enough anymore. Smart TVs try to phone home in many ways. Thanks to things like Amazon Sidewalk, they can jump on that network for connectivity without your knowledge if it's available nearby.
True in that container royalties is a thing, but stated so sensationally as to make it lying.

You don't get royalties for nothing. All the references I have been able to find, say you have to work some amount based on Union agreements but somewhere between 700 and 1500 hours per year, and you have to have worked at the port for at least 6 years. They seem to mostly be paid out as an end of year bonus. I haven't found anything that ballparks the amount so I have no clue how much money we are talking about.
The fact that we have all these different 64 bit data models demonstrates clearly how the connection between word size and C types is completely arbitrary and largely meaningless. And this is not specific to 64 bit either, same sort of thing happens on 8 bit platforms too. So you can not rely on `int` (or any other type) being word sized.

Furthermore I argue that word size is not really something that makes sense to even expose at language level, the whole concept of word size is somewhat questionable. CPUs operate on all sort of things that can have different sizes, trying to reduce that to single "word size" is futile.
I think now this is correct due to European laws, but not that long ago, if you were not in your home country and someone called you, you could be billed for the international part of the call. Nowadays the agreements telcos were forced to put in place means this is largely solved in the EU, and quite cheap outside of it.
I know this is a mere quibble as a rider on a helpful post, but a disclosure is not a disclaimer.

Disclaimers separate you from the comment, examples:

> Disclaimer: I am not a lawyer and this is not legal advice

> [says things about $company] Disclaimer: I don't work for $company, I heard this from someone who does but I can't link to a primary source

Disclosures are additional information which you think it's proper to add, to be open about your interest or stake in the topic:

> Disclosure: I wrote a similar library

> [replies to thing about $company] Disclosure: I used to work for $company
I see. Then what I wrote, still stands, that is:

>> There's zero excuse for hard-wrapping - it actively makes the lives of readers worse. Safari is doing the sane and normal thing - soft-wrapping text, because most sane people do not hard-wrap their text, for obvious reasons.

> It breaks poems, code, ascii art, emails, man page, and probably much more that I can't think of.

The alternative of safari's soft wrapping is not "hard wrapping" (which, since Safari is a display, would be the same as soft wrapping), but not wrapping at all, letting the line to go out. Which would be the right thing for poems, code, ascii art, emails, man pages, letters, any structured text, and probably much more.
> how does some previous judge decision matter for weather you _should_ crack down on a company?

Looking at previous decisions and leveraging them basically is the job of a lawyer.

IMHO this decision won't stand long. You cannot apply different decisions to similar cases.
I think the Nobel Prize in Literature for "the most copied paper title" seems a better justification.

The first page of google for "Hopfield Networks" is "Hopfield Networks is all you need". No kidding...
Do you have a citation for this? The article makes a fairly compelling argument that the automation in ports is not flexible in its utilization and costs, and that humans actually are more scalable in this regard.
Thank you. I've been looking for a link to TVs that are still dumb.
As someone who hasn't been motivated in the past, how disconnected from other means of identification is such a burner phone?

Are the cameras watching the purchase? Can you pay cash? Is any record beyond a sales receipt generated?
- iPhone Mirroring system requirements

-- Your iPhone and Mac are signed in to the same Apple Account using two-factor authentication.
It sounds like they're just splitting the query / key space down the middle. We don't know which dimensions are encoded in each matrix, but they're assuming the "noise" introduced in one query / key space is equivalent to noise introduced in the other space.

If that is the case, then the "signal" in this case would be the softmax that encodes the dimensions captured by the query / key space. Since the noise ideally is the same in both softmax encodings, subtracting them should "cancel out" the noise.
Curious if there's been any accounting on the long term impact in terms of cost on the healthcare system.

On the one hand, obesity is associated with many other ailments such as heart disease, diabetes, etc. that cost the system a lot of money.

On the other hand, well, longer life spans impacting Social Security, Medicare, etc.
To the common man, "made money" and "experienced economic harm" would contradict each other. In that way the title misleads.
The Worst Magazine in America
On the other hand, layoffs shouldn’t be free for companies. These are people who have specialized skills, have setup their families in these areas, have mortgages etc.

What’s the alternative here? An alternative I can think of is a much stronger unemployment program on the federal level so layoffs don’t hurt the community. But this scheme not existing would’ve been devastating for the middle class.

People in greater society are not really an elastic resource.
Container terminals will take any minor efficiency win on their side, even if it comes at the cost of massive efficiency loss for truck transporters. It's optimizing for a local maximum. The market is structured in such a way that it is hard to correct for that, since the relation between trucking companies and container terminals is very indirect, and customers can't directly compare.

Also while shipping is a competitive market, the market for ports is not. You're either in a location or not. There are not hundreds of container terminals in a single port in competition because of economies of scale.

(The market for trucking companies IS competitive however, meaning that if you have to err on 'protecting' either party, you should probably pick that one)
Given the only real mass market "robots" that are popular currently are stuff like hoovers or lawnmowers I can't possible see how trades such as plumbing are at risk any time in the next 20+ years. This is from the perspective of UK / European housing where a huge amount of houses are over 50 years old and so each set up is completely different. Different heating systems, thermostats, piping, connectors. Maybe in a new build property where every house is essentially the same there might be some chance of automation, but in traditional housing I can't see how that would work until robots are essentially "humans".
Id be upset too.

I haven’t read Horowitch’s piece, but the section where the author realizes “I am the problem” appears compelling, where her experience as an educator no longer fits the mold of story in flight.

I’ll be following this thread specifically for feedback from people who “value reading enough” to asses the Atlantic piece as well.
> - The ability to find the n most or least used tags with a single method call - The ability to track which user tagged a record - The ability to find records with the same tags - Calculation of tag statistics for a tag cloud

What's the chance that this is the exact set of features that you're gonna need and not a slightly different set of features? E.g. maybe your users are part of teams and you need to know which tags were set by a given team? Or maybe your tags are hierarchical? Will the library be flexible enough to accommodate that?

It just seems that this library makes a lot of assumptions about the business logic of your application - but that can change at any point and then you're possibly stuck with a library that you have to weirdly workaround, or rip out entirely.

I would understand that tradeoff if the library solved an actually complex use case, but every competent developer should know how to implement these use cases from scratch in a relatively short amount of time, and while it undoubtedly takes longer than just adding 2-3 lines of config, what you get in return is code that you own and understand and can modify in whatever way you want.
Would flashing BIOS post-boot really work though?

Also don't see how the article's exploit would be useful pre-decryption.
Something akin to "uBlock Origin CNAME uncloaking now supports filtering by IP address" should be fine.
A Canticle for Leibowitz

I found Canticle kinda "meh" personally. It was a great premise, and the 1st third was somewhat interesting, but the rest fell flat for me. I'd say it was a book I wanted to like a lot, but the execution let me down.
They might have needed to learn what a good difference threshold and cluster size is. It's hardly ML like fine-tuning CLIP embeddings is, but there are few solid differences: both explore visual embedding spaces with learned values. Granted, cluster thresholds are more likely to be manually learned, but they are both embedding spaces, with the main difference being dimensionality.

It's very vague for Wired to have used AI in the title, but it's more confusing to say "A previous headline on this piece incorrectly stated that the drone software used AI." - and not obviously correct either.
> Hallucination and creativity feel very related to me.

Why? I see them as just sampling errors.

Sure a mistake can spark inspiration sometimes, but creativity is much more than mistakes.

> I understand hallucinating as simply being misaligned with the space humans feel appropriate to interpolate between

These language models are next-token predictors. The way the next token is predicted is by sampling a probability space outputted by the model.

That sampling process can be non deterministic.

Hallucinations are when that sampling results in tokens that come together to create a false or otherwise unintended statement.

You can just as well think of everything a model outputs as a hallucination, but we train the model to output a space what we want them to hallucinate is more likely. Otherwise it just outputs meaningless noise.

“Hallucinate” is really an awful word for what it’s trying to describe.
It still kind of baffles me that there isn't a Nobel Prize in Mathematics and/or computer science.

The latter makes a bit more sense, computer science wasn't really a thing when Alfred Nobel was around, but mathematics certainly was! It seems like it would be perfectly reasonable to add a category for math, and I think Neural Nets would fit in there considerably better.
The PSA should just be don't mix your personal and work devices.
I'm curious: is the appetite suppressant effect of GLP-1 different from the one from amphetamines?
But you've had to maintain that Python/Django stack, as well as a server.. Right?! I've done hundreds of Django release upgrades. They're not automatic or time-free.

Most SSGs, especially those geared to blogging accept nicer markup systems like Markdown. Keeping track of things, even in a multi-user system isn't hard.

Getting non-technical people used to a git workflow is the hardest part.
for those who are interested in a cheaper, partially generic, pill based option for weight loss, i was just referred by a friend to the naltrexone + bupropion + metformin solution offered by hims (not linking because their website is terrible for learning anything without giving all your health info). he lost 30lbs in 3 months on it. i've just started so i cant vouch but just sharing that non GLP1 appetite suppression solutions that work exist.
https://s3.documentcloud.org/documents/25194950/fl-doh-lette...
With all due respect for Hinton, this is f*cking ridiculous.
Anyone remember siamese networks?
Everyone is in it for their own self interest.

There are no liberals or conservatives. Their are people with lives that share common traits and a policy set that suits those traits best.

Remember that Jesus (the generous saint of the needy) is the hero of conservatives and that liberals are the chief NIMBYs for affordable housing.

Nobody has lifelong rigid beliefs, it's all a matter of convenience. Everyone is in it for themselves.

*yes this is a generalization and you can find outliers. But don't let those outliers distract you from what is going on.
Probably because it's a jarring deviance from the traditional audiobook experience if you're used to it.

For someone like me who hadn't listened to many audiobooks before trying GraphicAudio, it was a very good experience.
Overconsumption leading to widespread obesity while a large fraction of the world is hungry - the capitalist solution? Let's invent a pill so we can eat EVEN MORE.
It's no more or less disconnected than any other store purchase. You can assume there are cameras in any store. You can indeed pay cash. The only records generated are the usual sales records, and if you're concerned about minimizing those, then you use the same mitigations that you'd use with any other purchase.

Personally, I'm not concerned with that level of anonymity, though. I just don't want to give my actual phone number to random companies.
How does it work? Does it reduce the calorie intake by decreasing the appetite? Your body burns more calories because the drug sets the thermostat higher?! Or something else?

I don't know how to feel about the idea that we need treatment for being overweight in general.
From the article:

>Gen Z and Gen Alpha don’t cow to authority for authority’s sake. They simply won’t do things they don’t want to do, and I actually kinda love that.

This, in response to a story about Gen Z and Gen Alpha at elite universities. Why are they attending the elites, then, if not to become part of the power apparatus?
Hums are the worst. And the quieter your space, the more hums you seem to hear. Good luck!

There's a few good folks on youtube that discuss some of the more nitty gritty details, if you're interested.
> You have an incorrect, oversimple model of politics

I disagree, I believe I have a correct, appropriately complex model of politics. I guess our opinions cancel each other out, and we'll have to agree to disagree on this point, friend.

> business interests have shown much more capability in influencing government on economic policy to suit their own goals

I actually agree here: business is great at influencing policy in a way that suits their goals, but not necessarily in a way that suits the goals of society or individuals. The 2 goals are different, that's why we can't rely upon the former to achieve the goals of the latter.

It's the goal of business to make money, it's the goal of unions and people to make sure people are taken care of, so unions and people should vote for a government that takes care of people.

>> After all, it's the job of a government, not a company, to serve the needs of the people.

> I disagree, and I think that idea is actually at the root of a lot of problems.

That is a valid viewpoint. Another valid viewpoint is, thinking that idea is at the root of a lot of problems, is itself at the root of a lot of problems. Unfortunately, without any detail provided either way, all we have now is 2 conflicting, equally-valid viewpoints.
The problem is that what you're suggesting will eventually boil down to useless regulators. And then companies will do a plethora of suspicious things, and then you the consumer will suffer.

It's the FTC's job to do this kind of thing. If we argue it shouldn't be their job then what will we be doing? Nothing? We've tried the "do nothing" approach more times than any of us can count, and it doesn't work.
??? how is cost on the healthcare system the thing to be worried about over longer lifespan and quality of life? strange thing to focus on lol

but i think if you think it thru, 1 should dominate 2, and 2 should be reduced as well.
Right, indeed!
It’s used for official comms by state and local govts too
>$2k/yr/developer ???

Depends upon the company, but for some it could be a lot. Personally I think it should be a percentage of the Company's revenue split between various Open Source Orgs.

For example, almost every company uses OpenSSH from the OpenBSD people, so companies should toss some funds to OpenBSD.

In 2023 I see Amazon, IBM and Apple gave 0 to OpenBSD, where Microsoft and Google gave a decent amount. I know IBM uses OpenSSH on AIX and Red Hat. Apple and Amazon I have to assume uses OpenSSH.

https://www.openbsdfoundation.org/contributors.html

So I think these same companies should split their donations between various gropus, at the minimum it should be FSF, OpenBSD and OpenSSL.

https://www.openbsdfoundation.org/contributors.html
IMO a better English translation of Estadounidense is United Stateser (like people in Maine are Mainers).